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Weekly Summary #632
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-17.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Mdann52 bot - Task(s): Updating callsign, frequency and FCC ID of US Radio Station items from FCC database.
- M2Ys4U-Bot - Task(s): Import data about candidates standing for election in the 2024 United Kingdom general election.
- Looking ahead
- Lexico Days 2024 is coming up. June 28 - 30, there will be a packed programme of presentations, discussions and workshops on Lexicographical data. This is an online event.
- Wikidata Workshop for Botanists at the XX Intl. Botanical Congress, July 21 - 27, 2024, Madrid, Spain.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Diff Blog: Why Wikimedia (and Wikidata) is an antidote to disinformation - Wiki Movimento Brasil discuss how Wikidata has equipped researchers, activists and the public the ability to safeguard truths about human rights abuses during the civic-military Brazilian dictatorship between 1964 - 1985.
- Making location based timelines with Wikipedia, Wikidata and mojeek - Tara Calishain of Calishat blog.
- (de) 20 Years of WMDE - scroll down the timeline and see what Wikimedia Deutschland has done in its 20 years of existence!
- Papers
- Linking Named Entities in Diderot's Encyclopédie to Wikidata - This paper describes the annotation of more than 10,300 of the Encyclopédie entries with Wikidata identifiers enabling them to be connect to the graph of structured data. By Piere Nugues.
- Towards a linking between WordNet and Wikidata - The authors propose linking the 2 described reosurces through hapax legomenon and natural language processing techniques to create new connections and uses. By J. McCrae & D. Cillessen.
- Videos
- WikiWednesday Webinar – Increasing Education & Outreach through Wikidata & the Wiki-Commons - Victoria Stasiuk and Navino Evans of the Digital Literacy for GLAM show how museums and galleries have opened up their collections through Wikidata and Commons and increase education, outreach and volunteer engagement strategies.
- What is Wikidata? How to use Wikidata? - Asaf Bartov hosts this informative session on Wikidata at the Wikimania Singapore 2023. If you're attending Wikimania 2024, this session will prepare you for other Wikidata-related sessions.
- Creating a Lexeme Database from Scratch - The runup to Wikimania Katowice has begun. Refresh yourself for upcoming sessions with this Wikidata basics workshop hosted by Leon Liesener.
Tool of the week
- Gestapo.Terror.Places (in Lower Saxony 1933-1945) - This app displays on a map of lower Saxony areas of interest or significance of the terror-related crimes of the Gestapo during WWII.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the final set of rules for the WDQS graph split.
- Programming Languages ranked by Sitelinks in Wikidata
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
- 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 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, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not))
- ecosystem type (type of ecosystem that the item represents)
- construction time (Construction time refers to the time which was needed to build a certain building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially in former times)
- Nom dans la langue locale ()
- YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
- coin edge (Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering.)
- ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
- External identifiers: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, MODI ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Douban Personage ID, Canadian Great War Project person ID, stiga.trefik.cz, PMC journal ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID
- General datatypes:
- Deleted properties:
You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Assoc. Football - Euro 2024 - for best practices on UEFA Euro 2024 items.
- Bulgarian Elections - for describing data related to elections in Bulgaria.
- ARS3D - statements and properties for an African Red Slip ware 3D artifact data model.
- WikiProject Highlights:
- (de)Theorie und Praxis in Wikidata - User:Matthiasb uses examples of Highway intersection classification on Wikidata of locations in and around Berlin to highlight inconsistencies between the data model and legal classification. By highlighting a considerable number of differences in a relatively small geographic area, these comments provide further context on an earlier discussion within the German Wikipedia community on integrating Wikidata further into Wikipedia articles.
- Newest database reports: Badge Stats - How are badges being applied in Wikidata, which items have the most Good or Featured Articles? Savvy editors can use this to enrich said articles in their own Wiki.
- Showcase Items: Mordor - A desolate volcanic plain of nauseous gases and shadows. J.R.R Tolkien's blighted land is this week's showcase.
- Showcase Lexemes: вода - A Russian word for a clear, vitality-giving liquid, of course it's Water.
Development
- EntitySchemas: We are preparing for the rollout of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
- Wikibase REST API:
- We are continuing the work on the route for modifying an Item (phab:T342993)
- We are working on improving errors and error messages in the API
- Query Service UI: We fixed a bug. The example dialog was empty and not showing any examples (phab:T366871)
- We changed the datatype of two Properties to external ID as requested (phab:T367174)
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: Gambling
- 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 #633
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-24. Please help Translate.
- Past: The 200th online Wikidata meetup in Swedish was held.
- Upcoming: Lexicodays, online event dedicated to Lexemes on Wikidata, will take place on June 28-30. It takes place across time zone and both in English and Indonesian. Check the program and find the access links on the event page.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: 20th Century Press Archives – history in newspaper clippings, made accessible by ZBW and Wikimedia. The blog discusses how ZBW and Wikimedia collaborated to digitize and make accessible the 20th Century Press Archives, integrating its metadata into Wikidata items and providing fresh access to 3.8 million digitized pages from raw microfilm1.
- Notebooks: Dashboard of European Parliament
Tool of the week
- Wikidata in Prometheus - Prometheus is a non-commercial image archive for art and cultural studies. It hosts images from a variety of image and media databases and now works can be connected with Wikidata.
- New Mix'n'match feature: For lists of (full or auto) matches where both the MnM entry and the Wikidata Item have coordinates, it now shows the distance between them in the description. (source)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning a brief survey to understand the various ways people contribute to the project and identify user contribution patterns. A request has been made for a CentralNotice banner to deploy the survey to a broad audience. Your feedback, comments, and questions on this request are welcome: m:CentralNotice/Request/Wikidata Community Survey 2024
- The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from July 1 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)
- 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 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
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Nom dans la langue locale ()
- YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
- coin edge (Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering.)
- ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, stiga.trefik.cz, European Education Thesaurus ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Devri ID, OpenCitations Meta Identifier, IGN franchise ID, Plex person key, Overcast episode ID, OBJ ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, UNIBO professor ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, FEI horse ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Multilingualism - organizes work around achieving 100% Wikidata multilingualism for every language with MediaWiki internationalization support. It is initiated, developed & supported by Wikimedia Language Diversity community volunteers.
- NAVISone
- Newest database reports: Identical labels and descriptions
- Showcase Items: Kofi Annan (Q1254) - 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
- Showcase Lexemes: ʒirilana (L719353) - Dagbanli proverb that translates to "liar"
Development
- [Breaking Change Announcement] Upcoming Changes to Wikibase: EntitySchema data type
- EntitySchemas: We prepared for the release of the new data type to link to EntitySchemas in statements on July 2nd.
- Mul language code: We picked up the remaining issues before enabling it by default on Wikidata
- Wikibase REST API:
- We completed the route to modify the data of an Item (phab:T342993)
- We continued improving and reworking errors (phab:T366172, phab:T366175)
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: Cameroon
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #634
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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.
- 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:
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #635
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-08. Please help Translate.
- 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.
- Registration for Wikimania 2024 is open! In-person participants: please register until 26 July, 11:59 p.m., UTC. Virtual participants can register anytime. If you received a scholarship from the Wikimedia Foundation, you will receive an email with a registration code and instructions.
Tool of the week
- User:Teester/EntityShape.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", checks whether each statement and property conforms to the schema. It then displays a summary at the top of the Item for each property indicating whether they conform or not. It also adds a badge to each statement and each property on the page indicating whether they conform or not.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata teams' development goals for the third quarter of 2024 have been updated: Wikidata:Development plan
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- 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)
- EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
- Newest External identifiers: 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, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, Star Wars.com 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)
- myfixguide.com (Photos about how to disassemble hardware)
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot)
- Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
- Imperial University of Dorpat student ID (matriculation number of a student of the Imperial University of Dorpat)
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly. Example: Hazel K. Bell (Q70226489))
- WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
- 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, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, FEI horse ID, Standard Ebooks 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, identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb), identifikátor osoby ve Filmové databázi (FDb), ScienceDirect journal ID, Iraqnla Book ID, islamway authority ID, Hermitage Museum artist ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, autoritateak.eus, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Thinkwiki article
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- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/commonsmerge - Merge candidates based on same commons category
- Showcase Items: Ferdinand Magellan (Q1496) - Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
- Showcase Lexemes: bergkant (L1083157) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "the top edge of a mountain"
Development
- EntitySchemas: The new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements has been released.
- mul language code: We are preparing the release.
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- 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: Armenia
- 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 #536
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-15. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: SpinachBot - Task/s: AI agent-enabled question answering through the creation and execution of complex SPARQL queries on Wikidata. Users tag the bog with wikidata-related questions, and it tries to come up with an answer by iteratively creating SPARQL queries.
- Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-07-10
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- An Intelligent System: What I learned through taking an introductory Wikidata course - The author, Anne-Christine Hoff, dispels misconceptions about Wikidata. She highlights that it is a relational communication system, not solely bot-driven, and allows users worldwide to add localized data in multiple languages, creating a self-structuring repository of information
- Merge and diff - blog post by Magnus about adding new properties (taxon data speficially, NCBI, GBIF, and iINaturalist) to the AC2WD tool. If you have the user script installed on Wikidata (see tool below), AC2WD will automatically show up on relevant taxon items.
- Documenting Women Artists Through Wikidata - this project reveals how works by women artists can be given greater public visibility.
- Dagbani Lexemes (how-to-workshop in Dagbanli) - increase the vocabulary and standardize existing entries.
- Papers: Automatic Generation of Hindi Wikipedia Pages" based on information from Wikidata
- Videos
- Online workshop Upskilling in Wikidata for maximum impact IBC 2024 - Recording of the virtual Wikidata workshop given on the 9th of July 2024. An onboarding and introductory event in anticipation of a full in-person workshop to be held at the International Botanical Congress 2024 in Madrid on the 21st of July 2024
- Connecting University Art Collections Wikidata Demo
- Notebooks
Tool of the week
- Relationships between two Wikidata items a new tool hosted on Observable which looks at all statements involving a pair of Wikidata items.
- User:Magnus Manske/ac2wd.js - This script adds an "AC2WD" link in the tools sidebar. When you click on it, it uses the AC2WD tool to check the item for certain Authority Control IDs (eg VIAF). It then checks these AC datasets for statements (and more AC IDs). It will then add any new information it found as new statements, or add more references to existing statements where possible. A green checkmark will be appended to the link if data was added (reload the page to see), otherwise a "—" if no new data was available.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine 3.8.2 was released
- Awesome Wikidata: Shape Expressions (Entity Schemas) - Tools for creating, editing, and generating entity schemas
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
- coin edge image (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)
- EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
- writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
- last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
- Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
- Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
- myfixguide.com (photos about how to disassemble hardware)
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- Newest External identifiers: 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, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, All castles, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist 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)
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot)
- WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, FEI horse ID, Standard Ebooks ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, Hermitage Museum artist ID, Thinkwiki article, Wiley Online Library journal ID, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, Nintendo Life company ID, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, Helveticat ID, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Museums in Russia ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, ARABTERM entry ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Frauen im Widerstand ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID
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- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Human Cells - dedicated to improve our coverage of information about these fundamental entities that compose organisms. The project focuses mainly on two kinds of cell classes: species-agnostic classes, such as neutrophil (Q188417), and human-specific classes, such as human neutrophil (Q101405102).
- Newest database reports: Descriptions containing Q-Id
- Showcase Items: Lucy (Q13365715): female given name
- Showcase Lexemes: Nachbar (L230775): "someone nearby" in German
Development
- Wikibase REST API: Continuing to improve error handling and error messages.
- EntitySchemas: Fixed issues that popped up after release (phab:T369149, phab:T369155, phab:T368010)
- Query Service graph split: Adapting constraints that make use of the Query Service to be able to deal with 2 endpoints (phab:T369079)
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: Albania
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #637
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-22. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- DannyS712 bot - Task/s: I want to get approval for a bot with translation admin rights that will automatically mark pages for translations if and only if the latest version is identical to the version that is already in the translation system, i.e. only pages with no "net" changes in the pending edits.
- DerIchBot - Task/s: Adding data about schools provided by the German and Austrian governments to wikidata.
- DifoolBot 5 - Task/s: Change reference URLs into the related ID property and merge references with the same ID property.
- AroundTheBot - Task/s: Automated import of Albanian nouns with IPA from Wiktionary, with the long-term goal of using this data to do pronunciation-based comparison/word evolution between languages.
- Past: Wikimedia Indonesia hosted the 2024 Data Visualization Competition from June 5 to 18. The event featured data visualizations (posters and graphics) and short essays using data from Wikidata. Visit the competition page (in Indonesian) to view the winning entries.
- Upcoming: Wikidata's 12th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2024. Feel free to browse the documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area, get funding, and get in touch with other organizers.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers:
- Representación de datos abiertos con Wikidata Query Service (Q126917814). This paper details the Wikidata Query Service, for the creation of data visualizations. All visualization options available in the WQS are explored, accompanied by example queries that introduce the implementation of these visualizations. By Ángel Obregón-Sierra and Silvia Cecilia Anselmi.
- Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models - with CUBE, a benchmark built out of Wikidata, to evaluate cultural awareness and cultural diversity of text-to-image models (Kannen et al, 2024)
- Videos: OpenRefine import into Wikidata of data from the BnF catalog: books by Marguerite Van de Wiele (in French)
Tool of the week
- Paulina, a new tool for exploring public domain works.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMF Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) invites interested volunteers to apply. As part of the movement strategy recommendation for "Coordinating Across Stakeholders," the PTAC will bring technical contributors and the Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- coin edge image (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)
- EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
- writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
- last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
- Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
- Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
- myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- Newest External identifiers: 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, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
- object of action & object class of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
- Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
- schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
- Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, Thinkwiki article, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, The New Mithraeum ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID, French Bathing water ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, mandumah ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID
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- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Reference Verification - a research and development project aimed at helping Wikidata editors check the quality of external references based on various types of AI/ML models.
- NZWomenPhotographers - aims to improve information about New Zealand women photographers, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
- Newest database reports: Items with P569=P570 - Items with instance of (P31) --> human (Q5) and the same year in date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570) (2024-07-22)
- Showcase Items: Crawford (Q20731004) - family name
- Showcase Lexemes: water (L3302) - (S1) common liquid substance (S2) chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen (H₂O) (S3) a body of water, usually a river, a lake, or an ocean
Development
- mul: We fixed the last blocker for the limited MUL rollout to Wikidata on July 29th (phab:T362917)
- EntitySchemas:
- We fixed a misplaced background color in EntitySchema (phab:T369283)
- haswbstatement searches now work for EntitySchema statements (phab:T369495)
- We’re investigating how to make EntitySchemas searchable by label (phab:T362005)
- Query Service: preparation for the graph split is continuing by the Search Platform Team. We started looking into adapting the constraints checks for it (phab:T369079)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #638
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-29. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- GergesBot 2 - Task/s: Edit label when order is added in ar:ويكيبيديا:طلبات نقل عبر البوت (Transfer requests by Bot).
- UmisBot - Task/s: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata Days Bologna 2024, Italian language conference dedicated to Wikidata for libraries and research, taking place in the frame of Wikidata’s 12th birthday, on November 8-9 in Bologna, Italy.
- Wikimania starts on August 7. Here is a list of sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. If something is missing, feel free to add to it, including any Wikidata meetups you may be hosting.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- "Sharing the world’s paintings on Wikidata" By Martin Poulter for the Cultural Content Substack
- WikiEdu: What I learned taking an introductory Wikidata Course - Anne-Christine Hoff, associate professor of English at Jarvis Christian University, describes her experiences and learnings from taking an intro to Wikidata course, provided by the WikiEdu.org, a project of the Wiki Education Foundation.
- Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs - This study investigates the behaviours, communication patterns and interactions of the core small Wikidata community that are responsible for 80% of its content, in order to future contribution and participation. By E. Koutsiana et al.
- A Wikidata-Based Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources - This paper presents KIF, a Wikidata-based framework for virtually integrating heterogeneous knowledge sources and discuss how it was used to solve a real integration problem in the domain of chemistry (involving Wikidata, PubChem, and IBM CIRCA). By G. Lima et al.
- Press release: Arricchimento dei dati di authority di SBN attraverso il confronto e lo scambio con Wikidata (in Italian): ICCU, the institute coordinating the biggest Italian OPAC (the OPAC SBN, involving more than 7 thousands libraries), has just finished enriching about 16200 nearly empty authority records with data taken from the respective Wikidata items (Wikidata items link to SBN authority records through P396); this announcement describes in detail the enrichment work, which started in June 2023; for more information (and bibliography) about the collaboration between ICCU and Wikidata, see d:Wikidata:Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche/SBN (in Italian)
- Videos
- Intro to Wikidata - This intro to Wikidata was provided for participants of the International Linguistics Olympiad 2024, held in Brasília. Presented by Artur Corrêa Souza and Éder Porto, organised by Wiki Movimento Brasil.
- Mining and Modeling Text using Wikibase - the University of Trier is building a knowledge graph on French Enlightenment novels 1751 - 1800 with the use of Wikibase.
Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/ShowIDs.js - This user script adds entity IDs in brackets after links.
- Common values, yet another Observable notebook. This one looks at common values between two Wikidata item pages.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- KDE Itinerary, KDE's travel assistant app, gets more Wikidata integration.
- The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback to evaluate "default values for all languages" (mul) in the Termbox. Please share your thoughts on this 5-10 minute anonymous survey: https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata-default-values-feedback
- The Wikidata (integrations) for Wikimedia projects team have released a progress report on their ongoing research project, investigating the "State of Wikidata usage on other wikis". Available on the Research page, alternatively on Commons.
- The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- coin edge image (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)
- EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
- writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
- last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
- Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
- Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
- myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
- object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
- Newest External identifiers: 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, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
- Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
- schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
- Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Manhom Arabic Profile ID, Thinkwiki article, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID, French Bathing water ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, mandumah ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Political Dictionary entry, United Nations Digital Library ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, FDC ID, 365scores player ID, xdaforums, GamingOnLinux Database ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Military Equipment in Policing - Project to connect police equipment defined as military equipment to capabilities, uses, manufacturers, descriptions, etc.
- Quran - to collaborate on Quran-related topics and organise Quran Wikidatans; help others and get help whenever needed to improve Quran-related items (and properties); create Quran-specific tools' libraries, queries, and resources;
- Sufism - collaborate on Sufism-related topics
- Newest database reports: Hindustani nouns without gender in a language
- Showcase Items: Fugger (Q37018433) - family name
- Showcase Lexemes: ikkje-vald (L3483) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "non-violence"
Development
- IP masking: The feature was rolled out to test wikis and we fixed a few issues uncovered by this.
- EntitySchemas: We are working to make it possible to search for the EntitySchema by its label and aliases when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema (phab:T362005)
- Integration in other Wikimedia projects: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link from the tools section of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
- REST API:
- We changed the data-type field to data_type in JSON responses (phab:T368130)
- We are continuing the work on improving error handling and messages
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #639
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-05. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Numberguy6Bot - Task: Add links to Wiktionary categories in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian.
- UmisBot - Task: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
- ZLBot - Task: request SPARQLs for RAG.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call 6 August, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 6 August, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a Busy Summer Fun Wikidata Editing Hour, an hour of uninterrupted Wikidata editing time to work on your own Wikidata projects. Agenda.
- Wikimania is August 7-10. Here is a curated a list of Wikimania sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata: 2024:Program/Wikidata. Please add to the list if something is missing.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: Olympics medalists, not by country, but by NUTS region, By Giorgio Comai
- Papers
- Discovering life's directed metabolic (sub)paths to interpret human biochemical markers using the DSMN tool
- SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions - The SPINACH dataset, derived from Wikidata's "Request a Query" forum, offers a more complex and challenging KBQA dataset with 320 question-SPARQL pairs, designed to test the capabilities of KBQA systems in navigating large and incomplete knowledge base schemas.
- Videos
- Using Wikidata to navigate the web (Wikimania Katowice) - Tool demo: Entity Explosion
- Use Wikidata and Lexeme to understand Minnan - COSCUP 2024 (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters)
Tool of the week
- Forage - a user script that provides an additional editing interface that makes editing easier, by showing the expected properties for a page (based on its "instance of" values), and providing simple inputs to let users add values for any such property. To install Forage, just add the following line to the common.js subpage under your user page on Wikidata, i.e. wikidata.org/wiki/User:Your username here/common.js:
importScript('User:Techwizzie/forage.js');
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page: Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
- Abdulai Yorli Iddrisu (WMDE) has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of September 2024. Welcome Yorli!
- Wikidata now has a shiny new landing page for developers: Wikidata:For developers
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
- last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
- Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
- Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
- myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
- object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
- public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
- Newest External identifiers: Google Play author ID, Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, Alle Burgen ID, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, mandumah ID, Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID, FDC ID, French bathing water ID, Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID, Political Dictionary ID, United Nations Digital Library ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, 365scores player ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
- schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
- Military Grid Reference System ID (geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth)
- has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
- growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
- lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
- APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Thinkwiki article, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, 365scores player ID, xdaforums, GamingOnLinux Database ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID, TIPLOC code, IDU play ID, FolkWiki ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights: Sculptures by collection: an Integraality dashboard for WikiProject Sculpture
- Newest database reports: Dagbani Lexemes that wrongly include the grammatical gender property P5185
- Showcase Items: Chinua Achebe (Q155845) - Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
- Showcase Lexemes: Stuorra Dorskavuotna (L636928) - fjord in Hammerfest, Norway (Northern Sami proper noun)
Development
- mul language code: The new language code has been rolled out in a limited way. We are looking through feedback now.
- mul release: The full release of the "mul" language code feature to Wikidata, originally scheduled for August 12, may be delayed as we have uncovered a few issues during testing that could potentially block the scheduled 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.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Bermuda
- 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!
This Month in GLAM: July 2024
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Wikidata weekly summary #640
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-12. Please help Translate.
- Wikimania 2024 took place in Katowice, Poland. You can watch replays of the sessions on YouTube. Additionally, recordings of individual sessions are linked to each item on the Eventyay schedule.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Scholarly discussions through they eyes of CiTO (and Wikidata) - The post emphasizes how Wikidata can serve as a central hub for linking various scholarly resources, enabling better data interoperability and discoverability.
- Papers
- Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs - a study of Wikidata's collaboration patterns reveals that a small group of highly engaged members drives most contributions, and improving discussions and engagement strategies could enhance long-term participation in the community.
- Videos
- FOSS4GE 2024 | Bridging Worlds: Integration of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Discover the synergy between Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, two monumental open data repositories. This talk unveils innovative web-based tools facilitating the linking of these platforms, enhancing the richness and accuracy of geospatial data.
- Setting up a Wikibase reconciliation service - Wikibase Working Hours by OlafJanssen
- Notebooks: List of countries by continent in Wikidata
Tool of the week
- New Q5 - is a form that quickly sets up a Wikidata Item for an individual by generating a QuickStatement with the basic parameters such as name and age.
- User:Nikki/SDCInfo.js - is a Userscript that shows some Wikimedia Commons statements on pronunciation audio statements on Lexeme forms.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
- object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
- public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
- relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
- Newest External identifiers: Nintendo Life company ID, Wiley Online Library journal ID, Museums in Russia ID, Helveticat ID, ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, mandumah ID, Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID, FoodData Central ID, French bathing water ID, Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID, Political Dictionary ID, United Nations Digital Library ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, 365scores football player ID, African Music Library artist ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID, GamingOnLinux Database ID, TIPLOC code, JJM Habitation ID, IDU play ID, IDU original ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
- schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
- has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
- growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
- lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
- APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
- exponent of base unit (a qualifier of {{Q|P12571}} used to describe the exponent of the unit)
- Javanese registers (suggest the relationship between similar Javanese lexemes, between its various registers (social variants), mainly {{Q|12500634}} register (plain Javanese), {{Q|12492493}} register (high/polite Javanese), and {{Q|13091955}} register (middle Javanese))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, xdaforums, FolkWiki ID, 365scores basketball player ID, The House of Graphs ID, SIMBAD catalog properties (used more than 1 million times), All Musicals lyrics ID, 365scores football team ID, 365scores basketball team ID, Illinois Center for the Book Author ID, Ôlyrix Person ID, Ідентифікатор відеогри Gamekombo, Slekt og Data grave ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Redundancy - The primary aim of WikiProject Redundancy is to reduce the amount of Wikidata's data—without reducing the amount of information in Wikidata!—for the well-being of Wikidata, its community, and its downstream users.
- Newest database reports: Items with instance of (P31) human (Q5) and date of birth (P569) > date of death (P570)
- Showcase Items: Cambridge (Q350): city in Cambridgeshire, England
- Showcase Lexemes: kpanjɔɣu (L651052) - A Dagbani noun described in English as hampers, baskets, or similar containers made from woven materials like reeds, grasses, or wicker, traditionally used for carrying or storing clothing.
Development
- Not much happened this past week because the team was attending Wikimania.
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!