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Wikidata weekly summary #579
- Events
- Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands - Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.Event page
- Registration has opened for the workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.
- Tool of the week
- IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject)
- visited by (organisms attracted by this plant taxon and reported to visit it)
- Mastodon instance URL (the mastodon instance of/about the subject)
- beforehand owned by (person or institution that owned the subject just before stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
- afterward owned by (person or institution that owned the subject after stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
- solubility product constant (equilibrium constant for a sparingly soluble solid chemical substance dissolved in an aqueous solution)
- funded by grant (title or name of the grant funding this item)
- External identifiers: stats.fm artist ID, Zeno.org ID, World Arachnid Catalog ID, Springs and Fountains of Andalucía ID, TMDb collection ID, TMDB company ID, WGA work ID, Peacock ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
- External identifiers: Identifiant "Politique pappers", Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID, Holarse, wiki.ubuntuusers.de article ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Kialo ID, PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), PesticideInfo chemical ID, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage ID, Image Duplicator ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Musées Occitanie ID
- General datatypes:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Aikido
- Newest database reports:
- External identifier completeness - External identifier property use completeness.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (phab:T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (phab:T337720)
- Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (phab:334682)
- Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (phab:T335857)
- EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #580
- Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
- Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- quality is the result of process (quality that this process/activity directly correlates to and produces)
- External identifiers: theCrag ID, SEC Kerala code, Modern History Database person ID, Netflix person ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, PM20 film section ID, The Homicide Report person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- ISCED field (mapping of a particular course's local fields according to the International Standard Classification of Education)
- Romanian river code (River codes from ApeleRomâne)
- External identifiers: Artmajeur artist ID, UETK ID, Trésors de Nice ID, German University Collections PersonID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished work on accessing data for Properties (phab:T337720)
- We started work on supporting conditional HTTP headers for accessing Property data (phab:T338138)
- You can now add sitelinks to outreach wiki (phab:T171140)
- Query Builder: Fixed an issue with missing icons in the language selector (phab:T335754)
- EntitySchemas: Final polishing on the new datatype before wider testing.
- Wikibase REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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!
The Signpost: 19 June 2023
- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
- Featured content: Content, featured
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
Wikidata weekly summary #581
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.) (closed on 22 May without prior mention)
- TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings) (closed on 21 May without prior mention)
- Events
- Upcoming
- WikidataCon is happening later this year in Taipei and online. The call for proposals is now open.
- The role of Wikidata within the research lifecycle, Wednesday 21 June, 10am BST (UTC+1), online event hosted by the University of York, UK. International participation is welcome, despite "available to White Rose institutions only" on the booking page.
- The Fourth Wikidata Workshop is now accepting paper submissions until Thursday, 20 July 2023.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 23, 2023: Returning to Podcasts, we will be working on creating podcast episode pages. We will discuss how this episodic content can be transferred to other serialized items. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
- Webinar: Common European Data Space for cultural heritage (The ontology of Wikidata, how to interact with it for a better quality). Tuesday 20th June 2023, from 3.00 p,.m. to 5.00 p.m. CET. Register
- GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 scholarship application now open. Deadline is June 30, 2023.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #97, Poetry (started on 2023-06-19 12:01:21)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Videos
- Wikidata Lexeme Malayalam training (in Malayam) - YouTube
- Wikidata Lab XXXVII: Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine - YouTube
- Intro to Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian) - YouTube
- Setting up a Wikidata account (in Urdu) - YouTube
- Editing Wikidata Items for Parliament of Ghana Contest (Kusaal Wikimedia Community). See also: Introduction to Wikidata, How to Create a Wikidata Item, How to Add Labels and Description to Wikidata Items
- Africa Environment WikiFocus: Wikidata Training by Yamen Bousrih (in English and French) - YouTube
- Social Studies Campaign for Wikidata for Education project - YouTube
- Followup to the OBO Academy's Introduction to Wikidata (BioMed Orientation) - YouTube
- Wiki Workshop 2023: Session 1: Diversity and Bias in DBpedia and Wikidata, Session 5: How does Wikidata shape gender identities?, Session 11: Wikidata to Bootstrap an Enterprise Knowledge Graph, Session 11: Synia: Displaying data from Wikibases
- OpenRefine for Wikidata & WikimediaCommons - YouTube
- Wikidata SPARQL session for the Data Reuse Days - YouTube
- Documentation for Wikibase Cloud at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 – Athens, Greece - YouTube
- KGC 2023 Talk — The EU Knowledge Graph by Dennis Diefenbach, The QA Company - YouTube
- SS 2023 - Session 3: Wikidata for Classicists. The Example of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive - YouTube
- Notebooks
- Slides: Reuse in the Wiki World empowers engagement with Natural History Collections
- Tool of the week
- Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [GLAM] Volunteer Opportunity: 2023 LD4 Wikidata Working Hour Summer/Fall Series
- Want to make knowledge about #NaturalProducts accessible to everyone in more languages? Help us translate our project page.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- satellite view (image of the subject taken from outer space)
- External identifiers: The Homicide Report person ID, KPU Plant Database ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID, documenta archiv ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Israel Composers' League composer ID, Alabama Authors ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- HyperTextAPI
- Gottstein code (Gottstein code as a representation of a cuneiform sign variant)
- altesdresden.de object (altesdresden.de object)
- Moroccan administrative geographical coding - الترميز الجغرافي الإداري المغربي
- Moroccan administrative geographical coding
- External identifiers: COSL profile ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, NBC Olympics Athlete ID, European Bridge League ID, research.com ID, ComingSoon.it TV IDs, Team France profile ID, FIGC player ID, Theapolis theater ID, Theapolis actor ID, AVP player ID, Volleyball Canada ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, Korean Tour player ID, Austadiums ID, DEL player ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Which mountaineers died on Mount Everest ordered by their death date? (source)
- Gallery of people born in Brittany and named Jeanne, Jean or Yann (source)
- List of botanical collectors who have a death date but don't have a Bionomia ID (source)
- British MPs who resigned from the Commons mid-parliament on two separate occasions (source)
- Dutch members of parliament with a Mastodon account (source)
- [Data quality] [ Inside a given instance of (P31) inside same country, find possibles duplicates if they share same date : same kind of event same date in same country might be a candidate for review and merge
- [Calendars] What is the equivalent in Iranian Hijri of March 5, 1902?
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API:
- We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata.
- We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers.
- EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback.
- mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T329655, phab:T316767)
- Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (phab:T327510)
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #582
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the 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.
- Wikiconvention francophone: Opening of calls for communication and scholarship applications until July 14th.
- WikiIndaba 2023 Call for Submissions and Scholarship Applications. Deadline: June 30, 2023.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #98, Shoes (started on 2023-06-26 12:01:20)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of remembrance (in German) - YouTube
- Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata - YouTube
- Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in Wikidata, National Library of Greece - YouTube
- Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)- YouTube
- Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on Wikidata - YouTube
- From authority control to identity management - YouTube
- DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality - YouTube
- Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration Conference 2023 - YouTube
- Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study - YouTube
- KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art - YouTube
- Surveys
- Notebooks
- Tool of the week
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), Professor at Cologne univ. ID, Numista ruling authority ID, Suomen etymologinen sanakirja ID, Suomen murteiden sanakirja ID, Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- 諱 ()
- Date of declaration as a town (The date when a settlement is declared a town)
- Loss of town status (Date of loss of town rank)
- External identifiers: Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Alienor.org ID, The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, XWord Info author ID, WKF ranking ID, Composer's Union of Ukraine person ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, etymologiebank.nl ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Last words of authors (adapted from a query generated by ChatGPT) (source)
- List of American actors and actresses having a wikipedia page with parents having a wikipedia page
- (history) Where were the borders crossing between German Democratic Republic (Q16957) and West Germany (Q713750) ?
- Week 25, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject University of Washington Libraries - projects which individuals at the UW Libraries have done in collaboration with the Wikidata community.
- WikiProject New York Public Library - work underway at the New York Public Library (Q219555) to connect library data with Wikidata.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (phab:T338383)
- EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
- Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
- mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T339103, phab:T329655, phab:T329655)
- Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (phab:T327510)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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The Signpost: 3 July 2023
- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Incensed
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
Wikidata weekly summary #583
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: koavf 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 8 July 2023 13:16 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Wolverène Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: UrbanBot (Task: UrbanBot's task is to mass-add English descriptions to items that don't have one)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)
- Events
- Upcoming
- The third iteration of the WikiWomenCamp will be hosted in New Delhi, India, from the 20th to the 22nd of October 2023. Scholarship applications are now open.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour July 7, 2023: Let's collaborate to upgrade our community infrastructure! We'll transfer notes and content from Google Docs to our WikiProject subpages. We'll be practicing our Wiki markup skills and learning to manage Wikidata Project pages Event page
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #99, Breast milk (Challenge started on 2023-07-03 12:01:21)
- Past: The “Games & Literature” conference took place June 28th-30th at German Literature Archive Marbach (Q1205813), several sessions mentioned Wikidata (see for example Why we thought it was a good idea to build a DACH games database).
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Notebooks
- Tool of the week
- m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a Userscript that adds an arrow next to the main label (page title) which upon double click (a tap and a confirmation on touch devices) automatically makes the label's first letter lowercase for the current interface language. If there was already a matching alias it gets removed.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
- Scholia has a new aspect dedicated to profiling WikiProjects, e.g. toolforge:scholia/wikiproject/Q56241615 for WikiProject Invasion biology. Using it revealed inconsistencies across WikiProjects in terms of which properties they use (and how) to associate a page with a WikiProject, as discussed here.
- Introducing Wikibase World. The Wikibase registry has moved. Add an entry for your Wikibase if it's accessible over the open internet.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
- record of (signal over time this object is a physical representation of)
- orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement described using score notation)
- type of document(s) held (used to specify the type of document(s) contained in an archival collection or documentation file)
- External identifiers: French sports venue number, Challenges billionaire ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, mosff.ru player ID, Austadiums ID, Akadem organization ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia.com ID, QLIT ID, Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Kartvelologists of Georgia ID, Politique pappers identifier, altesdresden.de object ID, BFM.ru person ID, beachsoccer.com player ID, National Science Foundation award, BIBFRAME Hub ID, elibrary.ru article ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris work ID, Radiomuseum company ID, BSDB player ID, NBC Olympics athlete ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- elected on (Date when a person was elected to a {{P|P39}}, in difference to {{P|P580}} (= {{Q|Q28530236}}). {{P|P2715}} cannot always be applied.)
- collage combines images (collage composed of images)
- Nigerian registered company (RC) id (RC number (Registration Number), identifier assigned to a business by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Nigeria)
- Cent cols (A property to link Wikidata entries to the dedicated pages of each pass by the Cent Cols)
- Phonographic copyright (identifier for phonographic copyright)
- External identifiers: myjewishitaly.it ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Lemmy community identifier, Mythoskop ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara settlement ID, LFG player ID, Flashpoint database ID, Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, Wikibase World identifier, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, National Library of Colombia authority ID, CNR ExploRA author ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Conflation aims to identify and untangle conflated items.
- WikiProject Scotland's Accused Witches aims at producing structured data documenting witchhunts, and prosecuted Scotland's accused witches on Wikidata using the University of Edinburgh's landmark Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (1563 to 1736).
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (phab:T338141, phab:T338138)
- We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356), phab:T338383)
- Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
- mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.
- Wikibase REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #584
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: koavf 3 Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the 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.
- LD4 conference (YouTube)
- Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog- Tuesday, July 11, 2:30pm EST
- Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas - Tuesday, July 11, 11:30am EST
- Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) - Tuesday, July 11, 11am EST
- WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration - Wednesday, July 12, 11:00 am - 11:30 am
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
- How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base Wednesday, July 12, 10:00 am - 10:30 am ET
- Ongoing
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #100, Ants (Challenge started on 2023-07-10 12:01:24)
- Past
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- How to create a Wikidata Lexeme with ease - Beginner's Guide (in Twi and English) YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Duplicity is a tool on Toolforge that helps find articles on Wikipedia that do not have a Wikidata Item, and match them to an existing Item, or create a new one. (example for English Wikipedia)
- HasProperty.js displays presence/absence of specific properties (configurable) after the Statements heading. Clicking a property name will jump to that properties section. For absent property, clicking property name will jump to the end of the page.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Overview of potential solutions regarding survey on ontology issues reusers are facing have been published. Are there important pieces missing? Is there something you disagree with? Generally sounds sensible? Do add your thoughts.
- Wikidata development plan for Q3 has been updated. Wikidata:Development_plan
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- 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
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- excavated by (person who has conducted an archaeological excavation of a historic site)
- 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 ()
- External identifiers: Antenna Structure Registration Number, BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, Gameswelt 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Ontology issues: We published the overview of solutions and are looking for input on them now.
- mul language code: We continued work on it focusing on showing it in the right place in the desktop termbox (phab:T316767)
- Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356, phab:T338383)
- Vector 2022 skin: We continued work on improving the search display (phab:T327510)
- WMF Governance wiki is now connected to Wikidata so can be linked to in the sitelink section under multilingual sites (phab:T321967)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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!
The Signpost: 17 July 2023
- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
Wikidata weekly summary #584
- 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 PyPI)
- Events
- Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #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
- Papers
- OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction
- "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)
- 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 - YouTube
- Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube
- LD4 conference (YouTube)
- Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog
- Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas
- Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
- WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
- How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base
- Tool of the week
- 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. (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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- 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)
- Newest properties:
- 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 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #585
- 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 YouTube
- Ongoing
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Dataviz
- Wikicommunes (See also the thread on Mastodon)
- Tool of the week
- 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 link for UK red phone booths)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- 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.
- Newest properties:
- 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 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #587
- 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
- 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
- General datatypes:
- 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
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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)
- We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
- 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)
- Wikibase REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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!
The Signpost: 1 August 2023
- News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
- In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
- Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
- Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
Wikidata weekly summary #588
- Events
- Upcoming: 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
- Tool of the week
- WikiShootMe expanded to make it possible to find the Items close to pictures you took so you can upload and add them to them (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
- General datatypes:
- Deleted properties:
- Query example: Entry dates and discovery dates of the objects of the museum of Brittany (source)
- Newest properties:
- 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)
- EntitySchemas:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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!