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Wikidata weekly summary #556
- Events
- Past
- Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-01-18
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 24, 2023: We will be discussing plans for 2023, and requesting feedback and ideas for future programming. Based on a previous recommendation to host a discussion on advocacy for Wikidata within libraries, we will introduce and provide time to complete a short survey to foster conversation in a future Group Call. Please come ready to share your thoughts Agenda
- Introductions to Wikidata, online meetings organized by Wikimedia Australia on January 25, 26 and 31
- Past
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
- Podcasts
- Civic Hacker Podcast: Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government
- Tool of the week
- Romain de Bossoreille has generated a map named Space Industry around the World using data from The Space Devs, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [WMDE Survey for Wikidata data Reusers] Help us Improve Wikidata by Sharing Your Experience on Ontology Issues and Data Reuse Impact.
- Second round of Research Fund proposals are under review. They include Wikidata related proposals. Your input is welcome!
- Wikimedia Foundation's Community Survey: The proposals submission and discussion phase is open until February 6th.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Jeju's culture and language ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Film.ru serial ID, IRIS UNITN author ID, IRIS FBK author ID, IRIS-OpenPub author ID, Muse Open Archive author ID, ARCA author ID, Air Iuav author ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID, Knowledge portal ID, MangaSeek work ID, MangaSeek magazine ID, MangaSeek award ID, Oroklini Library ID, elexiko ID, Neologismenwörterbuch ID, Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch ID, Sprichwörterbuch ID, Kommunikationsverben ID, Kleines Wörterbuch der Verlaufsformen im Deutschen ID, PR TIMES company ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: attracts (organisms attracted by this taxon), salary level (level of someone's salary), change of (property this process changes), database contains records about (indicate the types of items that the database has records about)
- External identifiers: Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Norwegian prisoner register detentioncamps ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Glitchwave character ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), Glitchwave platform ID, Spotify user ID (Jan 2023), Livres Hebdo author ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID, TikTok place ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, identifiant SFMTA, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Tribal Council number, Aragonario ID (6th version), Rate Your Music venue ID, Rate Your Music concert ID, Dicionário inFormal ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, TOOI identifier, Fonts In Use ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, Spreaker show ID, Sjøfolk Ship ID, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: The new API is now available for testing on Test.Wikidata
- Ontology issues: We finalized and published the survey to better understand which types of ontology issues are most problematic for reusers of our data.
- Wikipedia and co: Fixing a regression where there is no entry in recent changes and watchlist when an Item is deleted that was connected to an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
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 #557
- Events
- A citation hunt program was organized for secondary school students at IIS School in Dubai as part of the 74th Republic Day celebration of India. 16 students participated, with different mother tongues and from different states of India living as expatriates in Dubai. The goal was to increase references for Wikidata statements based on research. The students were introduced to the importance of protecting India's history on the internet, and were taught how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. They were given a special event page on Wikidata with instructions and a list of Wikidata items to add citations to, and they searched for references in their textbooks and search engines to add to the Wikidata items.More details are given here.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour January 30, 2023: The #1Lib1Ref campaign is afoot, so we will be working on adding references to Wikidata statements. We'll have some data for you to work with, but you're welcome to bring your own. We'll be mainly working with adding webpages as sources, but if you want to get experience using books or articles as sources, we recommend bringing some to the session to use as references for Wikidata items you have identified. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (uses Wikidata as a main source)
- Papers
- Videos
- Interoperable Europe: First workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- AfLIA's online course Wikidata is open. Participation is free for all librarians, museums, archives and other information professionals in Africa. Call is open until 7th February 2023 (12 midnight GMT).
- LetsQuiz is a new website generating quizzes using data from Wikidata.
- from WMF Wishathon: The Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article Wish is complete and the work merged. It is available for testing in Beta, and will be deployed to users with the first train of 2023 scheduled for this week. Learn more about the gadget created at meta
- Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
- Status update on the 2022 Wikidata and Wikibase development plan
- Development plan and activities for 2023 for Wikidata as a platform and the Wikibase ecosystem
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: applies to use with property (qualifier that specifies that the statement refers to usage with the property)
- External identifiers: Dicionário Priberam ID, NPB umpire ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, addons.mozilla.org user, Packagist username, Hackage username, RubyGems username, PyPI username, Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Glitchwave platform ID, Glitchwave character ID, Artlog artist ID, pixiv comic work ID, pixiv comic product ID, British Music Collection composer ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: place of resident registration at death (the place or administrative unit where the deceased person was registered as having his or her residence at the time of their death), has instance (thing(s) which this subject describes or encompasses, inverse property of P31), Norwegian media rating (In short, the Norwegian version of Denmark's Medierådet rating (P5970), an age rating system for motion pictures, video, internet and tv content), iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject), number of penalty kicks scored, precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
- External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary entry, Professional shogi player number, Women's professional shogi player number, LPSA professional shogi player number, esid, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, authors.gr ID, GLANSIS ID, literatura.lv ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Enciclopedia dell'Italiano ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno e Avellino place ID, World Loanword Database word ID, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, Podbay show ID, Walt Disney movie ID, The Counted person ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, World Sailing sailor ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Mosfilm IDs, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID, DOSBox Compatibility ID, HAA member ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: The first version of the new API is released on Wikidata now \o/ We'd love to hear your feedback on what to improve next in the API.
- Property Suggester: We updated the data for the Property Suggester so suggestions for new statements to add to an Item should be more in line with current Property usage on other similar Items again.
- Fixed an issue with Item deletions not showing up on Wikipedia and co if they affect an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
- Vector 2022: Made it possible to add a new sitelink on Wikipedia and co in the new Vector 2022 language selector (phab:T310259)
- Lua: Working on two new Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378)
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!
The Signpost: 4 February 2023
- From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
- News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
- Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
- Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
- Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
- Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
- Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
Wikidata weekly summary #558
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- BiodiversityBot 3 Task/s: TreatmentBank (Q54857867) is a CC0 resource that contains data on taxonomic treatments, treatment citations, figures, tables, material citations and bibliographic reference. It contains valuables links mapping scholarly articles, taxa and taxonomic treatments. This bot task involves linking research papers on taxa to taxa and related taxonomic treatments.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- Bean49Bot 4 Task/s: Add Springer Nature person ID and Springer Nature article ID by moving from exact match property.
- Cmtqwikibot Task/s: Adds country of origin (P495) Canada (Q16), with qualifier located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) Quebec (Q176) and reference stated in (P248) CineTV (Q41001657) to works in Quebec.
- SakuraBot Task/s: interwiki maintenance
- JhsBot 7 Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 7, 2023: We thought we'd try something different next week, in honor of Valentine's Day month: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project or just what you like to edit when you have time. We'd love to have an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so and share your screen, with no need for formal slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
- Wiki for Refugees Editathons on the 4th and 11th of February 2023 (Wikimedia Uganda)
- Black History Month 2023: University of Toronto (February 8th)
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #79, Archaeology (see previous challenges: Random concepts #2, Spices)
- Past
- Wikibase Live Sessions (2023.01.26)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Diff blog: Summary of the results of a recent survey on Wikimedia content partnerships tools by WMSE. The detailed report is available on meta.wikimedia.org and as a PDF on Wikimedia Commons.
- A Game of Data
- 'wikishootme' Is Like a Real World Version of Pokémon Go
- Turn the AC on, by Magnus Manske
- Papers
- Unsupervised Entity Linking with Guided Summarization and Multiple-Choice Selection (Uses GPT-3 and Wikidata)
- Visibility Matters: Giving Credit Where It's Due in Natural History Collections, Siobhan Leachman, The Linnean, December 2022
- Falcon 2.0: An Entity and Relation Linking Tool over Wikidata
- The URW-KG: a Resource for Tackling the Underrepresentation of non-Western Writers
- From unstructured texts to semantic story maps
- Videos
- Wikimentor Africa - Creating a website based on Wikidata, without development skills day two (in French) - Part1, Part 2
- Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, FOSDEM 2023 - YouTube
- Etymology and Wikidata on OpenStreetMap -YouTube
- LIVE Wikidata editing: #103, #104
- Working with ISBNs (in Italian) - 3 part YouTube playlist
- Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
- Managing Wikimedia Projects through Wikidata: Geert Van Pamel- Wikimedia Belgium - YouTube
- SEMIC Talks: Wikibase with Dennis Diefenbach - YouTube
- observablehq
- Garden Phylogeny - NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca
- other
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Let's Quiz is a game that generates random quizzes to test your knowledge & learn something new every day.
- User:Nikki/AddTermboxLanguage.js - makes it easier to add/edit labels to an item in a language other than the ones shown by default.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
- Wikimedia developer satisfaction survey 2023, open until Fri, 17 Feb 2023.
- Maintenance on ElasticSearch. As part of this, some Wikibase.Cloud functionality might be disrupted.
- Reminder that the deadline for the Semantic Web Journal Special Issue on Wikidata is approaching (but extended)! Get your journal papers ready for the 14.02.23
- Wikidata surpassed 1 million Lexemes with the addition of etymologi (L1000000)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Happy Planet Index score (The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), digital equivalent of (the subject is the digital equivalent of what?)
- External identifiers: Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Case Search person ID, Roblox experience ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), RISM siglum, N-Anime anime ID, N-Anime seiyū ID, Livres Hebdo author ID, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database ID, Artlog institution ID, Barcelona City Council Heritage Catalog identifier, TikTok place ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, AllMovie genre ID, authors.gr ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature), footnote (for use in the references section of statements: to state which footnote of the source material supports the claim in question), agent of action (thing that does the action), natural enemy (One of the causes of death of this living creatures referred to in this item, which is eaten by that creature), change of (property this process changes), object of action (thing an action is done to), variety of sense (dialect, variety or register of language that the sense applies to), bust/waist/hip measurements (chest measurement; aliases: bust measurement), usage label (list of sets of context label property (Q116547761) (language style (P6191), field of usage (P9488), has quality (P1552), variety of form (P7481), location of sense usage (P6084)). Other individual context label property (Q116547761) statement will be treated as and with this statement.), thesaurus' properties (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
- External identifiers: Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, The Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, Iowa legislator ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Museu Paulista objects ID, Facebook numeric ID, Qobuz album ID (Feb 2023), Patreon user numeric ID, Kulturenvanteri.com, beniculturali.it place ID, Russian Second League player ID, TVer IDs, NPD field-ID
- Query examples:
- Map of disasters by type (source)
- Maps of museums in Malaysia (source)
- Map with place names that gave names to places in Riga (source)
- Area of sovereign states without a river (source)
- Wikidata properties whose URL format matches some format (source)
- People born in the Vatican (https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1613861217440866306 source)
- Shortest rail link between Narvik and Singapore (source)
- Memes (source)
- Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 4, 2023) (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: adding a new GET /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions endpoint (phab:T327881)
- Lua: added two Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378) that make it easier to get this data on Wikipedia and co
- Lexicographical data: added documentation for the WikibaseLexeme JSON structure (phab:T201489)
- Action API: fixed a bug that prevented the wblistentityusage API module from being used as a generator (phab:T254334)
- Dates: working together with Matěj Suchánek to fix date parsing issues in Czech (phab:T221097)
- Constraints: working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand why a constraint violation is happening and how to fix it (phab:T219037)
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 #559
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- CJMbot (CJMbot lets users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside this file is then validated and processed. New items wil be created based on the data in the CSV file and existing items wil updated by adding statements and references).
- RPI2026F1Bot 5 Task/s: Import dependency and version data from PyPi
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikibase Working Hour February 13, 2023. The February Working Hour will feature a presentation by Steve Baskauf on using VanderBot with Wikibase: The Wikibase API provides a mechanism for programmatic control of uploads, and its behavior is consistent across instances (Wikidata, Structured Data in Commons, and those that are established privately). In this session, Steve will discuss basic interactions with the API and demonstrate using the VanderBot Python application to rapidly upload tabular data to a wikibase.cloud instance. After performing a mass deletion, Steve will conclude by describing how he's used the Wikibase API to facilitate addition of structured data to Commons. Registration link
- Strategically Using Production Photos to Increase Your Online Discoverability, February 22 and 24, 2023. This two-part workshop presented by CAPACOA will explain how to upload performing arts production photos to Wikimedia Commons and how to document credits in Wikidata.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #80, Work
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata: Observable notebook which explores social reproduction by occupation in France.
- Data analytics for your list of created articles in The Signpost, February 4, 2023
- DigAMus goes Wikidata
- Papers
- Transformer Based Geocoding
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #105 - YouTube
- Demo of the Wikibase Export extension - YouTube
- FOSDEM 2023
- Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap (Software for adding links between open data projects)
- Public Transport Data in KDE Itinerary (Querying realtime journey data and dissecting ticket barcodes)
- observablehq
- other
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- User:So9q/openalex-search-link-on-lexemes.js is a userscript that adds a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Graph Builder released a major update, introducing new layouts and visualization ideas. You can read the full changelog here.
- The new Service Level Objective for the Wikidata Query Service has been implemented: the current aim is to maintain a 95% uptime based on a 90 day rolling window. You can read the full announcement here.
- Observablehq.com recently introduced a system of tags. Anyone authoring a notebook using data from Wikidata can add the #Wikidata tag: https://observablehq.com/tag/wikidata?filter=recent.
- a.gup.pe provides group features for Mastodon. @wikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata in general. @querywikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata queries. Anyone can join those groups simply by following them in Mastodon. Anyone can share a message with all members of those groups by mentioning them in a publication in Mastodon or any other application of the Fediverse.
- The hashtag #Wikidata can be used to tag all publications related to Wikidata in Mastodon. Anyone can find recent publications using this tag using the search feature: https://wikis.world/tags/Wikidata.
- @wikidata@wikis.world is the official Mastodon account of the Wikidata project.
- You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata. The voting phase is open until February 24th.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: said to be the same as (lexeme) (some source considers this lexeme to be the same lexeme or a spelling variant of another lexeme)
- External identifiers: Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), federal identifier of street, DOSBox Compatibility ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Professional shogi player number, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID, Dicio ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, GLANSIS ID, Léxico ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Zoning symbol (planing zone of the municipality/region/state that applies to the subject), INEP ID, CulturaEduca ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), Manantiales y Fuentes de Andalucia (id for Springs and Fountains of Andalucía)
- External identifiers: Hultschiner Soldaten ID, STS program ID, SACEM ID, IATE entry ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, IRIS UNIPD author ID
- Query examples:
- Number of literary works (Q7725634) by language (P407) in descending order (source)
- Humans that have a 'relationship' with University of Leeds (source)
- Railway stations named after literary works (source)
- Week 6, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
- Free software grouped by programming language and instance of (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- [Significant change] Heads-up: Upcoming fixes for date parsing - Thank you Matej for moving this forward!
- REST API:
- Went over the feedback on the first release and deciding on the next routes to add
- Added a new endpoint for getting descriptions (phab:T327881)
- Worked on throwing exceptions when something goes wrong (validation failed, Item not found, etc.) instead of returning an error response object (phab:T327527)
- Entity Schemas: Finished the technical exploration that will unblock the next steps for actual development
- Query Service: Changed URLs with URL-encoded characters to be shown un-encoded for better line-breaks and readability (phab:T327514)
- Query Builder:
- Adding support for a few additional datatypes (phab:T328528)
- Adding a basic language selector to make it easier to switch the language of the page (phab:T328764)
- Constraint checks: Working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand how to fix a violation on a statement (phab:T219037)
- Search: Exploring design options for how to make it easier to search for entities other than Items (phab:T327507)
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 #560
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
- Gabrabot (Bulk upload Maltese lexeme data to wikidata from Gabra.)
- MsynBot 12 (import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 21, 2023: Jim Hahn and John Mark Ockerbloom will be presenting on Penn Libraries' Linked Data Vision. They will discuss their framework for activities and goals around linked data, which includes both existing standards and new functionality. Additionally, they will share successes and areas where progress has not yet been made. The presentation will cover projects with Wikidata tie-ins, such as the Digital Scriptorium Wikibase project and the Deep Backfile copyright information project. The presenters also plan to have ample time for conversation with those interested in using linked data to bring new functionality to their libraries. Agenda
- Wikidata and Wikibase - SEMIC workshop 2 physical hands-on workshop in Brussels on the 23rd of February (Register here)
- If you are interested in organizing or joining the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events, you can apply for funds by March 20 via the Rapid Grants maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation.
- Call for papers for the 10th Wiki Workshop in 2023 is out. Submit your 2-page abstracts by March 23.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #81, Eye
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog posts
- Videos
- Notebooks
- Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/DisplayColourSwatches.js is a userscript that adds color swatches under color statements.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Blog Series on Wikibase Community via Tech-News
- Freelance technologists are needed to import personal profiles for politically exposed people (PEPs) into Wikidata
- The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on February 24. Don't forget to vote for Wikidata proposals!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- stamp perforation (type of perforation for a series of stamps)
- Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) value of a country)
- transcribed by (person who has made a copy of a manuscript text)
- External identifiers: Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Museu Paulista objects ID, Spreaker show ID, TVer series ID, TVer tarento ID, Padua Research Archive author ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Fonts in Use ID, Rate Your Music venue ID, beniculturali.it place ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno place ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Mosfilm movie ID, Mosfilm person ID, Adventure Game Studio game ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Syoboi Calendar series ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), La grammatica italiana ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Sky News topic ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API:
- Finished work on endpoints for getting labels and descriptions (phab:T325647, phab:T327881)
- Started work on makign it possible to get statements from an Item based on the Property ID instead of just the statement ID (phab:T309021)
- Entity Schemas: finalized technical investigation and making plan for the next steps
- Working on more validation for valid URIs for units, globes and calendar models (phab:T102840)
- Query Builder:
- Adding support for additional data types (phab:T328528)
- Adding a language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
- Constraint: Putting finishing touches on showing the constraint clarification messages in the constraint violation popup (phab:T219037)
- 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!
The Signpost: 20 February 2023
- In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
- Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
- Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
- Featured content: Eden, lost.
- Gallery: Love is in the air
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
- Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:
- The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
- They are beginning a new project, Edit check.
Talk pages project
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.
An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.
Wikidata weekly summary #561
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))
- ScikingBot (Task/s: The bot is going to fix interwiki links for the Lombard Wikipedia)
- fromCrossrefBot (Task/s: Importing licenses for 1.45 million CC licensed papers from the Crossref April 2022 dump.)
- Closed requests for permissions/Bot:
- Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
- MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 1st, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
- Eager to discover the potential of Wikidata and Wikibase for semantics? SEMIC is organising a series of workshops that are very much hands-on. Join the first workshop online on 24 January 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET) via Webex. Register for the first event via this link!
- Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 March 3rd - 4th
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #82, Restaurant
- Past
- Wikibase Live Session: February 2023 log
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Inconsistencies on WDQS data - data reload on WDQS
- Survey Results: Wikibase.Cloud user research. The goal of the research was to uncover usergroups and usecases.
- Wikibase Suite Survey is now open! The goal is to understand what role Wikibase plays in your organization and identify what you need from Wikibase based on how you currently make use of it.
- Wikibase.Cloud logo is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
- Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- Norwegian media rating (age rating system for motion pictures, video and tv content used in Norway)
- External identifiers: National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID, SACEM Museum artist ID, WSJ article ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, World Sailing sailor ID, WiKirby ID, SFMTA ID, Full Fact ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID (new), Hungarian National Namespace person ID (new), Rate Your Music concert ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- rebuilt (year or date when the structure was reconstructed, rebuilt, repurposed or replaced by similar one (if the new and old structures have separate items, use P167/P1398 links instead))
- External identifiers: Faber Music composer ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Wise Music Classical catalogue ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, L’Équipe team ID, encyclopedia.com.ua ID, L’Équipe coach ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API:
- We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (phab:T309021)
- We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (phab:T329606)
- Query Builder:
- We added support for additional datatypes. Lexeme (phab:T329204), Sense (phab:T329206) and URL (phab:T329824) are already available now. Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207) are in progress.
- We continued the work on making it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
- Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (phab:T219037)
- We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (phab:T102840)
- 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!
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Wikidata weekly summary #562
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Mbchbot 3 (Task/s: Adding missing YouTube channel ID (P2397) statements to YouTube handle (P11245) claims that are missing that mandatory qualifier)
- MidleadingBot 4 (Task/s: Add social media followers (P8687) statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196))
- Biondibot (Task/s: Import us patent from a csv file)
- bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 7, 2023: Lydia Pintscher and Silvan Heintze will tell us about the new Wikidata REST API and Silvan will demonstrate some of its aspects. Agenda
- Do you want to present at Wikimania 2023? Program submissions are open now until the end of day Tuesday 28 March.
- Wiki Workshop 2023 Call for Papers. The call is for extended abstracts (2 pages) of ongoing or completed work. The deadline is March 23.
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2023: Call for projects & sessions is now open! The deadline to submit sessions is April 4th. The final schedule will be made public on April 15th.
- Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
- Wikidata Lab XXXVI: Participatory Machine Learning in Wikimedia: ORES - 8 March 2023, on YouTube
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Two years of explicit CiTO annotations (Q116676168), include how Wikidata and Scholia visualize citation typing annotations explain why research is cited
- Videos
- Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 recorded livestreams: Day 1; Day 2
- Wikidata for History of Science projects, by Martin Poulter - YouTube
- How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia via categories - YouTube
- How to add Wikidata properties using PetScan in Finnish Wikipedia 2 - YouTube
- LD4P3 - Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata - YouTube
- Extracting political data & relations from Wikidata - YouTube
- Operation of Wikidata and its centralized management of metadata linked to multiple databases (in French) - YouTube
- Wikidata and higher education and research libraries (in French) - YouTube
- Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The WMDE Wikibase.Cloud team is currently seeking individuals who are interested in participating in interviews regarding the pressing issue of data modeling. Please reach out if you'd like to participate.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- Lighthouse Directory page (group string for the item in The Lighthouse Directory)
- colocated with (event sharing location, facility or organization with another, typically larger event)
- External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary ID, HAA member ID, Spotify user ID, Vintage Fashion Guild label, Biographical Dictionary of Emigrants of Georgia ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, Swiss Games Garden game ID, ERA ID, Sky News topic ID, Russian Second League player ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: FLOW ID, Electrodoc person ID, electrocd artist ID, Wattpad username, Virksomme ord ID, Identifier for an item in the norwegian database for political adresses ID, Kinoglaz film ID, DBpia article ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (phab:T309021)
- We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T327882)
- We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (phab:T330252)
- Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
- Query Builder:
- We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T328764)
- We have added support for the datatypes for Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207)
- Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just Items (phab:T321543)
- 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!
The Signpost: 9 March 2023
- News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
- Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
- In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
- Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
- Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Wikidata weekly summary #563
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- BorkedBot 10 (Import values of subject named as (P1810), start time (P580), number of subscribers (P3744), point in time (P585), has quality (P1552) (You must be 18+ to view this community (Q83807365), private subreddit (Q72970624), restricted subreddit (Q99518895), quarantined subreddit (Q66364374)) (if applicable), end time (P582) (if applicable), based on subreddit (P3984)).
- Bitbotje 2 (Task/s: remove redundant item aliases)
- HubaishanBot (The Bot will import some data from GeoNames (Q830106), Geographic Names Server (Q1194038), OpenStreetMap (Q936) and Yemen General Census of Population, Housing and Establishments 2004 (Q12202700) for only Yemen places these data includes: location, refs, names, population, sub administrative territorial, shared borders. all data imported with me in local database and checked.)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
- New request for comments:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #84, Carnival
- Past
- Open Data Day 2023 edit-a-thon by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala - March 10-11th 2023
- Ongoing
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Podcasts
- WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.
- Tool of the week
- Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Modrinth project ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Wattpad username, The Counted person ID, L’Équipe team ID, Hart Island Project person ID, explain xkcd ID, La grammatica italiana ID, CurseForge project ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs, Napster album ID, AIBA ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID, Epson Tour player ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Litres author ID, Artist Directory ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764)
- EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
- REST API:
- We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (phab:T330252)
- We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)
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: 20 March 2023
- News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?