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Wikidata weekly summary #584

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
    • MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI)

• Events
  • Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, Archives (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet?
    • Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? in The Signpost, July 17, 2023
    • The humble guide to building an asset library
  • Papers
    • OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction
    • "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia" (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass)
    • A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia
  • Videos
    • Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - YouTube
    • Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • LD4 conference (YouTube)
      • Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog
      • Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas
      • Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
      • WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration
      • Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
      • How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base

• Tool of the week
  • Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • autosuggest value (qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject)
    • External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID, Gameswelt ID, Vélo'v station ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Alienor.org ID, Musées Occitanie ID, Trésors de Nice ID, Image Duplicator ID, CNR ExploRA author ID, ECLI court code, Romanian river code, ‎German University Collections person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
      • Founder of ()
      • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
      • timetable ()
      • Canadian Archival Information Network authority record ()
    • External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, FantLab translator ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, Acclaimed Music album ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, Friedländer ID, IMDb keyword
  • Query examples:
    • List of data journals at Wikidata (source)
    • Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity)
    • WikiProject Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)

• Development
  • Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (phab:T327510)
  • EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (phab:T339924)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
  • mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (phab:T340832)

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) 13:54, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #585

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours (available in both Mandarin and English)
    • Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
  • Ongoing
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Abstract Wikipedia gains new support from The Rockefeller Foundation
    • Wikibase and reconciliation, by Adshore
    • Wikidata: why we contribute to the robot epistemology
  • Papers
    • Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Wikidata data set of the Sediq language (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - YouTube
    • WikiConference India 2023 - Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage - YouTube
    • WikiConference India 2023 — Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons - YouTube
  • Dataviz
    • Wikicommunes (See also the thread on Mastodon)

• Tool of the week
  • Images near items - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link for UK red phone booths)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Update on the collaboration between Wikimedia Deutschland, Igbo Wikimedia Usergroup and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
      • login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
      • registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
    • External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Threads username, Dutch word ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
    • External identifiers: BDFutbol referee ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, identifiant d'un défunt sur le site Dans nos cœurs, IbsenStage ID, TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bubble graph of the first letter of the word for "one" for languages where Wikidata has a Lexeme (source)
    • Searches for trying to replace broken Art UK external IDs (source)
    • People linked in the English Wikipedia page "List of current United States governors" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Henrik Ibsen is a project for users interested in the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Q36661).
    • WikiProject Getty Library Wikidata Pilot - is a WikiProject in the Getty Library at the Getty Research Institute (part of the J. Paul Getty Trust) to create and enhance Wikidata items related to information in materials from the library’s Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection of African American Visual Culture.

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (phab:T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (phab:T214885).
  • mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (phab:T328149)
  • Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
    • Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
    • Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
    • You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint

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) 15:42, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #587

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

• Discussions
  • Welcome to our new admin Yahya! (see the closed request)

• Events
  • The deadline for submitting your proposals for WikidataCon 2023 is July 31st (23:59) anywhere in the world. Submit your proposals at https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • An analysis of discussions in collaborative knowledge engineering through the lens of Wikidata, Elisavet Koutsiana et. al.

• Tool of the week
  • osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
      • login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
      • registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
      • shortcode (string of text replaced by an emoji or other character on a platform (e.g. :heart_eyes:))
      • verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
    • External identifiers: Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, Spotlight PIN ID, myjewishitaly.it ID, Minerba One Data Indonesia ID, Wikibase World ID, Open Yearbook org id, ProQuest publication ID, Friedländer ID, FIGC player ID, hitparade.ch song ID, Theapolis theatre ID, IbsenStage ID, IMDb keyword
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
      • Project partner (property to list the partners of a project or an event, when different from the organizing body.)
    • External identifiers: TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID, BHL item ID, GamerProfiles Game ID, identifiant Pouët d'un groupe de démo, identifiant Pouët d'une démo, identifiant Pouët d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Kastelenlexicon ID, SEVIS school ID, Xiaohongshu User ID, Musée d'Arts de Nantes ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of people in the NZThesisProject with no assigned gender (source)
    • Cultural institutions having a Mastodon handle (source)
    • Maps of places in Rennes with an article on French Wikipedia, color-coded by number of pages on the Wikimedia Projects (source)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
      • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements (phab:T339356) (new route)
      • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (phab:T338383) (new route)
      • GET /statements/{statement_id} (now supports statements on Properties)
    • We started work on a new route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We worked on improving the termbox (the table of labels, descriptions and aliases) on EntitySchema pages to bring it more in line with the one on Items and Properties
    • We made sure that EntitySchemas are shown by their label instead of ID when available in Recent Changes and similar lists (phab:T339924)
  • Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (phab:T328149)
  • mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (phab:T340832, phab:T338330)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 August 2023

• News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server

• In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change

• Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!

• Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash

• Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!

• Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?

• In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia

• Opinion: Are global bans the last step?

• Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July

• Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party

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Wikidata weekly summary #588

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: Submit your proposal for GLAM Wiki Conference 2023. Deadline has been extended to August 20, 23:59 anywhere in the world.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blog: Creating Interactive Map Visualizations of Settlements with Wikidata and Python
  • Videos: Wiki Workshop 2023 recording YouTube playlist

• Tool of the week
  • WikiShootMe expanded to make it possible to find the Items close to pictures you took so you can upload and add them to them (source)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Template:Synia is a new template which makes it easy to create links to Synia from Wikidata. Template:Synia+ guesses the relevant configuration pages for each entity depending on the values of P31 and P106.
  • Wikifunctions, Wikidata's newest sibling project, had a soft launch. Welcome to the Wikimedia wikiverse, functioneers!
  • The ORES service will be decommissioned and replaced by Lift Wing. If you have a tool that relies on ORES scores to judge edits or the quality of an Item please read the migration announcement. We are collecting affected community tools in phab:T343419.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: National Union of Composers of Ukraine person ID, Encyclopaedia Islamica ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Virksomme ord ID, ‎Swetrails route ID, European Bridge League ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, IMVDb artist numeric ID, Team France athlete ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • disinherited (someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of [[Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary]])
      • conference schedule (Conference schedule in Pentabarf XML format)
      • state of transmission
    • External identifiers: Works Diamond Catalogue ID, Editions Diamond Catalogue ID, NFSA ID, Identifiant Médiathèque Numérique CVS, DCB Number, wadoku id, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Mémoire déposé sur DUMAS, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, BG EGN, Google Scholar Organization ID, fiba.basketball player ID
  • Deleted properties:
  • Query example: Entry dates and discovery dates of the objects of the museum of Brittany (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas:
    • We continued the work on giving them the same termbox as Items and Properties (phab:T324235)
    • We finished the work on showing the labels for EntitySchemas in Recent changes, All Pages, Watchlist and edit summaries (phab:T339924, phab:T339921, phab:T339925, phab:T343231)
    • We added missing messages related to IP editing and license notes (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on the route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:05, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Attached KML/Anniston Eastern Bypass

Template:Attached KML/Anniston Eastern Bypass has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 07:22, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Attached KML/Arrowhead Trafficway

Template:Attached KML/Arrowhead Trafficway has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 07:26, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Attached KML/County Route 168 (Sullivan County, New York)

Template:Attached KML/County Route 168 (Sullivan County, New York) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 17:00, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Attached KML/County Route 74 (Rockland County, New York)

Template:Attached KML/County Route 74 (Rockland County, New York) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 09:37, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Attached KML/County Route 80 (Rockland County, New York)

Template:Attached KML/County Route 80 (Rockland County, New York) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 09:37, 14 August 2023 (UTC)