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Wikidata weekly summary #571
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)
- Events
- Upcoming: October 09 - 11, 2023, Leipzig, Germany - workshop on handling and modelling mathematical research data — Wikidata, Wikibase and Scholia are all in scope
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #91, Family (2/n)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog: VocalEyes and Wikidata: Making accessibility information easily available
- Papers
- Wikidata: The Making Of (by Denny Vrandečić, Lydia Pintscher and Markus Krötzsch)
- The SciQA Scientific Question Answering Benchmark for Scholarly Knowledge
- Videos: Back having more fun with Lexemes! by Mahir256 - Twitch
- Tool of the week
Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Britannica Kids kids level article ID, Britannica Kids students level article ID, Britannica Kids scholars level article ID, TOOI identifier, Chess Programming Wiki ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- character in this lexeme (character(s) this lexeme consists of)
- External identifiers: none
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- (Breaking Change Announcement) Changes to the wblistentityusage API module
- (Breaking Change Announcement) Entity Labels Added to Parsed Edit Summaries in API Requests
- (Breaking Change Announcement) Inconsistencies in the response of `list=wbsubscribers` API Query module
- Query Builder: The Query Builder now has a language selector so you can change the interface language.
- Date parsing: Input of dates in notations common in Asia, especially Japan, is now improved. (phab:T214002)
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
- Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on the endpoint for replacing a label of description of an Item. (phab:T323813)
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!
Your GA nomination of Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
The article Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of SyntheticSystems -- SyntheticSystems (talk) 11:22, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #572
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- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- WikiRankBot (Task: Use Alexa rank (P1661). "...track the monthly ranking of websites based on Similarweb Ranking")
- TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Cultural Institutions and Linked Open Data Networks: Create Your Own Database with Wikibase! Friday, 05.26.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (On-line)
- Conversation on open data and digital innovation in education. Carlos Blin Auditorium of the Central University of Chile, Av. Santa Isabel #1278, Santiago. Thursday May 25 – 10:00 a.m.
- Towards a new national bibliographic processing policy with linked data. Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 May 2023
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Google Summer of Code 2023 and Outreachy Round 26 candidates announced, with Wikidata-related projects
- re•shape – A Wikimedia program to support knowledge equity - Applications are open between May 11 and June 18 to apply for a grant to create more space and visibility for marginalized knowledge.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme)
- External identifiers: Wood Database ID, Humanities Commons member ID, Shipbucket ID, MEL residence ID, JMA weather station ID, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma place ID, GamesRadar+ ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Qualigeo ID, Ut ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Israel Composers' League composer ID
- Query examples:
- Name of languages containing the words "old" or "ancient" (source)
- Birthplaces of humans called "Antoine" (source)
- Who took the most pictures on WikiCommons around a Wikidata item? (source)
- Graph of art (and other things) owned by Art Looting Red Flag Names or members of the Nazi Party at any time (source)
- Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 19, 2023) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Personal Pronouns (Goal: Model and assign pronouns ethically in Wikidata)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
- Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
- mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
- Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).
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!
hajj: journey to the heart of islam
hello, MartinPoulter! i had a quick question regarding this article and the associated blurb. was prince abdulaziz bin abdullah the custodian of the two holy mosques at the time of the exhibition's opening despite, presumably, not being the king of saudia arabia? the article on the royal style notes that it is used nowadays by saudi arabian kings. i am not an expert on such styles, but i would imagine that the style "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" has similarities with the style "Defender of the Faith", used by british monarchs. i believe the following statement from the cited source may be the reason the blurb and article are both asserting that prince abdulaziz bin abdullah was then the custodian of the two holy mosques.
I wanted in particular to thank HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah of Saudi Arabia; Your Royal Highness you do us all a great honour with your presence here, representing, as you do, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.
to me, this does not appear to state that prince abdulaziz bin abdullah was the custodian at the time, but rather that he was a representative of the custodian. dying (talk) 21:49, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
- I'm so grateful to you, dying. Having checked the online source and paper sources you are indeed correct. I have fixed this in the article and used your archive URL for the now-dead Prince of Wales page. I will get the FA blurb changed too. Thanks again, MartinPoulter (talk) 10:17, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- It's now been fixed in the TFA blurb as well. We're so lucky you noticed the error. MartinPoulter (talk) 11:11, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- looks good, MartinPoulter. glad to be of help. thanks for addressing this issue! dying (talk) 21:45, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 17 May 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 17, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:50, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you today for the article, introduced: "I do a lot of work trying to urge cultural institutions (GLAMs) to share content with Wikimedia. One promising approach is to find a public exhibition that has been thoroughly documented and has attracted a lot of third-party coverage, then to summarise its content and reception with a Wikipedia article and Commons category. I'm lucky enough to be a Wikimedian In Residence, so I've written this on paid time (as I declare on my user page), and my host institution has freely shared images of objects that were exhibited. I think this is some of my best wiki work and hope the attention given this article will persuade more museums to share images."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:33, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #573
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- Discussions
- CEUR-WS (Task: CEUR-WS Semantification bot to be used on publishing Workshop proceedings via http://ceur-ws.org)
- AcmiBot (Task: Sync links with ACMI API)
- Events
- Past: The Wikimedia Hackathon took place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. Several Wikidata-related projects were presented during the showcase (notes, replay). You can also find more documentation on this page.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Melanie Conroy, Quantifying the Gap: The Gender Gap in French Writers’ Wikidata; Journal of Cultural Analytics Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2023May 11, 2023.
- Videos
- Queering Wikidata: Early Insights from the Wikidata Gender Diversity Project, Presentation by Daniele Metilli, Beatrice Melis, Marta Fioravanti, Chiara Paolini on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
- Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online: The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata, Presentation by John Samuel on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
- Ethical and Inclusive Data Modeling for Gender Representation in Wikidata: Lessons and Recommendations from the Personal Pronouns Project, Presentation by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui, Alex Jung on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023
- “But what about representation?”: Finding Ethical Solutions and Best Practices for Gender Information in Wikidata, Discussion by Arielle Rodriguez, Crystal Yragui on May 17 in Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Video)
- Papers
- Tool of the week
- CreateNewEntity.js got improved to support up to 11 languages.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is launching a laptop donation program to support Wikidata contributors with limited access to technology. If you've been actively contributing to Wikidata for at least a year, you can request a free laptop to support your work. WMDE Hardware Donation Program#Applying
- Wikibase.Cloud data modeling research has been published. It shows user flows and pain points in the Data Modelling experience of Wikibase Cloud users in Q1/2023.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: L'Histoire par l'image ID, Napster release ID, Xbox Games Store ID (Xbox 360), Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris author ID, Global Smash Roster fighter ID, RAWG developer ID, RAWG publisher ID, Qualigeo ID, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- population by ethnic group (Part of a larger population isolated for statistical analysis)
- points of bonus (point of bonus in a tournament, given according some conditions (such as minimum number of goals...))
- External identifiers: Israel Composers' League composer ID, Stage 32 profile ID, kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, Radiomuseum.org company ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry
- General datatypes:
- Query example: Scottish waterbodies & how they're linked (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- We continue working on modify data of labels of an Item in the Wikibase REST API. (phab:T332739)
- We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas.
- We are continuing to prepare various special pages for the mul language code.
- We fixed a bug on Wikipedia and co where the "add interlanguage link dialog threw an error (phab:T337081)
- We attended the Wikimedia hackathon.
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #578
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- Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- TalkPageHeader.js shows the talk page header for languages other than English.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata. Full announcement and access to the toolkit
- The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see https://replag.toolforge.org/ & Phab T337446. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- time of periapsis (the time at which the orbit of an object in space, typically a planet or a satellite, goes through its periapsis)
- matched by identifier from (this external ID was added because the following link was presented in both the external database and the Wikidata item)
- External identifiers: Diritto on line ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- ISCED Attainment (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
- ISCED category orientation (International Standard Classification of Education category (based on focus/orientation) applicable to an educational program)
- Learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
- External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, BFM.ru persons ID, Open Yearbook org id
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Ontology issues: We are finishing the evaluation of the survey about which types of ontology issues are hindering reuse of Wikidata's data the most.
- Otherwise mostly a slow week because of the Wikimedia hackathon.
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #579
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- Events
- Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands - Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.Event page
- Registration has opened for the workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.
- Tool of the week
- IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject)
- visited by (organisms attracted by this plant taxon and reported to visit it)
- Mastodon instance URL (the mastodon instance of/about the subject)
- beforehand owned by (person or institution that owned the subject just before stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
- afterward owned by (person or institution that owned the subject after stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
- solubility product constant (equilibrium constant for a sparingly soluble solid chemical substance dissolved in an aqueous solution)
- funded by grant (title or name of the grant funding this item)
- External identifiers: stats.fm artist ID, Zeno.org ID, World Arachnid Catalog ID, Springs and Fountains of Andalucía ID, TMDb collection ID, TMDB company ID, WGA work ID, Peacock ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
- External identifiers: Identifiant "Politique pappers", Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID, Holarse, wiki.ubuntuusers.de article ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Kialo ID, PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), PesticideInfo chemical ID, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage ID, Image Duplicator ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Musées Occitanie ID
- General datatypes:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Aikido
- Newest database reports:
- External identifier completeness - External identifier property use completeness.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (phab:T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (phab:T337720)
- Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (phab:334682)
- Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (phab:T335857)
- EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #580
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- Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
- Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- quality is the result of process (quality that this process/activity directly correlates to and produces)
- External identifiers: theCrag ID, SEC Kerala code, Modern History Database person ID, Netflix person ID, Enciclopedia machiavelliana ID, PM20 film section ID, The Homicide Report person ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- ISCED field (mapping of a particular course's local fields according to the International Standard Classification of Education)
- Romanian river code (River codes from ApeleRomâne)
- External identifiers: Artmajeur artist ID, UETK ID, Trésors de Nice ID, German University Collections PersonID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished work on accessing data for Properties (phab:T337720)
- We started work on supporting conditional HTTP headers for accessing Property data (phab:T338138)
- You can now add sitelinks to outreach wiki (phab:T171140)
- Query Builder: Fixed an issue with missing icons in the language selector (phab:T335754)
- EntitySchemas: Final polishing on the new datatype before wider testing.
- Wikibase REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #581
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.) (closed on 22 May without prior mention)
- TiagoLubianaBot (Task: Link UMLS CUIs to Wikidata based on external mappings) (closed on 21 May without prior mention)
- Events
- Upcoming
- WikidataCon is happening later this year in Taipei and online. The call for proposals is now open.
- The role of Wikidata within the research lifecycle, Wednesday 21 June, 10am BST (UTC+1), online event hosted by the University of York, UK. International participation is welcome, despite "available to White Rose institutions only" on the booking page.
- The Fourth Wikidata Workshop is now accepting paper submissions until Thursday, 20 July 2023.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 23, 2023: Returning to Podcasts, we will be working on creating podcast episode pages. We will discuss how this episodic content can be transferred to other serialized items. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
- Webinar: Common European Data Space for cultural heritage (The ontology of Wikidata, how to interact with it for a better quality). Tuesday 20th June 2023, from 3.00 p,.m. to 5.00 p.m. CET. Register
- GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 scholarship application now open. Deadline is June 30, 2023.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #97, Poetry (started on 2023-06-19 12:01:21)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Videos
- Wikidata Lexeme Malayalam training (in Malayam) - YouTube
- Wikidata Lab XXXVII: Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine - YouTube
- Intro to Knowledge Graphs and Wikidata (in Indonesian) - YouTube
- Setting up a Wikidata account (in Urdu) - YouTube
- Editing Wikidata Items for Parliament of Ghana Contest (Kusaal Wikimedia Community). See also: Introduction to Wikidata, How to Create a Wikidata Item, How to Add Labels and Description to Wikidata Items
- Africa Environment WikiFocus: Wikidata Training by Yamen Bousrih (in English and French) - YouTube
- Social Studies Campaign for Wikidata for Education project - YouTube
- Followup to the OBO Academy's Introduction to Wikidata (BioMed Orientation) - YouTube
- Wiki Workshop 2023: Session 1: Diversity and Bias in DBpedia and Wikidata, Session 5: How does Wikidata shape gender identities?, Session 11: Wikidata to Bootstrap an Enterprise Knowledge Graph, Session 11: Synia: Displaying data from Wikibases
- OpenRefine for Wikidata & WikimediaCommons - YouTube
- Wikidata SPARQL session for the Data Reuse Days - YouTube
- Documentation for Wikibase Cloud at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 – Athens, Greece - YouTube
- KGC 2023 Talk — The EU Knowledge Graph by Dennis Diefenbach, The QA Company - YouTube
- SS 2023 - Session 3: Wikidata for Classicists. The Example of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive - YouTube
- Notebooks
- Slides: Reuse in the Wiki World empowers engagement with Natural History Collections
- Tool of the week
- Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [GLAM] Volunteer Opportunity: 2023 LD4 Wikidata Working Hour Summer/Fall Series
- Want to make knowledge about #NaturalProducts accessible to everyone in more languages? Help us translate our project page.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- satellite view (image of the subject taken from outer space)
- External identifiers: The Homicide Report person ID, KPU Plant Database ID, LiteraturPort autorenlexikon ID, Media Library for Dance and Theatre person ID, documenta archiv ID, Marsilio Editori author ID, Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Israel Composers' League composer ID, Alabama Authors ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- HyperTextAPI
- Gottstein code (Gottstein code as a representation of a cuneiform sign variant)
- altesdresden.de object (altesdresden.de object)
- Moroccan administrative geographical coding - الترميز الجغرافي الإداري المغربي
- Moroccan administrative geographical coding
- External identifiers: COSL profile ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, NBC Olympics Athlete ID, European Bridge League ID, research.com ID, ComingSoon.it TV IDs, Team France profile ID, FIGC player ID, Theapolis theater ID, Theapolis actor ID, AVP player ID, Volleyball Canada ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, Korean Tour player ID, Austadiums ID, DEL player ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Which mountaineers died on Mount Everest ordered by their death date? (source)
- Gallery of people born in Brittany and named Jeanne, Jean or Yann (source)
- List of botanical collectors who have a death date but don't have a Bionomia ID (source)
- British MPs who resigned from the Commons mid-parliament on two separate occasions (source)
- Dutch members of parliament with a Mastodon account (source)
- [Data quality] [ Inside a given instance of (P31) inside same country, find possibles duplicates if they share same date : same kind of event same date in same country might be a candidate for review and merge
- [Calendars] What is the equivalent in Iranian Hijri of March 5, 1902?
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API:
- We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata.
- We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers.
- EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback.
- mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T329655, phab:T316767)
- Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (phab:T327510)
- 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.
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Wikidata weekly summary #582
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Wikiconvention francophone: Opening of calls for communication and scholarship applications until July 14th.
- WikiIndaba 2023 Call for Submissions and Scholarship Applications. Deadline: June 30, 2023.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #98, Shoes (started on 2023-06-26 12:01:20)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of remembrance (in German) - YouTube
- Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata - YouTube
- Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in Wikidata, National Library of Greece - YouTube
- Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)- YouTube
- Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on Wikidata - YouTube
- From authority control to identity management - YouTube
- DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality - YouTube
- Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration Conference 2023 - YouTube
- Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study - YouTube
- KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art - YouTube
- Surveys
- Notebooks
- Tool of the week
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: PremiershipRugby.com player ID (new), Professor at Cologne univ. ID, Numista ruling authority ID, Suomen etymologinen sanakirja ID, Suomen murteiden sanakirja ID, Svenska Akademiens ordlista ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- 諱 ()
- Date of declaration as a town (The date when a settlement is declared a town)
- Loss of town status (Date of loss of town rank)
- External identifiers: Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Alienor.org ID, The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, XWord Info author ID, WKF ranking ID, Composer's Union of Ukraine person ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, etymologiebank.nl ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Last words of authors (adapted from a query generated by ChatGPT) (source)
- List of American actors and actresses having a wikipedia page with parents having a wikipedia page
- (history) Where were the borders crossing between German Democratic Republic (Q16957) and West Germany (Q713750) ?
- Week 25, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject University of Washington Libraries - projects which individuals at the UW Libraries have done in collaboration with the Wikidata community.
- WikiProject New York Public Library - work underway at the New York Public Library (Q219555) to connect library data with Wikidata.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (phab:T338383)
- EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
- Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
- mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T339103, phab:T329655, phab:T329655)
- Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (phab:T327510)
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 #583
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: koavf 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 8 July 2023 13:16 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: Wolverène Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: UrbanBot (Task: UrbanBot's task is to mass-add English descriptions to items that don't have one)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)
- Events
- Upcoming
- The third iteration of the WikiWomenCamp will be hosted in New Delhi, India, from the 20th to the 22nd of October 2023. Scholarship applications are now open.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour July 7, 2023: Let's collaborate to upgrade our community infrastructure! We'll transfer notes and content from Google Docs to our WikiProject subpages. We'll be practicing our Wiki markup skills and learning to manage Wikidata Project pages Event page
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #99, Breast milk (Challenge started on 2023-07-03 12:01:21)
- Past: The “Games & Literature” conference took place June 28th-30th at German Literature Archive Marbach (Q1205813), several sessions mentioned Wikidata (see for example Why we thought it was a good idea to build a DACH games database).
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Notebooks
- Tool of the week
- m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a Userscript that adds an arrow next to the main label (page title) which upon double click (a tap and a confirmation on touch devices) automatically makes the label's first letter lowercase for the current interface language. If there was already a matching alias it gets removed.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
- Scholia has a new aspect dedicated to profiling WikiProjects, e.g. toolforge:scholia/wikiproject/Q56241615 for WikiProject Invasion biology. Using it revealed inconsistencies across WikiProjects in terms of which properties they use (and how) to associate a page with a WikiProject, as discussed here.
- Introducing Wikibase World. The Wikibase registry has moved. Add an entry for your Wikibase if it's accessible over the open internet.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
- record of (signal over time this object is a physical representation of)
- orchestration (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement described using score notation)
- type of document(s) held (used to specify the type of document(s) contained in an archival collection or documentation file)
- External identifiers: French sports venue number, Challenges billionaire ID, Intangible cultural heritage ID by the Austrian UNESCO commission, mosff.ru player ID, Austadiums ID, Akadem organization ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Azerbaijani National Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia.com ID, QLIT ID, Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Kartvelologists of Georgia ID, Politique pappers identifier, altesdresden.de object ID, BFM.ru person ID, beachsoccer.com player ID, National Science Foundation award, BIBFRAME Hub ID, elibrary.ru article ID, Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris work ID, Radiomuseum company ID, BSDB player ID, NBC Olympics athlete ID, Law Insider Legal Dictionary entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- elected on (Date when a person was elected to a {{P|P39}}, in difference to {{P|P580}} (= {{Q|Q28530236}}). {{P|P2715}} cannot always be applied.)
- collage combines images (collage composed of images)
- Nigerian registered company (RC) id (RC number (Registration Number), identifier assigned to a business by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Nigeria)
- Cent cols (A property to link Wikidata entries to the dedicated pages of each pass by the Cent Cols)
- Phonographic copyright (identifier for phonographic copyright)
- External identifiers: myjewishitaly.it ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Lemmy community identifier, Mythoskop ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara settlement ID, LFG player ID, Flashpoint database ID, Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, Wikibase World identifier, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, National Library of Colombia authority ID, CNR ExploRA author ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Conflation aims to identify and untangle conflated items.
- WikiProject Scotland's Accused Witches aims at producing structured data documenting witchhunts, and prosecuted Scotland's accused witches on Wikidata using the University of Edinburgh's landmark Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (1563 to 1736).
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (phab:T338141, phab:T338138)
- We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356), phab:T338383)
- Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
- mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.
- Wikibase REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- 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 #584
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- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: koavf 3 Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- LD4 conference (YouTube)
- Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog- Tuesday, July 11, 2:30pm EST
- Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas - Tuesday, July 11, 11:30am EST
- Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) - Tuesday, July 11, 11am EST
- WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration - Wednesday, July 12, 11:00 am - 11:30 am
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
- How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base Wednesday, July 12, 10:00 am - 10:30 am ET
- Ongoing
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #100, Ants (Challenge started on 2023-07-10 12:01:24)
- Past
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- How to create a Wikidata Lexeme with ease - Beginner's Guide (in Twi and English) YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Duplicity is a tool on Toolforge that helps find articles on Wikipedia that do not have a Wikidata Item, and match them to an existing Item, or create a new one. (example for English Wikipedia)
- HasProperty.js displays presence/absence of specific properties (configurable) after the Statements heading. Clicking a property name will jump to that properties section. For absent property, clicking property name will jump to the end of the page.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Overview of potential solutions regarding survey on ontology issues reusers are facing have been published. Are there important pieces missing? Is there something you disagree with? Generally sounds sensible? Do add your thoughts.
- Wikidata development plan for Q3 has been updated. Wikidata:Development_plan
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- excavated by (person who has conducted an archaeological excavation of a historic site)
- verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
- Founder of ()
- underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
- timetable ()
- External identifiers: Antenna Structure Registration Number, BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, Gameswelt ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Ontology issues: We published the overview of solutions and are looking for input on them now.
- mul language code: We continued work on it focusing on showing it in the right place in the desktop termbox (phab:T316767)
- Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356, phab:T338383)
- Vector 2022 skin: We continued work on improving the search display (phab:T327510)
- WMF Governance wiki is now connected to Wikidata so can be linked to in the sitelink section under multilingual sites (phab:T321967)
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!