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Wikidata weekly summary #639
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-05. Please help Translate.
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #640
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-12. Please help Translate.
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #641
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-19.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-19.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Wüstenspringmaus (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2024 11:07 (UTC))
- Mohammed Qays (RfP scheduled to end after 19 August 2024 19:11 (UTC))
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - Task: Infer
of TV series, seasons, and episodes from vertically adjacent levels.
- (Save The Date)
- Wikidata Days Bologna - November 8 - 9, 2024. Dario Nobili Library (CNR). A conference dedicated to the Italian-speaking Wikidata community, with a focus on libraries and research.
- Ongoing
- Like Soccer? Did you know the Uganda Wiki Soccerthon 2024 is still running and aims to create over 300 Wikidata items on Ugandan clubs, players, coaches, leagues, associations and leagues related to Ugandan soccer.
- In case you missed it...
- Catch up on all the Wikimania 2024 sessions with these YouTube replays. Or check the Eventyay schedule for recordings of individual sessions linked to each item.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- (Tech News) Unveiling discrepancies: First experiences with finding mismatches on Wikidata and how you can too - A team of five Purdue University students partnered with Wikimedia Deutschland for the Purdue Data Mine to find mismatches for the Wikidata Mismatch Finder.
- (Tech News) Wikidata power contributor: an interview with user Bodhisattwa - WMDE's Alan Ang talks with long-time editor and pillar of the Bangla Wiki community, Bodhisattwa.
- (de) Whether toolbox, workshop or hardware store: open, community-curated tool Registries with Wikidata - I. Trilling, T. Grallert and J. Schmitz discuss the tool-directory created “Kompetenzwerkstatt Digital Humanities” (KDH) at the UB and the “Methods Innovation Lab” of the NFDI4Memory and presented at the Chair of Digital History.
- Papers
- Discovering Relationships Among Properties in Wikidata Knowledge Graph - Authors Emetis Niazmand and Maria-Esther Vidal use class-based relationship discovery to study and explore distribution and frequency of predicates across six domains. Pp 388–394 of Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery.
- Videos
- (pt) Wikidata Lab XLII: OpenRefine Éder Porto and Luca Belo host a workshop covering the newest features for loading media and Structured Data (SDC) on Commons, as well as metadata on Wikidata through OpenRefine.
- (es) Use of records on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Mikel Zubimendi shows how to populate Wikipedia articles with Infoboxes populated by data hosted on Wikidata.
- Engaging with language diversity via the Wikipedia ecosystem @ PGO24 - User:Daniel Mietchen at the Polyglot Gathering hosts a workshop with numerous examples of how the Wiki ecosystem hosts and represents linguistic content.
- Notebooks
- Medals count by continent Combining data from the International Olympic Committee and Wikidata, this notebook computes medals count by continent.
- Winners of the Tour de France Femmes The Tour de France Femmes 2024 just ended on Sunday 18th of August. The cycling stage race explorer notebook shows all stage winners of the Tour de France Femmes.
- Visualisation of location of Japanese Lighthouses The TU Delft Library queries Wikidata to map the location of Japanese lighthouses designed by Richard Henry Brunton or Léonce Verny.
- Tools
- (fr) WikidataESR: Tenter d’y voir clair dans l’ESR : exploring French higher education and research institutional landscape with the help of Wikidata. French higher education and research landscape is highly complex. Wikidata can help to better understand the landscape.
Tool of the week
- Anvesha is a drill-down browser for any Wikibase installation (incl. Wikidata). A prominent example of it in use is the Wikidata Walkabout.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata: For Developers - We have a shiny new portal for developers wanting to build applications using Wikidata's data. Visit it for inspiration with showcase examples, resources, information and support.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions applies)
- 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)
- External identifiers: 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, The House of Graphs ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- 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)
- 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))
- objects of action have role (role that objects of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use {{P|12913}} instead.))
- ConLang Code Registry code (3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
- dénomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- External identifiers: 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, 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, iasj article ID, MobyGames critic ID, Grand Comics Database feature ID, Operabook Person ID, Retromags game ID, Retromags magazine ID, speedrun.com series ID, Madain Project ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Polygon game ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming character ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, FOLDOC ID, WE.League player ID, WE.League manager ID, Nomes e Voces ID, cnkgraph person ID, cnkgraph poem ID, cnkgraph book ID, Identifiant d'un auteur sur Ciel d'oc
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Of the official mottos of U.S. states, there are more in Latin than in English
- Instance/sub-classes of LGBT+ identity (Q115870510) that have 3 or more non-English Wikipedia site-links
- Newest WikiProjects: Disambiguation
- Newest database reports: Wanted footballers
- Showcase Items: Sao Mộc (Q319)
Development
- QuickStatements Community Consultation, until August 31st
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to improve error messages and handling.
- Wikipedia and co: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
- Wikidata Query Service graph split: The WMF Search Platform team is setting up the servers for the split graphs. We hope to have them ready for use soon. We also prepared the constraints checks for this.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #641
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-26. Please help Translate.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-26. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins: Mohammed Qays and Wüstenspringmaus!
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Leaderbot - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (see Phab:T370842)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - RfP successful!
- New request for comments:
- Citations from Wikidata from Author: Palu
- Audio Transcription (P9533) from Author: Yug. P9533 is described as transcription of the word/text being spoken in this file. Does this exclude other communications modalities?
- "The Future of Wikidata Events" report by Wikimedia Deutschland is now available on Wikimedia Commons. This report provides valuable insights into the current state and future possibilities of Wikidata events. We encourage everyone to read the report and share their thoughts to help shape the future of our community events: Wikidata talk:Events#"The Future of Wikidata Events" Report Now Available on Wikimedia Commons.
- Wikidata's 12th Birthday is fast approaching. Do you need financial support to organize a birthday event? Here is some useful information about how to get funding: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Funding. The deadline to apply is September 1st.
- WikiLibCon25 The Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 takes place in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 - 17 January 2025 - Call for Scholarships (ends 31 August0 and Proposals (ends 15 September) are open. WikiLibCon25 brings together Wikimedians, Wikibrarians, information professionals, library workers and mission-aligned partners from around the globe to create a vivid community and promote cooperative projects in the Library & Wikimedia sphere.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata?: Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
- Diversity and bias in DBpedia and Wikidata as a challenge for text-analysis tools by B. Berendt et al. This paper explores how data sources can impact content analysis of their tool Diversity Searcher for analysing diversity in news media texts.
- Videos
- (sw) Wikipedia vs Wikidata - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized.
- Wikimania Coolest Tool Award! 2024 - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout.
- Qichwabase: Building Knowledge Graphs for Under-Resourced Languages Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages.
- Slides: Giving metabolites (and lipids) a chemical and biological context with open science. This talk discusses the role of open science in providing chemical and biological context for metabolites and lipids, highlighting open-source cheminformatics, open standards, and open data to facilitate linking knowledge across databases and publications, as well as describing chemical interactions in biological pathway databases. By Egon Willighagen.
- Notebooks
- Olympic medals by group of countries 🥇🥈🥉: Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries
- Unequal distribution of medals from the Summer Olympics
Tool of the week
- Wikidata distributed/#game=94 - Help adding missing information related to artists on BNU's catalog (Select the option that fits best).
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit (YouTube link). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, DOS Game Modding Wiki article, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Denkmalnummer des Archivs der Stadt Linz, GameSpot genre ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Sweden/Banks - All Swedish banks still in operation
- Antiquity/Mythology - This WikiProject deals with everything connected to Greek mythology with an outlook on the traditional tales and divinities which came before and/or inspired it, like Ancient Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian) and Hittite mythology, as well as those of adjacent cultures and those influenced by the Greeks, most notably Roman mythology).
- Newest WikiProjects: Aotearoa Asian Artists - This project aims to improve the data available about Aotearoa Asian Artists - Asian diaspora artists from, living in, and connected to Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Newest database reports: Terminator: Articles with no interwikis in a given Wikipedia - Wikidata Items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language.
- Showcase Items: Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania
Development
- Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.
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 language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #643
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-09-02.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-09-02.
Discussions
- Project chat: Wikidata:Project chat#Mass-import policy - A new mass-import policy has been proposed, focusing on improving the quality of existing items rather than importing new ones, with a suggested limit of 100 new items before requiring community approval.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/First Project Series
- (id) Registration is open for the Wikimedia Indonesia Research Grant 2024 program. Open until 30 September 2024. This program opens funding opportunities for research on topics related to Wikidata, Wikipedia, or other Wiki projects, and Linked Open Data.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 4, 2024. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: (de) Wikibase4Research - Easily manage, share and visualize knowledge data, tailored for academic purposes, WB4R simplifies the installation and use of MedaWiki software. By Kolja Bailly.
- Papers
- KGPrune: a Web Application to Extract Subgraphs of Interest from Wikidata with Analogical Pruning (see also Videos) - this web application when given seed entities of interest and properties to traverse, extracts neighboring subgraphs from Wikidata. By Pierre Monnin.
- Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing - A fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning. By Hanna Abi Akl.
- Transforming higher education: a decade of integrating Wikipedia and Wikidata for literacy enhancement and social impact - Demonstrating the role of Wikipedia and Wikidata in fostering knowledge creation, digital and data literacies and critical thinking, in Open Edcuational resources. By S.E. Sigalov, A. Cohen & R. Nachmias.
- Videos
- (es) Connect biodiversity to Wikimedia projects via iNaturalist? - Tiago Lubiana presents the inat2wiki platform (https://inat2wiki.toolforge.org/), designed to connect biodiversity observations to Commons and subsequently, to Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- (es) Lecture on Knowledge Graphs & Workshop on Querying Data - Sebastián Ferrada presents this lecture at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2023 including a SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service workshop.
- Wiki4Education Technical Training - session 2 of the Wiki4Education training series held across 17 - 24 Aug 2024 in Uganda.
- Introducing KGPrune - a web application to extract subgraphs of interest from Wikidata with analogical pruning by Pierre Monnin.
- (ar) Intro to Wikidata at the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, hosted by Houcemeddine Turki
- (ar) 2: Wikidata for Wikipedians - this session of Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 shows the benefits of using Wikidata in Wikipedia.
- Notebooks: Drawing the network of Adventures of Tintin
Tool of the week
- Display Wikidata Info on sister projects by User:Yair rand. This user-script will add the articles corresponding Wikidata item Label, Q-ID, Description and Short Desc. neatly under the article title. If no Wikidata item is linked, option to CreateNewItem page on Wikidata is provided.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 29 is open! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by September 18, 2024.
- QuickStatements Community Consultation. Wiki Movimento Brazil as part of the Software Collaboration for Wikidata are conducting interviews to build upon the QuickStatements tool. If you're interested in helping refine the tool then get in touch with them.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
- Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
- board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
- has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram)
- agent of action & agent class of action & agents of action have role (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
- formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
- mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
- initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
- Handwriting example (Sample image of the person's handwriting.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, Trakt episode ID, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Hindustan Times Topic ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, TV Maze character ID, identifiant Prosocour d'une personne, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, culture.ru organization ID, 365scores basketball team ID, identifiant Encyclopédie des femmes tunisiennes
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Sitelinks to Wiktionary - List of Items with links to Wiktionary main space.
- Showcase Items: Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410): type of wiki page usually in main namespace (article namespace, ns=0) containing links to articles with similar names, and very little details only, use with P31 "instance of" (2024-09-02)
- Showcase Lexemes: থোড়া (L345714): Bengali verb thôṛa in English imply something that is “chopped” or “minced”
Development
- Wikidata Query Service:
- The WMF Search Platform team is putting the finishing touches on the new Query Service servers that contain the two parts of the split graph.
- We are analyzing which percentage of current queries are better served by other systems like the REST API or search.
- Wikimedia projects integration:
- We have worked on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the toolbox section of the sidebar of an article. It has been rolled out to the first wikis: ukwiki, hewiki, fawiki (phab:T66315)
- We are working on decreasing the amount of irrelevant changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co by correcting the tracking behaviour of the Lua function mw.wikibase.entity:getSitelink() (phab:T295356)
- Wikibase REST API: We continued improving errors and error 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.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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