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Wikidata weekly summary #603
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- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Congratulations to our new Admin! S8321414 - (See the closed request)
- New requests for permissions/Bot: KormiSKbot - (Task: Linking newly created pages on Slovak Wikipedia to the appropriate Wikidata items)
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Data Modelling Days, from November 30th to December 2nd: 3 days of online events to address data modelling challenges, discuss how to improve the way we structure data together, and discover the point of view of external reusers. Feel free to have a look at the program (under construction) and to sign up as a participant.
- Wikidata Lab XXXIX: Structuring the Wikimedia Ecosystem presented by Wiki Movimento Brasil. November 21 at 2:00 PM CEST. The presentation will be held in English by the wikimedian Mike Peel.
- Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour November 20th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles.During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
- Wikibase for art and cultural data (German) - #9 of kuwiki tips & tools, taking place Thursday, 23 November 2023, 19-20.30
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexeme Challenge #118: Diseases (Challenge started on 2023-11-20 12:01:41)
- Past:
- ItWikiCon '23 (Italian) was hosted in Bari, Italy between the 17th - 19th November. Check the Programme for details on sessions and check for recordings or slidedecks of presentations.
- GLAM Wiki 2023 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. There were several Wikidata-related sessions some of which are linked in the Videos section.
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Can you trust Wikidata? - is a paper exploring Wikidata's veracity and trustability for providing values to Knowledge Graphs. Written by V. Santos et al.
- Videos
- Wikidata for Cultural Heritage, available in Spanish, Portugese, English
- Find-A-Grave of Swedish politicians in Magnus Sälgö's exploration of Wikidata, OpenRefine, SPARQL and Svenskagravar (Swedish).
- Wikidata Live Editing #111 with the Wikipedia Weekly Network, hosted by Ainali and Abbe98
- Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships presented by Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda. Get essential Wikidata-editing skills for Listeria, OpenRefine, run queries and structured data on Commons.
- How to upload collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine (in Portuguese). Training on uploading collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine.
- Cohort 2 Graduation: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course. The session includes exciting testimonials from participants and goodwill messages.
- Enhancing Factuality in Large Language Models with Wikidata's 12B Facts. This HackerNews video discusses a paper that explores the use of Wikidata, which contains over 12 billion facts, to improve the factuality of large language models (LLMs)
- Back to basics and #SPARQL #Wikidata (in French). Using Wikidata SPARQL query by VIGNERON
- Wikidata for cultural heritage (ES) - GLAM Wiki Conference
- Presentations: "Wikidata Lexemes: Introduction to the Possibilities" - workshop on at WikiConference North America, by User:Mahir256
- Notebooks:
- The End of an Era - A study on the major deaths that have occurred in our generation and the people that were left behind. (1997-2012)
- Relationship Between Senators and Political Parties - A sample network graph that depicts the political parties of Senators.
- Family Network of Female Horse - A sample network graph that depicts the relationships of female horses.
- Poets and the Monarchs they were appointed by
- Metro stations of The Metropolitan line (Q19891) of the London Underground Metro System - A sample network graph that depicts the stops and adjacent stops of metro stations of the London Underground's Metropolitan line.
- Tool of the week
- User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia - a tool that computes the number of articles created by gender has been repaired after some months of unavailability. It relies on xtools and P21 property.
- Luthor - tool for finding usage examples from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Fondazione Fiera ID, EIDR party ID, Gaming Wiki Network article ID, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) heritage ID, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) institution ID, Playdate community wiki ID, Danacode (short), Danacode (long), archINFORM ID (awards), shukach.com ID, BNE periodical SID, Moviepilot.de person ID, FilmAffinity person ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, BioGRID ID, la Repubblica TV series ID, CECC Political Prisoner ID, One Earth ecoregion ID, Spectrum Computing ID, IDVT, BISAC Subject Heading
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Papers with Code URL (URL for subject in Papers with Code system)
- PAEnflowered taxon URL (URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website)
- BioCyc ID (Pathway/Genome Databases) ()
- External identifiers: Star Citizen Tools Wiki ID, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame ID, Shanghai Library organization ID, Shanghai Library era ID, Shanghai Library surname ID, Paradox wikis article ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID, Rare Species Guide ID, TLA thesaurus ID, Minnesota Plant List ID, ELMCIP person ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID, SWERIK Person ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID, Go Botany taxon ID, Team Wales ID, Unified Saudi Occupational Classification, Pinakes work ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID, ELMCIP organization ID, Japan Search ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Articles on English Wikipedia tagged 'Water pollution' with no equivalent article in Spanish (source)
- Highest point (in meters) per counties in Finland (source)
- Week 46, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source) "Basque are back on top for the second time this month"
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Manuscripts - This WikiProject coordinates efforts on Wikidata to gather and curate structured data on manuscripts.
- WikiProject Grove Hall Black Women Lead - aims to shed light on the lives and stories of Black women leaders who have shaped Boston’s history from the colonial era to the present day.
- Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/projectmerge/enwiki-svwiki - 3875 merge candidates in English Wikipedia and Swedish Wikipedia based on same sitelink name.
- Showcase Items: University of Konstanz (Q835440) - University in Konstanz, Germany (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)
- Showcase Lexemes: rød - Danish word for red with features in many compounds and derivations (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- We are taking steps towards making many more languages available in Lexemes and monolingual text statement values. (phab:T341409)
- Nikki fixed a bug where the CSS class for a statement rank wasn't updated after a rank change (phab:T209138)
- We are continuing the work on improving EntitySchemas by making it possible to link to them in statements.
- We are migrating several tools from the Wikit design system to the Codex design system to be able to deprecate Wikit in the future.
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!
Tech News: 2023-47
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [1][2]
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [3][4][5]
- The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [6]
Future changes
- There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-48
The winner this Translation of the week is
Please be bold and help translate this article! ![]() The Zaniskari or Zanskari is a breed of small mountain horse or pony from Ladakh, in northern India. It is named for the Zanskar valley or region in Kargil district. It is similar to the Spiti breed of Himachal Pradesh, but is better adapted to work at high altitude. Like the Spiti, it shows similarities to the Tibetan breeds of neighbouring Tibet. It is of medium size, and is often grey in colour. The breed is considered endangered, as there are only a few hundred alive today, and a conservation programme has been started at Padum, Zanskar, in the Kargil district of Ladakh. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikidata weekly summary #604
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Clarify Wikidata: Account creators abilities and where to request from S8321414. (RfC started 23-11-20)
- Events
- Upcoming:
- UNLP: the first Wikiarchivists Day is coming < 04.12.23 at the UNLP Public Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Organised by WM Argentina.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 28, 2023: As a satellite event for Data Modeling Days, we will facilitate community discussion around data modeling in Wikidata for library collections in a variety of formats, including people, books, serials, scholarly articles, rare materials, music, media, and realia. Agenda
- Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2, online. 3 days of discussions, presentations and workshops to discuss our challenges related to data modelling and improve the structure of Wikidata's data together. Check out the program, add yourself as a participant.
- Wikidata editathon to add Arabic labels & descriptions to Islamic art objects, hosted by Wikimedians of the Islamic Civilization User Group, 2 December 17:00-19:00 UTC
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 23 Linked Data Things
- Querying for labels: The normal way and the wikibase:label service way, by Bob DuCharme.
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is Here: Mark Your Calendar 🎉 for May 3rd – 5th, 2024, and register to attend
- What is Wikidata? Your Guide to the World’s Largest Free Knowledge Base
- Papers
- Using Wikidata to identify the gender gap in Ibero-American public art (Q123470669) - The study, using Wikidata, reveals gender disparities in public art in Madrid and Buenos Aires, emphasizing the need for more works created by women and increased visibility of female artists.
- Understanding Structured Knowledge Production (Q123561334) - A Case Study of Wikidata’s Representation Injustice. This paper seeks to explore the sources of epistemic injustice and biases from Wikidata's peer-production data model.
- Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers (Q123561640) - highlights the use of Wikidata as an asset when linking taxa in different databases.
- Videos: Individual Sessions from Wikimania Singapore 2023
- Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform < Shani Evenstein Sigalov presents this Wikimania Singapore session on her 5-year PhD journey
- Data use and reuse: Unlocking Potential of Frictionless Data for Wikidata < Sara Petti, Shashi Gharti & Carol Matos of the Open Knowledge Foundation host this session.
- Using Wikibase and Wikidata for Community Archives by My Community < a non-profit organisation using Wikibase and Wikidata to digitise and preserve Singaporean cultural artefacts and stories.
- Wikidata Basics with SPARQL access to analyse data from Wikidata < Asaf Bartov hosts this workshop for Wikidata newbies. Gain some foundational skills and learn how you can contribute to the biggest Knowledge Graph!
- How to use Wikidata to build web tools for the social good < Csisc & Yamen present Sawtpedia & (github), 2 tools built using Wikidata and will show you how you can build your own.
- Linked Open Data and Wikidata < Alan Ang (WMDE) talks about the importance of Linked Open Data and forming mutually beneficial partnerships between the Foundation and Institutions.
- Notebooks
- Explore new ways of visualising your data with a Circular Dendrogam, illustrated here with Association Football players broken down by Country and Team.
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Harvest Templates - is a tool that helps transfer data from Wikimedia projects to Wikidata.
- User:MichaelSchoenitzer/Updown - is a userscript used for faster navigation. If there are a lot of values for one property it will add arrows that allow you to jump to the first/last value.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMDE is researching ways to improve the editing experience in different languages and would love to hear your feedback. We would like to talk to a few of you in online interviews to learn about your experiences, expectations, and concerns. Please let us know in this sign-up form if you are interested in taking part.
- The Research team at WMF is running a second labeling campaign to evaluate the Revert Risk model for Wikidata. This is part of ongoing work on creating a new generation of Machine Learning models to support patrolling work on Wikimedia projects. Please help by going to this link, and labeling each revision in one of these three categories: Keep, Not Sure, Revert. Notice that "Not Sure" should be used in all cases where the Keep or Revert labels are not clear to you.
- Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.40.1 – major release compatible with MediaWiki 1.40, based on MediaWiki 1.40.1
- Is there a Wikidata item (about you)? Consider providing a voice-clip pronouncing your name in this Voice-intro project
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- Torino scale (the Torino scale level for the astronomical object)
- External identifiers: Star Citizen Tools Wiki ID, Gale publication ID, Emerald network site ID, Museo Nacional de Arte artist ID, GeoLOD ID, Catalogo Nazionale Dati ID, Klingon Word Wiki ID, Newman Numismatics Portal ID, tribal council number, EDItEUR Thema ID, Propylaeum-VITAE ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- COR SEM (The Danish central word registry identifier)
- UPOC ({{TranslateThis | de = Ist eine eindeutige id zur Identifizierung von Organisationen/Sendungen/... zu einem Dienstleister. <!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }})
- উইঙ্ক অ্যালবাম আইডি ()
- Europeana record ID (unique Europeana record identifier for photos, objectes etc.)
- ISU ranking position (Skater's position in the ranking of the International skating union)
- old image (image of this thing taken long ago)
- Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
- External identifiers: Japan Search ID, NIWA article ID, WikiIndex ID, Wiktionary ID, Moviebuff ID, Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire ID, Flightradar24 ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Baidu Baike page numeric ID, Parliament of Victoria ID, m3db.com lyrics ID, ELMCIP ID, The Plant List ID (Arizona Native Plant Society), TracesOfWar award ID, Babelio serial ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Heritage Collections - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most comprehensive high quality database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including contemporary scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection databases with Wikidata.
- WikiProject Roman Provinces
- WikiProject Events and Role Frames - The primary aims of WikiProject Events and Role Frames is to define a set of properties that consistently model event occurrences and their participants; to fill gaps in Wikidata regarding items for events and actions; and to encourage use of the proposed model and newly introduced items across Wikidata.
- Newest database reports: Wikidata:Database reports/badged items without claims - This is a list of badged items (i.e. items for feature or good articles in somewiki) without claims. Ideally it should be empty.
- Showcase Items: Nelson Mandela (Q8023) - First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
- Showcase Lexemes: gepard - Polish noun for cheetah with many forms
- Newest properties:
- Development
- We are preparing for the Data Modelling Days happening later this week
- Language codes:
- We are making some small remaining changes before the next testing round of the new language code (phab:T345750, phab:T345751, phab:T345083)
- We continued to make a lot more language codes available (phab:341409)
- EntitySchemas: We are experimenting with how to work around some technical blockers for the new datatype
- Wikibase REST API: We've been working on the ability to remove an Item's label in a specific language and modify the descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981, phab:T342981)
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!
Tech News: 2023-48
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [7][8]
MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow
async
/await
syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [9]- The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:06, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #29
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Welcome to the twenty-ninth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations
Community Conversations
The Growth team will host its first community conversation Monday, 4 December (19:00 - 20:30 UTC). The topic for this meeting will be Mentorship.
This first meeting language will be English, but we plan to host conversations in other languages, and about other topics. Please visit the conversation page on-wiki for the details on how to join. You can also watch the page, or suggest ideas for upcoming conversations there.
Impact Module
At the beginning of November 2023, the Growth team deployed the New Impact Module to all Wikipedias. We recently released a follow up improvement to how edit data was displayed based on editor feedback. [10]
Add a Link
We released “add a link” to 35 more Wikipedias. [11] [12]
We have a few Wikipedias remaining:
- German and English Wikipedia will be contacted at the beginning of January 2024.
- There are a few small wikis that will not receive the task until they have enough articles for the algorithm to work properly.
Community Configuration
- We shared Community Configuration 2.0 plans with technical stakeholders. [13] 🖂
- Initial Community Configuration design ideas have been shared and discussed with community members.
- A basic Community Configuration 2.0 demo is released on ToolForge.
- Developers can find some initial proof of concept code shared on gitlab.
Mentorship
When a mentor marked themselves as "Away", they were not getting their name assigned to new accounts when they returned. This has been fixed. [14]
We improved the message received by newcomers when their mentor quits, to reduce confusion. [15]
We worked on ensuring that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor. This required reassigning mentees with no mentors to a new mentor. We paused this as the clean-up script confused some editors. We will resume it when the identified blockers are resolved. [16]
It is now possible to create an Abuse Filter to prevent one user from signing up as a mentor. [17]
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-49
The winner this Translation of the week is
Please be bold and help translate this article! ![]() Sheikh Hussein is a town in south-eastern Ethiopia. The site has been recorded in the tentative list for UNESCO World Heritage List since 2011 as a religious, cultural and historical site. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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The Signpost: 4 December 2023
- In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
- Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"
- Comix: Bold comics for a new age
- Essay: I am going to die
- Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence
- Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
- Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #605
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- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- RudolfoBot - (Task: import lists of drugs with black box Warnings)
- TiagoLubianaBot 4 - (Task: add drug-drug interactions from (Q123478206) A reference set of clinically relevant adverse drug-drug interactions)
- LiMrBot - importing and updating information about asteroids and comets.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Register and Apply for Scholarships until January 5th 2024!
- WikiMania 2024 Scholarships are open - You can apply now for paid accommodation, travel and registration of the event!
- Next:
- Extended Semantic Web Conference 2024 < The deadline to submit your Papers is December 7th (23:59 UTC-12)!
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service team - the 1st Wednesday of every month, bring your questions on Wikimedia Search, Wikidata Query and Wikimedia Commons Query service.
- Past:
- Data Modelling Days 2023 - (30 Nov - 2 Dec.) If you missed it, don't worry! We have recordings, slides and notes for each session, available here!
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Press
- Around 250 war-threatened architectural monuments documented (German) - Wikidata, Wikibase and Commons are helping preserve and plan the restoration of culturally-significant Monuments damaged or destroyed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Blogs
- Videos
- Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project A Wikidata Workshop provided by the British Institute at Ankara.
- Metaphactory's advanced semantic search with Wikidata KG < shows a new way of building queries with Metaphacts visualised UI. Read more with their latest News Posts!
- Wikibase for GLAM organizations: Collections in the Linked Open Data web by our excellent Partner Manager User:Christos Varvantakis (WMDE)
- Intro to Wikidata and importing bibliographic elements from Zotero < (Italian) An initiative to expand Greek and Latin antiquities in Wikidata for use in humanistic studies. Read more here > Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche
- Press
- Tool of the week
- ZotWb < export records in a Zotero group library to a custom Wikibase, prepare datasets to send to OpenRefine, feed OpenRefine reconciliaton results back to the Wikibase. Wikidata is envolved in the entity reconciliation.
Here's a short explanation and demo video
Tool is written and provided by David Lindermann with support from WMF Rapid Grant.
- ZotWb < export records in a Zotero group library to a custom Wikibase, prepare datasets to send to OpenRefine, feed OpenRefine reconciliaton results back to the Wikibase. Wikidata is envolved in the entity reconciliation.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: We're looking for a new Product Manager for Wikibase Cloud. Are you interested or do you happen to know someone who might fit this position?
- Wikimedia Deutschland will be collaborating with Purdue Students to Find New Mismatches for the Mismatch Finder. We Need Your Help to Suggest External Datasets!
- Outreachy Round 27 interns selected, including 1 Wikidata related project.
- A cool new Obsidian plugin for Wikidata is in the works.
- Fulltext search for folders in an external archive via text in Wikidata items (more).
- Have you tried EntiTree yet? Explore relationship and connections between Wikidata entities with this new visualisation!
- Last call for the Wikibase.Cloud 2023 User survey. It only takes 10 minutes and it's fully anonymous so please participate!
- The StructuredDiscussions extension is being archived but your comments on the Project Chat are wanted.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- PAEnflowered taxon URL (URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website)
- External identifiers: Rare Species Guide ID, Minnesota Plant List ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID, Go Botany taxon ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID, Art Gallery of Ontario object ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae text ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID, Paradox Wikis article ID, Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire ID, Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame ID, SWERIK person ID, Team Wales athlete ID, WikiIndex ID, Theapolis person ID, TheTVDB movie ID, Shanghai Library surname ID, Shanghai Library era ID, Shanghai Library organization ID, Pinakes work ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, COR SEM ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
- event role (item that describes a role in an event class)
- role in event (event class for which the item describes a role)
- selectional preference ((to be used only with the subclasses of Q_event_role) an item that plays this role in an event instance should descend from this item via a combination of P31 and P279)
- event arguments and types (item that plays a role in an event instance; used with a qualifier "argument type")
- BnF archives and manuscripts ID (identifier for a manuscript in the archives and manuscripts catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Do not include the initial "cc")
- clerked for (this person has held a clerkship with the judge)
- battery life (the length of time a device can continue to work before it needs its battery to be recharged)
- External identifiers: China Animal Scientific Database taxon ID, DIMA ID, CoL Taiwan ID, RFI station ID, BUGZ ID, China Animal Scientific Database dbb ID, turismoroma.it place ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument & street IDs, International Hockey Federation competition ID, Black Games Archive ID, Al-shamila Book ID, Akadem person ID (new format), AustrianGames ID, Atari-8-bit Forever game ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Events and Role Frames
- Newest database reports:
- Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Showcase Lexemes: läsa - 'read' about this Swedish word with many pronounciations and grammatical features.
- Newest properties:
Feel free to suggest next week's Showcase Item and Lexeme!
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished the endpoint for removing an Item's label in a specific language (phab:T335841) and the endpoint for modifying descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981)
- We are working on the endpoint for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
- Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on moving the tool over to the new design system Codex
- We adjusted the styling for the values of monolingual text statements to make the language easier to distinguish from the value (phab:T280774)
- mul language code: We made some final adjustments to get it ready for testing.
- Lexemes: We are adding a license note for anon users when editing a Lexeme’s lemma, a Form or Sense (phab:T343999)
- Wikibase REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!