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Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)
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week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome, d:Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items. The admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity but the bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back.
Events
- Upcoming events:
- AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025
- 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon
- Wikidata and Sister Projects to take place May 29 - June 1. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. See Talk page for proposals.
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
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- data analysis method (
methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information ) - External identifiers: booru tag, Steam Group numeric ID, Kompass company ID, Macrotransactions game ID, Thunderstore game ID, JSR package ID, GitLab topic ID, Amazon Music track ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- levels (
levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game ) - Scilit scholar ID (
author identifier on {{Q|77125337}} ) - وزن صرفي عربي (
A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes ) - باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة (
Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs ) - land degradation (
The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects ) - Research projects that contributed to this data set (
This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item ) - Platform height (
platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses) ) - extended by (addons for this item) (
Class of software this software is extended by ) - External identifiers: Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, identifiant Dezède d'un individu, SeqCode Registry ID, Openalfa street ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, TDKIV wikibase ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- [https://w.wiki/DZF7 2024 Population Census in Uganda] ([https://x.com/kateregga1/status/1900953102976512383 source])
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal/Liste des artistes de la collection
- Showcase Items: Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
- Showcase Lexemes: страсть (L166968) - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering."
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].
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:
- 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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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Hi Nthep! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:26, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #673
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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
- Revisiting the Twelfth Birthday Presents - if you haven't seen the birthday presents already, go check them out!
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
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID, The Atlantic topic ID, TechSavvy.de GPU ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, The College of Cardinals Report ID, NexusMods mod ID, Hiking Note Trail identifier, Hiking Note mountain identifier
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- SWIS-WEM Facility Code (
Unique identifier for facilities registered with the Australian Energy Market Operator for facilities operating in the South West Interconnected System Wholesale Electricity Market (SWIS-WEM Facility Code) ) - number of downloads (2) (
number of downloads of times this application or creative work have been downloaded ) - species protection status (
Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species ) - Number of Heads of Families (
number of family cards (KK) in an area ) - mother's maiden name (
maiden name of this person’s mother ) - External identifiers: FirstCycling team season ID, FirstCycling race ID, Dizionario della Musica in Italia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, Untappd beer ID, Catálogo Histórico de Teses e Dissertações da Área de História ID, The Sun topic ID, Databáze her platform ID, Rekhta Gujarati author ID, Itch.io tag ID, The Jerusalem Post topic ID, DVIDS Photo ID, LUX person ID, LUX group ID, LUX place ID, Shazoo tag ID, ідентифікатор особи в Бібліометрика української науки, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Climate Policy Radar ID, LUX concept ID, iNaturalist photo ID, identifiant Ordre national du Québec, LUX event ID, Cabinet minutes of the Federal Government ID, R-Sport match ID, Sport Express football match ID, CPJ topic ID
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
- 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: Australia
- 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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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2025
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Bodmin Jail
Hi, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bodmin_Jail&diff=prev&oldid=1283772956 this edit] is a copyvio too, of [https://www.bodminjail.org/discover/about-bodmin-jail/history/ the same site] as some of the others. DuncanHill (talk) 18:52, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
:gone. Nthep (talk) 19:03, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
::Thank you. I'll drop the editor a copyvio and a coi notice. I suspect the other new accounts on the page are related. DuncanHill (talk) 19:24, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #674
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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)]
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- beam energy (
kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator) ) - External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- interior decorator (
A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings ) - incompatible with (
significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity ) - warranty period (
warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator ) - Trafikplatssignatur (
Swedish station code ) - outcome 2 (
outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint ) - External identifiers: TechPowerup GPU ID, ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- [https://w.wiki/DjTs Plants missing a French description]
- [https://w.wiki/DjTv Sorting Organisations by the no. of subsidiaries it owns]
- [https://w.wiki/DhPF Popular German Family names]
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Govdirectory: Chile
- WikiProject: Bahamas
- Newest database reports: Items with identical Birth and Death dates - another way to identify duplicate items.
- Showcase Items: Game of Thrones (Q23572) - American fantasy drama television series
- Showcase Lexemes: umuyagankuba (L1215369) - "electricity" in Kirundi
Development
- 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].
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: European Union
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).
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''The Signpost'': 9 April 2025
Wikidata weekly summary #675
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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)]
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- beam energy (
kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator) ) - number of downloads (
number of downloads of times this application or creative work have been downloaded ) - Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System (
Romanization system for Taiwan Taigi or other Southern Min language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia ) - Newest External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, TechPowerUp GPU Specs Database ID, iNaturalist photo ID, Climate Policy Radar ID, LIBRIS library ID, Dizionario della Musica in Italia ID, Untappd beer ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy ID, KnowWhereGraph entity ID, GCMD keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, CBFC record ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- interior decorator (
A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings ) - incompatible with (
significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity ) - warranty period (
warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator ) - Trafikplatssignatur (
Swedish station code ) - outcome 2 (
outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint ) - output color (
color of the generated images ) - proposal of (
Qualifier for the statement {{P|31}} {{Q|64728694}} to state what the proposed thing is. ) - floral diagram (
picture on commons of a floral diagram of a Taxon ) - member of sequence or class of number (
The number is of a special form or class or member of a sequence ) - New External identifier property proposals to review: ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World, Steam Deck HQ game ID, Hardcore gaming 101 ID, torial username, BirdLife DataZone species ID, BirdLife DataZone site ID, Schulnummer Schleswig-Holstein, Kunstkamera ID, Corago singer ID, MoNA spectrum ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans La Croix, identifiant Meta-Doctrinal.org, CvLAC ID, OGDB genre ID, IGDB genre ID, WSGF taxonomy term ID, GameSpot platform ID, PerformArt ID, Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024
You can comment on all open property proposals!
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[[Steve Currie]]
Regard recent edits to this page which you deleted as they were tagged for copy violation. Please note:
(1) All I did was add references to the existing article text which existed prior to the last redirect (done for lack of references). Earlier edits also containing this material, going back several years, have not been marked for copyvio even though they contain the same said offending text.
(2)The copyright date on the Tumblr post dates from 2017. Text broadly similar to both the post and the most recent text appears in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Currie&oldid=643252568 this article version from January 2015]. Therefore it appears the Tumblr post is a plagiarism of Wikipedia, NOT the other way around.Romomusicfan (talk) 10:51, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
:@Romomusicfan Fair enough - revisions restored. Nthep (talk) 11:06, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks. Now how do I get {{u|Onel5969}} to respond? I am tempted to BOLDly reinstate my edit with the references to current version but am worried that he/she/they will just kneejerk escalate for repeating copyviol if I do.Romomusicfan (talk) 11:30, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
:::See my talkpage for a response. Sorry for cluttering up your talkpage Nthep. Onel5969 TT me 12:27, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #676
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week leading up to 2025-04-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #675.
Upcoming: Yunlin Liu Fang Tien Shang Sheng Mu OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Workshop April 27 Time: 09:30-17:00 UTC+8 at {{Q|708809}} Red Altar (Hongtan) .Past: Missed the Q2 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-04-16 (Q2 2025)
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
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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
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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 .
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Newest properties and property proposals to review
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the organization code of the organization item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}. ) - organization unit code (
the organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}. ) - Picture composition (
Description of a picture composition (design rules) analogous to the Commons category “:commons:Category:Picture composition” ) - MANDALA Tibetan Living Dictionary ID (
entry for a lexeme in the Tibetan Living Dictionary by MANDALA ) - Monarque régnant (
Person who has held or is holding the role of king, queen, sultan, or other monarch at the head of a kingdom or empire. ) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Moure's Catalog ID, MobyGames attribute ID, Número RPJ, Identificador de obra no Catálogo Mourisco, IPRESS ID, TeamUSA.com athlete ID, IEC document kind classification code, Europe PMC Preprint identifier, Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, PyPI organization name, PlayStation Museum product ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, A Dictionary of Public Health entry ID
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WikiProject Highlights :Taiwan Travel -aims to create travel related items about Taiwan Showcase Items : Pete's Dragon (Q18786473) - 2016, film by David LoweryShowcase Lexemes: Bill (L3855) - English noun (/bɪl/) that can mean "invoice", "proposed law", "bird's beak", or "a given name" :
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)
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: Chile Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences .Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects .Help write the next summary!
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Should something like...
...[https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=Ez+Gaitu+Inork+Geldituko&oldid=1285439649&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0 this] be revdel-ed too? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 15:47, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
:if the lyrics are still in copyright, then yes (I have done this one). Nthep (talk) 16:01, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
::aha, thank you for doing it! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:08, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
::Also, don't you think there is a better way of writing a "Personnel" section of an album article (Honkytonk Hollywood) without necessarily getting over 70% copyvio from the source? [https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=Honkytonk%20Hollywood&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0&noredirect=true See report] Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:14, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
:::with no opinion on whether the material is needed or not, you start hitting WP:LIMITED and then it becomes a judgement decision on whether or not the same content can be rewritten without becoming very tortuous and losing brevity or clarity. I'd probably let this one go as being difficult to rewrite. Nthep (talk) 16:32, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
::::Right! Just wanted to be sure someone else will look at it the same way I did. Thanks for your input. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:34, 24 April 2025 (UTC)