Hello, Adding of these statement is semiautomatic task. First is import from wikisource to wikidata, then I run query for each encyclopedia (examples) and next I copy source data to quick statement. But now there are thousands of to-do items, so it runs several hours, everytime, when my homo computer is on. And when is some item in queue, it will be added even if source data changes in meantime. I had two independent queues, so it might be in both. There is now about 2200 items in queue, most of them was probably too in second run which ended recently. JAn Dudík (talk) 19:28, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Confusing the encyclopaedia article and its subject
@Jahl de Vautban Hi, both items contains incorect link to en.wikisource - article in encyclopedia, so bot marks them as article. Correct solution is delete incorrect statements + remove incorrect sitelink. JAn Dudík (talk) 19:56, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #608
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"
Discussions
Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:
Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.
Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
Videos
Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.
Tool of the week
Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.
production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
@EncycloPetey This edit is correct per source, incorrect might be value on en.wikisource - but both article and disambiguation are about more Antigones. Until it is deprecated or repaired in en.wikisource, it might be imported again. JAn Dudík (talk) 17:00, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
You have misinterpreted the source and the meaning of the property. There is nothing at the source that states your edit is correct. The main topic of the encyclopedia article is not a Wikimedia disambiguation page. There is no error at Wikisource. The issue is that templates will not permit the linking of multiple Wikipedia pages. The data item already has the two topics correctly listed. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:05, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
@EncycloPetey No, wikisource template should have two parameters, wikipedia and wikipedia2. And now is in that page |wikipedia = Antigone (disambiguation), so bot import this value. JAn Dudík (talk) 17:26, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
So, you know the value is incorrect, but you will keep importing it, despite being told that it's wrong? That's what I'm hearing. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:28, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
I know it now, because you told it to me. But there were tens of thousands pages to import, so the import was for several days and there was more threads, so one page might be reimported, if was incorrect value repaired only on Wikidata and not on Wikisource. JAn Dudík (talk) 18:20, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Here is another such bad edit. The main subject of the article is not George Eliot. The link is made because the author is the nearest substitute since there is no English Wikipedia article about the poem. Your interpretation of the link as indicating the "main subject" is erroneous. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:58, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Here is another such bad edit. The main subject of the article is not George Eliot. The link is made because the author is the nearest substitute since there is no English Wikipedia article about the poem. Your interpretation of the link as indicating the "main subject" is erroneous. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:58, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Here is another such bad edit. The main subject of the article is not the poem but character, and I linked in the data item for that character. The link at Wikisource is made because the poem is the nearest substitute since there is no English Wikipedia article about the character. Your interpretation of the link as indicating the "main subject" is erroneous. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:00, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Bot is machine and import values. If there is bad value, is possible to correct it on wikisource or deprecate on wikidata.
There are 36700 articles in EB11, almost all of them (36000) have main subject (P921) (strings wikipedia and wikipedia2) and several pages, where this string in not 100% correct. I am not able to check more than few random pages. If you find incorrect value, you can repair it. If you find detectable case not for import (e.g. pages containing disambiguation), I can add exception for future. But Is not possible to check from source that link leads to author if article is about work - this is possible by some query after import.
You can stop re-adding data that has been manually corrected. You are making a flawed assumption. The fact that a Wikisource page links to a Wikipedia article does not mean that the link target is the main subject of that article. Your interpratation of the way Wikisource works is inherently flawed, and this problem has been pointed out. Please stop making such edits blindly. Running a bot requires responsibility for the actions of the bot. If you use your bot to re-add known bad data, that constitutes edit warring and is reason for revoking of bot usage. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:46, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Please correct these errors, and prevent your bot from making them again. Bot owners are expected to control their bots, not to blindly import data when informaed that the values are incorrect because of a misinterpretation of the data. --EncycloPetey (talk) 18:04, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.
Tool of the week
WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.
Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
Videos
Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.
Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.
IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
Wikibase REST API:
We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)
Potřebuji pomoc, něco jsem nezvládla. Kategorie na Commons "Rail transport in Prague" (Železniční doprava v Praze) je kromě železniční dráhy (jak je běžně chápána) nadřazená i kategoriím pro pražské metro, tramvaje a lanové dráhy. Původně byla propojena se článkem "Železniční doprava v pražské aglomeraci", tedy nejen pro Prahu, ale i pro Středočeský kraj. Kategorie na wikipedii "Železniční doprava v Praze" se zase týká pouze železniční dráhy (jak je běžně chápána), tedy bez metra, tramvají atp. Chtěla jsem ve Wikidatech tyto kategorie propojit, ale nakonec jsem se ve významu ztratila. Prosím o pomoc. Alena Pokorná (talk) 22:33, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
@Alena Pokorná: "Rail transport" je ekvivalent termínu "kolejová doprava". Pokud bychom chtěli něco specificky železničního, pak místo adjektiva "rail" používáme "railway". Pak ještě v české a slovenské terminologii máme "drážní dopravu", což je termín do většiny ostatních jazyků a terminologií nepřeložitelný, protože v našem pojetí zahrnuje i trolejbusy a visuté lanovky, zatímco ve většině zemí světa trolejbusy jsou typem autobusů a visuté lanovky zařízení, která mají blíž k výtahům než k vlakům. Nebýt této anomálie, drážní doprava by byla zhruba ekvivalentem kolejové dopravy. Pro železnici máme v Commons kategorie "railway lines" a víceméně i "train stations", ale kategorizační úroveň "railway transport" chybí (existuje jen pár ojedinělých kategorií, které unikly přejmenování, protože visí jako anomálie mimo řádnou kategorizační strukturu, např. commons:Category:Railway transport in České Budějovice, commons:Category:Railway transport in Vienne (Isère), commons:Category:Railway transport in Beaucroissant či commons:Category:Railway transport in Białowieża). Ono ze světového hlediska je dost obtížné roztřídit různé typy místních, příměstských a speciálních drah na "železniční" a "neželezniční". U nás třeba metro do roku 1994 mezi železniční dráhy nepatřilo, ale od roku 1995 ano, i když speciální. Ani u nás takové striktní rozdělení neexistovalo odjakživa, například tramvaj do Vysočan stejně jako železnice do Bechyně původně byly obě provozovány jako "elektrická drobná dráha". Není to rozlišení ani nadčasové, ani mezinárodně univerzální. Berme to tak, že na Commons byla kategorizační úroveň "railway transport in..." někdy před téměř deseti lety zrušena a tedy české železniční kategorie na Commons nemají ekvivalent. A české drážní kategorie (byly-li by) ekvivalent nemohou mít z principu, protože v angličtině náš pojem "drážní dopravy" neexistuje. Kdybychom o propojení hodně stáli, mohli bychom z důvodu mezijazykové kompatibility na české Wikipedii vytvořit kategorie "kolejové dopravy". Ale vždycky budou nějaké nejasnosti, např. jestli tam počítat tu či onu autobusovou dráhu, tramvaje na pneumatikách s vodicí kolejnicí, gumokolové metro, různé šikmé výtahy, magnetickou dráhu na vozovce atd. Anebo lze s přimhouřenými očima ty commonsové "rail" kategorie brát jako v širším smyslu "železniční" s vědomím, že tramvaje, pozemní lanovky a průmyslové dráhy v tomhle smyslu jsou vlastně specifickými typy železnice v tom širším významu "kolejové dopravy", a přitom se zároveň můžeme na české Wikipedii řídit tím naším užším smyslem. Našlo by se určitě víc případů, kdy nějaký pojem je v každé zemi (v každém jazyce) jinak široký, tj. interwiki nezaručují ani nepředpokládají absolutní totožnost pojmů. --ŠJů (talk) 21:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #611
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New request for comments: Community request for the development team to access inverse properties on client wikis. (Summary: We currently cannot access inverse property values on Wikipedia. This can be a data management issue on Wikipedia as we must always ask ourself if we must introduce an inverse property for cases where we need them. So I think it’s useful to gather the usecases community would want and draft a request for an API to the devteam to do that.)
Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
Past
Provenance Loves Wiki (PLW24), Jan 12th - 14th, research and data on the origin of artworks and cultural heritage and how Wikibase and Wikidata can support this.
WikiLovesWomen #SheSaid campaign wrapped up the 2023 campaign by visiting Kinshasha and Kisangani, where local Wikimedians improved quotes from women on FR Wikipedia and Wikidata.
QLever: a new way to query OpenStreetMap --> Discussion of the new opportunities offered by QLever to query OpenStreetMap and to run federated queries with Wikidata
Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work --> The three-year Wikidata for authority control project, a collaboration between Wikimedia Sverige and Swedish museums, concluded in December 2023. It equipped museum staff with tools and skills to integrate their authority databases with Wikidata, resulting in added identifiers, SPARQL query proficiency, and enhanced knowledge sharing within the GLAM sector.
Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg --> The GLAM-BW project, under "GLAM goes OpenData," connects major collections in Baden-Württemberg, focusing on the württembergische Kunstkammer. With over 3,000 objects, the project integrates information on collectors, histories, and objects into a knowledge graph for semantic searches, contributing to the broader realm of linked open data, akin to Wikidata.
Swiss GLAM Programme --> Wikimedia CH imported the Museum of Natural History of Neuchâtel's urchin fossil casts to Wikimedia Commons, connecting structured data on Wikidata. The project involved data cleaning, adding missing elements, and file imports via OpenRefine, highlighting seamless integration between Wikidata and Commons.
Papers
Reflections on the PCC Wikidata Pilot at UCLA Library: --> Undertaking the PCC Learning Objectives. Discusses the 14-month Pilot programme for cooperative cataloguing of UCLA Library and Museum Collections. By E. Zhang, P. Biswas & I. Dagher.
SMWCon 2023: Semantics, Wikis, and AI --> Day 1, Keynote by Prof. Markus Krötzsch who explores origins and principles of semantic wikis and key challenges that lie ahead in managing knowledge.
Brian M Sperlongano released US boundary QA checker, a quality assurance tool for finding issues with boundary data in the United States by using Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and US Census Bureau data.
The Surrounding Ocean (available at vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean) - is a tool that allows you to browse lexicographical data. You can use the tool to explore words and their meanings, translations, and synonyms. The tool is currently under development, and the developer, Danny, would appreciate feedback to fix any issues with the tool. More info: Wikidata:The Surrounding Ocean.
WikiProject Highlights: Ontology Cleaning Task Force: A group of people have started a task force to discuss problems with the Wikidata ontology and how to clean them up. Anyone interested in participating is welcome. The task force maintains Wikidata:WikiProject Ontology/Cleaning Task Force as a record of its activities. You can add yourself to the participants list there and find out how to join group meetings or otherwise participate in the group. (Got something noteworthy happening in your WikiProject? Share it in the upcoming issue!)
IP masking: We are working on adjusting Wikibase to handle the upcoming introduction of IP masking, which will give editors who are not logged in a temporary account name instead of using their IP to attribute edits to (phab:T351968)
Lexicographical data: We are changing how empty Senses and Forms are represented in the dumps (phab:T305660)
mul language code: We are doing user testing for the current implementation to see if it is understandable for people.
Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on migrating it to the Codex design system.
REST API:
We improved the handling of lower-case statement IDs (phab:T354262)
We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.
Discussions
New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)
PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.
AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab)
IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
Wikibase REST API:
We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release
