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Wikidata weekly summary #535
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #56, Mystery theme (guess the theme)
- Past:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #55, Wiki Loves Monuments
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Interoperable USP Bioinformatics Theses Catalog with Wikidata (in Portuguese)
- Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata
- Working with Wikidata: (1) Introduction and Terminology
- Mapping the Brazilian Association for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to Wikidata
- Papers
- Videos
- [Wiki Mentor Africa] Introduction to using OpenRefine for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Editing (part 1, part 2)
- Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences (in Spanish)
- Relations on wikidata and color biology (in Spanish)
- Wikidata Tutorial: Different ways to display SPARQL queries (in German)
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- SenseForThisItem.js: Adds a button on items to show what senses are linked to it.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upgrade of the Search clusters to Elasticsearch 7.10.2 will start on August 29 2022 for 3-weeks.
- The latest round of Outreachy internships wrapped up on 26 August. Two interns worked on improving author-name data; their bots have made over 340,000 edits. Their project description, documentation, blog posts and code are available.
- The August 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
- Open vacancy:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: contraindicated in case of, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s), power series expansion, KFCB classification (Kenya), website title match pattern
- External identifiers: IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee athlete ID, Federation Council reference ID, Russian Football Union player ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, motocross.ru rider ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, athletics.by person ID, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Anghami album ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, Olympic Committee of Serbia athlete ID (new), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, Swedish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Field Hockey Canada person ID, Real Time person ID, Real Time organization ID, Communist Party of the Russian Federation person ID, Rugby Federation of Russia athlete ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, RailScot location ID, GIE gas storage ID, RailScot line or company ID, YAPPY profile ID, Business Online ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, izsambo.ru person ID, national-football-teams.com, TGbus ID, TGbus franchise ID, AFC player ID, SABRE wiki ID, Moepedia ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Scinapse author ID, Hockey New Zealand person ID, Artsy artwork ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, European Hockey Federation ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, EU Knowledge Graph item ID, Cultural Property in Liechtenstein ID, Belarus in persons and events ID, Planeta Belarus sight ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL, Indicator, Curriculum Reference Number, Content standards
- External identifiers: Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID, Garden Plant Finder ID, Archaeology Data Service ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, Tanzania administrator ID, Digital Foundry game ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, King County Parcel Number, Anime Taizen ID, Betrail runner ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, A Utah Flora ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (phab:T306934)
- Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of phab:T307866)
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!
The Signpost: 31 August 2022
- News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere
- Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?
- In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
- Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees
- News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me
- In focus: Thinking inside the box
- Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations
- Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now
- Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth
- Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.
- Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links
- Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come
- Essay: Delete the junk!
- Humour: CommonsComix No. 1
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago
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Wikidata weekly summary #536
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
- DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Context is Queen: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models (source)
- Papers
- Videos
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
- Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Gauss notation, crossing number
- External identifiers: PTS+ season ID, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID, South African Hockey Association ID, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID, UCI rider ID, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode, Garden Plant Finder ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Football 24 article ID Russian, Football 24 article ID, BioNames author ID, Devil's Porridge Worker ID, Czech electoral party ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, LiLa Linking Latin URI, Instagram post ID, Springer Nature journal ID, Arabic Ontology lemma ID, Anime Taizen ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: coordinates of grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID
- External identifiers: vPlants ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, IGDB game engine ID, Aragonario ID, CRAB ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma'agarim ID, Feb-web IDs, Diskograf artist ID, Diskograf label ID, Diskograf song ID, NSR doctor ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Oculus Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Viveport ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID, newslab.ru dossier ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID
- Query examples:
- Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier (source)
- Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 (source)
- Education of French prefects (source)
- Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds (source)
- Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed (source)
- Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API:
- We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
- We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
- For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
- Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
- Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #537
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 Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
- Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Dataviz
- Tool of the week
- View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration video until Sunday, September 18th.
- Job opening:
- Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation // Commons and Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, Hesperomys taxon ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, Digital Foundry game ID, IGDB game engine ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, ZineWiki ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, Odnoklassniki album ID, Mindat.org Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Transcribed by, annotator, SHAARD-ID, associated locality, cadastral municipality name, NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, reduces
- External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, MTV Germany music video ID, fedpress.ru persons ID, epsd2 identifier, Naver game lounge ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, SR-Archiv record ID, SR-Archiv person ID, SR-Archiv print media ID, BIBFRAME Hub ID, eGardenGo plant ID, IAHR member ID, FrameNet frame ID, FrameNet Lexical Unit ID, IRIS Calabria IDs, legislation.govt.nz ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, Chess.com player ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID
- Query examples:
- Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers - (source)
- Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? - (source)
- Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets (source)
- Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022 (source)
- Things named after Queen Elizabeth II (source)
- Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
- Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
- Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
- Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #538
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- بوٹ دا عثمان
- Task/s:
- Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
- Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).
- Task/s:
- بوٹ دا عثمان
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
- The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
- Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
- WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
- Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
- Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
- Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
- ContribuLing 2021
- Dataviz
- Presentation
- Tool of the week
- WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
- External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
- External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID
- Query examples:
- Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
- Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
- List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
- Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
- People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
- French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
- Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
- World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
- Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
- Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
- Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
- Cause of death of US presidents by party
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API:
- Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
- Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
- Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
- Lexicographical data:
- Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
- Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
- Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
- Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
- Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
- Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
- Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #539
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 🧵 Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- JhsBot 6
- Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.
- JhsBot 6
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Presentations
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
- The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
- External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID
- Query examples:
- Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
- Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
- Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
- Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
- Song titles that match female given names (source)
- Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
- Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
- Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
- People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
- Software license, by year (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
- Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
- Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
- REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
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!
The Signpost: 30 September 2022
- News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
- In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
- Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
- Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
- Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
- Featured content: Farm-fresh content
- CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #540
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 🧵Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- EuropeanCommissionBot 1
- Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
- William Avery Bot 10
- EuropeanCommissionBot 1
- Open request for adminship:
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
- October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
- Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
- The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
- Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
- Ongoing
- Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
- 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
- Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
- Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
- The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
- Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
- View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations.
- 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
- It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
- Job openings
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: won sets
- External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
- External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID
- Query examples:
- UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
- Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers (source)
- British Monarchs vs. US Presidents (source)
- Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
- Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
- Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
- Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine (source)
- Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
- People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
- Films with "it" in the title (source)
- Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
- Emblems depicting birds! (source)
- Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Improved handling of localized language names (phab:T261851/phab:T275781)
- REST API:
- Continued work on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
- We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (phab:T318151)
- Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (phab:T318221)
- Continued work on the mul language code (phab:T285156)
- Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (phab:T313477)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #541
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Live editing session on Twitch as part of the DACH Culture Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset.
- UM Data Science Research Seminar. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata
- Ongoing
- DACH Culture Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th.
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals
- Past
- The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia.
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In
- Videos
- Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #93
- DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World
- Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena
- Dataviz
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093). It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50)
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
- The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: model image
- External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID, Oculus Store ID, UniChem compound ID, Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number
- External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID, C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID
- Query examples:
- Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes. qapla'!
- Map of historic Welsh parishes (source)
- "Controversies” articles with the most sitelinks (language versions) (source)
- Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source)
- Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses (source)
- Map of Rennes, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source)
- Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
- Lexicographical data:
- Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
- Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
- REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
- Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
- Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
- Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #542
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- 🧵Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- DwdsBot
- Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
- RobertgarrigosBOT
- Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
- Josh404Bot 4
- Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
- BorkedBot 8
- Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate
- DwdsBot
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
- Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
- Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
- Ongoing
- Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #63, Vehicles
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
- Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- Papers
- The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
- Videos
- Dataviz
- Twitter threads
- 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
- 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
- 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
- The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
- The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
- Job opening
- Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
- External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
- External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID
- Query examples:
- Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
- Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
- How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
- Streets of Paris that meet (source)
- Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- REST API:
- Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
- Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
- Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
- The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
- Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
- Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
- Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
- Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
- Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 🫶 Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- 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!