User talk:MartinPoulter/Archive 33#Always precious

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
• MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from [https://pypi.org/ PyPI])

• Events
• Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/MNSAJ5XLNLF6XBCYGB3CYHB72O6XVQGL/ The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023]
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=101 Archives] (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18
• Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/internets-architects-wikipedia-wikimedia-editors#:~:text=the%20internet%20itself.-,KALLI%20MATHIOS,-Can%20you%20describe Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet?]
• Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? in The Signpost, July 17, 2023
• [https://beforesandafters.com/2023/07/11/the-humble-guide-to-building-an-asset-library/ The humble guide to building an asset library]
• Papers
• [https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00569/116618 OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction]
• [https://figshare.com/s/a1ed9cdbd917c923b884 "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia"] (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass)
• [https://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc/article/view/1519/2297 A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia]
• Videos
• Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Aw9fkPyoM YouTube]
• Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FYhm9OI1c YouTube]
• LD4 conference (YouTube)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFl28pCkoHs Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgGq1yNM1Q Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CiFIIZSCxo Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoD6-aw80M WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvrxTh8xfdY Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70oWw3sXk8 How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base]

• Tool of the week
• [https://wdrc.toolforge.org/ Wikidata Recent Changes API] (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. ([http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=665 blog])

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes:
• autosuggest value (qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject)
• External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID, Gameswelt ID, Vélo'v station ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Alienor.org ID, Musées Occitanie ID, Trésors de Nice ID, Image Duplicator ID, CNR ExploRA author ID, ECLI court code, Romanian river code, ‎German University Collections person ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
• Founder of ()
• underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
• timetable ()
• Canadian Archival Information Network authority record ()
• External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, FantLab translator ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, Acclaimed Music album ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, Friedländer ID, IMDb keyword

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/6$vi List of data journals at Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/_shigapov/status/1678780961214050306 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6TNS Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now] ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110718631093218142 source])
• Newest WikiProjects:
• WikiProject Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity)
• WikiProject Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)

• Development
• Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (phab:T327510)
• EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (phab:T339924)
• Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
• mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (phab:T340832)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:54, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/

• Events
• Upcoming
• Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours (available in both Mandarin and English)
• Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2oj_NAENvY YouTube]
• Ongoing
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=102 Money] (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/12/abstract-wikipedia-gains-new-support-from-the-rockefeller-foundation/ Abstract Wikipedia gains new support from The Rockefeller Foundation]
• [https://addshore.com/2023/07/wikibase-and-reconciliation/ Wikibase and reconciliation], by Adshore
• [https://whoseknowledge.org/wikidata-robot-epistemology/ Wikidata: why we contribute to the robot epistemology]
• Papers
• [https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011235 Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata]
• Videos
• Wikidata data set of the Sediq language (in Chinese) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XMdiI3izrE YouTube]
• How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSfKu8WESs YouTube]
• WikiConference India 2023 - Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_th9xT6-2Pw YouTube]
• WikiConference India 2023 — Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUadi5Mumvg YouTube]
• Dataviz
• [https://mtmx.github.io/wikicommunes/ Wikicommunes] (See also the [https://mastodon.social/@mat@mapstodon.space/109551155521935438 thread] on Mastodon)

• Tool of the week
• [https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/images_near_items.php Images near items] - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example [https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/images_near_items.php?category=Telephone+booths+in+the+United+Kingdom&depth=5&p31=Q712868&max_distance_m=50 link] for UK red phone booths)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IPRW3TAAZK3DPVGN5JKGVJRVPBUJDQNE/ Update on the collaboration between Wikimedia Deutschland, Igbo Wikimedia Usergroup and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata].

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes:
• median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
• login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
• registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
• External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Threads username, Dutch word ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
• External identifiers: BDFutbol referee ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, identifiant d'un défunt sur le site Dans nos cœurs, IbsenStage ID, TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/74wp Bubble graph of the first letter of the word for "one" for languages where Wikidata has a Lexeme] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1681314960318799878 source])
• [https://w.wiki/76rj Searches for trying to replace broken Art UK external IDs] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/75ye People linked in the English Wikipedia page "List of current United States governors"] ([https://t.me/c/1224298920/110790 source])
• Newest WikiProjects:
• WikiProject Henrik Ibsen is a project for users interested in the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Q36661).
• WikiProject Getty Library Wikidata Pilot - is a WikiProject in the Getty Library at the Getty Research Institute (part of the J. Paul Getty Trust) to create and enhance Wikidata items related to information in materials from the library’s Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection of African American Visual Culture.

• Development
• EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (phab:T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (phab:T214885).
• mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644)
• Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (phab:T328149)
• Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
• Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
• Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
• You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat(WMDE) 15:41, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

• Discussions
• Welcome to our new admin Yahya! (see the closed request)

• Events
• The deadline for submitting your proposals for WikidataCon 2023 is July 31st (23:59) anywhere in the world. Submit your proposals at https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1570826823000288?via%3Dihub An analysis of discussions in collaborative knowledge engineering through the lens of Wikidata], Elisavet Koutsiana et. al.

• Tool of the week
• osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes:
• median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
• login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
• registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
• shortcode (string of text replaced by an emoji or other character on a platform (e.g. :heart_eyes:))
• verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
• External identifiers: Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, Spotlight PIN ID, myjewishitaly.it ID, Minerba One Data Indonesia ID, Wikibase World ID, Open Yearbook org id, ProQuest publication ID, Friedländer ID, FIGC player ID, hitparade.ch song ID, Theapolis theatre ID, IbsenStage ID, IMDb keyword

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
• Project partner (property to list the partners of a project or an event, when different from the organizing body.)
• External identifiers: TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID, BHL item ID, GamerProfiles Game ID, identifiant Pouët d'un groupe de démo, identifiant Pouët d'une démo, identifiant Pouët d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Kastelenlexicon ID, SEVIS school ID, Xiaohongshu User ID, Musée d'Arts de Nantes ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/7AAt List of people in the NZThesisProject with no assigned gender] ([https://twitter.com/KnitMeAThneed/status/1684841670028980224 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7AAu Cultural institutions having a Mastodon handle] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1684488921474822146 source])
• [https://w.wiki/78D8 Maps of places in Rennes with an article on French Wikipedia, color-coded by number of pages on the Wikimedia Projects] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1684201272784695296 source])

• Development
• Wikibase REST API:
• We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
• GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements (phab:T339356) (new route)
• GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (phab:T338383) (new route)
• GET /statements/{statement_id} (now supports statements on Properties)
• We started work on a new route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)
• EntitySchemas:
• We worked on improving the termbox (the table of labels, descriptions and aliases) on EntitySchema pages to bring it more in line with the one on Items and Properties
• We made sure that EntitySchemas are shown by their label instead of ID when available in Recent Changes and similar lists (phab:T339924)
• Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (phab:T328149)
• mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (phab:T340832, phab:T338330)

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].

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

• Events
• Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/ Submit your proposal for GLAM Wiki Conference 2023]. Deadline has been extended to August 20, 23:59 anywhere in the world.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blog: [https://itnext.io/creating-interactive-map-visualizations-of-settlements-with-wikidata-and-python-13e8e206acf5 Creating Interactive Map Visualizations of Settlements with Wikidata and Python]
• Videos: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfILLogVfycnWLC7s3E81p0b Wiki Workshop 2023 recording YouTube playlist]

• Tool of the week
• [https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/ WikiShootMe] expanded to make it possible to find the Items close to pictures you took so you can upload and add them to them ([http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=701 source])

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Template:Synia is a new template which makes it easy to create links to Synia from Wikidata. Template:Synia+ guesses the relevant configuration pages for each entity depending on the values of P31 and P106.
• Wikifunctions, Wikidata's newest sibling project, had a soft launch. Welcome to the Wikimedia wikiverse, functioneers!
• The ORES service will be decommissioned and replaced by Lift Wing. If you have a tool that relies on ORES scores to judge edits or the quality of an Item please read the migration announcement. We are collecting affected community tools in phab:T343419.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: none
• External identifiers: National Union of Composers of Ukraine person ID, Encyclopaedia Islamica ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Virksomme ord ID, ‎Swetrails route ID, European Bridge League ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, IMVDb artist numeric ID, Team France athlete ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• disinherited (someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary)
• conference schedule (Conference schedule in Pentabarf XML format)
• state of transmission
• External identifiers: Works Diamond Catalogue ID, Editions Diamond Catalogue ID, NFSA ID, Identifiant Médiathèque Numérique CVS, DCB Number, wadoku id, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Mémoire déposé sur DUMAS, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, BG EGN, Google Scholar Organization ID, fiba.basketball player ID

• Deleted properties:
• Query example: [https://w.wiki/7Cup Entry dates and discovery dates of the objects of the museum of Brittany] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/1686648138583461888 source])

• Development
• EntitySchemas:
• We continued the work on giving them the same termbox as Items and Properties (phab:T324235)
• We finished the work on showing the labels for EntitySchemas in Recent changes, All Pages, Watchlist and edit summaries (phab:T339924, phab:T339921, phab:T339925, phab:T343231)
• We added missing messages related to IP editing and license notes (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
• Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on the route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)

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].

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:05, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

• Discussions
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
• MangadexBot (Task: add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID)
• WingUCTBOT (Task: Batch Upload of Niger-Congo B Lexemes, including Senses and Forms)
• New request for comments: Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks (Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range )

• Events
• Upcoming:
• Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
• Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=104 Police]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/08/02/some-things-i-like-about-the-expanding-wikipedia-universe/ Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe]
• [https://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2023/gender-and-blps-on-wikipedia-redux/ Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux]
• [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/08/09/the-power-of-shared-value-partnership-cis-a2k-acpr-glam-project/ The Power of Shared Value Partnership: CIS-A2K & ACPR- GLAM Project]
• [https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2023/08/blog-planets-blogging-about-debian.html Blog planets: blogging about Debian, GNOME, Wikimedia, FSFE, and many more]
• Papers
• [https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3447/Text2KG_Paper_13.pdf Semantification of CEUR-WS with Wikidata as a target Knowledge Graph]
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.16659.pdf The World Literature Knowledge Graph]
• [https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3322/short1.pdf Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata]
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcx-d2JhjvA Adding Wikidata To Openstreetmap]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2OdGib4Ido Recording mass paths on Wikimedia and Wikidata]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaX3eGh8EeM FOSS4G 2023 - Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Edward Betts]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKM2biqHvBU SPARQLE session - Sport, rugby and units - Nicolas VIGNERON]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDUvBuJ_NJ0 Virtual Inauguration: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course for Cohort 2]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8tVpwDNsZw Live Wikidata editing (in Italian)]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNxxX_3IHY0 KGC 2023 Masterclass: Wikibase and Question-Answering by The QA Company's CEO, Dennis Diefenbach]
• Notebooks
• [https://observablehq.com/d/57763b5d48fe9825 SEmantic Graphs (SEG) - Cautiously nudging RDF towards more expressivity] (paper)
• [https://observablehq.com/@fgregg/movies-settings-and-population Movie settings and population] (What is the relation between how big a city is and how many movies are set in that city?)
• [https://observablehq.com/@maison-mona/je-wikidata Wikidata study day]
• [https://observablehq.com/@getty/sparql-queries-for-data-cleanup SPARQL Queries for Cross-referencing and Data Cleanup]
• Presentations: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XlGUisIh8Tq5eGMaQEk5OehuxZwcfbocTlFtsY_yZ2Q/edit#slide=id.p1 Chemistry in Wikidata visualized with Scholia], Egon Willighagen et al.

• Tool of the week
• [https://everythingisconnected.toolforge.org/ Everything is connected] - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections.
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/F4SBNGUTRRB3DUL5CY5K4WG2TUVDNVXU/ WMF is moving from ORES to Lift Wing, an open-source machine learning infrastructure]. Your input is vital to train the model for more accurate bad edits detection on Wikidata. Join us in enhancing edits detection by using the Annotation tool: https://annotool.toolforge.org/

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi are joining the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/4UL7ZBYE2WRGIBQZ3BHGDTVWPRXZ7T4E/ wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats)]

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: none
• External identifiers: Tolkien Gateway ID, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, FSHF player ID, Mandarin-Cantonese Comparative Study ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara place ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, GSAFD ID, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Nantes Museum of Arts ID, Mythoskop ID, Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• Steam Deck compatibility rating (official rating used to determine which games, as a result of the review process, are compatible with Steam Deck and which are not)
• name version for other gender (use for when names that are not given name or surnames are gendered (since those two have their own properties), would also be helpful for many noble titles and honorifics as well as affixes)
• Curator of (has curated a collection or (art) exhibition)
• Philippine middle name ()
• External identifiers: Rumble channel, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web), archINFORM Awards ID, RCS number, NFDI4Culture ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Steam curator ID, Футзал.рус player ID, alyga.lt player ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Höhlenkataster ID (Österreich), Sitios ID, FNAC ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/78DD Map of places located in Rennes with an article on the French Wikipedia] (and colored according to the number of pages in all Wikimedia projects)
• [https://w.wiki/7FGw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapon types, and primary colors] ([https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1690826166066651136 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7AqZ Number of albums in Wikidata by year of release] ([https://wikis.world/@wikidata/with_replies source])
• [https://w.wiki/7FT9 Objects in Dresden with significant event] (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
• WikiProject Svenska Grillplatser (WikiProject Swedish Grill Places) - The idea is to see what Wikidata and OSM can contribute when it comes to barbecue sites and connections to municipalities, grillplatser.nu, naturkartan.
• WikiProject Nollywood - This is a WikiProject for adding and enhancing items in Wikidata for Nollywood (Nigerian films) held as VHS at the [https://libguides.northwestern.edu/c.php?g=115173&p=749471 Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies]. These films were primarily produced and collected from 1990-2000. Items will be added with information from the catalog record (MARC).

• Development
• Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (phab:T339363, phab:T340006)
• EntitySchemas:
• We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
• We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
• IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (phab:T328454)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 11:27, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

• Discussions
• New requests for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The [https://www.opentargets.org/ Open Targets Platform] is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)

• Events
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #106, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=106 Sleep]
• Past:
• Wikimania happened over the weekend. You can find a playlist of the events on [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfLj-q0KY_WL7BGkGd_UtwK0 YouTube here]
• Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #105, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=105 Wikimania Singapore]

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/08/16/celebrating-the-2023-wikimedian-of-the-year-winners/ Celebrating the 2023 Wikimedian of the Year Winners]. Congratulations Tofeiku and Siobhan Leachman for your dedication to Wikidata \o/
• Videos
• Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap (relation (in Spanish) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBz6s9uKJ0 YouTube]
• Promoting GLAM Institution in Indonesia through OSM-Wikidata Mapping - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjBYSKwV8wU YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=84 Psychiq], a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes:
• appears before phonological feature (this lexeme form appears only when another lexeme form with this phonological feature comes after it)
• appears after phonological feature (this lexeme form appears only when it comes after another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
• appears before lexeme form (this lexeme form appears only when this other specific lexeme form comes after it)
• appears after lexeme form (this lexeme form appears only when it comes after this other specific lexeme form)
• Gottstein code (code representing a variant of the cuneiform sign according to the Gottstein system)
• tournament type (significance or status of a sports competition for a league, tour, association, etc.)
• External identifiers: Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, UMLS Semantic Network ID, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, Moroccan geographic code (2015), BHL item ID, TVING ID, Google Scholar organization ID, Rumble channel, GSA player ID, Roku Channel Store ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Antenna Structure Registration Number, Korean Tour player ID, Kastelenlexicon ID, NFDI4Culture ID, Pouët group ID, Pouët group member ID, Pouët demo ID, Steam curator ID, Podbay ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, Diamond Catalogue work ID, Diamond Catalogue edition ID, Frankfurt University Library Digital Collection ID, Nurnet ID, DUMAS thesis ID, Syok podcast ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• patron deity ()
• WHO Aware Classification (The World Health Organization currently classifies 258 antibiotics into "Access", "Watch", and "Reserve" based partly on the risk of resistance developing as a result of such use and critical nature of the antibiotic in question.)
• nombre de niveaux (number of levels in a video game or number of stages in a particular sport)
• URL du plan du jeu vidéo (URL of the video game detailed map in subject provided by the site CPC-Power)
• Positioning (A list of all the satellite navigation system (ex. GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, NavIC etc. ) a mobile device, or a smartphone supports. [https://w.wiki/7HE9 List of all the Satellite Navigation System].)
• place on the route (object, station, facility, city, natural formation or other place on a road, track, route, line, watercourse, utility line or other linear route)
• simule (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
• External identifiers: ANPI person ID (2), J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, ID ve Slovníku české literatury po roce 1945, Vazhaju Word ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, Visiongame.cz game ID, Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges Numeric ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Anikore anime ID, wiki.gg wiki ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/7GXf Count of items with an article on fr.wikivoyage.org by country] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/7GsR Count of items with an article on fr.wikiquote.org by instance of] (source)
• [https://w.wiki/7HCP Count of items that have X amount of statements. A simple showcase of Blazegraph optimizations.]
• [https://w.wiki/6TNS Week 33, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now] ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110915045039310848 source])

• Development
• EntitySchemas: We investigated ways to help you search for EntitySchemas by their Labels, Aliases and Descriptions (phab:T341969)
• Mismatch Finder: We have added the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
• Improved language fallback: We are testing to clearly show the fallback Label in the placeholders for empty Labels (phab:T338330, phab:T340832)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 14:55, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

• Discussions
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The [https://www.opentargets.org/ Open Targets Platform] is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)

• Events
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=107 Teeth] (Challenge started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31)
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Papers: [https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/TADA3.pdf WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata]
• Videos
• Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXEctjXD_GU YouTube]
• How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For Beginners - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoGst-hhaqU YouTube]
• The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mog2wXCypA4 YouTube]
• How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgocEFUv6ok YouTube]
• Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBz6s9uKJ0 YouTube]
• WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz70A8JCGO8 YouTube]

• Tool of the week
• [https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ Wikitrivia] is a web-based game that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places. The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Biyanto Rebin is joining the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland for 2.5 months as an intern. Welcome!
• Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/IPGTE5XVAZ32DO3NWDSDQW2A3A4NZB5X/ Project submission deadline - September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC].
• [https://www.iamexpat.nl/career/jobs-netherlands/research-academic/postdoctoral-researcher-nlp-digital-humanities-and Postdoctoral researcher (position) in NLP, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web (0.8 FTE), University of Groningen]

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes:
• has heir or beneficiary (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title)
• External identifiers: Austrian Cave Register ID, ‎research.com ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, wiki.gg article ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, ‎Visiongame.cz game ID, ‎Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, wiki.gg wiki ID, Audio+ show ID, Cent cols ID, Lift Up profile ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Dictionary of Czech literature after 1945 ID, ‎Biographical Directory of Federal Judges numeric ID, GamerProfiles game ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• simule (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
• sexe ou genre du protagoniste (regarding the work in question, For human: male, female, non-binary, intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender. For animal: male organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass of (P279))
• unofficial name (name which is widely or rarely used, but not official (for nicknames use P1449, for pseudonymes P742))
• External identifiers: VocalEyes Heritage Access 2022, WikiChip article ID, identifiant Demozoo d'une démo, identifiant Demozoo d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Czech geological location ID, Moviefone person ID, Moviefone movie ID, Les Petits M'O ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Minerals.net mineral ID, Minerals.net gemstone ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/7KAF Map of birthplaces of German women writers] ([https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1694480115403555205 source])
• [https://w.wiki/6TNS Week 34, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now] ([https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110956754311815912 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7LpT Where were people who went to space born?] ([https://twitter.com/andrawaag/status/966657088687656961 source])
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Research expeditions - documents the activities of an international working group on Research expeditions.

• Development
• We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful and capture more mismatches.
• We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service (phab:T328281)
• We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
• We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (phab:T325822)
• We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (phab:T344417)
• We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages (phab:T338798)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 15:01, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

• Discussions
• Open request for adminship: FlyingAce (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC)
• New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.")

• Events
• Upcoming:
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/BYQA6RIUH4GAGKIHKOCTMR274XJMCEDZ/ Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023]. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
• Registration for 2nd edition of Wikidata MOOC is scheduled for Saturday September 23. [[https://actualitte.com/article/113238/ressources/wikimedia-2e-edition-du-mooc-wikidata. Link (in French)
• Wikidata Days 2023, 28-30* Sept. '23 | 10h00-18h00 | Auditorium and Training Room. [https://www.guiadacidade.pt/pt/art/encontro-wikidata-days-2023-308423-11 Registration] (in Portuguess)
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #108, [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=108 Roof] (Challenge started on 2023-09-04 12:01:27)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/wikipedia-artificial-intelligence-threat.html Wikipedia Will Survive A.I.] (including comments from Selena Deckelmann (WMF) and User:Jsamwrites)
• [https://addshore.com/2023/08/wikidata-query-service-blazegraph-jnl-file-on-cloudflare-r2-and-internet-archive/ Wikidata query service Blazegraph JNL file on Cloudflare R2 and Internet Archive]
• [https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/08/31/improving-equity-on-wikipedia-using-wikidata/ Improving equity on Wikipedia using Wikidata]
• Papers
• [https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/40510 Wikidata Research Articles Dataset]
• [https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3375.pdf Handling Wikidata Qualifiers in Reasoning]
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01535.pdf Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives]
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.03671.pdf SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26 Billion RDF Triples]
• Videos
• #SPARQL #Wikidata: first name, occupation and Academy, by VIGNERON - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDveI7tn7cc YouTube] (in French)
• Newsletters
• Wikidata and the epistemology of robots in RAW ((in French)
• Explore Wikidata differently with Synia in RAW (in French)

• Tool of the week
• User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js - is a userscript that adds a button to add a reference which immediately suggests reference URL (P854).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Job opening: [https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/35226834/Software-Engineer-Wikidata-m-f-d-/?jobDbPVId=90681644&l=en Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d)]. For our Team Wikidata, based in Berlin, we are looking for a permanent Software Engineer (m/f/d), full-time or part-time (min. 32h/week), as soon as possible.
• Wikidata's eleventh birthday is around the corner! One of our traditions is to prepare birthday presents to the community. Now is a great time to start preparing yours!
• [https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/423GG6Z424DZYZNFVQ7PTWOLD6QCRRYQ/ Developer account signup from Wikitech removed. Now directing new users towards https://idm.wikimedia.org instead].

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes:
• has heir or beneficiary (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title)
• towing capacity (the maximum sustainable force with which this vehicle can pull or push another object. Alternatively for road- or track-vehicles, the maximum weight of an object on wheels that this vehicle can reliably and safely pull given usual slopes)
• learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
• tribe (recognised membership in a society, mainly denoted by shared cultural heritage; for ethnicity use P172)
• External identifiers: ANPI person ID, Anikore anime ID, Substack profile ID, Artmajeur artist ID, FantLab translator ID, ‎wadoku ID, identifier in a register in Germany, Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• when used with property (when used with property)
• Wikimedia Commons campaign (name of a Wikimedia Commons campaign)
• near (for geo-objects which are located near some other geo-object)
• External identifiers: animecons.com event id, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, BioGRID Publication, iNaturalist user ID, MyShows, NHK News topic ID, Museoitalia ID, DBpia author ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/7N6r Old Greek personalities with entries in Prosopographia attica] ([https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696988392788042014 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7MPo Largest heist by damage] ([https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1696524669199986968 source])

• Development
• EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (phab:T338797)
• We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
• Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (phab:T342238)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 13:52, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

• Events
• [https://wikibase-lex.sciencesconf.org/ First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop (wikibase-lex)]. September 13, 14:00 to 18:00, at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna.
• [https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20230905_OTS0131/deutschsprachige-wikipedia-community-trifft-sich-in-linz German-speaking Wikipedia community meets in Linz] (in German). September 29 - October 1, 2023.
• [https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fotomarburg/aktuelles/nachrichten/workshop_openrefine-fuer-bauwerke OpenRefine for beginners] (in German). October 25-26, 2023.
• [https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mini%20Hackathon%20November%202023 The second Mini Hackathon at Wikimedia Nederland], for experienced Wikimedians, will take place on Saturday, November 4. There is room for 30 participants; [https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mini_Hackathon_November_2023 you can apply here].

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Blogs
• [https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2023/09/07/starting-fresh-the-wikibase-rest-api/ Starting fresh: the Wikibase REST API]
• Press
• [https://www.modernghana.com/news/1256630/pamitouch-foundation-pilots-ttag-goes-digital-init.html Pamitouch Foundation pilots TTAG Goes Digital initiative at Accra College of Education]. The Open Foundation West Africa provided an introduction to Wikipedia and its sister tools. The teacher trainees were guided on topics such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikiversity.
• Papers
• [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231231192774 Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years] - Daria Tisch and Emma Ischinsky
• [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231195552 Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project] - Heather Ford and Andrew Iliadis
• [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15298.pdf KGConv, a Conversational Corpus grounded in Wikidata] - Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, and Claire Gardent
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVj5Sccu5bk Interoperability among the digital repository Tainacan and the information networks Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: A case study of FILE ARCHIVE] - Paula Perissinotto & Dalton Martins
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSBEoNnAgPw Link data from local index to Wikidata] - Josef Moravec, Moravian Library in Brno
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3PkyK0ICs Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of structured data in hearing health] - Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos

• Tool of the week
• [https://peppercat.org/ Peppercat] is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. [https://peppercat.org/about.html More information]

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Open call: train-the-trainer course for candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia trainers, with a focus on (structured data on) Wikimedia Commons. More info and application form here. Application deadline is September 15.

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes:
• state of transmission (state of transmission of a work (as a concept, not as a physical item; for that, use P5816))
• describes actor of (predicate sense whose actor (an agent or a cause—basically the instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
• describes undergoer of (predicate sense whose undergoer (a patient, a theme, or a recipient—basically a non-instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
• External identifiers: Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID, ‎animecons.com event ID, Museo Italia ID, Dans nos cœurs ID, WWGR player ID, futzal.rus player ID, iNaturalist user ID, alyga.lt player ID, UETK ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, SEVIS school ID, WikiChip article ID, Mageia package ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• Red List of South African Plants conservation status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the w:South African National Biodiversity Institute)
• Educational level (school level in which the subject of the item is taught)
• FragDenStaat tag (tag in FragDenStaat.de)
• Plate (the plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
• External identifiers: Fansly ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, BookBrainz series ID, BookBrainz edition ID, ManyVids ID, LoverFans ID, IGI Global affiliate ID, Aparat channel ID, Pandit Project work ID, RKDexcerpts

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/7Qbr Territories claimed by irredentism]
• [https://w.wiki/7SBr Map of tram stop all over the world] ([https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696636273409106140 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7SBv Map of public archives in Germany] ([https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696607768340230205 source])
• Newest WikiProjects:
• WikiProject Patagonian Archaeology - The project works on the creation and improvement of items on Patagonian Archaeology in Wikidata (archeology of the argentine patagonian coast).
• WikiProject Archive of National Debt Redemption Movement - The purpose of this project is to promote the use of records related to the National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동) by integrating data from the National Debt Repayment Movement digital archive into Wikidata.

• Development
• Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
• EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements
• Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (phab:T344231)
• We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (phab:T330550); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (phab:T343979)
• Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and get the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:23, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-18.

• Discussions
• Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, FlyingAce! (see the closed request)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 4 (Task: Import commune of France contact data from french official directory, [https://lannuaire.service-public.fr/ french official directory]
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: JoRobot 8 (Task: Removing good list badge from articles in the Catalan Wikipedia)

• Events
• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
• Paper: [https://biss.pensoft.net/article/112431/ Documenting Biodiversity in Underrepresented Languages using Crowdsourcing] - Mohammed Kamal-Deen Dnshitobu Fuseini, Agnes Ajuma Abah, Andra Waagmeester
• Press: [https://okfn.de/blog/2023/09/stn-datenstrategie/ Statement by Alliance F5 on the German Government's data strategy] (in German)
• Videos
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo_VpAyby1c List of free software in le socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL/the interministerial base of free software) recommended by the French Government in Wikidata] - Nicolas Vigneron
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py1JkgkEHI8 Georeferencing using OSM and Wikidata] - Oficina Wiki Apoia
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxb49PvpaA Members of Riksdag (Sweden's parlement)] - Magnus Sälgö
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiTjxAy_Z8 Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments with Content Partnerships Hub] - Wikimedia Sweden
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY3UeO6yNb8 From self-documentation to federated querying using Wikibase: a new topology to Media Art Archiving?] - Raphael Tsz Kin Chau

• Tool of the week
• LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• You can now browse all the Wikibase instances hosted on Wikibase.Cloud: https://www.wikibase.cloud/discovery
• [https://github.com/KBNLwikimedia/Wikibase-resources Wikibase resources], a collection of resources, overviews, links and knowlegde related to Wikibase, collected and curated by [https://www.kb.nl/ KB, national library of the Netherlands]

• Did you know?

• Newest properties:
• General datatypes: none
• External identifiers: RBC person ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Médiathèque Numérique CVS ID, MyShows show ID, NHK News topic ID, ‎Sitios ID, Xiaohongshu user ID, Fansly ID

• New property proposals to review:
• General datatypes:
• chronological designation (as a typical instance, the stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
• Flora of New Jersey Project atlas URL (URL for a plant species in the Flora of New Jersey Project atlas)
• External identifiers: British Pathé ID, ProductReview ID, BISAC Subject Heading, EDItEUR Thema id, ONIX Subject Scheme id, MiMoText ID, ADVN ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, Diktyon, Codeberg username, RAWG tag ID, National Library of Albania ID, DfE Group UID, AARoads Wiki article ID, Armasanicana person ID, FloraVeg.EU species ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID

• Query examples:
• [https://w.wiki/7Md7 Google Scholar Organization IDs to Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/annreynolds988/status/1703244710641590321 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7T6X Power stations of this world] ([https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1701996445040009566 source])
• [https://w.wiki/7Tth Usage state of the nuclear power plant] ([https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1702766817993715936 source])

• Development
• We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page.
• Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in (phab:T330550)
• We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (phab:T344231)
• Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and getting the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:04, 18 September 2023 (UTC)