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Wikidata weekly summary #596

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

  • Events
  • November 7, 2023, Hannover, Germany - [https://www.tib.eu/en/tib/news-and-events/news/details/wikiremembrance-researching-and-remembering-national-socialism WikiRemembrance: researching and remembering National Socialism] - Wikipedia and Wikidata's role in documenting memorial sites.
  • January 12 - 14, 2024, Berlin, Germany (and online) - [https://www.artmarketstudies.org/cfp-provenance-loves-wiki-2024-online-berlin-12-14-jan-2024/ CFP: Provenance Loves Wiki] - A workshop on art history, art science and provenance research in Wikidata/Wikipedia & Wikibase

Ongoing

  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=110 Ohm's law] (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

This Week

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ni0d5qbFZsCQIBtjJzl9X8V7cwLN01gv1MvZ7zpntYU/edit Agenda]
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://blog.communitydata.science/the-state-of-wikimedia-research-2022-2023/ The State of Wikimedia Research 2022 - 2023]
  • Papers
  • [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.08491.pdf Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Wikidata Case Study] - Zhang et al, 2023
  • [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.11495.pdf Chain-of-Verification reduces hallucination in Large Language Models] across a variety of tasks, including list-based questions from Wikidata - Dhuliawala et al, 2023
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSyoDU2r4Q0 Intro about WikiPathways]< showing bits of Wikidata and Scholia
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2whuhQ3628 Wikidata for Better Health (in French)] - Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Sciences SFAX < closing session of "Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning"
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/c3c33fa19bd8754d Implementing a parser for a sample Wiki article]
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/0035947e1c7ea36c Artist selection] (in French)
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://map.wikimedia.swiss/v/swiss-archives/?l=de Swiss Archives] is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - [https://twitter.com/M_Gasser/status/1665605556768321537 Michael Gasser (X post)]
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/64SRNVJI7DMSDRWUVBEEYVISWHAONEGU/ WikidataCon 2023: first version of the program is out] - find out more about the format, registration and [https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/ scheduled program].
  • The [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/S7OCXSRJQR4ITMOZVJXY6ND3XG4YIGGG/ Search Platform / Query Service Team monthly Open Meeting] is coming up. Got any Wikidata Query Service questions? Feel free to join!
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is still looking for an [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/35655261/Engineering-Manager-Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Projects-and-FunTech-d-f-m-?jobDbPVId=92161036&l=en Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech].
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/7ami Most frequent birth places for PTBNP authors] (source)
  • [https://w.wiki/7c3B University's museum in France] ([https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1708129619558191449 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/7dPB 52,153 French words which have both masculine and feminine forms] ([https://twitter.com/_lerner_paul/status/1705206707297685805 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject African Literary Metadata - a project dedicated to create and improve Wikidata's coverage of African informal literatures.
  • WikiProject GLAM-BW - a project to connect major collections held by museums in Baden-Württemberg by uploading information on collectors, former collection locations, collecting histories, and objects
  • Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property.
  • We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item.
  • You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions (phab:T342857)
  • We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions and where code changes are needed
  • Lexicographical data:
  • We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer (phab:T322683)
  • If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses (phab:T343979)
  • We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon (phab:T286239)
  • Mismatch Finder:
  • Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results (phab:T335864)
  • We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
  • The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled (phab:T343344)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [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) 15:08, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #597

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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, 18th October 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 Working Hour October 13, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The fifth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually adding authors and publishers from our bibliography into Wikidata. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-October-13_Wikidata_Working_Hour Event page]
  • Wikidata's 11th birthday is around the corner, on October 29th! Discover how you can prepare and present a gift to the community and organize a local birthday celebration.
  • New round open HDI course on Knowledge Graphs. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Sign up [https://open.hpi.de/courses/knowledgegraphs2023 enrol here].
  • Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. An online event dedicated to our data modelling challenges. You can already submit a session or ideas.
  • Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #112, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=112 Dogs] (Challenge started on 2023-10-09 12:01:19)
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [http://chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/twfy_wikidata_crosswalk/ Connecting They Work For You to Wikidata] by Chris Hanretty
  • Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate by Prosperosity & Giantflightlessbirds
  • [https://www.deseret.com/2023/10/4/23901215/most-famous-musicians-of-all-time These are the top 10 most famous musicians of all time, according to MIT], by Hannah Murdock
  • [https://addshore.com/2023/10/covid-19-wikipedia-pageview-spikes-2019-2022/ COVID-19 Wikipedia pageview spikes, 2019-2022] < Wikipedia pageviews spikes using Wikidata as a source for determining page titles for topics across languages. By Addshore
  • Papers
  • [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15047.pdf Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization] by Jonathan Gabel Christiansen, Mathias Lykke Gammelgaard, and Anders Søgaard
  • Press
  • [https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-ai-lying-to-us-these-researchers-built-an-llm-lie-detector-of-sorts-to-find-out/ Is AI lying to us? These researchers built an LLM lie detector of sorts to find out] - Tiernan Ray, ZDNET ("Step one is to come up with a list of over 20,000 questions and known answers, drawn from sources such as Wikidata, for which the large language model, in this case, OpenAI's GPT-3.5, can be reliably expected to provide the correct answer.")
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W634CXHdI8 Graphic Possibilities 50 States of Comics Wikidata Tutorial] < discusses data modeling, notability, cultural importance of Comic books and how to add them to Wikidata. By Kate Topham
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7aYSiqafSg Linking cultural heritage data in practice] < discusses interlinking diverse museum data between Sweden’s National Museum and National Historical Museums and Wikidata.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVWn97wFfFM Data Scraping, Gathering & Annotation] (in Ukrainian VO, English text) < lecture on data gathering, Wikidata, SPARQL and structured data from Ukrainian Catholic University
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwfGs9asLVY Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata] (in French) < adding a link in Wikidata between work and the edition, and beyond.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ij2r56P7aY Proposal and creation of properties] (in French) by VIGNERON < Exploring the property creation process on Wikidata.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdG9yc-xZQQ Wikidata: first pragmatic approach] - Ismael Olea - OpenSouthCode 2023 < an introduction to Wikidata - the objective of this talk is for the public to leave amazed and addicted to Wikidata.
  • Tool of the week
  • https://aletheiafact.org <- is a new fact-checking website using Wikidata for people/concept identification. The website allows users to contribute to fact-checking claims made by public figures, such as politicians, celebrities, and influencers.
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/7gFH Accused witches in Scotland accused of shapeshifting](source)
  • [https://w.wiki/7iBa Argentinian national team football players that participating in 3 matches or bellow] ([https://twitter.com/tin_nqn_/status/1709349283525210380 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/7gg3 List of people who are in Art Looting Investigation Unit red flag list] ([https://twitter.com/OpenLinkArtData/status/1710521967873249428 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/7eQQ Main Subject bubble chart of Articles in Journals with AJOL ID, published in Ghana, about diseases] (source: [https://twitter.com/espejolento @espejolento])
  • Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We worked on the new routes for PATCHing Property and Item aliases as well as PUTing Property labels and descriptions (phab:T342982, phab:T337371, phab:T337371, phab:T348150)
  • We are continuing to work on fixing an issue with Lexeme pages missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
  • We’re adding some missing license notes to some javascript UI interfaces (phab:343998, phab:T343999)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on supporting mismatches for data that is stored in qualifiers (phab:T313467)

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 16:33, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #598

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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 October 17, 2023: Our scheduled speaker had to unexpectedly cancel, so please join us to transfer group call notes from the Google Drive to the wiki project page (see instructions link in agenda document!) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hzVSHu9y8J0pCKzO5wGHRtiXpiYHkb7F4ePsCwSj0Y8/edit Agenda]
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 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.
  • WikidataCon 2023 on October 28-29: don't forget to [https://pretix.eu/wikidatatw/Wikidatacon2023/ register for the online or the onsite event]! You can also [https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/ check the program], prepare a present for the Wikidata birthday, and join or organize a satellite event with your local community.
  • [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikidata-day-nyc-2023-tickets-735689496087 Wikidata Day NYC '23] Join fellow Wikidata-enthusiasts on October 29th at the Butler Library, 114th Street West, NYC for a free Wikidata-celebration with a selection of engaging workshops and presentations to attend.
  • [https://stateofthemap.eu/schedule State of the Map EU 2023] has a session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov., taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Wikidata Days: WM-Peru (in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata, OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL.
  • [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbVc63XyoVVXDcFQSvzRxSc1GEA1D02O1mUqzv6nvO0ZJ32w/viewform Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course] Staying in South America, Chilean and all Spanish-speakers can attend a 4-day Course and earn a participation Certificate. Online event - 17 to 20th October.
  • [https://twitter.com/wikimediaigbo/status/1713469359996191043 Igbo Wikimedians User Group invites you to a Wikidata event tagged "One Item, One Image"]. October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet.
  • Ongoing: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=113 Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple] (Challenge started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41)
  • Past Week:
  • [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=112 Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs] has ended. Did you contribute?
  • [https://www.temporal-communities.de/events/international-workshop-wikipedia-wikidata-wikibase.html Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies] International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: [https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/TADA3.pdf WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata] by Vogel & Binnig.
  • Press: [https://www.broadcastprome.com/case-studies/tv-networks/indexing-news-with-ai/ Indexing news with AI] via BroadCast Pro ME ("We are able to create a rich multilingual archive, leveraging translations based on the Wikidata knowledge graph.")
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ij2r56P7aY Introduction to Properties: Proposal & Creation] (in French), by Nicolas VIGNERON.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJUPmZmUqS8 Drag'n'Drop Gadget] <-- This handy gadget allows you to click and drag information from a Wikipedia article and add it to a Wikidata-item as a Statement. By Magnus Sälgö.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwfGs9asLVY Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata] (in French) <-- a comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their Wikidata-items.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdG9yc-xZQQ Introduction & Overview of Wikidata] (in Spanish), by Ismail Olea.
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what we are doing and why we do it.
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@maison-mona/analyse-resultats-reconciliation-wikidata Analysis of Wikidata reconciliation results] (in French)
  • [https://observablehq.com/@fgregg/whats-nearby-wikidata What's nearby, Wikidata?] will generate a list of nearby places that have a Wikipedia article close to your current location.
  • Reports: Report on the Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) by Ambrosia10
  • Tool of the week
  • Map Kerala ([https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/ https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/]) uses Wikidata to distinguish Panchayats of Kerala at a glance based on three distinct identifier codes (LGD code, LSG code, SEC code).
  • User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js <-- This script displays a symbol after external identifiers which contain checksums, to indicate whether the checksum in the identifier is correct. Currently only supporting a small number of Identifiers.
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/7oTi List of lighthouses in France] ([https://twitter.com/LeuLeudo/status/1709086802454163943 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/7bV8 Which academic journals publish the most International Space Station Research?] (graph) ([https://twitter.com/astro_meganne/status/1707709600886120696 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/7o3d Tamil Lexemes missing Item for this sense statements] (source)
  • [https://w.wiki/7ofi People with no country of citizenship having Norwegian names] (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Catalan creators - a project for documenting creators born or active in the Catalan speaking territories
  • WikiProject BeyondNotability - a project for improving content on Wikidata women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in the UK circa 1870-1950
  • WikiProject Manuscripts
  • Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property (phab:T342982, phab:T337371)
  • Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property (phab:T342979)
  • Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property (phab:T348150)
  • Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
  • Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 17:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #599

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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: Hjart (RfP scheduled to end after 26 October 2023 11:20 UTC)
  • Events
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour, Q4 2023
  • Ongoing: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=114 Weekly Lexeme Challenge #114: Cars] (Challenge started on 2023-10-23 12:01:27)
  • Upcoming:
  • [https://wikiedu.org/speaker-series/ How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world] < organised by WikiEdu, happening today, Oct. 23.
  • [https://twitter.com/bingulibraries/status/1714735878847770750/photo/1 Edit-A-Thon for LGBTQ+ History Month] < Binghamton University Library, New York, Oct. 25th. Help make visible the important contributions of queer figures.
  • [https://twitter.com/hkbulibdmss/status/1713857483792437497 Bridging Art Archive to the Wikidata Ecosystem] < a guest lecture from Joyce Chen at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship '23, Oct. 27, via Zoom.
  • [https://twitter.com/SQWikimediansUG/status/1714944884459618622 Wikidata Birthday Edit-A-Thon (Albanian)] < Albanian language Wikimedians celebrate Wikidata's Birthday with a 2-day event (Oct. 28 - 29, 2023) near the "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Elbasan.
  • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 23, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover batch creating items using OpenRefine.This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-October-23_Wikidata_Working_Hour Event page]
  • [https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2023/ 4th Wikidata Workshop] as part of the International Semantic Web Conference. 7th Nov., Athens, Greece.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • Final Report of the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Adapting_Wikidata_to_support_clinical_practice_using_Data_Science,_Semantic_Web_and_Machine_Learning Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning] Project funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW6SbOPb-8I Let's Connect Learning Clinic #2: Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments] < Learn how to run SPARQL queries, create Listeria lists, and structure data on commons for Wiki Loves Monuments and other WikiLoves campaigns, provided by Wikimedia Sweden. Missed Clinic #1? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiTjxAy_Z8 Find it here].
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke4izHB0GT0 Live Editing #110] < Develop your SPARQL query-building skills in this follow-along session.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Gj5bHIYwU Tutorial on Wikidata for or WikiConnect course] (in Portuguese) <-- Explaining the Wiki Movimento Brasil's WikiConecta Wikidata course. The course entails Understanding what Wikidata is and its operating logic, Learning the basics of editing and recovering data, and Understanding why and how to use Wikidata with your students.
  • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit:
  • [https://www.youtube.com/live/-LdIz8ncCpw MedCYN] as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/live/hgikdP8Fuaw MeSH2Wikidata] as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.
  • Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/annas archive.js is a userscript that automatically links to Anna's Archive from Wikidata items for books and research articles, for title, DOI, ISBN, etc. so that people can easily get access to them.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is a new update relative to the Wikidata Query Service scaling of the backend, that explains how the team will experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/FWEVR4QEYOHPY7FEATMALXQZQM7I5PZW/ Mismatch Finder tool improvements]: In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement.
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/7p8c Birthplace of recipients of the Nazi Germany Iron Cross]
  • [https://w.wiki/4tJ3 Burial place of Swedish Prime Ministers]
  • [https://w.wiki/7pGw List of cathedrals around the world with its height] ([https://twitter.com/jmcollado/status/1714353277083463979 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/7jeC Population of Check villages with rivers flowing through them] ([https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1712053220510437379 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/7skK Ships with multiple operators that do not have multiple official names] (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects
  • WikiProject Photography in Finland - a project for photography in Finland, including photographers, studios and other related items
  • WikiProject Celtic Music - a project for collecting Celtic tunes
  • Development
  • We are preparing for WikidataCon and the Data Modelling Days.
  • We are looking more into where Wikibase needs to be adapted to the upcoming IP Masking changes.
  • We added a notification about the license to all edits to labels, descriptions and aliases that was missing still (phab:T343998) The same for Lexemes is coming next (phab:T343999)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [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) 16:07, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to the 600th Wikidata Weekly Summary!

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

  • Welcome to the 600th Weekly Summary!

Lydia initiated the weekly newsletter at the start of the Wikidata project, before it even went live, to keep the community in the loop about the developments, the new projects and tools. Léa carried on the newsletter in 2016 and then it was my turn in 2020. The newsletter has been going strong for eleven years, with its content powered by the community, and delivered every week without fail. Thank you to everyone who helped fill in the different sections of the Weekly Summary thus far ❤️ --Mohammed

{{quote|Today it is time to celebrate Wikidata’s 11th birthday. Let’s take a look back at the past year and what’s coming.

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There are now over 12.200 amazing people who are actively editing on Wikidata - 3000 of them even making more than 100 edits a month ♥️ Thank you! Without you Wikidata wouldn’t be what it is today. Thank you for helping give more people more access to more knowledge every single day. This year also marks the year we can welcome a new sister to the Wikimedia projects: Wikifunctions is live, letting us all geek out on functions in anticipation of Abstract Wikipedia. Another big milestone was Wikibase Cloud coming out of private beta. Now you can more easily run your own Wikibase and collect and maintain data that doesn’t fit into Wikidata. 2023 was also the year when the efforts of Wikidata editors were recognized across the Wikimedia movement with the awarding of the Wikimedian of the Year award to Taufik Rosman and the Wikimedia Laureate award to Siobhan Leachman. Over the coming year I want us to find ways how we can bring more people, who are already editing a bit here and there, closer to the community and help them find their place in our community. If you are one of them and have not found your place yet, check out a WikiProject related to your interests. Wikidata has something for everyone 😉

Wikidata now has over 106 Million Items and nearly 1.2 Million Lexemes. We are closing in on 2 Billion edits, making about 20 Million edits per month. All this content is used to create useful, quirky, educational or just fun applications that wouldn’t be possible without Wikidata and all the work you put into it. Check out Notable People for example. Over the coming year we want to make that even easier by building better APIs, lessening the strain on the Query Service, doing more outreach to developers as well as making our data more usable by ironing out ontology issues. In addition there will be increased focus on improving how the other Wikimedia projects integrate Wikidata. With the opening up of Wikibase Cloud we will hopefully also see many new Wikibases pop up that cover more specialized data or be used as playgrounds to prepare data for Wikidata. I am looking forward to a growing Wikibase Ecosystem and excited about more Linked Open Data becoming available to the world, with Wikidata being an entryway to it all.

And last but not least: if you want to learn a bit more about the history and backstory of Wikidata, then you might like Wikidata: The Making Of by Denny, Markus and me.

Lydia for the development team}}

  • Documentation of [https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/ the sessions] is currently ongoing with the slides getting uploaded on Wikimedia Commons here. The Livestream and replay of the conference per day are already available [https://www.youtube.com/@wikidatataiwan9726/streams on YouTube]. The individual sections are [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejPB3E7aMGVY43bEX71CivKX here].
  • List of presents gathered by the community for Wikidata's eleventh birthday
  • [https://luthor.toolforge.org/ Luthor] is a multi-lingual tool for adding usage examples to lexemes on Wikidata, from sentences found on Wikisource in the same language. (by Asaf Bartov)
  • [https://sangkalak.toolforge.org/ সংকলক] একটি সরঞ্জাম যেটা দিয়ে উইকিসংকলনের লেখাগুলির উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেম অনুসারে সে লেখাগুলিকে উন্নত ভাবে অনুসন্ধান করা যায়। - Sangkalak is a tool with which Wikisource works can be searched more readily, using the Wikidata items for those works. (present from Mahir256) (by মাহির২৫৬-এর উপহার)
  • File:Wikidata 11th Birthday Card.jpg (by Almaddy2022)
  • [https://qop.toolforge.org Quonter Vandal] - is a tool powered by AI to help identify vandalism to Wikidata. For more details and to leave comments see Wikidata:Quonter_Vandal. Developed by BrokenSegue ({{int:Talkpagelinktext}})
  • Creating new Lexemes? For a lot more languages you now no longer need to provide a spelling variant when creating a new Lexeme, making it even easier to contribute data about words in your language. (present from the development team)
  • The Mismatch Finder, the tool to help review mismatches between Wikidata and other data sources now also has support for mismatches on qualifiers. This allows it to be useful also for issues that are in the data in qualifiers. (present from the development team)
  • inteGraality service pack update from d:User:Jean-Frédéric
  • support for grouping by predicates, particularly useful for Lexemes (example by wikibase:lexicalCategory, example by dct:language) ; other example by badge
  • new column type: sitelinks (example 1, example 2)
  • Automatic support for grouping by datetime properties (example)
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms experimental Wikifunctions support (details TBA) --Lucas Werkmeister ({{int:Talkpagelinktext}})
  • The projects WiseWoman briefly presented of students editing obscure corners of Wikidata are on her [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:WiseWoman Wikidata user page].
  • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit (by Houcemeddine Turki):
  • [https://www.youtube.com/live/-LdIz8ncCpw MedCYN] as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/live/hgikdP8Fuaw MeSH2Wikidata] as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/10/23/from-mesh-keywords-to-biomedical-knowledge-in-wikidata-the-giant-move/ From MeSH Keywords to Biomedical Knowledge in Wikidata: The giant move]
  • [https://labs.acmi.net.au/linking-acmi-wikidata-aa33dd6fd58b Linking ACMI & Wikidata], by Paul Duchesne
  • [https://wikiworks.com/enhanced-wikibase.html Enhanced Wikibase], by Wikiworks MediaWiki consulting
  • Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes, by Yamen
  • 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects, By Dario Crespi (WMIT) & Ilaria Diterlizzi (WMIT)
  • [https://orissadiary.com/the-11th-birthday-of-wikidata-was-celebrated-in-bhubaneswar-by-the-odia-wikimedians-user-group/ The 11th Birthday of Wikidata was celebrated in Bhubaneswar by the Odia Wikimedians User Group]
  • Papers
  • [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.16296.pdf Relevant Entity Selection: Knowledge Graph Bootstrapping via Zero-Shot Analogical Pruning] (Jarnac et al)
  • Press
  • [https://orissadiary.com/the-11th-birthday-of-wikidata-was-celebrated-in-bhubaneswar-by-the-odia-wikimedians-user-group/ The 11th Birthday Of Wikidata Was Celebrated In Bhubaneswar By The Odia Wikimedians User Group] via OrissaDiary.com
  • [https://t3n.de/news/finde-den-bekanntesten-menschen-deiner-stadt-dank-interaktiver-karte-1489087/ Find the most famous person in your city using this interactive map] (in German) by Kay Nordenbrock via t3n.de ("The database contains data on people from 3,500 BC to 2018 AD. It consists largely of data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.")
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR5t0GptAFI How cultural institutions use Wikidata] (How cultural heritage institutions sharing their collection data, including implementing Wikidata projects, batch uploading datasets to Wikidata, and how to share successes to a broader audience) - Jackie Rubashkin, Metadata Technician, Barack Obama Presidential Library; Michelle van Lanschot, Project Coordinator at Wikimedia-Netherlands; William Blueher, Associate Museum Librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Will Kent, Wiki Education
  • (in Chinese) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9j0vIUtmc Wikidata基礎編輯教學] (Wikidata basic editor) - Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters (COSCUP) 2023
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0WFKHWB1Y How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language] - Yucheng Lin (COSCUP 2023)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ds8AyuUOI Wikidata merge-gadget] (in Swedish) by Magnus Sälgö
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WPs91QvxZA Wikidata Live editing session - NASA, inteGraality, dates and qualifiers] (in French) by Nicolas VIGNERON
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGMj8j6t8BE Pairing SBN with Wikidata via WikiLinker] (in Portuguese)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-lZZQMEz4 Introduction to Wikibase Cloud] (in Italian)
  • Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/author sort.js is a user script to automatically sort the authors of a paper in the order they appear on the paper, ie. by sorting author (P50) and author name string (P2093) statements by series ordinal (P1545). Example: One Hundred and Seventeen Clades of Euagarics (Q28209168).
  • [https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people Notable People] is a map project by [https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/1552622792708874240 Topi Tjukanov] that showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. It uses the combined data of Wikipedia and Wikidata from the paper's "[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4 a cross-verified database of notable people, 3500 BC-2018 AD]" by Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoît Eyméoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique & Etienne Wasmer. The data shows only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/XAYTWBPD24H3H4VZMNVQAICOZ6FRLIM3/ The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members].
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SLFAWPKCJI3QCAYW43O6QEVGK7SJAMBQ/ Wikimedia Research Fund Update update]. "You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 15, 2023. While all research proposals related to Wikimedia projects are welcome, we particularly encourage research studies on medium to small size languages and communities, as well as in low resourced languages and projects."
  • The Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is investigating the different ways Wikidata is used in the sister projects. We would like to speak with you about your experiences integrating or connecting Wikidata, if you'd like to tell us, please sign up for an interview on our project page or on our [https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Interviews Registration Form].
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • Property completeness dashboard for manuscripts
  • [https://w.wiki/7wSg Map of narrative locations of romantic comedies] ([https://mastodon.world/@mlpoulter/111318731640496853 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/7q$L Tunisian scientists are cited by Nobel Prize winners] ([https://twitter.com/Csisc1994/status/1715408704298770586 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/7pGw Which cathedrals are the tallest in the world?] ([https://twitter.com/jmcollado/status/1714353277083463979 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Source Reliability - an project to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher - a project to display open access shares (among others based on publishers) at the Austrian Datahub for Open Access Negotiations and Monitoring
  • Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to remove a description in a given language from an Item, modify the label of an Item and add aliases to an Item (phab:T342986, phab:T342980, phab:T335842)
  • Lexicographical data: We switched the Property that is used to pre-select the spelling variant on the Special:NewLexeme page from P218 (ISO 639-1 code) to P305 (IETF language tag) to make use of the latter’s larger coverage. (phab:T348923)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on addressing the feedback from the testing of the new datatype in the test system.

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #601

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

  • Discussions
  • AramBot (Task: adding site links, especially from ckbwiki and kuwiki pages to Wikidata).
  • Events
  • Past: [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Search Platform / Query Service Team office hour log — November 1, 2023]
  • This Week:
  • [https://brownlibrary.lwcal.com/#!view/event/slug/1293-wikidata-for-digital-humanities Wikidata for Digital Humanities] workshop hosted by Brown University Library, Nov. 6th 19:00 - 20:00 CEST.
  • [https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/lets-connect-learning-clinic-wikidata-for-wiki-loves-monuments-series-3/3586 Wiki Loves Monuments: Learning Clinic #3] hosted by WM Sweden in partnership with WM Uganda, Nov. 9th
  • Upcoming: Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. You can propose a session until November 19. If you are running another event or meetup and would like to connect it to the Data Modelling Days, you can add it to the satellite events section.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/02/wikidata-arabic-community/ Wikidata Arabic Community].
  • [https://towardsdatascience.com/ultra-foundation-models-for-knowledge-graph-reasoning-9f8f4a0d7f09 ULTRA: Foundation Models for Knowledge Graph Reasoning].
  • Papers
  • [https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/ PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept] A White Paper released from Charles Faulhaber
  • [https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/using-pregel-to-create-knowledge-graphs-subsets-described-by-non/26242354 Using Pregel to Create Knowledge Graphs Subsets Described by Non-recursive Shape Expressions] by Á. Préstamo & J. Gayo
  • [https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/knowledge-graphs-and-semantic-web/26242350 Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web] is a collection of preceedings from the 5th Iberoamerican Conference and 4th Indo-American Conference, KGSWC 2023, Nov. 13–15. By F. Ortiz-Rodriguez, B. Villazón-Terrazas, S. Tiwari & C. Bobed.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkAwDVvJKMs OpenHPI Querying Wikidata with SPARQL]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7kRL40PLPo OpenHPI Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WCLmIPdR5rA Wikidata 11th Birthday Celebrations](YouTube shorts) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua4IXcyzRrA are celebrated by the Community]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmY5t_DaUKk Live Editing with Wikidata in Italiano] (Italian)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-lZZQMEz4 Intro to Wikibase Cloud] (Italian)
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/subclass-of subclass of], new Observable tool to test which item is a subclass of another.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZDHNJCVBE4XLEEZULCGF3B3Z55UELW34/ SMWCon 2023 Call for Contributions] on the topic 'MediaWiki in the age of AI'
  • The [https://iw.toolforge.org/lexeme-forms Wikidata Lexeme Forms] tool was upgraded to autogenerate the different forms of a regular word with functions from Wikifunctions
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/7yv$ List of phobias in French]
  • [https://w.wiki/84Di Interviewees who were part of the Suffragette Movement] and
  • [https://w.wiki/84DU Interviewees who had a relative or friend in the Suffragette Movement] as part of the LSE Suffrage Interviews Project
  • Newest WikiProjects: Source Reliability "is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources".
  • Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We have implemented the endpoints for PATCH /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T337371), PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/aliases (phab:T342982) and PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/labels (phab:T342980)
  • We started working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (phab:T342986)
  • Language codes:
  • We made Special:NewLexeme more likely to guess the spelling variant for you by changing the Property we use to get the language code. Now you will see the spelling variant input pop up less often. (phab:T349652)
  • We started work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (phab:T341409)
  • Query Service UI: We’ve fixed a small issue in the Query Service UI that was introduced when updating CSS variables. Content of selected cells in the query result should be readable again. (phab:T350153)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #602

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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: S8321414 (RfP scheduled to end after 13 November 2023 14:50 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DiFoolBot 2 (Task: import VIAF ID based on Union List of Artist Names ID)
  • KizuleBot (Task: Adding sitelinks to Serbian Wikipedia for maintenance categories (see contributions of account) based on items for English Wikipedia's ones)
  • KormiSKbot (Task: Linking newly created pages on SKWiki to the appropriate Wikidata items.)
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/investigating-the-formatter-uri-for-rdf-resource-p1921-property-and-its-uses-in-the-wikidata-infrastructure/ Investigating the “formatter URI for RDF resource” (P1921) property and its uses in the Wikidata infrastructure] <-- It discusses how this property enables unique identification of resources, its usage in federated queries, and its role in the Wikidata Query Service.
  • [https://www.tio.ch/svizzera/attualita/1709525/svizzera-vittime-state-caccia-streghe-donne-uccise-monumento-perseguitate-2mila Switzerland Witch hunt: over 2,000 victims, but no monument] (Italian) WikiWitches project is using Wikidata to track execution sites of persecuted persons. Read about the project [https://sanspages.org/2021/08/05/ here].
  • Open Access Week and Wikidata; Opening Culture and Heritage training (Colombia GLAM report) <-- details the Open Access Week and Wikidata event in Colombia, which included discussions on the use of Wikidata for academic journals and the use of Wikidata for open science.
  • Wikipedia for all of Sweden; Museums and Wikidata – why and how?; Photo memories from Stockholm and Rome; Negotiating Knowledge on Wikipedia (Sweden GLAM report) <-- discusses the “Wikipedia for all of Sweden” project, which includes the use of Wikidata for authority control in museums.
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/01/wikiwitches-giving-back-a-soul-to-the-victims-of-the-witch-hunt/ Wikiwitches: giving back a soul to the victims of the witch-hunt] <-- The Wikiwitches project, initiated by the association Les sans pagEs in collaboration with Wikimedia CH, aims to map the victims of witch-hunts on Wikidata.
  • [https://blog.metabrainz.org/2023/11/06/gsoc-23-automating-area-management-in-musicbrainz/ GSOC ‘23: Automating Area Management in MusicBrainz] <-- Prathamesh, in their Google Summer of Code project, developed a data pipeline to automate the synchronization of area metadata between MusicBrainz and Wikidata.
  • Papers
  • [https://journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/article/view/10665 Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world] <-- The project “Usable Authorities for Data-driven Cultural Heritage Research” aims to link museum authority data to Wikidata, enhancing the visibility, accessibility, and relevance of information across different museum collections, and encouraging cultural heritage institutions in Sweden to contribute to and utilize the Wikimedia platforms.
  • The 4th Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community happened on 07 November 2023. You can find a full list of presented papers [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWp9Yi4v87c here]
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWp9Yi4v87c Connecting Entomological Collectors ECN2023] <-- A presentation for the Entomological Collections Network 2023 conference by Siobhan Leachman, this presentation explains how Wikidata can be used to create an identifier for entomological collectors, empowering the collation & linking of biographical data as well as the ability to link to other databases & catalogs relating to those collectors.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfTA7AhgWBA Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda] <-- The Learning Series offers practical guidance on using Wikidata for Wiki Loves campaigns, with hands-on experience and follow-up mentoring.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y4cVKKXspA Wikidata projects in Wikimedia Spain] <-- part of the online sessions organized by Wikimedia España to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Wikidata. In this session, Ángel Obregón, a member of Wikimedia España, presents some of the projects driven by Wikidata by the members of WMES.
  • Notebooks:
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/subclass-of Subclass of...] <-- Wikidata's ontology is complex. This tool aims at finding if an item is a subclass of another one.
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/632d9e0eccea271d The Wednesday Index] <-- A longitudinal analysis of gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://openflights.org/ OpenFlights.org] is now getting some of its airline data from Wikidata. It is a free open-source tool that allows you to log, map, calculate, and share your flights and trips.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/I34X4BR52DFEUHB6TX22TKLM72XJVFOQ/ Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.5 – minor changes] (security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.5)
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/84Hp Map of every recorded battle the past 4,500 years] ([https://twitter.com/MahmoudAlyosify/status/1721524460228935865 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/7yDL Map of locations of witch memorials and sites of interest in Scotland] ([https://twitter.com/emcandre/status/1719132942809587905 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject IDEA - This Wikiproject serves as a working group and process documentation archive for the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA), a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and in development at Bard College and Yale University.
  • WikiProject Interwiki - The goal of this project is linking Wikidata items with wiki articles outside of the Wikimedia ecosystem. Niche wikis frequently offer more in-depth content compared to general online dictionary articles, although their quality can vary significantly.
  • WikiProject SrpKor - The main aim of this project is building Wikidata entities for the novels from SrpKor: Corpus of the contemporary Serbian language.
  • WikiProject Manors - Collecting data about manor house (Q879050) as part of manor (Q2066754) or manor estate (Q2116450) as part of the Research Centre for manors in the baltic sea region (Q117756751).
  • WikiProject Echinodermata - A repository for information pertaining to the NSF Grant Echinoderm Project.
  • Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (phab:T342986)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.
  • Language codes: We continued work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (phab:T341409)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [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) 14:53, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #603

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

  • Events
  • Upcoming:
  • Data Modelling Days, from November 30th to December 2nd: 3 days of online events to address data modelling challenges, discuss how to improve the way we structure data together, and discover the point of view of external reusers. Feel free to have a look at the program (under construction) and to sign up as a participant.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxEJE-LiQuc&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D Wikidata Lab XXXIX: Structuring the Wikimedia Ecosystem] presented by Wiki Movimento Brasil. November 21 at 2:00 PM CEST. The presentation will be held in English by the wikimedian Mike Peel.
  • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour November 20th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles.During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-November-20_Wikidata_Working_Hour event page]
  • Wikibase for art and cultural data (German) - #9 of kuwiki tips & tools, taking place Thursday, 23 November 2023, 19-20.30
  • Ongoing:
  • [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=118 Weekly Lexeme Challenge #118: Diseases] (Challenge started on 2023-11-20 12:01:41)
  • Past:
  • ItWikiCon '23 (Italian) was hosted in Bari, Italy between the 17th - 19th November. Check the Programme for details on sessions and check for recordings or slidedecks of presentations.
  • GLAM Wiki 2023 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. There were several Wikidata-related sessions some of which are linked in the Videos section.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1007836 New study shows how authors’ personal circumstances influence the depiction of nature in their works]
  • Papers
  • [https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/can-you-trust-wikidata-1 Can you trust Wikidata?] - is a paper exploring Wikidata's veracity and trustability for providing values to Knowledge Graphs. Written by V. Santos et al.
  • Videos
  • Wikidata for Cultural Heritage, available in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNvUmArXgA Spanish], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gohj12__Wo0 Portugese], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K337fNxiOvw English]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNZ5VkkAuPw Find-A-Grave] of Swedish politicians in Magnus Sälgö's exploration of Wikidata, OpenRefine, SPARQL and Svenskagravar (Swedish).
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faeXRNSh_0Q&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D Wikidata Live Editing #111] with the Wikipedia Weekly Network, hosted by Ainali and Abbe98
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfTA7AhgWBA Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships] presented by Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda. Get essential Wikidata-editing skills for Listeria, OpenRefine, run queries and structured data on Commons.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbz_ANgtD8k How to upload collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine] (in Portuguese). Training on uploading collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqm0J1UrULQ Cohort 2 Graduation: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course]. The session includes exciting testimonials from participants and goodwill messages.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NEsk5iWTwQ Enhancing Factuality in Large Language Models with Wikidata's 12B Facts]. This HackerNews video discusses a paper that explores the use of Wikidata, which contains over 12 billion facts, to improve the factuality of large language models (LLMs)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tBIOVdOWk Back to basics and #SPARQL #Wikidata] (in French). Using Wikidata SPARQL query by VIGNERON
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNvUmArXgA Wikidata for cultural heritage (ES) - GLAM Wiki Conference]
  • Presentations: [https://elemwala.toolforge.org/static/wcna2023/wcna2023.html "Wikidata Lexemes: Introduction to the Possibilities" - workshop on at WikiConference North America], by User:Mahir256
  • Notebooks:
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/6086664e20f8c4cd The End of an Era] - A study on the major deaths that have occurred in our generation and the people that were left behind. (1997-2012)
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/5501fe52e156508e Relationship Between Senators and Political Parties] - A sample network graph that depicts the political parties of Senators.
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/7ec76ff6cf531e70 Family Network of Female Horse] - A sample network graph that depicts the relationships of female horses.
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/e0d2119c438156de Poets and the Monarchs they were appointed by]
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/db18c33354921fac Metro stations of The Metropolitan line (Q19891) of the London Underground Metro System] - A sample network graph that depicts the stops and adjacent stops of metro stations of the London Underground's Metropolitan line.
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/user-level-gender-statistics-for-wikipedia User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia] - a tool that computes the number of articles created by gender has been repaired after some months of unavailability. It relies on xtools and P21 property.
  • [https://luthor.toolforge.org Luthor] - tool for finding usage examples from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata.

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/8Cmp Articles on English Wikipedia tagged 'Water pollution' with no equivalent article in Spanish] ([https://twitter.com/OpenResLeeds/status/1726325166240907347 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/8D89 Highest point (in meters) per counties in Finland] (source)
  • [https://w.wiki/6TNS Week 46, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now] ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/111431233523655531 source]) "Basque are back on top for the second time this month"
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Manuscripts - This WikiProject coordinates efforts on Wikidata to gather and curate structured data on manuscripts.
  • WikiProject Grove Hall Black Women Lead - aims to shed light on the lives and stories of Black women leaders who have shaped Boston’s history from the colonial era to the present day.
  • Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/projectmerge/enwiki-svwiki - 3875 merge candidates in English Wikipedia and Swedish Wikipedia based on same sitelink name.
  • Showcase Items: University of Konstanz (Q835440) - University in Konstanz, Germany (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)
  • Showcase Lexemes: rød - Danish word for red with features in many compounds and derivations (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)
  • Development
  • We are taking steps towards making many more languages available in Lexemes and monolingual text statement values. (phab:T341409)
  • Nikki fixed a bug where the CSS class for a statement rank wasn't updated after a rank change (phab:T209138)
  • We are continuing the work on improving EntitySchemas by making it possible to link to them in statements.
  • We are migrating several tools from the Wikit design system to the Codex design system to be able to deprecate Wikit in the future.

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #604

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

  • Events
  • Upcoming:
  • [https://www.0221.com.ar/universidad/unlp-se-viene-la-primera-jornada-wikiarchivistas-n83513 UNLP: the first Wikiarchivists Day is coming] < 04.12.23 at the UNLP Public Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Organised by WM Argentina.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 28, 2023: As a satellite event for Data Modeling Days, we will facilitate community discussion around data modeling in Wikidata for library collections in a variety of formats, including people, books, serials, scholarly articles, rare materials, music, media, and realia. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d05ei7DqED9XmkRdGpY9ihcziS1d2wKSuoOWfSo1he4/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
  • Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2, online. 3 days of discussions, presentations and workshops to discuss our challenges related to data modelling and improve the structure of Wikidata's data together. Check out the program, add yourself as a participant.
  • [https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=175627665631874&id=100095539233937 Wikidata editathon to add Arabic labels & descriptions to Islamic art objects], hosted by Wikimedians of the Islamic Civilization User Group, 2 December 17:00-19:00 UTC
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://minitex.umn.edu/services/digital-initiatives-metadata/23-linked-data-things 23 Linked Data Things]
  • [https://www.bobdc.com/blog/wikibaselabel/ Querying for labels]: The normal way and the wikibase:label service way, by Bob DuCharme.
  • [https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2023/11/22/wikimedia-hackathon-2024-is-here-mark-your-calendar-%f0%9f%8e%89/ Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is Here: Mark Your Calendar 🎉] for May 3rd – 5th, 2024, and register to attend
  • [https://www.tycoonstory.com/what-is-wikidata-your-guide-to-the-worlds-largest-free-knowledge-base/ What is Wikidata? Your Guide to the World’s Largest Free Knowledge Base]
  • Papers
  • Using Wikidata to identify the gender gap in Ibero-American public art (Q123470669) - The study, using Wikidata, reveals gender disparities in public art in Madrid and Buenos Aires, emphasizing the need for more works created by women and increased visibility of female artists.
  • Understanding Structured Knowledge Production (Q123561334) - A Case Study of Wikidata’s Representation Injustice. This paper seeks to explore the sources of epistemic injustice and biases from Wikidata's peer-production data model.
  • Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers (Q123561640) - highlights the use of Wikidata as an asset when linking taxa in different databases.
  • Videos: Individual Sessions from Wikimania Singapore 2023
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wxPLuvJl0 Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform] < Shani Evenstein Sigalov presents this Wikimania Singapore session on her 5-year PhD journey
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ypNbkUsm8 Data use and reuse: Unlocking Potential of Frictionless Data for Wikidata] < Sara Petti, Shashi Gharti & Carol Matos of the Open Knowledge Foundation host this session.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riEgkJFjc_U Using Wikibase and Wikidata for Community Archives by My Community] < a non-profit organisation using Wikibase and Wikidata to digitise and preserve Singaporean cultural artefacts and stories.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3fhpi6nqUs Wikidata Basics with SPARQL access to analyse data from Wikidata] < Asaf Bartov hosts this workshop for Wikidata newbies. Gain some foundational skills and learn how you can contribute to the biggest Knowledge Graph!
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSPHo2A4oE How to use Wikidata to build web tools for the social good] < Csisc & Yamen present [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/10/10/sawtpedia-giving-a-voice-to-wikipedia-using-qr-codes/ Sawtpedia] & [https://github.com/csisc/MedCYN|MedCYN (github)], 2 tools built using Wikidata and will show you how you can build your own.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23vap71iFmA Linked Open Data and Wikidata] < Alan Ang (WMDE) talks about the importance of Linked Open Data and forming mutually beneficial partnerships between the Foundation and Institutions.
  • Notebooks
  • Explore new ways of visualising your data with a [https://observablehq.com/d/eb27005ee4e2918b Circular Dendrogam], illustrated here with Association Football players broken down by Country and Team.
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://pltools.toolforge.org/harvesttemplates/ Harvest Templates] - is a tool that helps transfer data from Wikimedia projects to Wikidata.
  • User:MichaelSchoenitzer/Updown - is a userscript used for faster navigation. If there are a lot of values for one property it will add arrows that allow you to jump to the first/last value.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WMDE is researching ways to improve the editing experience in different languages and would love to hear your feedback. We would like to talk to a few of you in online interviews to learn about your experiences, expectations, and concerns. [https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata_research_sign_up Please let us know in this sign-up form if you are interested in taking part].
  • The Research team at WMF is running a second labeling campaign to evaluate the Revert Risk model for Wikidata. This is part of ongoing work on creating a new generation of Machine Learning models to support patrolling work on Wikimedia projects. Please help by going to [https://annotool.toolforge.org/ this link], and labeling each revision in one of these three categories: Keep, Not Sure, Revert. Notice that "Not Sure" should be used in all cases where the Keep or Revert labels are not clear to you.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/L2ZK2RSSZUNUY4DHOPQX63MC3JSXJOGW/ Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.40.1 – major release compatible with MediaWiki 1.40, based on MediaWiki 1.40.1]
  • Is there a Wikidata item (about you)? Consider providing a voice-clip pronouncing your name in this Voice-intro project
  • Did you know?

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  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/4Fx5 Rail link between Narvik and Singapore] ([https://wikis.world/@librerli@openbiblio.social/111426394639852081 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/6TNS Week 47, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now] ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/111471961111041367 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/8Hmg Gender representation of Scottish witches] (source)
  • [https://w.wiki/8HoD Most popular names in Ghana among Ghanaians on Wikidata] ([https://t.me/c/1348693063/3625 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Heritage Collections - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most comprehensive high quality database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including contemporary scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection databases with Wikidata.
  • WikiProject Roman Provinces
  • WikiProject Events and Role Frames - The primary aims of WikiProject Events and Role Frames is to define a set of properties that consistently model event occurrences and their participants; to fill gaps in Wikidata regarding items for events and actions; and to encourage use of the proposed model and newly introduced items across Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: Wikidata:Database reports/badged items without claims - This is a list of badged items (i.e. items for feature or good articles in somewiki) without claims. Ideally it should be empty.
  • Showcase Items: Nelson Mandela (Q8023) - First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
  • Showcase Lexemes: gepard - Polish noun for cheetah with many forms
  • Development
  • We are preparing for the Data Modelling Days happening later this week
  • Language codes:
  • We are making some small remaining changes before the next testing round of the new language code (phab:T345750, phab:T345751, phab:T345083)
  • We continued to make a lot more language codes available (phab:341409)
  • EntitySchemas: We are experimenting with how to work around some technical blockers for the new datatype
  • Wikibase REST API: We've been working on the ability to remove an Item's label in a specific language and modify the descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981, phab:T342981)

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

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[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #605

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

  • Events
  • Upcoming:
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/QHLIBSYUQXNRRWQATW5WUCGMMMBUXOXB/ Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Register and Apply for Scholarships until January 5th 2024!]
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/15/wikimania-2024-scholarships-open-apply-now/ WikiMania 2024 Scholarships are open] - You can apply now for paid accommodation, travel and registration of the event!
  • Next:
  • [https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-contributions-eswc-2024/ Extended Semantic Web Conference 2024] < The deadline to submit your Papers is December 7th (23:59 UTC-12)!
  • [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service team] - the 1st Wednesday of every month, bring your questions on Wikimedia Search, Wikidata Query and Wikimedia Commons Query service.
  • Past:
  • Data Modelling Days 2023 - (30 Nov - 2 Dec.) If you missed it, don't worry! We have recordings, slides and notes for each session, available here!
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Press
  • [https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/kultur-ukraine-rund-250-kriegsbedrohte-baudenkmaeler-dokumentiert-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-231203-99-162104 Around 250 war-threatened architectural monuments documented] (German) - Wikidata, Wikibase and Commons are helping preserve and plan the restoration of culturally-significant Monuments damaged or destroyed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  • Blogs
  • [https://www.lehir.net/how-many-properties-are-created-on-wikidata-each-month/ How many properties are created on Wikidata each month?], by Envel Le Hir
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R-oIuGfQmg Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project] A Wikidata Workshop provided by the British Institute at Ankara.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkl2x5psvJs Metaphactory's advanced semantic search with Wikidata KG] < shows a new way of building queries with Metaphacts visualised UI. Read more with their latest [https://metaphacts.com/metaphacts-ontotext-interface-for-wikidata-demo-system News Posts]!
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1yTuftzQ1o Wikibase for GLAM organizations:] Collections in the Linked Open Data web by our excellent Partner Manager User:Christos Varvantakis (WMDE)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UDrn-HzO68 Intro to Wikidata and importing bibliographic elements from Zotero] < (Italian) An initiative to expand Greek and Latin antiquities in Wikidata for use in humanistic studies. Read more here > Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://github.com/dlindem/zotwb ZotWb] < export records in a Zotero group library to a custom Wikibase, prepare datasets to send to OpenRefine, feed OpenRefine reconciliaton results back to the Wikibase. Wikidata is envolved in the entity reconciliation.
    Here's a short [https://vimeo.com/890641063 explanation and demo video]
    Tool is written and provided by David Lindermann with support from WMF Rapid Grant.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/38760837?l=en We're looking for a new Product Manager for Wikibase Cloud]. Are you interested or do you happen to know someone who might fit this position?
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KOHYRODIG47FWKX6JUKCJKSZGXJ6C7JJ/ Wikimedia Deutschland will be collaborating with Purdue Students to Find New Mismatches for the Mismatch Finder]. We Need Your Help to Suggest External Datasets!
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/S7273AZ6LA4TY63JYYFEMUZNVU5BHEIK/ Outreachy Round 27 interns selected, including 1 Wikidata related project].
  • A [https://echinopscis.github.io/blog/2023/wikidata-plugin/ cool new Obsidian plugin] for Wikidata is in the works.
  • [https://pm20-search.toolforge.org Fulltext search] for folders in an [https://pm20.zbw.eu external archive] via text in Wikidata items (more).
  • Have you tried [https://www.entitree.com/ EntiTree] yet? Explore relationship and connections between Wikidata entities with this new visualisation!
  • Last call for the [https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/wikibase-cloud-user-survey-Q4-2023 Wikibase.Cloud 2023 User survey]. It only takes 10 minutes and it's fully anonymous so please participate!
  • The StructuredDiscussions extension is being archived but your comments on the Project Chat are wanted.
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/8Chs People born somewhere named after them] ([https://wikis.world/@edward@octodon.social/111438329806280812 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/8FKw Rose cultivars named after screen writers] [https://wikis.world/@edward@octodon.social/111460613316548656 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects: Events and Role Frames
  • Newest database reports:
  • Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Showcase Lexemes: läsa - 'read' about this Swedish word with many pronounciations and grammatical features.

Feel free to suggest next week's Showcase Item and Lexeme!

  • Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the endpoint for removing an Item's label in a specific language (phab:T335841) and the endpoint for modifying descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981)
  • We are working on the endpoint for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on moving the tool over to the new design system Codex
  • We adjusted the styling for the values of monolingual text statements to make the language easier to distinguish from the value (phab:T280774)
  • mul language code: We made some final adjustments to get it ready for testing.
  • Lexemes: We are adding a license note for anon users when editing a Lexeme’s lemma, a Form or Sense (phab:T343999)

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #606

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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: LccnBot (Task: Adds P244 to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.)
  • New request for comments: Duplicate References Data Model and UI < During Data Modelling Days '23, 2 proposals emerged trying to answer the question of how to handle duplicate References on Wikidata Items.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 12, 2023: Several members of the Chinese Culture and Heritage Wikidata group will provide an overview of the group's Wikidata projects as well as the challenges they have encountered. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rwn2Y3TyTRIrejP2zqs7KyANMpuh9Yaxe5-6Xezn8yQ/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
  • [https://10times.com/e11x-sspk-2k54 Data-SHS Bordeaux Week:] Processing and Analyzing Quantitative Data in Human and Social Sciences 2023. Dec. 11 - 15, Bordeaux, FR.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/12/05/agreeing-to-agree-roundtripping-people-identifiers-with-wikidata/ Agreeing to agree: Roundtripping people identifiers with Wikidata] < The Te Papa Museum of New Zealand shows how Wikidata is being used to verify subjects when sharing Collections and data between sources. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbpf3r7EzFc Here's a video explaining more!]
  • Papers / Books
  • [https://www.o-bib.de/bib/article/view/5970 1Lib1Nearby with Wikidata] (German) < Queries and edits for the multilingual world knowledge of the nearby environment.
  • [https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/114408/instance/9910689/ Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset:] a case study of plant genera named for women < S. Mering, L. Gardiner, S. Knapp et al.
  • [https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.353/ Fine-tuned LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less with Few-Shot Sequence-to-Sequence Semantic Parsing over Wikidata] < Presented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference. Authors: S. Xu, S. Liu, T. Culhane et al.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGyvc6dRbfA BiCIKL to Wikidata: Harmonizing the chaotic universe of natural history collectors] < presented by Mathias Dillen at the TDWG 2023 Annual Conference.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7gpAcjsjuU Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata:] Best Practice for Standardisation and Contexualisation. Presented by Dag Endresen also at the TDWG Annual Conference.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VtEMTZsntU Riksdagen Corpus Wikidata] < Magnus Sälgö.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr-A8EMc788 Scholia - a profiling tool to explore scholarly knowledge] < As part of the national research data infrastructure (NFDI) infratalk, Dr. Daniel Mietchen presents Scholia.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZ5eB76sI4 Catalogue of Premodern Manuscripts] < See a Wikibase instance used for The Digital Scriptorium Catalog. Presented by Lynn Ransom & L. P. Coladangelo.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AuoEYkEXYw&list=PLduaHBu_3ejM49Nb4_k652X9XmmvhuJjE Data Modelling Days 2023 Playlist] < The list of recorded Sessions for the DMD '23 Online Conference is available here!
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krbeWMTz5CY Building a semantic knowledge (wiki)base for synthetic phytochemistry] < Presented by Dr. Gitanjali Yadav
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVxi7ldSbrs OpenRefine - a open source tool for working with data] < This session explores the advantages of using OR to wrangle, clean, transform and standardise data for Wikidata. Presented by Jinoy Tom Jacob at the IndiaFOSS3.0 Conference.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykK8Wq6cycc Various queries and modeling on Wikidata] (French) < User:VIGNERON introduces several SPARQL queries.
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://qlever.cs.uni-freiburg.de/wikidata QLever SPARQl Engine] < If you attended Data Modeling Days '23, you may have seen an extraordinary [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHyjdoSN54 Session] given by Hannah Bast and Johannes Kalmbach showcasing the power and advantages of the QLever engine. QLever can handle queries that cause the WDQS to timeout or allowing Federated queries and Geospatial!

(QLEver has already featured in Tool of the Week but we wanted to showcase it again after experiencing it at DMD '23)

  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/6273b207e1d07eff Healthcare Disparities in the U.S.: Exploring Access to Healthcare in the Immigrant Population] < Zoomable Bar Charts and visualisations exploring access to healthcare across the U.S. Prison system, powered by Wikidata and WDQS. Authored by Haryn Shin.
  • DMD23: documentation and outcomes can be viewed on Wikidata project Chat as well as related-topics from the Conference on Qualifiers for fuzzy properties and Should WMF fund QLever?
  • Did you know?

  • Deleted properties:
  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/8TYJ Geolocalized object that have the same name than something named after some some kind of church building]. This includes streets, bus stops, …
  • [https://w.wiki/8TZv Video games per Platform]. Timeline of video game releases per platform.
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Heritage Collections: database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including contemporary scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection databases with Wikidata.
  • WikiProject Source Reliability: is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources.
  • Newest database reports:
  • Showcase Items: (Q8409) Alexander The Great - Alexander III, King of Macedon.
  • Showcase Lexemes: (L630387) Pri - the meaning of this Breton word is not 'muddy' with VIGNERON's contribution!
  • Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued work on the routes for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
  • Monolingual text values can now use many more languages than before. We’re still working on doing the same for Lexemes. (phab:T341409)

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

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 15:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #607

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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:
  • So9qBot 7. Task: Add not found in (P9660) --> Q123739672 to Danish Lexemes
  • So9qBot 8. Task: Add missing names of European legal documents to labels and aliases of items with a CELEX identifier
  • LccnBot. Task: Adds Library of Congress authority ID (P244) to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.
  • Other discussions: How to handle concepts of trans people on Wikidata? Should {privacy at wikidata.org} be redirected to {privacy at wikimedia.org} or should it be monitored by Wikidata volunteers? Join the discussion!
  • Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour December 18th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to.The ninth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL and Scholia to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-December-18_Wikidata_Working_Hour event page]
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #121: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=121 Pottery]
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs: [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/13/ld42023-part-i-the-future-of-wikidata-libraries-a-workshop/ #LD42023. Part I: The Future of Wikidata + Libraries (A Workshop)] - This blog series explores how libraries engage with Wikidata and Linked Data in the face of AI challenges. Led by Silvia Gutiérrez and Giovanna Fontenelle from the Wikimedia Foundation, the series summarizes insights from a collaborative session at the 2023 LD4 Conference, using Design Thinking strategies to connect the Library-Wikidata community with WMF, focusing on Wikidata, Wikibase, and Structured Data on Commons (SDC) in libraries. By Silvia Gutiérrez & Giovanna Fontenelle
  • Papers
  • [https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87476/63565 Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review] - This review analyzes Wikipedia's gender gap from 2007 to 2022, revealing a slight majority of female authors, addressing key themes, and exploring strategies to mitigate the gap, providing valuable insights into the research landscape in this domain. By Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Juan-José Boté-Vericad and Julia Minguillón.
  • [https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2023/papers/2__novel_ten_years_of_wikidata_a%5B1%5D.pdf Ten years of Wikidata: A bibliometric study] - This research delves into scholarly publications about Wikidata from its inception in 2012 to late 2022, revealing 945 relevant papers, primarily from conferences. The analysis highlights a concentration of experts and contributors from the Global North, as well as governmental institutions as predominant funders. The study calls for enhanced networking and outreach to promote diversity and inclusion within the Wikidata research community. Emphasizing computer science perspectives, the research focuses on methods for developing and utilizing open knowledge graphs, notably Wikidata, with a narrower but significant interest in application-oriented studies in digital humanities, biology, and healthcare. (Turki, et al)
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaKuKRdJojc Duplicating Everywhere All at Once | Cebuano Wikipedia] - Five years ago, Lsjbot's Wikipedia articles caused duplicate Wikidata items, notably impacting geographic places on Cebuano Wikipedia. This video by User:Canley at Wikimania 2023 delves into the history, visualizes the issue, and suggests cleanup strategies for Wikidata and Wikipedia, emphasizing Aotearoa New Zealand and parts of Australia, with implications for the global challenge of bot-created duplicates.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T66stEEwMKo Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research with Alicia Fagerving] - Alicia Fagerving, Wikimedia Sverige, introduces the project "Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research" and Wikidata. The project, spanning 2021-2023, links vocabularies from the databases of Nationalmuseum and Statens historiska museer to Wikidata, exploring it as a platform for semantic interoperability among cultural heritage institutions and providing tools and visualizations for similar projects.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdzzSEAdk-w 2023: OSM-Wikidata Map Framework]. Combining OpenStreetMap and Wikidata allows to leverage the strengths of the two projects to create richer maps. This talk explores how OSM-Wikidata Map Framework simplifies this process. By Daniele Santini
  • Press: [https://akademien-schweiz.ch/en/medien/press-releases/2023/adriano-rutz-gewinnt-ersten-schweizer-ord-preis/ Adriano Rutz wins the Swiss National Open Research Data (ORD) Prize] for “The LOTUS Initiative” project. LOTUS explores new ways of promoting the re-use of data in the fields of biology and chemistry and thus of sharing knowledge in natural products research. [https://www.miragenews.com/adriano-rutz-wins-swiss-national-ord-prize-1139345/ More coverage]
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cest-pas-gege It's not bad! Measuring Gérard Depardieu's mark on French cinema (in French)] - The analysis centers on Gérard Depardieu's impact on French cinema amid legal issues and sexual assault allegations. Despite difficulties in addressing these accusations, the author leverages Wikidata to measure Depardieu's influence by querying films from directors born after 1930 to assess his involvement.
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/f5bb6ee872abfa82 How to Become a Billionaire: A Billionaire's Occupations Network Analysis] - This network analysis investigates billionaires’ primary sources of income with a network graph—based on their occupations—connecting billionaires from all over the world and uncovering some of the biggest industries in the world.
  • Documentation: User:Mahir256 statred Lexemes documentation pages about Lemmata and Lexeme languages. Your contributions are welcome.
  • Tools of the week
  • [https://dracor.org/ Drama Corpora Project (DraCor)] is a digital database of plays, primarily from Europe. It collects and organizes texts of plays in a way that allows researchers and others to extract and analyze information from those texts. This could include details about the characters, the dialogue, the stage directions, and more. The data is being pulled from Wikidata.
  • Magnus Manske added a [https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=88 new game to the Wikidata game] to identify duplicate Items for researchers.
  • Mike Peel set up a [https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=90&opt=%7B%22type%22%3A%22all%22%7D new Distributed Game] to add links to Wikiquote to Wikidata.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibase Cloud has a new website. Check it out: [https://www.wikibase.cloud/ https://www.wikibase.cloud/]
  • Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/8UjS List of movies directed by French filmmakers born after 1930 with or without Depardieu] ([https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cest-pas-gege source])
  • [https://w.wiki/8RtG Czech buildings carved into the rock] ([https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1733440905669964260 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/6TNS Top album languages found on Wikidata right now] ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/111589767086008028 source])
  • [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Works%20created%20by%20females%20died%20in%202023%0APREFIX%20bd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreaLabel%20%3FworkLabel%20%28year%28%3Fdate%29as%20%3Fyear%29%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P170%2Fcreator%0A%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%23%20P50%2Fauthor%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P86%2Fcomposer%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP87%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P87%2Flibrettist%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP110%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P110%2Fillustrator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP655%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P655%2Ftranslator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP676%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P676%2Flyrics%20by%0A%20%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%20%23%20P21%2Fsex%20or%20gender%20-%20Q6581072%2Ffemale%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%222023-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%222023-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%29%20%23%20P570%2Fdate%20of%20death%20in%201945%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%7D%20%23%20P571%2Finception%20-%20P571%2Fpublication%20date%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fwork%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FcreaLabel%20%0A Works created by females, died in 2023]
  • Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/Unsupported sitelinks - Found 279 items
  • Showcase Items: lion (Q140) - species of big cat
  • Showcase Lexemes: cevap (L1124154) - Turkish noun for 'answer' derived from the Arabic noun جَواب
  • Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished adding the endpoints for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
  • We started working on the endpoint for removing a Property's description in a given language (phab:T342985)
  • We are fixing an issue with incorrect handling of lowercase statement IDs in edit requests (phab:T352644)
  • Special:PrefixIndex now shows label/lemma for Properties and Lexemes (phab:T343115)
  • Language codes: We changed where Wikidata is getting its languages from for Lexemes and Monolingual text statements and thereby resolved many tasks requesting another language being added to them (phab:T341409)

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 17:14, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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

  • 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.

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].

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?

  • 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.

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].

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

Did you know?

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [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.
  • 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #611

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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: Community request for the development team to access inverse properties on client wikis. (Summary: We currently cannot access inverse property values on Wikipedia. This can be a data management issue on Wikipedia as we must always ask ourself if we must introduce an inverse property for cases where we need them. So I think it’s useful to gather the usecases community would want and draft a request for an API to the devteam to do that.)

Events

  • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the [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.
  • Past
  • Provenance Loves Wiki (PLW24), Jan 12th - 14th, research and data on the origin of artworks and cultural heritage and how Wikibase and Wikidata can support this.
  • [https://twitter.com/WRdcongo/status/1745362701537198449 WikiLovesWomen #SheSaid] campaign wrapped up the 2023 campaign by visiting Kinshasha and Kisangani, where local Wikimedians improved quotes from women on FR Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/01/04/building-connected-libraries-in-nigeria-reflections-from-the-wikibase-journey/ Building Connected Libraries in Nigeria:] --> Reflections from the Wikibase Journey on collaboration and resouce sharing between Nigerian Libraries.
  • [https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/wikidata-and-chatgpt-integration-failure/ Wikidata and ChatGPT integration failure] --> read about Finn Årup Nielsen's attempts to integrate LLM's with Wikidata.
  • [https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Danysan95/diary/403095 QLever: a new way to query OpenStreetMap] --> Discussion of the new opportunities offered by QLever to query OpenStreetMap and to run federated queries with Wikidata
  • Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work --> The three-year Wikidata for authority control project, a collaboration between Wikimedia Sverige and Swedish museums, concluded in December 2023. It equipped museum staff with tools and skills to integrate their authority databases with Wikidata, resulting in added identifiers, SPARQL query proficiency, and enhanced knowledge sharing within the GLAM sector.
  • Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg --> The GLAM-BW project, under "GLAM goes OpenData," connects major collections in Baden-Württemberg, focusing on the württembergische Kunstkammer. With over 3,000 objects, the project integrates information on collectors, histories, and objects into a knowledge graph for semantic searches, contributing to the broader realm of linked open data, akin to Wikidata.
  • Swiss GLAM Programme --> Wikimedia CH imported the Museum of Natural History of Neuchâtel's urchin fossil casts to Wikimedia Commons, connecting structured data on Wikidata. The project involved data cleaning, adding missing elements, and file imports via OpenRefine, highlighting seamless integration between Wikidata and Commons.
  • Papers
  • [https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1020648 Reflections on the PCC Wikidata Pilot at UCLA Library:] --> Undertaking the PCC Learning Objectives. Discusses the 14-month Pilot programme for cooperative cataloguing of UCLA Library and Museum Collections. By E. Zhang, P. Biswas & I. Dagher.
  • [https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2024/papers/Tahmasebzadeh_Few-Shot_Event_Classification_in_Images_Using_Knowledge_Graphs_for_Prompting_WACV_2024_paper.pdf Few-Shot Event Classification in Images using Knowledge Graphs for Prompting] --> How can Wikidata and Wikipedia help Vision-Language Models improve their classification of images. Tahmasebzadeh et al., 2024.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Ok7Q-65OQ SMWCon 2023: Semantics, Wikis, and AI] --> Day 1, Keynote by Prof. Markus Krötzsch who explores origins and principles of semantic wikis and key challenges that lie ahead in managing knowledge.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSrFSz2BUno GLAM on Tour 2023 im Museum Barberini] (German) --> find out what Museums have got to do with Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. More Info Here.
  • Interactive notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/lam GLAM : Geolocated and Labelled Articles Map] - explore Featured and Good Wikipedia articles through a map, powered by Wikidata.

Tool of the week

  • [https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/announcing-us-boundary-tagging-qa-checker/107744 Brian M Sperlongano] released [https://zelonewolf.github.io/wikidata-qa/ US boundary QA checker], a quality assurance tool for finding issues with boundary data in the United States by using Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and US Census Bureau data.
  • The Surrounding Ocean (available at [https://vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean/ vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean]) - is a tool that allows you to browse lexicographical data. You can use the tool to explore words and their meanings, translations, and synonyms. The tool is currently under development, and the developer, Danny, would appreciate feedback to fix any issues with the tool. More info: Wikidata:The Surrounding Ocean.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM-Wikidata_Map_Framework OS-Wikidata Map Framework] List of tools and maps which combines OSM and Wikidata.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/Y7PRNX3SMKLTT6ABLGYADTLT2NQ7MKJE/ Call for Projects and Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2024 and Outreachy Round 28 is OPEN!]
  • Got an idea for a project to reclaim the public nature of the internet? With Wikidata? [https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20240109-CommonsFund-starts.html NLNet has a new fund you could apply to.]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/8r4K Historical events by a city sorted by importance] (source)
  • [https://w.wiki/8r4T Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013] (source)
  • [https://w.wiki/8r4Z Timeline of writing systems and alphabets] (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Decolonise Wiki --> intends to focus on decolonising text, depictions and media within all relevant Wikipedia articles.
  • WikiProject Highlights: Ontology Cleaning Task Force: A group of people have started a task force to discuss problems with the Wikidata ontology and how to clean them up. Anyone interested in participating is welcome. The task force maintains Wikidata:WikiProject Ontology/Cleaning Task Force as a record of its activities. You can add yourself to the participants list there and find out how to join group meetings or otherwise participate in the group. (Got something noteworthy happening in your WikiProject? Share it in the upcoming issue!)
  • Newest database reports: Lexicographical data/Reports/Empty lexemes - Lexemes with no statements, no forms and no senses. (Do you see Lexemes from your language in the list that you can fix?)
  • Showcase Items: January 15, 2018 (Q45919591) - Monday in January 2018
  • Showcase Lexemes: در جنگ حلوا بخش نمی‌کنند (L1081423) - Persian with a meaning similar to "all's fair in love and war"

Development

  • IP masking: We are working on adjusting Wikibase to handle the upcoming introduction of IP masking, which will give editors who are not logged in a temporary account name instead of using their IP to attribute edits to (phab:T351968)
  • Lexicographical data: We are changing how empty Senses and Forms are represented in the dumps (phab:T305660)
  • mul language code: We are doing user testing for the current implementation to see if it is understandable for people.
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on migrating it to the Codex design system.
  • REST API:
  • We improved the handling of lower-case statement IDs (phab:T354262)
  • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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

Weekly Tasks

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

Wikidata weekly summary #613

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

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: ROBERTSHST requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed.
  • New request for comments: Frettiebot block? - Bovlb has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the Frettiebot Discussion page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Books: [https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cilip.org.uk/resource/group/bd35bb32-65ad-475f-82be-dcfe36e1ec69/focus/focus_54-2.pdf Banned books, Wikipedia and Wikidata] - Volume 54, Number 2, 2023 of the focus on International Library and Information Work. Professor Núria Ferran of Women and Wikipedia.
  • Papers
  • [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.07683.pdf Assisted Knowledge Graph Authoring:] Human-Supervised Knowledge Graph Construction from Natural Language - a Web app allowing domain experts to create natural language Wikidata-based knowledge graphs. By Gohsen & Stein (2024).
  • [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.12474.pdf Large Language Models are Superpositions of All Characters: Attaining Arbitrary Role-play via Self-Alignment] - Lu, K., Yu, B., Zhou, C. & Zhou, J., (2024),. This paper explores using Knowledge Graph data silos to enrich interactions and dialogues with AI NPC's in roleplay videogames.
  • [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04695.pdf Narrowing the Knowledge Evaluation Gap:] Open-Domain Question Answering with Multi-Granularity Answers - evaluating predicted answers against a set of multi-granularity answers based on Wikidata. By Yona et al, (2024).
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZptQ94bxoo Introduction to Wikidata Query Tool] - Learn A Wiki Skill (LAWS). If you are a Wikidata beginner, enjoy this video provided by Open Foundation West Africa.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIIxn9FtZKU Wikibase Cloud For Cultural Heritage Data Online] and the SNARC Hub for Name Authority Records relating to Wales and the Welsh Language, with Jason J. Evans.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QbEIgY2Qhs How to use Wikidata in research:] good practices for using and sharing open data (Portugese). A training session by Rute Correia of Wikimedia Portugal.
  • WikidataCon 2023 - (English Audio)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMUAp1ePsrg Wikifunctions: fulfilling one of Wikidata's missing promises?] - with Denny Vrandečić
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC0H8PoSeKc Structured data and collaborative curation:] WikiProjects and Wikidata - with Daniel Mietchen.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_NwZhbVoHg Spreading our Data further with Wikibase REST API] by L. Pintscher.
  • Presentations:
  • [https://zenodo.org/records/10557209 Wikibase for a Research Project] - A slidedeck provided by Ruth v.d. Bussche presented at Provenance Loves Wiki '24
  • Provenance Loves Wiki 2024 slides on [https://zenodo.org/records/10569041 Linking Boetticher and 19th Century Paintings] through Wikidata and Wikisource
  • Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/glam2 GLAM2: Geolocated and Labeled Articles Map] - much like the previously shared [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/lam GLAM1] visually representing distribution of Good & Featured Articles but in a different visualisation.

Tool of the week

  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wifga Wikidata's insights for featured and good Wikipedia articles], a new Observable's notebook which helps exploring good articles or featured articles in any Wikipedia using Wikidata properties such as P31, P21, P106, P17, P27, etc.
  • [https://speedpatrolling.toolforge.org/ SpeedPatrolling] - This tool helps Wikidata editors to patrol recent changes.
  • metaphacts and Ontotext launch a new end-user interface on top of the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: [https://www.ontotext.com/company/news/metaphacts-ontotext-interface-for-wikidata-demo-system/?utm_campaign=Metaphacts&utm_content=272732273&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-33893047 try it here!]

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A job opening for a [https://careers.iscb.org/jobs/view/8682 Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer] to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded [https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23571/nsf23571.htm) Prototype Open Knowledge Network].
  • The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete [https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Feedback_on_stop_query_solution_for_Query_Service this survey on Lamapoll]. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/8vwq The 100 smallest mountains in France] ([https://wikis.world/@pac2/111803681068833819 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/8onv French Prime ministers ordered by age when they start in office] ([https://wikis.world/@pac2/111735781109610547 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024 - The International Botanical Congress (IBC) takes place once every six years. The organisers of this WikiProject see this conference as an ideal opportunity to engage with the wider botanical community, educate them about the potential of Wikidata and to train them in its use. We will also use this opportunity to improve the data held in Wikidata about the participants, presenters and their contributions to botany.
  • WikiProject Health Data Space - This project is about organising data related to health data spaces, in particular the efforts to create a European Health Data Space. Initially it will focus on Sweden.
  • Newest database reports: Differences in birth and death dates - This is list of reports when birth date or death date in Wikidata differs from other sources:
  • Showcase Items: Hubble Space Telescope (Q2513) - NASA and ESA space telescope (launched 1990)
  • Showcase Lexemes: šťastný (L204262) (Czech) - having luck, fortune, happy. This is our first Czech showcase lexeme and it just so happens to be the largest Lexeme on Wikidata!

Development

  • [Breaking Change] We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps
  • Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) (:phab:T355697)
  • mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing.
  • IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore.
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one (phab:T342987)
  • We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks (phab:T355293)

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

Weekly Tasks

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Wikidata weekly summary #614

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

Discussions

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 6, 2024: Wikimedia user [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dnshitobu Dnshitobu] will discuss Wikidata for Education, the Dagbani NLP project, and the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group/sister communities. In the last part of the meeting, Dnshitobu will lead a discussion of your ideas for Wikidata Affinity Group activities in 2024 using Jamboard. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xv8dTbvwnWi0fM6YJ1_K_Ue9mIkTsOCH_HFKDWv58iQ/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
  • [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kick-off-panel-discussion-black-histories-wikipedia-wikidata-edit-a-thon-tickets-794748493137?aff=erelexpmlt Kick-Off Panel Discussion: Black Histories Wikipedia & Wikidata Edit-a-thon] February 6, 17:00 - 18:00 CET. Toronto Metropolitan University. [https://www.eventbrite.com/o/tmu-tpl-u-of-t-york-u-58075008163 Edit-A-Thon's] are also being hosted on Feb. 8th 16:00 CET and Feb. 15th 18:00 CET.
  • [https://calendar.library.torontomu.ca/event/3774293 Wikidata 101] is a clinic, part of the #LoveDataWeek hosted at Toronto Metropolitan University; February 13th 11:00 - 12:30 EST in LIB 387 - Library Collaboratory building.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/02/02/ld42023-ii-getting-to-know-each-other-librarians-in-the-wikidata-world/ Diff Blog: #LD42023 II: Getting to Know Each Other, Librarians in the Wikidata World] by SEgt-WMF
  • [https://zbw.eu/labs/blog/accessible-material-of-20th-century-press-archives-largely-extended/ 20th Century Press Archives: access extension and full-text search via Wikidata]
  • Papers
  • [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377776326_Wikidata_Challenges_In_the_Semantic_Web_Community Wikidata Challenges in the Semantic Web Community] by Andrea Westerinen. This presentation was given at the Data Modelling Days conference.
  • [https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783987400476/knowledge-organization-for-resilience-in-times-of-crisis-challenges-and-opportunities?page=1A Comparative Study on the Approaches of Name Authority Control and Wikidata Identity Management] pages 63 - 74 of the Proceedings of the 18th International ISKO Conference (2024). Authored by Chen C. & Yuxuan Z.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMnrNJxPyo0 Connecting People, Connecting Archives Project] (CACP) – Wikidata Workshop (Arabic). Archivists and scholars collaborated to align objectives and methods for the Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project. The aim of the workshop was to understand biographical data in archives.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPxMPo7YYQM Wikibase SPARQL Demo] A live demo of the SPARQL MediaWiki extension during the February 2024 Wikibase Stakeholder Group meetup.
  • Podcasts: [https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-155-alan-ang-and-kris-litson Between the Brackets, Episode 155] - Alan Ang and Kris Litson discuss Wikidata partnerships and outreach.
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/mdw Mapping of a director's work] a tool which explores the narrative locations of works directed by a filmmaker.
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/mww Mapping of a writer's work] : a tool which explores the narrative locations of works written by an author.

Tool of the week

  • [https://directory.civictech.guide/listing/wikidata-search-tool-for-venezuelan-works-in-public-domain A Query and UI] for exploring works of Venezuelan authors, artists, scientists and creators in the Public Domain.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/95Pj Projects with which New Zealand Thesis people overlap] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1752131036887081401 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/95Qa Most articles about films in each Wikipedia]
  • [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FcounLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FhqLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fheadquarters%29%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%20%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP159%20%3Fhq.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcoun.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fstatement1%20%21%3D%20%3Fstatement%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab9.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ4917%20AS%20%3Funit%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab10.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%3Funit.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Funit_rank.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20psv%3AP2284%20_%3Ab11.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fusd.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20%28psv%3AP2284%2Fwikibase%3AquantityUnit%29%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_statement1%20%21%3D%20%3Funit_statement%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20%2a%20%3Fusd%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ4917%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%21BOUND%28%3Funit_statement1%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcoun%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcounLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fhq%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FhqLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Funit%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FunitLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21BOUND%28%3Fstatement1%29%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Frevenue_USD%29%0ALIMIT%2015 Largest companies by revenue in USD]
  • Newest database reports: Popular Items without claims (Items with the most links but without statements)
  • Showcase Items: Airbus (Q67) - European aircraft manufacturer
  • Showcase Lexemes: sala (L578377) - translates to "human" or "charcoal" in Dagbanli

Development

  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We are finishing the endpoint for adding/replacing a sitelink on an Item for a given wiki (phab:T342987) and have finished the ones for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685)
  • We have documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
  • We fixed the bug where sitelink data was not including badges even when available (phab:T355293)
  • IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase so we don't show IP addresses for non-logged-in users.
  • mul: We finished the user testing and will now work on the remaining blockers for the first release.

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #615

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

Discussions

Events

  • [https://kallmworkshop.github.io/kallm2024 Knowledge Graphs and large Language Models (KALLM)] workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. Call for Papers [https://kallmworkshop.github.io/kallm2024/#callforpapers (details)] has begun (deadline May 10th)
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/FTGDY33PRLGNXFLSH4ZVSJUYUHJW6Q5T/ WMF Community Wishathon is coming next month: March 15th-17th, 2024!] Sign up by Wednesday, March 15th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://www.skoove.com/blog/top-spotify-artists-stats What does it take to become a Spotify artist?] - Skoove blog uses Wikidata and other databases to put together an infographic.
  • WiLMa Updates, OpenRefine training, Biodiversity, and Librarians (GLAM newsletter)
  • [https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Love_Data_Week_-_My_Kind_of_Data Love Data Week - My Kind of Data] by Ali Smith. Shared relevant links to learn about data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities, and creating a kinder world through data.
  • Papers
  • [https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e114076 Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers] - with detailed discussion of curation of taxon-related information in Wikidata
  • [https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/revistaadbia/article/view/42375/44608 Wikidata for Teaching Biology: Coloration in Felines] (Spanish) - a paper that showcases Wikidata as a learning tool for students through the use of properties and statements applied to biological entities can enhance students computational and informational skills, by Marín1 D. & Michán L.
  • [https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/247 LIS Journals' Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation] by Willey, E. & Radovsky S., Vol. 7 No.1 (2024) of the Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies.
  • Videos
  • GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 - Uruguay
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFD6zjAEl84 Wikisource and Wikidata] - when 2 cool kids play together. Session given by Bodhisattwa.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFD6zjAEl84 Wikidata + Education + Heritage] - hosted by Sailesh Patnaik (WMF) & Nat Hernández Clavijo (WMU)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMKyAECTwyw Using Wikidata integration on Wikimedia projects to enhance GLAM-Wiki content sharing] - hosted by Mike Peel (WMB/WMF volunteer) & João Peschanski (WMB)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPW86e8N1A Advancing Drinking Water Justice] at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Conference discusses how Wikidata and Wikibase Cloud can help address differences in data quality (at the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPW86e8N1A&t=3298s 55:00] minute mark)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmWy1N-NdY Mapping Graiguenamanagh Heritage Trail 2] - shows how to create a Heritage walking trail and add subject:wikidata to plaques to OpenStreetMap
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/au-bord-de-leau Au bord de l'eau] Mapping Wikidata's items next to a body of water using P206 property.

Tool of the week

  • MediaWiki:Gadget-dataDrainer.js - this userscript allows you to delete the data of an item. You can choose what you want to delete: labels and/or descriptions and/or aliases and or sitelinks.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A project page for the experiment has also been published.
  • WMDE is currently conducting a research on Knowledge Equity in Linked Open Data. The goal is to try to better understand how the use of Wikidata, Wikibase Suite, and Wikibase Cloud both support knowledge equity and create barriers to knowledge equity when people are contributing historically and structurally marginalized knowledge and perspectives. If you are interested in participating in this project, please fill out this [https://greatquestion.co/wmde/4c3dr1vk survey]!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/96GT Map of items next to the Seine] ([https://wikis.world/@pac2/111886782779009132 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/99Mi 300 most followed Mastodon accounts] ([https://wikis.world/@awinkler@openbiblio.social/111918438108085087 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/99Jf Hospitals across Scotland] ([https://wikis.world/@AllyD@mastodon.online/111917992381686031 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/97N4 People educated at the University of Leeds with a Wikipedia article] ([https://twitter.com/OpenResLeeds/status/1755612530800721927 source])
  • [https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1755365004642017355 Compare lat/long of UK Parliament and Wikidata constituency records] [federated query] ([https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1755365004642017355 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Library and Information Science - this new Wikiproject aims to identify and fill gaps in LIS-related content. If you are interested in the areas of librarianship, information studies, metadata and indexing; then please consider joining!
  • Political murders in the Weimar Republic - Collect historic political murders in the Weimar Republic e.g. through historic newspaper articles or scientific articles.
  • Newest database reports: Humans with missing claims
  • Showcase Items: Cactaceae (Q14560) - family of mostly succulent plants, adapted to dry environments
  • Showcase Lexemes: ग़रीब को कौड़ी अशरफ़ी है/غریب کو کوڑی اشرفی ہے (L656971) Hindustani proverb that translates to "a farthing is a pound to one who is poor"

Development

  • The new mul language code is now ready for beta testing. You can find out more at Help talk:Default values for labels and aliases.
  • The graph split testing for the Wikidata Query Service has started. Please find more details in the "Other Noteworthy Stuff" section above.
  • IP Masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP Masking feature, so that IP addresses for non-logged-in users are no longer published.
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the route for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685) and we continue work on the one for adding/ replacing and modifying a sitelink on an Item (phab:T342987, phab:T342988)
  • We now handle of case sensitive statement IDs in GET, PUT, PATCH and DELETE requests as HTTP redirect (phab:T354261)
  • We documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
  • We fixed the bug where sitelink data did not include badges (phab:T355293)

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #617

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

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: WT2O_2 - (RfP deadline: February 22, 2024 17:46 UTC)
  • Other: Project chat: PI Bot is an interesting conversation about the function of PI Bot in creating Stub articles and evolves into discussing ways of matching articles, categories and templates in sibling projects with their Wikidata items. Contribute to the discussion or even better, use one of the many tools posted and get linking!

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 20, 2024: In honor of Valentine's Day month, we are bringing back the popular program from last February: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, even if you’re just beginning to think about it, or just what you like to edit when you have time. This is a great way to share your ideas, solicit community input and ask questions about resources or tools. This will be an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeDJ7luVK6s4rhkW6X4W5KJwyv0Zg9S-CWklGYLVlyg/edit#heading=h.wfymokwg49yg here] if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so. You can share your screen if you like, but there’s no need for slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeDJ7luVK6s4rhkW6X4W5KJwyv0Zg9S-CWklGYLVlyg/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/MGQS37IBVC6APWPGDC6XCZKJHM2WYJCF/ Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM) at ACL 2024]. Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE
  • [https://wikiworkshop.org/2024/call-for-papers Wiki Workshop 2024 ― Research Track Papers - Call for contributions]. Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://addshore.com/2024/02/2023-year-review/ 2023 Year Review] by ADDSHORE, a prominent contributor and community member for WBStack and Wikibase.Cloud.
  • [https://fetstudy.uwe.ac.uk/~pmatthew/blog/2024/02/05/wikidata-literary-influencers/ Wikidata Literary Influencers] by Paul Matthews shows step-by-step how to get to an interactive network visualization based on Wikidata data
  • Papers: [https://openreview.net/pdf/2a8fab0e8d49115d68ce912ba361f246219a37f4.pdf Language models for extracting Wikidata statements and generating Wikipedia content] - is a Wikimedia Research proposal to improve Wikidata and English Wikipedia content using machine-learning power of AI and LL Models; by Thang, T.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqy5OlYCS8 Kairntech Demo Entity Extraction using Wikidata] - is an example of how Wikidata is being used as a knowledge base to populate AI companions and LLM's with relevant content for profit.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDFqBrXhBwM Dancing Digital Project] with Rebecca Salzer is a Wikibase instance sharing LOD between itself, video archives and Commons.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj13oaCw8cw WikiPod AI] - try listening to last week's Status Updates with AI-generated speaking, an experiment by Tiago Lubiana.
  • Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pascaliensis/ttttrpg TTTTRPG] - Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games queried using SPARQL from Wikidata.

Tool of the week

  • User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js - this userscript changes the appearance of Recent Changes, Watchlist, Contributions, History pages, and Related Changes. It also adds filter options.
  • Wikidata Topic Curator (a rewrite of ItemSubjector into a webapp) help wikimedians add relevant topics to items. Based on a given topic QID it fetches articles matching the label, aliases or a custom user-provided term of that QID that is currently missing the main subject property.
  • Author Disambiguator - is a tool for editing the authors of works recorded in Wikidata, e.g. for finding Wikidata Items for the authors (P50 instead of 'author name string').

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/nLEtPIeooSMGuSi4iaiuUWskUKwgIOQWOaSyKYSg4sT Graph of ancient philosophers master/student relationships]
  • [https://w.wiki/9DMg Properties for UK lakes] (contains a report-within-a-report allowing to look at Items having the Property) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Looted heritage - aims to use Wikidata to document looted cultural heritage. Its primary focus is on the colonial era, but it also encompasses other relevant historical periods. It's scope includes artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage.
  • WikiProject Highlights: Staedel Museum Wikidata Clean-up The Staedul Museum comprises 24,000+ works of art spanning more than 700 years. They have generously opened up digital surrogates of their collection to the Wikimedia community. This project improves the metadata quality and create Wikidata items for works of art.
  • Newest database reports: Genderless people with Facebook ID
  • Showcase Items: Varanus komodoensis (Q4504) - species of reptile
  • Showcase Lexemes: scala (L683571) - "stairs" in Italian

Development

  • IP Masking: We added redirect-related parameters to most Wikibase API modules (phab:T357024; an announcement is in the works)
  • We migrated Termbox SSR from Node 16 to 18 (phab:T355685)
  • We made the (legacy) termbox remember its expanded/collapsed state for anonymous visitors and temporary users (phab:T351976)
  • We deployed and backported several security fixes to Wikibase release branches (phab:T345064, phab:T356764)

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #618

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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: Mike Peel (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC))
  • Closed request for adminship: Madamebiblio requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful.
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Mfchris84-Bot - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine Syntopia Alpina (Q112206291), then continuing by adding swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to version/edition items.
  • BorkedBot_12 - Task: Update number of viewers/listeners (P5436) with the qualifier YouTube channel ID (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers.
  • LocodeBot - Task: Match UN/LOCODE (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations.
  • Events
  • [https://www.aib.it/corsi/wiki-in-action-laboratori-su-wikidata-e-wikimedia-commons-alle-stelline/ Wiki-in-action: Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons at the Stars] (Italian) - WM Italy, AIB Lombardia & GWMAB host a practical workshop on Wikidata Thursday, March 21, 16 - 18:00 CET in the Valvassori Peroni Library, Milan. Further details on the Wiki Event page: GWMAB/Stelline/2024
  • [https://volunteer.queenslibrary.org/opportunity/a0CRQ00000joHlg/join-the-edit-a-thon-at-queensbridge-tech-lab Join the Queensbridge Tech Lab edit-a-thon] - create and enrich local diverse heroes in Queens, NYC as part of the NYC Open Data Week. March 16, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC -5).
  • [https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrfu-tqTkpHdJVTppB0mlkDVKQ3WZfSQf2#/registration Wikidata, Open Education Resources and Curriculum alignment discussion] - hosted by Creative Commons during the OEWeek event. Takes place 5th March 15:00 CET, register in the link!
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2024/02/advancing-data-excellence-new-era-for-bhl-cataloging-metadata-committee.html Empowering BHL Staff with Wiki Education’s Wikidata Certificate Course] - The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog celebrates committee members completing a Wikidata Certification course led by Will Kent, as part of the Wiki Education. Participants levelled up SPARQL queries, visualisations, federation, modelling and bulk loading and editing.
  • Observable tutorial for Wikidata users (French) published in the last issue of RAW in Wikipedia in French
  • Papers: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11541.pdf LLMs Can Better Understand Knowledge Graphs Than We Thought] - This paper employs CQA, complex question answering, to assess LLMs ability to comprehend knowledge graphs. Xinbang, D. et al.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohEVe_ceeg OpenRefine - extract tables from Wikipedia for Wikidata] (French) - Part 6 of the Wiki Wake Up Afrique, this shot tutorial will show a simple and advanced method of converting tabulated data to enrich Wikidata.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Q4ZNTmIJM Breathing life into the women's archive through Wikidata] - speaker Brodie Hoare advocates for adding data and information about women from historical archives to Wikidata at the National Digital Forum '23.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCP8_OFvb30 Application development using open knowledge graph, Wikidata] (Japanese) speaker Koji Furusaki hosts an open data study session and showcases examples of app development using Wikidata.
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://vuejsexamples.com/wiquizz-a-game-generator-powered-by-nuxt-content-and-sparql-queries-from-wikidata/ WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL] WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata!
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/claim-analysis-toolkit Claim Analysis Toolkit], collection of Observable notebooks to visualize simple Wikidata claims

You can comment on all open property proposals!

  • Development
  • IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to no longer show IPs for non-logged in users.
  • Wikibase REST API: We are almost done with the routes for adding/editing/removing a sitelink.
  • Entity Schemas: We prototyped another approach to making it possible to link to Entity Schemas in statements.

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

Wikidata weekly summary #619

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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 2024-03-11. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Zafer - (RfP scheduled to end after 12 March 2024 20:03 (UTC))
  • Closed request for adminship: Mike Peel 2 - Adminship re-granted, welcome back Mike!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Mfchris84-Bot 1 - Task: Add swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to instance of (P31) version, edition or translation (Q3331189) based on checking ISBN-13 (P212) or ISBN-10 (P957).
  • NinoBot - Task: Semi-automatically create version, edition or translation (Q3331189) entries for Spanish Wikisource Index pages from Commons files.
  • Emijrpbot 10 - Task: Create a written work (Q47461344) and version, edition or translation (Q3331189) item for works and editions in the National Library of Spain [https://datos.bne.es/ datos.bne.es] project.

Events

  • Upcoming
  • [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-data-days-wikidata-gender-diversity-project-event-tickets-849406958077 Queer Data Days] - Wikidata Gender Diversity Project Event, a pair of virtual events welcoming a range of speakers investigating queer approaches to data and technology. Sign up for March 15 or March 16, 15:00 (CET).
  • Wikimedia Indonesia/Bulan Wiki Perempuan 2024 WM Indonesia Women's Wiki Month 2024 (Indonesian) - join classes on learning to edit Wikidata and address gender biases in Wikidata, Wikipedia and sibling projects. Program and register for [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj20J2tMTWyXkI-o8Yl-kxk7eqOxDhuM0Xrbrsp3C5SGduHQ/viewform Wikidata classes / datathon] schedule
  • Wikidata Leveling Up Days, an online event and a collection of resources to welcome new people to Wikidata. The online event takes place on April 5-7 and 12-14 with presentations, workshops and discussions. The program is open to contributions. Learn more about the project at the website [https://wigedi.com/ WiGeDi].

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://zenodo.org/records/8325988 Standardization of publishing data with Wikidata] - a poster for the Austrian Transition to Open Access Two (AT2OA²). Join the project Wikiproject Academic Publisher
  • [https://www.vvbad.be/meta/meta-nummer-20242/wikibase Wikibase Intro] (Dutch) - Bart Magnus writes an article about the benefits of Wikibase for the Flemish Association for Library, Archives & Documentation (VVBAD).
  • [https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-red-wikibase-disambiguation-on.html A Red&Blue Wikibase disambiguation on the English Wikipedia] -
  • [https://commonists.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-2023-edition/ Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2023 edition] by Jean-Fred
  • [https://www.ontotext.com/blog/gaining-global-insights-with-multilingual-entity-linking/ Multilingual entity linking and global insights] - Ontotext are developing AI products that can read text and establish of the same concept in different languages (MEL) and between knowledge graphs and plaintext.
  • Papers
  • [https://arxiv.org/html/2403.03496v1 A Knowledge Plug-and-Play Test Bed for Open-domain Dialogue Generation] - this paper details attempts at building chatbots that provide reliable, accurate information in a natural way from Wikidata and other sources. By Xiangci L., et al (2024).
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExTBicJZL2E Wikipedia Weekly #252: Bare words and red links] (Swedish) with Jan Ainali and Magnus Olsson.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9Rw0SqWsM Evaluation of research put to the test: projects and experiments] (Italian) Camillo (WM Italy) and Alessandro (WM Switzerland) show and discuss how Wikidata is being used to support experiments and projects with UniFi Biblioteche.

Tool of the week

  • [https://www.glam-europe.de/ GLAMorous Europe] - allows you to identify your artistic interests and put together your own artwork from existing art across Europe
  • [https://magnustools.toolforge.org/ List of all tools and scripts by Magnus Manske]. There are currently 348 active tools.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/roX Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight]
  • [https://w.wiki/4mG8 Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline ]
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina - This project aims to be a central hub for the curation of all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc.) related to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Wikiproject European Union - aims to create, maintain and improve items about the European Union (EU).
  • NYC Free Circulating Libraries - focuses on NYC Free Circulating Libraries
  • Te Papa Research Expeditions - aims to create or enrich Wikidata with data on research expeditions undertaken by Te Papa/ Dominion Museum/Colonial Museum and institutional staff
  • WikiProject Highlights: Looted heritage - this WikiProject is calling for Item suggestions to work on. The scope includes all forms of looted heritage; artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage.
  • Newest database reports: unmarked supercentenarians - contains instance of (P31) human (Q5) with period of life greater than 110 years and not marked with subject has role (P2868) supercentenarian (Q1200828) or subject has role (P2868) alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708).
  • Showcase Items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028) - 2010 film directed by Jon Favreau
  • Showcase Lexemes: Vand (L8266) - Danish noun, translates to "water"

Development

  • IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase to the upcoming IP masking changes in MediaWiki
  • Mismatch Finder: Already reviewed mismatches are now ignored when mismatches are reuploaded (T329631)
  • Query Builder: Selecting the user interface language became easier in Query Builder (T353728) and Query Service (T353729)

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

· Unsubscribe · Translate · Prepared by Mohammed Abdulai · -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:13, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly Summary #620

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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 2024-03-18.

  • Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 20 March 2024 17:37 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Zafer Adminship granted, welcome Zafer!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • PagesBot - Task: Adds no. of pages statements based on page(s) on items of type: scholarly article. Then adds a reference with based on heuristic equal to inferred from page(s).
  • Wicci'o'Bot - Task: Import identifiers of new properties created for TheTVDB (Q15616250), nientepopcorn (Q123434360) (and more properties I plan to request to be added shortly) inherent in the film and TV industry, using IMDb ID (P345) as source.
  • Closed request for comments: Duplicate Refs, Data Model and UI - (RfC closed 15 March 2024 18:57 UTC). The Community showed support for the proposal to change data model and UI for duplicated references. A Phabricator ticket has been opened: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T360224 T360224]
  • Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 19, 2024: Please join us on March 19 for a community discussion about how GLAM professionals can incorporate Wikidata/linked data into their work week. Bring your success stories about institutional buy-in and how you’ve communicated the value of linked data to managers and colleagues. We hope to share some strategies that you can take back and use in your own workplace. This will be a followup of sorts to our call last May, and you can review some of what we talked about then, plus slides from our survey here: Notes from May 30, 2023 Meeting on Advocacy for Wikidata & Linked Data in Libraries.[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M9DPW2wt_4B7wO7RkEIOmJSEUk-4w5A0gBXBu15Eukk/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/47WH7UVUGJWI5FEZV72QNPKSN7RKQN37/ Wiki Workshop 2024 - Announcing a new track and a Call for Proposals] - Submit your contributions by April 29, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
  • WikiCon Aotearoa - Auckland 2024 - The New Zealand WikiCon has a couple of events introducing and workshopping Wikidata:
  • Saturday 23 March 2024, 11:15 NZT - Intro to Wikidata / 13:00 NZT - Beginner's OpenRefine Workshop
  • Sunday 24 March 2024, 11:00 NZT - Presentation: Breathing life into the Women's Archive through Wikidata
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://co.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dominio_p%C3%BAblico Making the Colombian public domain visible in Wikidata] results from WM Colombia are now published.
  • Papers
  • [https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2851&context=jeal Connecting Local Archive Data to Wikidata:] Focusing on the Archives of National Debt Redemption Movement. By Yun, J., & Oh, S.G. Documents the findings of connecting Wikidata with the Korean NDRM.
  • Narrating Queer History with Wikidata, Queer Data Days 2024 (UCL Department of Information Studies), Presentation by John Samuel.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy65JhvpPYE WikiClub 3L] (French) - learn how to create a Wikidata file and an Infobox with Simon Villeneuve.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z87_htC_qXU Making Colombian public domain data visible on Wikidata] (Spanish) - Presents the methodology and findings of analysis of data in the public domain of part of the collections of the National Library of Colombia. Part of the [https://conector.red Conector.red project)]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmxtbPnj-os Wikidata Lab: Dear Diary] (Portugese) - Aims to share resources and capabilities for integration of Wikidata with other free knowledge projects, in particular the Querido Diário project, from Open Knowledge Brasil. Hosted by Porto, É. & Giulio Carvalho, G.
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/media-directory The media directory] a Wikidata-driven media directory by country
  • Tool of the week
  • ORCID Scraper - helps users get DOIs from [https://orcid.org/ orcid.org] for a specific author and curate them using Scholia. It gives users an overview of which DOIs are missing and helps them easily import missing articles one by one.
  • Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

  • Did you know?
  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/7rGo exploratory query to find new items] for the WikiProject: Polish Socialist Party
  • [https://www.nobelprize.org/about/linked-data-examples/ SPARQL query examples for the Nobel Prize]
  • [https://w.wiki/9QEp Exploring Wikidata Items for people born in the Basque country]
  • [https://w.wiki/97bM Birthplace of Colombians in the Public Domain]
  • [https://w.wiki/9JbQ Relationship between Institutions, Works and Persons in the Colombian Public Domain]
  • Newest WikiProjects: Polish Socialist Party - aims to document and enrich data and items (Leadership, sports clubs, commemorated buildings, art, publications etc.) that are connected with the Polish Socialist party.
  • WikiProject Highlights:
  • RfC: Slowking4 (2) - Comments are required on actions against the named editor.
  • Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items - Number of labels, descriptions and aliases for items per language (2024-03-18).
  • Showcase Items: Mahatma Gandhi - The "Great Soul", lawyer, political ethicist and leader of the non-violent resistance to end Imperial British occupation of India.
  • Showcase Lexemes: Jak - (Polish) The noble Bos mutus or Yak.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:53, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly Summary #621

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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 2024-03-25.

  • Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 - Adminship request successful, congratulations KonstantinaG07 3!
  • Events
  • 2024 Women's Wiki Month Datathon (Indonesian) Between 24 - 26 March 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting a competitive Data-thon with Prizes available for editing and enriching Wikidata items on the topic of Women's Health. Full details on the project page.
  • [https://www.mshb.fr/event/datalab-mshb-rennes-graphes-connaissances-wikidata-factgrid-saisie-linterrogation-donnees Wikidata and FactGrid - Knowledge Graphs of data query entry] (French) - a workshop taking place 26 March, 13:30 - 16:30 (GMT+1), hosted by Datalab MSHB Rennes and moderated by Jean-Baptiste Pressac.
  • Levelling Up Days 2024 is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata, upgrade their editing skills and find out about useful tools and apps. Join us for a series of videos and discussions regarding Wikidata and its uses in and outside of the Wikimedia projects.
  • Program - the live portions of the event take place across the weekends 5-7 and 12-14 April
  • [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejNsjilXbEdD2eQjUG2yAyTA YouTube Video Playlist]
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
  • [https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3467 Are our Wikibase QueryServices about to mess up two millennia of historical dates?] by Olaf Simons. This article discusses the intricacies and drawbacks of historical dates stored in Wikidata under different Calendars (e.g. Julian and Gregorian).
  • [https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3541 At least a make shift solution: The “Julian calendar stabiliser”] by Olaf Simons. An update to the above article, including input from community members.
  • Papers
  • [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379048762_Contributor_or_Commodity_Inequities_of_Labor_and_Representation_in_Wikidata Contributor or Commodity? Inequities of Labor and Representation in Wikidata] - this paper by m:User:MatthewVetter explores gender diversity, representation and decision-makers of Ontology discussions impacting Queer and Gender diversity.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1cYXBp_2B8 Co to są Wikidane - wprowadzenie dla początkujących] [What is Wikidata? An Introduction for Beginners] (Polish) - recording of a webinar held by Wikimedia Polska, with Jarosław Błaszczak and Jolanta Drzewakowska.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nYbRBJ_bgE Leveraging Quantitative Bibliometrics in Assyriology] - Exploring Distant Reading, Computational Linguistics, and the [https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/FactGrid:Cuneiform_Project FactGrid Cuneiform Wikibase Project], presented by Adam Anderson.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v9Px843C2w Wikibase Training workshop for Librarians at College of Science Library, KNUST] organized by KNUST Wiki Club in collaboration with Dagbani Wikimedians user group.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcSSb67Zw0g Wikipediapodden episode 254] (Swedish) - Wikipedia Weekly Network recording, hosted by Jan Ainali and guest, Magnus.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uXu6j8-VY How does a high school student promote the Taiwanese Wikimedia movement?] (Chinese) - a podcast feat. Wang Wenyue of the Wikidata Taiwan community.
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cycling-stage-race-explorer Cycling stage race explorer], an Observable notebook
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/ontology-explorer Ontology Explorer], also an Observable notebook, explore the subclasses in front or behind a Wikidata Item.
  • Tool of the week
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/members-of-european-parliament Members of European Parliament] by pac02. Explore visualisations of MEP's in the European Parliament. Country of origin, gender, political alignment and other properties from Wikidata can be explored.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland published a [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Open_Call Call for Software Contributions]! Application deadline is April 21th, 23:59 (GMT+1).
  • [https://openreview.net/group?id=wikimediafoundation.org/Wikimedia/2023/RAY&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)#tab-your-consoles Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023] - We encourage you to nominate and vote for research papers published in 2023 that focused on or benefited the Wikimedia projects (we're not biased but hope you vote for Wikidata-based Papers). Please submit your nominations by April 18, 2024.
  • In preparation for the Research Track of the 11th Wiki Workshop, there is now a [https://wikiworkshop.org/call-for-papers/ Call for Contributions] for the event scheduled virtually on June 20, 2024 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). The Wiki Workshop aims to bring together researchers who study all aspects of the Wikimedia Projects. We hope Wikidata and Wikibase are well represented! Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

  • Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We worked on the ability to create Items via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
  • We worked on making it possible to modify the data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
  • EntitySchemas: We are getting back to making architecture improvements to enable the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
  • IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP masking changes.
  • Query Service: We added the ability to stop a query in the UI in order to not have to wait for a broken query to finish or run into a time-out. You can find the stop button below the run button in the query UI now.

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 · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 13:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #622

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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 2024-03-11. Translations are available.

Discussions

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

Events

  • Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 2, 2024: Come join us for fun data modeling discussions! We'll create breakout rooms in Zoom for people to discuss 4 examples of cultural heritage items to contribute to Wikidata. Each group will choose categories, brainstorm properties for basic and enhanced description, and discuss challenges. Then we'll have some quality time at the end to compare notes and discuss our processes! [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NXkhSEgaGueSXaEDKXJyEeDKQy9SgfET47mJshtK0nc/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
  • Wikidata Leveling Up Days, everything you need to know about Wikidata: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 April. The event is taking place online and the videos are already available on the program page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: [https://www.wikimedia.nl/actueel/blog/galerij-der-groten-op-wikidata/ Galerij der Groten op Wikidata] (Dutch) - Wikimedia NL hosted an Edit-A-Thon on the Baroeg project, the task was to document and archive on Wikidata all of the bands that have played at the live music venue, the idea born from a stack of band flyers and posters hung in the bathroom(!) Join the next one Sunday April 14th.
  • Papers: [https://github.com/AndreaWesterinen/Wikidata-and-OWL/blob/main/papers/Understanding%20Wikidata.pdf Understanding Wikidata] - Wikidata is extremely valuable as a data source to supplement, validate and extend existing knowledge bases and applications. To effectively utilize Wikidata in a Semantic Web application, one must understand its design, terminology and correspondence with ontological concepts (especially RDF and OWL). This paper attempts to explain and position this information. (by [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AndreaWest AWesterinen])
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js1fRnS_xmU Wikipedia Weekly: Ep. 255] (Swedish) - Hosted by Jan Ainali and Magnus. This week covers scarcely clicked sources, API uses and wave at beautiful images.
  • Wikimedia Ghana is bringing together Ghanians to enrich and translate content for the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOzk6ZHJLXw Ga Language] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOQmm4-Lnc0 Twi Language] as part of the Wikidata For Education Project.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvpgQAyk8mc Mapping Linguistic territories using Wikidata and SPARQL] - a topic presented by Camilo Fique, shows how to use Wikidata and the WDQS as tools for mapping linguistics. In this example, Camilo uses toponyms, specifically Human Settlements.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K3rKZqHObg Evaluating Named Entity Disambiguation with Wikidata & SpaCy] - creating a Named Entity Disambiguation model in SpaCy with the entity linker based on a custom knowledge base derived from Wikidata and Wikipedia, by Matthew Pellegrino.
  • Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/gender-differences-in-the-number-of-sitelinks-among-meps Gender differences in the number of sitelinks among members of the European Parliament], a statistical analysis based on Wikidata about the number of sitelinks by gender.

Tool of the week

  • [https://altilunium.github.io/Wikidatalite/?item=Q480 Wikidatalite] : Search, browse, and navigate Wikidata items with a mobile-friendly, simplified user interface.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/gender-differences-in-the-number-of-sitelinks-among-meps MEPs: Sitelinks and Gender differences] - this Notebook by PAC explores the completeness or lack of content differentiated by gender of MEP's in the Wikimedia Projects, helping highlight lack of representation and information.
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/7edfa6a725d2f373 Metadata schemas and vocabularies for TU Delft's digitized special collections]
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/members-of-european-parliament Dashboard of Members of European parlianent] - by PAC02
  • [http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/04/oracc-dataset-format-to-lod-factgrid.html ORACC & Cuneiform Project] - repository of LOD datasets for the FACTGRID Wikibase instance for the Cuneiform project.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/9dta List of masters theses written in Māori] ([https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1772091570302472234 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/9XTr Tram systems with 1435mm wide rails] ([https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1770796346884141559 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/9R$c Location and official opening of statues in Denmark] ([https://twitter.com/peterbrodersen/status/1767198458006421593 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/9Hzh Map of objects on the banks of the Kama and the rivers flowing into it] ([https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1762108328971264085 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/9HYA Remakes of Soviet films with their popularity] ([https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1761875545640390986 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/9dba Images for all monuments with a Bavarian monument authority ID in Passau administrative district] ([https://wikis.world/@awinkler@openbiblio.social/112196978463979642 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/9Ygr Most frequent objects depicted on coats of arms] ([https://wikis.world/@kvistgaard@vivaldi.net/112162949851779659 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Azerbaijan - aims to organize data related to Azerbaijan.
  • WikiProject Paralympics - The goal of WikiProject Paralympics is to improve items about Paralympic Games, Paralympians, and Paralympic events.
  • Lieder - This project aims to collect all Lieder, Lieder cycles and Poems as well as Composers and Poets related to them.
  • Cultural venues - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most complete high-quality database of cultural venues, such as theatres, concert halls, etc.
  • Cal State University Building/San Bernardino - Aims to document and lists guidelines for the California State University San Bernardino's participation in the California State University Wikidata Building Project.
  • Epigraphy - Aims to create Items of epigraphs on Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: [https://w.wiki/9K7K This query] shows that there are 8000 botanists with a standard botanical abbreviation, IPNI code, and little else. Help expand, merge, and otherwise help us know who these folks are! ([https://twitter.com/CharlesMatthe12/status/1762792364702081372 source])
  • Showcase Items: INS Vikrant(Q2283194) - 1961 Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy
  • Showcase Lexemes: لله قوریسین/Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish interjectional locution 'God forbid!'

Development

  • mul language code: We are continuing the work on fixing remaining issues for the next stage of releasing it (phab:T356200)
  • REST API:
  • We continued work on modifying the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
  • We continued work on creating Items (phab:T342990)
  • EntitySchemas: We continued work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T359419)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #623

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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 2024-04-08. Translations are available.

Events

  • Did you manage to see the first weekend and sessions of the Leveling Up Days 2024, well fret not as there is another weekend of Wikidata-related sessions to come. Day 4 begins Friday April 12, join via [https://meet.jit.si/WikidataLevelingUpDays2024 Jitsi] - see you there!
  • [https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-wikidata-raccogliere-e-utilizzare-dati-aperti-876029867917 Wikidata - collect and use open data] (Italian) - April 19 at the University of Catania, Léa Lacroix and Luca Martinelli (WMIT) will give an overview of Wikidata's use for sharing data, querying data and some of its main applications.
  • [https://www.beclass.com/rid=284d815660fc41c711f3 Build Open Data through Wikidata: a database integration model] (Taiwanese) - April 9 19:00 - 20:00. Wang Wenyue (WMTW) will lead this discussion on how Wikidata can re-connect and index a topic that may be documented in multiple various places online.
  • Wikimania 2024: Submission deadline extended to April 10, 12:00 UTC! [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/PBUJINYXC4E4ULMWZWY2WJTYAXPEDVGU/ Get your Wikidata submissions in].

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/03/28/told-cities-unveiling-the-heritage-and-chronicles-of-unesco-world-heritage-cities/ Told Cities: Unveiling the Heritage and Chronicles of UNESCO World Heritage Cities] - initiated by Wiki World Heritage, this project aims to comprehensively document UNESCO World Heritage Cities using Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTZGSNkNP70 Wikidata editing #113] (English) at Wikidata Leveling Up Days. Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPIUpN25ak0 Panel: 10 years of FAIR principle] - Lydia Pintscher joins a panel to talk about implementation of FAIR principles and how Wikidata and Wikibase can contribute.

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Only [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1713735900 13 more days to go]! The deadline to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Open_Call Open Call for Software Contributions] is coming closer and closer. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/9hdE Tolkien-style plurals] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1776651392888758645 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/6TNS Top album languages found on Wikidata right now] ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/112223387850016286 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/6Tzi Lexemes with a Sense related to a geolocated Item]
  • [https://w.wiki/9hdp Map of all places related to persons with layers by property of the place] (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Hijri Calendar - aims to create and improve Items for Hijri Calendar dates such as 1 Ramadan (Q4886009).
  • MLA Linked Data Working Group - The [https://cmc.wp.musiclibraryassoc.org/mla-linked-data-working-group/ Linked Data Working Group] (LDWG) is a [https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/ Music Library Association (MLA)] working group convened by the MLA [https://cmc.wp.musiclibraryassoc.org/ Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC)]. Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
  • Newest database reports: birthdays today - People born this day of the year (primarily currently living people)
  • Showcase Items: John Cale (Q45909) - Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
  • Showcase Lexemes: armastuskolmnurk (L415173) - Estonian noun, translated "love triangle"

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

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

Wikidata weekly summary #622

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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 2024-04-15.
Translations are available.

Discussions

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

Events

  • The next Wikidata Bug triage hour is happening on April 15th at 16UTC. It will focus on mobile editing of statements.
  • Telegram Office Hour - 04-10-2024 log - if you missed all the exciting updates, you can see them all here on the Archived log.
  • The Leveling Up Days 2024 was concluded, you can watch the videos available on the program page and contribute to the captions on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 16, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 16 April, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is, amazingly, 5 years old this month, and we are planning a very Zoomy celebration befitting our virtual community. We are hoping you can join and share some reflections. Feel free to [https://recocards.com/board/anniversary-ld4-wikidata-affinity-group-81320375362 sign our anniversary card] and [https://www.partyslate.com/best-of/virtual-party-zoom-backgrounds update your Zoom background to something festive!] [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NXkhSEgaGueSXaEDKXJyEeDKQy9SgfET47mJshtK0nc/edit?usp=sharing Agenda]
  • Documenting Nigeria's Supreme Court Cases - this online event is a contest to enrich and connect the verdicts and sitting Judges of Nigerian Supreme Court cases. Points will be awarded for contributions. Event ends: 28 April 00:00 UTC.
  • [https://hsli.org/newsletter/registration-open-for-the-linked-data-users-group-of-the-midwest-collaborative-for-library-services-wikidata-edit-a-thon-online-mon-april-22-fri-april-26/ Edit-A-Thon of the LOD user group: Midwest Collaborative Library Services] - registration is now open for this online event, taking place 22 - 26 April.
  • [https://www.ub.edu/wikiwomen/2024/04/10/ii-international-convention-on-glam-wikiverse-and-gender/ II International Convention on GLAM Wikiverse and Gender] - June 5, Aula Rubió, Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, University of Barcelona (UB), 9:30-1:30 p.m.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://dev.to/mikeyoung44/towards-a-brazilian-history-knowledge-graph-3gi2 Working towards a Brazilian History Knowledge Graph] - Mike Young describes the progress towards building a KG on Brazilian history and how Wikidata supported this endeavour, especially for linking poiticians, movements, constitutions, laws and events that may not be notable for individual Wikipedia articles.
  • [https://www.library.wales/news/reimagining-cultural-heritage-data Reimagining cultural heritage data] - this article by Jason Evans documents the efforts of the Llyfgrell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales) to open their archives and datasets to Wikidata and the creation of their Wikibase-powered [https://snarc-llgc.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page SNARC Tool] (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru).
  • [https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/arjunaraoc/diary/403890 Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata] how to remove the mismatches between Wikidata and Openstreetmap for villages of a district in Andhra Pradesh (India)
  • [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh/Notes/Arjunaraoc/Improving_geodata_accuracy_on_OSM_and_Wikidata Andhra Pradesh/Notes/Arjunaraoc/Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata]
  • Presentations
  • [https://zenodo.org/records/10955373 Wikidata: your friendly (University's) knowledge graph] - Christian Erlinger on behalf of the University of Innsbruck has produced this slidedeck showing how Wikidata can be used for science and research communication.
  • [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hiperterminal/Dominio_publico_taller Workshop: Making the Colombian public domain visible on Wikidata (in Spanish)] - Fundación Conector with the support of Wikimedia Colombia presented this workshop to create items in Wikidata about Colombian authors. This is part of the [https://co.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dominio_publico directory of Colombian authors in Public domain]
  • Papers: [https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JD-11-2023-0230/full/html Assessing knowledge organization systems from a gender perspective: Wikipedia taxonomy and Wikidata ontologies] - analyze the ontologies of Wikidata and the taxonomy of Wikipedia. Centelles, M. and Ferran-Ferrer, N. (2024)
  • Videos
  • Wikidata per la ricerca (Wikidata for research): online conference, organized on 9 April 2024 by Wikimedia Italia, by Epìdosis (in Italian: slides and [https://cvs5133.ergonet.host/playback/presentation/2.0/playback.html?meeingId=e420724e96d095a1510420cdc783fa50f0aee67a-1712665016023 video])
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFasrWxF_PQ Demonstration of the XML-TEI Wikidata Geocoder Tool] (French) - This tool from PhilippGam will showcase how the Wikidata Geocoder tool can extract information such as PersName, PlaceName, geographic coordinates and images from XML-TEI files. [https://philippegambette.github.io/xmlToRenumar/ Try it here].
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTZGSNkNP70 Live Wikidata Editing #113] with User:Abbe98 and User:Ainali explain the thought process behind how they edit whilst looking at biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists, during the Leveling Up Days 2024 event.
  • WikiConference NA 2023
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxNA6MG_FUY Open scholarly communication with Wikidata] - Daniel Mietchen talks about the benefits of Wikidata and the Wikimedia platforms to enhance researcher and collaborative workflows.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGjAmoqoRAI Wikidata for open museum data sharing] - Rhonda Yearwood explains how Wikidata can facilitate and provide a platform for the open sharing of Museum and Gallery datasets.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVEKeNoQN3Y Wikidata's usefulness for university knowledge sharing]- Will (Wiki Ed) hosts workshops on Wikidata and advocates Wikidata as a way for Universities to share general reference knowledge.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y8EU2uCEhI FOSSGIS 2024 Modelling with 'Fuzziness' / 'Wobbliness' in Geodata] (German) - Florian Thiery presents a paper on data-driven use cases for modeling vague or uncertain georeference data, to adhere to FAIR principles as closely as possible.
  • Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/medias-by-country Medias by country]

Tool of the week

  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/missing-biographies Missing biographies], a companion tool which helps identifies people without a biography in a given Wikipedia using Wikidata
  • It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, [https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/797991?lang=en follow this link]. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Join the Wikidata Open Online Course starting April 22, 2024! 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. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
  • [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1713735900 Only 6 more days] to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Open_Call Open Call for Software Contributions]. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples: [https://w.wiki/9ean Map of river names in german coloured by gender]
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • MLA Linked Data Working Group - The [https://cmc.wp.musiclibraryassoc.org/mla-linked-data-working-group/ Linked Data Working Group] (LDWG) is a [https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/ Music Library Association (MLA)] working group convened by the MLA [https://cmc.wp.musiclibraryassoc.org/ Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC)]. Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
  • Albums - A WikiProject about music album releases
  • Algeria - Aims to collaborate on Algeria-related topics
  • Showcase Items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062) - Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
  • Showcase Lexemes: kone (L6888) - Finish noun, translate to "machine"

Development

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

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

Weekly Tasks

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 13:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #624

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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 2024-04-22.
Translations are available.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • OpeninfoBot - Task: Importing financial data (assets, equity, revenue, EBIT, net profit) from openinfo.uz to entries on public Uzbek companies in Wikidata.
  • IntegrationBot - Task: retrieve information from Wikidata and contribute data back

Events

  • It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, [https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/797991?lang=en follow this link]. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: [https://tribuneonlineng.com/wikimedia-begins-mapping-of-anambra-mdas-streets-markets-on-wikidata/ Wikimedia begins mapping of Anambra MDAs, streets, markets on Wikidata] - The Wikimedia Anambra Network and the Anambra State ICT Agency are collaborating on a project to map ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs), streets, and markets in Anambra State on Wikidata.
  • Papers
  • [https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw243562 Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata]
  • [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.12.589259v1 Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata] + [https://sciencecast.org/casts/n3rvoge1kzh0 AI audio abstract]

Tool of the week

  • [https://mishramilan.toolforge.org/ Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন)], a tool listing words/phrases in different language catalogs and allowing users to match the entries in those catalogs to existing Wikidata lexemes or to create new lexemes based on those entries.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • It's not too late to join the Wikidata Open Online Course, open from April 22 to May 31! 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. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
  • There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A new proposal for the split has also been published, feedback will be open until May 15th 2024.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • mul language code: We are continuing the roll-out. It is now available on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org.
  • REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the following:
  • Create an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
  • Modify data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
  • Leveling Up Days: We are wrapping up the event.

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

Wikidata weekly summary #625

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

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

Events

  • [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nubuke-wikidata-workshop-tickets-888255936417 Nubuke Wikidata Workshop] - Sat. 27 April 1100 - 1400 GMT at the Nubuke Foundation, Lome Close Accra, Ghana.
  • There's still time for nominating your favorite tool in the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners unveiled at Wikimania 2024
  • Coordinate Me 2024 - an international Wikidata competition around content with geodata. The competition starts on 1 May 2024 and ends on 31 May 2024.
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is just around the corner, taking place in Tallinn, Estonia from 02 - 06 May. We hope there will be lots of Wikidata hacking projects worked on.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/04/25/international-museum-day-2024-a-call-to-increase-museum-coverage-on-wikimedia/screenshot-2024-04-19-at-16-32-25/ Diff Blog: Museums around the world, according to Wikidata] - Wikimedia's own blog, Diff, has this interesting graphic showing museums around the world. To explore further, check the [https://w.wiki/9kvh Wikidata Query].
  • Papers
  • [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379950304_Bringing_PanglaoDB_to_5-star_Linked_Open_Data_using_Wikidata Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata] - This paper documents the experiences mapping PanglaoDB's free text cell types and genes i Wikidata to improve reusability and fairness. By Tiago Lubiana & João Vitor F. Cavalcante.
  • [https://www.pedroandretta.info/index/2024/04/22/explorando-o-wikidata-para-pesquisas-em-ciencias-sociais/ Exploring Wikidata for Social Science Research] (Portugese) - Highlights the relevance of open resources such as Wikidata for the Social Sciences, providing access to information that facilitates research in the social, economic and cultural areas. By Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado.
  • [https://zenodo.org/records/11069148 Integrating Wikidata with Data Sleuthing Techniques] For Enhanced Knowledge Discovery of Hidden Figures - this is a training resource to find and enrich Items on Natural History collector's.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mClx7j_Uqq0 The Data Mine: Wikimedia Content Quality 2024] - a short video on how to find mismatched data between Wikidata on other data sources.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O72MN8WTfxI MWCon Spring 2024 (Day 3)] - This session of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference explores the different extensions you can use with Wikibase. See the rest of the program here
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcmbTtL3JBs Getting Started with OpenRefine] - Introducing OpenRefine, importing data, filtering and faceting and bulk editing, as well as how to connect to other data sources for reconciling your data. By Margaret Heller & Diana Rusch.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw6rzbNth7Y A Decade of Scholarly Research on Open Knowledge Graphs] - Houcemeddine Turki host this presentation of the LREC-COLING 2024's findings. You can [https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13186 read the full paper here.]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyb08oGZeLA Beyond Wikidata: building a universal knowledge graph with MediaWiki and Wikibase] - James Hare explores Wikibase as a focused alternative to creating a knowledge graph around a specific theme or project.

Tool of the week

  • [https://www.antvaset.com/wikidatas-ontology Antvaset's Wikidata Ontology explorer] - explore Wikidata's Ontology in this top-down tree explorer. By Anton Vasetenkov.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikimedia Deutschland closed their Call for Software Contributions! Discover the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Call_Submissions project proposals submitted] and share [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata/Call_Submissions your feedback].
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2RU4BCZS3U4EQF2BFDVJLANCT5TCXQI2/ Release of Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.7WMDE .18 - minor security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.7]
  • [https://openrefine.org/blog/2024/04/29/version-3-8-0 OpenRefine 3.8.0 was released]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/9uxM Two or more statements on a certain property] - generates a list of all elements where there are two or more statements on a certain property (without deprecated statements).
  • [https://w.wiki/9uxW Explore data about Tabakalera participants] - find biographical information of film director's that have participate din the San Sebastian Film Festival Tabalakera cultural centre.
  • [https://w.wiki/9twM Mothers on Wikidata] - explore the mother and child relationships of Wikidata items.
  • [https://w.wiki/9saJ Presidents of French Universities] - curious about which individuals have presided at French Universities and Higher education institutions? This query explores that!
  • Showcase Items: Jerzy Spława-Neyman - A polish Statistician, the first to introduce a confidence interval to statistical hypothesis testing.
  • Showcase Lexemes: Pfeil (DE) - Arrow, part of the [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php Weekly Lexeme Challenge].

Development

Weekly Tasks

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 14:42, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #626

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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 2024-05-06.
Translations are available.

Discussions

  • Reminder: the period for feedback on the Wikidata Query Service graph split ruleset closes on 15-May-2024. More information [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AHOKYOHFMHHDVOSVTFON3PGB5EAUUPX2/ here]!

Events

  • The Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 took place in Tallinn, Estonia. Wikimedians from all over came together to hack on a huge variety of topics, including Wikidata and Wikibase topics. See the entire Program
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/GGOTS5P465W6AIC2UDEKSYSDNOQD4MDB/ International Museum Day 2024 on Wikimedia: Take part in the translation, media, and data challenges!]
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/T5WK6BO5NKVPZDDXVUP6UQOB4I2QHT5Y/ Registration for Wiki Workshop 2024 is now open!] The event will be virtually held on *June 20, 12:00-18:30 UTC
  • [https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Coordinate_Me_2024 Coordinate Me 2024] is an international Wikidata competition taking place over the month of May. This year, the focus is on enriching or creating Wikidata items with the Property: Coordinate Location (P625). To participate, [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/wikidata/Coordinate_Me_2024_AUS_(2024)?enroll=|first enroll on the dashboard] to ensure your edits are tracked.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Papers: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14695 MisgenderMender] - A community-informed approach to interventions of misgendering.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nkBRHTvZJI Intro to Wikidata Query Service] - hosted by User:Gnoeee, this comprehensive video will equip newcomers to Wikidata with the skills to effectively start querying Wikidata.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8EghOSdzEA Siobhan Leachman, NZ Citizen Scientist and Wikipedian] - CitSciOz23 Keynote Speaker, this prolific editor discusses her passions and workflows for contributing and enriching Wikidata on topics as diverse as women scientists, scientific illustrators, artworks and citation data, moths and more.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBcmaqJEEMA WikiSearch from Wikibase Data] - Wout Geveart shows how the WikiSearch extension is using Wikibase data to explore and visualise the data in new ways.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njgPYd4eXuw WikimediaAPIs: a WM Technology Training Session] - Mr. Neechalkaran of the WM Indic MediaWiki Developers Usergroup introduces the function and utility of WM projects APIs, including the REST AOI, the Wikidata API and more.
  • [https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/LOHqqWDVWxgCvL1SU2T_R-mktp-xUu-0tzQkCmegJyU2JnT-6bAyopadLg3kWI8HG2MpHtv9FJAmuLUh.8XOWDeQJ2n4ZUhEM?canPlayFromShare=true&from=share_recording_detail&continueMode=true&componentName=rec-play&originRequestUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fshare%2F2cvZX_xvgfh5xwiJItyvx5uWH0pqvd5fl_tuvxYIsFo6wVDdY9H_2BBxtFS5H5CT.hG1v-SjAD1xbEudc Accessing Wikidata's Data: An Introduction to the Wikidata REST API] (Zoom recording). A WikiMentor Africa session by Eugene Egbe.

Tool of the week

  • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/ptable Wikidata periodic table] - Tool by User:Ricordisamoa, to browse all chemical elements available on Wikidata, with atomic number, chemical symbol, and localized label. It also includes two charts of the nuclides, with links to every isotope in Wikidata, colored by half-life or decay mode.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A new UI mode is available for the online validator for EntitySchemas. It represents validation reports as a table rather than a very long string, and replaces most links with hyperlinks with some of the text behind them; making them easier to read. Currently being tested at https://shex-validator.toolforge.org/packages/shex-webapp/doc/shex-simple-improved.html, we are looking for participants to evaluate this tool. Some experience with editing Wikidata is appreciated, but no experience working with Schemas is required. If you are interested, you can sign up [https://datumprikker.nl/pwx27abv4daqq4vr here]. We hope to begin interviews around May 13. For more details, visit User:M.alten.tue

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  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/9ytb List of lists of ambassadors per host and sending country]
  • [https://w.wiki/9zvj List of current embassies per host and sending country, and their counterparts]
  • [https://w.wiki/9peJ Images of types of dance in the world] ([https://twitter.com/wikidataid/status/1784914312471212224 source])
  • Newest database reports: [https://w.wiki/9twM young mothers] ([https://w.wiki/9twM source])
  • Showcase Items: Deirdre (Q1183379) - heroine in Irish mythology
  • Showcase Lexemes: 사랑하다 (L741213) - verb "to love (cherish with affection)" in Korean

Development

  • We attended the Wikimedia Hackathon.
  • REST API: We are finishing the route for creating an Item (phab:T342990) and modify the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)

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].

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· Unsubscribe · Help translate · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #627

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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 2024-05-13.
Please help Translate.

Discussions

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/08/navigating-the-world-of-wikidata-an-introduction-and-hands-on-experience-1/ Navigating the world of Wikidata]: An intro and hands-on experience. This blog entry documents the session from Yaw Tuba and Nana Yaw Botar and organised by Open Foundation West Africa in building skills for new and experienced editors alike.
  • Papers
  • [https://riojournal.com/article/118851/ Sharing data, caring for collections. Open data on collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin] - This paper documents a project at the MN to digitise collector metadata from museum exhibits for reuse, research and provenance. S. Mering et al.
  • [https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw233450 Erenrich, Daniel. ‘Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata Completion Using Wikipedia’. 1 Jan. 2023 : 1 – 14.]
  • [https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw233520 Ilievski, Filip et al. ‘A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata’. 1 Jan. 2024 : 1 – 20.]
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqkZQ1MHoCQ using Open Data to Automatically Generate Localised Analogies] - Sofia Spatharioti explains how information from Wikidata and Wikipedia can be used to provide more contextual comparisons when dealing with large numbers, dimensions or statistics.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6EQqwVQNuM Thesaurus INAPP in Wikidata] (Italian) - Camillo Carlo Pellizzari shows INAPP thesaurus usage on Wikidata and how to normalise keywords assigned to publications.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8KQqumlDwY Authors INAPP on Wikidata] (Italian) - Camillo also presents how Wikidata can record biographical data and the presence of authors affiliated with INAPP.

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata:Projector - is a tool that shows maps and lists with Wikidata items for a specific topic, usually a location. As an example, see the Projector for [https://projector.toolforge.org/#/Corfu Corfu]
  • [http://atilioa.me/WikidataAntiPatternAnalyzer/index.html? Wikidata Anti Pattern Analyzer] companion tool to the [https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw243562 Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata] research paper

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/A2SF Indigenous Performers Arts Alliance (IPAA) Members living, working or from Canada]
  • [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fperson%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ52085914.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP69%20%3Fq.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 Schools of magic by numbers of students]
  • Schema examples: [https://w.wiki/9$$N List of roles played by siblings]
  • Newest database reports: Lost links - (New editor removed sitelink and did not reconnect it)
  • Showcase Items: Mister President (Q3050361) - novel written by Miguel Ángel Asturias
  • Showcase Lexemes: Ordbokredaktør - (Bokmål; a literary version of Norwegian) appropriately, for Lexicographer.

Development

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].

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· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) ({{int:Talkpagelinktext}}) 16:04, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #628

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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 2024-05-20. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Browse9ja Bot - Task: Automated data retrieval focusing on Nigerian / African-based information, integrating a chatbot, NLP API, knowledge graph, and machine learning model.
  • DhlizBot - Task: add Dhliz ID (P12696) for persons/films/TV series that exist in Dhliz (Q125594802) database.
  • AmeisenBot 2 - Task: Working on bot requests at WD:RBOT using QuickStatements.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure, by Bluerasberry. "The split will create a WikiCite graph separate from the main Wikidata graph. The main Wikidata graph will retain content of broader interest, including items for authors, journals, publishers, and anything with a page in a Wikimedia project."
  • [https://pro.europeana.eu/post/learnings-from-ai-and-heritage-inclusive-metadata-requires-more-than-erasing-stereotyping-terms Learnings from AI and Heritage inclusive Metadata requires more than erasing stereotyping terms] - this article explores the presence of contentious terms in Wikidata labels.
  • [https://www.library.upenn.edu/kislak/judaicadh/blog/wikibasecloudreconcile Reconciling Shira: Wikibase Cloud and OpenRefine] - as part of the Shira project to document and digitise Penn University's Jewish music collections, the author gives a step-by-step process on installing OpenRefine for Wikibase Cloud instances.
  • Papers
  • [https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0356-2.17 Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Storia della collaborazione tra Wikidata e le biblioteche della Rete URBE nel controllo di autorità]. Abstract: "The contribution draws a history of the presence of the identifiers of the authority records of the URBE network libraries in Wikidata, and of the collaboration that has evolved since 2020 between the Wikidata community and the cataloguers of the URBE network libraries, relating to the harmonisation of these authority records with Wikidata and the improvement of the quality of the respective data. The first part of the contribution traces the main stages of collaboration in chronological order, while the second part of the contribution presents the main areas in which the collaboration materialises (or can materialise) in the daily authority work carried out by cataloguers in theme-based groupings".
  • [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3613904.3642638 Using Open Data to Automatically Generate Localized Analogies]. Numerical analogies that translate unfamiliar measurements into familiar reference objects (e.g., “275k sq miles is roughly as large as Texas”). By "Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake M. Hofman"
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ke3gX5yy4 ¿Cómo contribuir masivamente a Wikidata con OpenRefine?] (Spanish) - As part of the Coordinate Me Campaign, this is a review of the OpenRefine tool for contributing large sets of data to Wikidata.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUHnhG_XEp0 Patrimoine spolié : le projet ProvEnhance] (French) - A seminae on the looted heritage project on the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. At timestamp: 55:02 onwards, Wikibase is discussed as a platform to host the Looted Heritage and Provenance research project.

Tool of the week

  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wikidatas-genderstats Wikidata GenderStats] measures gender bias at the user level by computing stats on created items.
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wikidatas-list-of-created-items Created items] : a list of items created by a user with labels. This not new but this has been repaired.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/45182702/Project-Manager-Machine-Learning?jobDbPVId=127236332&l=en Project Manager Machine Learning, Wikidata]. Application deadline: Apply until 26.05.2024

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

  • We have completed the preparation work to migrate the Query Builder's front end from Wikit to Codex (phab:T360096)
  • We also continued work on the EntitySchema data type and refining the CI flow for EntitySchemas (phab:T362000)

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].

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· Unsubscribe · Help translate · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:25, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #629

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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 2024-05-27. Please help Translate.

Discussions

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 28, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 28 May, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on the LCCN Wikidata Bot with Mary Campany, Steven Folsom, and Matt Miller. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/HLLLF5JO4DS44Z5ABRJQ745FFZ5VECMV/ 2024-05-28: Wikidata Affinity Group Call Agenda]
  • [https://wikimedia.es/coordinate-me-2024-concurso-wikidata-sobre-contenidos-localizables/ Coordinate Me 2024] (Spanish): An international Wikidata competition around geolocation content, from towns, hospitals, public art and natural monuments to improve or create Wikidata elements with a coordinate location (P625) in focus countries. Contest ends 31 May 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-a-map-of-unesco-world-heritage-sites/ Using Wikidata (and Mapbox) to make a UNESCO World Heritage Sites map] Stefan Bohacek documents a follow and code along project to make a map displaying UNESCO World Heritage sites on a Mapbox, fuelled by Wikidata.
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/18/ld42023-iii-the-examples-libraries-using-wikidata/ Libraries using Wikidata: 11 examples] - following on from the previous [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/13/ld42023-part-i-the-future-of-wikidata-libraries-a-workshop/ post], this Diff blog highlights 11 projects where Libraries and Librarians are using Wikidata in their projects.
  • [https://www.bobdc.com/blog/querywatchmovies Use SPARQL to query for movies, then watch them] Bob DuCharme inspired by [https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/ WikiFlix] demonstrates how SPARQL queries can be used to find YouTube-hosted media content entered in Wikidata to curate your next Watchlist.
  • [https://motherbrain.ai/enhancing-knowledge-graphs-with-llms-a-novel-approach-to-keyword-extraction-and-synonym-merging-3b76b3813a54 Enhancing KG's with LLM's]: A novel approach to keyword extraction and synonym merging. This blog post shows an example of using a Wikidata subgraph with AI to discover new connections and relationships.
  • Papers
  • [https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/rqss-referencing-quality-scoring-system-wikidata-1 RQSS: Referencing Quality Scoring System for Wikidata] - The authors show how RQSS framework can be applied to Wikidata subsets to qualify Reference Quality. By S. Beghaeiraveri, A.Gray & F. McNeill.
  • [https://www.b-i-t-online.de/heft/2024-03-fachbeitrag-labusch.pdf Automatisierte semantische Anreicherung von historischen Texten: Erkennung und Verknüpfung von Entitäten mit Wikidata und Wikipedia] (German) - The paper discusses using AI and Wikipedia and Wikidata as Knowledge Graphs to identify, classify and link entities from the Berlin State Library.
  • [https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1103/ ParaNames 1.0: Creating an Entity Name Corpus for 400+ Languages Using Wikidata] - ParaNames is a multilingual parallel name resource consisting of 140 million names spanning over 400 languages. Names are provided for 16.8 million entities, and each entity is mapped from a complex type hierarchy to a standard type (PER/LOC/ORG). Using Wikidata as a source, the authors created the largest resource of this type to date.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHssxXLW558 FOSSGIS 2024 Das Zusammenspiel von Wikidata, Wikipedia und OpenStreetMap] (German) - A presentation of ​​what tags are present in OpenStreetMap that connects to Wikidata and Wikipedia.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5JMY5ppfw IWD Inspire Inclusion Campaign English Wikidata Training] - Rhoda James gives an introduction to Wikidata, its principles and common misconceptions and how to begin editing.

Tool of the week

  • Wikipedia:WE-Framework: WE-Framework is a tool developed by Sergey Vladimirov that allows editing related Wikidata elements in an article without having to go to Wikidata. When you save your Wikidata edit, it will reference the utility in the edit summary.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/45182702/Machine-Learning-Project-Manager-?jobDbPVId=127535112&l=en machine learning project manager] to make it easier to use Wikidata's data in machine learning settings.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Did you know?

Development

  • EntitySchemas: We continued work on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas in statements. We focused on the input so it shows the label of the EntitySchema when entering the ID. Search by label and aliases will follow. (phab:T362004)
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We looked into how to improve error messages.
  • We wrapped up the route for modifying the data of a Property. (phab:T347394
  • We are nearing the finish line for the route for creating a new Item. (phab:T342990)
  • We are continuing work on the route for modifying an Item. (phab:T342993)
  • Developer advocacy: We are collecting content for a new landing page for developers who want to build applications with Wikidata's data.

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].

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· Unsubscribe · Help translate · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:12, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #630

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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 2024-06-03. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - RfP scheduled to end after 9 June 2024 06:47 (UTC).
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: TongcyBot - Task: Linking the Chinese and English Wiktionary, specifically in categories using Template:auto cat, and pages in the Template, Module, Appendix, Reconstruction, and Rhymes namespaces.
  • Open request for permissions/Bot: IliasChoumaniBot - Task: Automatic updating of data from JSON files on German scientists.
  • Closed request for comments: IP Masking Engagement - The RfC was closed due to inactivity. Discussions are still welcomed on Meta.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://rtnf.substack.com/p/deploying-wikidatalite-into-toolforge Deploying Wikidatalite into Toolforge] - This article explains the deployment process of Wikidatalite into the Toolforge platform. This tool is now available at [https://wdlite.toolforge.org wdlite.toolforge.org].
  • (fr) Wikidata and the missing data : discussion in French about missing data in Wikidata
  • (fr) Sous-classe ou instance de ? Comprenons nous l'ontologie de Wikidata ?, discussion in French about "Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata"
  • Papers
  • [https://raco.cat/index.php/Hipertext/article/view/421072/523553 Taxonomies and Ontologies in Wikipedia and Wikidata:] In-Depth Examination of Knowledge Organization Systems. This paper explores the Knowledge Organisation System (KOS) of Wikipedia, Wikidata and gender-related biases contained within. By M. Centelles & N.Ferran-Ferrer.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8O0hbJvBxw&t=7815s BHL Day 2024 | Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements] - talk by Siobhan about her biodiversity work.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qlCdnqFssw Contributing to Wikidata - African Library Activism Month] - Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi provides a tutorial on the characreristics of Wikidata and how Librarians can contribute.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOqomQ3pMIc Learning Clinic: Wiktionary & Lexemes on Wikidata] - this clinic co-hosted by Taufik Rosman and Sadik Shahadu of Wikimedia User Groups Malaysia and Dagbani respectively.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEbYf5S8_XU ¿Cómo convertir la edición de Wikidata en un juego?] (Spanish) - User:Piracalamina and User:Jmmuguerza show in this Wikitools how to create a API to add your own themed game to The Distributed Game.
  • Miscellaneous
  • [https://vuejsexamples.com/wiquizz-a-game-generator-powered-by-nuxt-content-and-sparql-queries-from-wikidata/ Wiquizz] a quiz generator based on Wikidata and Query.wikidata.org

Tool of the week

  • [https://wikitwister.com/ WikiTwister] - RoloWiki: Replace the interwiki links of a Wikipedia article with a pop-up card full of useful Wikidata, & Wikidata Quick Dip: Browse the Wikidata properties used by the pages in a category.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikidata Infobox is now used by over 5 million Commons categories.
  • Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets is a new page where you can propose to turn CSS and JS scripts into gadgets, so that the can be activated from Preferences instead of through user common.css and common.js pages.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/44701437/Head-of-Product-Strategy-d-f-m-?jobDbPVId=129265287&l=en Head of Product Strategy] and a [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/45238187/Senior-Software-Engineer-Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Projects-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=127502927&l=en Senior Software Engineer].

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/AGtT Mountains with a height over 7000m] - display on a map. Adjust the P:elevation above sea level to widen or narrow the search.
  • [https://w.wiki/AFEE Find Items that share an Identifier] - this query has identified a possible duplicate by matching P5696 - Indian Railways Station Code.
  • [https://w.wiki/AGts Who has worked with this Celebrity?] - this query looks for co-stars, colleagues and co-actors of Seth Rogen. Adjust this value for other celebrities or professionals.
  • Schema examples: Tamkang University location - building and location entities associated with Tamkang University, Taiwan.
  • Newest WikiProjects: Timna Valley - a community project on the Timna Valley archaelogical site.
  • Newest database reports: Gadget usage statistics - find out which gadgets are used the most and perhaps find something new.
  • Showcase Items: Ferdinand Magellan - 15th Century Portugese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Globe (despite his death in the Philippines).
  • Showcase Lexemes: Be - The english copular verb that helps express all of existence.

Development

  • EntitySchemas: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/J7CPPEU3T6OACGVSLFPF7VKC5R4HKR2C/ The new EntitySchema data type is ready for testing on Test Wikidata]
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the route for modifying the data of an Item (phab:T342993)
  • We finished the route for modifying the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
  • We continued working on the route for creating an Item (phab:T342990)
  • We fixed an issue where IDs were shown for badges and after editing a statement. The fix will be rolled out this week. (phab:T366236)

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]: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php Gambling]
  • 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #631

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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 2024-06-10. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Kadı - RfP scheduled to end after 14 June 2024 17:51 (UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - Closed as successful. Welcome back Squirrel!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • MDanielsBot 2 Task(s) - Replace translations of descriptions and labels.
  • TapuriaBot Task(s) - interwiki
  • Skybristol bot Task(s) - Flesh out mapping of DOI provider orgs to WD orgs, syncing DOI prefix values.
  • EpidòseosBot Task(s) - improve incomplete references to GND for sex / gender; add new references containing GND ID for sex / gender when the property has no references containing stated in.

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 11, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1718121600 Time zone converter]). Please join us for a community discussion on SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 with Ismael Olea. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1%20xbhGb5KMsUCvqDTq2ZugXlpTY74sYoDqGl6GdOIoGw/edit Link to agenda.]
  • Celtic Knot Wikimedia Conference, September 25-27, 2024 in Waterford City, Ireland. This conference usually hosts Wikidata-related sessions. You can now propose your contributions to the program until July 14th, and apply for a scholarship until June 30th (full announcement and links)
  • WikiIndaba conference 2024, 4 - 6 October 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This conference typically hosts Wikidata-related sessions. Program submissions 05 - 30 June 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://commonists.wordpress.com/2024/06/07/100000-video-games-on-wikidata/ 100,000 video games on Wikidata] - Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games has just passed a major milestone: 100,000 video game (Q7889) items on Wikidata.
  • Videos
  • (es) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Nw0xPT1tw How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata?] - This is a Spanish-speaking Wikitools workshop exploring Paulina (see: Tool of the Week), a search interface powered by Wikidata for finding and exploring author's and whether their works are in the public domain.
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/radio-france-wikidata Radio France meets Wikidata 😘]: Extracting IDs from radio France and matching them with Wikidata using P10780 property
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wikidatas-analytics-for-radio-frances-podcasts Wikidata's analytics for Radio France's podcasts]

Tool of the week

  • [https://paulina.toolforge.org/ Paulina: Data for the Public Domain] - Explore the cultural heritage of humanity. Search Paulina by author and discover if they have freely accessible works in the Public Domain.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Propose to transform an existing CSS or Javascript script (i.e. scripts that you can enable in your common.css and common.js pages) into a gadget: Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets

Newest properties and property proposals to review

  • New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not))
  • ecosystem type (type of ecosystem that the item represents)
  • Burgenwelt (Burgenwelt; castles)
  • construction time ({{Construction time refers to the time which was needed to build a certain building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially in former times

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Development

  • The UnpatrolledEdits gadget now shows a notice when there are older and multiple unpatrolled edits, previously it only showed the notice when the most recent edit was unpatrolled. Please help translate the messages here.
  • Query Service: We are fixing a bug where no examples are shown in the example dialog (phab:T366871)
  • EntitySchemas: We have enabled the new datatype for testing on test.wikidata.org and are preparing the rollout to Wikidata (phab:T365686)
  • Item UI: We fixed an issue where labels were not shown for badges or after making an edit (phab:T366236)
  • Wikibase REST API: We have continued the work on the route for modifying the data of an Item (phab:T342993)

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].

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Weekly Summary #632

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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 2024-06-17.

Discussions

Events

  • Looking ahead
  • Lexico Days 2024 is coming up. June 28 - 30, there will be a packed programme of presentations, discussions and workshops on Lexicographical data. This is an online event.
  • [https://ibcmadrid2024.com/index.php?seccion=scientificArea&subSeccion=detailSubProgramme&id=620&idSub=3 Wikidata Workshop for Botanists] at the XX Intl. Botanical Congress, July 21 - 27, 2024, Madrid, Spain.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/06/10/stories-from-the-anti-disinformation-repository-why-wikimedia-is-an-antidote-to-disinformation/ Diff Blog: Why Wikimedia (and Wikidata) is an antidote to disinformation] - Wiki Movimento Brasil discuss how Wikidata has equipped researchers, activists and the public the ability to safeguard truths about human rights abuses during the civic-military Brazilian dictatorship between 1964 - 1985.
  • [https://www.calishat.com/2024/06/10/making-location-based-timelines-with-wikipedia-wikidata-and-mojeek/ Making location based timelines with Wikipedia, Wikidata and mojeek] - Tara Calishain of Calishat blog.
  • (de) [https://www.wikimedia.de/20jahre/meilensteine/ 20 Years of WMDE] - scroll down the timeline and see what Wikimedia Deutschland has done in its 20 years of existence!
  • Papers
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03221 Linking Named Entities in Diderot's Encyclopédie to Wikidata] - This paper describes the annotation of more than 10,300 of the Encyclopédie entries with Wikidata identifiers enabling them to be connect to the graph of structured data. By Piere Nugues.
  • [https://aclanthology.org/2021.gwc-1.29/ Towards a linking between WordNet and Wikidata] - The authors propose linking the 2 described reosurces through hapax legomenon and natural language processing techniques to create new connections and uses. By J. McCrae & D. Cillessen.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZB_5QiRjE8 WikiWednesday Webinar – Increasing Education & Outreach through Wikidata & the Wiki-Commons] - Victoria Stasiuk and Navino Evans of the Digital Literacy for GLAM show how museums and galleries have opened up their collections through Wikidata and Commons and increase education, outreach and volunteer engagement strategies.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbaDmB4gAVo What is Wikidata? How to use Wikidata?] - Asaf Bartov hosts this informative session on Wikidata at the Wikimania Singapore 2023. If you're attending Wikimania 2024, this session will prepare you for other Wikidata-related sessions.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPVgrFhkZYc Creating a Lexeme Database from Scratch] - The runup to Wikimania Katowice has begun. Refresh yourself for upcoming sessions with this Wikidata basics workshop hosted by Leon Liesener.

Tool of the week

  • [https://service.tib.eu/ogt/map Gestapo.Terror.Places (in Lower Saxony 1933-1945)] - This app displays on a map of lower Saxony areas of interest or significance of the terror-related crimes of the Gestapo during WWII.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/A5pW Tool Registry for Digital Humanities]
  • [https://w.wiki/AQna Operas ordered by First Performance]
  • [https://w.wiki/AQo2 Performing Arts Productions with a Composer property]
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Assoc. Football - Euro 2024 - for best practices on UEFA Euro 2024 items.
  • Bulgarian Elections - for describing data related to elections in Bulgaria.
  • ARS3D - statements and properties for an African Red Slip ware 3D artifact data model.
  • WikiProject Highlights:
  • (de)Theorie und Praxis in Wikidata - User:Matthiasb uses examples of Highway intersection classification on Wikidata of locations in and around Berlin to highlight inconsistencies between the data model and legal classification. By highlighting a considerable number of differences in a relatively small geographic area, these comments provide further context on an earlier discussion within the German Wikipedia community on integrating Wikidata further into Wikipedia articles.
  • Newest database reports: Badge Stats - How are badges being applied in Wikidata, which items have the most Good or Featured Articles? Savvy editors can use this to enrich said articles in their own Wiki.
  • Showcase Items: Mordor - A desolate volcanic plain of nauseous gases and shadows. J.R.R Tolkien's blighted land is this week's showcase.
  • Showcase Lexemes: вода - A Russian word for a clear, vitality-giving liquid, of course it's Water.

Development

  • EntitySchemas: We are preparing for the rollout of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We are continuing the work on the route for modifying an Item (phab:T342993)
  • We are working on improving errors and error messages in the API
  • Query Service UI: We fixed a bug. The example dialog was empty and not showing any examples (phab:T366871)
  • We changed the datatype of two Properties to external ID as requested (phab:T367174)

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]: [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php Gambling]
  • 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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

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Wikidata weekly summary #633

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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 2024-06-24. 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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #634

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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 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
  • Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
  • New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.

Events

  • Past: The Lexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
  • 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.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GZRRMNW6B75FMBR7HYSAJZGCMQQCCIUP/ Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024]
  • Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe. [https://wikis.world/@siobhan_leachman@mastodon.nz/112691029608457323 Register here]!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://www.bobdc.com/blog/wikidataaudio/ Querying for audio on Wikidata] - This blog post discusses using SPARQL queries on Wikidata to find audio recordings, focusing on musical compositions and their associated genres.
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/06/10/stories-from-the-anti-disinformation-repository-why-wikimedia-is-an-antidote-to-disinformation/ Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: Why Wikimedia is an antidote to disinformation] - The blog post highlights how Wikidata, as a central storage repository, plays a crucial role in countering disinformation by providing reliable, structured data for Wikimedia projects and beyond.
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/06/30/ld42023-vi-imagining-a-wikidata-future-for-librarians-together/ Diff Blog: Imagining a Wikidata future for librarians together] - the sixth and final blog post from the LD42023 conference. Silvia Gutiérrez (WMF) and Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF) document the results of the collaborative session on building a bridge between the Library-Wikidata community and WMF.
  • [https://www.census.de/blog/census-ids-are-now-wikidata-external-identifiers/ Census IDs are Now Wikidata External Identifiers]
  • [https://www.choice360.org/libtech-insight/library-knowledge-as-linked-data-a-wikidata-approach/ Library Knowledge as Linked Data: A Wikidata Approach]: Contributing to a shared data commons. David Erlandson describes the experiences of using Wikidata for the pilot Program for Cooperative Cataloging to "accelerate the movement towards ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level".
  • Papers
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17903 Mapping the Past: Geographically Linking an Early 20th Century Swedish Encyclopedia with Wikidata] - This paper describes the extraction of location entries from a prominent Swedish encyclopedia and sheds light on selection and representation of geographic information in the Nordisk Familjebok. By A. Ahlin, A. Myrne & P. Nugues.
  • [https://wikiworkshop.org Papers from the just-ended Wiki Workshop 2024]
  • [https://wikiworkshop.org/papers/do-lod-conventions-impede-the-representation-of-diversity-the-case-of-disabled-actors-in-dbpedia-and-wikidata.pdf Do LOD Conventions Impede the Representation of Diversity? The Case of Disabled Actors in DBpedia and Wikidata?]
  • [https://wikiworkshop.org/papers/sparql-for-lis-analytics-exploring-gender-representation-amongst-pcc-wikidata-pilot-participant.pdf SPARQL for LIS Analytics: Exploring Gender Representation amongst PCC Wikidata Pilot Participant]
  • [https://wikiworkshop.org/papers/wikidata-vandalism-detection-with-graph-linguistic-fusion.pdf Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph-Linguistic Fusion]
  • Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Entity Schema Generator Demonstration (tool demonstration)
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Qbb1yuLkE&pp=ygUId2lraWRhdGE%3D Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Enable Equitable and Validated Generative AI] - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan Fraine and Lydia Pintscher show how Wikidata can be used to provide well-cited information and how semantic search can augment generative AI inference. Presented at the Open Source GenAI & ML Summit.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOqZce65Fgg&pp=ygUId2lraWRhdGE%3D Wikidata Editing LIVE at Lexico Days 2024] - User:Abbe98 and User:JanAinali are back for another session of live-editing, focused on lexicographical data, during the Lexico Days 2024 event that took place this last weekend, June 28 - June 30.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2PHkK6jEEA Get more out of Wikidata with Resonator] - Rachel Hendrick and Gary Price of LibTech Tools walk through Resonator and point out the best ways to use it. Resonator is available on [https://reasonator.toolforge.org/ ToolForge].
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjGNWM_9Y4M Knowledge Integrity: Reliability- Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph Linguistic Fusion] - Diego (WMF) and Mykola Trokhmovych showcase their work on building a model to help Wikidata editors identify edits that require patrolling, as part of the [[https://wikiworkshop.org/ Wiki Workshop 2024].
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF-xy7KL_ek Inclusion of Communities: Using Wikibase to Leverage Community Sourced Data Initiatives] - Erin Yunes talks about their work in using Wikibase Cloud as part of the Compel project (COmputer Music Preservation Electronic Library).
  • (es) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Nw0xPT1tw ¿Cómo fortalecer el dominio público con Wikidata?] - This Wikitools Workshop hosted by Jorge Gemetto is on [https://paulina.toolforge.org/ Paulina], a tool for exploring and accessing public domain information on authors and their works.

Tool of the week

  • [https://www.loom.com/share/2fab1acb8abf404da8b03a24d4d4d473?sid=6ad654de-486d-44c3-9ae9-8193792720f9&t2 Automatic Structuring of text for Wikidata] - User:BrokenSegue introduces their new tool.
  • User:Zvpunry/CreateNewItem - This is a User script to easily add a new Item while editing a Statement and noticing that the desired Item is missing.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue 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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/AVZ8 Number of people who are both politicians and musicians by political spectrum] ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/112684088394297452 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/AJ5u Lexeme coverage of Indonesian languages]
  • [https://w.wiki/AVCS UK MPs and their office start/end years] ([https://x.com/generalising/status/1805719787953111151 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects: Inuktitut - This is the space to organize work to assure that the sum of all knowledge and the supporting infrastructure for necessary services are available in Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inuktitut).
  • Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same pattern
  • Showcase Items: Montblanc (Q761735) - town in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia
  • Showcase Lexemes: gbuɣi (L725113) - Dagbanli verb, translates to "vomiting" and "sprouting"

Development

  • EntitySchemas:
  • We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
  • We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
  • mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911, phab:T366239)

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].

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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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

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

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

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

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

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].

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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

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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)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #638

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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 2024-07-29. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • GergesBot 2 - Task/s: Edit label when order is added in ar:ويكيبيديا:طلبات نقل عبر البوت (Transfer requests by Bot).
  • UmisBot - Task/s: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.

Events

  • Upcoming:
  • Wikidata Days Bologna 2024, Italian language conference dedicated to Wikidata for libraries and research, taking place in the frame of Wikidata’s 12th birthday, on November 8-9 in Bologna, Italy.
  • Wikimania starts on August 7. Here is a list of sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. If something is missing, feel free to add to it, including any Wikidata meetups you may be hosting.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://culturalcontent.substack.com/p/sharing-the-worlds-paintings-on-wikidata "Sharing the world’s paintings on Wikidata"] By Martin Poulter for the Cultural Content Substack
  • [https://wikiedu.org/blog/2024/07/10/an-intelligent-system-what-i-learned-through-taking-an-introductory-wikidata-course/ WikiEdu: What I learned taking an introductory Wikidata Course] - Anne-Christine Hoff, associate professor of English at Jarvis Christian University, describes her experiences and learnings from taking an intro to Wikidata course, provided by the WikiEdu.org, a project of the Wiki Education Foundation.
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18278 Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs] - This study investigates the behaviours, communication patterns and interactions of the core small Wikidata community that are responsible for 80% of its content, in order to future contribution and participation. By E. Koutsiana et al.
  • [https://arxiv.org/html/2403.10304v2KIF: A Wikidata-Based Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources] - This paper presents KIF, a Wikidata-based framework for virtually integrating heterogeneous knowledge sources and discuss how it was used to solve a real integration problem in the domain of chemistry (involving Wikidata, PubChem, and IBM CIRCA). By G. Lima et al.
  • Press release: [https://www.iccu.sbn.it/it/SBN/catalogazione-e-manutenzione-del-catalogo-sbn/progetti-di-implementazione-dei-dati-dellindice-sbn/arricchimento-dei-dati-di-authority-di-sbn-attraverso-il-confronto-e-lo-scambio-con-wikidata-/ Arricchimento dei dati di authority di SBN attraverso il confronto e lo scambio con Wikidata] (in Italian): ICCU, the institute coordinating the biggest Italian OPAC (the OPAC SBN, involving more than 7 thousands libraries), has just finished enriching about 16200 nearly empty authority records with data taken from the respective Wikidata items (Wikidata items link to SBN authority records through P396); this announcement describes in detail the enrichment work, which started in June 2023; for more information (and bibliography) about the collaboration between ICCU and Wikidata, see :d:Wikidata:Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche/SBN (in Italian)
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab5q93B3S1Q Intro to Wikidata] - This intro to Wikidata was provided for participants of the International Linguistics Olympiad 2024, held in Brasília. Presented by Artur Corrêa Souza and Éder Porto, organised by Wiki Movimento Brasil.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVh4nQBk2A Mining and Modeling Text using Wikibase] - the University of Trier is building a knowledge graph on French Enlightenment novels 1751 - 1800 with the use of Wikibase.

Tool of the week

  • User:Nikki/ShowIDs.js - This user script adds entity IDs in brackets after links.
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/common-values Common values], yet another Observable notebook. This one looks at common values between two Wikidata item pages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • KDE Itinerary, KDE's travel assistant app, [https://volkerkrause.eu/2024/07/27/kde-itinerary-june-july-2024.html gets more Wikidata integration].
  • The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback to evaluate "default values for all languages" (mul) in the Termbox. Please share your thoughts on this 5-10 minute anonymous survey: https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata-default-values-feedback
  • The Wikidata (integrations) for Wikimedia projects team have released a progress report on their ongoing research project, investigating the "State of Wikidata usage on other wikis". Available on the Research page, alternatively on Commons.
  • The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/7LpT Where were people who went to space born?]
  • [https://w.wiki/u4G Red Cross and Red Crescent societies]
  • [https://w.wiki/4rGf Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID]
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Military Equipment in Policing - Project to connect police equipment defined as military equipment to capabilities, uses, manufacturers, descriptions, etc.
  • Quran - to collaborate on Quran-related topics and organise Quran Wikidatans; help others and get help whenever needed to improve Quran-related items (and properties); create Quran-specific tools' libraries, queries, and resources;
  • Sufism - collaborate on Sufism-related topics
  • Newest database reports: [https://query.wikidata.org/index.html#%23%20Nouns%20without%20gender%20in%20a%20language%0ASELECT%20%3Fl%20%3Flemma%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fl%20a%20ontolex%3ALexicalEntry%20%3B%20dct%3Alanguage%20%3Flanguage%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AlexicalCategory%20wd%3AQ1084%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Alemma%20%3Flemma%20.%0A%20%20%3Flanguage%20wdt%3AP1394%20%27hind1270%27%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fl%20wdt%3AP5185%20%5B%5D.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Flemma Hindustani nouns without gender in a language]
  • Showcase Items: Fugger (Q37018433) - family name
  • Showcase Lexemes: ikkje-vald (L3483) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "non-violence"

Development

  • IP masking: The feature was rolled out to test wikis and we fixed a few issues uncovered by this.
  • EntitySchemas: We are working to make it possible to search for the EntitySchema by its label and aliases when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema (phab:T362005)
  • Integration in other Wikimedia projects: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link from the tools section of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
  • REST API:
  • We changed the data-type field to data_type in JSON responses (phab:T368130)
  • We are continuing the work on improving error handling and messages

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #639

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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 2024-08-05. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Numberguy6Bot - Task: Add links to Wiktionary categories in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian.
  • UmisBot - Task: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
  • ZLBot - Task: request SPARQLs for RAG.

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call 6 August, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 6 August, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1722960000 Time zone converter]). Please join us for a Busy Summer Fun Wikidata Editing Hour, an hour of uninterrupted Wikidata editing time to work on your own Wikidata projects. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kO6bvFN87fF4pRSGE7_HqxDorUpENKi7KX98BW75xg0/edit?usp=sharing Agenda].
  • Wikimania is August 7-10. Here is a curated a list of Wikimania sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. Please add to the list if something is missing.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: [https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/ Olympics medalists, not by country, but by NUTS region], By Giorgio Comai
  • Papers
  • [https://doi.org/10.1039/D3DD00069A Discovering life's directed metabolic (sub)paths to interpret human biochemical markers using the DSMN tool]
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11417 SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions] - The SPINACH dataset, derived from Wikidata's "Request a Query" forum, offers a more complex and challenging KBQA dataset with 320 question-SPARQL pairs, designed to test the capabilities of KBQA systems in navigating large and incomplete knowledge base schemas.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iu_fOfRaqE Using Wikidata to navigate the web (Wikimania Katowice)] - Tool demo: Entity Explosion
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEAtwYYJsvk Use Wikidata and Lexeme to understand Minnan] - COSCUP 2024 (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters)

Tool of the week

  • [https://github.com/sanjay-thiyagarajan/forage Forage] - a user script that provides an additional editing interface that makes editing easier, by showing the expected properties for a page (based on its "instance of" values), and providing simple inputs to let users add values for any such property. To install Forage, just add the following line to the common.js subpage under your user page on Wikidata, i.e. wikidata.org/wiki/User:Your username here/common.js: importScript('User:Techwizzie/forage.js');

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
  • Abdulai Yorli Iddrisu (WMDE) has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of September 2024. Welcome Yorli!
  • Wikidata now has a shiny new landing page for developers: Wikidata:For developers

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/ApxH Image gallery of the most notable sculptures] (source)
  • [https://w.wiki/ApQd Authors that cite your article(s)], [https://w.wiki/ApQs Authors that you cite] ([https://wikis.world/@egonw@mastodon.social/112892436172671056 source])
  • WikiProject Highlights: Sculptures by collection: an Integraality dashboard for WikiProject Sculpture
  • Newest database reports: [https://w.wiki/9y2u Dagbani Lexemes that wrongly include the grammatical gender property P5185]
  • Showcase Items: Chinua Achebe (Q155845) - Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
  • Showcase Lexemes: Stuorra Dorskavuotna (L636928) - fjord in Hammerfest, Norway (Northern Sami proper noun)

Development

  • mul language code: The new language code has been rolled out in a limited way. We are looking through feedback now.
  • mul release: The full release of the "mul" language code feature to Wikidata, originally scheduled for August 12, may be delayed as we have uncovered a few issues during testing that could potentially block the scheduled release.

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #640

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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 2024-08-12. Please help Translate.

Events

  • Wikimania 2024 took place in Katowice, Poland. You can watch replays of the sessions [https://www.youtube.com/@TheWikimediaFoundation/videos on YouTube]. Additionally, recordings of individual sessions are linked to each item [https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/schedule/ on the Eventyay] schedule.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2024/08/11/scholarly-discussions.html Scholarly discussions through they eyes of CiTO (and Wikidata)] - The post emphasizes how Wikidata can serve as a central hub for linking various scholarly resources, enabling better data interoperability and discoverability.
  • Papers
  • [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.18278 Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs] - a study of Wikidata's collaboration patterns reveals that a small group of highly engaged members drives most contributions, and improving discussions and engagement strategies could enhance long-term participation in the community.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-_2gzi8530 FOSS4GE 2024 | Bridging Worlds: Integration of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap] - Discover the synergy between Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, two monumental open data repositories. This talk unveils innovative web-based tools facilitating the linking of these platforms, enhancing the richness and accuracy of geospatial data.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYiEvv0R9PM Setting up a Wikibase reconciliation service] - Wikibase Working Hours by OlafJanssen
  • Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/list-of-countries-by-continent-in-wikidata List of countries by continent in Wikidata]

Tool of the week

  • [https://new-q5.toolforge.org/ New Q5] - is a form that quickly sets up a Wikidata Item for an individual by generating a QuickStatement with the basic parameters such as name and age.
  • User:Nikki/SDCInfo.js - is a Userscript that shows some Wikimedia Commons statements on pronunciation audio statements on Lexeme forms.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Rtnf/Instance_Of Wikidata's "instance of" and its associated properties, according to "properties for this type" (P1963)]
  • [https://edu.nl/y38rg Example query to show why papers cite each other] ([https://wikis.world/@egonw@social.edu.nl/112943938308855780 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects: Redundancy - The primary aim of WikiProject Redundancy is to reduce the amount of Wikidata's data—without reducing the amount of information in Wikidata!—for the well-being of Wikidata, its community, and its downstream users.
  • Newest database reports: Items with instance of (P31) human (Q5) and date of birth (P569) > date of death (P570)
  • Showcase Items: Cambridge (Q350): city in Cambridgeshire, England
  • Showcase Lexemes: kpanjɔɣu (L651052) - A Dagbani noun described in English as hampers, baskets, or similar containers made from woven materials like reeds, grasses, or wicker, traditionally used for carrying or storing clothing.

Development

  • Not much happened this past week because the team was attending Wikimania.

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #641

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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 2024-08-19.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship:
  • Wüstenspringmaus (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2024 11:07 (UTC))
  • Mohammed Qays (RfP scheduled to end after 19 August 2024 19:11 (UTC))
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - Task: Infer {{P|P1712}} of TV series, seasons, and episodes from vertically adjacent levels.

Events

  • (Save The Date)
  • Wikidata Days Bologna - November 8 - 9, 2024. Dario Nobili Library (CNR). A conference dedicated to the Italian-speaking Wikidata community, with a focus on libraries and research.
  • Ongoing
  • Like Soccer? Did you know the Uganda Wiki Soccerthon 2024 is still running and aims to create over 300 Wikidata items on Ugandan clubs, players, coaches, leagues, associations and leagues related to Ugandan soccer.
  • In case you missed it...
  • Catch up on all the Wikimania 2024 sessions with these [https://www.youtube.com/@TheWikimediaFoundation/videos YouTube replays]. Or check the [https://wikimania.eventyay.com/2024/schedule/ Eventyay schedule] for recordings of individual sessions linked to each item.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2024/08/13/unveiling-discrepancies-first-experiences-with-finding-mismatches-on-wikidata-and-how-you-can-too/ (Tech News) Unveiling discrepancies: First experiences with finding mismatches on Wikidata and how you can too] - A team of five Purdue University students partnered with Wikimedia Deutschland for the Purdue Data Mine to find mismatches for the Wikidata Mismatch Finder.
  • [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2024/08/12/wikidata-power-contributor-an-interview-with-user-bodhisattwa/ (Tech News) Wikidata power contributor: an interview with user Bodhisattwa] - WMDE's Alan Ang talks with long-time editor and pillar of the Bangla Wiki community, Bodhisattwa.
  • (de) [https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/7526 Whether toolbox, workshop or hardware store: open, community-curated tool Registries with Wikidata] - I. Trilling, T. Grallert and J. Schmitz discuss the tool-directory created “Kompetenzwerkstatt Digital Humanities” (KDH) at the UB and the “Methods Innovation Lab” of the NFDI4Memory and presented at the Chair of Digital History.
  • Papers
  • [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-68323-7_35 Discovering Relationships Among Properties in Wikidata Knowledge Graph] - Authors Emetis Niazmand and Maria-Esther Vidal use class-based relationship discovery to study and explore distribution and frequency of predicates across six domains. Pp 388–394 of Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery.
  • Videos
  • (pt) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agmjmf3knjg Wikidata Lab XLII: OpenRefine] Éder Porto and Luca Belo host a workshop covering the newest features for loading media and Structured Data (SDC) on Commons, as well as metadata on Wikidata through OpenRefine.
  • (es) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzBixV98vE Use of records on Wikipedia using Wikidata] - Mikel Zubimendi shows how to populate Wikipedia articles with Infoboxes populated by data hosted on Wikidata.
  • [https://youtube.com/watch?v=rFdxAn6Agr0?t=681 Engaging with language diversity via the Wikipedia ecosystem @ PGO24] - User:Daniel Mietchen at the Polyglot Gathering hosts a workshop with numerous examples of how the Wiki ecosystem hosts and represents linguistic content.
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/Olympic-medals-by-continent Medals count by continent] Combining data from the International Olympic Committee and Wikidata, this notebook computes medals count by continent.
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cycling-stage-race-explorer?race=Q1542952&lang=en&winner=Q20882747 Winners of the Tour de France Femmes] The Tour de France Femmes 2024 just ended on Sunday 18th of August. The cycling stage race explorer notebook shows all stage winners of the Tour de France Femmes.
  • [https://observablehq.com/d/b9323741423d2152 Visualisation of location of Japanese Lighthouses] The TU Delft Library queries Wikidata to map the location of Japanese lighthouses designed by Richard Henry Brunton or Léonce Verny.
  • Tools
  • (fr) [https://data.cpesr.fr/wikidataesr/ WikidataESR: Tenter d’y voir clair dans l’ESR] : exploring French higher education and research institutional landscape with the help of Wikidata. French higher education and research landscape is highly complex. Wikidata can help to better understand the landscape.

Tool of the week

  • [https://github.com/sahajsk21/Anvesha Anvesha] is a drill-down browser for any Wikibase installation (incl. Wikidata). A prominent example of it in use is the [https://wikidatawalkabout.org/ Wikidata Walkabout].

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikidata: For Developers - We have a shiny new portal for developers wanting to build applications using Wikidata's data. Visit it for inspiration with showcase examples, resources, information and support.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • [https://wikimedia.pt/limetestbr/index.php/547431 QuickStatements Community Consultation], until August 31st
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to improve error messages and handling.
  • Wikipedia and co: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
  • Wikidata Query Service graph split: The WMF Search Platform team is setting up the servers for the split graphs. We hope to have them ready for use soon. We also prepared the constraints checks for this.

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #641

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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 2024-08-26. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship:
  • Gwanki - RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2024 05:54 (UTC)
  • Putnik 2 - RfP scheduled to end after 27 August 2024 23:17 (UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins: Mohammed Qays and Wüstenspringmaus!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Leaderbot - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (see Phab:T370842)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - RfP successful!
  • New request for comments:
  • Citations from Wikidata from Author: Palu
  • Audio Transcription (P9533) from Author: Yug. P9533 is described as transcription of the word/text being spoken in this file. Does this exclude other communications modalities?

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Papers
  • [https://academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ccc/tcae029/7739141 What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata?]: Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
  • [https://www.o-bib.de/bib/article/download/5894/8905?inline=1 Diversity and bias in DBpedia and Wikidata as a challenge for text-analysis tools] by B. Berendt et al. This paper explores how data sources can impact content analysis of their tool Diversity Searcher for analysing diversity in news media texts.
  • Videos
  • (sw) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx6GfpK1mUw Wikipedia vs Wikidata] - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjocbzBwn-w Wikimania Coolest Tool Award! 2024] - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxAqX2qhgcw Qichwabase: Building Knowledge Graphs for Under-Resourced Languages] Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages.
  • Slides: [https://zenodo.org/records/13373746 Giving metabolites (and lipids) a chemical and biological context with open science]. This talk discusses the role of open science in providing chemical and biological context for metabolites and lipids, highlighting open-source cheminformatics, open standards, and open data to facilitate linking knowledge across databases and publications, as well as describing chemical interactions in biological pathway databases. By Egon Willighagen.
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/olympic-medals-by-group-of-countries Olympic medals by group of countries 🥇🥈🥉]: Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/unequal-distribution-of-medals Unequal distribution of medals from the Summer Olympics]

Tool of the week

  • [https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=94 Wikidata distributed/#game=94] - Help adding missing information related to artists on BNU's catalog (Select the option that fits best).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Qbb1yuLkE YouTube link]). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!

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Development

  • Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #643

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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 2024-09-02.

Discussions

  • Project chat: Wikidata:Project chat#Mass-import policy - A new mass-import policy has been proposed, focusing on improving the quality of existing items rather than importing new ones, with a suggested limit of 100 new items before requiring community approval.

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1725379200 Time zone converter]). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/First Project Series
  • (id) Registration is open for the Wikimedia Indonesia Research Grant 2024 program. Open until 30 September 2024. This program opens funding opportunities for research on topics related to Wikidata, Wikipedia, or other Wiki projects, and Linked Open Data.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZDRZDW4QKS5JKQWYGZQ6RFULGX5FZJHU/ Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 4, 2024]. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: (de) [https://blog.tib.eu/2024/08/29/wikibase4research-wissensdaten-einfach-verwalten-teilen-und-visualisieren/ Wikibase4Research] - Easily manage, share and visualize knowledge data, tailored for academic purposes, WB4R simplifies the installation and use of MedaWiki software. By Kolja Bailly.
  • Papers
  • [https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.14658 KGPrune: a Web Application to Extract Subgraphs of Interest from Wikidata with Analogical Pruning] (see also Videos) - this web application when given seed entities of interest and properties to traverse, extracts neighboring subgraphs from Wikidata. By Pierre Monnin.
  • [https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.14849 Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing] - A fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning. By Hanna Abi Akl.
  • [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383606716_Transforming_higher_education_a_decade_of_integrating_wikipedia_and_wikidata_for_literacy_enhancement_and_social_impact Transforming higher education: a decade of integrating Wikipedia and Wikidata for literacy enhancement and social impact] - Demonstrating the role of Wikipedia and Wikidata in fostering knowledge creation, digital and data literacies and critical thinking, in Open Edcuational resources. By S.E. Sigalov, A. Cohen & R. Nachmias.
  • Videos
  • (es) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnQ_Bv7xsms Connect biodiversity to Wikimedia projects via iNaturalist?] - Tiago Lubiana presents the inat2wiki platform (https://inat2wiki.toolforge.org/), designed to connect biodiversity observations to Commons and subsequently, to Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • (es) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuzsLc2Z7ZE Lecture on Knowledge Graphs & Workshop on Querying Data] - Sebastián Ferrada presents this lecture at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2023 including a SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service workshop.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LgImCismRw?t=8739 Wiki4Education Technical Training] - session 2 of the Wiki4Education training series held across 17 - 24 Aug 2024 in Uganda.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt5gF4ZmhGY Introducing KGPrune] - a web application to extract subgraphs of interest from Wikidata with analogical pruning by Pierre Monnin.
  • (ar) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSSGyYgKlvM Intro to Wikidata] at the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, hosted by Houcemeddine Turki
  • (ar) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmd_oOaN2lg 2: Wikidata for Wikipedians] - this session of Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 shows the benefits of using Wikidata in Wikipedia.
  • Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/drawing-the-adventures-of-tintin-character-network Drawing the network of Adventures of Tintin]

Tool of the week

  • [https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/tools/wikidata-on-sister-projects/history/revision/40193 Display Wikidata Info on sister projects] by User:Yair rand. This user-script will add the articles corresponding Wikidata item Label, Q-ID, Description and Short Desc. neatly under the article title. If no Wikidata item is linked, option to CreateNewItem page on Wikidata is provided.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/RYYOGLIJFXKZOSU4PAS2SBO7TWKRGYU4/ Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 29 is open!] The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by September 18, 2024.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/MU7W6Y6K2TOSPHWEY5WIUO76JLPKLWL7/ QuickStatements Community Consultation]. Wiki Movimento Brazil as part of the Software Collaboration for Wikidata are conducting interviews to build upon the QuickStatements tool. If you're interested in helping refine the tool then get in touch with them.

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  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/B3SQ {{#switch:en|en=French nuclear tests map with their power in kt|fr=Carte des essais nucléaires français avec puissances en kt}} ]
  • [https://w.wiki/6TNS What Wikidata album languages grew the most this week?] ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/113057841265159018 source])
  • Newest database reports: Sitelinks to Wiktionary - List of Items with links to Wiktionary main space.
  • Showcase Items: Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410): type of wiki page usually in main namespace (article namespace, ns=0) containing links to articles with similar names, and very little details only, use with P31 "instance of" (2024-09-02)
  • Showcase Lexemes: থোড়া (L345714): Bengali verb thôṛa in English imply something that is “chopped” or “minced”

Development

  • Wikidata Query Service:
  • The WMF Search Platform team is putting the finishing touches on the new Query Service servers that contain the two parts of the split graph.
  • We are analyzing which percentage of current queries are better served by other systems like the REST API or search.
  • Wikimedia projects integration:
  • We have worked on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the toolbox section of the sidebar of an article. It has been rolled out to the first wikis: ukwiki, hewiki, fawiki (phab:T66315)
  • We are working on decreasing the amount of irrelevant changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co by correcting the tracking behaviour of the Lua function mw.wikibase.entity:getSitelink() (phab:T295356)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued improving errors and error messages.

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #644

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-02. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #643

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: أمين - RfP scheduled to end 9 September 2024 11:18 (UTC).

Events

  • Next: (pt) Auditive Health Project – Workshop Wikipedia and Wikidata 10 September - Expand and contribute to articles and items on Audiology, this event will be held in 3 participating Universities in Brazil. [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Oficina_Projeto_Sa%C3%BAde_Auditiva_2024 Register on Etherpad].
  • Upcoming: The program for the Celtic Knot Conference 2024 is now available to view! Whether you're interested in language preservation, digital tools for minority languages, or simply connecting with like-minded individuals, there's something for everyone. The conference will take place in Waterford City from September 25-27, 2024

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • (de) [https://blog.tib.eu/2024/09/04/das-tib-projekt-wikiremembrance-einladung-zur-abschlussveranstaltung/ TIB Blog:The TIB project WikiRemembrance] - The aim of the project was to develop a handout on digital culture of remembrance in a collaborative and participatory process. The project will be ending soon and you can [https://www.wikiremembrance.de/registrierung/ register] for the closing event (9 Oct 2024).
  • [https://blog.anj.ai/2024/09/outdated-knowledge.html Correcting outdated facts in Wikidata] - Anj Simmons takes us through an example of finding an outdated or inaccurate fact and correcting it with supporting references.
  • [https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2024/09/07/wikidata-citations.html Adding citations between existing articles in Wikidata] - About a command line tool written in Groovy to enrich Wikidata with citations between journal articles and other research output with DOIs
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ9fIqry7kE Wikidata Quality Toolkit:] Empowering Wikidata editors and content. Albert Meroño introduces a suite of tools to assist editors by recommending items to edit, detect poorly-supported item references and generating EntitySchemas to find items missing information.
  • (ar) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ukwbX__wWQ Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Session 3: SPARQL Query] - Houcemeddine Turki introduces how to forumlate and build SPARQL queries in the Wikidata Query Service.

Tool of the week

  • User:Teester/CheckShex.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", it uses pyshexy to validate the entity against the schema and displays whether the entity passes or fails.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • 🔥 Big changes are coming to the #WikidataQueryService. If you query for scholarly articles, please take a look at this announcement!
  • Is Shakespeare in German something for you? A digital version of the Schlegel/Tieck edition (Aufbau-Verlag 1975) was released with Wikidata connections. ([https://wikis.world/@umblaetterer@chaos.social/113033900869878738 source])

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Development

  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/HWKBCPKPL5D4HN6TPJQ6PRCGAFHY7WFE/ (BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT) Wikidata Query Service graph split available in production; scholarly entity queries require migration by March 2025]
  • We ported many WikibaseLexeme browser tests from WebdriverIO to Cypress (phab:T355934)
  • We’re working on improving the MUL support in the mobile termbox (phab:T373088)
  • We’re updating the “label in language” constraint for MUL (phab:T370293)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #645

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-16. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #644

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 5 - Task: update a typography error in the French description of homonym pages, seen on [https://github.com/MisterSynergy/deltabot-scripts/commit/afd4c82e04ab338b54229aeec3273dd83d6cbe47 1].
  • New request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - The proposal suggests allowing Wikidata bureaucrats to remove admin rights, which they currently cannot do, to streamline processes, reduce reliance on stewards, and align with practices of other wikis.
  • Proposal: Mul labels - proposal of massive addition - The proposal suggests massively adding "mul" labels to Wikidata items for given and family names, using a bot to streamline the process and reduce redundant labels.

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 17 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1726588800 Time zone converter]). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Session 2 (September 17) - Working session using Mix‘n’Match to add Wikidata items
  • Wikidata Day 2024 (Seattle) - Agenda: Wikidata Twelfth Birthday, Training and Edit-a-thon. When: Saturday, October 26, from 12:30–4:30pm PDT

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Lagewi/references.js - "Sometimes, the data on Wikidata does not answer all your questions. Some types of information are difficult to encode in statements, or simply has not been encoded on Wikidata yet. In such cases, it might be useful to go through the references attached to claims of the entity, for additional information. To simplify this process, this user script lists all unique references based on stated in (P248) and reference URL (P854). The references are listed in a collapsible list below the table of labels and descriptions, collapsed by default to not be obtrusive." To enable it, include the following line in your common.js: mw.loader.load('//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lagewi/references.js&oldid=2039248554&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

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  • Query examples:
  • Map of [https://w.wiki/tb9 Karens] / [https://w.wiki/thW Johns] per million according to Wikidata
  • [https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/mmMBW6mGYYim4w6i082q8wUOwIe04oEkqGeeI0kcsQK People with a connection to Dresden who have an anniversary today] (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Wikibooks pages - The goal is to add Wikidata items for every Wikibooks page.
  • Couchdb - This project has the purpose to investigate how having Wikidata on CouchDb could work.
  • Temporärhaus - This project is intended to document the activities in the temporaerhaus (Q27945856) with reference to Wikidata.
  • WikiProject Highlights: Ontology/Cleaning Task Force/Changes - Significant actual and proposed changes to the Wikidata ontology that have come out of the cleaning task force efforts.
  • Newest database reports: [https://w.wiki/BD4F Wikidata Statements that use a retracted article as reference]
  • Showcase Items: Among Us (Q96417649) - 2018 video game developed by InnerSloth
  • Showcase Lexemes: ਕਰਨ (L45436) - Punjabi verb "to do"

Development

  • The development team attended the annual WMDE Software Department retreat, so there wasn't much development activity this week.

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].

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Wikidata Weekly Summary #647

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-30. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #646

Discussions

* Closed request for adminship: Andrei Stroe - Success! Welcome User:Andrei Stroe as Wikidata's latest Admin.

Events

* Wikidata's 12th birthday is coming up on October 29th. Have a look at the birthday parties and more planned around the world.

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 1 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 1 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1727798400 Time zone converter]). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the [https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ IRFA database] using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

* Papers

  • [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-72440-4_4 A Systematic Review of Wikidata in GLAM Institutions: a Labs Approach] - Presents a systematic review of Wikidata use in GLAM institutions within the context of the work of the International GLAM Labs Community (glamlabs.io). The results summarise academic literature on Wikidata projects. By G. Candela et al.
  • (es) [https://diff.wikimedia.org/es/2024/09/26/curso-de-wikidata-en-espanol-datos-para-el-conocimiento-colaborativo/ Wikidata course in Spanish: Data for collaborative knowledge] - Throughout October, the WikiLearn platform is hosting a course on Wikidata aimed especially at Latin Americans. [https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:WikimediaChile+WMC000+2024/about Enroll here].
  • [https://arxiv.org/html/2408.14849v2 Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing] - SHADOW is a fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning, its performance is measured on a knowledge base construction task using Wikidata triple completion. By Hanna Abi Akl.
  • [https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/MZrm Using Wikidata for Managing Cultural Heritage Information] - The present study uses model wikidata elements as a basis and explores its dynamic formation into a cultural heritage information management tool within a museum. By D. Kyriaki-Manessi and S. Vazaiou.
  • [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-72437-4_23 Enriching Archival Linked Data Descriptions with Information from Wikidata and DBpedia] - This paper investigates the potential to use information in archival records in a larger context for ArchOnto and aims to leverage classes and properties sourced from repositories deemed informal due to their crowd-sourcing nature. By I. Koch et al.
  • [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024144799 A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords] - This paper utilizes primary data sources of OBO ontologies and MeSH keywords classified using SPARQL queries for RDF knowledge graphs, to contribute to the robustness and accuracy of collaborative biomedical knowledge graphs. By H. Turki et al.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-kq8-rO_o&t=3038s Serbian Novels on Wikidata: Project wikiELTeC & Tesla] Part of Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 in İstanbul, this session presented by Filip Maljković charts progress on contributing Serbian literature to Wikidata.
  • Dataviz
  • [https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people Find your most famous neighbour], a world map of notable people based on Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Tool of the week

* [https://larsgw.blogspot.com/2023/12/three-new-userscripts-for-wikidata.html Three new Userscripts for Wikidata] - User:Lagewi has written 3 scripts to simplify reading references, explore property-value pairs in use for a statement or attaching a full bibliography to the end of the item page.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

* [https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/wd_categories/ OpenSactions:Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories] - Using [https://petscan.wmcloud.org/ PETScan], generates a list of profiles of politically exposed persons by querying specific categories on Wikidata and extracting the entities.

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* New property proposals to review:

** General datatypes:

  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • magazine capacity (In (real or fictional) devices like a firearm, weapon, or engineered thing, this is the default capacity or size of a devices' magazine, clip, or other container typically used to hold ammunition, bolts, cartridges, tools, etc. which pushes those items as needed usually through a spring-based mechanism into a receiver for further use by the device)
  • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • publication type of scholarly article (Publication type of scholarly article)
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this item)
  • Medietilsynets filmdatabase (identifier for a film in the Norwegian Medietilsynets database)
  • Western Australian Biographical Index (Card ID from the Western Australian Biographical Index, a set of handwritten index cards compiled in the 1970s.)
  • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)

** External identifiers: case id (mainland China), NWIS site ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, LWW journal ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, Koha Kütüphane ID, MyWaifuList character ID, FantLab artist ID, Münzkabinett, Latgales dati person ID, identifiant inventaire Grand Est, RedBA Granada authority ID, MetalTabs.com musician ID, HA! ID, Identifiant Radio France d'une émission, Identifiant France Télévisions d'une émission, beniabbandonati ID, DDB person ID, European Parliament document ID, Hlídač státu subject ID, Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense ID, Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID

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Development

  • Search: The haswbstatement search magic word has been improved by the Search Platform Team. Previously it was limited in which Properties were indexed for it. Going forward haswbstatement:P123 will work for all Properties, regardless of their datatype. This will allow you to filter search results for Items that have a statement with a specific Property. (Searching for a specific complete statement with haswbstatement:P123=xxx will still only work for specific datatypes.) For this to work all Items have to be reindexed and this will take up to 1 month.
  • Design system migration: We have migrated the Special:NewLexeme page from Wikit to Codex and are working on finishing the migration for the Query Builder.
  • EntitySchemas: We finished the investigation about how to support search for EntitySchemas by label or alias when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement. (phab:T362005)
  • Wikibase REST API: We worked on integrating language fallbacks into the API (phab:T371605)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #648

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-07. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #647

Events

* Upcoming:

  • [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikidata-day-2024-tickets-1034373879117?aff=erelexpmlt Wikidata Day 2024] at the Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus, New York - To celebrate Wikidata's 12th Birthday, a mini-conference with beginner workshops, lightning talks and keynote speeches will be held. October 26, 11am - 5pm EDT (UTC-4). More info, registration and full address on this Wikipedia event page.
  • The Wikidata Days 2024 in Bologna, Italy will take place on November 8th and 9th. Its program revolves around Wikidata for libraries and academia, and features a wide range of Wikidata-enthusiastic librarians and researchers from Italy. Registration is open until October 31st.
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST 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.
  • Scholia hackathon on Oct 18-20, aimed at addressing changes related to the Wikidata graph split
  • [https://ktieb.org.mt/en/festival/intangible-cultural-heritage-on-wikidata-wikimedia-community-malta-wcm-wcm-stand-37/ Intangible Cultural Heritage on Wikidata] - Hosted by Wikimedia Community Malta (WCM), November 8, 2024 18:00 - 19:00 CEST, Malta Fairs and Conference Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali, Malta
  • [https://library.osu.edu/site/cartoons/2024/10/02/graphic-possibilities-research-workshop/wikidata-event-fall24_-chambliss_/ Edit-A-Thon: 50 States of Comics - Ohio], take part in this virtual event held October 10, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC-5).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

* Blogs

  • [https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/04/wikidata-is-a-giant-crosswalk-file.html Wikidata is a giant crosswalk file] dbreunig.com describes how with a little DuckDB and Ruby and data from Wikidata, you can produce a cross-walk file of geographic entities.
  • Videos
  • (ru) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAQtaKzH1o Wikidata Reconciliation Service] - This video shows how to add QID's to a large number of person-entities, add descriptions and search by full name and years of life. [https://wikidata.reconci.link/ Wikidata reconciliation for OR] (Script: [https://gist.github.com/Podbrushkin/43053bf16640afce96f01721e2f71d6a Github:Podbrushkin])
  • (fr) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luIWdG9eTG0 Data recovery on Wikidata for the DataViz project] - PhilippGam presents the various methods to extract and sort data from Wikidata and use the wikidataMultiSearch tool.
  • [https://youtube.com/9pPpwrK7Qq4?t=4984 Bridging the Digital Scriptorium Data Model and Wikidata to Expand Reuse of Manuscript Metadata] Rose McCandless gives this lighning talk at the LD4 2024 Conference.
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/continental-and-country-diversity-in-wikipedia-art Continental and country diversity of Wikipedia art]

Tool of the week

  • (fr) [https://philippegambette.github.io/wikidataMultiSearch/ wikidata MultiSearch] - search for a list of elements in Wikidata. A GPLv3 licenced tool built by Philippe Gambette allows you to search for a list of words in Wikidata and retrieve some associated Wikidata properties.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Are you building applications or services with Wikidata's data? We'd love to hear from you to help us figure out the future of accessing Wikidata's data.
  • Wikidata: Event Organizers - If you are organizing or thinking about planning a Wikidata event, this new page listing the additional User rights the user-role 'event organizer' has will be a valuable resource. Including the process for applying for permission rights.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

* Newest properties:

  • General datatypes:
  • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
  • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
  • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
  • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
  • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
  • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • publication type of scholarly work (Publication type of scholarly work)
  • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
  • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)

** External identifiers: ‎Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, ‎LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, ‎Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, ‎Ontobee ID, ‎typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, ‎FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, ‎NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, ‎Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, ‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, ‎European Parliament document ID, ‎Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID

* New property proposals to review:

  • General datatypes:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)

** External identifiers: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, KISTI institute ID, Hlídač státu subject ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, Dwelly entry ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Identifiant CIRDOC d'un auteur ou d'une autrice, Identifiant CIRDOC d'un document, Department of Defense Identification Code, Identifiant d'un document audiovisuel dans le catalogue de l'Inathèque, LWW journal ID, BAHRA ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, AniSearch person ID, identifiant Babelio d'un sujet, Identifiant d'une personne sur Madelen, ITTF PTT ID, Push Square series ID, VG247 series ID, dtf.ru person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/BSj8 Winners of the Guillaume Apollinaire Prize (1941-2023)]
  • [https://w.wiki/BQms Libraries in Argentina (on Wikidata)]

* Newest WikiProjects:

Development

  • Data access:
  • We have published a survey to better understand the future needs of application developers who want to work with Wikidata's data. Please take part if you are developing applications or services using data from Wikidata.
  • We are analyzing query logs to better understand which queries could be moved to other services in the future.
  • Design system: We continued migrating the Query Builder and Special:NewLexeme from Wikit to Codex

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #649

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #648

Events

  • Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 15 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 15 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729008000 Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls/First_Project_Series#Session_4_(October_15)_-_Working_session_to_demonstrate_an_image_search_for_item_enhancement_and_celebrate_with_data_visualizations]
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST 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.
  • Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday: We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to:
  • create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc.
  • add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://commonists.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/small-data-slow-data-a-snail-approach-to-wikidata/ Small data, slow data − a SNAIL approach to Wikidata]: discusses the value of small, carefully curated datasets in the era of big data. It emphasizes the importance of taking a methodical, "snail-paced" approach to data collection and analysis, which can lead to more meaningful and accurate insights. The blogpost also highlights how this approach can complement the broader trends of big data, ensuring that detailed, high-quality data is not overlooked.
  • Papers
  • "[https://x.com/WikiResearch/status/1843699094579229068 WoolNet: Finding and Visualising Paths in Knowledge Graphs]" given two or more entities requested by a user, the system finds and visualises paths that connect these entities, forming a topical subgraph of Wikidata (Torres Gutiérrez and Hogan)
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0raFQh86c Introductory workshop to Wikidata within the framework of the Latin America Contest in Wikidata 2024] (in Italian)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_iJcKwCnZA GeoPython 2024: Bridging Worlds: Python-Powered Integration of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap]: This talk explores Python-powered tools that integrate Wikidata with OpenStreetMap, allowing users to link entries between the two platforms to enhance geospatial data accuracy while navigating legal and ethical challenges of cross-platform data sharing.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GYJ6V6ySpQ LD4 2024 Conference: Wikidata and Open Data: Enhancing the Hausa Community's Digital Presence]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X88n85Q9O5U Dynamic Mapping using Collaborative Knowledge Graphs: Real-Time SKOS Mapping from Wikidata]: This presentation introduces a workflow using SPARQL queries to dynamically map live Wikidata data to SKOS concepts, featuring a Python tool that converts CSV outputs into RDF triples for integration into linked data environments and knowledge graphs, emphasizing real-time data retrieval and interoperability.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIvp1SqPF4c How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items] (in Dagbanli)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Die9VnTtep8 Clean-up of problematic Dagbani lexemes]: Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Documentation/Languages/dag#Maintenance_tasks (in Dagbanli)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4jduWucxao How to link Wikidata Items to Wikipedia Articles]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPPrXFK3E10 Best Practices to editing Dagbani Lexemes on Wikidata]
  • Podcasts
  • [https://podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/could-making-wikidata-human-readable-lead-to-better-ai/id1713408769?i=1000672273741&l=de-DE Could making Wikidata 'human' readable lead to better AI?]: Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Portfolio Lead Product Manager at Wikidata Deutschland, discussed a new project aimed at making Wikidata more 'human' readable for Large Language Models (LLMs), which could improve AI reliability by giving these models access to high-quality, human-curated data from Wikidata.
  • Notebooks
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/citizenship-concentration-in-nobel-prize Citizenship concentration in Nobel laureates]
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/continental-and-country-diversity-in-wikipedia-art Continental and country diversity in Wikipedia articles]

Tool of the week

  • Elemwala (এলেমওয়ালা) ([https://elemwala.toolforge.org https://elemwala.toolforge.org]): is a proof-of-concept interface that allows you to input abstract content and get natural language text in a given output language. There may well be errors with particular inputs, and the text may not be quite as natural as you might expect, but that's where your improvements to your language's lexemes, other Wikidata items, and the tool's [https://gitlab.com/mahir256/ninai source] [https://gitlab.com/mahir256/udiron code] come in!
  • [https://github.com/johnsamuelwrites/mlscores mlscores]: Tool for calculating multilinguality score of Wikidata items (including properties). E.g. for Wikidata (Q2013), the scores are - en: 99.66%, fr: 89.49%, es: 84.07%, pt: 68.47%. For instance of (P31), the scores are - en: 99.86%, fr: 87.12%, es: 80.83%, pt: 61.37%.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Launch of WikiProject Deprecate P642: The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property of (P642). Currently, of (P642) is labeled as "being deprecated", meaning its use is still allowed, but discouraged. From a peak of around 900,000 uses, the property now has around 700,000 uses (see status [https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/oFt2TvlNg0iASOSOuASMuCO2wMaEqSYC6QGm2YkU08i here]). Our goal is to reduce that as much as possible in a systematic way, while ensuring that appropriate properties exist to replace all valid uses of of (P642). The latter is key to officially deprecating the property. Before removing the property, we want to get as close to zero uses as possible.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to find an EntitySchema by its label or aliases when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement (phab:T375641)
  • Design system: We are continuing the work on migrating the Query Builder from Wikit to Codex
  • REST API: We finished the work on language fallback support in the REST API (phab:T371605)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #650

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-21. Missed the previous one? See issue #649

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Addshore (RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2024 18:03 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • CarbonBot - (1) Add default mul labels to given and family names when the item has an existing default label with a mul language (2) Remove duplicated aliases matching the items mul label, when the item has a native label in with a mul language. As mul has not been fully adopted, a limited of aliases would be modified each day to ensure existing workflows are not disrupted. It is expected that these tasks will apply to roughly 800,000 given and family names.
  • So9qBot 10 - Add first line (P1922) with the first line of the paper to all scientific papers which has a full text link or where the abstract is available.

Events

  • Upcoming: We are getting ready for Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday on the 29th October. We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to (1) create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc. (2) add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule
  • Past:
  • Wikidata + Wikibase office hour log (16 October 2024)
  • Scholia hackathon (18-20 October) exploring technical options for handling the Wikidata graph split

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://medium.com/@jsamwrites/why-and-how-i-developed-wikidata-multilingual-calculator-22d3b2d65f03 Why and How I developed Wikidata Multilinguality Calculator - mlscores?] - a Wikidata multilingual calculator to facilitate data queries in multiple languages, enhancing accessibility and usability for non-English speakers.
  • Papers
  • [https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/99594 Catalogação em dados conectados abertos: uma experiência de biblioteca universitária com a Wikidata]
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13707 Disjointness Violations in Wikidata]
  • [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.06010 A large collection of bioinformatics question-query pairs over federated knowledge graphs: methodology and applications]
  • Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/d/2c642cad1038e5ea Who are the most frequent guests of the show Real Time with Bill Maher?]
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMDs8xnKMaA Wikidata Lexicographical Data | Lucas Werkmeister] - Introduction to Wikidata Lexicographical Data to Dagbani Wikimedians]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfN6qsEZTmg Why is Wikidata important for Wikipedia in Spanish] (in Spanish) - "In this workshop we will learn about the value that Wikidata can bring us when working on eswiki articles. We will learn how knowledge is shared between platforms, and how it can save a lot of work for both the Spanish Wikipedia community and other people working on an article on another Wikipedia."
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaPy1yf9rk4 Empowering Lexicographical Data Contributions on Wikidata with Lexica] - "In this session, participants will explore the fascinating world of lexicographical data on Wikidata and learn how to contribute meaningfully using Lexica, a tool designed for easy micro-edits to Lexemes from mobile devices. We will start with a brief introduction to lexicographical data and importance of linking Lexemes to Items. Next, we’ll dive into Lexica, showcasing its key features and providing a step-by-step guide on linking Lexemes to Items on Wikidata. This hands-on workshop is open to both experienced contributors and newcomers, empowering everyone with the knowledge and skills to make impactful contributions to Wikidata’s lexicographical data. By the end of the session, participants will be ready to use Lexica to enrich language data on Wikidata."
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1PssAyMfQQ Wikidata ontology, controlled vocabularies and Wikidata Graph Builder] - This video talks about the Wikidata ontology, how to connect controlled vocabularies to Wikidata, and how to use the Wikidata Graph Builder
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrP2KXJyndk How to use Wikidata for GLAM institutions... - WMCEEM 2024 Istanbul] - How to use Wikidata for GLAM institutions: Case Study for museums in Türkiye and person data
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hc9AQU2tHI Hidden Histories: Illuminating LGBTQ+ archives at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada using Wikidata] - "The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives has been strategically working to increase the discoverability, visibility, and access to collections related to marginalized communities in Southern Nevada. In the first stage of this grant-funded Wiki project, over 60 archival collections and 80 oral histories, including related people, businesses, and events associated with the Las Vegas LGBTQ+ community, have been contributed to Wikidata. In this presentation, the author continues this work by introducing UNLV's Special Collections Wiki project, "LGBTQ Hidden Histories." The presentation will discuss ongoing efforts to create, expand, and enrich linked data about the Nevada LGBTQ+ community, address challenges faced during entity extraction using archival materials, and conclude with a linked data visualization exercise using Wikiframe-VG (Wikiframe Visual Graph)."
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE0QuHCgB6k Africa Wiki Women Wikidata Birthday First Session]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27WodYruHEw Africa Wiki Women Wikidata session on creating SPARQL Queries]

Tool of the week

  • User:Ainali/PreViewStats.js - is a Userscript that gives a quick glance at the pageviews in the header (and links to the full views). If you install it on your global.js on meta, it works on all projects).
  • Wikidata:ProVe - (Automated PROvenance VErification of Knowledge Graphs against Textual Sources) - is a tool for helping editors improve the references of Wikidata Items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NVDXC2I2BIPF5UMV4LFVAXG6VKLTG4LS/ Deepesha Burse joins WMDE as Developer Advocate for Wikibase Suite]
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/RLNHTH3EQKOOV6N53KDELMVGAN2PWL46/ Wikibase Suite: Patch releases] as the first round of patch releases for all Wikibase Suite products, including all WBS Images as well as WBS Deploy
  • The CampaignEvents extension is now live on Wikidata! This means that if you are an event organizer, you can use several new tools to help manage your events more easily. By getting the Event Organizer right, you can:
  • Use simple on-wiki registration for your events.
  • Integrate Outreach Dashboard with your event registration page. (see demo)
  • Communicate more easily with your registered participants. (see demo)
  • Make your events more visible to other editors through the Special:AllEvents page.
  • Find potential participants for your next events. (see demo), and much more!
  • With this extension, you can also see all global events (past, present, and future) on the Special:AllEvents page, but only events using the event registration feature will appear there. If you are an organizer and want to use these new tools, follow the instructions on the Wikidata:Event_Organizers page to request the Event Organizer right.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Vector 2020: We’re working on improving Wikibase’s dark mode support somewhat (phab:T369385)
  • We polished the automatic undo/redo messages to make them more useful (phab:T194402)
  • Design system: We’re close to finishing migrating Special:NewLexeme to the Codex design system
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on searching EntitySchema values by label and alias (phab:T375641)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #551

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #650

Discussions

Events

  • Wikidata's 12th Birthday is almost here! Let’s celebrate together and make it unforgettable! 🎂 Join in for events happening across the globe in October & November -- there's something for everyone! Here’s how you can be part of the fun.
  • Find a local event and connect with fellow Wikidata enthusiasts!
  • Give a birthday gift to the community -- whether it's a cool new tool or something fun!
  • Join our big online celebration on October 29th -- don’t miss out! Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday
  • Join the special Wikidata [https://wikis.world/@wikimediaDE@social.wikimedia.de/113384930634982280 Query-party tomorrow] and win some branded Wikidata socks! 🎉
  • The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is taking a break from our new project series format this coming Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1730217600 Time zone converter]) to celebrate Hallowe'en! We'll be celebrating Spooky Season with a WitchyData Working Hour! Following on Christa Strickler's recent project series, we will continue building proficiency with the Mix'n'match tool, but with a ghoulish twist. Join the fall fun by updating your [https://www.canva.com/zoom-virtual-backgrounds/templates/halloween/ Zoom background] or even coming in costume. BYOC (bring your own candy). Event page: Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Wikidata Working Hours/2024-October-29 Wikidata Working Hour

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2024/10/28/wikidata-wird-12-jahre/ Wikidata celebrates 12. Birthday – These are the coolest queries from 112 million entries] (in German) - "Wikidata, the world's largest free knowledge base, celebrates the 12th of October. Birthday. The open data graph for structured knowledge collects facts about numerous terms (items). Meanwhile, Wikidata includes an impressive 112 million items – and many more facts! On the occasion of Wikidata's birthday, we put the collected knowledge to the test and present the most exciting 12 queries that were created from it."
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88w_omwoHM 2024 Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2024] (in Chinese)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsU0LykhRBg Wikidata Day NYC 2024 @ Pratt]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ6dPf5kgKM Mapping the Accused Witches of Scotland in place and time]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BIq8qDT6JE What is Wikibase and what is it used for?] (in Spanish)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm7NWXX6qz4 Introduction to Wikidata - Wikidata Days 2024 (First day)] (in Spanish)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YxbOPVJXvY Is there a system to capture data in Wikidata automatically?] (in Spanish)

Tool of the week

  • Lexica – A mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels. This tool is developed by the WMDE Wikidata Software Collaboration team in Indonesia. Try Lexica through this link: https://lexica-tool.toolforge.org/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The Global Open Initiative Foundation is building an open-source web app for Supreme Court cases in Ghana. We are looking for volunteers in the following roles: Frontend Developers, Backend Developers, Wikidata/SPARQL Experts, UI/UX Designers, Quality Assurance (QA) Testers, and Legal Professionals. Join us by sendind your resume and a brief description of your expertise to globalopeninitiative{{@}}gmail.com

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Vector 2022: We are continuing to make Wikidata Items pages work in dark-mode (phab:T369385)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We discussed what will constitute breaking changes for the API (phab:T357775)
  • We are working on the endpoint for creating Properties (phab:T342992)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #652

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #651

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://professional.wiki/en/articles/wikibase-strengths-and-weaknesses Is Wikibase Right for Your Project?]
  • [https://www.dariah.eu/2024/11/04/dhwiki-a-new-dariah-eu-working-group-focusing-on-building-bridges-between-different-sectors/ DHwiki:a new DARIAH EU-working group focusing on building bridges between different sectors] - this working group acts as a bridge between GLAM institutions, DH researchers and Wikimedians.
  • [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/746 Using AI to add to Wikidata] - Magnus Manske discusses the challenge of integrating Wikimedia Commons artworks into Wikidata.
  • Papers
  • [https://arxiv.org/html/2410.13707v1 Disjointness Violations in Wikidata] Finds 51 pairs of classes on Wikidata that should be disjoint (e.g. "natural object" vs. "artificial object") but aren't, with over 10 million violations, caused by a small number of "culprits" ([https://x.com/WikiResearch/status/1852081531248099796 source])
  • Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models ([https://x.com/HimarshaJ/status/1849590078806556709 source])
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARQ22UcwJH4 LIVE Wikidata editing #116 at the 12th #WikidataBirthday] - User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 do some live editing (in english) on items related to Wikidata and the sister projects in celebration of Wikidata's 12th birthday.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wJ6D4OLUXM Women Do News at Wikidata Day] - This lightning talk from journalist Molly Stark Dean introduces the Women Do News project to increase visibility of women journalists and expand and enrich Wikipedia articles about them. The project could greatly benefit from Wikidata items being created and/or expanded.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ez1VMoFFwA Knowledge Graphs Pt.2 - Enhancing Knowledge Graphs with LLM Keywords] - Valentin Buchner and Hans Mehlin describe their collaborative project between Nobel Prize Outreach (NPO) and EQT Motherbrain utilising Nobel Prize laureate’s biographies and Nobel Prize lectures.
  • (en) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biWYkba4pi0 Introduction to Wikidata|Dagbani WM UG] - User:Dnshitobu presents an introductory course to Wikidata, with many Ghanaian examples.
  • (cz) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrtjfgO8Dk&t=3998s Wikidata in practice: document and library record structure and examples of data searches using WDQS] - Morning lecture organised by the National Library of the Czech Republic, Wikimedia CR and the Prague organization SKIP.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_0-i_qEIA8 Introduction to Wikidata and linking it to OSM] - This short introduction is presented by User:Ranjithsiji on the benefits to OpenStreetMap when connecting it to Wikidata.

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata One Click Info is a multilingual extension that enables you to search for any item or word that you come across while reading or browsing online. It's an extension that makes Wikidata's data easy to retrieve and access. Install on [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ooedcbicieekcihnnalhcmpenbhlfmnj Chrome browser] or [https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/wikidata-one-click-info/ Firefox browser]. A [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pM8kpIV0qALgUNZ5Yq-XYWEDXKfYlfVn/view short video] about the usage of the extension.
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cat-most-frequent-properties CAT🐈: most frequent properties] a simple Observable tool which shows the most frequent properties for a set of Items.
  • Are you able to learn languages with Wikidata content? In Ordia there is the "[https://ordia.toolforge.org/guess-image-from-pronunciation/ Guess Image from Pronunciation]" game you can use to learn a few words from various languages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A small project on benchmarking query engine performance on useful Wikidata queries is asking for queries from the Wikidata user community to potentially be part of the benchmark. If you are a user of any Wikidata SPARQL service please send queries that you find useful to [mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com Peter F. Patel-Schneider]. Say what you used the query for and whether you would like to be noted as the source of the query. Queries that take considerable time or time out are especially welcome, particularly if the query caused you to switch from the official Wikidata Query Service to some other service. More information about the project is available in Wikidata:Scaling_Wikidata/Benchmarking.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/BpFd Individual animals counted per species], [https://w.wiki/BpG9 list of these individual animals]
  • [https://w.wiki/BgKJ Chronology of deaths of mathematicians, with their theorems] ([https://x.com/Pyb75/status/1849805466643181634 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects: AveburyPapers - The Avebury Papers is a collaborative UKRI-funded research project between University of York; University of Bristol; the National Trust; English Heritage; and Historic England. As part of this project, the team are doing several tasks which are generating data, some of which will be shared via Wikidata, in an effort to link parts of the Avebury collection with other collections.
  • WikiProject Highlights:
  • India/Schools - focused on school in India
  • 2025 video games - dedicated to the world of video games in 2025
  • Newest database reports: Count of lexemes without senses
  • Showcase Items: 2024 United States presidential election (Q101110072) - 60th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
  • Showcase Lexemes: Katze (L352) - "domesticated feline animal" in German

Development

  • Mobile statement editing: We are making progress on the technical investigation for how to make it easier to edit statements on mobile. A lot more work to be done after that though.
  • We fixed the sidebar link to the main page in many languages (phab:T184386)
  • Codex: We are continuing with the migration of the Query Builder to Codex, the new design system. The migration of Special:NewLexeme is almost finished.
  • Query Service: We have updated the list of languages for the language selector in the UI (phab:T358572)
  • Vector 2022: We are continuing to adress issues of the Item UI in dark mode (phab:T369385)
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • We are moving from v0 to v1.
  • We have finished the work on the new endpoint for creating Properties.
  • Action API: We’re improving the way the wbformatvalue API handles invalid options (phab:T323778)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #653

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-11. Missed the previous one? See issue #652

Events

  • Upcoming
  • Scholia Hackathon on November 15-16 (online)
  • [https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D178656789 Black Teacher Archive Wikidata Edit-a-thon] - 19 November 2024, 9am - 12pm, Address: Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA. Improve information about individual educators and their relationships with Colored Teachers Associations, HBCUs, the Divine Nine, religious institutions, and political organizations like the NAACP and Urban League.
  • (German)[https://www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/transfer/termine/2024_11_19_digital_classicist.html Seminar: Using wikibase as an integration platform for morphosyntactic and semantic annotations of Akkadian texts] - 19.11.2024, 16:00 - 18:00 CET (UTC+1), held at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin)
  • [https://capacoa.ca/event/wikidata-in-dance-workshop/ Wikidata in dance workshop] - 3 December 2024, 1pm EST (UTC+5). A step-by-step workshop for members of the Canadian Dance Assembly. A free, expert-led series on how open data can benefit dance companies and artists.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/VVBT5YD5I6OW4UQ37AGY2D32LATXT5ZU/ Save the date: Wikimedia Hackathon to be held in Istanbul, Turkey on May 2 - 4, 2025]
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/TUBM6WI4LHPVEXVMFKHF5ZR3QNUBRYBG/ Apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2025] Scholarships open: 7th November-8th December 2024

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2024/10/31/wikidata-sprachen-im-internet-fordert/ Bridging language gaps: How Wikidata promotes languages on the Internet] (in German) about the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata Software Collaboration Project for Wikidata]
  • [https://wikimedia.ch/en/news/swiss-server-helps-optimise-wikidata-in-the-field-of-medicine/ Swiss server helps optimise Wikidata in the field of medicine] - Wikimedia CH supporting Houcemeddine Turki in leveraging AI to transform Wikidata into a comprehensive, reliable biomedical resource, to bridge healthcare information gaps, especially in the Global South.
  • [https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-story-of-african-award-winning.html The story of African award winning scientists using Wikifunctions]
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcoYXJUT-zQ Wikidata's 12th birthday presents demos]
  • (es) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h4vcrqhNd0 Open data for journalistic investigation: The cases of Wikidata and Poderopedia] - This session held by Monica Ventura and Carla Toro discusses how open-data allow transparent analysis and evidence-based storytelling, enabling journalists to explore and verify complex information connections.
  • (it) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgxpZzLrNCs AuthorityBox & Alphabetica] - The use of Wikidata's data in the Alphabetica portal and in the SBN AuthorityBox gadget that can be activated via Code Injector in the [https://opac.sbn.it/ SBN OPAC].
  • [https://www.youtube.com/live/7RYutAJdmLg?t=9720s Semantic Wikibase] - Kolja Bailly presents this session during the MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference Fall 2024 (Day 3).
  • (zh-TW) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNAWiLh2o-M Wikidata lexeme editing demonstration] - Wikidata Taiwan provide a demonstration to lexeme editing.
  • (es) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNlXZ97vb9E OpenRefine - Wikidata Days 2024] - Conducted by Omar Vega from Wikimedia Peru, learn how to create a project with a list, clean and collate data, create a Wikidata schema and upload using QuickStatements.
  • (es) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSsoKIrvg2c Merging duplicate Items in Wikidata]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biWYkba4pi0 Introduction to Wikidata for Beginners in the Mabia communities]

Tool of the week

  • [https://wdrecentchanges.toolforge.org Wikidata Edits Heatmap]: Real-time map that visualizes recent changes in Wikidata with geospatial markers showing the location of updated Items.
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wwrw Western world versus the rest of the world]: a tool computing the distribution of mentioned entities in Wikipedia articles between Western world and the rest of the world.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Starting ca. today ({{date|2024-11-11}}), tools or bots which use the wiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected.
  • Job vacancy [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/50824818/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-m-f-d-?jobDbPVId=167093023&l=en Product Manager: Wikibase Suite]: Wikibase Suite allows institutions to create and host their own linked knowledge base with maximum customizability, this role will be responsible for the vision and strategy of this exciting product!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

  • New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
  • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
  • Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • TOPO id (unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...))
  • ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
  • romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
  • GND-BEACON-URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file)
  • Railway station linear reference (line & milestone) (Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure.

A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/Bsmj Recently edited lexemes since 'DATE'] (in this case Danish since 01.11.2024)
  • [https://w.wiki/Bvap List films shot by filming location] - try changing the wd: Wikidata item to another country, city, or even a building or natural location.
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Suriname Public Art - public artworks and memorials in Suriname
  • HDF - A WikiProject for work underway at the The HDF Group (Q106509427) to connect HDF data with Wikidata.
  • French Literary Prizes - Aims to coordinate the development of a database on French literary prizes (prize list, jury members, list of winners). In 2008, Bertrand Labes listed more than 1,500 French-speaking literary prizes. To date, Wikidata has 709, including 24 including the list of winners and awarded works.
  • Newest database reports: [https://orthohin.toolforge.org/ Languages with the most lexemes without senses] (using Toolforge tool 'Orthohin')
  • Showcase Items: Rembrandt (Q5598) - Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
  • Showcase Lexemes: ਜੀਵਣ/جِیوَݨ (L740318) - 'life' in Punjabi

Development

  • Lua: We changed the Wikibase function getAllStatements logic to behave as getBestStatements. When invoked, it was returning mutable direct-values, now it will return a copy of those values (which are immutable). (phab:T270851)
  • Wikibase REST API:
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/L7CPFQRY4RC5NCXOKRN4HWBTNBJ6GS4X/ Wikibase REST API is now on version 1!]
  • We've finished the work on the create Property endpoint so it is now possible to create Properties via the REST API.
  • Configuration: We removed 'mainpage' from $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for Wikidata as requested so translations of the main page are available (phab:T184386)
  • mul language code: We moved it to the top of the termbox so labels and aliases in mul are visible first (phab:T371802)
  • Revision table size: We are investigating the current state of the revision table of Wikidata's database and what the next steps should be to address its issues.

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].

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· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:31, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #654

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #653

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 19 November, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 19 November, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732035600 Time zone converter]) Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/LD4-WDAG_Lexicographical_Data_Series LD4-WDAG Lexicographical Data Series Etherpad] to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Visit the event LD4 Affinity Group WikiPoject page
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YQ7CQXMFAYPWOHLEF7KLZZNR3SYIBURN/ Conference about Wikidata and research at the University of Florence in Italy - call for papers deadline December 9, 2024]
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 Registration is open until mid-April 2025 (unless event reahes capacity earlier). Hackathon takes place in Istanbul May 2 - 5, 2025.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • GLAM October Newsletter
  • (Spanish + En) Colombia Report - exploring uses of Wikidata in the Colombian context.
  • Stats and program of the Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia
  • Wikidata 12th Birthday Report
  • [https://blog.rayberger.org/wikidata-and-the-2024-open-library-community-celebration Wikidata and the 2024 Open Library Community Celebration] - Ray Berger shares their presentation for the Open Library celebration.
  • [https://medium.com/@mark.reuter/a-hip-hop-world-map-7472a66da6a3 A Hip Hop World Map] - Mark Reuter uses Wikidata to create a map of Hip Hop artists birthplaces.
  • Papers
  • [https://www.infodocket.com/2024/11/05/journal-article-shifting-paradigms-the-impact-of-streaming-on-diversity-in-academic-library-film-collections/ Journal Article: “Shifting Paradigms: The Impact of Streaming on Diversity in Academic Library Film Collections”] - Examines the impact of academic libraries shifting collections from physical to digital medium storage, and how Wikidata is used to analyse this. By Clarkson et al.,2024.
  • [https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/encoding-archaeological-data-models-as-wikidata-schemas?category_id=cgrn&path=cgrn/296/301 Encoding Archaeological Data Models as Wikidata Schemas] - How Wikidata schema are being used to help the Duros-Europos archaelogical archive By Thornton et al., 2024.
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08696 Population and Exploration of Conference Data in Wikidata using LLMs] - to automate addition of scholarly data. By extracting metadata from unstructured sources and adding over 6,000 entities, it demonstrates a scalable method to enhance Wikidata as a scholarly resource. By Mihindukulasooriya et al., 2024.
  • [https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3828/paper37.pdf DBLP to Wikidata: Populating Scholarly Articles in Wikidata] Presents a tool and method for adding scholarly articles and related entities, like co-authors and conference proceedings, to Wikidata using DBLP data, promoting the enhancement of Wikidata’s scholarly coverage. By Nandana Mihindukulasooriya.
  • Slides
  • (Italian) all the slides of the presentations held during Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 are available in :commons:Category:Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 presentations (the links have also been added to the program page)
  • Videos
  • (Italian) all the videos of the presentations held during Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 in the main room are available in :commons:Category:Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 videos (the links have also been added to the program page)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfOP3rPZCUg&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D Launch of Wikidata Lexicographical Data Contest] from the Dagaare Wikimedia Community.
  • (Spanish) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmDgtf4YNCQ How to contribute to Wikidata with QuickStatements?] Omar Vegu of the Wikimedia Perú community will be showing how QS can be used to mass-edit Wikidata.
  • (Spanish) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSsoKIrvg2c Wikidata - how to merge two elements that are repeated statements?] - What to do if you find more than one Wikidata item of the same, exact thing? This guide will show you what to do.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy8kv8VGMYU&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D WCNA 2024 Lightning talk: Designing a Wikidata Edit-a-thon for the Black Teacher Archive] - if you are interested in organising a Wikidata edit-a-thon (on any subject), this presentation shows the steps needed.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSIok3W3io&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D WCNA 2024: Adding authority control properties in Wikidata for writer and artist biographies] - an example of using Wikidata to enrich and expand an item for biographies.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BYF6L-D350&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D WCNA 2024: Wikidata profiling of small town art] - an example of how structured data can be used to preserve cultural history.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRlW2hTvCPQ MediaWiki U&D Con Fall 2024 - Day 3 - Introduction to Wikibase: Managing Datasets & Collections]

Tool of the week

  • [https://dblp-to-wikidata.streamlit.app/ DBLP to Wikidata] - This tool is for adding scholarly articles to Wikidata utilizing data from DBLP. It also provides article authors with a tool to enhance Wikidata with associated entities, such as missing co-authors or conference proceeding entities. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgrlGqoegTY Demo video] & [https://github.com/scholarly-wikidata/dblp-to-wikidata Github repo]

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://observablehq.com/d/0099520872e082b9 Observable: Example SPARQL Queries Provenance Index LOD]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

  • Newest General datatype property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
  • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
  • Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
  • romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
  • GND-BEACON-URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file)
  • Railway station linear reference (line & milestone) (Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure.

A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • [BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT] wbformatvalue API will no longer accepts most options
  • Wikibase REST API: We are looking into how to do search in the REST API.
  • Special:NewLexeme: We merged the full migration from the Wikit to the Codex design system.
  • EntitySchemas: We are polishing the patches to make it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label when linking to an EntitySchema in a new statement.
  • Wikidata support is now available to Tulu Wikipedia and Tulu Wikisource

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].

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· Previous issue · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) ({{int:Talkpagelinktext}}) 11:30, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #655

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #654

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: 333Bot - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there.
  • Closed request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights.

Events

  • Upcoming
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/KP4H3NIV4BUZU4MVFOPP656SBW7OE7P3/ 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - registration is now open]
  • Save the date: the Data Reuse Days 2025, an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already propose sessions for the program.
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 3 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1733245200 Time zone converter]). Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/LD4-WDAG_Lexicographical_Data_Series Series Etherpad] to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024, at our regular time of 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET. Event page
  • Wikimania 2025 Scholarships are now open! This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • Why and for what purpose should Wikidata be used in Colombia?
  • Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia
  • [https://blog.rayberger.org/wikidata-and-the-2024-open-library-community-celebration Wikidata and the 2024 Open Library Community Celebration]
  • [https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2024/11/where-the-data-may-roam-bringing-wild-west-performers-to-wikidata/ Where the data may roam]: Bringing Wild West performers to Wikidata. Author Jason Sharp documents their experience adding legendary showman Buffalo Bill to Wikidata.
  • [https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2024/11/meet-tiago-bhl-wikimedian-in-residence.html Advancing BHL’s Data for a Sustainable Future: Meet Tiago, Our New Wikimedian-in-Residence] The BHL-Wiki Working Group has enrolled a Wikimedian-in-Residence with a focus on Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
  • Papers
  • [https://apcz.umk.pl/FT/article/view/52732 Beyond the Library Catalogue: Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata] - examines how integrating Wikidata into libraries enhances resource discoverability, fosters interoperability, and empowers users within a global knowledge network. By Okuonghae, O. (2024).
  • [https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw243686 On assessing weaker logical status claims in Wikidata cultural heritage records] - approaches to representing weaker logical status (WLS) information in Wikidata, finding limited usage, variations and ambiguities between datasets, and proposes improvements for clarity and accuracy. By Di Pasquale et al.(2024)
  • Books: [https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0393-7 Tiziana Possemato, Entity modeling: la terza generazione della catalogazione]: contains many references to the use of Wikidata in cataloguing
  • Videos
  • (Portuguese)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Oq6LVZCdY Wikidata & OpenRefine] - Part of the “Introduction to digital platforms for research” sessions for the Centro Luís Krus of NOVA FCSH. Practical exercises for data reconciliation from the Portuguese Early Music Database using the OpenRefine tool.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8U9bheQorg NODES 2024: Using Dbpedia and Wikidata Knowledge Graphs With Neo4j] - Cuneyt Tyler presents 'Semantic Space', a project using Dbpedia and Wikidata to enhance the user experience browsing articles on the web.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGEDRHtRVtc Uploading Images From Public Sites] - Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata make great bedfellows. Margaret Donald shows how to create Commons categories, create structured data and link categories to Wikidata.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Kry2fIHXc WCNA: LOFESQ Lots of Farmers Empty Silos Quicker]: building community through a named entity Wikibase. Experiences of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives setting up the WikiNames Wikibase instance and breaking down knowledge silos
  • Podcast series: [https://whoseknowledge.org/dsd-whose-voices/ Decolonizing structured data: a new season of Whose Voices?] including "Episode 5 -- Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)"
  • Other
  • SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"
  • De Wikidata à Wikibase : Pour une meilleure compréhension de vos données, presentation by John Samuel at Le campus du libre 2024 (Q131312243), Lyon, November 23, 2024.

Tool of the week

  • [https://ordia.toolforge.org/guess-image-from-pronunciation/ Guess Image from Pronunciation] is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts.
  • [https://github.com/fusion-jena/abecto/releases/tag/v3.1.1 ABECTO] is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export ([https://wikis.world/@janmartinkeil@mstdn.social/113480328404817505 Tweet])
  • [https://wd-infernal.toolforge.org/ Wikidata Infernal] is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. ([http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/750 blog])

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikidata Query Service: The graph split rules have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "publication type of scholarly work" into the scholarly article graph.
  • Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (phab:T378627)
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label and aliases when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema.(phab:T375641)
  • Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. (phab:T371196, phab:T371752)
  • Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (phab:T377986 but first need to improve the underlying scripts (phab:T376604)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (phab:T379608)
  • Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table.

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

· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:42, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #656

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #655

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming:
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is providing a total of 15 participation scholarships for Wikimania 2025 (7 individual and 4 tandem scholarships). Further information is available on this page. An overview of all questions in the application form is here. [https://zforms.wikimedia.de/wmde/form/Wikimania2025scholarshipapplicationform/formperma/z3vs3NSu6TildxnidcQlBrJ3YQiEDDXP0x9E3l6T6is Apply here]. Closes 8 December 2024.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/BL5D7RN65PLSLAA3AGNI32LTCXR7UKDM/ Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 4, 2024]. The time is 17:00 CET
  • Tomorrow / 3rd December 2024: Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC / 6pm CET. If you would like to attend, please fill out the [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/LD4-WDAG_Lexicographical_Data_Series Etherpad form] to ensure all necessary materials are provided for you.
  • Deadline for the Central Asian WikiCon 2025 scholarship application is December 30, 2024. We encourage you to make Wikidata-related submissions (the deadline for submission is March 22, 2025.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Research
  • Statement Signals: Wikidata usage on other Wikis: A new research report is available. Explores what trace Wikidata data is measurable on other Wiki pages and proposes initial metrics for measuring Wikidata statement usage on Wikimedia content pages. Also suggests methods to improve data analysis and collection. PDF is available on Commons
  • Blogs
  • [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2024/11/28/celebrating-wikidatas-12th-birthday-across-the-world/ Celebrating Wikidata’s 12th birthday across the world] - Wikidata celebrated its 12th birthday in October and November 2024, with a series of global events and activities aimed at commemorating the platform's contributions to the open knowledge movement, engaging its community of volunteers, and highlighting the significant role Wikidata plays in the digital landscape. By Dan Shick
  • Papers
  • [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386043293_Beyond_the_Library_Catalogue_Connecting_Library_Metadata_to_Wikidata Beyond the Library Catalogue: Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata] - This paper explores how libraries can leverage Wikidata to enhance resource discoverability, foster interoperability, and integrate into the global knowledge ecosystem. By Omorodion Okuonghae (2024).
  • [https://www.deslab.org/publication/a-framework-for-integrating-biomedical-knowledge-in-wikidata-with-open-biological-and-biomedical-ontologies-and-mesh-keywords/ A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords] - Enhancing Wikidata’s biomedical knowledge by integrating OBO ontologies and PubMed’s MeSH keywords, addressing gaps, improving classification accuracy, and verifying relations for stronger interoperability and accuracy. By Chebil et al. (2024).
  • [https://arxiv.org/html/2411.15550v1 Class Order Disorder in Wikidata and First Fixes] analyzes class order violations in Wikidata's ontology using SPARQL, evaluates fixes, and offers solutions through improved tools or community involvement. By P. Patel-Schneider and E. Doğan.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey-D-oiBcx4 Edit a Wikidata Item and Lexeme] - The Tyap Wikimedia User Group produced this tutorial on editing as part of the Wikidata 12th Birthday celebrations for the Wikidata @12 Data-a-thon.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzo6IysvZNk State of the art in combining OpenStreetMap and Linked Data] - Covers Linked Data basics, its potential with OSM, and popular methods for linking, extracting, combining, and querying data from both sources. Jump to ([https://youtube.com/watch?v=gzo6IysvZNk?t=359 Wikidata])
  • (正體字, CN Trad.) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5WuyQh_m8s Getting Started with Wikidata] - An introduction and overview to Wikidata and some associated tools such as ORES and LiftWing.
  • (正體字, CN Trad.) [https://youtube.com/watch?v=obvET8QyHRw Wikidata Basic Editing Tutorial] - This session was given as part of the COSCUP '24 conference on the OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Agenda Track.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s499PeolbOg LLM-based natural-language representations for SPARQL queries over Wikidata and DBpedia] - LORiS: This tool can help you understand complex SPARQL queries by converting them to natural language.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrwvxIsWRKs Towards an Open NLI LLM-based System for KGs: A Wikidata Case Study] - At the 7th ISRITI 2024 conference, Jaycent Ongris shows how RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) has been used in a natural-language question-answer platform to directly query Wikidata.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmCbTOZ4Yos How knowledge representation is changing in a world of LLM's] - Denny Vrandečić gives this keynote session at the SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference.
  • [https://youtube.com/watch?v=PKk_b7zC1KA?t=1170Finding the Capacity to Grieve Once More] - Alexandros Kosiaris of the Wikimedia Foundation explains changes made to make Wikipedia more stable and prevent outages, including how it calls and fetches data from Wikidata. Session given at SREcon24.

Tool of the week

  • [https://wse-research.org/LoRiS-LLM-generated-representations-of-SPARQL-queries/ LoRiS] - Generate natural-language descriptions of SPARQL queries via LLM's.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikidata:WordGraph: Google released the WordGraph dataset as a belated present for Wikidata’s 12th birthday. The dataset contains 968,153 forms in 39 languages.
  • [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/50824818/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=171424268&l=en Product Manager: Wikibase Suite]: Wikimedia Deutschland has an open and exciting vacancy for a Product Manager of Wikibase Suite. [https://jobdb.softgarden.de/jobdb/public/jobposting/applyonline/click?jp=50824818 Apply!]
  • Tools or bots which use the wiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected. (This was previously announced 2024-11-11 but didn’t actually take place yet.)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/CCfd Using cross-product / cross-join to produce list of categories]
  • [https://w.wiki/CEmt Map of individuals charged, convicted and/or exonerated of Witchcraft with place of death in Switzerland]
  • [https://w.wiki/CEn6 Names and Locations of French Castles (Château)]
  • [https://w.wiki/CEnW Train Station information (with a Spanish Wikipedia article)]
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Bibliothek UvA/HvA - documenting, archiving and creating items from collections from the UvA/AUAS Library in Amsterdam, beginning with the works of Allard Pierson.
  • Ghana - A hub for Ghanaian activities and entities, including regional languages: Dagbanli, Twi and Dagari.
  • Thao (Taiwan): For collecting information related to Thao cultural themes, including statistics and activity records.
  • Newest database reports: Recent Deaths
  • Showcase Items: Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
  • Showcase Lexemes: புறவு (L1236574) - A Tamil lemma for dense forest, impassable jungle and a pigeon dove.

Development

  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema.
  • PropertySuggester: We have updated the script that generates the suggestions and will update the suggestions next.
  • Lexicographical data: We fixed a visual issue with search results on the Codex-based Special:NewLexeme (phab:T370057)
  • Vector 2022: We are working on designs to fix the remaining issues with the skin on Wikidata.
  • Wikibase REST API: We are finishing the prototype for supporting search in the API.

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #657

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #656

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: KlaraBot - Task(s): Append a human's lifespan to descriptions when they can be authoritatively sourced.
  • Closed request for comments: Audio transcription (P9533) - Closed with no consensus. The discussion is ongoing on the Property P5933 talk page.

Events

  • Past: Amical Wikimedia, the Catalan-language and culture focused thematic Wikimedia Organization organized the Celebrem Wikidata (Let's celebrate Wikidata) project to celebrate Wikidata's 12th anniversary, from November 10 - 30. This included a Wikidata introduction workshop to equip participants with the editing skills to tackle the project's main aim. This was presented as a game to delete duplicate info on Wikidata and Catalan Viquipèdia infoboxes, in three areas: protected buildings, officers' positions and data related to sports teams players. At the end of the event, ~200 Wikidata-fed infoboxes and Wikidata items were improved and many Wikipedia editors edited Wikidata for the first time!
  • Upcoming events:
  • (Deutsch)[https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/events/40120/2368 Wikidata for Legal Historians] - Tue. 10 December, 3pm - 7pm (UTC+1). This presentation explores Wikidata as a key platform for LOD, explains its Semantic Web foundation, introduces FactGrid (a Wikidata-based platform for historical research). Highlights potential of both platforms using examples and encourages discussion for legal historical research. [https://plan.events.mpg.de/event/381/ Register here].
  • Today (09.12.2024) is the last chance to submit an Abstract for the Wikidata and Research conference (5 - 6 June 2025). If you are interested in participating, please review the submission acceptance format before submitting [https://openreview.net/group?id=wikimedia.it/Wikidata_and_Research/2025/Conference#tab-active-submissions here].

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://professional.wiki/en/news/mediawiki-users-and-developers-conference-2024-vienna MediaWiki Conference Highlights], featuring Wikibase talks including one by Christos Varvantakis and Jon Amar from Wikimedia Deutschland.
  • [https://professional.wiki/en/news/connecting-wikibase-and-semantic-mediawiki Semantic Wikibase 2024 Update]
  • [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241203748270/en/Wikimedia-Deutschland-Launches-AI-Knowledge-Project-in-Collaboration-with-DataStax-Built-with-NVIDIA-AI WMDE launches AI Knowledge project in collaboration with DataStax built with NVIDIA AI]
  • [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/12/07/ten-years-of-philippine-local-government-data-as-gift-to-wikidatas-12-year-anniversary/ Ten years of Philippine local Govt. data] for Wikidata's 12th Birthday. Read about SKAP's (Shared Knowledge Asia Pacific) efforts to add 10 years worth of financial data of local Government assets to Wikidata during a Datathon.
  • Papers
  • [https://zenodo.org/records/14313263 Developing an OCR - Wikibase Pipeline for Place Names in the RGTC Series] - introduces a semi-automated workflow for extracting and digitally storing geographically relevant information, including spatial relations and contextual details, from place names in the Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes. By Matthew Ong (2024).
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAJwmMrTF-M Wikibase4Research] - Kolja Bailly presents ways in which the Wikibase4Research tool by the TIB Open Science Lab supports researchers in dealing with Mediawiki software for knowledge bases such as Wikibase and facilitates better and FAIR Research Data Management. Includes a live demonstration and beginner-friendly instructions.

Tool of the week

  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cat-metrics CAT🐈: Metrics] computing simple metrics (number of labels, number of descriptions, number of sitelinks, number of statements) for item matching a simple claim.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Image_properties Template:Image properties] New template listing properties that link to images.
  • Let's Connect invites you to get involved in helping spread awareness and knowledge of Wikidata, potentially help organise a Wikidata Learning Clinic. Are you interested in participating? Please sign-up on this [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiea87tSYmB2-1XHn_u8RLe7efMJifJBzffIM-6rtpx0PWqw/viewform registration form].

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/CMYo Items missing Hungarian labels or description that are part of Library and Information Science (Q13420675)]
  • [https://w.wiki/CMZD Items from Maori Wikipedia missing English labels or descriptions]
  • [https://w.wiki/CMZL Instances of "Shopping Center" located in administrative territorial entity subclass of Norway]
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Nonprofit Organisations in Nigeria, Belgium and Italy.
  • WikiProject Highlights:
  • Rwanda - since its creation a couple of weeks ago, it has expanded greatly with new sections for Lists, Museums and Hospitals.
  • Newest database reports: Unauthorized Bots - A list of bots and their edits, operating without a Bot flag.
  • Showcase Items: Das Erste: A German public service television channel broadcasting for more than 70 years.
  • Showcase Lexemes: Kerzu (L8153) the Breton word for December, directly translates from "totally black", rather appropriate for the cold, dark last month of the year.

Development

Weekly Tasks

Wikidata weekly summary #658

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #657

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: PWSBot - Task(s): Is a selfmade chatbot to answer factual questions as part of a final research project for educational purposes.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: CarbonBot - Withdrawn by submitter

Events

Upcoming events:

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 17 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET ([https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1734454800 Time zone converter]) Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/LD4-WDAG_Lexicographical_Data_Series Etherpad] to help us prepare relevant materials for you. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/PHUQQWNZZGTPYLOGGII4HVUO63OA2MFZ/ 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - register now]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • [https://shex-validator.toolforge.org/packages/shex-webapp/doc/shex-simple.html Tabular Online Validator] - checks if SPARQL query results conform to a provided schema by validating data and highlighting potential errors, such as missing properties, invalid values, or too many values, with the option to refine the schema if issues arise. (A major update to the current ShEx validator that is expected to get integrated into the existing validator soon)
  • [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cat-overview-of-references CAT🐈: Overview if references]: looking at references for a set of Wikidata items

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://openrefine.org/blog/2024/11/25/openrefine-developer-role Now Hiring: OpenRefine Developer & Contributor Engagement]
  • The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) is launching the Entity Management Cooperative (EMCO) program in 2025, aiming to unify entity management across the semantic web, including registries like Wikidata. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/PB4QXF34D5TN63QXSL6I2YIG7BKPSUYF/ Volunteers, including those with prior experience in PCC’s ISNI or Wikidata pilots, are invited to join the Early Adopters Phase by January 17, 2025].
  • The Biodiversity Heritage Library Working Group has set up a page on Meta to coordinate contributions across projects, including Wikidata

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/4fKM World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade] (select decade on the right side)
  • [https://w.wiki/CS6f Timeline of inception of Ghanaian universities]
  • [https://w.wiki/3Sxm Most common name in Germany by year of birth]
  • WikiProject Highlights:
  • Chemistry/Elements
  • Taiwan/Truku - a compilation of information on the subject of Taroko culture, including statistics and records of activities.
  • Newest database reports: [https://w.wiki/CSEU Dagbani Lexemes with Glosses which are the same as the Lemma]
  • Showcase Items: Alice Through the Looking Glass (Q17485699) - 2016 film directed by James Bobin where now 22-year-old Alice comes across a magical looking glass that takes her back to Wonderland.
  • Showcase Lexemes: آب‌لرزه‌یاب (L744998) - Persian noun, translates to "hydro-seismometer"

Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We prototyped search support for the REST API and would like your feedback on it.
  • Property Suggestions: We updated the underlying data so you should have more up-to-date suggestions again when making new statements.
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by their label and aliases when linking to them in a statement.
  • Query Service: We are investigating if we can do something about the issue where not all edgeLabels are shown on a graph visualisation (phab:T381857) and if there are any alternatives to the library used for the graph builder in the Query Service (phab:T381764)
  • Under the hood: We are optimizing the server setup for the term store to accommodate its growth (phab:T351802)

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].

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· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:57, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #659

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #658

Discussions

Events

  • Ongoing: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AATBE57724357T7QC6EAXNGO2KKBJRDE/ Wikidata Cleanup 2024] - Romaine continues his initiative, "Wikidata Cleanup," to coordinate community efforts in addressing the problem of items missing basic properties during the last ten days of 2024, when many users have extra time due to holidays. The aim is to improve data quality by focusing on ensuring all items have essential properties like "instance of" (P31) or "subclass of" (P279), adding relevant country and location data, and maintaining consistency within item series.
  • Upcoming events: Data Reuse Days - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program on the talk page until January 12th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://www.calishat.com/2024/12/16/exploring-youtube-channels-via-wikidata/ Exploring YouTube Channels Via Wikidata], by Tara Calishain. "This time I'm playing with a way to browse YouTube channels while using Wikidata as context. And you can try it too, because it doesn't need any API keys!"
  • [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/754 Wikidata Items "described at URL" domain ranked list], by Magnus Manske
  • Papers: [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111082486-003/html Finding Female Film Editors in Wikidata: How to Query and Visualize Filmographic Records]
  • Videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7sK-nFiRbM How to link a Wikipedia article to Wikidata] (Spanish)

Tool of the week

  • [https://ordia.toolforge.org/flying-dehyphenator/ Flying Dehyphenator] is an Ordia game. Given the start part of a word, use the spacebar to move the word and hit the next part of the word. Only hyphenations described with the Unicode hyphenation character work.
  • Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? [https://wikipediayir.netlify.app Wiki Year In Review] has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikibase/Suite-Contributing-Guide: Wikibase Suite's contributing guide has been published. This guide aims to help anyone who wants to contribute and make sure they are equipped with all the relevant information to do so.

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You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/CVwB Countries that have had a woman serving as Minister of Defense]
  • [https://w.wiki/CUKR Leonardo DiCaprio's partners] ([https://x.com/Michal_J_Spacek/status/1870053341436223745 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/CGYX Countries that have most items with Mastodon or PeerTube (ActivityPub) social networks] ([https://wikis.world/redirect/statuses/113582298631341475 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/CVwi Olympians who died during the year 2024] (source)
  • WikiProject Highlights: Nonprofit Organizations/Japan
  • Newest database reports: [https://w.wiki/CVtd Items with a sitelink to Dutch Wikipedia and have no P31 and/or P279] ([https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AATBE57724357T7QC6EAXNGO2KKBJRDE/ source]) (replace 2x the "nl" into the language code of your language)
  • Showcase Items: Boeing (Q66) - American global aerospace and defense corporation
  • Showcase Lexemes: julehilsen - Christmas greeting in Danish

Development

  • With the winter holidays upon us, the development team is taking a break, and there will be no deployments for Wikidata during this time.

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].

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· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Weekly Summary #660

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #659

Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year! 🎉 Each of your contributions, whether big or small, has made a difference and has helped us create a vibrant and informative resource for the Wikidata community. 🙏 Let's continue building and sharing knowledge together in the coming year! 🙌✨

Discussions

  • Open request for oversight: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Papers
  • [https://doi.org/10.5282/o-bib/6081 Library Data in Wikimedia Projects: Case Study from the Czech Republic] by Jansová, L., Maixnerová, L., & Š´tastná, P. (2024). "The paper outlines the collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic and Wikimedia since 2006, focusing on linking authority records with Wikipedia articles and training librarians and users. By 2023, the National Library provided most of its databases under a CC0 license, launched a "Wikimedians in Residence" program, and collaborated on projects involving linked data and using authority records in Wikidata. This partnership has enhanced their cooperation for mutual benefit, identifying key factors for their successful long-term collaboration."
  • [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2024.2431798 How have you modelled my gender? Reconstructing the history of gender representation in Wikidata] by Melis, B., Fioravanti, M., Paolini, C., & Metilli, D. (2024). "The paper traces the evolution of gender representation in Wikidata, showing how the community has moved from a binary interpretation of gender to a more inclusive model for trans and non-binary identities. The Wikidata Gender Diversity project (WiGeDi) timeline highlights the significant changes influenced by external historical events and the community's increased understanding of gender complexity."
  • Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTkF1Y5sOPY part 1], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fpWNtyO9Qg part 2]) by Saeed Habishan. "The Wikibase-CLI enables command-based interaction with Wikidata using shell scripts and JavaScript. The tool runs on NodeJS and enables automatic reading and editing of Wikidata."

Tool of the week

  • [https://github.com/lubianat/wikiora WikiORA] - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Wikipedia, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/CZYW trees of motifs described in Thompson's motif index (first two levels)]
  • [https://w.wiki/CZ$T Think tanks by country] ([https://x.com/AlexHinojo/status/1873636409262670255 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/Ca5f Painters that have died before 1925 but do not have a Wikimedia Commons category on their Wikidata Item] ([https://wikis.world/@magnusmanske/113583435538294677 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects: Uganda - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organisational, etc...) relating to Uganda (Q1036)
  • WikiProject Highlights:
  • Narration/Folktales - creation of Items for motifs described in Thompson's motif index completed
  • Austria - concerns itself with improving data from nonprofit organizations in Austria
  • Newest database reports: Deleted Wikidata entities used in SDC
  • Showcase Items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764) - late 14th-century quadrangular castle in East Yorkshire, England, UK
  • Showcase Lexemes: ਲੇਟਣ (L750580) - in Punjabi (pa) and "لیٹݨ" in Punjabi Shahmukhi (pnb) transliterate to "Leṭaṇ," which means "to lie down" or "to rest" in English.

Development

  • Most of the development team staff are still taking a break, so no development happened.

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #661

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #660

Discussions

  • New request for comments: Constraints for Germanies - Following from a property discussion on P17 (German non-states), this RfC aims to find consensus on how to apply constraints that exclude items of historical periods in German history.

Upcoming events

  • [https://wikimedia.pt/eventos/oficina-lexicografia-e-sustentabilidade-linguistica-documentacao-do-mirandes-com-recurso-a-wikidata/ Workshop: Lexicography and linguistic sustainability - Mirandese documentation using Wikidata] This Portuguese-language workshop takes place Thursday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00, Room 208, 206 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
  • Please submit your proposals for the Data Reuse Days online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the talk page and here's some ideas to inspire you: presentations/demos of tools using Wikidata's data (10mins Lightning Talk presentations), discussions and presentations connecting Wikidata editors with reusers and/or explanations and demos on how to use a specific part of the technical infrastructure to reuse Wikidata's data (APIs, dumps, etc.).
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AXIS6LCWODKBHKBBA26KTLZ2BESHWSFA/ Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team --January 8, 2025]. The Search Platform Team holds monthly meetings to discuss anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (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.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/H266YWDOBVUZ3OMANPP7N7BLDHWDAO4N/ Wiki Workshop 2025 Announcement and Call for Papers]. Submission deadline: March 9, 2025 (23:59 AoE)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: (fr) [https://george2etexte.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/autrices-au-pseudonyme-masculin/ female authors with male pseudonyms], blog post by Le Deuxième Texte including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
  • Websites :[https://matlaofmalta.github.io/PRA3006/ Global Dementia and Risk Factors], website by 'Students at the Maastricht Science Programme', includes data visualizations of the prevalence and current treatments of dementia across the world. It utilises data extracted as SPARQL Endpoints from Wikidata.
  • Papers
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20942 Ontology-grounded Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction by LLM under Wikidata schema] - This paper proposes an ontology-driven approach to KG construction using LLMs where competency questions guide ontology creation and relation extraction, leveraging Wikidata for semantic consistency. A scalable pipeline minimizes human effort while producing high-quality, interpretable KGs interoperable with Wikidata for knowledge base expansion. By Xiaohan Feng, Xixin Wu & Helen Meng (2024).
  • [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-6995-7_39 Knowledge Incorporated Image Question Answering Using Wikidata Repository] - Proposes a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model that integrates external knowledge from Wikidata to address complex open-domain questions by combining image, question, and knowledge modalities. Evaluated on the VQAv2 dataset, the model outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches, demonstrating improved reasoning and accuracy (Koshti et al., 2024).
  • Videos: (arabic) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbuks8jCyGw Part 6: SPARQL Demo Session: connecting external services] - Sparql SERVICE clause gives access to additional data such as labels via wikibase:label, interaction with MediaWiki APIs using wikibase:mwapi, and integration of data from subgraphs (such as the main graph and the scholarly articles graph). Integration of data from external SPARQL endpoints such as DBpedia.

Tool of the week

  • [https://github.com/thadguidry/wikidata-entity-linker Wikidata Entity Linker] - is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that creates web links for matching inner HTML text based on a regex format of Q\d+ which is the format of a Wikidata Entity ID. ([https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SEM4F3VBD3SJ5URR3VXRP26FGO2LSOGN/ email])

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/karriere/stellenportal/detail/job/show/Job/research-software-engineer-wikibase-expertin-mwd Vacancy: Research Software Engineer / Wikibase-Expert] - The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) located in Hannover has a research position open for someone interested in the deployment, administration and maintenance of open source knowledge management software such as Mediawiki, Wikibase and OpenRefine as part of the NFDI4Culture partnership within the OSL.
  • January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. Sandra has shared helpful notes to assist in making these films discoverable via WikiFlix, by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

  • The development team is just settling back in after the holidays, so there haven’t been any significant updates yet.

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #662

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #661

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (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.
  • [https://m.facebook.com/ActivatingBotswana/photos/-join-the-wikidata-bw-2025-training-contest-date-saturday-18012025-time-1000-am-/603821475632432/ Join the Wikidata Training Event 2025] organised by Wikimedia Botswana UG for Wikidata enthusiasts of all levels. Starts 18 Jan 10:00am CAT (UTC+2), registration required.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • Updates on the Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Biodiversity Heritage Library focusing on Structured Data on Commons and Wikidata
  • Wikidata module for the Hidden Figures CURE - The newly published Wikidata module for the Hidden Figures CURE teaches undergraduates to use Wikidata for uncovering and highlighting the contributions of hidden figures in natural history, such as women, people of color, and Indigenous peoples.
  • Memory of the World: Ways forward - Efforts to improve the representation of UNESCO's Memory of the World (MOW) international register on Wikidata include new articles, enhanced data quality, and training on creating structured data. Key contributions involve updating Wikipedia and Wikidata entries, addressing data inconsistencies, and expanding the visibility of MOW inscriptions across languages.
  • Empowering Multilingual Knowledge: The Journey Behind the 1-Click-Info Extension Powered by Wikidata - Introduces the 1-Click Data extension for your browser. A project funded by the Arcadia grant through Wikimedia Deutschland and fiscally sponsored by the Dagbani Wikimedians user group.
  • [https://wikimedia.cat/2025/01/09/visibilitzacio-del-domini-public-a-wikidata/ Public domain visibility on Wikidata] (in Catalan). The article discusses how Wikidata is being used to enhance the visibility of public domain works by integrating copyright information and making it easily accessible.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U2TDZCGBs8 Tracking Looted Art with Graphs, Graphs and Networks in the Humanities 2022 Conference]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hBerusj198 How Wikimedia Uses AI to Vectorize its Knowledge Base]
  • Presentations: Wikibase e Wikidata per lo studio dell'epigrafia greca (in Italian, i.e. Wikibase and Wikidata for the study of Greek epigraphy), presentation at SAEG (Advanced Seminar of Greek Epigraphy) IX in Rome, 10 January 2025, by Pietro Ortimini, Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini, Epìdosis - slides

Tool of the week

  • [https://www.johl.io/dungeonofknowledge/roguelike.html Dungeon Of Knowledge] - is a roguelike game with Items generated from Wikidata that lets you crawl through the Dungeon of Knowledge in a classic ASCII interface. ([https://wikis.world/@johl@mastodon.xyz/113537541434127802 toot]) ([https://www.johl.io/dungeonofknowledge/ blog])

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Zita Ursula Zage has joined the [https://www.wikimedia.de/ueber-uns/ansprechpartner_innen/ Software Communication team] (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of June 2025. Welcome Zita!
  • [https://viaf.org/ VIAF] (cf. Q54919 and P214) underwent a relevant change of interface on January 10; the way of visualizing clusters in JSON format has changed in comparison with [https://www.oclc.org/developer/api/oclc-apis/viaf/authority-cluster.en.html present OCLC documentation] and e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/102333412/viaf.json doesn't work anymore; this broke most or all Wikidata gadgets using VIAF data; in the absence of official communications from OCLC, developers are trying to understand if the new VIAF interface is stable before changing their gadgets accordingly

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

  • Wikidata Query Service UI: We fixed a long-standing issue with missing edge labels in graph visualisations (phab:T317702)
  • Wikibase REST API: We implemented a proof of concept for a search endpoint you can try out.
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on language fallback for the heading on EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
  • Language codes: We cleaned up language codes in WikibaseLexeme after moving some of them to CLDR (phab:T352922)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #663

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #662

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Xezbeth - RfP scheduled to end after 26 January 2025 09:17 (UTC).

Events

  • Upcoming:
  • [https://calendar.colorado.edu/event/black-history-month-wikidata-comics-edit-a-thon Edit-A-Thon for Black History Month]: 12 February 1300 - 1500 MST (UTC+7) is an onsite event at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a theme to add or expand items on Black and African-American comics creators.
  • Data Reuse Days 2025 is from February 18 to 27, 2025! This is an online event focusing on how people and organizations use Wikidata's data to build interesting applications and tools. Don't forget to register so we can know you are coming.
  • Past: Missed the Q1 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-01-15 (Q1 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: [https://blog.rayberger.org/cleaning-up-legacy-wikipedia-links Cleaning up legacy Wikipedia links in Open Library]: The blog post discusses cleaning up outdated Wikipedia links to improve article accuracy and navigation, while highlighting the importance of integrating Wikidata for better data management.
  • Papers
  • [https://doi.org/10.36253/jlis.it-630 Tiziana Possemato, Recording Gender in the Person Entity: An Ongoing Discussion]: it compares the practices of gender-registration of person-type entities in LCNAF and ISNI with the use of P21 in Wikidata. By Ray Berger
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06699v1 Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs and Search Engines - A Crossroads for Answering Users' Questions]: this paper seeks to establish a taxonomy of user information needs to help establish a roadmap of future research for finding synergies between LLM's, Search engines and Knowledge graphs. By Hogan et al., (2025)
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQRKMWFK5yE Replacing deprecated Wikipedia links with Wikidata items in Open Library]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjrDTHdsWOo&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D Tracking Looted Art with Wikidata Queries] - As part of Art History Loves Wiki 25, Laurel Zuckerman will show how Wikidata SPARQL queries can aid provenance researchers and historians find, identify and track looted art.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnAp7oovlg OpenStreetMap and Wikidata in Disaster Times]: Ormat Murat Yilmaz will speak on how Wikidata and OSM play a role in coordinating relief efforts by providing a collaborative platform for providing data about affected areas. Part of WM CEE meeting 2024 Istanbul.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMDO5ZMYyLg&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D Serbian Novels on Wikidata]: Presented by Filip Maljkovič on the progress and process of adding Serbian literature into Wikidata, using OCR methods to map pages and assign Properties.
  • (german)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL7cj6h6YZk Wikidata for NGOs: Use and network open data sensibly]: Johan Hoelderle discusses how nonprofits can benefit from the largest free knowledge base and show what potential open data offers for non-profit projects.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khj5jIOeKHE Data partnerships and Libraries combating misinformation]: WMDE's Alan Ang delivers a speech on how GLAM institutions can help prevent the spread of dis- and misinformation whether hallucinatory AI or malicious, part of the Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025.

Tool of the week

  • [https://fist.toolforge.org/file_candidates/#/ Wikidata file candidates📱] - This tool can show you candidate matches of Wikidata Items to files on Commons and Flickr. ([http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/509 original blog])

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/3.9-beta1 OpenRefine 3.9-beta1 was released]
  • [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/50824818/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=179781902&l=en Product Manager: Wikibase Suite]: Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a PM to lead Wikibase Suite, empowering institutions like GLAMs and research groups to build customizable linked knowledge bases and contribute to the world’s largest open data graph.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/CnZG Most common eponyms] (a name or noun formed after a person)
  • [https://w.wiki/FRz Number of Lexemes including recordings from Lingua Libre by language]
  • [https://w.wiki/CnZP Boiling point of alkanes] (source)
  • [https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/APjvLNGJSiKismGqMmYUogq6Ieq6qgkAcSc8M2AYsKw Train station in Germany without image] (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject IIT aims to describe current and former IIT faculty members. The following property schema is based on a similar schema found at WikiProject IUPUI University Library
  • WikiProject Highlights: Sum of all paintings/Historic collections - keep track of historic collections as part of the provenance of paintings
  • Newest database reports: [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/project_stats.php Links per language]
  • Showcase Items: 4 Vesta (Q3030) - second largest asteroid of the main asteroid belt
  • Showcase Lexemes: L347296 - Tamil noun that can mean "priest", "teacher" or "preceptor"

Development

  • mul language code: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/CEANO2X2PMFMEBFY6ZTCUUYR4P6O54CD/ The "mul" language code for labels, descriptions and aliases will be fully enabled on #Wikidata starting 28th Jan!]
  • Constraint violations:
  • We’re making good progress on checking format constraints more efficiently and with fewer errors (T380751)
  • We’re working on making distinct-values constraint checks works with the split Query Service (T369079)
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on making the heading on EntitySchema pages apply language fallback (T228423)
  • Search: We’ve started working on the new search UI component which will let you search for additional entity types from the main search bar and not just Items anymore (T338483)
  • Wikibase REST API: We're working on adding search to the API (T383209)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #664

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #663

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: Xezbeth (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/UYJB44NLH4SEB6QC4LDTL6T6OG3H3C7L/ Call for Proposals: IslandoraCon 2025]. "IslandoraCon brings together a community of librarians, archivists, cultural heritage collections managers, technologists, developers, project managers, and open source project enthusiasts in support of the Islandora framework for digital curation and asset management." Deadline for session proposals: February 14, 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: [http://simia.net/wiki/Progress_in_lexicographic_data_in_Wikidata_2024 Progress in lexicographic data in Wikidata 2024] by Denny Vrandečić. See also
  • [http://simia.net/wiki/Languages_with_the_best_lexicographic_data_coverage_in_Wikidata_2024 Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2024]
  • [http://simia.net/wiki/Wikidata_lexicographic_data_coverage_for_Croatian_in_2024 Wikidata lexicographic data coverage for Croatian in 2024]
  • Videos
  • (replay) [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs-DUSOdPkl7GiF6yPQH8vYhr8trSEY-s Arabic Wikidata Days 2024] full playlist
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faUAEZBf7dA NYC Parks on Wikidata] (Wikipedia Day NYC 22nd Birthday Bash)
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znuP1Rp_YZc From books to Bytes (10): Factgrid. A Wikibase instance for historical data]

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • As part of an effort to benchmark open source SPARQL engines on Wikidata, the page Wikidata:Scaling Wikidata/Benchmarking/Existing Benchmarks contains some initial results and analyses of benchmarking Blazegraph, MilleniumDB, QLever, and Virtuoso on several existing SPARQL query benchmarks for Wikidata. There are some surprising results there, particularly related to different answers produced by different engines. Suggestions on how to improve the effort or provide deeper explanations of the results are particularly welcome on the discussion page.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

  • Storage growth: We are making some changes to the terms-related database table in order to scale better (phab:T351802)
  • Constraint violations: We’re working on making distinct-values constraint checks works with the split Query Service (phab:T369079)
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on making the heading on EntitySchema pages apply language fallback (phab:T228423)
  • Search: We are working on the new search UI component which will let you search for additional entity types from the main search bar and not just Items anymore (phab:T338483)
  • Wikibase REST API: We're continuing the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383209)
  • Lua: We are investigating if we can increase the Entity Usage Limit on client pages (phab:T381098)

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].

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Weekly Summary #665

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-02-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #664

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • We are excited to reveal WikidataCon 2025 will be returning this year, keep an eye on the project page for more details to come, and block your calendar for October 31 - November 2.
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! The next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, 4 February, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1738688400 Time Zone Converter] Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The first session will focus on selling your project to administrators.
  • Wikidata Indonesia is holding a [https://www.instagram.com/p/DFhh69fv7qg/ Datathon] (February 5 - 7) and [https://www.instagram.com/p/DFekzK5PCzE/ Quiz] (January 31 - February 7), take part!
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #73 February 10 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Taipei {{Q|61752245}}
  • Data Reuse Days, February 18-27: online event dedicated to the applications using Wikidata's data and their technical setup. A first version of the program is now available. Make sure to register to receive the event's access links.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/DULCWTDLOMIRQYLBPSIVZZXDGTX7ZLMJ/ Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team - February 12].Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
  • [https://events.illinoisstate.edu/event/why-wikidata-introduction-and-edit-a-thon/ Why Wikidata? and edit-a-thon] hosted by Illinois State University on February 4, 1400 - 1600 CST (UTC-6). Eric Willey and Rebecca Fitzsimmons will hold a hands-on demonstration of Wikidata, at the Milner Library, ISU (Room 165).
  • Past Events
  • Wikidata Workshop Jan 2025 - Hosted by Wikimedia Canada, this workshop offered 2 sessions for English and French-speaking attendees. Subjects covered include the basics of Wikidata, intro to editing, linking photos to Commons and how to query Wikidata. The workshop took place 30 January 01:00 - 03:00 UTC.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • Bob duCharme, author of Learning SPARQL posts a blog entry on [https://www.bobdc.com/blog/filterforeignliterals/ filtering (only) foreign labels] from a SPARQL query, using the WDQS to illustrate their example.
  • (german)[https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/abitech-2025-0011/html How does library work in the Wikiverse affect the use of your own holdings?] - Wikidata enthusiast Christian Erlinger explores in this article how GLAM institutions measure their contributions to the Wikiverse and how Wikidata items and sitelinking contribute to their connectedness.
  • Papers
  • [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-78952-6_48 Towards a Sustainable Community-Driven Documentation of Semantic Web Tools] A Wikidata-based toolkit to help knowledge engineers and developers find and document semantic web tools by categorizing them into a taxonomy and integrating GitHub metadata to track their maintenance status. By A. Reiz, F.J. Ekaputra & N. Mihindukulasooriya (2025).
  • From Open Collaboration to Customized Control - Transitioning from Wikidata to Wikibase by John Samuel at FOSDEM 2025 (Track: Collaboration and Content Management) on February 1, 2025.
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-q8vgVOrQM Biodiversity Heritage Library Creator IDs on Wikidata via Mix'n'match] - Tiago Lubiana will demonstrate the workflow of Mix'n'Match curation and adding BHL Creator ID's to Wikidata.
  • (arabic)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zmFylVYalc OpenRefine and QuickStatements] - In this 2nd session of the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, advanced skills of OR such as improving and importing tabular data. QS will also be demonstrated and how it simplifies adding and editing Wikidata. Presented by Professor Qais Shraideh.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v82D_Q2MFVk Resource, Description & Access & STA] - Michaela Edelmann introduces the cataloging platform that runs on Wikibase for the German-speaking DACH countries.
  • (Czech) 25th Annual Conference: National Archives of Czech Republic had 2 segments for Wikibases: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssngihJCnQ&t=2098s Wikibase for Welsh Authority Control] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssngihJCnQ&t=2896s Wikibase: a tool for creating/sharing LOD]
  • Presentations
  • [https://zenodo.org/records/14755184 New developments of Wikibase-as-a-Service] at the Open Science Lab (part of NFDI4Culture). Presented at Art Loves History Wiki Conference, it shows developments to the WB software suite.

Tool of the week

  • [https://holonetgalacticmap-frontend.vercel.app/ Holonet Galactic Map] - Explore information and facts of the planets that inhabit the Star Wars universe, powered by Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • ⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: The graph split is about 2 months away. If you are doing queries that involve scholarly articles or if you have an application that does you will be affected. Please check d:Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split for details.
  • We (Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Egezort) want to run a course on the Wikidata Ontology for a limited number of participants. Designed for those already familiar with Wikidata, it will present information about ontologies and how they form the core of Wikidata, incorporating several exercises on analyses of and fixes to the Wikidata ontology. Upon successful completion (ending with a group project in consultation by us), participants will receive certificates. Please give feedback and suggestions to improve the structure and course content (found in more detail at WikiProject:Ontology Course) which will be incorporated into our Wikimedia rapid grant application to support the effort. Interested in helping or want to share your thoughts? Let us know.
  • Several database changes will impact Wikidata in the coming months, including the migration of the term store (wbt_ tables) to a dedicated cluster to improve performance and enable future growth. This move will speed up most Wikidata SQL queries but prevent direct joins between term store data and other Wikidata tables. Additionally, the wb_type table will be removed, with its mapping hardcoded in Wikibase, simplifying the codebase. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/7AMRB7G4CZ6BBOILAA6PK4QX44MUAHT4/ More details].
  • Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2025! Deadline: February 28th. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GQWJNAPQFXZRW2KN4AO3OV5YMVMO6SNQ/ More info]!
  • [https://www.wikimedia.de/presse/europaeischer-open-source-award-fuer-lydia-pintscher-auszeichnung-fuer-ihren-beitrag-zu-wikidata/ Lydia Pintscher awarded the] European Open Source Award - Wikidata Portfolio Manager for WMDE, Lydia's contributions to the development of Wikidata have been recognised in the category of Advocacy and Awareness.

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Development

  • Storage growth: We are continuing to make some changes to the terms-related database table in order to scale better (phab:T351802)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to work on bringing search to the REST API (phab:T383126)
  • mul language code: Support for the language code has been rolled out fully
  • EntitySchemas: We finished adding language fallback to the heading of EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
  • Sitelinks: Fixed a bug that prevented linking Wikidata Items from Wikipedias (phab:T385261)
  • Scoped search: We continued working on improving the main search field on Wikidata in order to allow you to search for Properties, Lexemes, etc more easily with it (phab:T321543)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #666

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-02-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #665

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • TiagoLubianaBot 5 - Task(s): Add image or reference illustration based on categories for botanical illustrations on Wikimedia Commons. Only add when only 1 or 2 files in category.
  • Sapper Bot - Task(s): Daily updates the Sea of Galilee's elevation above sea level based on official government data.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: MangadexBot - Task(s): add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID - closed as relevant Property has been deprecated and marked for deletion.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • Data Reuse Days, starting on February 18th. Check out the program and don't forget to register on wiki to receive the access link.
  • [https://calendar.library.torontomu.ca/event/3855376 Whose (Wiki)Data is it anyway?] - Ethics & Consent when cataloguing people, places and things. An on-site Library workshop of the Toronto Metropolitan University, February 12, 1200 - 1600 EST (UTC-5).
  • [https://calendar.colorado.edu/event/black-history-month-wikidata-comics-edit-a-thon Comics Edit-A-Thon for Black History month], hosted by the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship of the University of Colorado (onsite only & registration required). February 12, 1300 - 1500 MST (UTC-7).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://www.daniel-motz.de/articles/query-by-graph Making SPARQL more accessible]: Daniel Motz's bachelor's thesis on visual query graphs, check out their project in Tool of the Week
  • [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2025/02/05/glam-rockers/ GLAM Rockers: an interview with the creators of GLAMorous Europe] - Anne Mühlich and Gerd Müller speak about their project [https://www.glam-europe.de/ GLAMorous Europe] which uses Wikidata to enrich the digital art collection.
  • [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2025/02/10/preserving-community-history-with-wikibase/ Preserving Community History with Wikibase] - Tan Li Qi of MyCommunity, a Singaporean nonprofit dedicated to preserving the stories of everyday people by documenting community narratives, social memories, and local heritage.
  • [https://sites.harvard.edu/harvard-library-circ/2025/02/03/wikidata-edit-a-thon-for-the-black-teacher-archive/ Wikidata Edit-A-Thon for Black Teacher archive] by the Harvard Library University. A write-up of the event which saw more than 400 items edited.
  • Project Chat - join the discussion
  • Should Wikidata trainers be certified?

Tool of the week

  • [https://query.daniel-motz.de/ Query by Graph] - build a SPARQL query using drag'n'drop visual elements. This is an interesting tool that provides another way to approach building SPARQL queries, especially for those that find the Query builder or raw SPARQL unintuitive or complex.
  • [https://cividata.org/en/ CivData] - "Cividata makes the diverse world of non-profit organizations visible. As a volunteer project, Cividata provides a comprehensive overview of non-profit organizations worldwide, based on data from Wikipedia's sister project Wikidata."

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Creation of the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee - Call for candidates ends February 25, midnight (AOE).
    The interim GDRC is being established to oversee and adjust resource distribution for the Community Fund, aligning with the movement's evolving needs. Currently open to applications from candidates with experience in grantmaking, budgeting and knowledge of Wikimedia's grant types. Further information on the role and how to apply can be found on the GDRC Meta page
  • [https://www.curationist.org/news/curationist-is-seeking-a-part-time-remote-digital-archivist Curationist seeks Digital Archivist] - Curationist, a free online resource for cultural heritage seeks a part-time archiver who can navigate Wikidata, SPARQL and create metadata and support writers.
  • For the upcoming Wikidata and Research conference in July, the [https://openreview.net/group?id=wikimedia.it/Wikidata_and_Research/2025/Conference&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)#tab-accept-paper list of accepted papers] has been posted.

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Development

  • Search in the UI: We continued the work on adding a search UI that lets you search in Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas more easily (phab:T338483)
  • Search in the API: We are continuing our work on search in the REST API (phab:T383126)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #667

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-02-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #666

Discussions

  • Open request for CheckUser: Lymantria (RfP scheduled to end at 19 February 2025 04:22 UTC)
  • New request for comments: Anna's Archive - The RFC is about whether Wikidata should import and store metadata from Anna's Archive, considering legal, copyright, and technical challenges.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://addshore.com/2025/02/visualizing-wikibase-ecosystem-using-wikibase-world/ Visualising the Wikibase ecosystem using Wikibase World] by Addshore
  • Wikipedia Recognized as a Digital Public Good
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfpEYXb2WI From Open Collaboration to Customized Control: Transitioning from Wikidata to Wikibase]. Presented by John Samuel, this talk explores Wikibase, a self-hosted platform that brings the power of Wikidata to your own infrastructure.
  • (Ukranian) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROuOz8gxMoU The Role of Wikidata in the development of the Crimean Tatar Wikipedia]. This talk discusses how Wikidata has been used to support populating a small language Wikipedia with content.
  • (Portuguese) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gw0Wdh6CNQ Mapping etymology on OpenStreetMaps with Wikidata] Tiago Lubjana demonstrates how to map etymology in OpenStreetMaps with Wikidata, using the streets of the Butantanã Institute as an example.
  • Podcasts: Between The Brackets Episode 173: [https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-173-adam-shorland-tom-arrow-and-ollie-hyde Adam Shorland, Tom Arrow and Ollie Hyde]

Tool of the week

  • [https://rstockm.github.io/fedipol/index.html Fedipol] (Fediverse Activity Tracker) is a Wikidata-based tool used for tracking activity and analyzing accounts related to German political parties, institutions, and instances on the Fediverse.
  • [https://openrefine.org/blog/2025/02/13/version-3-9-0 OpenRefine 3.9.0 was released]

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/N4RKFU6DYVJFJ3PIS3PEGKH7YJSRLRVJ/ Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 30 is open!] The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is March 4, 2025 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by March 14, 2025.

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Development

  • Search: We are continuing the work on the improved search that lets you limit your search more easily to other entity types besides Items like Lexemes and Properties (phab:T321543)
  • RDF: We are working on aligning the RDF export to the Query Service prefixes (phab:T384344)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #668

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-02-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #667

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Videos:
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHhcBIFQAM Live Wikidata Editing] - User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 return for a Wikidata live edit session for Data Reuse Days.
  • (Czech) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TMYlp9NlMU Wikibase as a tool for database operation in a memory institution] Linda Jansová presents this session on Wikibase (first streamed 9 November, 2024) at the 13th Wikiconference 2024, hosted by WM Česká republika.
  • Podcasts: [https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/civichackerpodcast/episodes/Using-Wikidata-to-Connect-Constituents-With-Their-Government-e1or922/a-a963q1t Using Wikidata to connect constituents with their government] - User:Ainali (Co-founder of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development discusses their knowledge about Wikidata and how it underpins Govdirectory, their vision for the future impact of Wikidata.

Tool of the week

  • The [https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/wikidata-diff-analyzer WikidataDiffAnalyzer] is a Ruby gem designed to parse and analyze differences between Wikidata revisions, providing detailed statistics on changes to claims, labels, descriptions, aliases, site links, and more, while also supporting analysis of merges, redirects, and other edit types.
  • [https://rstockm.github.io/fedipol/index.html German Political parties and politicians tracked on the Fediverse] - Powered by Wikidata, this Fediverse tracker aggregates social media links to official channels of German politicians. ([https://chaos.social/@rstockm/113982039705706466 toot])

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/53795746/Senior-UX-Designer-Wikidata-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=191749381&l=en Job Vacancy: Senior UX Designer for Wikidata] - If you have a passion for UX design and open and free knowledge, please consider applying!
  • [Wikibase] [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/YCM3S7ZOJL6JL3BFHOM4ILWQ4PDR42LW/ Bug Fixes: Wikibase Suite Deploy 1.0.2, 3.0.4, Wikibase 1.0.2, 3.0.3]

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  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/DBhe Show missing alias when they exist as another gendered form]
  • [https://w.wiki/DACK Items with Human Settlement, but lack a Country]
  • [https://w.wiki/DByA Image gallery of works by William Hogarth] (source)
  • [https://w.wiki/DC7Q Objects in Sri Lanka] (differentiated by different color icons) (source)
  • [https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/O3WoHEep4y0uC2cwkYkIq8WOIQKqEEqo6IkmAkUAEa8 Find a certain edit summary in page history] (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Puerto Rican Cultural Heritage - serves as a central hub for various initiatives highlighting Puerto Ricans and Puerto Rican culture in Wikidata
  • Newest database reports: SPARQL: Federation report - Check the status of different SPARQL endpoints.
  • Showcase Items: The Incredible Hulk (Q466611) - 2008 superhero film directed by Louis Leterrier
  • Showcase Lexemes: år (L743600) - Nynorsk noun that can mean "a vein", "road", "talent", "an ore", "insect wing part" or "small stripe with a different colour from its surroundings."

Development

  • Hosting the Data Reuse Days
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on a search endpoint for the API (phab:T383126)
  • Search: We are continuing to work on the search field that lets you search other entity types as well and not just Items (phab:T321543
  • Mobile editing: We are designing prototypes for first testing sessions

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.
  • Govdirectory weekly focus country: Uganda
  • 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 [[d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next|write the next summary!]

Wikidata weekly summary #669

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #668

Discussions

  • Other: Email Chain [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/JPY7EHO7ANRYAY7ATDZ6GR3NT2VWCU22/ "Elephant in the room"] - discussing the large number of Wikidata Items lacking Statements, Sitelinks or Labels/Descriptions.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • All the information you need to start working on your Wikimania 2025 program submissions is now available on the Wiki. Deadline: March 31 st, Anywhere on Earth.
  • New Wikidata Event! The upcoming "Wikidata and Sister Projects" event (May 29–June 1) is looking for speakers to share how Wikidata connects with other Wikimedia projects - if you are interested, request more info or submit your session idea here.
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1741107600 Time Zone Converter] Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The third session will focus on making the most of your time and work. Event page.
  • [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-and-wikibase-curriculum-transformation-in-the-digital-humanities-tickets-1247440079859 Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities] - Join for 4 free talks showcasing how linked open data can support teaching, research and collections. March 5, 1500 - 1700 GMT (UTC-0).
  • Wiki Workshop 2025 CfP - Call for Papers (Submission deadline: March 9)
  • Open Data Day Taiwan 2025 March 9 Time: 09:30-17:30 UTC+8 at Taipei Humanities Building (Q122750631)
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/U752LT3K7ZRDD6WLBB6T4IJSGH3LVQSE/ Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon 2025 - Registration & Scholarship Now Open]. Date: 28th - 30th March 2025. Who Can Participate? African developers, Wikimedia contributors, and anyone interested in Wikimedia projects.
  • Ongoing:
  • Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 - annual global contest aimed at documenting and sharing the diverse customs and traditions observed during the month of Ramadan. Date: 25 February 2025 – 16 April 2025. Register here!
  • Items with P31 (instance of) = human settlement without a country has dropped from 7600 to below 4600 Items. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/SNG4X263GJBGFNKY5LX2WDD7KU3IICQI/ You can help to get it even lower].
  • Wikidata & OpenStreetMap Datathon & Mapathon as part of International Open Data Day 2025 from 1st - 15th March 2025 by WikiProject India (Q11037573).
  • Past events: Data Reuse Days 2025: you can watch the sessions that you missed at your own pace.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/24/uk-universities-educate-the-most-national-leaders-globally-analysis-shows UK universities educate the most national leaders globally], analysis (based on Wikidata) shows. By The Guardian
  • Two Wikimedians-in-Residence appointed to increase Maltese literature representation on Wikipedia and Wikidata [https://timesofmalta.com/article/national-book-council-appoints-wikimediansinresidence.1105754 Times of Malta]
  • Videos
  • (French) PasseGares: Bug fixes and data imports from Wikidata [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNhmxBAryys YouTube]
  • Adding Wikidata label and descriptions, from the Wali Language Art+Feminism Editathon (Ghana 2025) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7trmWUXv0 YouTube]
  • Workshop showcasing QuickStatements 3.0! Learn how this updated tool streamlines your workflow and discover new features. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHqyRynWGvQ YouTube]
  • Contributing to Wikidata 101, a series of demonstrations organised by WM Community UG Uganda [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zo8Z3_vqvM Part 1], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c59Z2tpEsuU Part 2], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTWs5fCyok8 Part 3]
  • Optimize SPARQL queries to avoid timeouts: Efficiently count entities sharing values [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksj8n4IyOqQ YouTube]
  • Data Reuse Days [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejMPb2P_3XWnLH4K14f7wGRd playlist] and live-editing session with User:Ainali and User:Abbe98 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoRjMUP95x4 YouTube]
  • LUDAP: Shared authority file for Luxembourg's Scientific and Cultural Heritage, with Wikibase [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpwdTwteY5w YouTube]

Tool of the week

  • QuickStatements 3.0 - new version of the original QuickStatements with enhanced functionality, performance, and user experience.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/GQ5FOALWYP6P6JXBPDQNC4RZPIPZ5VDZ/ On March 17, Vector 2022 will become the default skin on Wikidata]
  • Jobs
  • Senior UX Designer for Wikidata - [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/53795746/Senior-UX-Designer-Wikidata-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=191749381&l=en Apply online]
  • Product Manager for Wikibase Suite - [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/53665453/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=190245769&l=en Apply online]

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/DE5f Map of Birthplace of Polish Nationals, born after 1900 who have an article on Polish Wikipedia]
  • [https://w.wiki/DGqj Items with no Statement or Sitelinks] - You can help by expanding these Items!
  • [https://w.wiki/DH2r Showcase lexemes and their language/lexical category] ([https://t.me/c/1325756915/35747 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects: Climate Change Policies - aims to model policies related to Climate change on Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: Most linked category Items
  • Showcase Items: Basshunter (Q383541) - Swedish singer, record producer, and DJ
  • Showcase Lexemes: baguette (L7347) - French noun that can mean "elongated type of bread loaf", "elongated type of bread loaf", "conductor's baton", "chopsticks", "drum sticks" or "magic wand".

Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126)
  • Dumps: We fixed an issue that prevented the dumps from being generated (phab:T386401)
  • Search: We are continuing to work on the search UI that will let you search not just Items but also other entity types (phab:T321543)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #670

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #669

Events

  • Upcoming events: [https://www.unifi.it/it/eventi/incontro-donne-toscane-wikidata-laboratorio-di-inserimento-dati-una-memoria-condivisa Tuscan Women & Wikidata] - data entry lab for shared memory, 5 March.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2025/03/03/data-reuse-days-2025/ WMDE Blog - Highlights of Data Reuse Days]: The post showcases 3 excellent apps: WikiFlix (public domain full-length films), KDE Itinerary (travel assistant app) and Scribe Keyboard (easier writing in secondary languages). These are just some of the applications built using Wikidata; check out more at the Data Reuse Days pages.
  • (German) [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2025/03/05/digitale-stolpersteine/ Digital Stumbling Blocks – How the Wiki Community Drives Remembrance Culture]: User:Cookroach highlights the efforts of Wikimedians across projects (Wikidata, Wikipedia, Commons) to digitally document the Stolpersteine, brass-plaques laid to commemorate victims of the National Socialism.
  • (German) [https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/9858 Digital History Berlin: Field research with LOD] - a write-up of the methods, experiences data-model and SPARQl queries of the field research conducted as part of the WikiProject: Field Survey Digital Humanities.
  • (Italian) [https://www.sc-politiche.unifi.it/art-1343-progetto-wikipedia-e-wikidata-per-la-cesare-alfieri.html# Wikipedia & Wikidata project for Cesare Alfieri] - an introduction to the project to expand articles and data of the archives of Cesare Alfieri University of Florence.
  • [https://semlab.io/blog/communicating-ontology Communicating Ontology: Technical approaches for facilitating use of our Wikibase data] (Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute)

Tool of the week

  • [https://github.com/acrion/zelph zelph]: A new tool for detecting logical contradictions and making inferences in Wikidata, using a rule-based system to improve data quality and derive new facts. Check it out on GitHub or explore results on the [https://zelph.org/ project website].
  • New Tool for Women’s Day: [https://scheherazade-temp.toolforge.org/ Scheherazade] identifies women without articles in your Wikipedia but present in many others, helping editors prioritize creating missing biographies.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZX63E4GPQC6ZQBKGLI7XJUANKT6KOKHE/ Wikimedia Research Fund had launched]. You're encourage to submit proposals around Wikidata. The deadline to submit your proposal is April 16, 2025.
  • The 4th iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from March 17 until April 30. 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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Search: The search team at the WMF has added a new search keyword for Lexemes. You can use the keyword "inlanguage:en" or "inlanguage:Q1860" to limit your search to Lexemes with Lexeme language English and so on. Here is an example search for "bank" within English Lexemes: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=L%3Abank+inlanguage%3Aen (phab:T271776)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #671

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/EDXCS7QM3QYJBORQUKBJ3NTIDUYIZSKU/ Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers]. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
  • Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1742313600 9am PT / 16:00 UTC] to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack [https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-31379okvn-8IVWvbCZerKnN352sKCa2g here]. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
  • (German) [https://temporaerhaus.de/tag/wikimedia/ Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm]: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
  • [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/757 REST in Rust] by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
  • Videos
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2MZ7O26YWZDLNDUU5YKW3RKQHRKR6D5C/ Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases]. Put together by Valerie
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk7Lfr9mAAk&pp=ygUIV2lraWJhc2U%3D Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities]
  • (Chinese) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IT_dl08DMA Open Data Day Taiwan 2025]: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQneCQUk9d8 Wikidata as an Open Data Resource]: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRY2mtj1MFY Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective]: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.

Tool of the week

  • [https://www.expeditia.info/ Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries] - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • An [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KDZXE3S57G34WUHHB4R5DTQ4RLOZKLCY/ update regarding the WDQS backend] has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/A6OR2H5UHG6CNDE4LHIXBX4KAVK2KLKZ/ Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025]. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
  • [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Embedding_Project The Wikidata Vector Database] prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saade{{@}}wikimedia.de
  • Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/53665453/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=198705093&l=en Product Manager Wikibase Suite] (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/D4EV Location of fire stations in Spain] ([https://x.com/angelobregons/status/1889979376768614743 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/DTc9 Oldest known individual per taxon] (pre-20th century) ([https://wikis.world/@WikidataFacts@mastodon.social/114173501080142856 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
  • WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on [https://cividata.org/en/poland/ cividata.org]. Help expanding it!
  • Newest database reports: [https://w.wiki/DQWP German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category] ([https://t.me/c/1325756915/35931 source])
  • Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
  • Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."

Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
  • Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
  • Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
  • Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #672

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/EDXCS7QM3QYJBORQUKBJ3NTIDUYIZSKU/ Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers]. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
  • Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1742313600 9am PT / 16:00 UTC] to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack [https://join.slack.com/t/ld4/shared_invite/zt-31379okvn-8IVWvbCZerKnN352sKCa2g here]. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
  • (German) [https://temporaerhaus.de/tag/wikimedia/ Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm]: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
  • [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/757 REST in Rust] by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
  • Videos
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2MZ7O26YWZDLNDUU5YKW3RKQHRKR6D5C/ Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases]. Put together by Valerie
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk7Lfr9mAAk&pp=ygUIV2lraWJhc2U%3D Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities]
  • (Chinese) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IT_dl08DMA Open Data Day Taiwan 2025]: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQneCQUk9d8 Wikidata as an Open Data Resource]: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRY2mtj1MFY Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective]: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.

Tool of the week

  • [https://www.expeditia.info/ Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries] - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • An [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/KDZXE3S57G34WUHHB4R5DTQ4RLOZKLCY/ update regarding the WDQS backend] has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/A6OR2H5UHG6CNDE4LHIXBX4KAVK2KLKZ/ Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025]. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
  • [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Embedding_Project The Wikidata Vector Database] prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saade{{@}}wikimedia.de
  • Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/53665453/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-/ Product Manager Wikibase Suite] (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/D4EV Location of fire stations in Spain] ([https://x.com/angelobregons/status/1889979376768614743 source])
  • [https://w.wiki/DTc9 Oldest known individual per taxon] (pre-20th century) ([https://wikis.world/@WikidataFacts@mastodon.social/114173501080142856 source])
  • Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
  • WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on [https://cividata.org/en/poland/ cividata.org]. Help expanding it!
  • Newest database reports: [https://w.wiki/DQWP German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category] ([https://t.me/c/1325756915/35931 source])
  • Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
  • Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."

Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
  • Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
  • Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
  • Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://professional.wiki/en/articles/wikibase-extensions Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions]
  • [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2025/03/21/editing-lexemes-with-your-little-finger/ Editing Lexemes with your little finger]
  • [https://commonists.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-2024-edition/ Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition] by Jean-Fred
  • [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1902026975210025181.html Thread: Who wins in a Wikipedia race between GPT-4.5, o1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and @OpenAI's new Computer-Using Agent?]

Tool of the week

  • Lexica - a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Mobile Editing of Statements - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users. [https://greatquestion.co/wikimediadeutschland/bo2e7e2a/apply Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team]
  • Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/53665453/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-/ Product Manager Wikibase Suite] (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We finished work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126) and started on the one for Properties (phab:T386377)
  • Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039) and sitelink positioning (phab:T316797)
  • Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543)

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

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Anything to add? Please share! :)

Wikidata weekly summary #673

File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #672

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: BRPever 2 adminship request closes tomorrow.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • [https://www.mcls.org/news/2025/03/31/mclss-linked-data-users-group-invites-you-to-the-annual-wikidata-edit-a-thon-from-april-7-11-2025/ MCL's Linked Data Usergroup's Wikidata Edit-A-Thon] - The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services is hosting an editathon between April 7 - 11, 2025. This is an onsite event and only available to USA states: Indiana and Michigan.
  • (German) [https://sammlungen.io/termine/digitale-provenienzforschung-in-universitaetssammlungen-werkstattberichte-im-sommersemester-2025/yann-legall Wikidata models on colonial looting and African cultural heritage] - June 4, 2025, 1300 UTC+2. This event will be presented in German.
  • [https://www.instagram.com/wikimediauganda/p/DH3ZdaHxNo2/ Wikidata Training Workshop by WM Uganda] - on April 26, discover how Wikidata powers Wikipedia and beyond! [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmrjO-SkG4Y1-O8G5I5dMH97PMQNaMWxJZN-kJHHSmouM-wQ/viewform Register here]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://diginomica.com/wikidata-adds-ai-vectors-graph-and-knowledge-bases-heres-why Diginomica: Wikidata adds AI vectors graph and knowledge bases, here's why]
  • [https://diginomica.com/something-weekend-differing-versions-reality-what-can-we-learn-how-wikidata-navigating-conflicting Diginomica: Differing versions of reality; how Wikidata navigates conflicting accounts]
  • Papers
  • [https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/18295/ The New Zealand Thesis Project: Connecting a nation’s dissertations using Wikidata]
  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10294v1 Wikipedia is Not a Dictionary, Delete! Text Classification as a Proxy for Analysing Wiki Deletion Discussions] - includes Wikidata.
  • Presentations
  • [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15109700 Using chemistry data in Wikidata in AI], at the [https://www.acs.org/meetings/acs-meetings/spring.html American Chemical Society Spring 2025] meeting
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVI4jwmRS64&pp=ygUId2lraWRhdGE%3D Live Wikidata editing - creating Property proposals] with Jan Ainali.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvHVlK_3qJ8 Entity Management Cooperative meeting, with Wikidata]
  • (Taiwanese) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTcKU2K-Vqw Seediq Wikimedia 2024 Annual Conference] - hosted by Wikidata Taiwan, here are the opening remarks by Principal Zhan Su'e's opening speech.
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac7laU1WH7o Open translations in mathematics (Oxford Seminar)] - This presentation from Tim Osgood discusses the utility of mathematics for translations, a community-driven approach, and how Wikidata is contributing.
  • (Spanish) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IDUzn5sC9g Socialisation: Literary Data in Bogota 2015 - 2020] - The Colombian Publishing Observatory of the Caro y Cuervo Institute presents "Metadata Model for Independent Publishing in Bogotá", containing over 31,500 data points, all catalogued in Wikidata.
  • (Italian) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaZno818m5o Tools for Visualising Wikidata] - Carlo Bianchini presents some useful tools for visualising data and queries from Wikidata, with a focus on Digital Humanities.

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Please find full information here]
  • Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details d:Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/Dfaf Find Good or Featured Articles in Spanish and Portuguese Wikipedia]
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Govdirectory: Rwanda
  • Showcase Items: Pleinfeld (Q252320) - market municipality in Germany
  • Showcase Lexemes:humpback (L322138) - English noun that can mean " kyphosis (condition of the spine)", "a person with an abnormal curvature of the spine", "humpback whale, a particular marine mammal variety", "pink salmon", "lake skygazer, a type of ray-finned fish", " type of arch bridge where the span is larger than the ramps on either side", or " humpback dolphin, a particular variety of marine mammal."

Development

  • Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search entity types other than Items (Lexemes, Properties, EntitySchemas) in the search box (phab:T321543)
  • Vector 2022 theme: We are fixing remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple Item search endpoint (phab:T386228) and are looking into the one for Properties (phab:T386377)

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

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Wikidata weekly summary #674

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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 2025-04-07. Please help Translate.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GQR2VT7LONW5AHMHUT7RGMZFUQBGYJCF/ Wiki Workshop Registration is Now Open!] The event will be held virtually over two days on May 21 & 22, 2025.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #75 April 14 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
  • (French) [https://geographie-cites.cnrs.fr/collecte-et-usages-de-donnees-issues-de-wikipedia-et-wikidata-dans-les-recherches-en-shs/ Collection and use of Wikipedia and Wikidata data in SHS searches] - 17 June, 2025. Participation via video-conference available, [https://framaforms.org/je-collecte-et-usages-des-donnees-wikipedia-dans-les-recherches-en-shs-1741892154 register here] and [https://site-fef6fe.gitpages.huma-num.fr/journee/wikipedia.html program info here].

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • Inference, continued - Magnus Manske adds 2 new functions to WD-infernal. [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/777 The Whelming]
  • (French) Illustrious women in public spaces. Streets, buildings and other places overwhelmingly feature men [https://porte-plume.app/projet/challenge-wikidata-en-classe/blog/billet/b69566ea-713d-44d0-845c-3501d5bb5ff2 Porte Plumpe]
  • [https://www.veradekok.nl/en/2025/03/kahle-receives-projectuil-from-wikipedia/ Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) receives ProjectUil from Dutch Wikipedia]
  • Papers: Enabling disaggregation of Asian American subgroups: a dataset of Wikidata names for disparity estimation [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04753-y - Paper] by Lin, Q. et al (2025).
  • Videos
  • Curationist: What is it and how does it work? - Curationist utilises Wikidata to help discover, curate and share public-domian art and cultural heritage content. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj9FDIX0JSg YouTube]
  • (Swedish) Connecting Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the National Archives with Magnus Sälgö [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byqopx1aQLI YouTube]
  • (French) Focus on Wikidata, Wikifying Science, a presentation from Delphine Montagne and Pierre-Yves Beaudouin. [https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/renatis/cfe-renatis-focus-sur-wikidata-wikifier-la-science Canal-U TV: C@fé Renatis]
  • Other
  • (Portuguese) Wikidata at School: expanding access to knowledge and tackling gender gaps! [https://www.instagram.com/p/DH9qZcENJ75/ Instagram: Projeto Mais]

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata for Web - also known as Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that displays data from Wikidata on various websites, enhancing the information you are already looking at, and also allows extraction of data from these websites.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details available here.
  • Job Vacancy - Are you interested in helping shape the technical future of Wikimedia's knowledge graph? We are looking for a [https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/55063868/Staff-Engineer-Wikidata-all-genders-/ Staff Engineer (Wikidata)]

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  • We made some progress on the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature by improving the UI, and making it translatable (phab:T390269)
  • We continued working on dark mode support (phab:T389633)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are almost done adding the last few features on the simple item and property search endpoint. We'll be happy to get feedback on these from 15.04 when they're completed
  • We will begin user testing to improve Mobile Editing Experience: Mobile editing of statements

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #675

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #674

Events

  • Upcoming events: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 16th April 2025 (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.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2025/04/12/introducing-m3api/ Introducing m3api], By Lucas Werkmeister
  • [https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/04/08/wikidata-query-service-graph-database-reload-at-home-2025-edition/ Wikidata Query Service graph database reload at home, 2025 edition]. By Adam Baso
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVqCEeVuzTQ Understanding Why Your OPTIONAL Properties in Wikidata Queries Might Be Ignored]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh6hi94Imn8 Playing with LEGO on Wikidata]. By Tiago Lubiana
  • Other: Wikidata references made easier. "Several tricks to make it easier and faster, using various scripts and gadgets" to add references to Wikidata statements. By Spinster

Tool of the week

  • [https://topic-curator.toolforge.org/ Wikidata Topic Curator] is a React-based web application. It’s a new and improved version of [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/ItemSubjector ItemSubjector] created to help Wikimedians connect items on Wikidata to the right topics. By entering a topic QID, it finds related articles using the topic’s label, aliases, or custom terms.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Join the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • [https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/55063868/Staff-Engineer-Wikidata-all-genders-/ Staff Engineer Wikidata (all genders)]
  • [https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/53795746/Senior-UX-Designer-Wikidata-all-genders-/ Senior UX Designer Wikidata (all genders)]

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Development

  • We merged and prepared changes to rename wikibase:EntitySchema to wikibase:WikibaseEntitySchema in RDF (phab:T371196) – this has been [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AAKO2VGVKJXEDH2HPZBGMAUDVGC7SA7R/ announced as a breaking change] and will be deployed to Wikidata on 24 April
  • We made some more improvements to dark mode support (phab:T389633)
  • We’re working on tests for the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature (phab:T385790)
  • Wikibase REST API: We're going to wrap up pagination on the simple Item and property search endpoint and are working to improve our test architecture for search (phab:T386691). We're going to pick up prefix search for Items and phrase matching next!

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #676

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #675.
Translations are available

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://thottingal.in/blog/2025/04/15/qjson/ qjson: Fetching all properties of a Wikidata item in a single API call] By Santhosh Thottingal
  • [https://olea.org/diario/2025/04/14/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025-proposals-Wikibase.html A Wikibase call for action at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025] By Ismael Olea
  • [https://museumdata.uk/blog/putting-uk-collections-on-the-map/ Putting UK collections on the map] by the Museum Data Service
  • [https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/04/20/the-april-2025-scholia-hackathon.html The April 2025 Scholia Hackathon] by Egon Willighagen
  • Papers
  • [https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/talking-wikidata-communication-patterns-and-their-impact-on-commu Talking Wikidata: Communication Patterns and Their Impact on Community Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Graphs] - Investigative study on Wikidata discussions, revealing that the community is generally inclusive and conflict is rare, but many controversial topics lack consensus, and valuable contributors disengage early. By Koutsiana et. al., (2025)
  • [https://zenodo.org/records/15226371 Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited] - By Latham (2025)
  • Videos
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWoNZLBj7mM Wiki Workshop 2025 - Wikidata Inconsistencies with Language Models and Data Mining in a Pipeline] by Houcemeddine Turki
  • (Italian) [https://youtube.com/dL9JEfHpU68?si=RXymgDS8-ZE687aE Cla-G, an instance of Wikibase as a tool to support game classification] by Carlo Bianchini
  • Other
  • [https://x.com/afliacon/status/1908928893727211669?s=46 Wikidata & Wikibase for Authority Control & Knowledge Organization Workshop] By AfLIA
  • [https://github.com/oolonek/daily-lotus Mastodon bot] that "highlights natural compounds found in plants, fungi, bacteria or animals — and includes Wikidata references and visual structure depictions."

Tool of the week

  • User:Spinster/Wikidata references made easier: The script helps in adding references to statements, in order to provide context for our data, make the data more reliable, transparent and trustworthy for anyone who uses it .

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Registration is open for a Wikidata ontology course led by Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan. To register, email pfpschneider{{@}}gmail.com with your Wikidata username and a brief note on your interest. The course starts 1 May, with weekly lectures on Thursdays from 1–3pm EDT (skipping 29 May and 12 June). Space may be limited; priority goes to those already interested. Participants should know Wikidata, attend sessions, complete weekly exercises (~1 hour), and join a group project. Details: Course page
  • Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles.
  • Wikidata job openings at the The Wikimedia Foundation
  • [https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6814912 Lead Product Manager, Wikidata Platform] (remote)
  • [https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6816145 Tech Lead, Wikidata Platform] (remote)

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Development

  • Wikidata changes in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We are continuing the work on making the edit summaries more understandable (phab:T386200)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple search functionality (phab:T389011)
  • Dark mode: We are fixing a few remaining issues with dark mode support in the Vector 2022 theme (phab:T389633)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #677

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #676.
Translations are available

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
  • [https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2025/ The 5th Wikidata Workshop] taking place November 2-3, 2025 during the [https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/ 25th International Semantic Web Conference] hosted in Nara, Japan. Call for Papers is open until 23:59 AoE, August 2. This year, the program tracks are 1. Novel Work and 2. Previously Published Work. Submission template and guidelines are [https://www.overleaf.com/read/pwspggxsbdvy available here] and you can [https://openreview.net/group?id=swsa.semanticweb.org/ISWC/2025/Workshop/Wikidata submit your topic here].
  • The Wikidata and Sister Projects online conference approaches: May 29 - July 1, 2025. Have you registered yet?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • [https://datascientistsdiary.com/how-to-build-a-production-ready-knowledge-graph/ How to Build a Production-Ready Knowledge Graph(with Code): A Practical Guide ] By Amit Yadav
  • [https://nearby.hypotheses.org/2478 Who are the Cardinal Electors of 2025 papal conclave? A typical question for Wikidata? ] by {{Q|67173261}}
  • Papers
  • [https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3696410?tocHeading=heading2 Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Web Conference 2025.] By Guodong et. al., (2025)
  • [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3696410.3714757 Passage: Ensuring Completeness and Responsiveness of Public SPARQL Endpoints with SPARQL Continuation Queries ] By Thi Hoang et. al., (2025)

Tool of the week

  • [https://quarry.wmcloud.org/ quarry.wmcloud.org] is a public querying interface for Wiki Replicas, a set of live replica SQL databases of public Wikimedia Wikis. Quarry is designed to make running queries against Wiki Replicas easy. Quarry can also be used to query public databases stored in ToolsDB.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • [https://scholia.toolforge.org/ Scholia] is running a [https://survey.wikimedia.it/index.php/179555 user survey] until the end of May .
  • Researchers from the University of Regina in Canada invite you to participate in the Open Data Community Survey 2025. [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/XHXV4P6DILOUG6QFAO22FEJHXAWOS7YH/ Read more]!

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  • Query examples:
  • [https://w.wiki/Dv$w All national parties that are members of a European party and whose country is a member of the European Union] (source)
  • [https://w.wiki/Dw23 Related works from co-citation analysis] (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects : WikiProject Saint Mary's College (IN) aims to improve the coverage of Saint Mary's and the scholarly works being created at Saint Mary's.
  • Showcase Lexemes: Córdoba (L642328) - Spanish noun (kór-do-ba) that can mean "a city in Spain", "a city in Argentina", or "a Mexican city"

Development

  • Bug: We fixed an issue where newly created Properties became inaccessible after adding a statement with a Property linking to an Item or Lexeme. The fix will go live on Wednesday. (phab:T374230)
  • Search: We continued implementing the new search that will make it easier to search for Properties and Lexemes in the UI (phab:T321543)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #678

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #677.
Translations are available

Discussions

  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: Mr Robot - No consensus reached.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • WikidataCon 2025 - programme track categories are ready - time to start thinking about session proposals!
  • [https://r.iresmi.net/posts/2025/osm_Wikidata/Cross checking OSM IDs between OSM and Wikidata] By Michaël
  • [https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/05/02/wikiflix-goes-live/ WikiFlix, a new free streaming platform goes live]
  • Papers
  • [https://hackernoon.com/how-to-develop-a-privacy-first-entity-recognition-system How to Develop a Privacy-First Entity Recognition System] By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
  • [https://hackernoon.com/detecting-and-masking-personal-data-in-text Detecting and Masking Personal Data in Text] By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
  • [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10840323 EA2N: Evidence-Based AMR Attention Network for Fake News Detection ] By Gupta et. al., (2025)

Tool of the week

  • [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page OpenStreetMap]: OpenStreetMap, is a project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. It was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways .

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Ever played Redactle? Lucas put together a Wikidata version of it. Can you guess the Item? Still needs a bit of work but you can [https://wdactle.toolforge.org/ try it out now].
  • [https://mamot.fr/@pintoch/114449249307450950 EditGroups has a new maintainer ]

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Development

  • Wikidata Query Service: The search platform team finished the remaining work for the graph split and it is going live [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZLIUAGRLPQLLBVJSC2AEG7FNTTOER66I/ this week].
  • We took part in the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
  • Wikipedia and co: We continued working on improving how Wikidata edits are shown on the watchlist on Wikipedia and co. We are focusing on showing labels instead of IDs for the entities (Items, Properties, ...) linked in the edit summaries (phab:T388685)
  • UI: We continued doing small fixes for dark mode support in the UI (phab:T385039)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the search endpoint (phab:T383126)

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].

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Wikidata weekly summary #679

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #678.
Translations are available

Events

  • Upcoming:
  • Kaxabu Wikidata Workshop May 17 at Puli DOC, Nantou
  • Seediq Wikidata Lexeme Workshop May 18 at Puli DOC, Nantou
  • Past: Wikimedia Hackathon happened on May 4. Check out the closing showcase that included some Wikidata-related projects: [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025_Closing_Showcase Etherpad (Hackaton 2025)]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs
  • GLAM and Wikidata: The "GLAMorous Wikidata" Campaign: In March 2025, Wikimedia Serbia launched a local thematic campaign called GLAMurous Wikidata, focused on improving data about cultural and heritage institutions on Wikidata.
  • Project "Open Topstukken" ("Open Collection Highlights") - Maastricht University and Radboud University: The "Open Topstukken" project is a collaboration between Maastricht University and Radboud University to digitize and publish rare books and manuscripts, with metadata from their Omeka S systems automatically transferred to Wikidata by Wikidata specialists.
  • Wikidata and Research: The programme for the “Wikidata and Research” conference is now available online. Scheduled for 5–6 June 2025 at the University of Florence, this event is convened by a volunteer Scientific Committee in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia and the University of Florence.
  • Papers
  • [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391431150_Capacitating_Librarians_with_Wikidata_Literacy_for_Managing_Wikipedia_Information_Resources_Implications_to_Libraries Capacitating Librarians with Wikidata Literacy for Managing Wikipedia Information Resources: Implications to Libraries] By Oyighan et. al., (2025)
  • [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391461181_Social_Biases_in_Knowledge_Representations_of_Wikidata_separates_Global_North_from_Global_South Social Biases in Knowledge Representations of Wikidata separates Global North from Global South] By Das et. al., (2025)
  • [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-89366-7_6 Automatic Curriculum Cohesion Analysis Based on Knowledge Graphs] By Gacek & Adrian (2025).
  • Videos
  • [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2i2w0L2rcRI African Wiki Women Wikidata training for the gender equality campaign]
  • [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_8JbA1AC4yY Using Listeria tool to create Wikidata lists from Wikidata]
  • [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OZXEtUrjJrY Using the Mix'n'match tool to match external datasets to Wikidata items.]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a57QK4rARpw Connecting the World’s Knowledge with Abstract Wikipedia] By Denny Vrandečić

Tool of the week

  • [https://wdactle.toolforge.org/ Wdactle game] -- is a Wikidata version of Redactle! It's a game where you are shown a Wikidata Item with all labels and words redacted and have to figure out what it is. Guessing a word reveals all the places where it is used. Built by Luca Werkmeister during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • ⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: As you know Wikidata Query Service was no longer able to handle the complete set of data Wikidata has. To address this the graph in Wikidata Query Service has now been split into a main graph (that continues to be at query.wikidata.org) and a scholarly graph (that is at query-scholarly.wikidata.org). For more details please see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split.
  • Join the Wikidata:Impact stories global campiagn. We're celebrating the amazing Wikidata community - editors, developers, librarians, and creators - and inviting you to share how Wikidata is used. Your story can inspire others and grow the community. Submit yours or nominate a cool project by June 6.

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Development

  • mul language code: We are fixing an issue where Items can't be found by their mul language label or alias (phab:T392058)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on phrase matching for the simple search (phab:T389011)
  • Dark mode: We fixed a color contrast bug with the entity selector when making new statements (phab:T393641)
  • Ontology: We’re working on an updated, more complete version of the wikibase.owl ontology file (phab:T371752)

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].

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