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Wikidata weekly summary #474

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference)

• Events
  • Past:
    • log of Wikibase Live session 2021-06-24
  • Upcoming:
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [1], June 29th.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69, July 4

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists
    • Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements
  • Papers
    • Which methods are the most effective in enabling novice users to participate in ontology creation? A usability study (compares Wikidata to other knowledge modelling tools)
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube, Facebook, for the #ArcticKnot.
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch about lexicography and lexemes by Vigneron, for the #ArcticKnot.
    • Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for Tainacan - YouTube
    • Creating a new faculty item in Wikidata - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu68LM5NicM YouTube
    • Writing data to Wikidata, Wikidata Sandbox items

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for positions. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page.
  • Call for candidates for the 2021 election to the position of primary contact for the Wikibase Community User Group. Applicants should present themselves on this page before 2021-07-08 17:00 (UTC), after which voting will commence.
  • Bodh is a new tool to edit Lexemes by hand on a larger scale.
  • Wikidata Vertical Analysis by AKhatun (WMF)
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Igbo nouns
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Malayalam proper nouns
  • A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: date of resignation, curid, consequence of text
    • External identifiers: RBF event ID, cirkev.cz Catholic services ID, Olympic Committee of Israel athlete ID, ZKM person ID, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID, Fotodok ID, museumPASSmusées ID, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID, Vindskyddskartan.se ID, Hokej.cz player ID, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies ID, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: delta of, Astrological sign, announced at, contact point (2)
    • External identifiers: WTA-Trainer-ID, Villo! station ID, LexM ID, Classical Archives composer ID, UFC ID, Tapology ID, Bellator ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, FightMatrix ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, Ethereum token address, Legie 100 legionary ID, PsycNET ID, Index Theologicus ID, MK ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, African Film Database ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, Native-Land.ca Territory ID, Native-Land.ca Language ID, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ID, HockeyLive player ID, eishockey.info player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Street names in Alsatian (source)
    • What kind of places in Wales host public toilets? (Source)
    • UK Health Ministers and their occupations on Wikidata (Source)
    • Count of statements by property for theatrical plays (Source)
    • Things dedicated to St. John the Baptist (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
  • Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
  • Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
  • Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
  • Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
  • Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
  • Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
  • Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
  • Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
  • Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
  • Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
  • The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
  • Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
  • It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
  • Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
  • A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
  • "en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
  • There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Anis Al-Hujjaj

On 30 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anis Al-Hujjaj, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a 17th-century illustrated manuscript of the Anis Al-Hujjaj shows pilgrims sailing from the Indian subcontinent to Arabia (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anis Al-Hujjaj. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Anis Al-Hujjaj), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #475

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Allenwang6212a (RfP scheduled to end after 6 July 2021 06:09 UTC)

• Events
  • Past:
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #49 - YouTube
  • Upcoming:
    • SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French by Vigneron, July 6 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Schema explorers and how they can help guide adoption of common standards
    • Tackling Technical Debt, big and small, in Wikidata and Wikibase
  • Papers
    • A Study of the Quality of Wikidata
    • Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries
  • Videos
    • (workshop) Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians - YouTube
    • Adding descriptions and statements to Wikidata using Quickstatements - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: voted on by, Qualis rank, author given names, author last name, delta of
    • External identifiers: Gutenberg Biographics ID, Idaho Species ID, Montana Field Guide species ID, Classical Archives composer ID, Crosscut author ID, E-Fauna BC species ID, E-Flora BC species ID, LexM ID, BES-Net user ID, VK artist ID, Legie 100 legionary ID, Buzer.de law identification, Games@Mail.ru ID, World Curling Federation Championship ID, FOIH themes ID, African Film Database ID, Gameblog.fr game ID, CCC in Idaho Collection ID, Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: code name, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, Impact factor, dependency grammar relations, biological target, URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state
    • External identifiers: fotoCH photographer ID, Raakvlak inventory number, cultural broadcasting archive station ID, National Diet Library Persistent ID, MANTO ID, e-Rad researcher ID, WMO code
  • Query examples:
    • List of pairs of senses on the same lexeme that have the same gloss in at least one language (Source)
    • Which British Monarch saw most US Presidents; which US President saw most British Monarchs? (graph view) (dimensions view) (Source)
    • All paintings (Q3305213) that depict (P180) a painting (Source)
    • Count of qualifiers used in performer (P175) statements (Source)
    • Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (Source)
    • Latin American female mathematicians who are not on spanish Wikipedia but have an article in another language (Source)
    • US Governors and their religion, if listed (Source)
    • Living soccer players whose birthday is on January 1st (Source)
    • Museums nearby Cēsis (Q107582) (Source)
    • Distribution of public toilets per administrative units in Wales (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
  • Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
  • Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
  • Language names in Scots (sco) were updated (phab:T285076)
  • A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) is being filled (phab:T231748)
  • A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being determined (phab:T155419)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:08, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello MartinPoulter:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 1500 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for Creation at 21:54, 7 July 2021 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notification, please remove your name from the mailing list.

Wikidata weekly summary #476

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Emu (RfP scheduled to end after 13 July 2021 11:49 UTC)
    • -akko (RfP scheduled to end after 16 July 2021 06:31 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Allenwang6212a (unsuccessful)

• Events
  • Past:
    • LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
    • SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
    • SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [2], July 13th.
    • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #71, July 18

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Improving Wikidata-Wikisource Integration, July 7, 2021 by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
    • A first look at Wikidata through Github Copilot by Addshore
  • Papers
    • A Study of the Quality of Wikidata (Q107425133), by Kartik Shenoy et al, published 1 July 2021, explores the use of three indicators - deleted statements that are not replaced; deprecated statements; and constraint violations - as a framework for evaluating data quality.
  • Videos
    • Introduction to OpenRefine for batch Wikidata editing (YouTube, ca. 1 hr 40 min) by Spinster. Recording of a training for the Wiki World Heritage User Group.
    • Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (Global Open Initiative Foundation workshop) - YouTube
    • Editing Lexicographical data in Dagbani (ʒiɛɣu) (Dagbani Wikimedians User Group workshop) - YouTube
    • Wikidata Workshop by Juan Antonio Pastor at the University of Murcia (in Spanish) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata now has over 9,000 Properties! You can see the development over the past 5 years and which datatype is represented the most here.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland to receive a grant from Arcadia to work on minority languages
  • The Wikidata development has a new space to receive bug reports and feature requests: Wikidata:Report a technical problem. You may also continue to report issues to Wikidata:Contact the development team but until the end of July when the page will be permanently protected and archived.
  • OpenRefine has two Junior Developer job openings (paid contractor positions; part-time, fully remote) for building Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons functionality
    1. Junior Developer - Wikimedia Development (6 months, from September 2021 till February 2022)
    2. Junior Developer - OpenRefine Development (8 months, from November 2021 till June 2022)
  • For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: taxon range, image of entrance, replacement value, announced at
    • External identifiers: Monumental Trees ID, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID, Director Identification Number, GCD creator ID, Handzone player ID, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID, cIMeC.Ro museum ID, Research Resource Identifier, Swedish National Archive agent ID, Room of Names ID, Native Land territory ID, Native Land language ID, eishockey.info player ID, HockeyLive player ID, fotoCH photographer ID, UFC ID, 20th Century Chinese Biographical Database ID, FightMatrix ID, EBIDAT ID, Bellator ID, WTA-Trainer-ID, Tapology ID, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, incubator, project state, edition-version, Città e Cattedrali ID, release of, translation of, match event, Igromania series ID, alternative title, Classification of the Functions of Government
    • External identifiers: WMO code, Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, FINA Athlete ID 2021, IFPNI author ID, Steam Greenlight ID, Adventure Corner ID, Pladias ID, código centro docente CEICE, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, abART term ID, US-Ski-&-Snowboard-Athleten-ID, Freeview Australia show ID, Kartridge game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Subclasses of Q732577 'publication' found by the Gather, Apply & Scatter service (source)
    • Places more or less on Papa Stour (using P1332-P1335 to constrain a wikibase:around search)
    • Map of Sweden's outdoor gyms (Source)
  • Newest database reports: language names in Dutch (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
  • Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
  • We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
  • We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
  • Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
  • Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
  • Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
  • Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2): We investigated How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities. You can read the ADR here

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) 16:14, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Khalili Imperial Garniture

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Khalili Imperial Garniture you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tayi Arajakate -- Tayi Arajakate (talk) 18:01, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Khalili Imperial Garniture

The article Khalili Imperial Garniture you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Khalili Imperial Garniture for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tayi Arajakate -- Tayi Arajakate (talk) 19:02, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #478

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

• Events
  • Past:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #72, July 25
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
    • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikipedia Citations in Wikidata English & Italian by OpenCitations, report on a WikiCite grant project.
    • Opportunities to improve integration between Wikisource and Wikidata (part 2 of a WikiCite blogpost series) by KCVelaga & Satdeep Gill
    • Finding gendered street names. A step-by-step walkthrough with R
    • Introducing the MathFoldr Project
  • Videos
    • Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project (by Mahir256) - YouTube
    • Bringing IIIF Manifests to Life in Wikidata with Mirador 3 (2021 IIIF Annual Conference) - YouTube
    • Moving Wikipedia's InfoBox to Wikidata (in Taiwanese) - YouTube
  • Notebooks
    • Using xtools created pages and wikidata API to measure gender statistics about articles created by a user (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice)
    • Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (Jupyter notebook using R kernel in the PAWS webservice).
    • A first look at featured articles in Wikipedia in French using Wikidata (SPARQL Jupyter notebook using PAWS)

• Tool of the week
  • searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region).

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholia gets an upgrade and 1 click import of new scientific paper via citation-js and QS
  • For 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election, there are 20 candidates. Among them, active Wikidata contributors Mike Peel, Laurentius and Rosiestep. Community members can know and participate in the campaign activities here.
  • Sitelinks to the recently created Tachelhit Wikipedia and Dagbani Wikipedia are being added.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: URL for citizen's initiatives, International Tables for Crystallography space group number, number of request signatories, translation of
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia Dantesca ID, Città e Cattedrali ID, MANTO ID, WMO code, IFPNI author ID, Landshuth ID, Pladias ID, Central records of collections ID, Podchaser creator ID, Steam Greenlight game ID, CEICE school code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: UEFA stadium category, URL for freedom of information requests, Legal History, bridge number, Notable role, inventory number, Weverse user ID, ITU radio emission designation
    • External identifiers: IRIS SNS author ID, eBru ID, Daum Cafe ID, Douyin Video ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID, maPZS trails/locations ID, SDBM IDs, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts ID, The New Yorker ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, Marmiton ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, PubFacts author ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of all stages of all tour de France (source)
    • Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (source)
    • Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (Source)
    • Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (Source)
    • Unemployment rate in Sweden by year (1970-2020) (Source)
    • Serious plane crashes with only one survivor (Source)
    • Mayors' genders of U.S. cities above 100k population (Source)
    • Global usage of pronouns (in English Language) (Source)
    • Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject_Medieval_Nobility
  • Newest database reports: language names in Italian (Wikidata, Wikipedia and MediaWiki)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. It can import first mismatches now.
  • Fixing an issue where month and year are sometimes parsed as the first day of the month (phab:T233105)
  • Fixing an issue with adding sitelinks for some of the newer Wikipedias (phab:T285919)
  • Working on improving the Lua usage tracking for redirected Items (phab:T280910)
  • SPARQL was amended on the 4th July to use the report #title, if present, as the anchor for the 'Try it' link. (example)

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

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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:34, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Khalili Collection Hajj and Arts of Pilgrimage Talismanic shirt.jpg

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Khalili Collection Hajj and Arts of Pilgrimage Talismanic shirt.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:34, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #479

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

• Events
  • Next Wikidata and Wikibase office hour on July 28th at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group
  • The next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 29th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). This month, we welcome Luca Mauri to give a presentation about installing Wikibase from scratch.
  • 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries
    • Issues and Challenges in optimum utilization of Linked Data in Indian libraries
    • Tutorial: Introduction to the Wikidata lexicographical data project
    • Tutorial: Wikidata: Intro to the Basics
    • Tutorial: Writing Data to Wikidata Using Spreadsheets
    • Wikibase: Free, Flexible and Collaborative Linked Data
    • Rune inscriptions in Wikidata / Wikibase; Sampo Model and Portal Series on the Semantic Web
    • Wikidata In Classroom • Creating Linked Data from Books and Magazines
    • LD4 meeting: Wikidata Affinity Group
  • Introduction to Wikidata (in Indonesian) part 1, part 2, part 3
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Andra Waagmeester on work with Shape Expressions in Wikidata to describe the genomics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; [3], July 27th.
  • COSCUP 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 2020.07.31-08.01 Online website, Meta-wiki
  • Openstreetmap x Wikidata meetup 2021.08.09 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Typed Citations in the Journal of Cheminformatics
    • What happens in Wikibase when you make a new Item?
    • Discovering new comics with Wikidata’s powerful tools
    • Two metadata directions. Metadata practice is evolving. I discuss two important trends here: entification and pluralization
    • Still mapping! "Our team has been working continuously on improving the number of Welsh place names that appear online since our inception in 2017 as partt of the Welsh Government’s Welsh Government #Cymraeg2050 project"..."we will also use Wikidata to store and share Welsh language information".
    • Making the Camino de Santiago visible on Wikidata

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on lexeme pages.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions is hiring software engineers and an engineering manager.
  • Job opening: Digital Channels Outreach Manager ("mentions contributing to Wikidata and Wikimedia platforms")

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia Incubator URL, symbol represents, bridge number
    • External identifiers: Adventure Corner video game ID, FRB person ID, Apple TV episode ID, Apple TV show ID, FRB event ID, Wikidata language code, Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Enciclopedia del Cinema ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Plant life-form, cabinet, title of a church
    • External identifiers: VI.BE Platform ID, Smartify artwork ID, Women Also Know History ID, IrishTheatre.ie Company ID, BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of all stage winners in the Tour de France with links to the list of stages won (source)
    • Map of miniature parks (Source)
    • Map of open data portals (Source)
    • Video games published before 1980, and their authors (Source)
    • Protected bridges over the Zadorra river basin (Source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Govdirectory

• Development
  • Added a tags parameter to the wbmergeitems API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
  • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
  • Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org

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 Abdulai (WMDE) 15:04, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #480

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

• Events
  • July 2021 Wikidata+Wikibase office hours logs
  • July 2021 Wikibase Live sessions logs

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Videos
    • What is Wikidata (in German) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Mahir256/syndepgraph.js is used to make interesting SVG-based syntactic dependency graphs generated with {{Syndepgraph}} to appear.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Portuguese version of the Wikidata Query Service tutorial tool is now available.
  • Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
  • The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
  • New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: symbol represents, bridge number, syntactic dependency head relationship, syntactic dependency head position
    • External identifiers: Raakvlak inventory number, Scenic Washington scenic drives and road trips ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID, Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID, IRIS SNS author ID, U.S. Ski & Snowboard athlete ID, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: cabinet, title of a church, Apple App Store classification, amount of medals, GRAC/GRB content descriptor, GRAC/GRB rating category, Igromania developer/publisher ID, commentator, FLOSS development policy URL
    • External identifiers: BMC Id, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, police zone ID, Tax identification number, Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, The Women’s Print History Project person ID, USA Climbing member ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Vokrug sveta Encyclopedia ID, Nationalencyklopedin ID, MPAA certificate number, Magyar írók élete és munkái ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of film directors who have worked with Jean-François Stevenin the most (source) Jean-François Stevenin is a French actor, dead the 27th of July
    • French municipalities containing the word "ville" (Source)
    • Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (Source)
    • Museums within 70 km of Dresden (Source)

• Development
  • Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. Focusing on wrapping up the store part of the tool and moving on to the UI for reviewing mismatches.
  • Made it so that Special:EntityData doesn't throw an exception when called with an invalid flavor parameter (phabricator:T286275)
  • Limit languages of entity stubs in RDF output (Breaking change)

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) 17:53, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #477

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

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Edit-a-thons highlighting Boston Rock City Edit-a-thon, Wikidata Comics Edit-a-thon, and Wiki-Relays [4], Aug 10th.
    • LD4 Wikibase Working Hour - Next steps after installing a Wikibase instance -- creating users, items, and properties. Friday, August 27th, 2021 / 1PM (time zone converter). Registration: Please fill in ZOOM Registration Link to register
    • Wikimania 2021, August 13 to 17, online event. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Past:
    • JOSS2021 National Diet Library-sponsored session "Linked Data, Wikidata, GLAM" (in Japanese)

• Tool of the week
  • Template:Generic queries for musicians new wikidata template to explore the work of a musician.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:So9q/duplicate item.js is a userscript that can duplicate the current item, minus sitelinks and descriptions (not allowed by Wikidata).
  • Collection of Wikidata:Weekly summary query examples (2015-2021) by MKar

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: edition/version, open source software policy URL
    • External identifiers: Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID, FIBA 3x3 player ID, Women Also Know History ID, Marmiton ID, Knesset member ID, The New Yorker contributor ID, Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID, BNM bibliographic record ID, Treccani's Lessico del XXI Secolo ID, e-Rad researcher number, Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: FLOSS development policy URL, Umění pro město ID, broadcast of, dissertation program, DDB-Person-Nummer
    • External identifiers: GSSO ID, COD ID, ARTEINFORMADO Person ID, CDAEM Person ID, ASE person ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica ID, SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, IRIS Pisa IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Shironet ID, Paleobotany ID, arheologi.ro ID, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of Welsh lakes and reservoirs (Source)
    • Gender statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org
    • Statistics about featured articles in fr.wikipedia.org by their value of instance of property
    • Place of birth of Swedish 1912 Summer Olympics participants (Source)
    • Interactive map with all Olympic Games medalists by place of birth (Source)

• Development
  • Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
  • Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
  • Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)

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 deploy Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:57, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #481

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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