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Wikidata weekly summary #520
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
- LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
- 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
- International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- The Wikidata community onboarding documentation by Wiki Education.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
- External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Similar web ranking
- External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
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 #521
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans
- Events
- Upcoming:
- 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
- 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, Towel Day
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - YouTube
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
- External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
- External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID
- Query examples:
- Relationships of Roman deities (source)
- Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata (source)
- Food names after a place in the UK (source)
- French heads of government classified by tenure (source)
- Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole
- Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21 (source)
- Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (phab:T307087) completed.
- First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket phab:T303852.
- Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).
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 #522
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project Agenda
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #110, June 5 at 12.00 UTC
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- The evolution of a Wikidata SPARQL query for taxon names, by Tiago Lubiana
- Papers
- The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research (Q112143478)
- Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles in The Signpost. The article using Wikidata's SPARQL queries to measure gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
- Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles? in The Signpost (February 2022)
- Videos
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Template Item documentation is now automatically displayed in the header of each item's talk page via MediaWiki:Talkpageheader.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Want to know more about Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions? You can now subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
- Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: candidate position
- External identifiers: Lithuanian company code, Afisha.ru movie ID, art is next artist ID, Gun Violence Archive ID, HeHaCham HaYomi ID, CPNI ID, Collection Hermann Göring DB ID, Radio France person ID, ANR project ID, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Umanity horse ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: number of versions, voting age (reproposed), code dans la Classification centrale des produits, identificador WikiBurgos, orchestrator
- External identifiers: HaBama person id, Odnoklassniki album ID, WorldCat Entities ID, BRUZZ topic ID, BRUZZ place ID, CBC Gem ID, MAYA site company id, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Plex GUID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Liquipedia ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID, Ozon person identifier
- Query examples:
- List of candidates for the next French legislative elections (source)
- Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Élisabeth or Elisabeth in Wikidata (source)
- Percentage of films passing the Bechdel test by genre / percentage of films passing the reverse Bechdel test by genre
- Timeline of the start of pride parades from 1970 (source)
- Top 100 genes with most genetic associations on Wikidata (source)
- Biennales that aren’t biennial (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (phab:T307087), all statements of an item (phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (phab:T307088))
- Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (phab:T307915, decision)
- Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (phab:T306008)
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 #523
- Events
- June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
- June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons
- July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models": Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- Article's wikilinks inspector takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
- There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
- Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
- A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
- External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
- External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID
- Deleted properties:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733, phab:T30535).
- REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031, phab:T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667).
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 #524
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- William Avery Bot 6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID
- Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier.
- William Avery Bot 5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) that use reference URL (P854) will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109), as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests#reference URL (P854) → Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) (2021-02-05)
- OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography
- Past
- 'Mind Your Manors' Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage.
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube
- LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube
- Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube
- Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube
- Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube
- DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube
- How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube
- Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En, [De)
- FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube
- The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube
- Wikidata Testimonials
- Tool of the week
- ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created!
- Qichwabase is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata
- Using Wikidata search API in Observable by PAC2
- Explore Wikidata using Observable, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2.
- Programming languages on Wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 (see above)
- New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: orchestrator
- External identifiers: Championat ID, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Twitter list ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: inker, penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID, plural forms
- External identifiers: ifwizz ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs, Great Plant Picks ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name, ZineWiki ID, Broadway World person ID, Yamaha Artists ID
- Query examples:
- Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements (source)
- Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source)
- items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata, with a sample language and lexeme in that language.
- Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games (source)
- A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges (source)
- Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations (source)
- Articles studying chemicals from the oceans (source)
- Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude (source)
- In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) (source)
- Actors who played the same real politician the most times (source)
- Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214)
- Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869)
- REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667)
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 #425
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments:
- Closed request for comments:
- How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ? has been closed. Property labels in French should now includes both male and female or a verbal form if relevant (see P50).
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (Registration link). When: 30 June 2022, 11AM-12PM Eastern US (Time zone converter)
- Data Quality Days (July 8-10): you can propose discussion topics or sessions until June 19th.
- Small wiki toolkits: Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, June 30th, 16:00 UTC "This workshop will introduce participants to Toolforge, how to create a developer account, access to Toolforge via ssh, and run bots and scripts on Toolforge and in background mode."
- (Tutorial) OpenRefine - A fundamental tool for every librarian's toolbox. Thursday 23 June - 17: 00-19: 30. Write to laz-corsi aib.it to book and receive the link of the event.
- Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
- Collect, archive and provide games - a "panel about video game metadata". Fri. 24.6.2022 – Sat. June 25, 2022
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #47, Numbers (3/n)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: UX Researcher - Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland
- Wikimedia Deutschland welcomes new Wikibase.cloud Product Manager, Evelien Zandbergen
- Developer Portal is launched! Discover Wikimedia’s technical areas and how to contribute
- Starting on June 21, all Wikimedia wikis can use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua (discussions welcome on the project talk page)
- Deutschland looking for a partner affiliate to organize the WikidataCon 2023
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: preceding halt on service, following station on service, number of housing units, last entry, homophone form, fastest laps
- External identifiers: HaBama person ID, Shopee shop ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Proza.ru author ID, neftegaz.ru person ID, National Union Catalog ID, MAYA site company ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Ethereum token address, BelTA dossier ID, Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: opus number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, U.S. vaccine status, theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer
- External identifiers: Theatrical Index person ID, National Archives of Australia Entity ID, Mozilla Hacks author ID, CVX vaccine code, BVMC Corporate Body, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID, Teresianum authority ID, GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data:
- Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
- Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T307869)
- Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T290733)
- Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T298146)
- REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to an Item
- Lexicographical data:
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 #426
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikibase live session is 15:00 UTC on Thursday 30th June 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming. Agenda
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 28 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
- July 8-10: Data Quality Days (see the first version of the program and the list of participants)
- The Third Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: Friday, 29 July 2022
- Celtic Knot Conference 2022: presentations from 12 projects communities working on minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects - YouTube
- Past:
- 21 June: Presentation Wikidata as a data collaboration across multiple boundaries at SciDataCon
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Videos
- Podcasts
- Other
- Documented queries: a proposal, feedback is welcome here
- Tool of the week
- IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: inker, penciller
- External identifiers: Talent Data Bank ID, IRIS UNIVAQ author ID, ARUd'A author ID, IRIS UNITE author ID, COR form ID, level 1, COR lemma ID, niveau 1, WorldCat Entities ID, Great Plant Picks ID, BVMC organization ID, UK Beetles ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: theme, has narrative theme, Grammatical Person, title match pattern, Bartsch Nummer, foliage type
- External identifiers: GSAFD ID, Bioconductor project, MUSE book ID, Truth Social username, Telmore Musik, Beamish peerages database ID, Beamish peerages database person ID, gov.uk person ID, Komoot ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Internet Sacred Text Archive ID, Copains d'avant ID, P. League+ ID, WO2 Thesaurus ID, Super Basketball League ID, DeSmog ID, Met Constituent ID, IRFA ID, Adequat agency person ID, Israeli Company Registration Number, UKAT term ID, TGbus game ID, TGbus franchise ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, VocaDB Artist ID, VocaDB Album ID, VocaDB Song ID, Moepedia ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (phab:T307869)
- REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (phab:T306667)
- Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (phab:T309445)
- Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.
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 #522
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. [1] should have a wiki commons link to [2] since they both refer to [3].
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, July 5 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Wikidata Data Quality Days, online, on July 8-10
- Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #48, Human rights
- Past
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Making Wiki work for Wales - YouTube
- Session on Wikibase - Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikipedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) - YouTube
- Scribe: Wikidata-powered keyboard app for second language learners - YouTube
- Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata A semi automated, user assisted editing tool - YouTube
- Wikidata MOOC (in French) by Wikimedia France - 19 videos on YouTube
- Wikidata Tutorials (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - 7 videos on YouTube
- Report
- User:LennardHofmann/GSoC 2022/Report 2 - rewriting the WikiCommons and Wikidata Infobox in Lua
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland will be joining forces with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata. The goal of this collaboration is "to make our software more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of the Global South and speakers of minority languages".
- Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
- Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
- Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID, Russia.travel object ID, Yamaha Artists ID, ifwizz ID, IRFA ID, DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Gitee username, Punjabi tone, spoken by, recordist, part of molecular family, official definition
- External identifiers: Anghami artist ID, Boomplay artist ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, MUSE publisher ID, EU Knowledge Graph ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, identifiant organisation Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique, Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID
- Query examples:
- Number of albums in Wikidata by language, in descending order (source)
- Occupation about musicians in Wales (source)
- Map of tram depots in France
- Mountains higher than 2,500 meters in France (source)
- List of all Tour de France's stage winners by nationality from 1903 to 2022 (source)
- French rugby teams according to the year of creation (source)
- French members of parliament that were on the same legislature and are or have been married (source)
- Number of countries on Wikidata where at least one pride parade has been held (source)
- Football players whose birthday is today (different every day) (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data:
- We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
- We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (phab:T307869)
- REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
- We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (phab:T303317)
- We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
- Lexicographical data:
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 #528
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
- 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
- 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #49, Bastille day
- Past:
- Presentation Integrating Wikibase into research workflows at the monthly Wikibase Stakeholders Group meeting on July 7
- Data Quality Days 2022 see outcomes. The recorded sessions will be published soon!
- Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, 1-2 July 2022. See Videos pool (replay).
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- New quality checks in the Osmose QA tool for links from OpenStreetMap to Wikidata
- Wikidata used extensively in medieval hack weekend at the University of York (UK National Archives)
- Working With Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: Poetry Pamphlets and Lotus Sutra Manuscripts (British Library)
- Wikidata at the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Papers
- Videos
- Live editing: create a Lua template using Lexemes on Wiktionary, with Mahir256 (on Youtube)
- Adding wikidata to plaques on OpenStreetMap - YouTube
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- User:Lectrician1/discographies.js: Shows chronological data about artist's discographies on music albums and provides functions to add new items.
- User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal is a userscript that is used to combat cross-wiki spam or vandalism.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata now has more than 10 million items about humans.
- Q113000000 was created.
- Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for architects and Template:Generic queries for transport network
- Due to summer vacations and our current workloads the response times from the Wikidata communications team (Léa and Mohammed) to requests and queries may be delayed. We will resume full capacity by October.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: opus number
- External identifiers: DeSmog ID, Teresianum authority ID, AdoroCinema series ID, CEU author ID, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Beamish peerage database peerage ID, Beamish peerage database person ID, Kultboy video game ID, Kultboy platform ID, Kultboy controller ID, Kultboy magazine ID, Kultboy company ID, National Archives of Australia entity ID, snookerscores.net player ID, Truth Social username, Material UI icon, Yarkipedia ID, Springer Nature person ID, Komoot ID, Springer Nature article ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: official definition, ce module ou cette infobox utilise la propriété, release artist, Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail
- External identifiers: Bibale ID, SZ topic ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, Match TV people ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID, Applied Ecology Resources Document ID, Prophy author ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Liquipedia ID, Instagram post ID, Mapping Museums ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Data Quality Days!
- Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
- Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (phab:T303317)
- Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
- Lexicographical data:
- Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (phab:T298140)
- Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (phab:T239208)
- Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (phab:T305032)
- REST API:
- Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
- Started work on the API route for removing a statement from an Item
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
- Update the description of the "of" property in your language.
- 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 #529
- Discussions
- New request for comments:
- Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. Event page
- Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
- Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #50, Lexical categories
- Past
- 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. (replay on YouTube)
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Lexemes in Wikidata structured lexicographical data for everyone (by Lydia Pintscher) - YouTube
- Want a not-scary and low-key introduction to some of the more advanced behind-the-scenes topics around Wikidata? Check out the videos from the Wikidata Live Editing sessions by Jan Ainali, Albin Larsson.
- The videos of the Data Quality Days 2022 have been published and you can find them in this playlist or linked from the schedule.
- Placing a scientific article on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Threads
- OpenSexism has created the Wednesday Index: each wednesday, it show gender diversity in Wikipedia articles. Gender diversity is computed using a SPARQL query.
- Tool of the week
- EntitySchema Generator - is a GUI to help create simple EntitySchemas for Wikidata.
- User:Jean-Frédéric/ExLudo.js - is a userscript that adds links expansions and mods on item pages for video games.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job openings:
- There is a new Telegram group for OpenRefine users.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Springer Nature article ID, Bibale ID, WW2 Thesaurus Camp List ID, IRIS UNIMOL author ID, MUSE publisher ID, France bleu journalist ID, HATVP organisation ID, Accademia dei Georgofili author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Grammatical number, Error-report URL or e-mail, grade separated roadways at junction, Gauss notation, Crossing number, URL for presentation/slide, Dictionnaire Favereau, Depicts lexeme form
- External identifiers: Mapping Museums ID, GIE gas storage id, Microsoft KLID, PTS+ season ID, RailScot company ID, RailScot location ID, SABRE wiki ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, PBDB ID, Pad.ma video ID, Pad.ma person ID, Naturbasen species ID, kód dílu části obce, Base Budé person ID, Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID
- Query examples:
- List of recent heatwaves (source)
- Most recent information leaks according to Wikidata (source)
- Cause and mode of death of ex-prime ministers (source)
- Brazilian writers born in a city with less than 20000 inhabitants (source)
- Lexical categories sorted by number of languages using them in Wikidata lexemes (source)
- People playing rugby union by number of Wikipages (source)
- Newest database reports:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data:
- The new Lexeme creation page is available for testing
- Fixed an issue where the grammatical form of a Lexeme was rendered as `[object Object]` (phab:T239208) This also solves similar issues in other places.
- REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
- We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (phab:T312223)
- Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
- EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.
- Lexicographical data:
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 #530
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- PangolinBot 1. Task/s: Automatically adds author information to Wikidata scholarly articles (items where instance of (P31) = scholarly article (Q13442814)) that have missing author information. Currently works for articles with the following references: PubMed ID (P698), PMCID (P932), Dimensions Publication ID (P6179), ADS bibcode (P819). Part of Outreachy Round 24.
- BboberBot. Task/s: The "robot" will browse the latest VIAF Dump, select the lines with a Idref (P269) and a Qitem, and add a P269 when it doesn't already exist in Wikidata.
- ADSBot English Paper. Task/s: Importing scholarly articles from ADS database to Wikidata, by creating Wikidata Item of a scholarly article (optionally author items) and adding statements and statements-related properties to the item. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
- ADSBot English Statement. Task/s: Adding missing statements and statement-related properties to existing scholarly articles on Wikidata from the ADS database. Part of Outreachy Round 24.
- New request for comments:
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- [Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. Agenda
- Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, Plants
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Videos
- Wikibase Ecosystem taking Wikidata further, by Lydia Pintscher - YouTube
- Teaching Wikidata Editing Practices II (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata and Wikibase 2022 development plan has been updated to include activity estimates for the third quarter (Q3).
- Fellowship: Wikipedian-in-Residence (WiR) fellowships to improve climate info in African languages on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- T66503: It is now possible to import dates from templates to Wikidata using Pywikibot's
harvest_template.py
script. - Number of wikidata-powered infoboxes on Commons now exceeds 4 million
- OpenRefine 3.6.0 was released. It adds support for editing structured data on Wikimedia Commons, features more configurable statement deduplication during upload, as well as the ability to delete statements. Head to the release page for a changelog and download links.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Accademia dei Georgofili author ID, Delaware Division of Corporations file number, Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for
- External identifiers: Bilbaopedia ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn Artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID
- Query examples:
- Map of driverless rapid transit railway lines worldwide
- An example of finding problematic references
- Papers by University of Leeds researchers that might have figures suitable for Wikimedia Commons (with a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licence, with full text online)
- People born on rivers (source)
- Humans with "native language" "German"
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (phab:T313116)
- Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (phab:T313467)
- REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
- We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (phab:T307869)
- We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (phab:T312223)
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 #531
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- William Avery Bot 8. Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names|Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17).
- EnvlhBot 4. Task/s: import forms for French verbs on lexemes.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team. Date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT / 17:00-18:00 CEST
- Wikidata Birthday is taking place in October 2022, and together we are celebrating 10 amazing years of Wikidata with decentralized community events! Discover more Wikidata:Tenth Birthday -- organize an event and get funding
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #52, Software
- Past:
- Wikidata/Wikibase office hours logs (2022-07-27)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Insights about good articles in Wikipedia in French This Observable's notebook uses SPARQL queries to get insights about good articles.
- Tour de France Femmes : Notebook exploring data from Tour de France Femmes using Wikidata.
- Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Smithsonian Research Online
- Populating Wikipedia: New tool integrating Australian Census data
- Quickstatements User Evaluation of Statements and Terms, or QUEST
- Place of birth and death of people with Peruvian citizenship (source)
- This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown
- Map of notable people based on A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD which is based on Wikidata. Made by Topi Tjukanov
- Wikidata insights from a handy little tool in The Signpost
- Videos
- The process of standardizing OpenStreetMap and Wikidata data - an example in the village of Xiliu (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Wikidata – An attempt to analyse Wikidata Query - YouTube
- Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata: why and how? - YouTube
- WikiProject Scholia - Brazilian Bioinformatics (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Connecting an academic organization to Wikidata (Python script) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- SPARQL queries on trains (stations and lines), cartography (in French) by VIGNERON and Auregann - YouTube
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Gender diversity inspector is a new tool to inspect gender diversity in Wikipedia articles based on SPARQL and Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Template:Generic queries for authors has now generic queries about narrative locations (P840) of works written by an author.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: contains the statistical territorial entity, recordist, spoken by
- External identifiers: Palmares Cultural Foundation process number, Mapping Museums ID, gov.uk person ID, Kazakhstan.travel tourist spot ID, CVX vaccine code, Applied Ecology Resources document ID, ClimateCultures Directory ID, Hamburger Professorinnen- und Professorenkatalog ID, Catalogus Professorum (TU Berlin) person ID, Kieler Gelehrtenverzeichnis ID, Met Constituent ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID, Gitee username, Anghami artist ID, Austria-Forum person ID, Base Budé person ID, Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: chirality, UAE Street Code, field of this award, Anghami album ID, Model image, fishery for, Matrix space, Tribe, Prisoner's camp number, field of this item, Linkinfo ID, Zhihu question ID, Baidu Tieba name
- External identifiers: IndExs Exsiccata ID, Objekt-ID für Kulturgut in Liechtenstein, AIPD member ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, national-football-teams.com coach ID, playmakerstats.com stadium ID, sambafoot team ID, lila linked latin uri, Archivio della ceramica person ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, IRIS private universities (1) IDs, Arabic Ontology Lemma ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, JioSaavn album ID, JioSaavn artist ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, AEDA subject keyword ID, AEDA geographic keyword ID, AEDA taxonomic keyword ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, 100.histrf.ru ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, YAPPY profile ID, Galleria Recta author ID, Business Online ID, Real Time IDs, The Devil's Porridge Museum Worker Database, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Scinapse Author ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan ID, National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- [Significant change] New search profile parameter in Wikidata’s wbsearchentities API module
- REST API:
- You can now check out the current development state of the upcoming REST API
- We are continuing work on the API route to remove and replace statements, focusing on error handling and corner cases.
- Lexicographical data: We are addressing the feedback from the first release of the new Special:NewLexeme page.
- Continuing work on allowing redirects and the target article as independent sitelinks if a redirect badge is used (phab:T313896)
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.
- Remove the Q1062083: мільярдер value for property 31. See the list and the discussion in the project chat Should billionaire (Q1062083) be used as a value of instance of (P31)?
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #532
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Pi bot 26 Task/s: Auto-correct coordinates set to the wrong globe
- Pi bot 27 Task/s: Auto-copy coordinate globe to located on astronomical body (P376) (except for Q2)
- William Avery Bot 9 Task/s: Remove tracking parameters from reference URLs, as suggested at Wikidata:Bot requests § Tracking parameters in reference URLs. I would like to run this as a recurring task, after clearing the c. 2800 current instances.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- William Avery Bot 8 (approved) Task/s: Set qualifiers on family name (P734) to standardised values, as discussed at Wikidata talk:WikiProject Names § Qualifiers for given names and surnames - establish a guideline, and requested at WD:RBOT § Request to replace qualifiers (2022-07-17)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
- The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
- Ongoing
- Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
- Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
- Past
- First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Books
- Blogs
- Most notable person, everywhere in the world
- Wikidata now escapes SMILES and CXSMILES!
- Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata - User:MargaretRDonald
- Using tfsl to clean grammatical features on Wikidata lexemes
- Using Machine Learning, IIIF and Wikidata to find female scientists in historical Newspaper and Journals
- Papers
- Videos
- New Zealand Thesis Project July 2022 - User:DrThneed
- Wikidata academic bibliographic data and Scholia (in French) by VIGNERON and Jsamwrites
- Wikidata: Just Three Steps to Turn Books into Data Collections (in Chinese) - YouTube
- Presentations:
- Tool of the week
- Wiki tools - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's 10th birthday: you can contribute to the collaborative celebration video by sending a "happy birthday video" before September 18th, more information here
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: recordist, spoken by, foliage type
- External identifiers: Israeli Company Number, PM20 ware ID, pad.ma person ID, Bioconductor project, Broadway World person ID, pad.ma video ID, ORKG ID, International Baccalaureate school ID, Prophy author ID, Telmore Musik artist ID, FirstCycling rider ID, Super Basketball League ID, Sport24.ru team ID, P. League+ ID, Paleobiology Database ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Theatrical Index person ID, Korean Academy of Science and Technology member ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Zhihu question ID, counts instances of, holds diplomatic passport of, Identifier of Czechoslovak books
- External identifiers: Belgian Olympic Committee ID, Olympic Federation of Ireland ID, Russian Football Union player ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Baidu Tieba name, Dictionnaire Favereau (fr), Serbian Olympic Committee athlete ID (New), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, NOCNSF athlete ID, numéro d'inscription au Registre national des marques, Modstand person ID, Danacode, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Canadian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, ILAMDIR ID, identifiant BD oubliées d'un auteur, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, Onestop ID, Federation Council reference ID, athletics.by person ID, AFC player ID, izsambo.ru person ID, Rugby Union of Russia athlete ID, Online Torwali Dictionary ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, USK ID, BiatlonMag profile ID, motocross.ru profile ID, Football 24 article ID, abART book series ID, Turkish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933–1945 ID
- Query examples:
- Most recent date not used as a date of birth (P569) or date of death (P570)
- Map of war memorials, showing EN Wikipedia article if it exists (source)
- Most frequent occupations of people born in Épinal (source)
- Species named after places in the state of Espírito Santo (source)
- Places named after Lenin (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data:
- Continuing to address feedback from the testing (e.g. phab:T312292, phab:T313113, phab:T313466)
- We have pushed back replacing Special:NewLexeme with the new Special:NewLexemeAlpha a bit to address more of the testing feedback.
- Continuing to tackle allowing sitelinks to redirects under some circumstances (phab:T278962)
- REST API:
- Finishing up the endpoints for removing and replacing statements and adding authentication and authorization to them
- Looking into feedback from first testing
- Lexicographical data:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help out, 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 #533
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Estopedist1 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2022 12:36 UTC)
- Open request for adminship:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
- Ongoing:
- Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
- Upcoming bots & scripts workshop on Thursday, August 18th at 15:00 UTC
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #54, Fire
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Wikimania 2022 happened. Highlights around Wikidata and Wikibase:
- Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences
- Power BI project - Create image grids - Images from Wikidata brought in using a simple R script
- Some reflections on wikidata and color biology
- Uploading bibliographical items using Quickstatements
- Wikidata tutorials:
- Wikidata tutorials (in French):
- Tool of the week
- KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata integration in OpenRefine: could this be your project? OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.
- Wikimedia integration in OpenRefine: looking for developers
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
- External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
- External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
- Query examples:
- Most common numbers of statements per item (source)
- Locations and depicts statements for images in Commons category Mosques in Dubai (source)
- Art people who died in Nazi camps (source)
- Count of items in Wikidata by number of statements in the item (source)
- Fungi with image, ordered by number of languages it has an article (source)
- Longest natural watercourses in France (source)
- Multiple forms of a Lexeme with the same grammatical features and where no of these forms have any other statement
- Bengali Lexemes all of whose parts are derived from Sanskrit words, but which themselves aren't derived from Sanskrit words yet
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
- Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
- Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
- REST API:
- Finished off validation in the endpoint for replacing a statement on an Item (phab:T314790)
- Doing research around PATCH and JSON Patch
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 #534
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship:
- Estopedist1 (successful)
- Closed request for comments:
- Closed request for adminship:
- Events
- Past events:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Videos
- Datavisualisation in Wikidata (in French)
- Highlights from Wikimania 2022
- Tutorial
- Wikimania 2022 UK Festival: SPARQL tutorial (Wikidata for Wizards) & Wikidata SPARQL Tips and Tricks
- Tool of the week
- List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Outreachy Round 25–call for projects and mentors now open!
- Template:Documented queries skeleton
- Wikidata's tenth birthday: you can organize a distributed event and get funding, create your own swag, attend the next organizers call on August 23, and participate in the collaborative video until September 18th.
- OpenRefine calls for (more) technical contributors to work on Wikimedia / Wikidata / Wikibase support.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: contraindication, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s)
- External identifiers: ZOBODAT publication ID, abART book series ID, Stan Radar dossier ID, Initia carminum Latinorum ID, IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic Committee ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: fog signal characteristic, Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL
- External identifiers: Planeta Belarus sigh ID, Flemish Heritage designation object ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
- REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
- Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing
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 #535
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #56, Mystery theme (guess the theme)
- Past:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #55, Wiki Loves Monuments
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Interoperable USP Bioinformatics Theses Catalog with Wikidata (in Portuguese)
- Growing the representation of Australian Women in Religion through Wikidata
- Working with Wikidata: (1) Introduction and Terminology
- Mapping the Brazilian Association for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics to Wikidata
- Papers
- Videos
- [Wiki Mentor Africa] Introduction to using OpenRefine for Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons Editing (part 1, part 2)
- Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences (in Spanish)
- Relations on wikidata and color biology (in Spanish)
- Wikidata Tutorial: Different ways to display SPARQL queries (in German)
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- SenseForThisItem.js: Adds a button on items to show what senses are linked to it.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upgrade of the Search clusters to Elasticsearch 7.10.2 will start on August 29 2022 for 3-weeks.
- The latest round of Outreachy internships wrapped up on 26 August. Two interns worked on improving author-name data; their bots have made over 340,000 edits. Their project description, documentation, blog posts and code are available.
- The August 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
- Open vacancy:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: contraindicated in case of, Amarkosh ID, harvested organism(s), power series expansion, KFCB classification (Kenya), website title match pattern
- External identifiers: IRIS UNISOB author ID, Apeiron author ID, IRIS UNIBOCCONI author ID, IRIS LUISS author ID, All-Russian Swimming Federation ID, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia ID, Bobsleigh Federation of Russia ID, Russian Luge Federation ID, Rare Plant Fact Sheets ID, Handball Federation of Russia ID, Russian Volleyball Federation ID, UNORA author ID, IRIS UNIPARTHENOPE author ID, IRIS UNICAMPANIA author ID, IRIS UNISANNIO author ID, Modstand person ID, elibrary.ru journal ID, elibrary.ru publisher ID, Livelib.ru publisher ID, Odnoklassniki group numeric ID, NOC*NSF athlete ID, Jewish Pediatricians 1933-1945 ID, All-Russian Sambo Federation ID, Bolshoi Theatre person ID, Czechoslovak book ID, Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee athlete ID, Federation Council reference ID, Russian Football Union player ID, Repertorium hymnologicum ID, motocross.ru rider ID, Russian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, athletics.by person ID, British Paralympic Association athlete ID, Anghami album ID, Walther, Initia carminum ID, SecondHandSongs release ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan athlete ID, Paralympics Australia athlete ID, Paralympics New Zealand athlete ID, Olympic Committee of Serbia athlete ID (new), Singapore National Olympic Council athlete ID, Swedish Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Field Hockey Canada person ID, Real Time person ID, Real Time organization ID, Communist Party of the Russian Federation person ID, Rugby Federation of Russia athlete ID, Climbing Federation of Russia athlete ID, RailScot location ID, GIE gas storage ID, RailScot line or company ID, YAPPY profile ID, Business Online ID, Mariinsky Theatre person ID, izsambo.ru person ID, national-football-teams.com, TGbus ID, TGbus franchise ID, AFC player ID, SABRE wiki ID, Moepedia ID, wrestdag.ru person ID, Scinapse author ID, Hockey New Zealand person ID, Artsy artwork ID, Federation of Ski-Jumping and Nordic Combined of Russia ID, Freestyle Federation of Russia ID, Russian Trampoline Federation ID, European Hockey Federation ID, Shooting Union of Russia person ID, EU Knowledge Graph item ID, Cultural Property in Liechtenstein ID, Belarus in persons and events ID, Planeta Belarus sight ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Sister channel, award declined, full inscription available at URL, Indicator, Curriculum Reference Number, Content standards
- External identifiers: Spiel des Jahres ID, iNaturalist project ID, Tas Parliament member ID, SA Parliament member ID, Czech electoral party ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, PyPI trove classifier, UConn Plant Database ID, Garden Plant Finder ID, Archaeology Data Service ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, Tanzania administrator ID, Digital Foundry game ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, King County Parcel Number, Anime Taizen ID, Betrail runner ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō user ID, Shōsetsuka ni Narō work ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, A Utah Flora ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (phab:T306934)
- Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of phab:T307866)
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 #536
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
- DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #57, Numbers (4/n)
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Context is Queen: Documenting Queer history based on LGBT+ models (source)
- Papers
- Videos
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #88 - YouTube
- Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Gauss notation, crossing number
- External identifiers: PTS+ season ID, Turkish National Paralympic Committee athlete ID, South African Hockey Association ID, Moroccan Olympic Committee athlete ID, UCI rider ID, Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID-identificatiecode, Garden Plant Finder ID, Belgian Paralympic Committee athlete ID, National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan athlete ID, Spiel des Jahres ID, Scientists of Belarus ID, Football 24 article ID Russian, Football 24 article ID, BioNames author ID, Devil's Porridge Worker ID, Czech electoral party ID, Polish Paralympic Committee ID, LiLa Linking Latin URI, Instagram post ID, Springer Nature journal ID, Arabic Ontology lemma ID, Anime Taizen ID, atletiek.nu athlete ID, kulturstiftung.org person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: coordinates of grave, Rekhta Dictionary ID
- External identifiers: vPlants ID, Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, IGDB game engine ID, Aragonario ID, CRAB ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma'agarim ID, Feb-web IDs, Diskograf artist ID, Diskograf label ID, Diskograf song ID, NSR doctor ID, Urdu Lughat ID, Oculus Store, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, Yahoo! Japan News publisher ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Viveport ID, NOC of Belarus champion ID, newslab.ru dossier ID, Undiscovered Scotland ID
- Query examples:
- Map of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and around the world that have P625 as a qualifier (source)
- Age of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends 1997-2002 (source)
- Education of French prefects (source)
- Number of substance records in PubChem Compounds (source)
- Map of rivers longer than 50 km passing through French territory, grouped by watershed (source)
- Brazilian players in the Fifa World Cup 2022 Sticker Album! (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API:
- We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
- We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
- For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
- Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
- Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #537
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
- Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Dataviz
- Tool of the week
- View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration video until Sunday, September 18th.
- Job opening:
- Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation // Commons and Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, Hesperomys taxon ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, Digital Foundry game ID, IGDB game engine ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, ZineWiki ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, Odnoklassniki album ID, Mindat.org Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Transcribed by, annotator, SHAARD-ID, associated locality, cadastral municipality name, NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, reduces
- External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, MTV Germany music video ID, fedpress.ru persons ID, epsd2 identifier, Naver game lounge ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, SR-Archiv record ID, SR-Archiv person ID, SR-Archiv print media ID, BIBFRAME Hub ID, eGardenGo plant ID, IAHR member ID, FrameNet frame ID, FrameNet Lexical Unit ID, IRIS Calabria IDs, legislation.govt.nz ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, Chess.com player ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID
- Query examples:
- Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers - (source)
- Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? - (source)
- Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets (source)
- Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022 (source)
- Things named after Queen Elizabeth II (source)
- Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
- Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
- Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
- Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership
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 #538
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- بوٹ دا عثمان
- Task/s:
- Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
- Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).
- Task/s:
- بوٹ دا عثمان
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
- The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
- Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
- WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
- Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
- Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
- Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
- ContribuLing 2021
- Dataviz
- Presentation
- Tool of the week
- WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
- External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
- External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID
- Query examples:
- Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
- Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
- List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
- Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
- People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
- French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
- Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
- World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
- Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
- Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
- Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
- Cause of death of US presidents by party
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API:
- Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
- Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
- Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
- Lexicographical data:
- Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
- Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
- Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
- Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
- Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
- Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
- Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #539
- 🧵 Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- JhsBot 6
- Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.
- JhsBot 6
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Presentations
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
- The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
- External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID
- Query examples:
- Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
- Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
- Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
- Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
- Song titles that match female given names (source)
- Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
- Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
- Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
- People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
- Software license, by year (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
- Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
- Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
- REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
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 #540
- 🧵Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- EuropeanCommissionBot 1
- Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
- William Avery Bot 10
- EuropeanCommissionBot 1
- Open request for adminship:
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
- October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
- Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
- The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
- Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
- Ongoing
- Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
- 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
- Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
- Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
- The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
- Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
- View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations.
- 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
- It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
- Job openings
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: won sets
- External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
- External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID
- Query examples:
- UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
- Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers (source)
- British Monarchs vs. US Presidents (source)
- Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
- Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
- Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
- Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine (source)
- Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
- People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
- Films with "it" in the title (source)
- Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
- Emblems depicting birds! (source)
- Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Improved handling of localized language names (phab:T261851/phab:T275781)
- REST API:
- Continued work on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
- We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (phab:T318151)
- Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (phab:T318221)
- Continued work on the mul language code (phab:T285156)
- Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (phab:T313477)
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 #541
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Live editing session on Twitch as part of the DACH Culture Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset.
- UM Data Science Research Seminar. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata
- Ongoing
- DACH Culture Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th.
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals
- Past
- The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia.
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In
- Videos
- Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #93
- DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World
- Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena
- Dataviz
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093). It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50)
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
- The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: model image
- External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID, Oculus Store ID, UniChem compound ID, Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number
- External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID, C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID
- Query examples:
- Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes. qapla'!
- Map of historic Welsh parishes (source)
- "Controversies” articles with the most sitelinks (language versions) (source)
- Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source)
- Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses (source)
- Map of Rennes, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source)
- Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
- Lexicographical data:
- Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
- Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
- REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
- Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
- Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
- Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!
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 #542
- 🧵Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- DwdsBot
- Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
- RobertgarrigosBOT
- Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
- Josh404Bot 4
- Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
- BorkedBot 8
- Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate
- DwdsBot
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
- Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
- Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
- Ongoing
- Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #63, Vehicles
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
- Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- Papers
- The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
- Videos
- Dataviz
- Twitter threads
- 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
- 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
- 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
- The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
- The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
- Job opening
- Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
- External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
- External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID
- Query examples:
- Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
- Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
- How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
- Streets of Paris that meet (source)
- Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- REST API:
- Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
- Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
- Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
- The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
- Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
- Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
- Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
- Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
- Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 🫶 Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #543
- 🧵Discussions
- Closed request for adminship:
- Welcome onboard, Wd-Ryan!
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- AniMangaDBImportBot
- Task/s: Imports properties include genre (P136), intended public (P2360), publication date (P577). Adds references to new and/or existing values from the databases they are imported from.
- AniMangaDBImportBot
- Closed request for adminship:
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour October 24, 2022: ninth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be batch loading data using QuickStatements to create items for works and editions in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
- October, 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXV: Modeling Elections
- Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 25 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- [LIVE Wikidata editing #96] Wikidata Birthday special of Wikidata live editing with surprise guests, October 29 18.00 UTC YouTube
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #126, October 30 at 13.00 UTC
- Webinar: Exploring Wikidata to Find Good Stories - October 28 at 7:00 PM CEST (in Portuguese)
- Ongoing
- Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Vegetables
- Past
- The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online. It included a session about the role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data, which featured six talks, all of which with strong Wikidata components. Slides and/ or video recordings are already available for some (more to follow):
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
- What you need to know to kickstart a Wikidata Initiative
- Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister, reaches 100 million items (in Dutch)
- Volunteers speaking Turkic languages met at Wikidata Istanbul 2022 (in Turkish)
- Videos
- Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2022. A panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #95
- GND meets Wikibase
- COVIWD - Lightning Talk @Wikidata Workshop 2022
- Wikidata 10th Birthday Speaker Series 3 - Sustaining a Wikidata Initiative
- Wikidata 10 years celebration video by WMTURKIC
- Wikidata at the museum: lowering thresholds for research with linked data in Sweden
- Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia (The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference in 2022)
- Papers
- Dataviz
- Twitter threads
- Presentations
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing.
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Viveport ID, Larousse Online French Dictionary ID, RaiPlay ID, Rai Teche person ID, Rai Teche program ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: shortened URL formatter, addresses, model for, e-mail subscription URL, official websites, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, about, Rotational speed, NIP
- External identifiers: Piraeus Library ID, note.com ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Mod DB engine ID, Litres author ID, Bureau of Meteorology Location Identifier, OKRB 011-2022 code, Cimetière russe ID, New Cinematografo.it IDs, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID
- Query examples:
- Number of French lexemes per number of dictionaries they are linked to (source)
- People born in Split or Šibenik for whom there is a statement that they wrote or spoke Latin (source)
- Locations of employers/affiliations of first authors of articles in the Journal of Cheminformatics (source)
- Birthplaces of the presidents of the American Medical Association (source)
- Flags containing the colors white and yellow (source)
- AI models (source)
- Swedes accused for churel (source)
- Lunar craters and gender of their namesakes (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Lexicographical data: New Lexeme creation page will be live on Wikidata on November 2nd (phab:T307866)
- Updated the ontology file at https://wikiba.se/ontology (phab:T314360)
- Mismatch Finder: Added a Random mode to make it easier to get mismatches (phab:T302289)
- REST API:
- Documented the differences in the JSON data format between the REST API and the ActionAPI (phab:T318681)
- Continued work on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors (phab:T320358)
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 #544
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 1, 2022: Egon Willighagen (d:User:Egonw) on SARS-CoV-2 queries, a a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to d:Wikidata:Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda.
- Past
- Wikidata's 10th birthday: see the list of events (some of them are taking place in November), the presents and birthday messages, and the Commons category with photos and videos of the events
- Some additional materials have been made available from the Wikimedia session at the Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) that took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online:
- Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- Community Data Mobilization in Wikidata: A paleontology perspective
- Connecting IndExs Editors and exsiccata IDs with Wikidata for Disambiguation of People Names and Work in Botanical and Mycological Collections
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Make Wikidata also Colorful: Using Media in Wikidata by Jsamwrites
- Interview of Lydia Pintscher for Wikidata's 10th birthday (English and German)
- Videos
- Threads
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: embargoed until
- External identifiers: HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID, C64-Wiki ID, Merriam-Webster online dictionary entry, Undiscovered Scotland ID, Mod DB engine ID, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Inventory identifier, CCB ID, Project Identification Code (Dams), shortened URL formatter, Reddit topic ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma Dada organisation ID, Asian Tour player ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: about, Rotational speed, NIP, Imagem da platibanda, tiratge, Dictionary.com entry, software feature, Base Units, processes to, build system, one of class, Mac OS creator code
- External identifiers: Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID, RISM siglum, Cinemaazi ID, Hypothèses notebook ID, SMA ID, KBR Catalogue ID for writers, Aathavanitli Gani song ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, Identificador Musicsperlacobla de sardana, Identificador musicsperlacobla de compositor, Identificador boig sardanista de sardana, travelweekly hotel ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Cinemaazi people ID
- Query examples:
- Collaborative map of events taking place for Wikidata's 10th birthday
- Birth year of winning candidate of the last eight U.S. presidential elections (source)
- Number of music albums by language in descending order (source)
- French préfets with their signature on Commons (source)
- Graph of filmi music composers (source)
- Map of the highest points of Spain provinces (source)
- Twitter usernames and associated mastodon adresses
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Sitelinks to Redirects are now available on Wikidata
- Lexicographical data: We are replacing the existing Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866)
- Mismatch Finder: Working on improving the handling of calendar models and precision in dates (phab:T288511)
- REST API: Continued working on better error handling for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
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!