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Wikidata weekly summary #481

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

• Events
  • Ongoing:
    • Wikimania Wikidata related events (On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.):
      • Add a pinch of Wikidata to your web browser: Entity Explosion
      • Documenting Women Artists in the University of Salford Art Collection Through Wikidata
      • Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q
      • Making feedback loops work for Wikidata
      • Wikidata: What happened? Where are we going?
  • Upcoming:
    • A biodiversity-themed hackathon is being organized at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium for September 20-24. Three of the ten proposed topics are Wikidata-related — biodiversity-related Wikidata lexemes, taxonomic names, and women in biodiversity research. Remote participation is possible.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Wikidata:PAWS describes how to use PAWS to write SPARQL notebooks.
  • Videos
    • Guide to fetch Wikipedia data from Wikidata using Wikibase-SDK and node.js (in Hindi) - YouTube
    • How to create an item on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
  • Books
    • SPARQL wikibook

• Tool of the week
  • Template:SPARQL Inline is a Wikidata template which allows to write SPARQL query in Wikidata with a label. It is an alternative to Template:SPARQL and Template:Wdquery.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:So9q/KORP-link.js is a userscript to add a link to the Swedish corpus KORP in the Tools section on items.
  • WMF Search team is working on scaling up Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries. Please provide feedback by filling out this Google Forms survey!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: performed at, Smithsonian trinomial format regex, setlist, number of Classification of the Functions of Government
    • External identifiers: Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, ASE person ID, Alsharek Archive author ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, ARPI author ID, IRIS SSSUP author ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: dissertation program, CDDA designationType, container, remix of, insurance number (building), numéro de parcelle
    • External identifiers: SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Palynodata taxa ID, arheologi.ro ID, DDB-Person-Nummer, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID, Svenska Ord ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage object ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage institutions ID, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Mapping the Lives ID, MART catalog person ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Palynodata publications ID, opaquenamespace ID, HarperCollins product ID, Derrieux Agency person ID, Lambic.Info ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, GLN, Unconsenting Media ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Iași Central University Library ID, Volleybox ID, Team-Deutschland-Paralympics-ID, ISL ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, ASJC
  • Query examples:
    • List of properties which have instances or subclass of organisations as possible value (source)
    • List of classes which are used as value constraints for the properties (source)
    • Concepts, processes, practices, etc. linked to the philosophical concept of power (Source)
    • Twelve Times table using Wikidata items (Source)
    • Newly protected World Heritage sites in 2021 (Source)
    • Total number of wins for each world snooker champion (Source)
    • Who was the UK Prime Minister when each of the English Premier League/First Division title winners last won the title (Source)
    • Map of the birthplace of sports team players by decade (lines link birthplace to home venue location) (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Neighborhood Public Art in Boston

• Development
  • Cut save-time for edits in half (phab:T288639)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
  • Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
  • Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
  • Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:31, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #482

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MusikBot II (RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2021 03:07 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Érica Azzellini and Éder Porto on MBABEL, a tool which creates seed Wikipedia articles based on Wikidata statements. Agenda with call link, August 24.
    • BiCIKL Hackathon at the Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
  • Past:
    • Wikimania 2021 Wikidata related events (summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase)
      • Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata
      • Integrating Wikidata into the Wikimedia projects
    • Preparing languages for natural language generation using Wikidata lexicographical (Arctic Knot 2021)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Articles
    • 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights -

      

      In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by OlafJanssen, DanielleJWiki and 1Veertje_(KB)
  • Blogs
    • Organizing the Public Data about a Researcher - Charles Tapley Hoyt
    • The Invisible Citation Commons - Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein
    • The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries - Bob DuCharme
    • Wikidata or scraping Wikipedia - Denny Vrandečić
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Wikidata SPARQL query service (in Arabic) - YouTube

• Tools of the week
  • Python script to Add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons from an Excel sheet (Github) - by OlafJanssen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Query Builder has been deployed: Try it!
  • The "Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources from Zotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
  • Wikidata Query Service scaling updates for Aug 2021

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, mix or remix of
    • External identifiers: Palynodata taxa ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, PsycNET ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: hunting areas, number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID
    • External identifiers: TeamNL player ID, Finnish National Gallery ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, NDL earlier law ID, Cinemaitaliano IDs, KNHB ID, Deutsche-Sporthilfe-ID, Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code
  • Query examples:
    • Predicates implicated in non-scholarly-article item bloat (source)
    • Church of Scotland Synods as Geoshapes (Source)
    • Map of the origin of Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts, current location (Source)
    • Current principal local authorities in England

• Development
  • Deployed the new shiny Query Builder to https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder
  • Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (phab:T286775)
  • ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (phab:T124191)
  • Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (phab:T195178)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:46, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #483

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata Labs XXXI in English on the topic of Reimagining Wikidata from the margins, August 31
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook, September 4 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #77, September 5
    • Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
    • Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about data quality, September 13
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—September 1st, 2021 Come with anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session (August 26th, 2021) logs
    • RubyConfTW 2021
      • Wikidata basics (in Chinese)
      • Wikidata and Open Streetmaps (in Chinese)
      • Using the MediaWiki open data API to solve data description problems (in Chinese)
      • Moving Wikipedia's Infobox to Wikidata's Property:Taiwanese place names (in Chinese)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Why Are Citations Not Part of Discussions on Open Knowledge?
    • Mapping Diversity Puts The Gender Gap of Toponymy On Paper (in Italian)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata: Behind the Scenes of the Great Wikipedia Data Repository (in Spanish)
    • Bring data from Wikidata and any other LOD Knowledge Graph to your Roam graph
  • Notebooks
    • What are the Wikipedia articles you've created about? a notebook which show how to compute statistics about the articles you've created in Wikipedia by "instance of" (P31) property

Wikidata2Ical

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata2ical provides an ical file for each wikidata entity that has start time (P580) and end time (P582).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
  • Wikibase Installation & Updating survey has been published!
  • The Board of Trustees election has started. Votes will be accepted until 23:59 31 August 2021 (UTC). View candidate statements, verify your eligibility and vote now.
  • Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON, User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
  • WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, remix of, container, release of
    • External identifiers: Palynodata publications ID, Mapping the Lives ID, WiiG game ID, SNK ID, arheologi.ro ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Likee username, Team Deutschland Paralympics ID, BMC ID, Kartridge game ID, ISL ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Daum Cafe ID, Freeview show ID, Unconsenting Media ID, TeamNL athlete ID, Volleybox ID, COD ID, allabolag.se person ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius entry ID, GSSO ID, Fontaines de France ID, KNHB ID, DC Books book ID, Igromania developer/publisher ID, Deutsche Sporthilfe ID, Finnish National Gallery artwork ID, Igromania series ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, Svenska ord ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: number of evacuated, External wiki, Код Энциклопедия ислама (второе издание), SCTA ID, uses natural resource, created for, number of triples, reprinted in, Eneström Number, літературний редактор
    • External identifiers: Convict Records ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, YouTube Music, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, WikiApiary farm, copyright registration, Mozilla extension ID, NRK TV-ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, ECO code, Government Publications Number, Food.com ID, Dewan Negara ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, BBC Food ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, IRIS Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II author ID, IndieMag game ID, Bleus Handisport-ID, Overnia, Edizioni Ares author ID, hmmlid, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Naver Post member ID, eAmbrosia ID, DC Character ID, Postimees topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of Items in Sweden with coordinate location and elevation above sea-level statements (Source)
    • Map of UK's most extreme cities (Source)
    • All current principal Local Authorities in England (Source)

• Development
  • Wikidata:Mismatch Finder development continues. We are now working on the frontend. First pieces are starting to be visible at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org (but nothing usable yet)
  • Fixed an issue with unicode characters in constraints checks (phab:T289805)
  • Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
  • Continued work on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Continued work on new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 12:58, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #484

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. [1], Sep 7th.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #78, September 12

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • A new R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata: tidywikidatar
    • A global directory of official governmental online accounts and services, by Albin Larsson and Jan Ainali
  • Papers
    • Creating and Querying Personalized Versions of Wikidata on a Laptop
    • Type or Individual? Evidence of Large-Scale Conceptual Disarray in Wikidata
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Wikidata Lab XXXI: Reimagining Wikidata from the margins
  • Other
    • Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language
    • Ancient Hellenistic philosophers, visualized as a chain from master to student (Source)
    • Generating text with Ninai and Udiron (prototyping using Wikidata items and lexemes in text generation)
    • Over 3000 landscape paintings 'depict' something with coordinates. You can now browse them by country (Source)

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
  • In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National Diet Library persistent work ID, Svensk ordbok ID, ECO code, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Food.com ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, MART catalog person ID, IRIS UNINA author ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, Overnia ID, HandiSport Équipes de France ID, Cinemaitaliano person ID, Cinemaitaliano film ID, Mozilla extension ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, DC Character ID, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index ID, eAmbrosia ID, Edizioni Ares author ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number, Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: літературний редактор, Rotten Tomatoes score
    • External identifiers: Eneström Number, Télé-Loisirs ID, PDDikti higher education institution ID, HMS, Barnivore ID, RAWG game ID, Materials Project material ID, INAPP IDs, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Slangopedia ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Urban Dictionary ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, Glitchwave genre ID, Endemia.nc animal ID, Yiddish Dictionary Online ID, Casefile ID, Every Noise at Once ID, museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID
  • Query examples:
    • Paintings by Waldmüller in the Belvedere, Vienna - Austria (Source)
    • Coauthors of coauthors of Birgit Meldal (Q46168094) that have never directly coauthored a paper with her (Source)
    • Country-level citation network in biometrics (Scholia) (Source)
    • Council Information Systems with OParlOrg API endpoints (Q47450936) (Source)

• Development
  • Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
  • Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
  • Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
  • Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
  • Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
  • We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.

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!
  • Deploy d:Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:21, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #485

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • WikidataCon update: you can now check in the program of the first day of the online conference
    • Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
      • 14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
      • 21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
      • 28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
    • Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
  • Past:
    • Forex - 36C3 Wikipaka WG: Live querying: let’s explore Wikidata together! - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers
    • Linking Data and Descriptions on Moths Using the Wikimedia Ecosystem Part of collection TDWG Proceedings 2021
  • other
    • Ainali talks about Wikidata on The World According to Wikipedia podcast.

• Tool of the week
  • Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
  • Wikidata now has over 150,000 Senses on Lexemes!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: GRAC rating
    • External identifiers: Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number (Taiwan), Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, Télé-Loisirs ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Douyin video ID, IndieMag game ID, INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Mexican Video Game content classification category, NZTCS conservation status, Unique Identifier, relevant date for copyright, Allaboutjazz musician ID, Google Fonts ID
    • External identifiers: museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, thefreedictionary dictionary term ID, TermCymru ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, NZTCS ID, Australian Research Council Grant ID, PSC, SAM id, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID, Norsk Akademis Ordbok ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Kallías, Owler company ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo ordered by number of sitelinks (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
    • List of actors with whom Jean-Paul Belmondo has played the most (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
    • count of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo by decade
    • List of characters in Tintin ordered by number of apparitions (source)
    • People with no birth/death/floruit dates but which have a position from which dates can be inferred (source)
    • Map of the origin of diamond open access journal (Q108440863) publications (source)
    • Map of place names in Ghana ending with "li", "ti", "om" (source)
• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
  • Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
  • Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
  • All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:05, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #486

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [2], Sep 21st.
    • Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
  • Ongoing:
    • The Creative Commons Global Summit and Hack4OpenGLAM hackathon take place from September 20 until 24 (fully online). Several sessions and projects are related to Wikidata and/or Wikibase (see schedule search).
  • Past:
    • Data Quality Days:
      • Periodic editathons as a way to improve data quality on Wikidata: an experiment in Italy - YouTube
      • Bringing Czech authority files into 21st century: Integration with Wikidata - YouTube

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • Mapping the Scottish Reformation - using Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister project - YouTube
    • OpenSym 2021: WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #53 (user scripts and gadgets that can help you edit) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Inductiveload/scripts/ShowQsAndPs shows the Q and P IDs on Items.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenRefine has started development of features for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Sign up here if you want to receive occasional updates on a Wikimedia talk page of your choice.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: created for, Candomblé nation, NZTCS conservation status, Mexican video game rating category
    • External identifiers: INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry-Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Every Noise at Once ID, Spotify show episode ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Bing entity ID, TermCymru ID, NZTCS ID, Online Begraafplaatsen person ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Naver Post member ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: relevant date for copyright, issuing agency, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods ID, main subject for, type host taxon, has thematic relation, location of lexeme usage, ODOT county code, illustrative content
    • External identifiers: e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Google Fonts ID, Kallías, Owler company ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Allrugby, SLSP editions ID, Issuu ID, XXI Secolo ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, HJP ID, NVE reservoir ID, Biografija.ru ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, IRIS Tuscany IDs, Joshua Project people group ID, Flipboard ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide (2021- Version) ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Poetsgate poem ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Zenodo Communities ID, National Union Catalog ID
  • Query examples:
    • Biological taxa named after (metal (and other) music bands
    • Works by Dante Alighieri (1265 - September 13/14, 1321)
    • Cumulative page views for candidates in Czech parliamentary election 2021, split by party (Source)

• Development
  • The new Streaming Updater for Wikidata Query Service will be in production 18 Oct 2021
  • Working on changing the way sitelinks to Wikimedia Commons are created from Item data; now using topic's main category (P910) and category related to list (P1754) before Commons category (P373) (T232927)
  • Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
  • Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
  • Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
  • Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
  • Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
  • Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
  • Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #487

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: BrokenSegue (RfP scheduled to end after 27 September 2021 14:36 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th September 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #55 (with OpenRefine) - YouTube, Facebook, October 2 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #81, October 3
    • COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard, 30 Sep 2021, Time: 13.00-14.00 WIB (join details)
  • Past:
    • Data Quality Days: You can find slides, videos and notes for many of the sessions on the event page.
    • Wiki Movimento Brasil. The universe of libraries:
      • Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies (in Portuguese)
      • Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge powers (in Portuguese)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #54 - YouTube, Facebook

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Connecting Cell Ontology and Wikidata via Mix’n’match
  • Papers
    • WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, OpenSym 2021, 15-17 September 2021 (Slides, source code, Short Video)
  • Videos
    • How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Demo: create Wikidata lexemes from Goethe's "Der Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären" - YouTube
    • Demo of adding a string to Wikidata as a lexeme and linking it to the corresponding Wikidata item - YouTube
    • Wikidata Query Service assistance (in French) - YouTube
    • Experiences of Using WDumper to Create Topical Subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
  • Other
    • Chirpanalytica: "Give me your Twitter name and I'll tell you which party you choose". "What if you could automatically determine the political orientation of a person using just a Twitter account? This is exactly what I have been doing for the past two years".
    • That Wikidata Buzz - Siobhan Leachman talks about Wikidata in the The World According to Wikipedia podcast.

• Tool of the week
  • User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon community awards.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL
    • External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID
    • External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS)
  • Query examples:
    • Given name "Filaret" ranked within similar names (source: talk page of item)
    • Start time of open access journals known to Wikidata (Source)
    • Mouths of rivers flowing into the Arctic (Source)
    • What chocolate mousse is called in different languages (Source)
    • Women in Wikidata whose husbands are economists with articles on the English Wikipedia, but they themselves lack articles (adapted from Source)
    • Same with husbands (adapted from Source)
    • People employed by the ZDF with an image on Commons and a link to the German language Wikipedia (Source)
    • Coordinates of the birth places of people named Antoine (Source)
    • Place of birth of people named Antoine, Tony, Antonio, etc
    • UK MPs who had the most identified descendants who were themselves MPs (Source)
  • Newest database reports: top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (works again)

• Development
  • Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750)
  • Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473)
  • Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377)
  • Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
  • Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:45, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #488

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: BrokenSegue. Welcome onboard \o/

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-10-04, Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Stephanie Sapienza and Emily Frazier on Unlocking the airwaves, a digital archive project that compiles early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). Agenda with call link, October 5.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French, by Vigneron, October 5 at 18:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • New Wikidata Lexemes Challenge! Help to improve lexicographical data on Wikidata. This week's theme: Seasons.
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session logs (September 2021)
    • LD4 - video presentation start 05:00 Keepin 'N Sync... with wikidata ... and ORCID...and GBIF - slides by David Shorthouse
      • The Magnus list that was mentioned at 27:00 (please update list)
      • Ticket created related to problem mentioned with WD objects getting deleted - T291659
    • 2021-09-30, Talk "COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard" at Seminar Pekanan IR-NLP — slides in English, video in Indonesian (source)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • What can querying Wikidata do for me?
    • https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/01/synchronising-wikidata-and-wikipedia-an-outreachy-project/
  • Papers: Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: The case of Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Wikidata for beginners Part. 1 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
• ItemSubjector is Python console tool that helps add main subject (P921) to groups of items in a semi-automatic way.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
  • You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
  • Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL, number of evacuated, template populates category, number of tries marked, madhhab
    • External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru person ID, Kallías ID, Convict Records of Australia ID, Croatian Language Portal identifier, Issuu ID, Flipboard ID, Umění pro město ID, BBC Food ID, Baijiahao ID, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts institution ID, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts object ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Zenodo communities ID, XXI Secolo ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Postimees topic ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID, original description, Bowers acronym, mul label property, stylized name
    • External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS), IRIS Sapienza author ID, AFNIL publisher ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, TMOK ID, Kastra ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID, Österreichischer Fußball-Bund ID, MYmovies-Personenkennung, IGI Global Dictionary ID, L'Unificazione ID, EMBO member ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women born in Nigeria with an article in Basque for Listeria (Source)
    • Still life paintings by women (Source)
    • Map of cemeteries in New Zealand (Source)
    • Right Livelihood Award laureates (Source)
    • Chelsea FC players, with English Wikipedia article, Commons image, etc (Source)
  • Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks: P22 (father) (works again)

• Development
  • Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (phab:T291377)
  • Continuing work on the Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
  • Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (phab:T289473)
  • Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:36, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #489

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
    • Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 at 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #57 - YouTube, Facebook, October 16 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #83, October 17
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #11, Perception and Senses

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata in African Language Communities
    • Media art on Wikipedia wants to make collections and metadata more accessible (in Dutch)
  • Papers
    • Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021, Slides
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Wikidata for beginners. Part 2 (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Scripts and gadgets in Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Coupling Wikipedia Categories with Wikidata Statements for Better Semantics - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Neguess is a Wikidata entity guessing game with negative clues. (demo video)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
  • You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
  • Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
  • Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!
  • The WMF Search team will begin data transfer for the new Streaming Updater today (11 Oct 2021).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: dissertation program, date of probate
    • External identifiers: Densho Encyclopedia ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, DWDS lemma ID, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID, Database of Czech Amateur Theater person ID, WDG lemma ID, The World Factbook country ID, AFNIL publisher ID, RICS company code, Greek Castles ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, Product and Service Code, SAM ID, IRIS Sapienza author ID, museum-digital place ID, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID, PDDikti ID, VI.BE platform ID, Owler company ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: registration number, present in non-fictional work, NIK (Nomor Induk Kependudukan), reports to, excitation energy, merger, split-off, choreography for
    • External identifiers: AllSides ID, Apple maps id, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, NLI archive ID, CANTIC ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, Chi era Costui - Plaque ID, Research Data Australia ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, Trove work ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, Apple Music track ID
  • Query examples:
    • Share of women for each Nobel prize (source)
    • Nobel Prize statistics on number of recipients for award wrt. gender (interactive plot) (source)
    • Share of women among Nobel prize winners by decade
    • Notable books on linked data, semantic technologies, and semantic knowledge graphs (source)
    • Benelux railway stations connected from Brussels-South railway station (Q800587) (source)
    • Date of opening and closing of railway stations in Denmark (Source)
    • Map or Talaiotic archeological culture sites located in the Menorca island in Spain (source)
    • Location of all the meteorological stations in Navarre (source)
    • Photos of participants in the Pandora Papers (source)
    • Diameter, size and mass of balls (source)
    • French departments with their shape
    • Longest rivers located in France and which did not gave their name to a department (source)
    • Statues measuring more than 30 m in height (excluding the pedestal) (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are now working on letting reviewers indicate if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
  • Fixed a bug where it was possible for two Properties to have the same label in a given language by undoing/reverting an edit (phab:T289473)
  • Fixed a confusing error message that was being shown when trying to save geoshape / tabular data that doesn’t exist (phab:T285758)
  • Removing some unnecessary entity link formatting in edit summaries and special pages to improve performance (phab:T292203)
  • Fixing an issue with invalid dates that the API accepts but should not (phab:T289417)
  • Migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:36, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #490

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments
    • Frequency of YouTube follower count data
    • Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated?

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh). [3], Oct 19th.
    • WikiProject Govdirectory Collab Hour, October 22
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook, October 23 at 18:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84, October 24
    • IT Festival Without Borders from 21 to 23 October 2021 in Rovereto - There will be a Wikidata for SPARQL queries workshop for high school and university students.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #12, Health professions
    • #12MonthsofOSM, mapping historical features

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Introduction to Observablehq.com for Wikidata users in French (Introduction à Observable pour les utilisateurs de Wikidata)
    • Learning to edit Wikidata is challenging; we aim to make it easier with this interactive course
    • Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art? by Martin Poulter
    • Digital scholarship in archives: A data case study
  • Papers
    • Accepted papers for the Wikidata Workshop at ISWC have been published: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2021/
    • Detecting Cross-Language Plagiarism using Open Knowledge Graphs
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Scripts and gadgets (in French) - YouTube
    • Import RDF data from Wikidata (part 11) - YouTube
    • New introductory working hour on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Building Wikidata - Queries with Wikidata Query Service (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Building Wikidata - Databases and Open Refine (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • How to retrieve the list of works by Canadian authors available on Wikisource? (in French) - YouTube
  • Other:
    • Research project: How can museums improve the usability of collection APIs?

• Tool of the week
  • Snowman is a static site generator for SPARQL backend (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
  • Sina Ahmadi has released a SPARQL query generator for lexicographical data
  • Wikidata reached the 10000th numbered property, with the creation of P10000 Research Vocabularies Australia. (There are currently 9285 pages in the Property namespace.)
  • Wikidata now has over 600,000 Lexemes!
  • Learn Wikidata is an online interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More information here.
  • The 3^rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27^th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, predicate for, has thematic relation, illustrative content, ITU radio emission designation, isotopically modified form of, stylized name, record number, excitation energy
    • External identifiers: WDG lemma ID, The World Factbook country ID, AFNIL publisher ID, RICS company code, Greek Castles ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, Product and Service Code, SAM ID, IRIS Sapienza author ID, museum-digital place ID, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID, PDDikti ID, VI.BE platform ID, Owler company ID, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID (Web version), RAWG game ID, TMOK ID, Vokrug sveta article, copyright registration, Eneström Number, NRK TV ID, NLI Archive (bibliographic) ID, L'Unificazione ID, IGI Global Dictionary ID, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, CANTIC ID, EMBO member ID, NDL earlier law ID, AbandonSocios ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Literature.com book ID, Literature.com ebook ID, CantoDict word ID, CantoDict character ID, MYmovies person ID, Chi era Costui plaque ID, Bowers acronym, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Austrian Football Association player ID, Dewan Negara ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: merger, split-off, choreography for, classification, compartmentalisation, or information category for this document, Hotel rating, NatureScot Sitelink ID, pole positions, podium finishes, StopGame ID, fastest laps, Amends, heading, Conway polyhedron notation
    • External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, Research Data Australia ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, Trove work ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, Apple Music track ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Nynorskordboka-ID, Birdata ID, IRIS Superior Graduate Schools IDs, Australian Trade Mark Number, Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, FFCAM ID, TVSA ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID, NSW Parliament Member ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID, KPU Calon 2019, Monaco Nature Encyclopedia ID, Refuges.info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, Norgeshistorie ID, AHPRA registration number, PubCRIS product number, Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, SNSF person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of written works authored by recent Nobel laureate Joshua Angrist (via d:Template:Item documentation on d:Talk:Q921499)
    • Books by Canadian authors with a Wikisource page (Source)
    • Repetitive taxon names (Source)
    • Count of sitelinks of museums/tourist attractions in the US (Source)
    • Map of French communes that are >30 characters long (Source)
    • Lexemes in Swedish that are missing in Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (Q1935308) (Source)
    • Attendance at the Bargoin, Roger-Quilliot and Henri-Lecoq museums per year (Source)
    • Present and past members of Czech Chamber of Deputies who are relatives (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
  • In the previous week we migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists. This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few issues that came up.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:50, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #491

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • WikidataCon is happening this week! Don’t forget to register if you want to attend!
    • ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (register on meetup)
    • WikidataCon Bioblitz (During WikidataCon)
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #13, Death
  • Past:
    • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour log (2021-10-20)
    • Wikiarabia Algeria 2021: Wikibase Presentation - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Georgina Burnett
    • Talk at Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Mathematics In Wikidata
    • LibreOffice Conference 2021 - Enhancing a spellcheck dictionary by Wikidata Lexemes
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network: Wikipedia podcast section #152 - Wikidata + Wikipedia: fact templates (in Swedish)
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The Buggregator
    • AutoDesc Reloaded by Magnus Manske
    • Awesome Wikidata notebooks
    • Close to the Edge - Graph Databases through 1970s Prog Rock
  • Videos
    • How to upload Australian Faunal Directory IDs to Wikidata using OpenRefine. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
    • PhysWikiQuiz - a Physics Formula Question Generation and Test Engine using Wikidata in Education - YouTube
    • Timelapse of churches in the Americas (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
    • UseAsRef 2.0 - adding references using external IDs and other statements on Wikidata - YouTube
    • Addressing the gender gap - Wikidata and SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
    • Understanding Wikidata: a free and open knowledge base (in French) - YouTube
    • WikidataTutorial: Learn how to edit / create items on Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
    • Linked Data and Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
  • The 3^rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27^th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: stylized name, record number, excitation energy
    • External identifiers: Bat Sheva Archive ID, Literature.com book ID, Literature.com ebook ID, CantoDict word ID, CantoDict character ID, MYmovies person ID, Chi era Costui plaque ID, Bowers acronym, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Austrian Football Association player ID, Dewan Negara ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, AllSides ID, Birdata ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, IRIS GSSI author ID, IRIS IUSS author ID, SISSA Digital Library author ID, NSW Parliament member ID, SNSF person ID, FFCAM ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Conway polyhedron notation, Nombre de voies routières, Museu da Pessoa Story, Official forum, Properties for legislation, Stack Exchange user ID
    • External identifiers: Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, Meetup group id, UAE ID, Tennis Abstract player ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, SoccerPunter player ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, pfl.uz player ID, ua-football.com player ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Snob.ru author ID, TASS Encyclopedia ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, DFIH financier ID, DFIH business ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, IndexCat ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Penza Encyclopedia ID, SEKO-ID, Musées Nationaux Récupération ID, Women in the Legislature ID, Dissernet person ID, Dissernet institution ID, Dissernet journal ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Vokrug.tv show ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of mosques (Source)
    • Documents from the Boyer collection by decades, subjects most represented (Source)
    • Pronouns of people in different languages (Source)
    • Twitter accounts of libraries in Switzerland (Source)
    • Images of cell types in Wikidata (Source)
    • Map of the place of death of people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
    • Graph of NFDI consortia with their fields of work, the map of (co-)applicants, (Source)
    • Places where people in South-America work who published on Wikidata (Source)
    • Rail link between Narvik and Singapore (Source)

• Development
  • The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
  • Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
  • Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
  • Preparing for WikidataCon.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:31, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Different stories, same place

• News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded

• In the media: China bans, and is there intelligent life on this planet?

• Opinion: A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

• Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process

• Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention

• Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia

• Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game

• Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more

• Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp

• Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality

• WikiProject report: Redirection

• Humour: A very Wiki crossword

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 20:18, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #492

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: handling of data objects for pages in the project namespace

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Sam Oyeyele will join us to discuss the AfroCine project. doc, Nov. 2nd.
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—November 3rd, 2021. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 09:00-10:00 PDT / 12:00-13:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #14, COP26
  • Past:
    • WikidataCon 2021 happened \o/
      • Documentation of the sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (linked from each session's Etherpad).
      • Wikidatapink pony session (a meetup where participants shared wishes and feature requests about Wikidata to the development team)
      • List of birthday presents
        • WikidataComplete gadget by Dhairya3124
        • Wikidata Subgraph Analysis by Aisha Khatun
        • UseAsRef 2.0 by Epìdosis
        • KGTK project by Pedro Szekely
        • Wikidata Map (series of updates of the all-coordinates-on-wikidata, made available at commons:Wikidata map) by Addshore
        • Special episode of Wikipediapodden with an interview with Denny about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions by Ainali
        • Lua access for Lexemes on beta by LydiaPintscher
        • Editathon documentation page by bunch of lovely glam professionals
        • Learn wikidata course by Clifford Anderson and co
        • Wikxhibit by Tarfah Alrashed
        • Integraality updates by Jean-Frédéric
        • iNaturalist BioBlitz by Pigsonthewing

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog post
    • Challenge A to Z 2021 (in French)
  • Papers
    • Complex Portal 2022: new curation frontiers about the Complex Portal (Q47196990) <> Wikidata connection
    • (fr) Les libellés francophones genrés dans Wikidata (notebook Observablehq)
  • Videos
    • Working hour on preferences and common.js Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Semantic web tutorial # 3 | What is Wikidata? (in French) - YouTube
    • SPARQL queries around Boyer collection of the Clermont Auvergne Métropole heritage library (in French) - YouTube
    • New Item creation (in Japanese) - YouTube
  • Research projects
    • Creating and evolving knowledge graphs at scale for explainable AI

• Tool of the week
  • Cemeteries.wiki by Yamen is a project to display Dataviz and statistics about cemeteries all over the world. (2021-11-01)
  • ... and remember you can propose a new tool or gadget!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: term in higher taxon, official forum
    • External identifiers: NatureScot Sitelink ID, Refuges.info ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, George Eastman Museum people ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, UAE University Libraries ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, Toolhub ID, Research Data Australia ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: date of recording, Candidate position, MTBdata
    • External identifiers: Vokrug.tv person ID, Standing Waters Database ID, State Duma person ID, Federation Council person ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, FRACS profile ID, NER portfolio ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, SEEK company ID, Levels.fyi company ID, romaq.org ID, NWT Species ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Douyin User ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, ACE Repertory writer ID, Indonesian Hospital ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of French bridges and tunnels carrying an high-speed railway line
    • List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in French (ie using the generic as male form) (source)
    • List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in English (ie using the generic as male form)(source)
    • consorts of Selim III (source)
    • Coordinates of the birthplaces of people with family name Autrique (Source)
    • Coordinates of battles (Source)
    • Geographical distribution of votive boats historic monuments in France (Source)
    • Relationship among accepted NFDI consortia (Source)
  • Newest database reports: top missing property by number of identifiers: spouse (P26)

• Development
  • WikidataCon! \o/
  • Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
  • Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
  • Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
  • Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:37, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #493

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, November 9 at 18:00 CET
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #61 - YouTube, Facebook, November 13 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #86, November 14 at 13.00 UTC
    • Wikidata webinar at the Goethe Institute in Athens (Greek). Nov 8, 2021 17:00 UTC+1
    • Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour! Monday 15 November 2021, 3PM - 4PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration: Zoom registration link
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #15, COP26 (2/2)
  • Past
    • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
    • Wikidata SPARQL tutorial around the Saint-Brieuc museum (in French)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Media
    • User:Theklan at Radio Euskadi (Q3100760): Wikidata: una base de datos editable, multilingüe, libre y con datos de todo conocimiento (Spanish)
  • Blogs
    • TIB at WikidataCon: Part 1 , Part 2
    • With help of their prof, U of T students go from being Wikidata novices to international conference presenters
    • Crowdsourcing the Scene at the Boston Rock City Edit-a-Thon
  • Videos
    • Basic tutorial on how to improve Wikidata items (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Metadata of cultural institutes: import strategies on Wikidata in the case of the Tuscany Region (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Databases: a case study of PanglaoDB - YouTube
    • Using Wikidata entities and properties in schema.org markup and linked data - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • are occupation labels gender neutral? a tool to explore gender neutrality of labels in different languages.
  • RAWGraphs, a dataviz tool which allows SPARQL queries (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
  • OpenRefine 3.5.0 was released

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Museu da Pessoa History, Conway polyhedron notation
    • External identifiers: Tennis Abstract player ID, Women in the Legislature ID, StopGame ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Biografija.ru ID, Derrieux agency person ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, Penza Encyclopedia ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, Musées Nationaux Recuperation ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Nynorskordboka-ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Indonesian parliament candidate ID 2019, Trove work ID, Vokrug.tv show ID, Apple maps ID, Federation Council person ID, Meetup group id, Glitchwave genre ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: original catalog description, Kanobu ID, Yandex.Question person ID, 発車メロディ
    • External identifiers: Listen Notes podcast ID, WhatsApp number, CNKI Journal ID, Baidu Scholar Journal ID, AllHomes research location ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Coles Online product ID, Woolworths product ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, NVE Bre ID, Databáze-her.cz ID, FederalPress Encyclopedia ID, babesdirectory, DHAC ID, Naver TV ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, live.ijf competition ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, The-Sports.org competition ID, StarHit ID, Nasha Versia ID, LocalWiki ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Comparably company ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases Chemical ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of virtual twins (pair with the same dates of birth and death) in Wikidata (source)
    • People recently buried in a cemetery nearby without an image of the grave (P1442) on Wikidata (source)
    • List of lexemes in French associated with occupation items (source)
    • Towns with less than 1000 people that have a cathedral (Source)
    • Musical works based on literary works (Source)
    • Main surnames of people born in the Puy-de-Dôme, France (Source)
    • Members of the Ukrainian national sports team (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We finished adding “next steps” dialog and a “more info” dialog to tell users more about the import a mismatch was added in.
  • We had discussions about how to best make the SearchBox WVUI component for the new Vector skin work well for Wikidata (phab:T275251)
  • We have put a version of WBStack on wikibase.dev. We will start work to deploy to wikibase.cloud in the coming weeks.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:32, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #494

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Create massive changes in one property for spesific categories/properties?

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Bug Triage Hour on API issues. Monday 15th November at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time, see other time zones) (Etherpad)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Éder Porto will be discussing adding journal articles to Wikidata Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project/Chapter 17. doc, Nov. 16th.
    • Open Source Publishing Tools in Wikidata, 16 November 2021. Part of the Open Publishing Fest.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #62 - YouTube, Facebook, November 20 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #87, November 21 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #16, Books
  • Past
    • Introduction to Wikidata: GWMAB con IAML Italia replay (in Italian)
    • WikiData4Education_Aligning the sum of all knowledge with school curricula, WikiIndaba (replay)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata and open infrastructure: a request for participation
    • Own metadata for own blog posts - science communication and bibliographies with open data and Wikidata
    • How we're tracking elections in symbiosis with Wikidata
    • Recent updates and improvements to Wikidata Query Service
      • How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow
      • The trouble with triples
      • Getting the WDQS Updater to production: a tale of production readiness for Flink on Kubernetes at WMF
  • Videos
    • Fuzheado and T Cells to demonstrate how to discover, track and work with sets of Wikidata - YouTube
    • Wikidata Introduction course (in German) - 1, 2, 3, 4
    • Wikidata in Educational Institutions / Academic research at Wikimedia Polska / Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
  • Podcasts
    • Siobhan Leachman - Wikimedia Editor and Citizen Scientist

• Tool of the week
  • Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
  • What kind of articles have you created? an Observable notebook which use Wikidata API to get the value of P31 for the list of articles created by a user.
  • OpenRefine is hiring a part-time Project director (paid position).
  • Hewell public beta app: is a virtual tour guide that automatically finds interesting things around you whether you're in a new city or your hometown.
  • Full Fact is using the MediaWiki Action API in their workflow to help add some Wikidata identifiers to their mark-up.
  • Magnus replaced some live SPARQL queries in Mix’n’match with a database cache. Main page now loads faster.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, Standing Waters Database ID, Vokrug.tv person ID, Atlas Project of Roman Aqueducts ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Philosophica ID, Castforward ID, Baidu Scholar journal ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Tabakalera ID, mathematical symbol, included as part, specific impulse by weight, Newgrounds username
    • External identifiers: 7 Days person ID, DBLP event ID, Osmose Agency person ID, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, IRIS Umbria IDs, biografiA ID, Global Geoparks Network ID (new), identifiant Numelyo
  • Query examples:
    • List of properties which have instances or subclass of humans as possible value with male and female form in French (source)
    • Different people with same label / birthday / occupation in a specified year
    • Narrative locations of the book Itinerary from Paris to Mont-d'Or (Source)
    • Maps of tombs of unknown soldiers (Source)
    • Most common first names (> 5) among people with a Wikidata item and born in Auvergne (Source)
    • Student-Teacher relationship based on entries in 'Das Geistige Berlin' (1897) (Source)
    • Relative frequency of reasons MPs' terms end, since 1870 (Source)
  • Newest database reports: recently ended TV series

• Development
  • The language codes agq (Aghem, T288335) and mcn (Massa, T293884) are now supported.
  • Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
  • Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
  • Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (phab:T232557)
  • Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (phab:T295560)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:35, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #495

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Wikidata:Requests for comment/How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ?

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 25th November 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
    • Editing Scottish government agencies at CTC24 – Open In Practice, November 27-28
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #63 - YouTube, Facebook, November 27 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #88, November 28 at 13.00 UTC
    • ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (November 23rd 2021 13:00 Berlin time) (register on meetup)
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #17, Bread
  • Past
    • Bug Triage Hour on API issues (log)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Using Wikidata to promote epistemic equity
    • How Penn's Librarians are Using Linked Data to Make the Web Better
  • Videos
    • How to use the Wikidata query service without having experience with the SPARQL language (Wikidata Query Builder) (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata - YouTube
    • Presenting the project for integrating data from the Ricordi Archive into Wikimedia projects (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Bio-Ontologies - YouTube
    • ENDORSE Follow up event: Wikibase and the EU Knowledge Graph as a use case - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer and Partner Relationships Manager to join the Wikidata/Wikibase team.
  • Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
  • This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
  • A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
  • The latest version of WordNet released now links to Wikidata for many entries
  • [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: train melody
    • External identifiers: SEKO ID, NWT Species ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, SEEK company ID, Tabakalera ID, IRIS UNIPG author ID, EXQUIRITE author ID, State Duma person ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases chemical ID, CREPČ institution ID, CREPČ person ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, CJFD journal ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Osmose Agency person ID, biografiA ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Rehearses at, image with color chart, Wallet Address, dpi, project of, outcome, introduced by, IMA Symbol, Ghana Place Names URL, CSS code, Deity, number of teachers
    • External identifiers: Newgrounds username, identifiant Numelyo, Genie artist ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie media ID, Naver VIBE track ID, Naver VIBE video ID, Bugs! track ID, Bugs! music video ID, Melon music video ID, Rutube channel ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Nintendo64EVER ID, N64-Database ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, Coub channel ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, identifiant OùVoir.Ça, kino-teatr.ru film ID 2, CH district ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, identifiant Initiale, AbeBooks ID, Sceneweb organization ID, SensCritique work ID, Library of Congress providers ID, Irkipedia ID, Delovaya Stolitsa ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, NT Place Names Register ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, IRIS polytechnic universities IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Numbers from 0 to 20 sorted alphabetically thanks to lexicographical data (source)
    • Given names of French fictional characters, as chosen by French / non-French authors (Source)
    • Map of members of the International Society of Biocuration (historical and current; affiliation and education institutions) (Source)
    • UK MPs and their reason for *finally* leaving office (Source)
    • Number of new UK MPs at each general election since 1870 (new = never served before) (Source)
    • Crewe Alexandra players from Crewe (Source)
    • Chronological timeline of people buried in Cimetière des Carmes (Source)
    • Stops in the travel routes of Wilhelm Müller on his way from Leipzig to Bad Schandau in 1820/21 (Source)

• Development
  • Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
  • Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
  • The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
  • Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:59, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
• WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
• Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
• From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
• Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
• Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
• Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
• WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
• Serendipity: "Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot
• News from Diff: Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles
• Traffic report: Reporting ticket sales on the edge of the Wiki, if Eternals should fail
• Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
• Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword

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Wikidata weekly summary #496

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

• Discussions
  • Project chat: Wikidata phase 1 regression (interwikis no longer visible in new layout used by some Wikipedias and its impact on minority languages)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Jan Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link, November 30.
    • Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse
  • Past
    • Wikibase Live session log, month of November 2021
    • Introduction to Wikibase (part 1), ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup (replay)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Blog post on how Wikimedia Sweden has worked with two museums to open up their data and make it available on Wikidata (in Swedish)
    • Indigenous knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube
    • (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube
    • Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube
    • Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube
    • Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer to join the Wikidata team.
  • Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
  • New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: death rate, image with color chart
    • External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, Dissernet institution ID, DHAC ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, AHPRA registration number, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, Oùvoir.ça film ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index, surrounds the enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista
    • External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID, oKino.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, oKino.ua actor ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID, svpressa.ru ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of items without any statements (last week: more than 1,300,000)
    • Number of items without any statements by sitelinks (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements).
    • Taxa named after women (by place of birth) (Source)
    • List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size (Source)
    • Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
    • List of countries by the highest elevation point (Source)
    • Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 (Source)
    • List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service (Source)
    • Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections (Source)
    • Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids (Source)
    • Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² (Source)
    • List of government agencies in Scotland (Source)
    • Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
  • Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
  • Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
  • More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
  • Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:54, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #497

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

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #90, December 12 at 13.00 UTC
    • Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, December 7 at 18:00 CET

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in the English Wikipedia
    • Bringing together journalists, the public, and Wikidata to understand our world
    • Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in Wikipedia in French
    • Reflection on filling a new Wikidata item by Addshore
  • Papers
    • "Knowledge Based Multilingual Language Model" Using the Wikidata to build the language models that not only memorize the factual knowledge but also learn useful logical patterns. (Liu et al, 2021)
  • Videos
    • Summary of Transbordados, the pre-WikidataCon conference organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese)

• Tool of the week
  • Weaviate big graph (source) is a vectorised search engine which returns similar items in Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
    • Wikibase Installation Survey
    • Wikibase Software Updating Survey
  • The new Wikimedia Research Fund is live now. It can fund research projects related to Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: specific impulse by weight
    • External identifiers: FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, OùVoir.Ça ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub ID, SensCritique work ID, Snob.ru author ID, IRIS POLIBA author ID, Re.Public@Polimi author ID, PORTO@Iris author ID, IRIS UNIVPM author ID, Sceneweb organization ID, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, Apple Music track ID, AbeBooks ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista, Numista coin ID, lieu de disparition
    • External identifiers: Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Lingua Libre ID, Express Gazeta person ID, bards.ru person ID, PGM author ID, Deutsches Zeitungsportal ID, Index of Middle English Verse ID, ICCROM authority ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, ThENC@ thesis ID, Baidu Baike LemmaID, Indonesian College Code, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Museum of the Great Patriotic War encyclopedia ID, iTunes genre, CYT, Folketinget actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Ruskino actor ID, Pandora album ID, Pandora track ID, Swiss National Library ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, Athens Academy authority ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of laureates of the women's Ballon d'or (source)
    • List of people born in Cook Islands (source)
    • Wordcloud articles without statements of MyLang Wikipedia (switch to "Table" view to list, at left border of screen)
    • Artworks picturing snow (source)
    • Graph of football players who died per year (source)
    • Things depicted in art works of the Khalili Collections (source)
    • People represented on the painting "Le Sacre de Napoléon" from 1804 by Jacques-Louis David (source)
    • German cities whose names are also verbs (using Lexemes) (source)
    • Railway stations in the Baltics (source, see the full thread for more queries)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued polishing for the first version. Improving the texts and adding loading state. Incorporating feedback from testing.
  • Continued migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
  • Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
  • Finished work on small tool to show Items recently edited by several accounts to surface current events.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:48, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #498

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

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Enriching Claim Reviews - Sharing Experience From Factchecking (schema.org/ Full Fact)
    • Most liked Wikidata tweets (addshore)
    • Updates on the Wikidata map in 2021 (addshore)
  • Papers
    • Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1
    • "ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - paper, tool

• Tool of the week
  • Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article using Wikidata's API and SPARQL
  • embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Blazegraph failure playbook now available
  • Initial version of Lua access to Lexemes to be deployed on Bengali and Basque Wiktionaries
  • When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” (documentation)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: IMA Mineral Symbol, protective marking, recording date
    • External identifiers: Natural History Museum (London) person ID, Indonesian Hospital ID, Music of Armenia ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, World of Shakespeare ID, AllHomes research location ID, Australian Trade Mark Number, Harvard Art Museums ID, BookDepository publisher ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, German Newspaper Portal ID, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Dissernet journal ID, Dissernet person ID, centrasia.org person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, Pandora track ID, Nintendo64EVER ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: alphabetical index, International Standard Content Number ISCN, Number of likes, homophone form, Roovet Sound
    • External identifiers: National Library of Ireland ID, Famitsu game ID, JSTOR artwork ID, NYPL Copyright Entries, Kinomania.ru film ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), Irish Times Profile ID, All About Birds ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, f6s id, IRIS Marche IDs, Viber group ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, AAGM Artwork ID, Muz-TV ID, MTV Russia ID
  • Query examples:
    • French departments with more population than all their neighbour departements (source)
    • Map of places names after horses (source)
    • Latvian citizens by occupation (source)
    • Map of the mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cities

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.
  • Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. (phab:T294637, phab:T294159)
  • Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (phab:T296202)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:19, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #499

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories
  • Other:
    • SPARQL query service (SDC) mandatory authentication considered harmful

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #21, Celebration
  • Past:
    • EduWiki Live on the theme of Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization. (replay)
    • Wikidata workshop (in Italian) (replay)
    • Semantic Web in Libraries: SWIB21 (replay)
      • From string to thing: Wikidata based query expansion
      • Representing the Luxembourg Shared Authority File based on CIDOC-CRM in Wikibase

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata user and project talk page connection graph
    • Images from Wellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views on Wikipedia
    • Integrating the PM20 companies archive: part 3 of the data donation to Wikidata
    • Parliamentary debates are made more transparent and accessible with Wikidata
    • A parliamentary document says more than a thousand words (in Swedish)
    • The Longest Serving MP in Sweden
    • "With artificial intelligence, common sense is uncommon. "To help overcome this challenge, researchers use several sources of commonplace knowledge like Wikidata to obtain a “reasoned” AI response."
  • Papers
    • A botanical demonstration of the potential of linking data using unique identifiers for people
    • Survey on English Entity Linking on Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Tutorial for Wikidata Mix'n'Match tool for database pairing (in Czech) - YouTube
    • SPARQL queries on Wikidata - basic level (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Presentation about the Wikidata community (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Advanced Course (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - YouTube
      • Introduction
      • Concept of Linked Open Data
      • SPARQL-Queries
      • Automatic data import
    • Querying Wikidata: Museums, Volcanoes (in French) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Fundamentals (in French) by CAPACOA - YouTube
      • Triplets, licenses
      • Item, references and qualifiers, history tab
      • Creation of a user account. Creation of a new items
    • Wikidata Workshop: The basics by CAPACOA - YouTube
      • Wikimedia Foundation licenses, item, semantic triples
      • User creation
      • Searching and editing an item
    • Vector Search through Wikidata with Weaviate - YouTube
    • Creating items on Wikidata using OpenRefine (without sound — subtitles only) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • NoclaimsBot adds the first statements on items without claims based on templates used on the linked Wikipedia article.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The 500th Wikidata weekly summary is 2 issues away. We are putting together interesting things related to the number 500 to include in that issue. Do you know any Wikidata facts or queries or anything cool related to 500? Please add them to Wikidata:Status updates/Next#Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
  • Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), currently in beta, will soon be in production with a planned General Availability date of 1 Feb 2022. See the Upcoming General Availability release discussion page for more details.
  • Seth started an essay to summarize the multiple data-related projects going on between Wikimedia Projects at the moment: User:Lectrician1/The grand mess of data on Wikimedia.
  • When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” by using “!Sxx” instead of “Sxx” syntax to start a new reference group.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
    • Wikibase Installation Survey
    • Wikibase Software Updating Survey
  • Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
    • Engineering Director
    • Full-Stack Developer

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: iTunes genre
    • External identifiers: Pandora album ID, Indonesian College Code, Institute of History of Ukraine ID, Academy of Athens authority ID, ThENC@ ID, CDAEM person ID, Famitsu game ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, Levels.fyi company ID, U-PAD author ID, CAMPUS author ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, iTunes genre ID, Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Category for work of subject, Honorary citizens category of entity, Kanobu numeric ID, cadastral district, official shop URL, website, documented files
    • External identifiers: street number in Austria, EU Whoiswho ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Österreichische Schulkennzahl, iCSO ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, Lur Encyclopedia ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, KSH code (historical), Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, WikiStrinda ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Film.ru film ID, Film.ru actor ID, Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID
  • Query examples:
    • Shijian (SJ 实践) experimental satellites (source)
    • Age of living Hawthorn FC players (source)
    • People died on their 50th birthday (Source)
    • Relationship between London School of Economics doctoral advisors and students (source)
    • Map of twinned towns (or partners) of municipalities of Puy-de-Dôme (source)
    • Map of the places named in reference the horse (source)
    • Map of bridges in Kaliningrad (source)
    • Latvian citizens by occupation (source)
    • Wikidata items which are the most linked by lexemes using the property “item for this sense” (source)
    • Actors in Christmas movies: by frequency, with film titles and sample film item (source)
    • Filming locations of Christmas movies, with film titles and sample film item (source)
    • Recent Christmas movies lacking filming location (source)

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

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:36, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #500

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

• Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
  • Item #500 is Citrus ×limon; Property #500 is exclave of; and Lexeme #500 is "കുടുംബം" - Malayalam for “family”.
  • “Roughly” 500 people were participants at WikidataCon 2021
  • Q207742 is about the natural number 500
  • Q560388 disambiguates "500" for Wikipedias in 14 languages.
  • The Roman numeral for 500 is "D"
  • Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 500
  • Wikidata was 500 days old on Friday 14 March 2014. It will be 500 weeks old on Tuesday 31 May 2022

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
    • Coolest Tools Awards on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #22, New Year
  • Past:
    • Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
    • WikidataCon 2021 (replay on YouTube)
      • Wikidata talks:
        • Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smiths. Inst.
        • A Wikidata university course? Lessons learned from featuring Wikidata in an elective course at TAU.
        • Linking Indian Local Self Government's Structured Data with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
        • Finding new pathways of collaborating for a sustainable Wikidata software development
        • How can we reimagine Wikidata from the margins? Conversation with Maryana Iskander
        • Wikidata at Texas A&M University Libraries: Enhancing Discovery for Dissertations
        • Wiki API Connector - Simplifying ETL workflows from open APIs to Wikidata/Commons
        • IG WIKIDATA HUB - The Journey towards building a WIKIDATA community in Nigeria
        • Integration of Wikidata 4OpenGLAM into data and information science curricula
        • Description from Wikidata on sister projects and concerns about vandalism
        • Knowledge Quality In Wikidata: Vandalism Insights and Data Collaborations
        • Shared Citations - A proposed citation management database for Wikimedia
        • Analyzing, visualizing and improving Wikidata using the Wolfram Language
        • Challenges and Lessons from a Pilot Project: Christian Hymns in Wikidata
        • Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world
        • Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry
        • A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org
        • Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database to Wikidata
        • Global templates: Towards a New Age of Cross-wiki Data Collaboration
        • From QRPedia to AudioQRPedia : how to improve QRPedia using Wikidata
        • Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments presentations and discussion
        • From Google Scholar to Wikidata: The RIDC NeuroMat Experience
        • Assessing the quality of sources in Wikidata across languages
        • IFLA Wikidata Working Group: Updates from the library field
        • A process to roundtrip Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine
        • Arrange river data in Taiwan by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
        • Look both ways: integrating Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
        • Wikidata in the Classroom: Updates from North America
        • Learning Wikidata in 8 Weeks as a Smithsonian Intern
        • Wikidata-based Narratives for Research and Education
        • Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata
        • Sorting out industry classifications in Wikidata
        • Systematic Review Automation driven by Wikidata
        • The Lindy Effect in Wikidata User Retention
        • Non-binary Gender Identities in Wikidata
        • Measuring and monitoring data quality
        • Wikidata & Education: A Global Panel
        • Integrating Wikidata into education
        • Integrating Wikidata into education
        • Wikidata in Australia showcase
        • Wikidata and R: a perfect pair
        • Writing schemas for Wikidata
        • Overview of ontology issues
        • Wikidata and OCCRP
      • Wikibase talks:
        • Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session
        • How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase?
        • Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph
        • "A Wikibase for what?" - diverse users at the edge of the graph
        • Wikibase lightning talks: data upload and extensions session
        • How to open Authority Control system - The GND & Wikibase
        • Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup
        • Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud
        • Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture
        • Wikibase lightning talks: inspiration session
        • Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Why you need to understand Wikidata, no matter what field you’re in
  • Papers
    • Improving the Question Answering Quality using Answer Candidate Filtering based on Natural-Language Features
    • Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter
  • Videos
    • SPARQL queries on Wikidata - advanced level (in Italian) - YouTube
    • How to link items to Dagbani Wikipedia articles using databox by Dnshitobu - YouTube
    • Alias names in Wikidata - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021 now available.
  • If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in phab:T275251.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
    • Wikibase Installation Survey
    • Wikibase Software Updating Survey
  • Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
    • Engineering Director
    • Full-Stack Developer

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: type host, CSS code
    • External identifiers: Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID, Irkipedia ID, Babesdirectory ID, Numelyo ID, ua-football.com player ID, soccerpunter.com player ID, pfl.uz player ID, PGM author ID, Irish Times profile ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Kinomania.ru film ID, bards.ru person ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, N64-Database ID, Channel One Russia show ID, Kanobu ID, Lambic.Info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, CH district ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie artist ID, Austrian school ID, DFIH business ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, Ruskino actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Joconde use ID, JSTOR artwork ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, MTBdata ID, All About Birds ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), GISAID identifier, oKino.ua actor ID, Library of Congress providers ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: documented files, start and end time in video, is an individual of a taxon, facilitates flow of, LKI ID, service hosted by, service hosted at, everyeye.it ID
    • External identifiers: Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Artland fair ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, Regroupement Québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, CNSflora ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, artchive person ID, nzs.si player ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, NLC Bibliography ID, PKULaw CLI Code, LGBT Info Wiki ID
  • Query examples:
    • Places that appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopaedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopaedia and the Store Norske Leksikon, (ordered by country) (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
    • UK parties since 1935 that have only ever been represented by a single MP (source)
    • Brazilians with most Wikipedia pages across languages (source)

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

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:27, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Here is the news

• News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements

• Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?

• In the media: The past is not even past

• Recent research: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph

• Arbitration report: A new crew for '22

• By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers

• Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"

• Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021

• Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed

• Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all

• Humour: Buying Wikipedia

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Wikidata weekly summary #501

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence
  • Past:
    • Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • How to get Wikidata claims from Wikipedia sitelinks using Wikidata API ?
  • Videos
    • Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL querries (in Italian) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
  • Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
  • Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
    • External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
    • External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016
  • Query examples:
    • Map of New Zealand suburbs (source)
    • Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment (source)
    • Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) (source)
    • Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) (source)
    • People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 (source)
    • Average height of people named Joe (Source)
    • Indian writers who died in 1961 (Source)

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:45, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #502

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Ameisenigel, welcome!
  • New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in this Jitsi room. This edition will be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2 Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and community discussion. Agenda, January 11th. to local time!
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours. Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
    • The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC. This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - YouTube, Facebook, January 15 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92, January 16 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, Antonyms
    • Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem. International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. Register!

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • An introduction to Observable for Wikidata users
    • 10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
  • Videos
    • Introduction to the interwiki links between Wikidata and Wikipedia (in French) - YouTube
    • Exploring Wikipedia infobox from Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
    • WIkimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021
      • Implementing Wikidata in Educational Institutions — CEE Challenges and Opportunities - YouTube
      • Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
      • Wikidata automatization and integration with web resources - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel free to fill in the survey before January 17.
  • The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
    • if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name to this page
    • if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that Wikipedia and contact them directly
  • New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
    • Product Manager Wikibase Suite
    • Working student in International Software Collaboration
  • Post WikidataCon 2021
    • Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
    • Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
    • Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy, is an individual of taxon, reference image, associated cadastral district
    • External identifiers: Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID, WikiStrinda ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, NER portfolio ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, LocalWiki ID, Initiale ID, Joconde representation ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, Arthive person ID, Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, NT Place Names Register ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, MedlinePlus supplement identifier, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, everyeye.it ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: TV3 programme ID, Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler, results in quality, official jobs URL, relative, director of publication, Business valuation, 議案番号
    • External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016, New York Flora Atlas ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, NLC FL Sys. No., Senators of Spain (1834-1923), Finnish real property ID, TV3 video ID, OpenAlex ID, IRIS Sardinia IDs, CineCartaz, identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Numista type number, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, SPLC group ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, archive-ouverte Unige ID, Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID, rus.team person ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID
  • Query examples:
    • Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications
    • Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses on Wikidata) (Source)
    • Presidents of Brazil with the most awards (Source)
    • Locations of parishes across Scotland (Source)
    • Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born (Source)
    • Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopedia and the Store Norske Leksikon (Source)
    • Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world (Source)
    • World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade (source) select decade on the right side
    • Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the languages (source)

• Development
  • Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
  • Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (phab:T298001)
  • Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (phab:T232557)
  • Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (phab:T233520)

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.

• Looking back at 2021
  • Developments rolled out in 2021:
    • New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
    • Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
    • Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
    • Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
    • Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
    • Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
    • Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
  • New entities in 2021:
    • Items Q104595000 (approx.) to Q110342868
    • Properties P9003 to P10223
    • Lexemes L400170 (approx.) to L625164

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:12, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #503

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present 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.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube, Facebook, January 22 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano
    • #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
  • Past:
    • Bug Triage Hour (log). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list.
    • Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award 2021 (replay on YouTube)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Tour de France's stage winners an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library.
    • Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards
    • Equal Street Names Wiesbaden
  • Videos
    • Using Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to mport a book into Wikisource -YouTube
    • Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org - What can we learn from the designs and how to use the API's to extract information - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wiki History Game is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
  • GraphQL demo for WikiCite is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Do you have an idea you want to explore & want to investigate it using Wikidata? Apply for a WMAU fellowship grant.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: reference image, associated cadastral district, admission yield rate
    • External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, oKino.ua film ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Pipe Organ Database organ ID, UNICA IRIS author ID, IRIS UNISS author ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Business valuation, 議案番号, podcast image url, list of TV show episode, XJustiz registration court ID, LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community
    • External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID, Amazon podcast ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, Habr company ID, Douban book Works ID, German Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Things that turned 20 years old today (source)
    • Irish artists and their relationships (source)
    • Eating or drinking establishments near you (1.5 radius) (source)
    • Most common day for UK by-elections since 1880 (source)

• Development
  • Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (phab:T233520)
  • Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing
  • Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
  • Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:25, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #504

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th January 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
    • Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 25 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Pascal Martinolli speaking on tabletop role-playing game citations practices and Wikidata, January 25th.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #68 - YouTube, Facebook, January 29 at 19:00 UTC
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #94, January 30 at 13.00 UTC
    • Online workshop in French about Breton lexicographical data, by Envlh and Vigneron, January 30 at 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • On Tuesday, February 22, the OpenRefine team hosts a community meetup to present current and future work on Structured Data on Commons support in OpenRefine.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #26, Bees
    • #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-01-19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack featured on Hacker News
    • Solving Wordle, Sutom, and al. with SPARQL queries on Wikidata
    • Wikitrivia is a web game that challenges your knowledge of historical dates
    • Wikitrivia, the viral game that tests how much you know about history (in Spanish)
    • 100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
  • Papers
    • Wikidata: a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control
    • Wikidata for Digital Preservationists: New DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note now available on general release
  • Videos
    • [WORKSHOP] Wikidata and libraries: tools for information managers (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Lexemes forms:
    • Now supports the Odia language
    • Substantially expanded template for Spanish verbs
  • How many triples are added when certain edits are made? ... User:Mahir256/Triples

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: admission yield rate, Corruption Perceptions Index, category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast image url
    • External identifiers: AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, ARCHER ID, Senators of Spain (1834-1923) ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Hermitage Museum work ID, Engineer's Line Reference, Archive ouverte UNIGE ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, AsianWiki ID, ENEA-IRIS Open Archive author ID, METRICA author ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community, subpopulation 3, type of register, identifier in a register, phrase in hiero markup
    • External identifiers: Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, XJustiz registration court ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania Encyclopedia ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Index to Organism Names ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, LastDodo-area-id, SberZvuk ID, North Data company ID, Gardens Navigator ID, SAHRA heritage objects ID, ezeri.lv ID, SAHA player ID, norsk fangeregister fangeleir ID, Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of tramways in France
    • Map of categories for honorary citizens (source)
    • Map of the Medieval universities and its founding date (source)
    • Camps/subcamps within a 20km radius of your location (source)
    • Taxa found at Fazenda Tamanduá (Sertão of Paraíba - Brazil) (source)
    • Birthplace of Rabbis (source)
    • Italian parliamentarians and ministers aged between 50 and 80 (source)
    • Female Irish scientists in Wikidata without a Wikipedia article (source)
    • Places in the Hautes-Alpes that are the subject of an article on Wikipedia in at least 10 languages (source)

• Development
  • Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (phab:T296383, phab:T296382, phab:T296384)
  • Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (phab:T297393)
  • Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
  • Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized the statistics part.

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!
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• In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again

• Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery

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• Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?

• Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced

• Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany

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• Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage

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• Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?

• Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia

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• Featured content: Eden, lost.

• Gallery: Love is in the air

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• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!

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• In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propoganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?

• Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter

• Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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• News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate

• Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians

• In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences

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• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
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• Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions

• Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists;
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• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion

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• Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"

• Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors

• Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles

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• In the media: Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed

• Featured content: Incensed

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• Recent research: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy

• Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced

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• Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master

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• Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash

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• Serendipity: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me

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• Concept: Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"

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