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Wikidata weekly summary #560

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
    • Gabrabot (Bulk upload Maltese lexeme data to wikidata from Gabra.)
    • MsynBot 12 (import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 21, 2023: Jim Hahn and John Mark Ockerbloom will be presenting on Penn Libraries' Linked Data Vision. They will discuss their framework for activities and goals around linked data, which includes both existing standards and new functionality. Additionally, they will share successes and areas where progress has not yet been made. The presentation will cover projects with Wikidata tie-ins, such as the Digital Scriptorium Wikibase project and the Deep Backfile copyright information project. The presenters also plan to have ample time for conversation with those interested in using linked data to bring new functionality to their libraries. Agenda
    • Wikidata and Wikibase - SEMIC workshop 2 physical hands-on workshop in Brussels on the 23rd of February (Register here)
    • If you are interested in organizing or joining the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events, you can apply for funds by March 20 via the Rapid Grants maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • Call for papers for the 10th Wiki Workshop in 2023 is out. Submit your 2-page abstracts by March 23.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #81, Eye

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog posts
    • New extension: Wikibase Export
    • BHL is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
  • Videos
    • Wikibase Export demo - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata using your smart phone (Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana) - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Social reproduction in the French cinema: Occupations of the parents

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/DisplayColourSwatches.js is a userscript that adds color swatches under color statements.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blog Series on Wikibase Community via Tech-News
  • Freelance technologists are needed to import personal profiles for politically exposed people (PEPs) into Wikidata
  • The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on February 24. Don't forget to vote for Wikidata proposals!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • stamp perforation (type of perforation for a series of stamps)
      • Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) value of a country)
      • transcribed by (person who has made a copy of a manuscript text)
    • External identifiers: Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Museu Paulista objects ID, Spreaker show ID, TVer series ID, TVer tarento ID, Padua Research Archive author ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Fonts in Use ID, Rate Your Music venue ID, beniculturali.it place ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno place ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Mosfilm movie ID, Mosfilm person ID, Adventure Game Studio game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Syoboi Calendar series ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), La grammatica italiana ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Sky News topic ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID
  • Query examples:
    • Historical timeline of WorldPride events: (2000 in Rome to 2023 in Sydney) (source)
    • Which glaciers have been named after Moby Dick characters?
    • Free software grouped by licenses (source)
    • German nouns with unparseable combines statements
    • Grammatical features used on English nouns and proper nouns

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on endpoints for getting labels and descriptions (phab:T325647, phab:T327881)
    • Started work on makign it possible to get statements from an Item based on the Property ID instead of just the statement ID (phab:T309021)
  • Entity Schemas: finalized technical investigation and making plan for the next steps
  • Working on more validation for valid URIs for units, globes and calendar models (phab:T102840)
  • Query Builder:
    • Adding support for additional data types (phab:T328528)
    • Adding a language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
  • Constraint: Putting finishing touches on showing the constraint clarification messages in the constraint violation popup (phab:T219037)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:18, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red March 2023

Women in Red Mar 2023, Vol 9, Iss 3, Nos 251, 252, 258, 259, 260, 261 Online events: New: Geofocus Mediterranean | Art + Activism | Alphabet run Q & R Continuing: Peace and Diplomacy (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman| Folklore See also: #Visible Wiki Women Wikimedia challenge to add more images of women to Commons Tip of the month: Mobile phone readers may only see the article "lead" – take some time to make it shine! Include something to keep people reading. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk) 12:54, 26 February 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #561

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))
    • ScikingBot (Task/s: The bot is going to fix interwiki links for the Lombard Wikipedia)
    • fromCrossrefBot (Task/s: Importing licenses for 1.45 million CC licensed papers from the Crossref April 2022 dump.)
  • Closed requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
    • MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 1st, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
    • Eager to discover the potential of Wikidata and Wikibase for semantics? SEMIC is organising a series of workshops that are very much hands-on. Join the first workshop online on 24 January 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET) via Webex. Register for the first event via this link!
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 March 3rd - 4th
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #82, Restaurant
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live Session: February 2023 log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #106 - YouTube
    • CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1 - YouTube
    • TWed Talk (21 Feb 2023): Sola Shirai on "Working with Wikidata" - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Inconsistencies on WDQS data - data reload on WDQS
  • Survey Results: Wikibase.Cloud user research. The goal of the research was to uncover usergroups and usecases.
  • Wikibase Suite Survey is now open! The goal is to understand what role Wikibase plays in your organization and identify what you need from Wikibase based on how you currently make use of it.
  • Wikibase.Cloud logo is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
    • Senior Product Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • Product Manager Wikibase Product Platform

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • Norwegian media rating (age rating system for motion pictures, video and tv content used in Norway)
    • External identifiers: National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID, SACEM Museum artist ID, WSJ article ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, World Sailing sailor ID, WiKirby ID, SFMTA ID, Full Fact ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID (new), Hungarian National Namespace person ID (new), Rate Your Music concert ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • rebuilt (year or date when the structure was reconstructed, rebuilt, repurposed or replaced by similar one (if the new and old structures have separate items, use P167/P1398 links instead))
    • External identifiers: Faber Music composer ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Wise Music Classical catalogue ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, L’Équipe team ID, encyclopedia.com.ua ID, L’Équipe coach ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of lighthouses in South America (source)
    • List of countries sorted by life expectancy (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (phab:T309021)
    • We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (phab:T329606)
  • Query Builder:
    • We added support for additional datatypes. Lexeme (phab:T329204), Sense (phab:T329206) and URL (phab:T329824) are already available now. Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207) are in progress.
    • We continued the work on making it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
  • Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (phab:T219037)
  • We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (phab:T102840)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:53, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #562

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Mbchbot 3 (Task/s: Adding missing YouTube channel ID (P2397) statements to YouTube handle (P11245) claims that are missing that mandatory qualifier)
    • MidleadingBot 4 (Task/s: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))
    • Biondibot (Task/s: Import us patent from a csv file)
    • bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 7, 2023: Lydia Pintscher and Silvan Heintze will tell us about the new Wikidata REST API and Silvan will demonstrate some of its aspects. Agenda
    • Do you want to present at Wikimania 2023? Program submissions are open now until the end of day Tuesday 28 March.
    • Wiki Workshop 2023 Call for Papers. The call is for extended abstracts (2 pages) of ongoing or completed work. The deadline is March 23.
    • Wikimedia Hackathon 2023: Call for projects & sessions is now open! The deadline to submit sessions is April 4th. The final schedule will be made public on April 15th.
    • Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
    • Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - 8 March 2023, on YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • This app places on a world map all the places that have their Wikipedia page
    • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2022 edition
    • WikiData on Video Games
    • Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!
  • Papers
    • Two years of explicit CiTO annotations (Q116676168), include how Wikidata and Scholia visualize citation typing annotations explain why research is cited
  • Videos
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 recorded livestreams: Day 1; Day 2
    • Wikidata for History of Science projects, by Martin Poulter - YouTube
    • How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia via categories - YouTube
    • How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia 2 - YouTube
    • LD4P3 - Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata - YouTube
    • Extracting political data & relations from Wikidata - YouTube
    • Operation of Wikidata and its centralized management of metadata linked to multiple databases (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata and higher education and research libraries (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The WMDE Wikibase.Cloud team is currently seeking individuals who are interested in participating in interviews regarding the pressing issue of data modeling. Please reach out if you'd like to participate.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • Lighthouse Directory page (group string for the item in The Lighthouse Directory)
      • colocated with (event sharing location, facility or organization with another, typically larger event)
    • External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary ID, HAA member ID, Spotify user ID, Vintage Fashion Guild label, Biographical Dictionary of Emigrants of Georgia ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, Swiss Games Garden game ID, ERA ID, Sky News topic ID, Russian Second League player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: FLOW ID, Electrodoc person ID, electrocd artist ID, Wattpad username, Virksomme ord ID, Identifier for an item in the norwegian database for political adresses ID, Kinoglaz film ID, DBpia article ID
  • Query examples:
    • Railway bridges in Germany and Austria (source)
    • Number of deaths in train wrecks per country (source)
    • Pairs of people who both have an English #Wikipedia article and are married to one another (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (phab:T309021)
    • We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T327882)
    • We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (phab:T330252)
  • Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
  • Query Builder:
    • We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T328764)
    • We have added support for the datatypes for Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207)
  • Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just 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 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) 17:52, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #563

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • BorkedBot 10 (Import values of subject named as (P1810), start time (P580), number of subscribers (P3744), point in time (P585), has quality (P1552) (You must be 18+ to view this community (Q83807365), private subreddit (Q72970624), restricted subreddit (Q99518895), quarantined subreddit (Q66364374)) (if applicable), end time (P582) (if applicable), based on subreddit (P3984)).
    • Bitbotje 2 (Task/s: remove redundant item aliases)
    • HubaishanBot (The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106), Geographic Names Server (Q1194038), OpenStreetMap (Q936) and Yemen General Census of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700) for only Yemen places these data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database and checked.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
  • New request for comments:
    • Wikidata as fans resources

• Events
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival
  • Past
    • Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala - March 10-11th 2023

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
    • The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
    • Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts
    • The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity
  • Papers
    • How can the social sciences benefit from knowledge graphs? A case study on using Wikidata and Wikipedia to examine the world’s billionaires
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #107 - Twitter
  • Podcasts
    • WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.

• Tool of the week
  • Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Modrinth project ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Wattpad username, The Counted person ID, L’Équipe team ID, Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, La grammatica italiana ID, CurseForge project ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs, Napster album ID, AIBA ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID, Epson Tour player ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Litres author ID, Artist Directory ID
  • Query examples:
    • Notable milkmaids
    • Places of birth or death of female painters in Brittany (source)
    • What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have? (source)
    • World map according to shared borders (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 10, 2023) (source)

• Development
  • Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764)
  • EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
  • REST API:
    • We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (phab:T330252)
    • We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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) 17:09, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 55

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 55, January – February 2023

• New bundle partners:
  • Newspapers.com
  • Fold3
• 1Lib1Ref January report
• Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --12:46, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #564

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • In this week's update by the Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions team, they are asking where the right place to store and maintain Abstract Wikipedia should be. All of the options involve Wikidata to some extent, some more, some less. If the content of Abstract Wikipedia is hosted on Wikidata, that would lead to an increased scope for the Wikidata community (and likely more contributors joining). But that is a decision the Wikidata community needs to be involved in as well. (Also, if you are interested, the Abstract Wikipedia updates might be worth to follow.)
  • Papers
    • Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform
  • Videos
  • Notebooks
    • Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.

• Tool of the week
  • User:BrokenSegue/shorten.js makes statements boxes for a particular property scrollable if it is too tall.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the WDQS current state and summarizes the suggestions with the most impact we’re exploring now, with a few in-progress.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: STS program ID, Electronic library encyclopedia.com.ua, Deutsche Synchronkartei person ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, Syoboi Calendar series ID, Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, Moscow University Herbarium ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, IRIS UNICAMPUS author ID, IRIS UNIECAMPUS author ID, IRISanRaf author ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, NTV program ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, Wise Music Classical work ID, IATE ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Rate Your Music work ID, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID, Epson Tour player ID, Digital Bhashakosha page number, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, Electrodoc person ID, Archivarta ID, CassiOpeA author ID, IRIS UNIROMA2 author ID, IRIS UNIROMA3 author ID, Sjøhistorie ship ID, electrocd artist ID, köztérkép ID, ForPost person ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Ivi title ID, Ivi person ID, Saint Petersburg Conservatory person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • system requirements (system requirements for video game or software)
    • External identifiers: Brazzers ID, Universo del corpo ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Tekstowo.pl artist ID, Tekściory artist ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, BSDB player ID, The Athletic team ID, The Athletic player ID, GSAFD ID, Feminae ID, IFTTT service ID, stock keeping unit, Federiciana ID, LIBRA Unine ID
  • Query examples:
    • Lexeme with a Sense related to a geolocated Item (source)
    • Highest TV seasons numbers (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
  • Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (phab:T214002)
  • Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
  • REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (phab:T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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) 16:55, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red April 2023

Women in Red Apr 2023, Vol 9, Iss 4, Nos 251, 252, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266 Online events: New: Gender studies | Health | Dance | Alphabet run S & T | Books by women Continuing: Peace and Diplomacy (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman| See also: Women in Red is supporting Every Book Its Reader through our Books by women event. Tip of the month: When writing about a book, check WP:NBOOK for notability, then see MOS:NOVEL, WP:NONFICTION or WP:POETRYSTANDARDS for guidance. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:53, 27 March 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wikidata weekly summary #565

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
    • WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
    • Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata by Bob DuCharme
    • Musings on the Wikidata backend by Magnus Manske
    • Announcing Our 2023 Wikidata Fellows by Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
    • Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor by Magnus Manske
    • How linked data can help with anonymization by Sri Kalidindi
  • Notebooks
    • Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata. See the csv file and the parquet file.

• Tool of the week
  • Declarator.org is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new), University of Barcelona authority ID, Kinoglaz film ID, MobyGames game ID, MobyGames company ID, MobyGames group ID, Feminae record ID, Alexandria UniSG person ID, OpenStreetMap node ID, literatura.lv ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • ISCED Attainment (ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label.)
      • first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, Boomplay album ID, Ticino Scienza ID, AML ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, NHF club ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Sinta affiliation ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata items which have both a UK Parliament Thesaurus ID and a subreddit (source)
    • Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (phab:T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
  • Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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) 17:56, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #566

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)
    • IngeniousBot 3 (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • Bitbotje 2 (Task: remove redundant item aliases)
    • MidleadingBot 4 (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))

• Events
  • Past
    • Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings (Etherpads: Meeting #1, Meeting #2)
    • WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes, slides)
    • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge (previous challenge: #84, Bones)
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske
    • Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base
  • Papers
    • In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata
    • Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python
    • A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
    • Can you trust Wikidata?
  • Videos
    • Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
    • Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube
    • WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube
    • A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube
    • Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube
    • Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube
    • Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Statistics on Wikidata property scopes

• Tool of the week
  • User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
    • Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • student retention rate (Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year)
    • External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID, China movable cultural relic ID, JMdict sequence number, TASVideos game ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, IRIS private universities (3) IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Authors from Latin America born today (source)
    • Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (phab:T321543)
  • REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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) 16:25, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #567

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
    • BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 6 (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 on May 11, 2023 has started.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #87, Beach

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata
    • How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations!
    • Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment
    • Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items
    • The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske
    • Finding Impossible Witches: Part One The Search Begins
    • Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as Linked Data Hubs: Dissemination of KU Leuven Libraries’ digitized collections
  • Papers
    • Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube
    • Bootstrap a News Signals Dataset using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service - YouTube
    • SEMIC community: Third workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase - YouTube
    • Wikidata The Making Of trailer Web Conference 2023 - YouTube
    • [Open Data Day Taiwan 2023] Wikidata Community Workshop Day 1 (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Fork of Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Mozilla launched the Responsible AI Challenge, in case someone wants to apply with a great Wikidata-supported project.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
    • Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
    • UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • information sign (property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board)
      • location URL match pattern (regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against)
    • External identifiers: INEP ID, Facebook numeric ID, Aligulac player ID, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID, Artist Directory ID, LIBRA Unine ID, Litres author ID, NHF club ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form)
      • part of other combined lexeme (qualifier on P5238 to indicate that a component appearing in a compound lexeme actually comes from the appearance of another compound lexeme)
    • External identifiers: MEL residence ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID, IRIS Lombardy IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Superheroes with a degree in the humanities (source)
    • Places of discovery of objects held in the Musée de Bretagne (colored according to the period of the object) (source)
    • People with far apart reported death dates (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
    • Articles in a specific venue citing retracted articles (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Minecraft: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft, along with items for user-generated content (like mods).

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T332139)
  • Query Builder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the language of the UI (phab:T328148)
  • REST API:
    • We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (phab:T323813)
    • The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/labels/en

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:19, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #568

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #88, Mountain

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • First grants announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to support technical innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects
  • Papers
    • Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Explorations and Consultations Report; English-language edition, Édition en langue française
    • Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness, Michael Mandiberg, Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 21–46.
  • Videos
    • Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov - YouTube
    • "Wikidata as a Seed for Web Extraction"presentation at the WWW 2023 conference - YouTube
    • IFLA SCITECH Webinar: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items - YouTube
    • Wikidata Workshop (adding books) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Wikidata + Books Workshop (how to add books to Wikidata) - YouTube
    • Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (Wikidata workshop Day 2 (in Chinese) - YouTube
  • Notebook
    • Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain
  • Twitter thread
    • How to reconcile data in another dataset with Wikidata and import additional data from there

• Tool of the week
  • Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The visual of the upcoming WikidataCon is out (announcement and details)
  • Christos started a Wikibase to collect and organise existing research-related resources about Wikibase. Feel free to add to it. researchwb.wikibase.cloud

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Patreon user numeric ID, Team Fortress Wiki ID, Federiciana ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, Aisberg author ID, OPENBS author ID, Bicocca Open Archive author ID, IRInSubria author ID, cybersport.ru player ID, Boomplay album ID, IRIS HUNIMED author ID, IRIS UNISR author ID, PubliCatt author ID, FantLab dictor ID, Portráidí ID, Kulturenvanteri.com ID, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Atlante Geopolitico ID, Musée Fabre ID, Musées Grand Est ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Shipbucket drawing ID
  • Query examples:
    • ATMs around Munich belonging to the Bankcard-Servicenetz interbank network (federated query)
    • Population growth in Ghana from 1960 onward
  • Newest database reports:
    • Deleted properties - Deleted properties that were used in items.

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (phab:T332139)
  • QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (phab:T328764)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (phab:T323813)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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) 16:00, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #569

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • Kristbaumbot 1 (Task: Add identifiers from Wörterbuchnetz to German lexemes)
  • New request for comments:
    • Creating properties which link to an archived website

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour April 24, 2023: Would you like to know how to join and use Telegram? Two regular Wikidata Telegram users will provide an introduction to Telegram and its available Wikidata channels. They will discuss how they use it, how it can provide help with Wikidata work, and how it can facilitate connections with other Wikidata users Event page
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #89, Ear
  • Past
    • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-04-19

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How to put an end to best book lists once and for all
  • Papers
    • Documenter l'histoire queer sur Wikidata (Documenting Queer History on Wikidata - French), John Samuel, Panel: Queer Data : les plateformes numériques d'archives, Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, Paris, 23 April 2023
    • Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base
  • Videos
    • Using PetScan and Wikidata Terminator, Mooré Wikimedia Community (in Mooré)
    • Wikidata Atlas: Putting Wikidata on the Map
  • Notebooks
    • Probability of having notable parents by occupation and gender
    • Living with Machines: Toponym recognition and resolution — input and output exploration
  • Twitter thread
    • Average number of words in Wall Street Journal articles by author gender

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/colour icons.css - is a Userscript to add colour to the editing icons. It uses green for add/save, yellow for edit, red for remove, orange for cancel and blue for help.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikibase newbie docs are here (to help to onboard new Wikibase users easier).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • handled, mitigated, or managed by (approach or method that can be used to address an issue or problem)
      • holds diplomatic passport of (country of the diplomatic passport held by the person)
    • External identifiers: Dailymotion video ID, Databáze sérií ID, Universo del corpo ID, Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, AML ID, AniList character ID, Amarkosh ID, Moly.hu author ID, Podcast Index ID, SINTA affiliation ID, Hall of Light developer ID, Hall of Light publisher ID, Hall of Light artist ID, Kinoglaz person ID, Michaelis ID, Kino1TV ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: KPU Plant Database ID, SoccerPunter team ID, HAL non-registered author ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Dizionario dei prodotti DOP e IGP ID
  • Query examples:
    • Administrative subdivisions with more than 10 million inhabitants (source)
    • Rivers in France over 50 km long (source)
    • List of mental disorders (source)
    • Paintings once owned by Red Flag Names (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 16, 2023) (source)
    • Place of birth of humans with Github username (source)

• Development
  • REST API: We continued work on making it possible to create or replace a label, or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)
  • EntitySchemas: We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas. It is now available on beta in a very bare-bones version but not ready for wider testing yet. (phab:T332139)
  • Ontology issues: We are evaluating the results of the survey we ran earlier this year.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:26, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red May 2023

Women in Red May 2023, Vol 9, Iss 5, Nos 251, 252, 267, 268, 269, 270 Online events: New: Alphabet run U, V, W | Disability | Women in Education | CEE women Continuing: Peace and Diplomacy (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman| See also: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2023/CEE Women - Wikimedia contest with postcards and prizes The Wikipedia Library: #1Lib1Ref - May 15th to June 5th Tip of the month: Use the Google translate app and camera on your phone to translate text from an article or book Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Wikidata weekly summary #570

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
    • BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))

• Events
  • Upcoming events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 2, 2023: Fudie Zhao will be presenting on Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects. Agenda
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #90, Sewing
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session (April 2023)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Creating Map Visualizations with Wikidata and Python, 24 April 2023, Jelle Vankerkvoorde
  • Videos
    • Open data and Wikidata: revolutionizing scientific research (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #109 - YouTube
    • Using MixandMatch gadget - YouTube
    • Back having fun with lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch
    • EMWCon Spring 2023 -YouTube
      • Synchronizing your own MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki content with Wikidata
      • Reasons not to use Wikibase (and reasons to do so)
  • Workshops
    • Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata Workshop at 16th Annual International Biocuration Conference (2023) (Q111430238)
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
    • Wikimentor Africa workshop - Learn how to report bugs, make feature requests and manage your tasks

• Tool of the week
  • Twitter Wikipedia Badge - is a Chrome extension for verifying a Twitter username using Wikidata. (code, Tweet)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WeChangEd is an ERC-funded research project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Channel One Russia Worldwide program ID, LSJ Wiki ID, Wastewater treatment plant in France ID, Musées Grand Est ID, INSPIRE-HEP literature ID, Musée Fabre ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Technic Platform modpack ID, Tatoeba sentence ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus root id
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Akadem organization ID, mosff.ru player ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Diritto on line ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, BSWW player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of where the presidents of BCALA were educated (source)
    • Number of Wikipedia sitelinks for Art Looting Investigation (source)
    • Family relationships of New Zealand MPs (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Piano Rolls

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like phab:T335578 and phab:T335581.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:50, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #571

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
  • Papers
    • Wikidata: The Making Of (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch)
    • The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge
  • Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch

• Tool of the week

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, TOOI identifier, Chess Programming Wiki ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • character in this lexeme (character(s) this lexeme consists of)
    • External identifiers: none
  • Query examples:
    • Mapping birthplace and place of death of female Dutch Resistance Fighters on a line (source)
    • Countries that have site links to French Wikipedia with a parenthesis in the title (source)
    • Map of libraries from Austria with ISIL-code or twitter-handle (source)

• Development
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests
  • (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module
  • Query Builder: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language.
  • Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (phab:T214002)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (phab:T323813)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:57, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #572

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • WikiRankBot (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661). "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking")
    • TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line)
    • Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m.
    • Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Deliberative Quality in Wikimedia Projects: Comparing Requests for Comments on Meta, Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Wikidata The Making Of (The history of Wikidata, from its inception to its creation and the first ten years of operation, up to 2022) - YouTube
    • ETD Wikidata Conversion Project, University of Washington - YouTube
    • Back having even more fun with Lexemes! - Twitch
  • Notebooks: Where did the Women Artists within The Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection Go To School?

• Tool of the week
  • tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects
  • re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme)
    • External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Humanities Commons member ID, Shipbucket ID, MEL residence ID, JMA weather station ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, GamesRadar+ ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Qualigeo ID, Ut ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Israel Composers' League composer ID
  • Query examples:
    • Name of languages ​​containing the words "old" or "ancient" (source)
    • Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" (source)
    • Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? (source)
    • Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 19, 2023) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Personal Pronouns (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
  • Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
  • mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 10:18, 15 May 2023 (UTC)