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Wikidata weekly summary #546

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

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 11
      • Task: update Wikidata:Main Page/Popular daily
    • VojtěchDostálBot 1
      • Task/s: Import of field of work (P101) from Czech National Authority Database (Q13550863)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 10
      • Task/s: manage badges in sitelinks to redirects
    • 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
      • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
    • Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Numbers (5/n)
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Awesome Wikidata: Curated list of Wikidata Projects and information
    • The Wednesday index, evolution of gender diversity in a selection of Wikipedia articles. The data are collected from Wikidata using @pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article
    • The Enduring Allure of the Library of Alexandria
    • Cultural AI team wins special award at the Heritage Hackathon
    • Checking lexical forms - Abstract Wikipedia Updates
  • Papers
    • Building the European Social Innovation Database with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
    • WDBench: A Wikidata Graph Query Benchmark
  • Videos
    • Get to know Wikidata Lexemes (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • Live Wikidata editing #98 - YouTube - The theme is music! with User:Moebus as guest.
    • David Lindemann: LOD-infication of Bibliographical Data Using Free Software: CLB Wikibase - YouTube
    • Experience in Integrating Wikidata and Government Open Data, By Wikidata Taiwan (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • The Greek Wikidata community celebrated the Wikidata 10th birthday (in Greek) - YouTube
    • 10 Years of Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, by Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
  • Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, JioSaavn artist ID, England Hockey ID, UWIND ID, NCUA Charter ID, FDIC Certificate ID, Niconico ID, Camp Wild ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, MSVF ID, Central Library of Volos authority ID, Aerodrome identification Code, UOM ID, Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, Levadia Library ID, IHF profile ID, ihg Hotel ID, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Louisiana Plant ID, WMOOV movie ID, PGA of Australia Player Profile ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (A) ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (B) ID, Famous Birthdays ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: subfunction, mastodon URL, unique name, user input & output, Cuneiform character in this lexeme, fruit color, headline, chapter or section
    • External identifiers: BestWestern hotel ID, Wyndham Hotel ID, Hilton Hotel ID, DML-CZ publication ID, Accor Hotel ID, article ID in Alex Författarlexikon, Hlídač státu, Kirjasampo ID, Boksampo ID, UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID, KOBIS people ID, RISM siglum, Infopédia ID, ResearchGate journal ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry, Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
  • Query examples:
    • Biggest Mastodon instances according to Wikidata
    • Mastodon accounts of researchers (source)
    • Most annotated servers according to Wikidata (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of people with known mastodon address (source)
    • European islands culminating at more than 1,000 m of altitude (source)
    • Map of water bodies in France (source)
    • Other awards won by winners of the Booker Prize (source)
    • Timeline of Libre and Open Source videogames (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
    • Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
    • Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459)
  • Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511)
  • New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093, phab:T317682)

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) 16:02, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #547

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Cewbot 5
      • Task/s: Add sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) for sitelinks to redirects without intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
    • Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #68, SI base units

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Apple Podcasts is auto-tagging episodes with topics
  • Papers
    • Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing — covers a range of identifiers (including Wikidata ones) for taxa, people, institutions and other entities relevant to biodiversity studies
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #99 - YouTube
    • The Greek Wikidata community celebrates their 10th birthday (Part 2) (in Greek) - YouTube
    • Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
    • Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata - YouTube
    • Import Wikidata into an RDF based Ontology using Apache Jena - YouTube
    • SMWCon 2022 - Day 3 - Wikidata Synchronization for the CEUR-WS publishing platform - Tim Holzheim - YouTube
    • Sitelinks wikibase cloud - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js is a userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts is a model that tries to predict the instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279) of unlabeled items. You can play with it and leave Daniel some feedback.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: build system, tiratge, official demo URL, pinout, sitemap URL
    • External identifiers: Annales des mines person ID, Baidu Tieba name, DrugCentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, Musicsperlacobla sardana ID, Musicsperlacobla composer ID, Boig Sardanista sardana ID, npm scope, IRIS UNICT author ID, IRIS UNIME author ID, IRIS UNIPA author ID, IRIS UNIKORE author ID, Hlídač státu person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: has visual representation, chapter and verse in the Bible, commit hash, official server list URL, translation management URL
    • External identifiers: Datastory Glossary ID, SNE publisher ID, Livres Hebdo ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, AniList staff ID, ECOF saint ID, DFK Paris person ID, Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) ID, Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions ID
  • Query examples:
    • Finding the first revision and original creator of items with mwapi
    • Mastodon accounts (with Twitter equivalents) (source)
    • Gender balances of winners of literary awards (source)
  • Newest templates:
    • Template:Quickquery can be used to quickly write and link SPARQL queries on the Wikidata wiki

• Development
  • REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310)
    • Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687)
    • Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (phab:T315161)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511)
    • Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468)

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) 17:02, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #548

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • ChristianKl 2 (RfP scheduled to end after 4 December 2022 17:22 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Identifier sync bot
      • Task: Add database identifiers to items, mainly journal article items.
    • BorkedBot 9
      • Task: Import values of YouTube handle based on YouTube channel ID (P2397) and vice versa.
    • Botcrux 11
      • Task/s: Replace stated in (P248) to publisher (P123) where the value is World Athletics (Q1158).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
    • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
    • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
  • Past:
    • Wikibase live session (November 2022) log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • When information expands, ronnabytes and quettabytes come to the rescue.
    • Understanding the Knowledge Graph: Examples, Uses and More
    • Plotting the age of parliament with Livebook
    • Programming Languages Influence Ranking
  • Papers
    • Mapping Process for the Task: Wikidata Statements to Text as Wikipedia Sentences
    • KnowGL: Knowledge Generation and Linking from Text
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #99
    • WikiMentorAfrica - Displaying Wikidata DataViz on external web pages day - YouTube (part1, part 2)
    • Wikidata Workshop (Digital Humanities on Wikipedia - Archiving of COVID-19 under debate) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Creating a Wikidata item (in Estonian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2022 (in Chinese) - YouTube
      • The past and future of Wikidata in Taiwan
      • An Attempt to Connect Wikidata with OpenStreetMap
      • Wikidata teaching experience in National Cheng Kung University's "Integrating Wiki into History Teaching"
      • Is it composition or construction? Talking about the System Thinking of "Data Translation" Opening up in Data Dictionary
  • Other
    • Summary of the tabular style data discussion at Wikidata 10th Birthday in Utrecht, the Netherlands

• Tool of the week
  • The user script User:Ainali/common-properties.js shows the most common properties using a specific value (video (YouTube))

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenCheck is a new effort to build an open community-powered identity verification system, among other things with the help of Wikidata.
  • The Digital Benin website is linking to Wikidata identifiers, making more exploration and understanding possible beyond what the site itself has: https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109380697777661025
  • Wikidata is on Mastodon: wikis.world/@wikidata. Remember to toot using the #Wikidata hashtag so people can find related topics.
  • New product managers have joined the Wikimedia Deutschland development team:
    • Arian Bozorg, Junior Product Manager for Wikidata
    • Jon Amar, Wikibase Suite Product Manager

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎fedpress.ru person ID, ‎UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID, ‎OVO ID, ‎Best Western hotel ID, ‎Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, ‎New Zealand Legislation ID, ‎Travel Weekly hotel ID, ‎fruit color, ‎e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, ‎Accor hotel ID, ‎OpenCritic outlet ID, ‎Aathavanitli Gani film ID, ‎ID of část obce díl, ‎Livres Hebdo ID, ‎AniList staff ID, ‎Dictionary.com entry, ‎Golfdata ID, ‎Collins Online English Dictionary entry
  • New property proposals to review: Verbalization by lexeme, Cultural Good of Croatia ID, access via, Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, image of feces, image of fauna tracks, hackage package, Packagist package, supports authentication method, package registry usernames, Go package path, Dongqiudi.com player ID, Plazi reference ID, Kanjipedia ID, kino1tv.ru ID, EuDML journal ID, Jiten Online kanji ID, lexeme of other gender, serves resource, YouTube handle, Wikimedia Phabricator project, ISFDB award ID, Trismegistos author ID, Africultures Structure-ID, African American Visual Artists Database ID, Lighthouse Directory page, UniProt Disease ID, Google Product Taxonomy ID, object pertains to, negates property, GCD issue ID, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, Nîmes cemetieres person ID, LMÍ id, kód adresního místa podle RÚIAN, IdnaMapping, экологическая группа растений, International Computer Game Collection work ID, JLect entry ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Au Senate ID, manchu.work lexeme ID, Israeli Opera site (English) person id, of instances of, subclass of with uncertain existance, vazn, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Sense relationships connected to semantic roles, TV Maze episode ID
  • Query examples:
    • Translated Wikidata property labels (top 100 languages) (source)
    • Dentists who are notable footballers (source)
    • Map of obelisks over 40 m high (source)
    • Notable doctoral student/advisor pairs where at least one of them is within the Wikidata:WikiProject NZThesisProject (source)
    • Wikimedia affiliates on Mastodon (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished the adjusted statement data structure (phab:T321459)
    • Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (phab:T321483)
    • Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (phab:T322734)
    • Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (phab:T322746)
  • Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (phab:T313468)
    • Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (phab:T288511)
  • Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:
    • Improved the markers that indicate the field is required input (phab:T322683)
    • Improved a help link (phab:T315161)

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
  • Go through the list of pages with sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) and update them either to intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304) or remove the sitelink. We have worklists for many languages.
  • 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) 15:07, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 November 2022

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• In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"

• Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC

• Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future

• Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed

• Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality

• Book review: Writing the Revolution

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• Essay: The Six Million FP Man

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• Featured content: A great month for featured articles

• Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler

• Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

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• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

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Wikidata weekly summary #549

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • ChristianKl 2 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • TaxonomyBot
  • New request for comments:
    • Remove watchlist summary

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and playing with some tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. This will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work together. Event page
    • Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC, on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come with your favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
    • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023 page.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in Wikipedia - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
    • The Archaeology Data Service and Wikidata
    • Animals to Play H-O-R-S-E With
    • Mini hackathon in Utrecht, by Jan Ainali
  • Papers
    • Structural Quality Metrics to Evaluate Knowledge Graphs
    • Using the W3C Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web recommendation to manage small Wikidata datasets
  • Videos
    • How to edit a Wikidata item to appear in an Infobox on Wikipedia (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Library data on Wikidata: a case study of the National Library of Latvia - YouTube
    • Wikidata / National Archives of Australia Project with Tim Sherratt - YouTube
    • How WMDE can support partnerships with GLAM institutions for Wikibase and Wikidata projects - YouTube
    • 2022 edition: Timelapse of railway stations in Denmark (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 14: How To Add References To Wikidata Articles (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday celebration events, By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
    • Wikidata Istanbul 2022
      • Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (I-II) by Asaf Bartov (Day 1: English, Turkish)
      • Modeling Our Languages ​​with Lexeme (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
      • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata Querying with SPARQL (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
      • Wikidata and GLAM: Museums of Turkey (Day 3: Turkish, English)
      • Potential Benefits of Wikidata to the Health System, Nevit Dilmen (Day 3, Turkish)
      • Useful Wikipedia Tools, Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, Turkish)
      • Handy Wikidata Gadgets by Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, English)
      • Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and Beyond, Lydia Pintscher (Day 1: Turkish, English)
      • Structured Data Across Wikimedia by Luca Martinelli (Day 2, English)
      • Getting Inspiration from Projects Using Wikidata, Neslihan Turan (Day 1: Turkish, English)
  • Podcasts
    • WikiProject Biography, a podcast episode presenting Wikidata:WikiProject Biography
  • Thread
    • The advent of Wikiviz, 24 dataviz about Wikipedia and Wikidata until Christmas
  • Other
    • A rap battle between Wikipedia and Wikidata as envisaged by ChatGPT

• Tool of the week
  • How many edits does Wikidata get per second? listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opportunities: Post-doc in Natural Language Processing (1.0 FTE), University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: has biological vector, EuDML journal ID, SciSpace author ID, Oblio author ID, Dams in Japan number, SNE publisher ID, KOBIS people ID, OpenML dataset ID, DFK Paris person ID, PIM publication ID, Pittori Liguri ID, USTC identifier, EPA ID, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959 ID, YouTube handle, hackage package, Observation.org place ID, Diskograf artist ID, KBR person ID, Miraheze article ID, ILNM ID, Trismegistos author ID, Packagist package, translation contribution URL, Cinemaazi people ID, Cinemaazi film ID, MAK Collection Online person ID, MAK Collection Online object ID, BookWalker series ID (JP version), list item, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, alt text
  • New property proposals to review: Amazon Browse Node, Beatport release ID, Bandcamp release ID, subject of qualifier, has part part of, property metamodelling, MangaUpdates IDs, man page, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, MyAnimeList magazine ID, OpenPlaques place ID, is a number of, source of action & destination of action, CSD Refcode, Ès lettres ID, is the change of, removed in version (2), PodLink ID, KOBIS film festival ID, KOBIS film company ID, DBpia journal ID, DBpia publisher ID, tuxDB game ID, Crunchyroll series ID, US-DMF ID, Dehkhoda ID, CocoaPods pod, Appsight app, Appsight SDK, Maven groupID and Maven artifactID, Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, Game Boy hardware database ID, Bane NOR Network Statement station ID, Olympedia-Veranstaltungsort-ID, has duplicate Wikimedia page, GBDB ID, Lygaeoidea Species File ID
  • Query examples:
    • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
    • Researchers with a Mastodon account and a known field of work (source)
    • Count per each language of unique language codes used in lemmas for Lexemes in that language

• Development
  • Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (phab:T320490)
  • Made the Property namespace a content namespace (phab:T321282)
  • Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (phab:T315161)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (phab:T323680)
    • Made the layout more compact (phab:T323678)
    • Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table was a link instead of just the Item ID (phab:T323823)
    • Improved the text on a button (phab:T323682)
    • Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision (phab:T288511)
    • Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more sense (phab:T323819)
  • Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL interface languages (phab:T321441)
  • Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (phab:T324148)
  • Query Service:
    • Making the popup less intrusive that leads to the Query Builder (phab:T296135)
    • Adding tooltips for Lexemes (phab:T255245)
    • Unifying the way to get a link to a query (phab:T324218)
  • mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on mobile that is currently blocking it (phab:T323098)
  • REST API:
    • Finalized json format for sitelinks and data values (phab:T321483, phab:T322734)
    • Investigating rate limiting (phab:T322746)

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) 16:26, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue XI, November 2022 Headlines Africa report: Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Winners & 2022 ISA Drive Albania report: An event at the National History Museum in Tirana Brazil report: WLM tool, Wiki Takes, New WMB's Strategy, and 2 new GLAMs India report: Two Open Culture films on India's Odia language, made with volunteer labour Indonesia report: Open GLAM Conference; Sundanese Wikisource Workshop; Minangkabau books digitization Italy report: Video and photo to share the beauty of Italy's heritage Netherlands report: Linking heritage data at HackaLOD New Zealand report: Integrating with the BHL, loading natural science specimens and data Poland report: How Wiki helps to explore and enjoy art & culture; Wiki workshop for the National Museum in Krakow; GLAM online meeting on ideas for 2023; Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and National Museum of Zrenjanin Sweden report: Wikipedian in Residence at Musikverket; Women and architecture; Gymnasiearbete; New uploads from the Swedish National Archives; WLM winners; Images of Äpplet Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Program UK report: Khalili Foundation Uruguay report: Let's GLAM Together in Uruguay: Help us organize the GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 USA report: WikiConference North America 2022; Punk Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; Kensho Technologies Impact-a-thon Special story: We need your opinion: GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 & Your Favorite Tools Content Partnerships Hub report: Survey: your favorite tools Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #550

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DL2204bot 2
      • Task/s: Correct messy entries for scholarly articles of Uztaro. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Q12268801) and Aldiri. Arkitektura eta abar (Q12253132) journals, add 2020-2022 articles.
    • Kalliope 7.3
      • Task/s: Update User:Kalliope 7.3/List of bots every hour.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 2
      • Task/s: For all items that have an enwiki page that starts with Template:Taxonomy/, set instance of (P31) taxonomy template (Q115595777).

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 13, 2022: Wikimedia Search Platform Team will be sharing updates on Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and Blazegraph. For background, see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update. Agenda.
    • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki channel.
    • Next Wikimedia Research Showcase - December 14. "A year in review from the WMF Research team: Tying our work to the research community".
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #71, Qatar 2022
  • Past
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 7, 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • MatchID enriched with Wiki links
    • Another successful Wikidata Project with UVA
  • Papers
    • The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2023 EU welcomes papers...Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
    • Computational Metabolomics: From Spectra to Knowledge (Dagstuhl Seminar 22181) (Q115647969), with:
      • 3.7 Wikidata: empowering metabolomics research
      • 3.14 CxSMILES: computation ready representation for compound classes (about CXSMILES (P10718))
  • Videos
    • Wikidata as a tool to connect researchers, By Daniel Mietchen - short, full talk
    • Using and Editing Wikidata - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase for Libraries and Librarians (in Greek) - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #100 - YouTube
    • Tutorial for adding OSM data with the Wikidata tag and adding Wikidata items (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • BNElab, contribution and reuse in Wikidata (in Guaani) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • qualifier-constraint-usage.js: Shows what properties this qualifier is a required and allowed qualifier on at the bottom of the qualifier page

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations. Submit your nominations by February 6, 2023.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎contact page URL, ‎Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers ID, ‎press information URL, ‎changeset, ‎RomArchive person ID, ‎African American Visual Artists Database ID, ‎Bureau of Meteorology location ID, ‎Epigraphic Database Heidelberg ID, ‎Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, ‎manchu.work lexeme ID, ‎Professional Referee Organization ID, ‎CIViC gene ID, ‎Athletics Canada ID, ‎is a number of, ‎Ma'agarim ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID, ‎Tanzania Parliament member ID, ‎JCDb ID, ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (1st edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (2nd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (3rd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (4th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (5th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (6th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (7th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (8th edition), ‎man page, ‎Amazon.com browse node, ‎TV Maze episode ID, ‎International Computer Game Collection work ID, ‎Cultural Good of Croatia ID, ‎JLect entry ID, ‎Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, ‎Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Inscriptions ID
  • New property proposals to review: number of penalty kicks scored, Play:Right series ID, OWID identifiers, Wikidata property example statement ID, Mangadex IDs, WSJ article ID, maturity level, official list URL, thumbnail sharpness, Play:Right company ID, IRIS Apulia IDs, Geograph Germany image ID, Spiritains ID, Play:Right class ID, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, INKR title ID, Kitsu IDs, Game-Rave ID, Anime-Planet IDs, has value, ComicWalker content ID, STEDT ID, Middle English Dictionary ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, Adventure's Planet ID, value of property identifies, not, frame rate, Copernicus EMS ID, Sega-Saturn.net ID, PLDB ID, ArchWiki ID, has right, (not) officially recognized by, Famicom World ID, property describes
  • Query examples:
    • Person(s) after whom both a warship and a microarchitecture are named (source)
    • Institutions that have contributed to all #vBIB conferences so far (source)
    • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
    • Mountains in Iceland with no Cebuano Wikipedia sitelink (source)
    • Universities that have an associated Mastodon account (source)
    • Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We would love to have some feedback on the JSON format for the REST API
    • Planning the final pieces that still need doing before the first release
  • Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (phab:T275251)
  • Query Service:
    • Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (phab:T324218)
    • Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (phab:T296135)
    • Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (phab:T302057)
    • Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (phab:T288939)
  • Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (phab:T316936)

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) 16:29, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #551

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Bean49Bot
      • Task/s: Update population of Hungarian municipalities.
    • BjoeBot
      • Task/s: Make sure all map data modules have an item and instance of (P31) of map data module (Q18711811).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. More information: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Participate
    • digital@IANLS: online Wikidata workshop for Neo-Latinists in February 2023
    • Call for Papers on Linked Open Data on Journal BiD: Deadline: Sun, 04/09/2023. Some of the ideas and issues to be included in this issue: Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs, Information services based on linked open data and knowledge graphs, Artificial intelligence and linked open data, Textual corpora and linked open data, Textual corpora and knowledge graphs, Application of bots in linked open data, Application of bots in knowledge graphs, Linked open data and diversity of genres, Graphs of knowledge and diversity of genres, FAIR and linked open data, FAIR and knowledge graphs, Ontologies and linked open data, Ontologies and knowledge graphs, Application of ontologies in information services.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #72, Rooms 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Fork of User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia
    • Reconciling a Mix’n’Match catalog to Wikidata via Google Sheets
    • Celebrating the Wikipedia and Wikidata Birthday in school
  • Papers
    • Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #101 - YouTube
    • LOD as a way of thinking in the era of digital humanities - a preliminary study on Wikidata/Wikibase practice (in Chinease) - YouTube
    • ESEAP 2022 - Wikidata workshop: Intro to Wikidata, Identifiers & Entity Explosion, OpenRefine & Biota - YouTube
    • What is the Wikidata database, how to contribute, how to write queries in SPARQL by Valerio Bozzolan (in Italian) - YouTube
    • Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap by Edward Betts - YouTube
    • How to create a wikidata entry for a journalist - YouTube
    • LOD is the future - Wikibase application of Rhizome, an independent digital art agency in New York (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • Coolest Tool Award 2022 - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Atlas is a system allows the user to search for different types of entities (with geo-coordinates) on Wikidata and visualize them on a world map. (Feedback is very welcome to help evaluate and improve the tool.)
  • Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd got an update where it now will try to predict good statements to add to Wikidata from Wikipedia articles.
  • Writing SPARQL queries can be very challenging. You can find inspiration by browsing and searching in this dataset of 2,400 queries collected from Wikidata. (source)
  • The French Wikipedia now uses a Wikidata-based list for the pages on specific dates, without relying on ListeriaBot. Who was born on a December 19th and has an article in French? You now can have the answer thanks to a Wikidata query by going to the page 1er décembre on frwiki and clicking on the infobox link "Naissances du jour". This is a link to a Wikidata list provided by the query service. The query is generated by the template fr:Modèle:Naissances un jour du mois. This follows another such template used to find all persons with a certain surname on frwiki, used on all surnames pages and on some disambiguation pages, fr:Modèle:Liste des personnes ou_personnages par prénom. For the surname Victor (Q539581) (view with Reasonator, SQID) this generates on the page w:fr:Victor_(prénom) a query such as this one.
  • Wikidata now has more than 100,000,000 items! Exactly which item was the 100 millionth is unknown as of writing, but there are some clues for anyone who wants to dig into it.
  • Survey: What are your most important Wikimedia content partnerships tools in 2022? Closes on January 8, 2023.
  • Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January until Monday, Feb 6, 2023
  • There is a new website to collect contact information for heritage organizations in Georgia for the purpose of disaster response with the data coming from Wikidata.
  • Wikibase 1.38 release is delayed until January 2023
  • Job opportunities
    • Postdoc, PhDs, and technician opportunities related to Wikibase project at University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: This section is currently empty due to technical issues with the bot responsible for filling it. If you are interested in keeping track of new properties on Wikidata, you can check the property proposal page for updates.
  • New property proposals to review: RPG Site game ID,member of tribe, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Macmillan Dictionary entry, Macmillan Dictionary entry (American English), Panjab Digital Library ID, Oh!FM-7 ID, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, model lexeme, format string, travel advisory category, location URL match pattern, Tabelog restaurant ID, service options, RetroAchievements ID, statut administratif, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, relative statement frequency, Mertens-Pack Number (MP3), Nintendo-Online ID, does not use, is not part of, object is, Nintendo World Report ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, ntower ID, Anadolu Agency infographic ID, digital equivalent of, property describes, Computer Science Ontology topic, BookWalker series ID (global version), Le Grenier du Mac ID, Fascist Latin Texts author ID
  • Query examples:
    • Football skills! (source)
    • Concepts with more individuals having Mastodon IDs (source)
    • Mastodon follower/subscriber figures (source)
    • Lexeme senses which are described in Jaehoon Yeon and Lucien Brown's Comprehensive Grammar of Korean (source)

• Development
  • REST API: We are getting ready for a release in January and would really love more people to test the current state on beta. You can find details for testing at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
  • Vector 2022 search: We have worked on making the new search in the Vector 2022 skin work for Wikidata. You can now test it on test.wikidata.org and soon on Wikidata.
  • Query Service:
    • Removed the SVG download options for result views where SVG downloads are not supported, such as Map (phab:T311594)
    • Fixed the indentation of autocompletion suggestions (phab:T291695)
    • Fixed downloading query results in the Query Builder (phab:T323451)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Working on showing the Lexeme lemmas when you look at a Lexeme’s history (phab:T312660)
    • Fixing a keyboard navigation issue in the lookups on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
  • mul language code:
    • Continuing to investigate how to implement language fallbacks on mobile termbox (phab:T323098)
    • Investigating how to disallow `mul` descriptions (phab:T313027)
  • Improving and harmonizing the footers in the Query Builder (phab:T324356) and Mismatch Finder (phab:T324366)
  • Preparing for showing constraint violations to visitors who aren’t logged in (phab:T272132)

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) 17:21, 19 December 2022 (UTC)