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Coffeebreak12 help

Hi User:MartinPoulter! I am really grateful for your suggestions and help in alining the page of European Partnership for Democracy with the community standards. I have adopted all the change you adviced. Let me know how I can improve it again or if it's ready to be approved. Best regards, Coffeebreak12 17:14, 12 November 2021 (UTCC)

Wikidata weekly summary #608

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

• Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: Rock-forming minerals

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
  • Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
    • Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
    • Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
    • No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
    • Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
  • Notebooks
    • Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
    • Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
    • The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
    • Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
    • State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
    • An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.

• Tool of the week
  • Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
  • Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ‎WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, ‎PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, ‎Twitch numeric channel ID, ‎RPCS3 Wiki ID, ‎Black Games Archive ID, ‎Citra compatibility database ID, ‎DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, ‎IGN wiki article ID, ‎AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, ‎RPGFan game ID, ‎Arcade Hub ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
      • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
    • External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany (source)
    • Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
  • Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
  • Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at 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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Wikidata weekly summary #609

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.

• Events
  • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
  • Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.

• Tool of the week
  • WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, ‎HistoriaGames series ID, ‎Schnittberichte.com title ID, ‎Kemono Games game ID, ‎Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, ‎GamesMeter game ID, ‎GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, ‎Indie DB company ID, ‎NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ‎ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, ‎Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, ‎AFJV directory ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
      • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
      • creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
      • television judge ()
    • External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024 (source)
    • Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 52, 2023) (source)
    • Western composers until the end of the Renaissance (source)
  • Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
  • Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
  • Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.

• Development
  • The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Wikidata weekly summary #610

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

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
• New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
  • Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
• Papers
  • Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
  • Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
  • LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
  • Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
• Videos
  • Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
  • This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
• Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.

Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
  • (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
  • ‎plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
• Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, ‎MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, ‎The Criterion Collection spine number
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
  • Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
  • Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture (source)
  • Map of running/out of service railway stations in France
  • Bridges in the UK with photos (source)
  • Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) (source)
• Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
• Newest database report: children of unborn parents
• Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
• Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)

Wikidata weekly summary #612

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

Discussions

• New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

• Past
  • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
  • PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
• Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023
  • Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
• Papers
  • The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) (paper in Italian) - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
  • The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) (paper in Italian) - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
  • Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
• Videos
  • "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium(Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
  • Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
    • AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab)
    • Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

Tool of the week

• Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
  • working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
  • simulate (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
  • Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎ISzDb series ID, IFTTT service ID, National-Football-Teams.com team ID, Moviefone person ID, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID, Team Scotland athlete ID, Kicker team ID, goalzz.com team ID, vesti.kz team ID, ‎Am Faclair Beag ID, tourist information point number, Alexandria.dk person ID, Babelio serial ID, Moviebuff ID, RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju Word ID, Stage, Qué series ver ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • If non-metric ()
  • civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID, TopKar ID, IFOPT stop identifier, Flashback lexicon ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, HbVar ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London (source)
  • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
  • People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Media art - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.
• Newest database reports: Count of Senseless Lexemes per language
• Showcase Items: Mona Lisa (Q12418) - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
• Showcase Lexemes: grilldress (L1131949) - track suit for grilling in Bokmål

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Cinematography
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) -MediaWiki message delivery (Yɛltɔɣa) 17:13, 15 Silimin gɔli January 2024 (GMT)

Wikidata weekly summary #634

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.

Discussions

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

Events

• Past: The Lexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the 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.
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
  • Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe. Register here!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

• Automatic Structuring of text for Wikidata - User:BrokenSegue introduces their new tool.
• User:Zvpunry/CreateNewItem - This is a User script to easily add a new Item while editing a Statement and noticing that the desired Item is missing.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
  • music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
  • coin edge (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
• Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia article ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID, ‎Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
  • KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
  • Tüik mahalle id (Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Overcast episode ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, FEI horse ID, Google Play author ID, identifiant d'une personne sur Archelec, Standard Ebooks ID, Lojas com História ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, milononline.net entry ID, KANAL identifier, LAGL author ID, Alle Burgen, FC Krasnodar player id, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, GOArt databas, ArchWiki article, Star Wars.com, identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Argentina
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #644

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • (de) TIB Blog:The TIB project WikiRemembrance - The aim of the project was to develop a handout on digital culture of remembrance in a collaborative and participatory process. The project will be ending soon and you can register for the closing event (9 Oct 2024).
  • Correcting outdated facts in Wikidata - Anj Simmons takes us through an example of finding an outdated or inaccurate fact and correcting it with supporting references.
  • Adding citations between existing articles in Wikidata - About a command line tool written in Groovy to enrich Wikidata with citations between journal articles and other research output with DOIs
• Videos
  • Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Empowering Wikidata editors and content. Albert Meroño introduces a suite of tools to assist editors by recommending items to edit, detect poorly-supported item references and generating EntitySchemas to find items missing information.
  • (ar) Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Session 3: SPARQL Query - Houcemeddine Turki introduces how to forumlate and build SPARQL queries in the Wikidata Query Service.

Tool of the week

• User:Teester/CheckShex.js - a Userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", it uses pyshexy to validate the entity against the schema and displays whether the entity passes or fails.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
  • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
  • game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
  • Handwriting exaple (Sample image of the person's handwriting.)
• Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, ‎FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz, ‎Altar of Gaming character ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Yediot Books book ID, Mapcarta ID, VIRIN, cnkgraph person ID, Tabletopia game ID, cnkgraph book ID, cnkgraph poem ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, ‎CNES ID, ‎Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, ‎TV Maze character ID, Say Who ID, ‎Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram)
  • agent of action & agent class of action & agents of action have role (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • magazine capacity (magazine capacity or clip size of this firearm or weapon (real or fictional))
  • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Board Game Arena ID, BoardGaming.com game ID, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, Trakt episode ID, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Hindustan Times Topic ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, culture.ru organization ID, identifiant Encyclopédie des femmes tunisiennes, LMFDB knowl ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, MinDat Feature ID, BoardGameGeek game mechanic ID, Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), Ontobee id, newgrounds.com game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Emergency number by country size
  • Countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites
  • People with songs named after them
• Newest database reports: Lexicographical data/Ideas of queries/list of sense properties
• Showcase Items: atheism (Q7066) - absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
• Showcase Lexemes: 𒆠𒅅𒂵𒉘 (L1347328) - Sumerian verb, means 'to love'

Development

• (BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT) Wikidata Query Service graph split available in production; scholarly entity queries require migration by March 2025
• We ported many WikibaseLexeme browser tests from WebdriverIO to Cypress (phab:T355934)
• We’re working on improving the MUL support in the mobile termbox (phab:T373088)
• We’re updating the “label in language” constraint for MUL (phab:T370293)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Canada
• 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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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of September 2024. Please help Translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

• The Voting period for the 2024 Board of Trustees election is open until September 17. Go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote.
• Scholarship application for Wikisource Conference 2025 in Bali, Indonesia is open until September 20.
• WikiConference Nigeria 2024 will be held in Abuja, Nigeria from September 12–14.
• Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 will take place in Istanbul, Türkiye on September 20–22.
• Celtic Knot Wikimedia Languages Conference will take place in Waterford City, Ireland on September 25–27.
• Italian WikiConference will be held in Padua, Italy on September 27–29.
• Join Wiki Loves Onam, a photo campaign dedicated to documenting the vibrant and colorful festival of Onam on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign runs until September 30.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes.
• The Alternative Text suggested edits feature has now been fully deployed to production on the iOS App for Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and French Wikipedias! This feature, part of WE1.2, is designed to enhance how newcomers add alt text to images, aiming to improve accessibility and engagement. For more details, visit the project page and explore the new feature in the app!
• Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualization can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help test the charts.
• A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia’s APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
• More recent tech updates from Tech News.
• The latest status updates from Wikifunctions.
• Help us find WikiProjects or other online collaboration spaces!

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• Revamping Movement Strategy Grants with Hub Focus.
• Watch the recordings of Let's Connect Grantee Partner Learning Conversation: Conversation #1 with Wiki in Africa, Wiki Advocates Philippines, and Indic MediaWiki Developers UG and Conversation #2 with Wikimedia Community UG Malta, Wikimedia MA UG, and Wikimedia Canada.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Wikimedia Foundation defeats gambling magnate’s lawsuit in Germany.
• Wikimedia Indonesia and UNESCO Jakarta Team Up Against Harmful Content Online.
• Child Rights Impact Assessment at EduWiki Knowledge Showcase and more: Latest updates from the Global Advocacy team.
• Protecting the people: Some recommendations for safety while contributing to Wikimedia projects.

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• The Movement Charter Drafting Committee published their recommendations and bid farewell.
• Read updates from the July 2024 Wikimedia Endowment Board Meeting.
• Learn more about 12 candidates running for 4 seats on the Board by reading their statements and their answers to community questions.
• See the new members of the U4C following the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election, a new decision making group that will enforce the UCoC in specific circumstances.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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Wikidata weekly summary #645

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Looking for Aotearoa's next roving Wikipedian, a Wikidata Te Papa research expeditions publication & the Wikidata WikiProject IBC follow-up workshop - The Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large worked with multiple institutions in 2024, contributing to Wikidata by improving museum exhibition models, creating articles, and collaborating on various projects, including biological field trips and entomology, while also engaging with the local Christchurch editing community.
  • Wikimedians-in-residence assigned to add lexicographical data of 5 endangered languages of West Bengal - The West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, in collaboration with Jadavpur University, has appointed five linguistics students as Wikimedians-in-residence to add lexicographical data for five endangered languages of West Bengal to Wikidata, contributing to their preservation and digital accessibility.
  • Cooperation between National Library and Wikimedia CR was presented at Wikimania 2024 - Wikimedia Czech Republic presented their long-standing collaboration with the National Library at Wikimania 2024, highlighting joint educational and community initiatives, along with additional sessions on media education and successful campaigns during the event.
  • Vacancy Wikimedian in Residence for Wikipedia on Aruba - Aruba on Wikipedia project - Wikimedia Nederland is seeking a Wikimedian in Residence for the "Wikipedia on Aruba" project, which aims to make Aruban and Dutch Caribbean culture and heritage accessible on Wikimedia platforms, with applications open until 16 September 2024.
• Presentations: The knowledge graph of Wikidata in the context of the Human Cell Atlas - presentation by Tiago Lubiana (Q90076935) around their PhD defense
• Essay: User:ASarabadani (WMF)/Growth of databases of Wikidata

Tool of the week

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
  • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
  • game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
  • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
  • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
  • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
  • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
  • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, ‎FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz, ‎Altar of Gaming character ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Yediot Books book ID, Mapcarta ID, VIRIN, cnkgraph person ID, Tabletopia game ID, cnkgraph book ID, cnkgraph poem ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, ‎CNES ID, ‎Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, ‎TV Maze character ID, Say Who ID, ‎Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, ‎LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, ‎Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • magazine capacity (magazine capacity or clip size of this firearm or weapon (real or fictional))
  • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • publication type of scholarly article (Publication type of scholarly article)
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this item)
  • Political foundation (The property allows a link between a political party (usually) and its related political foundation, as is common in Germany, in the Netherlands or at the European level. The reverse property ("political party" or "political party affiliation", still different from P102 which is for individual membership) would be useful too.)
  • Medietilsynets filmdatabase ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Board Game Arena ID, BoardGaming.com game ID, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, Trakt episode ID, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, MinDat Feature ID, BoardGameGeek game mechanic ID, Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), Ontobee id, typeset.io journal ID, LWW journal ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, e-LIS ID, Dictionnaire des guérilleros et résistants antifranquistes ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, FightTime fighters ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of September 2024. Please help Translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

Wikimedia event at the United Nations

Talking: 2024 continues

• "Wikimania Katowice coverage travels around the world" – a curated list of community and media coverage of Wikimania 2024. Over 100 pieces so far have been published about the event.
• WikiForHumanRights will lead a conversation about the future of the campaign with the Africa region on September 25 at 15:00 UTC.
• Let’s Connect: “Technology for Language Diversity in Wikimedia” will take place on September 26 at 15:00 UTC.
• Wikisource Conference 2025, the deadline for scholarship applications  has been extended to September 29.
• Big Fat Brussels Meeting 9 will be held in Brussels, Belgium from September 29–30.
• WikiConference North America will be held in Indianapolis, USA from October 3–6.
• WikiIndaba Conference 2024 will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from October 4–6.
• Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS 2024): will be held in Hyderabad, India from October 4–5.
• ESEAP Community Call will be held on October 6 at 07:00 UTC.
• Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 is accepting submissions until October 6.
• The Language and Product Localisation team is hosting two office hours to discuss this year's plans and gather feedback from event organizers. The first session is October 5 at 16:00 UTC (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly), and the second is on October 6 at 03:00 UTC (Asia-Pacific friendly).

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• MediaWiki Product Insights: The latest edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
• Tech News: Find out about the new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page, the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and more recent tech updates.
• Wikidata Query Service: A new change to Wikidata Query Service will impact certain uses. The project will enter a transition period until the end of February 2025. For more details, visit the announcement page.
• Wikimedia Enterprise: Enhanced Free API Accounts: Recurring Credits and More Frequent Updates, early beta release of Structured Contents in Snapshot API, and early beta dataset release to Hugging Face.
• Wikifunctions: Status updates from September 20.
• Wikipedia Mobile Apps: Over 20,000 images have been added via the "Add an Image" feature on both iOS and Android (T372954)!
• Knowledge is Human: Read about ongoing work on the 2024 iteration of the "Knowledge is Human" public awareness campaign
• Server Switch: A server switch was completed successfully on September 25 with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 45 seconds.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Watch the latest showcase with the theme of Curation of Wikimedia AI Datasets.
• Conference and Event Fund: Updates and changes to the Conference and Event Fund program beginning in September 2024.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• UN Summit of the Future Action Days: Watch the Wikimedia event titled "The Power of the Commons: Digital Public Goods for a more secure, inclusive, and resilient world" at The Summit of the Future. This is expected to result in a negotiated Global Digital Compact, which represents the final phase of our movement-wide campaign to impact the text of the Global Digital Compact.
• Wikipedia and the Digital Services Act: Lessons on the strength of community and the future of internet regulation.

Foundation statements

• Ahead of UN General Assembly, Wikimedia Foundation calls on governments to ensure the future internet is shaped by communities for the public interest.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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Wikidata Weekly Summary #647

<languages/>

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

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

• New requests for permissions/Bot: QichwaBot - Task(s): Creating wikidata lexemes for the Quechua languages.
• Closed request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse statement creation and if so, how should they happen? - Closed due to lack of comments for longer than five years. Despite multiple suggestions, there is no clear consensus to move forward.</translate>

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

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

<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate> <translate>* Papers

• • A Systematic Review of Wikidata in GLAM Institutions: a Labs Approach - Presents a systematic review of Wikidata use in GLAM institutions within the context of the work of the International GLAM Labs Community (glamlabs.io). The results summarise academic literature on Wikidata projects. By G. Candela et al.
  • (es) Wikidata course in Spanish: Data for collaborative knowledge - Throughout October, the WikiLearn platform is hosting a course on Wikidata aimed especially at Latin Americans. Enroll here.
  • Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing - SHADOW is a fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning, its performance is measured on a knowledge base construction task using Wikidata triple completion. By Hanna Abi Akl.
  • Using Wikidata for Managing Cultural Heritage Information - The present study uses model wikidata elements as a basis and explores its dynamic formation into a cultural heritage information management tool within a museum. By D. Kyriaki-Manessi and S. Vazaiou.
  • Enriching Archival Linked Data Descriptions with Information from Wikidata and DBpedia - This paper investigates the potential to use information in archival records in a larger context for ArchOnto and aims to leverage classes and properties sourced from repositories deemed informal due to their crowd-sourcing nature. By I. Koch et al.
  • A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords - This paper utilizes primary data sources of OBO ontologies and MeSH keywords classified using SPARQL queries for RDF knowledge graphs, to contribute to the robustness and accuracy of collaborative biomedical knowledge graphs. By H. Turki et al.
• Videos
  • Serbian Novels on Wikidata: Project wikiELTeC & Tesla Part of Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 in İstanbul, this session presented by Filip Maljković charts progress on contributing Serbian literature to Wikidata.
• Dataviz
  • Find your most famous neighbour, a world map of notable people based on Wikipedia and Wikidata.</translate>

<translate>Tool of the week</translate> <translate>* Three new Userscripts for Wikidata - User:Lagewi has written 3 scripts to simplify reading references, explore property-value pairs in use for a statement or attaching a full bibliography to the end of the item page.</translate>

<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate> <translate>* OpenSactions:Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories - Using PETScan, generates a list of profiles of politically exposed persons by querying specific categories on Wikidata and extracting the entities.</translate>

<translate>Newest properties and property proposals to review</translate>

• <translate>Newest properties:</translate>
  • <translate>General datatypes: </translate>
    • game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
    • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
    • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
    • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
    • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
    • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • <translate>External identifiers: </translate>‎Altar of Gaming character ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Yediot Books book ID, Mapcarta ID, VIRIN, cnkgraph person ID, Tabletopia game ID, cnkgraph book ID, cnkgraph poem ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, ‎CNES ID, ‎Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, ‎TV Maze character ID, Say Who ID, ‎Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, ‎LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, ‎Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, ‎Ontobee ID, ‎typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID

<translate>* New property proposals to review:</translate> <translate>** General datatypes: </translate>

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

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

<translate>You can comment on all open property proposals!</translate>

<translate>Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Network of European Union Independent Fiscal Institutions
  • Opera singers who are sopranos with an article on English Wikipedia
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Newest database reports: Popular_items_without_claims
• Showcase Lexemes: هُئَڻُ L1126190 Sindhi verb (to be)</translate>

<translate>Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.</translate>

<translate>Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!</translate>

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Wikidata weekly summary #648

<languages/>

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

<translate>Events</translate> <translate>* Upcoming:

• • Wikidata Day 2024 at the Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus, New York - To celebrate Wikidata's 12th Birthday, a mini-conference with beginner workshops, lightning talks and keynote speeches will be held. October 26, 11am - 5pm EDT (UTC-4). More info, registration and full address on this Wikipedia event page.
  • The Wikidata Days 2024 in Bologna, Italy will take place on November 8th and 9th. Its program revolves around Wikidata for libraries and academia, and features a wide range of Wikidata-enthusiastic librarians and researchers from Italy. Registration is open until October 31st.
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Scholia hackathon on Oct 18-20, aimed at addressing changes related to the Wikidata graph split
  • Intangible Cultural Heritage on Wikidata - Hosted by Wikimedia Community Malta (WCM), November 8, 2024 18:00 - 19:00 CEST, Malta Fairs and Conference Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali, Malta
  • Edit-A-Thon: 50 States of Comics - Ohio, take part in this virtual event held October 10, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC-5).</translate>

<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate> <translate>* Blogs

• • Wikidata is a giant crosswalk file dbreunig.com describes how with a little DuckDB and Ruby and data from Wikidata, you can produce a cross-walk file of geographic entities.
• Videos
  • (ru) Wikidata Reconciliation Service - This video shows how to add QID's to a large number of person-entities, add descriptions and search by full name and years of life. Wikidata reconciliation for OR (Script: Github:Podbrushkin)
  • (fr) Data recovery on Wikidata for the DataViz project - PhilippGam presents the various methods to extract and sort data from Wikidata and use the wikidataMultiSearch tool.
  • Bridging the Digital Scriptorium Data Model and Wikidata to Expand Reuse of Manuscript Metadata Rose McCandless gives this lighning talk at the LD4 2024 Conference.
• Notebooks
  • Continental and country diversity of Wikipedia art</translate>

<translate>Tool of the week</translate>

• (fr) wikidata MultiSearch - search for a list of elements in Wikidata. A GPLv3 licenced tool built by Philippe Gambette allows you to search for a list of words in Wikidata and retrieve some associated Wikidata properties.

<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate>

• Are you building applications or services with Wikidata's data? We'd love to hear from you to help us figure out the future of accessing Wikidata's data.

• Wikidata: Event Organizers - If you are organizing or thinking about planning a Wikidata event, this new page listing the additional User rights the user-role 'event organizer' has will be a valuable resource. Including the process for applying for permission rights.

<translate>Newest properties and property proposals to review</translate>

<translate>* Newest properties:

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

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

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

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

<translate>You can comment on all open property proposals!</translate>

<translate>Did you know?

• Query examples:</translate>
  • Winners of the Guillaume Apollinaire Prize (1941-2023)
  • Libraries in Argentina (on Wikidata)

<translate>* Newest WikiProjects:

• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Lingnan University Library: Wikidata Pilot Project - Creating and improving entries for Lingnan University academic staff, as well as generating entries for the Library's digital collections and Lingnan theses and dissertations.
  • French Literary Prizes - Aims to coordinate the development of a database on French literary prizes (list of prizes, jury members, list of winners)
  • Cycling: 2025 Races - documenting the the planned Cycling races for 2025.
• Newest database reports: Abuse filter effectiveness - This DB report compiles a variety of statistics on combating vandalism.</translate>

<translate>Development

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

<translate>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.</translate>

<translate>Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!</translate>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of October 2024. Please help Translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

WikiArabia 2024

Talking: 2024 continues

• WikiArabia Conference 2024 will be held in Muscat, Oman, from October 25 to 27.
• WikiConvention francophone 2024 will be held in Québec, Canada, from November 2 to 3.
• AffCom, Case Review Committee (CRC) and the Ombuds commission (OC) are seeking new member applications from October 14.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure

See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Tech News: Updates on Dark Mode, Vector 2022 skin, CampaignEvents extension, and more on tech news.
• Translation suggestion: Sign up to participate in the test project, Translation suggestions: Topic-based & Community-defined lists, which will help organisers identify and add relevant content based on high-impact topics to their Wikipedia.
• Wikifunctions: Status updates from September 26.
• Wikipedia Apps: Check out the latest issue of the Apps Quarterly Newsletter!

Annual Goals Progress on Equity

See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• WikiWomen Summit: Event summary at Wikimania 2024.
• Let's Connect: Watch recordings of the session Technology for Language Diversity in Wikimedia.
• WikiLearn: The latest online learning opportunities created by Wikimedians for Wikimedians.
• Indonesia: Training for Indonesian Wikipedia Administrators to Safeguard Knowledge Integrity Ahead of the Regional Elections

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity

See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Mexico: Wikimedia Foundation files amicus brief in Mexico urging continued use of intermediary liability protections for user-generated content in Richter v. Google.
• Paraguay: Wikimedia Foundation to Paraguayan Supreme Court: Do not allow people to abuse the law to suppress legitimate information
• Global: Celebrating a legal victory in Germany against censorship, reflections on Open Culture strategic workshop, and more global advocacy updates.

Board and Board committee updates

See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Governance: Update from Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance Committee, a proposal to ask for help and co-creation in Movement Charter Mapping Exercise.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news

See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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Wikidata weekly summary #649

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

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 15 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 15 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729008000 Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: [1]
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST 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.
  • Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday: We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to:
    • create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc.
    • add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
    • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
    • publication type of scholarly work (Publication type of scholarly work)
    • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
    • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
  • External identifiers: Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, ‎Ontobee ID, ‎typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, ‎FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, ‎NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, ‎Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, ‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, ‎European Parliament document ID, ‎Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID, CIRDOC publication ID, CIRDOC author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
    • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
    • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
    • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
    • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
    • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
    • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
    • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
    • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
    • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
    • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
    • FAO fungal entity ID (identifier from FAO ontology for fungal gross anatomy)
    • TEES ID (Dictionary of Turkish literature works)
    • bais (Indicates a specific form of bias present in a media source, organization, or document, such as false balance, slant, or omission, affecting the representation of information.)
    • TDK lexeme ID (Dictionary created by the [[Q1569712|Turkish Language Association]])
    • Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID (Online Turkish encyclopedia created by [[Q6062914]] and [[Q19610584]])
    • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
    • Stated in unreliable source (used in the references field to refer to the database that is considered a unreliable source in which the claim is made)
  • External identifiers: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, Hlídač státu subject ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, Dwelly entry ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, Identifiant d'un document audiovisuel dans le catalogue de l'Inathèque, LWW journal ID, BAHRA ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, AniSearch person ID, identifiant Babelio d'un sujet, Identifiant d'une personne sur Madelen, ITTF PTT ID, Push Square series ID, VG247 series ID, dtf.ru person ID, Identifiant Libération d’un sujet, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, obastan.com dictionary IDs, Israel Railways Corporation Ltd station number, Spirit of Metal band ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Legaseriea.it player ID, Identifiant Actu.fr d’un sujet, Identifiant TF1 info d’un sujet, Identifiant RTL d’un sujet, Identifiant France Info d’un sujet, graphclasses.org ID, identifiant L’Équipe d'une équipe de basketball, identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur, eHLFL ID, Journalistikon.de-ID, NRW-Archivportal-ID, Taiwan Railways station number, DVIDS unit ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Amount of population in cities in Israel over the last 45 years (where this information is entered) (source)
  • Real numbers with their approximate value
  • Youngest people (born or died in Dresden) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • PatternsKilkenny - Patterns were devotional days on the day of the patron saint of a parish or area or at least an annually occurring day when the people of the locality held their personal devotions in a certain pattern (hence the name), i.e. "doing the rounds" around trees or other landmarks at the sacred site. This project tries to collate the records and memories of these patterns for County Kilkenny.
  • Deprecate P642 - The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property of (P642).
  • AIDS Walks - This project aims to collaborate with Wiki editors across the globe to highlight AIDS Walks anywhere in the world.
  • Temples in Roman Britain - The aim of the Wikiproject Temples in Roman Britain is to record and catalog sacred spaces in the Roman province Britannia between 43 to 409 CE. By sacred spaces, we include (for the moment) only built structures such as temples, sanctuaries and shrines.
  • LinkedReindeersAlta - Wikidata Entry: WikiProject LinkedReindeersAlta (Q130442625) supported by the Research Squirrel Engineers Network (Q73901970). Commons Category:Category:Rock Art of Alta
  • Nihongo - The goal of this project is to capture the Japanese Language Japanese (Q5287) in its entirety on Wikidata. We aim to give advice and establish standards for representing Japanese words as lexemes.
• WikiProject Highlights: Cycling/2025 teams
• Newest database reports: User:Ivan A. Krestinin/Vandalized Commons links
• Showcase Items: Queen of Katwe (Q20921603) - 2016 film directed by Mira Nair
• Showcase Lexemes: kuiri (L311934) - "cook" in Esperanto

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #650

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
  • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • publication type of scholarly work (type of this scholarly work (e.g. “systematic review”, “proceedings”, etc.))
  • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
  • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
• Newest External identifiers: pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, ‎FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, ‎NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, ‎Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, ‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, ‎European Parliament document ID, ‎Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID, CIRDOC publication ID, CIRDOC author ID, BAHRA ID, ‎AniSearch person ID, Dwelly entry ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Spirit of Metal band ID, Madelen person ID, Babelio subject ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, VG247 series ID, ITTF PTT ID, Lega Serie A player ID, Push Square series ID, LWW journal ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, Inathèque document ID, TEES ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • FAO fungal entity ID (identifier from FAO ontology for fungal gross anatomy)
  • bais (Indicates a specific form of bias present in a media source, organization, or document, such as false balance, slant, or omission, affecting the representation of information.)
  • TDK lexeme ID (Dictionary created by the [[Q1569712|Turkish Language Association]])
  • Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID (Online Turkish encyclopedia created by [[Q6062914]] and [[Q19610584]])
  • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
  • Stated in unreliable source (used in the references field to refer to the database that is considered a unreliable source in which the claim is made)
  • Google Plus code (Identifier for a location as seen on Google Maps)
  • reversal of (reversal of, inversion of)
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, dtf.ru person ID, Identifiant Libération d’un sujet, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, obastan.com dictionary IDs, Israel Railways Corporation Ltd station number, Identifiant Actu.fr d’un sujet, Identifiant TF1 info d’un sujet, Identifiant RTL d’un sujet, Identifiant France Info d’un sujet, graphclasses.org ID, identifiant L’Équipe d'une équipe de basketball, identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur, eHLFL ID, Journalistikon.de-ID, NRW-Archivportal-ID, Taiwan Railways station number, DVIDS unit ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Work of Art, DDB institution ID, Steam tag ID, SWERIK Party ID, Songkick area ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, KISTI institute ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, AELC author ID, Spirit of Metal IDs, Yandex Maps place ID, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, VK track ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Digital LIMC ID, Health Facility Registry ID, GamersGlobal genre

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Copyright duration by Country (source)
  • The Mississippi River and its tributaries (source)
  • List of countries sorted by life expectancy
• Newest WikiProjects: Dominio Público en América Latina - The Public Domain in Latin America Wikiproject aims to improve the data available in Wikidata on authors and works of authorship in Latin America, with emphasis on copyright status to identify whether or not authors and their works are in the public domain.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • India/Reservoirs
  • Every politician/Egypt
• Newest database reports: Most used properties
• Showcase Items: Moana (Q18647981): 2016 American computer animated film (2024-10-21)
• Showcase Lexemes: rehbraun (L863492): German adjective, means "light brown with a slight reddish tinge"

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of October 2024. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues

WikiForHumanRights

• How Wikipedia is staying relevant in the AI era: Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander talks about Wikipedia and AI in an interview with the ‘Rapid Response’ podcast.
• Wiki for Human Rights is organizing a call for South Asia, East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific communities to discuss the Future of WikiForHumanRights on October 24 at 10 UTC.
• Campaign Events tool: a call with the Indonesian communities will be hosted on October 25.
• Translation suggestions: Topic-based & Community-defined lists project: an office hour with event/campaign organisers and contributors who use Content Translation tool will be hosted on October 26th. Visit this page for more details.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Tech News: In issue 2024/42, read about the removal of the Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow), work on making text searches easier, and more. In issue 2024/43, read about improvements to mobile app navigation, temporary accounts pilot details, the Content Discovery Experiments, and more updates.
• MediaWiki: The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available and include updates on Wikimedia’s authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, and more.
• CampaignEvents extension: The CampaignEvents extension provides tools to create, manage, and promote collaborative activities on the wikis, such as edit-a-thons, meetups, and more. You can visit the Deployment page to learn how to get the extension on your wiki.
• Research: The Research team and collaborators are launching new research on editors with extended rights.
• New Content Translation feature: Translators using Content Translation on wikis with mobile support can now customize their article suggestions with 41 filtering options. This feature helps translators find relevant articles based on their interests for translation.
• Wikifunctions: We are collecting feedback on the "About" widget that shows more info about the functions. Also, status updates from October 11 and October 17.
• Temporary Accounts: Temporary accounts will begin rolling out on October 29 to production wikis with an aim to do a complete deployment by May 2025. You can see the deployment plan and timeline on the project page. As we rollout this change, it is likely that some tools (gadgets, user scripts, templates and bots) will be impacted by it. We have a developer FAQ to help developers with making necessary changes to their maintained tool(s). Please let us know on our talk page if you have any tool in mind that may need updating or if you need help with updating your maintained tools.
• Knowledge is Human campaign: The Communications department has just launched a public awareness campaign (landing page) to showcase how real articles are edited and highlight Wikipedia as a source of information ahead of the 2024 “Big English” fundraising drive.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki

• Grants: Announcing the newest round of Knowledge Equity Fund grantees.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Watch the latest showcase with the theme of Wikipedia for Political and Election Analysis.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Latest transparency report: The latest Transparency Report, covering the period from January to June 2024, is now live on the Foundation website. View also highlights from the report.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Elections: Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections has been announced.
• Affiliates Strategy: Implementation status of a new affiliate health criteria and changes to User Groups recognition process.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:52, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #551

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

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Addshore (successful) - Welcome back, Adam!
• New request for comments: Discussion about remove notability for ceb-Wiki

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: Wikidata celebrates 12. Birthday – These are the coolest queries from 112 million entries (in German) - "Wikidata, the world's largest free knowledge base, celebrates the 12th of October. Birthday. The open data graph for structured knowledge collects facts about numerous terms (items). Meanwhile, Wikidata includes an impressive 112 million items – and many more facts! On the occasion of Wikidata's birthday, we put the collected knowledge to the test and present the most exciting 12 queries that were created from it."
• Videos
  • 2024 Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2024 (in Chinese)
  • Wikidata Day NYC 2024 @ Pratt
  • Mapping the Accused Witches of Scotland in place and time
  • What is Wikibase and what is it used for? (in Spanish)
  • Introduction to Wikidata - Wikidata Days 2024 (First day) (in Spanish)
  • Is there a system to capture data in Wikidata automatically? (in Spanish)

Tool of the week

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

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
  • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • publication type of scholarly work (type of this scholarly work (e.g. “systematic review”, “proceedings”, etc.))
  • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
  • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
• Newest External identifiers: GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, ‎FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, ‎NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, ‎Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, ‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, ‎European Parliament document ID, ‎Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person (GND) ID, CIRDOC publication ID, CIRDOC author ID, BAHRA ID, ‎AniSearch person ID, Dwelly entry ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Spirit of Metal band ID, Madelen person ID, Babelio subject ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, VG247 series ID, ITTF PTT ID, Lega Serie A player ID, Push Square series ID, LWW journal ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, Inathèque document ID, TEES ID, DVIDS unit ID, Korean Basketball League player ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID, ‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, ‎eHLFL ID, Songkick area ID, DDB institution ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Steam tag ID, L'Équipe basketball team ID, AELC author ID, TF1 info topic ID, RTL topic ID, Actu.fr topic ID, FAO fungal entity ID, France Info topic ID, KISTI institute ID, Israel Railways station number, Digital LIMC ID, TDK lexeme ID, Yandex Maps organization ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
  • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, dtf.ru person ID, Identifiant Libération d’un sujet, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, obastan.com dictionary IDs, graphclasses.org ID, identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur, Journalistikon.de-ID, NRW-Archivportal-ID, Taiwan Railways station number, Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, Spirit of Metal IDs, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, VK track ID, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Health Facility Registry ID, GamersGlobal genre, Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID, PublicationsList author ID, Alexander Keiller Museum ID, Archivportal-D-ID, Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative, FID performing arts agent GND ID, Бессмертный полк ID, ITV News topic ID, FightTime fighters ID, Timenote.info Person ID, Thai railway station identifier, Dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Languages with more than one writing system
  • Map of all the libraries in the world present on Wikidata
• Newest WikiProjects: Psychology - This project aims to improve items related to psychology (Q9418).
• Showcase Items: Loomio (Q15975673): decision-making software to assist groups with collaborative decision-making processes
• Showcase Lexemes: کھاوَݨ / ਖਾਵਣ (L680110) mean to "eat" in in Urdu

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Unsubscribe · Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:29, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #652

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

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Andrebot 2 - Task(s): Will check Romanian local election information on MongoDB against current relevant Items, where differences occur, will create new Items, link them and update associated information.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: CarbonBot - Withdrawn by proposer.
• New request for comments:
  • Use of (P2389) as a qualifier - Should organization directed by the office or position (P2389) be allowed as a qualifier?
  • Rename Peakfinder ID (P3770) - The Peakfinder website content moved to cdnrockiesdatabases.ca, the associated Property (P3770) has been relabeled to crdb peak ID.
  • Importing WP & WMC categories into Wikidata - Project chat discussion on importing Wikipedia Category information to Wikidata items.

Events

• Wikidata 12th Birthday happened. Special thanks to all the community members who prepared a present for Wikidata's birthday. New tools, updates, games, sparkly animations and of course plenty of maps! Here's the list of presents, with all the links to try them. You can also watch the demo of all the birthday presents in video.
• Ongoing: The Africa Wiki Women-Wikidata Birthday Contest ends tomorrow, 05.11.2024. If you're participating, now's your last chance to earn some points by adding P106 to items on African women.
• Upcoming
  • A Scholia hackathon will take place on Nov 15-16 online — see Its documentation page for details.
  • Mois de l'histoire LGBTQ+ (LGBTQ+ History month): A month-long edit-a-thon from November 1 to 30 for documenting, improving and translating articles on LGBTQ+ topics on Wikidata and French Wikimedia projects.
  • Check out the call for papers for the "Wikidata and Research" Conference! It will be held at the University of Florence in Italy on June 5-6, 2025. You can submit your papers by December 9, 2024: Wikidata and research/Call

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

• Wikidata One Click Info is a multilingual extension that enables you to search for any item or word that you come across while reading or browsing online. It's an extension that makes Wikidata's data easy to retrieve and access. Install on Chrome browser or Firefox browser. A short video about the usage of the extension.
• CAT🐈: most frequent properties a simple Observable tool which shows the most frequent properties for a set of Items.
• Are you able to learn languages with Wikidata content? In Ordia there is the "Guess Image from Pronunciation" game you can use to learn a few words from various languages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: none
• External identifiers: DDB person (GND) ID, CIRDOC publication ID, CIRDOC author ID, BAHRA ID, ‎AniSearch person ID, Dwelly entry ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Spirit of Metal band ID, Madelen person ID, Babelio subject ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, VG247 series ID, ITTF PTT ID, Lega Serie A player ID, Push Square series ID, LWW journal ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, Inathèque document ID, TEES ID, DVIDS unit ID, Korean Basketball League player ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID, ‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, ‎eHLFL ID, Songkick area ID, DDB institution ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Steam tag ID, L'Équipe basketball team ID, AELC author ID, TF1 info topic ID, RTL topic ID, Actu.fr topic ID, FAO fungal entity ID, France Info topic ID, KISTI institute ID, Israel Railways station number, Digital LIMC ID, TDK lexeme ID, Yandex Maps organization ID, FightTime fighters ID, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID, L'Équipe basketball player ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, Journalistikon.de ID, graphclasses.org ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League player ID, PublicationsList author ID, Monument Counter ID, Spirit of Metal album ID, Spirit of Metal style ID, Spirit of Metal artist ID, Spirit of Metal label ID, Spirit of Metal place ID, Libération topic ID, Azerbaijani Explanatory Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Dialect Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Phraseology Dictionary ID, Lezgian Explanatory Dictionary ID, VK Music track ID, Taiwan Railways (TR) station number, GamersGlobal genre, Archivportal NRW ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
    • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
  • Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • TOPO id (unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...))
  • ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
  • romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
  • GND-BEACON-URL (URL of a website's BEACON file)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, dtf.ru person ID, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Health Facility Registry ID, Alexander Keiller Museum ID, Archivportal-D-ID, Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative, FID performing arts agent GND ID, Бессмертный полк ID, ITV News topic ID, Timenote.info Person ID, Thai railway station identifier, Dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID, Resistance in Belgium ID, Comprehensive Information System on Korean Historical Figures ID, SNCF station trigram, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, DBIS ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Game Jolt username, ANID Researcher Portal ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, Identifiant Mediapart d'un blogueur, WikiBaseball ID, Kultboy editor ID, TMDB network ID, identifiant Centre d'études Picasso, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Indo-European Lexicon ID, SGES monument ID, Ranker ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, Presisov večjezični slovar ID, Usito, Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID, FVDP Vietnamese dictionary ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:32, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin November Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of November 2024. Please help translate.

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WikiCelebrate Mārtiņš Bruņenieks

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues

• Commons Community Call: The first community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year will take place on November 21. The theme of this call will be about how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. The call will be hosted by Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann.
• Conferencia Justicia climática Perú 2024: Conference on climate justice, indigenous voices and Wikimedia platform will be held in Huaraz, Peru from November 8 to 10.
• Affiliations Committee: Applications for joining the Affiliations Committee is open until November 18.
• Ombuds Commission and Case Review Committee: Applications for joining the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee are open until December 2.
• Language community meeting: A language community meeting will be hosted on November 29, 16:00 UTC, discussing technical updates and problem-solving.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Advisory Council: The new Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) was announced. The PTAC will try to publish a set of community-validated recommendations that can serve as a potential 2-3 year blueprint for product and technical success.
• Wikifunctions: The Abstract Wikipedia team is working toward a rewrite of our backend services in a different programming language, likely Rust. More status updates.
• Tech News: The Guided Tour extension, which help newcomers understand how to edit, now works with dark mode; Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with potential features that making it easier for readers to discover information on the wikis. More tech updates from tech news 44 and 43.
• Temporary accounts: Logged-out editors on 12 wikis, including Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Danish, and Cantonese Wikipedia, receive temporary accounts now. This new account type enhances the privacy of logged-out editors and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. Read the new Diff post to learn more about temporary accounts.
• Mobile apps: The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app’s navigation, now available in the latest App store version.
• Campaign Events Extension: The Campaign Events extension is now live on two more wikis, Wikidata and the Spanish Wikipedia.
• Admin Retention: A survey on Wikipedia Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition is open until November 11. As part of the Foundation's 2024-2025 Annual Plan, the research team and collaborators are studying recruitment, retention, and attrition patterns among long-tenured community members in official moderation and administration roles.
• Knowledge is Human: The campaign web page, which educates visitors on Wikipedia’s model and why it’s trustworthy, has earned over 140,000 clicks. The campaign has increased pageviews on WikimediaFoundation.org by more than 50%.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki

• WikiCelebrate: From making a minor maintenance edit in 2005 to being one of the most appreciated Wikimedians in the Central Eastern European (CEE) region: this month we celebrate Mārtiņš Bruņenieks.
• Wiki Loves Earth: Mountains, Birds and Lakes – Central Asia Edition
• Future of Language Incubation: As part of a new Future of Language Incubation initiative to support language onboarding, Wikipedia is now live for five languages: Pannonian Rusyn, Tai Nüa, Iban, Obolo, and Southern Ndebele.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Global Advocacy: Reflecting on the anniversary of the EU’s Digital Service Act (DSA), Wikimedians share successes and public policy priorities at digital rights Global Gathering event, and more global advocacy updates.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports

• English Fundraising: The Road to Launch: Wikimedia’s 2024 English Fundraising Campaign.
• Fundraising Report: Our annual fundraising report for the 2023-2024 fiscal year is published. Last year, we had over 8 million donors giving an average donation of m:Fundraising/2023-24 Report0.58. We ran campaigns in 33 countries, 18 languages, and received donations from over 200 countries.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

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Wikidata weekly summary #653

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

Events

• Upcoming
  • Scholia Hackathon on November 15-16 (online)
  • Black Teacher Archive Wikidata Edit-a-thon - 19 November 2024, 9am - 12pm, Address: Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA. Improve information about individual educators and their relationships with Colored Teachers Associations, HBCUs, the Divine Nine, religious institutions, and political organizations like the NAACP and Urban League.
  • (German)Seminar: Using wikibase as an integration platform for morphosyntactic and semantic annotations of Akkadian texts - 19.11.2024, 16:00 - 18:00 CET (UTC+1), held at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin)
  • Wikidata in dance workshop - 3 December 2024, 1pm EST (UTC+5). A step-by-step workshop for members of the Canadian Dance Assembly. A free, expert-led series on how open data can benefit dance companies and artists.
  • Save the date: Wikimedia Hackathon to be held in Istanbul, Turkey on May 2 - 4, 2025
  • Apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2025 Scholarships open: 7th November-8th December 2024

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Bridging language gaps: How Wikidata promotes languages on the Internet (in German) about the Software Collaboration Project for Wikidata
  • Swiss server helps optimise Wikidata in the field of medicine - Wikimedia CH supporting Houcemeddine Turki in leveraging AI to transform Wikidata into a comprehensive, reliable biomedical resource, to bridge healthcare information gaps, especially in the Global South.
  • The story of African award winning scientists using Wikifunctions
• Videos
  • Wikidata's 12th birthday presents demos
  • (es) Open data for journalistic investigation: The cases of Wikidata and Poderopedia - This session held by Monica Ventura and Carla Toro discusses how open-data allow transparent analysis and evidence-based storytelling, enabling journalists to explore and verify complex information connections.
  • (it) AuthorityBox & Alphabetica - The use of Wikidata's data in the Alphabetica portal and in the SBN AuthorityBox gadget that can be activated via Code Injector in the SBN OPAC.
  • Semantic Wikibase - Kolja Bailly presents this session during the MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference Fall 2024 (Day 3).
  • (zh-TW) Wikidata lexeme editing demonstration - Wikidata Taiwan provide a demonstration to lexeme editing.
  • (es) OpenRefine - Wikidata Days 2024 - Conducted by Omar Vega from Wikimedia Peru, learn how to create a project with a list, clean and collate data, create a Wikidata schema and upload using QuickStatements.
  • (es) Merging duplicate Items in Wikidata
  • Introduction to Wikidata for Beginners in the Mabia communities

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Edits Heatmap: Real-time map that visualizes recent changes in Wikidata with geospatial markers showing the location of updated Items.
• Western world versus the rest of the world: a tool computing the distribution of mentioned entities in Wikipedia articles between Western world and the rest of the world.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Starting ca. today (11 November 2024), tools or bots which use the wiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected.
• Job vacancy Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikibase Suite allows institutions to create and host their own linked knowledge base with maximum customizability, this role will be responsible for the vision and strategy of this exciting product!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: none
• External identifiers: BAHRA ID, ‎AniSearch person ID, Dwelly entry ID, Rate Your Music track ID, Spirit of Metal band ID, Madelen person ID, Babelio subject ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, VG247 series ID, ITTF PTT ID, Lega Serie A player ID, Push Square series ID, LWW journal ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Enciclopedia bresciana ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, Inathèque document ID, TEES ID, DVIDS unit ID, Korean Basketball League player ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID, ‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, ‎eHLFL ID, Songkick area ID, DDB institution ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Steam tag ID, L'Équipe basketball team ID, AELC author ID, TF1 info topic ID, RTL topic ID, Actu.fr topic ID, FAO fungal entity ID, France Info topic ID, KISTI institute ID, Israel Railways station number, Digital LIMC ID, TDK lexeme ID, Yandex Maps organization ID, FightTime fighters ID, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID, L'Équipe basketball player ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, Journalistikon.de ID, graphclasses.org ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League player ID, PublicationsList author ID, Monument Counter ID, Spirit of Metal album ID, Spirit of Metal style ID, Spirit of Metal artist ID, Spirit of Metal label ID, Spirit of Metal place ID, Libération topic ID, Azerbaijani Explanatory Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Dialect Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Phraseology Dictionary ID, Lezgian Explanatory Dictionary ID, VK Music track ID, Taiwan Railways (TR) station number, GamersGlobal genre, Archivportal NRW ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, Health Facility Registry ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Immortal Regiment ID, dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID, Eurotopics ID, TMDB network ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
  • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
  • Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • TOPO id (unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...))
  • ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
  • romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
  • GND-BEACON-URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file)
  • Railway station linear reference (line & milestone) (Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure. A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.)
  • Data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
  • Use data collection instrument (Tool used by/in the subject to facilitate the collection of qualitative or quantitative data)
  • Data collection method (scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject)
  • World Snooker Tour tournament ID (Identifier for a tournament on the main website of World Snooker Tour (official site))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: case id (mainland China), Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, dtf.ru person ID, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Alexander Keiller Museum ID, Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative, ITV News topic ID, Timenote.info Person ID, Thai railway station identifier, Resistance in Belgium ID, Comprehensive Information System on Korean Historical Figures ID, SNCF station trigram, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, DBIS ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Game Jolt username, ANID Researcher Portal ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, Identifiant Mediapart d'un blogueur, WikiBaseball ID, Kultboy editor ID, identifiant Centre d'études Picasso, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Indo-European Lexicon ID, SGES monument ID, Ranker ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, Presisov večjezični slovar ID, Usito, Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID, FVDP Vietnamese dictionary ID, FNAC author ID, CAMRA Experience pub ID 2, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, Everand author ID, Phish.net Venue ID, El Moudjahid tag ID, bruker-ID i Store norske leksikon, teams.by national team ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Measuring points uuid, DEX '09 entry ID, Marktstammdatenregisternummer (Einheit), Paramount+ video ID, Gerbang Kata ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, NBA G League player ID, Basketballnavi.DB player ID, Football Kit Archive ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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

Wikidata weekly summary #654

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

• DBLP to Wikidata - This tool is for adding scholarly articles to Wikidata utilizing data from DBLP. It also provides article authors with a tool to enhance Wikidata with associated entities, such as missing co-authors or conference proceeding entities. Demo video & Github repo

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Observable: Example SPARQL Queries Provenance Index LOD

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: TEES ID, DVIDS unit ID, Korean Basketball League player ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID, ‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, ‎eHLFL ID, Songkick area ID, DDB institution ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Steam tag ID, L'Équipe basketball team ID, AELC author ID, TF1 info topic ID, RTL topic ID, Actu.fr topic ID, FAO fungal entity ID, France Info topic ID, KISTI institute ID, Israel Railways station number, Digital LIMC ID, TDK lexeme ID, Yandex Maps organization ID, FightTime fighters ID, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID, L'Équipe basketball player ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, Journalistikon.de ID, graphclasses.org ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League player ID, PublicationsList author ID, Monument Counter ID, Spirit of Metal album ID, Spirit of Metal style ID, Spirit of Metal artist ID, Spirit of Metal label ID, Spirit of Metal place ID, Libération topic ID, Azerbaijani Explanatory Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Dialect Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Phraseology Dictionary ID, Lezgian Explanatory Dictionary ID, VK Music track ID, Taiwan Railways (TR) station number, GamersGlobal genre, Archivportal NRW ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, Health Facility Registry ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Immortal Regiment ID, dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID, Eurotopics ID, TMDB network ID, Kultboy editor ID, WikiBaseball ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, ANID Researcher Portal, TOPO ID, DBIS Resource ID, ITV News topic ID, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, El Moudjahid tag ID
• Newest General datatype property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
  • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
  • Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
  • romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
  • GND-BEACON-URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file)
  • Railway station linear reference (line & milestone) (Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure. A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.)
  • Data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
  • Use data collection instrument (Tool used by/in the subject to facilitate the collection of qualitative or quantitative data)
  • Data collection method (scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject)
  • World Snooker Tour tournament ID (Identifier for a tournament on the main website of World Snooker Tour (official site))
  • study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work)
  • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services)
  • Open Library Collection (Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics)
  • scientific illustration (a scientific or technical illustration of this subject)
  • thesis submitted for (academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
  • meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.))
• External identifiers: case id (mainland China), Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, dtf.ru person ID, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Alexander Keiller Museum ID, Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative, Timenote.info Person ID, Thai railway station identifier, Resistance in Belgium ID, Comprehensive Information System on Korean Historical Figures ID, SNCF station trigram, Game Jolt username, Identifiant Mediapart d'un blogueur, identifiant Centre d'études Picasso, Indo-European Lexicon ID, SGES monument ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, Presisov večjezični slovar ID, Usito, Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID, FVDP Vietnamese dictionary ID, FNAC author ID, CAMRA Experience pub ID 2, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, Everand author ID, Phish.net Venue ID, teams.by national team ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Measuring points uuid, DEX '09 entry ID, Marktstammdatenregisternummer (Einheit), Paramount+ video ID, Gerbang Kata ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, NBA G League player ID, Basketballnavi.DB player ID, Football Kit Archive ID, Electronic Language International Festival Person ID, ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier, Gallimard author ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID, Zvuk album ID, Chtyvo author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • List Authors by work language (Latin)
  • Return Lexemes of Month and Day in the filtered languages
  • Hip Hop artists by place of birth
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Helvetic Archives - coordination of data ingests and workshops related to the HelveticArchives, operated by the Swiss National Library.
  • Scholia, 2024 Surveys - assists with the planning, conduct, analysis and communication of a user survey for Scholia.
  • Authors by writing language (Latin) - Wikidata list for the Biography WikiProject.
• Newest database reports: Entities without description - find items missing a description in a chosen language.
• Showcase Items: Darius I (the Great) (QQ44387)
• Showcase Lexemes: Vrimle (L712968) This Lexeme is 'teem'ing with forms (Bokmål).

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 11:30, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin November Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation from November 7 to November 21, 2024. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues

Scholarships open for Wikimania 2025

• Conversation with the trustees: Speak directly with the Wikimedia Foundation trustees about their work at the next Conversation with the Trustees on 27 November from 12:00 – 13:30 UTC.
• Wikimedia Hackathon: Registration is now open for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, May 2–4, 2025.
• Language Community: The next language community meeting will be held on November 29 at 16:00 UTC.
• Wikimania 2025: Application for scholarship to attend Wikimania 2025 in Nairobi is open until the end of December 8.
• Central Asian WikiCon: The Central Asian WikiCon 2025 will take place on April 19–20, 2025, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Applications to be part of the Program and Scholarship Committee is open until November 30.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Tech News: Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions; Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. Learn about the latest tech updates from tech news 45, 46, and 47.
• Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions now has a new Type: rational numbers. They expand the ability to deal with numbers considerably, allowing us to work with fractions and decimals, and not just whole numbers anymore. More status updates.
• Temporary accounts: We are rolling out temporary accounts for unregistered (logged-out) editors for more wikis including Romanian, Serbian, Danish, and Norwegian Bokmål.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki

• Language & Internationalization: The fifth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter is available. Some key highlights: Mooré Wikipedia is live; Keyboard Layouts for Multiple Languages Added; New Projects Added to Translatewiki.net.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Watch the latest showcase which looked at external factors that help different language versions of Wikipedia thrive.
• Wikipedia Library: What's new in the Wikipedia Library?
• Tulu Wikisource: Welcoming Tulu Wikisource.
• CEE Meeting 2024: Highlights from Central Asian community members at the CEE Meeting 2024.
• Let's Connect: Let's Connect Learning clinic on Gender Sensitivity Training within Wikimedia communities was held on November 22.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports

• Audit reports 2023-24: Highlights from the fiscal year 2023–2024 Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports.
• Wikimedia Enterprise: Financial report of Wikimedia Enterprise for the fiscal year 2023–2024.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Updates: The Board met in Katowice, Poland on August 5 and held its quarterly business meeting before Wikimania. Learn more about the outcomes of the meeting.
• AffCom: The Affiliates Committee has resumed User Group recognition work after a pause to improve the User Group recognition process.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
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• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:18, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #655

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

Discussions

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

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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

Tool of the week

• Guess Image from Pronunciation is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts.
• ABECTO is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export (Tweet)
• Wikidata Infernal is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. (blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • picture of this person doing their job (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
  • ISCC (ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing)
• Newest External identifiers: Kultboy editor ID, WikiBaseball ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, ANID Researcher Portal ID, TOPO ID, DBIS Resource ID, ITV News topic ID, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, El Moudjahid tag ID, SGES monument ID, DEX ’09 entry ID, Electronic Language International Festival person ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Paramount+ video ID, Le Club Mediapart blogger ID, Phish.net venue ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work)
  • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services)
  • Open Library Collection (Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics)
  • scientific illustration (an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.)
  • thesis submitted for (academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
  • meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.))
  • UMC rating (Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC))
  • Non-binary population (number of non-binary people inhabiting the place)
  • role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work)
  • bequest income (The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier, Gallimard author ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID, Zvuk album ID, Chtyvo author ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai IDs, EU Corporate body code, SBOID, Waymark code, Radio Algeria tag ID, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier, ThePWHL.com player ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of Swedish municipalities colored by Wikipedia article length (source)
  • Timeline of deaths from disasters in Spain (source)

• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Aargauer Bibliografie - WikiProject for the coordination of data ingests and Wikipedia workshops related to the official bibliography of the Aargau Cantonal Library, operated by Bibliothek und Archiv Aargau (Switzerland)
  • WikiProject Taiwan/Amis - collects information related to the Ami culture, including statistics and activity records.
  • Rwanda - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc...) relating to Rwanda Rwanda (Q1037)
• Newest database reports: A list of Items with a sitelink to English Wikipedia but without any Statements
• Showcase Items: Cueva de las Manos (Q223385) - cave with cave paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina
• Showcase Lexemes: bezczelny (L2781) - Polish adjective that can mean "impudent" or "brazen" in English

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hi MartinPoulter,

This is to let you know that File:Book of the Fixed Stars Auv0333 Orion.jpg, a featured picture you uploaded, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for December 2, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-12-02. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! :Jay8g [V•T•E] 21:01, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in the 9th century AD, the book was written in Arabic, the common language for scholars across the vast Islamic territories, although the author himself was Persian. It was an attempt to create a synthesis of the comprehensive star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest (books VII and VIII) with the indigenous Arabic astronomical traditions on the constellations (notably the Arabic constellation system of the Anwā'). The original manuscript no longer survives as an autograph, however, the Book of Stars has survived in later-made copies. This image from the book shows the constellation of Orion, in mirror image as if on a celestial globe, and is from a copy in the Bodleian Library dated to the 12th century AD.

Ilustration credit: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

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Wikidata weekly summary #656

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

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: ThesaurusLinguaeAegyptiaeBot - Task(s): Creating and updating Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian and Coptic lexemes and ancient Egyptian text artifact items. It is also to maintain links to the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae project via approved properties.
• New request for comments: Schema Virtual Tour - User:Brechtd would like feedback on determining a data model and schema for Wikidata items that are an instance of virtual tour(Q2915546) - See Schema Proposal - Virtual Tour for more info.
• Closed request for comments: Create items for Property proposals - Despite a spirited discussion with many comments both in favour and opposition, no consensus was reached.

Events

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

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Research
  • Statement Signals: Wikidata usage on other Wikis: A new research report is available. Explores what trace Wikidata data is measurable on other Wiki pages and proposes initial metrics for measuring Wikidata statement usage on Wikimedia content pages. Also suggests methods to improve data analysis and collection. PDF is available on Commons
• Blogs
  • Celebrating Wikidata’s 12th birthday across the world - Wikidata celebrated its 12th birthday in October and November 2024, with a series of global events and activities aimed at commemorating the platform's contributions to the open knowledge movement, engaging its community of volunteers, and highlighting the significant role Wikidata plays in the digital landscape. By Dan Shick
• Papers
  • Beyond the Library Catalogue: Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata - This paper explores how libraries can leverage Wikidata to enhance resource discoverability, foster interoperability, and integrate into the global knowledge ecosystem. By Omorodion Okuonghae (2024).
  • A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords - Enhancing Wikidata’s biomedical knowledge by integrating OBO ontologies and PubMed’s MeSH keywords, addressing gaps, improving classification accuracy, and verifying relations for stronger interoperability and accuracy. By Chebil et al. (2024).
  • Class Order Disorder in Wikidata and First Fixes analyzes class order violations in Wikidata's ontology using SPARQL, evaluates fixes, and offers solutions through improved tools or community involvement. By P. Patel-Schneider and E. Doğan.
• Videos
  • Edit a Wikidata Item and Lexeme - The Tyap Wikimedia User Group produced this tutorial on editing as part of the Wikidata 12th Birthday celebrations for the Wikidata @12 Data-a-thon.
  • State of the art in combining OpenStreetMap and Linked Data - Covers Linked Data basics, its potential with OSM, and popular methods for linking, extracting, combining, and querying data from both sources. Jump to (Wikidata)
  • (正體字, CN Trad.) Getting Started with Wikidata - An introduction and overview to Wikidata and some associated tools such as ORES and LiftWing.
  • (正體字, CN Trad.) Wikidata Basic Editing Tutorial - This session was given as part of the COSCUP '24 conference on the OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Agenda Track.
  • LLM-based natural-language representations for SPARQL queries over Wikidata and DBpedia - LORiS: This tool can help you understand complex SPARQL queries by converting them to natural language.
  • Towards an Open NLI LLM-based System for KGs: A Wikidata Case Study - At the 7th ISRITI 2024 conference, Jaycent Ongris shows how RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) has been used in a natural-language question-answer platform to directly query Wikidata.
  • How knowledge representation is changing in a world of LLM's - Denny Vrandečić gives this keynote session at the SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference.
  • the Capacity to Grieve Once More - Alexandros Kosiaris of the Wikimedia Foundation explains changes made to make Wikipedia more stable and prevent outages, including how it calls and fetches data from Wikidata. Session given at SREcon24.

Tool of the week

• LoRiS - Generate natural-language descriptions of SPARQL queries via LLM's.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata:WordGraph: Google released the WordGraph dataset as a belated present for Wikidata’s 12th birthday. The dataset contains 968,153 forms in 39 languages.
• Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikimedia Deutschland has an open and exciting vacancy for a Product Manager of Wikibase Suite. Apply!
• Tools or bots which use the wiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected. (This was previously announced 2024-11-11 but didn’t actually take place yet.)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • picture of this person doing their job (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
    • ISCC (ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing)
  • External identifiers: Kultboy editor ID, WikiBaseball ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, ANID Researcher Portal ID, TOPO ID, DBIS Resource ID, ITV News topic ID, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, El Moudjahid tag ID, SGES monument ID, DEX ’09 entry ID, Electronic Language International Festival person ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Paramount+ video ID, Le Club Mediapart blogger ID, Phish.net venue ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work)
    • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services)
    • Open Library Collection (Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics)
    • scientific illustration (an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.)
    • thesis submitted for (academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
    • meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.))
    • UMC rating (Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC))
    • Third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
    • role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work)
    • bequest income (The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.)
    • Audio tour ()
    • Augmented reality tour ()
    • Virtual reality tour ()
    • extension that populates category (analogous to {{P|4329}} for tracking cat:s populated by extensions of MediaWiki, linking to extension causing the population)
    • CUATM statistical code (7-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova)
    • CUATM unique identification code (4-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova)
  • External identifiers: ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier, Gallimard author ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID, Zvuk album ID, Chtyvo author ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai IDs, EU Corporate body code, SBOID, Waymark code, Radio Algeria tag ID, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier, ThePWHL.com player ID, Radio Algeria tag ID (Arabic), Identifiant L'AF au champ d'honneur, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans Vidas, Open Source Security Foundation Best Practices Identifier, OpenSSF Best Practices ID, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language entry, Identifiant sur Mémoire des avocats, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary ID, Wurfhand, University Bibliography Tübingen ID, ZSL Authority ID, PUG authority ID, Three Decks class ID, HCERES expert ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

Development

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

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)