User talk:Zazpot

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Please accept this internet cookie for being a brilliant human being and offering lots of support for those learning Wikipedia and Wikidata skills! RollerLibrarian (talk) 15:08, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

@RollerLibrarian: Thanks for being a brilliant host! zazpot (talk) 15:14, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017

Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017 Editorial: Core models and topics Wikimedians interest themselves in everything under the sun — and then some. Discussion on "core topics" may, oddly, be a fringe activity, and was popular here a decade ago. The situation on Wikidata today does resemble the halcyon days of 2006 of the English Wikipedia. The growth is there, and the reliability and stylistic issues are not yet pressing in on the project. Its Berlin conference at the end of October will have five years of achievement to celebrate. Think Wikimania Frankfurt 2005. Progress must be made, however, on referencing "core facts". This has two parts: replacing "imported from Wikipedia" in referencing by external authorities; and picking out statements, such as dates and family relationships, that must not only be reliable but be seen to be reliable. In addition, there are many properties on Wikidata lacking a clear data model. An emerging consensus may push to the front key sourcing and biomedical properties as requiring urgent attention. Wikidata's "manual of style" is currently distributed over thousands of discussions. To make it coalesce, work on such a core is needed. Links WikiFactMine project pages on Wikidata, including a SPARQL library (in development). Fatameh tool for adding items on scientific papers to Wikidata, by User: T Arrow. It has made a big recent impact. Offline for maintenance as we go to press, it is expected back soon. As of July 2017, Zotero has a Wikidata translator. A personal Zotero library acts as an intermediary in managing and storing citation metadata. GLAM Newsletter June 2017, Wikidata report. This is a good monthly round-up to follow, and welcomes contributions. Exciting and Impressive! The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched in April: Infodocket on the first three months. Olivia Solon in San Francisco, Why the net neutrality protest matters, opinion piece in The Guardian on 11 July. Editor Charles Matthews. Please leave feedback for him If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

bare refs

Instead of inserting the bare references tag, why not just use the ReFill tool or learn how to do a full ref? it's easy. I made a tutorial in image form if you're interested.--Jennica✿ / ^talk 04:55, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

@Jennica: thanks for your message! ReFill is clearly intended as a labour-saving device, but my personal experience has been that it is not sufficiently reliable to be worth using. It seems to take a similar amount of time and effort for me to use ReFill as it does for me to manually make a full ref, and I have higher confidence in the latter. But making a full ref still takes me an age, and other than the satisfaction of adding durable verifiability to Wikipedia, I do not enjoy it.

Editing Wikipedia is WP:NOTCOMPULSORY, so if it feels unenjoyable, then editors are liable to reduce or cease contributing. I am not immune to this effect. But I also think that verifiability is crucial, so I will not forego refs.

My solution is simple: sometimes, instead of doing something I do not enjoy, I delegate it (which is fine, because there is WP:NORUSH). That is, instead of only ever adding full refs, I sometimes add bare refs and tag them for cleanup by those who would enjoy turning them into full refs. (Based on their edit histories, I believe there to be several such editors on the English Wikipedia, and some of them are very active.) This way, I get to make edits I enjoy, others get to make edits they enjoy, and Wikipedia articles gain verifiability. Triple win! zazpot (talk) 11:42, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Because of you I am a staunch reFill convert. Now, how to write a script so a.m. and p.m. reign supreme...? kencf0618 (talk)

If you still refuse to add full refs or use refill, there is still no need to add a bare url banner for the one bare link you add. People will clean up after you on the heavily edited pages, but are less likely to be cleaned instantly on those that aren't. Consider using the inline template, or better yet, with all due respect, just fill them in or use the dang tool—the amount of time it takes you to paste the bare url template in a second edit, you would've been done filling in the citation by then! Also, I don't think anyone enjoys filling in references, it is just a task that must be done (perhaps to satisfy an editor's "OCD") to prevent link rot, but the time of those editors' could be put to much better use if the problem did not exist, and the problem definitely should not be exacerbated needlessly by an experienced content editor. Thanks for your consideration, Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 22:32, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

@Vaselineeeeeeee:, I just tried reFill again, and this time it didn't work for me at all. Literally. It seems to rely on JavaScript, which I don't use. (The Visual Editor doesn't work for me either, for the same reason.)

As for the template, I used to use {{bareurls|section}} in the relevant section. However, MarnetteD requested that I use {{bareurls}} instead, so that is what I have been doing recently. Now you are asking me not to do that.

I don't much mind which template I use to tag an article as having bare URLs, but I'm not usually content to leave such articles untagged as that truly could lead to link rot. So, I would be grateful if both you and MarnetteD will chime in here in order that we may find a mutually acceptable solution.

MarnetteD: would Vaselineeeeeeee's suggestion of {{Bare URL inline}} be acceptable to you? If not, then Vaselineeeeeeee: can you think of a better suggestion?

Thanks, Zazpot (talk) 23:38, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

No please do not use the inline one. It is difficult to find even in small articles and a real bear to locate in big ones. Also it does not allow access to refill the way the regular template does. It does not matter what section or sentence has a bare url. Placing the simple template at the top of the article gives those of us who work on them a quick and simple start on putting bare refs into cite templates. Everything else slows that work down. Also, I can't tell you how many times I've seen the section or the inline template used on articles that have bare urls in other parts of the article as well. The basic one at the top of the page lets us get all of them at the same time. For years now (even going back to before I started working on them) there is a small group of editors who fix bare urls on a daily basis so the template rarely stays on the article for more than a day. One exception is when there are dozens or hundreds of bare urls in an article. Refill (and the late lamented reflinks) stop after a certain point so, in that situation, I have to format them in sections. Even then it usually doesn't take more than a few days. Z I don't know why refill isn't working for you but if it starts and then just stays on the "Pending - waiting for available worker page" just hit ctrl-F5 at the same time and that usually gets it going. Also, if an article has only one or two bare urls Citer is always available. Now it only works on one ref at a time so I wouldn't ask anyone to use it on an article with numerous bare urls. As to whether it is enjoyable or not that is up to the tastes of each individual editor. There are time I enjoy the task and times that I dread it. If an article with a dozen or more PDFs as refs they have to be done manually one at a time and that can be a pain in the patoot; Regards to all. MarnetteD|Talk 00:03, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

MarnetteD, that's a good point about using the banner. I bet it's more enjoyable when refill fixes 10+ links, but when it's just one link, it's like come on, man. Zazpot, I think MarnetteD gave you some good suggestions there, hopefully they work for you. Regards, Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 00:09, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

You got that right V. A year or so ago someone but over 20 inline tags on one article. After I recovered from my nervous breakdown :-P I got to work but it most definitely was NOT fun :-) MarnetteD|Talk 00:15, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Vaselineeeeeeee, MarnetteD, thank you both.

It seems there is consensus now against using the section or inline variants of the template. So, on occasions when I use a template, I will continue to use {{bareurls}}.

Re: tools, as I say, unfortunately reFill really does not work for me (even with Ctrl-F5), but I am grateful that there are several editors (including MarnetteD) who make great use of it.

MarnetteD: thanks for suggesting Citer. I think I tried it previously, but ultimately found it hit-and-miss so stopped using it. I am happy to give it another go. If it works well for me, great.

Also, I understand your frustration with PDFs. With those, I normally aim to either find an HTML alternative (e.g. with scientific papers) or else to fill the references manually.

Thanks again to both of you for following up, Zazpot (talk) 00:49, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Glad I could help. Reflinks could format many PDFs which is one of the reasons I miss it. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 01:55, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata is a language

Last month I gave a talk at the WMUK AGM about understanding Wikidata as a human language and I thought you might be interested in this topic. The slides are available at c:File:Wikidata is a language.pdf. Deryck C. 21:50, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #608

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

• Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:

1. Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
2. Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.

• Events
  • Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: Rock-forming minerals

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
  • Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
    • Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
    • Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
    • No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
    • Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
  • Notebooks
    • Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
    • Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
    • The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
    • Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
    • State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
    • An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.

• Tool of the week
  • Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
  • Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opening: Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ‎WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, ‎PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, ‎Twitch numeric channel ID, ‎RPCS3 Wiki ID, ‎Black Games Archive ID, ‎Citra compatibility database ID, ‎DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, ‎IGN wiki article ID, ‎AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, ‎RPGFan game ID, ‎Arcade Hub ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
      • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
    • External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany (source)
    • Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
  • Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
  • Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

• Development
  • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #609

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.

• Events
  • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (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.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
  • Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.

• Tool of the week
  • WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, ‎HistoriaGames series ID, ‎Schnittberichte.com title ID, ‎Kemono Games game ID, ‎Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, ‎GamesMeter game ID, ‎GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, ‎Indie DB company ID, ‎NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ‎ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, ‎Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, ‎AFJV directory ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
      • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
      • creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
      • television judge ()
    • External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024 (source)
    • Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 52, 2023) (source)
    • Western composers until the end of the Renaissance (source)
  • Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
  • Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
  • Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.

• Development
  • The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

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

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #610

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

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
• New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (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.
  • Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
  • Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
• Papers
  • Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
  • Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
  • LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
  • Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
• Videos
  • Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
  • This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
• Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.

Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
  • (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
  • ‎plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
• Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, ‎MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, ‎The Criterion Collection spine number
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
  • Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
  • Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture (source)
  • Map of running/out of service railway stations in France
  • Bridges in the UK with photos (source)
  • Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) (source)
• Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
• Newest database report: children of unborn parents
• Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
• Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'

Development

• IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
• Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
  • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #612

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

Discussions

• New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

• Past
  • Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
  • PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
• Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023
  • Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
• Papers
  • The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) (paper in Italian) - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
  • The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) (paper in Italian) - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
  • Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
• Videos
  • "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium(Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
  • Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
    • AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab)
    • Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

Tool of the week

• Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata
  • Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
  • Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
  • working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
  • production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
  • simulate (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
  • Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎ISzDb series ID, IFTTT service ID, National-Football-Teams.com team ID, Moviefone person ID, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID, Team Scotland athlete ID, Kicker team ID, goalzz.com team ID, vesti.kz team ID, ‎Am Faclair Beag ID, tourist information point number, Alexandria.dk person ID, Babelio serial ID, Moviebuff ID, RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju Word ID, Stage, Qué series ver ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • If non-metric ()
  • civil rank (non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID, TopKar ID, IFOPT stop identifier, Flashback lexicon ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, HbVar ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London (source)
  • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
  • People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Media art - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.
• Newest database reports: Count of Senseless Lexemes per language
• Showcase Items: Mona Lisa (Q12418) - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
• Showcase Lexemes: grilldress (L1131949) - track suit for grilling in Bokmål

Development

• IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
  • We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
  • We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
• mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Cinematography
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #634

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
  • Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
• New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.

Events

• Past: The Lexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
• Upcoming:
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (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.
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
  • Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe. Register here!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Querying for audio on Wikidata - This blog post discusses using SPARQL queries on Wikidata to find audio recordings, focusing on musical compositions and their associated genres.
  • Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: Why Wikimedia is an antidote to disinformation - The blog post highlights how Wikidata, as a central storage repository, plays a crucial role in countering disinformation by providing reliable, structured data for Wikimedia projects and beyond.
  • Diff Blog: Imagining a Wikidata future for librarians together - the sixth and final blog post from the LD42023 conference. Silvia Gutiérrez (WMF) and Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF) document the results of the collaborative session on building a bridge between the Library-Wikidata community and WMF.
  • Census IDs are Now Wikidata External Identifiers
  • Library Knowledge as Linked Data: A Wikidata Approach: Contributing to a shared data commons. David Erlandson describes the experiences of using Wikidata for the pilot Program for Cooperative Cataloging to "accelerate the movement towards ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level".
• Papers
  • Mapping the Past: Geographically Linking an Early 20th Century Swedish Encyclopedia with Wikidata - This paper describes the extraction of location entries from a prominent Swedish encyclopedia and sheds light on selection and representation of geographic information in the Nordisk Familjebok. By A. Ahlin, A. Myrne & P. Nugues.
  • Papers from the just-ended Wiki Workshop 2024
    • Do LOD Conventions Impede the Representation of Diversity? The Case of Disabled Actors in DBpedia and Wikidata?
    • SPARQL for LIS Analytics: Exploring Gender Representation amongst PCC Wikidata Pilot Participant
    • Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph-Linguistic Fusion
    • Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Entity Schema Generator Demonstration (tool demonstration)
• Videos
  • Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Enable Equitable and Validated Generative AI - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan Fraine and Lydia Pintscher show how Wikidata can be used to provide well-cited information and how semantic search can augment generative AI inference. Presented at the Open Source GenAI & ML Summit.
  • Wikidata Editing LIVE at Lexico Days 2024 - User:Abbe98 and User:JanAinali are back for another session of live-editing, focused on lexicographical data, during the Lexico Days 2024 event that took place this last weekend, June 28 - June 30.
  • Get more out of Wikidata with Resonator - Rachel Hendrick and Gary Price of LibTech Tools walk through Resonator and point out the best ways to use it. Resonator is available on ToolForge.
  • Knowledge Integrity: Reliability- Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph Linguistic Fusion - Diego (WMF) and Mykola Trokhmovych showcase their work on building a model to help Wikidata editors identify edits that require patrolling, as part of the [Wiki Workshop 2024.
  • Inclusion of Communities: Using Wikibase to Leverage Community Sourced Data Initiatives - Erin Yunes talks about their work in using Wikibase Cloud as part of the Compel project (COmputer Music Preservation Electronic Library).
  • (es) ¿Cómo fortalecer el dominio público con Wikidata? - This Wikitools Workshop hosted by Jorge Gemetto is on Paulina, a tool for exploring and accessing public domain information on authors and their works.

Tool of the week

• Automatic Structuring of text for Wikidata - User:BrokenSegue introduces their new tool.
• User:Zvpunry/CreateNewItem - This is a User script to easily add a new Item while editing a Statement and noticing that the desired Item is missing.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
  • music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
  • coin edge (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
• Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia article ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, ‎Cineuropa distributor ID, ‎Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
  • KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
  • Tüik mahalle id (Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Overcast episode ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, FEI horse ID, Google Play author ID, identifiant d'une personne sur Archelec, Standard Ebooks ID, Lojas com História ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, milononline.net entry ID, KANAL identifier, LAGL author ID, Alle Burgen, FC Krasnodar player id, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, GOArt databas, ArchWiki article, Star Wars.com, identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Number of people who are both politicians and musicians by political spectrum (source)
  • Lexeme coverage of Indonesian languages
  • UK MPs and their office start/end years (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Inuktitut - This is the space to organize work to assure that the sum of all knowledge and the supporting infrastructure for necessary services are available in Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inuktitut).
• Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same pattern
• Showcase Items: Montblanc (Q761735) - town in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia
• Showcase Lexemes: gbuɣi (L725113) - Dagbanli verb, translates to "vomiting" and "sprouting"

Development

• EntitySchemas:
  • We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
  • We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
• mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911, phab:T366239)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Argentina
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #672

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670

Discussions

• New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
  • Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack here. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects."
  • (German) Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons.
  • REST in Rust by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!"
• Videos
  • Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases. Put together by Valerie
  • Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities
  • (Chinese) Open Data Day Taiwan 2025: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page
  • Wikidata as an Open Data Resource: Ian Watt at Open Source SG
  • Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation.

Tool of the week

• Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• An update regarding the WDQS backend has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place.
• Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025.
• The Wikidata Vector Database prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saadewikimedia.de
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services)
  • AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work)
  • data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
• Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID, HelloAsso organization ID, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID, Graceful17 entity ID, ‎Game Input Database ID, DRTV ID, Calindex person ID, Historia Hispánica ID, ‎TERMDAT ID, Kulturdatenbank ID, DDLC entry ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, ‎Captain Coaster coaster ID, Memoria Chilena ID, Jamendo track ID, MikuWiki article ID, ‎ZOOM Platform product ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online organization ID, ‎SteamDB tech ID, ‎Big Fish Games game ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, Newsweek topic ID, booru tag
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations)
  • accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law)
  • applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies)
  • oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.)
  • Coefficient of thermal expansion ()
  • fracture toughness ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, Yale LUX ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID, CACI company ID, VD 16 ID, World Higher Education Database ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, JSIC code, Macrotransactions game ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, NexusMods mod ID, Thunderstore game ID, SideQuest app ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, National Academy of Engineering member ID, DGO ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID, Rodovid family ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Location of fire stations in Spain (source)
  • Oldest known individual per taxon (pre-20th century) (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths
• WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on cividata.org. Help expanding it!
• Newest database reports: German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category (source)
• Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia
• Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)."

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
• Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
• Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
• Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome, d:Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items. The admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity but the bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025
  • 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects to take place May 29 - June 1. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. See Talk page for proposals.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions
  • Editing Lexemes with your little finger
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition by Jean-Fred
• Thread: Who wins in a Wikipedia race between GPT-4.5, o1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and @OpenAI's new Computer-Using Agent?

Tool of the week

• Lexica - a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mobile Editing of Statements - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users. Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team
• Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
  • External identifiers: booru tag, Steam Group numeric ID, Kompass company ID, ‎Macrotransactions game ID, Thunderstore game ID, ‎JSR package ID, ‎GitLab topic ID, Amazon Music track ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • levels (levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game)
    • Scilit scholar ID (author identifier on {{Q|77125337}})
    • وزن صرفي عربي (A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes)
    • باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة (Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs)
    • land degradation (The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects)
    • Research projects that contributed to this data set (This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item)
    • Platform height (platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses))
    • extended by (addons for this item) (Class of software this software is extended by)
  • External identifiers: Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, identifiant Dezède d'un individu, SeqCode Registry ID, Openalfa street ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, TDKIV wikibase ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • 2024 Population Census in Uganda (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal/Liste des artistes de la collection
• Showcase Items: Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
• Showcase Lexemes: страсть (L166968) - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering."

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We finished work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126) and started on the one for Properties (phab:T386377)
• Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039) and sitelink positioning (phab:T316797)
• Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

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Wikidata weekly summary #677

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-28. Missed the previous one? See issue #676.
Translations are available

Discussions

• Open request for bureaucrat: Wüstenspringmaus

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
  • The 5th Wikidata Workshop taking place November 2-3, 2025 during the 25th International Semantic Web Conference hosted in Nara, Japan. Call for Papers is open until 23:59 AoE, August 2. This year, the program tracks are 1. Novel Work and 2. Previously Published Work. Submission template and guidelines are available here and you can submit your topic here.
  • The Wikidata and Sister Projects online conference approaches: May 29 - July 1, 2025. Have you registered yet?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • How to Build a Production-Ready Knowledge Graph(with Code): A Practical Guide By Amit Yadav
  • Who are the Cardinal Electors of 2025 papal conclave? A typical question for Wikidata? by Christian Erlinger (Q67173261)
• Papers
  • Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Web Conference 2025. By Guodong et. al., (2025)
  • Passage: Ensuring Completeness and Responsiveness of Public SPARQL Endpoints with SPARQL Continuation Queries By Thi Hoang et. al., (2025)

Tool of the week

• quarry.wmcloud.org is a public querying interface for Wiki Replicas, a set of live replica SQL databases of public Wikimedia Wikis. Quarry is designed to make running queries against Wiki Replicas easy. Quarry can also be used to query public databases stored in ToolsDB.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Scholia is running a user survey until the end of May .
• Researchers from the University of Regina in Canada invite you to participate in the Open Data Community Survey 2025. Read more!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • BEACON file URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file, a data interchange format for large numbers of uniform links.)
  • research projects that contributed to this data set (research projects that have contributed to or otherwise created an item)
  • ‎terminal speaker (the last person able to speak the language fluently)
  • ‎nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
  • interior designer (person responsible for the interior design of a notable building or structure)
  • ‎kigo of (season which denotes the sense in haiku in Japanese)
• Newest External identifiers: Homosaurus ID (V4), Helden van het Verzet person ID, Our Campaigns container ID, Catálogo Histórico de Tese e Dissertações da Área de História ID, Congress.gov committee ID, Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Israeli Governmental Data Repository ID, Deutsche Genbank Obst (‎DGO) ID, DVIDS photo ID, FirstCycling race ID, FirstCycling team season ID, Hmong Studies Citations ID, Cartofaf organization ID, Calindex author ID, Diocese of Lyon Museum person ID, BnF dictionary ID, Dezède person ID, Meta-Doctrinal ID, Ordre national du Québec ID, ‎Internet Game Database genre ID, Shazoo tag ID, ‎OGDB genre ID, Tax Identification Number (Colombia), ‎National Gallery (London) PID, Kunstkamera ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID, ‎WSGF taxonomy term ID, World Higher Education Database ID, ‎VD 16 ID, United Nations Terminology Database ID, Trafikplatssignatur, Top50 system ID, IndExs exsiccata ID, Markstammdatenregister ID, Ech-Chaab tag ID, ‎SearchCulture.gr ID, RaiPlay Sound program ID, RaiPlay Sound playlist ID, Modern China Biographical Database ID, Know Your Meme slug, LEMAV ID, PerformArt ID, Chilean NPO number, TermTerm UUID, Steam Deck HQ game ID, ‎SeqCode Registry ID, School ID Schleswig-Holstein, Rodovid family ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Party), Captain Coaster park ID, Scilit scholar ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, PCPartPicker product ID, goal.com football match ID, The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism ID, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) special ID, Eurobasket.com club ID, europlayers.com club ID, badmintoncn.com star ID, ‎Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • defined for (the subject takes the object as parameter (or parameter tuple))
  • The Long Distance Walkers Association (External Identifier (URL slug) for a hiking route on The Long Distance Walkers Association website (United Kingdom only))
• New External identifier property proposals to review: IEC CDD for electronics, GOG Dreamlist ID, IEC CDD units, Urban Dictionary ID (2), RCI number, Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, myCast person ID, Personality Database category ID, parliament.uk bill ID, Bierista beer ID, Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • All national parties that are members of a European party and whose country is a member of the European Union (source)
  • Related works from co-citation analysis (source)
• Newest WikiProjects : WikiProject Saint Mary's College (IN) aims to improve the coverage of Saint Mary's and the scholarly works being created at Saint Mary's.
• Showcase Lexemes: Córdoba (L642328) - Spanish noun (kór-do-ba) that can mean "a city in Spain", "a city in Argentina", or "a Mexican city"

Development

• Bug: We fixed an issue where newly created Properties became inaccessible after adding a statement with a Property linking to an Item or Lexeme. The fix will go live on Wednesday. (phab:T374230)
• Search: We continued implementing the new search that will make it easier to search for Properties and Lexemes in the UI (phab:T321543)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #678

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #677.
Translations are available

Discussions

• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Mr Robot - No consensus reached.

Events

• Past events: Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
• Upcoming events:
  • Volunteer Supporters Network/Wikidata for beginners May 16, 2025
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects May 29 - June 1, 2025. register here
  • Wikidata and Research Conference June 5-6, 2025 at the University of Florence.
  • Call for Proposals:Wikidata Taiwan x OpenStreetMap Taiwam @ COSCUP 2025,Submission Deadline: May 10, 2025 (AoE).
  • WikidataCon 2025 Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2025. Register here

• Ongoing event: Coordinate Me 2025 May 1 - May 31, 2025

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • WikidataCon 2025 - programme track categories are ready - time to start thinking about session proposals!
  • checking OSM IDs between OSM and Wikidata By Michaël
  • WikiFlix, a new free streaming platform goes live
• Papers
  • How to Develop a Privacy-First Entity Recognition System By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
  • Detecting and Masking Personal Data in Text By Papadopoulou et. al., (2025)
  • EA2N: Evidence-Based AMR Attention Network for Fake News Detection By Gupta et. al., (2025)

Tool of the week

• OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap, is a project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. It was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways .

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Ever played Redactle? Lucas put together a Wikidata version of it. Can you guess the Item? Still needs a bit of work but you can try it out now.
• EditGroups has a new maintainer

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • organization unit code (organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item)
    • likes of fictional character (particular likes which applies to this fictional character as (usually) stated in their official profile or biography)
    • dislikes of fictional character (particular dislikes which applies to this fictional character as stated in their official profile or biography)
    • number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
    • RAM capacity (amount of volatile random-access memory (RAM) modules used by this device)
    • species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species)
    • Nation Ranking (primary) (main/general ranking for a cycling tournament season)
    • Nation Ranking (secondary) (youth/U23 ranking for this cycling tournament season)
  • External identifiers: badmintoncn.com star ID, ‎Danskefilmstemmer.dk work or dubbing ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, ‎JSIC code, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, Dark Ride Database ride ID, Dark Ride Database park ID, Dark Ride Database manufacturer ID, ‎Databáze her platform ID, Mourisco Catalogue work ID, Radiomuseum vacuum tube/transistor ID, ‎CAMRA pub ID, MobyGames attribute ID, MetalTabs.com track ID, Moure's Catalog ID, PromoDJ track ID, Euronews topic ID, Audiomack artist ID, Audiomack album ID, Europe PMC preprint ID, ‎SMB-digital asset ID, Audiomack song ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (glossary and index of terms) ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, Itch.io tag ID, Corago singer ID, ‎MoNA spectrum ID, La Croix author ID, ‎Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024, ‎TeamUSA.com athlete ID, ‎Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, ‎PyPI organization name, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, ‎PlayStation Museum product ID, Urban Dictionary ID, ‎GOG Dreamlist ID, RCI number, ‎Portable Antiquities Scheme image ID, Orthodox World ID, ‎Coasterpedia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, ‎factordb ID, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Bibliometrics of Ukrainian science person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Context Window (The maximum length of an input token in the language model.)
    • contains nutrient (Food contains nutrient)
    • underlying data (this mathematical structure has these data as part)
    • échelle de Beaufort (empirical measure describing wind speed based on observed conditions)
  • External identifiers: vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Mobility Database ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, Substack username, Private Enterprise Number, ComputerLanguage.com definition, otzovik.com review ID, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Persoon)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know ?

• Newest WikiProjects :
  • Nonprofit Organisations: Ukraine
  • Stockholm Archilepago Trail
• Newest database reports : Descriptions with QID - These Item descriptions contain a QID or Item ID.
• Showcase Items: Hans van Mierlo (Q288771) - Dutch politician (1931–2010)
• Showcase Lexemes: Tribe (L28956) - English noun (trīb) that can mean "a social division in traditional society", "a political subdivision", or "a genre of Techno Music":

Development

• Wikidata Query Service: The search platform team finished the remaining work for the graph split and it is going live this week.
• We took part in the Wikimedia Hackathon in Istanbul
• Wikipedia and co: We continued working on improving how Wikidata edits are shown on the watchlist on Wikipedia and co. We are focusing on showing labels instead of IDs for the entities (Items, Properties, ...) linked in the edit summaries (phab:T388685)
• UI: We continued doing small fixes for dark mode support in the UI (phab:T385039)
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on the search endpoint (phab:T383126)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Philippines
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:07, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #679

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-12. Missed the previous one? See issue #678.
Translations are available

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Kaxabu Wikidata Workshop May 17 at Puli DOC, Nantou
  • Seediq Wikidata Lexeme Workshop May 18 at Puli DOC, Nantou
• Past: Wikimedia Hackathon happened on May 4. Check out the closing showcase that included some Wikidata-related projects: Etherpad (Hackaton 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • GLAM and Wikidata: The "GLAMorous Wikidata" Campaign: In March 2025, Wikimedia Serbia launched a local thematic campaign called GLAMurous Wikidata, focused on improving data about cultural and heritage institutions on Wikidata.
  • Project "Open Topstukken" ("Open Collection Highlights") - Maastricht University and Radboud University: The "Open Topstukken" project is a collaboration between Maastricht University and Radboud University to digitize and publish rare books and manuscripts, with metadata from their Omeka S systems automatically transferred to Wikidata by Wikidata specialists.
  • Wikidata and Research: The programme for the “Wikidata and Research” conference is now available online. Scheduled for 5–6 June 2025 at the University of Florence, this event is convened by a volunteer Scientific Committee in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia and the University of Florence.
• Papers
  • Capacitating Librarians with Wikidata Literacy for Managing Wikipedia Information Resources: Implications to Libraries By Oyighan et. al., (2025)
  • Social Biases in Knowledge Representations of Wikidata separates Global North from Global South By Das et. al., (2025)
  • Automatic Curriculum Cohesion Analysis Based on Knowledge Graphs By Gacek & Adrian (2025).
• Videos
  • African Wiki Women Wikidata training for the gender equality campaign
  • Using Listeria tool to create Wikidata lists from Wikidata
  • Using the Mix'n'match tool to match external datasets to Wikidata items.
  • Connecting the World’s Knowledge with Abstract Wikipedia By Denny Vrandečić

Tool of the week

• Wdactle game -- is a Wikidata version of Redactle! It's a game where you are shown a Wikidata Item with all labels and words redacted and have to figure out what it is. Guessing a word reveals all the places where it is used. Built by Luca Werkmeister during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• ⚠️ Wikidata Query Service graph split: As you know Wikidata Query Service was no longer able to handle the complete set of data Wikidata has. To address this the graph in Wikidata Query Service has now been split into a main graph (that continues to be at query.wikidata.org) and a scholarly graph (that is at query-scholarly.wikidata.org). For more details please see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split.
• Join the Wikidata:Impact stories global campiagn. We're celebrating the amazing Wikidata community - editors, developers, librarians, and creators - and inviting you to share how Wikidata is used. Your story can inspire others and grow the community. Submit yours or nominate a cool project by June 6.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • ‎third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
• Newest External identifiers: Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, ‎Substack handle, Sport Express football match ID, R-Sport match ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • related video (less fitting video, used only because a better alternative is not available. If an appropriate video of the item is available, use P10 instead. Value should not be a generic placeholder.)
  • cosplay of (character(s) that are cosplayed in this image or video)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: RFI station ID (timetables), registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Geographicus-cartographer, Harper's tag, Database of Czech Librarians ID, Open Location Code, CABR-identifier, Onsland-identifier, National Library of Spain Alma ID (BNE v2.0), PC98 Images game ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki-ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • All you want to know about The Blue Coats (Q1030833)
  • Birthplace of Colombians in the Public Domain
• Showcase Items: Soir d'été sur la plage de Skagen – l'artiste et sa femme (Q18386245) - painting by Peder Severin Krøyer from 1899
• Showcase Lexemes: Projektion (L494436) - German noun (pro-yek-tsi̯oːn) that can mean "projection", "image display", or "defence mechanism in Psychoanalysis"

Development

• mul language code: We are fixing an issue where Items can't be found by their mul language label or alias (phab:T392058)
• Wikibase REST API: We are working on phrase matching for the simple search (phab:T389011)
• Dark mode: We fixed a color contrast bug with the entity selector when making new statements (phab:T393641)
• Ontology: We’re working on an updated, more complete version of the wikibase.owl ontology file (phab:T371752)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Italy
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!

· Previous issue · Full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #680

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #679.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: THEbotIT 2 - New functional aspect to automatic creation of items describing lexicographical articles of Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). The described topics of an RE article should also link back to the article.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • On Thursday, 22 May 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00 (CEST), digiS Berlin will offer an online workshop titled "Wikidata for GLAMs." The event is free, open to all, and conducted in German. More information and registration is here.
  • (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata and Wikimedia projects - LM43 May 29, 2025 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  • The Wikidata and Sister Projects online event is nearly here! Four days of sessions on the use of Wikidata in the Wikimedia Projects, join us from May 29 - June 1. Register here. See the Program schedule.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff Blog: Spotlight on Wikidata in the WikiLearn newsletter: WikiLearn's May 2025 update highlights how its online courses, including Wikidata 101, are effectively helping Wikimedians develop key skills, reduce edit reversion rates, and foster engagement across multiple language communities.
  • The Meaning Behind Our Place Names - The Open Etymology Map uses Wikidata-linked etymology tags in OpenStreetMap to reveal the origins of place names, offering an interactive way to explore the historical and linguistic roots of streets, towns, and landmarks
• Papers
  • Preprint: Scholia Chemistry: access to chemistry in Wikidata - This study explores Wikidata's role in chemistry, highlighting how thousands of new chemicals were added, how new properties and database links enhance chemical representation, and how Scholia
  • Making an Under-Resourced Language Available on the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: Quechua Language By Huaman et. al., (2025) - This study integrates Quechua lexical data into Wikidata, adding 1,591 lexemes along with senses, forms, and pronunciation audio, demonstrating how Wikidata can support under-resourced languages in AI-driven Knowledge Graphs to promote linguistic diversity and inclusivity.
  • Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering - A Systematic Literature Review By Wittenborg et al., (2025) - This study systematically reviews Knowledge-Based Aerospace Engineering, analyzing over 1,000 articles, constructing a knowledge graph mapped to Wikidata, and demonstrating how structured, semantic-based approaches can enhance aerospace design, collaboration, and sustainable aviation
• Videos
  • (Italian) Introduction to Wikidata for archives
  • (Sweden) Stockholm Archipelago Trail OSM Wikidata SDC By Magnus Salgo
  • (German) Instructional video on SPARQL queries in Wikidata By OER4SDI

Tool of the week

• Wikidata-Taxonomy is a Command-line tool and library to extract taxonomies from Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We are improving and expanding our Help and documentation pages, please tell us what you think: Parser Functions

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place)
  • context window (maximum length of an input token in the language model)
  • ‎most populous urban area (city or town with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
• Newest External identifiers: Encyclopedia of the Serbian National Theatre ID, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ID, Patrimonio Galego ID, ‎Substack handle, Sport Express football match ID, R-Sport match ID, ‎ComputerLanguage.com definition, Repertorium kleine politieke partijen 1918-1967 (Person), ‎RFI station ID (timetables), Geographicus cartographer ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • related video (less fitting video, used only because a better alternative is not available. If an appropriate video of the item is available, use P10 instead. Value should not be a generic placeholder.)
  • cosplay of (character(s) that are cosplayed in this image or video)
  • breed belongs to taxon (taxon to which members of this breed (or these breeds) belong)
  • Reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
  • over (base field of this vector space, base ring of this module, pair of base rings for this bimodule, base monoidal category of this enriched category, etc.)
  • has WikiProject (WikiProject which has this topic as its main subject)
  • mixing engineer (person responsible for mixing the different sonic elements of a piece of recorded music into a final version of a track)
  • normally caused by (item that normally causes this effect, but that is not necessarily the cause here)
  • criminal motive (verified reasoning behind a crime)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: registration number of japanese invoice system, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Harper's tag, Database of Czech Librarians ID, Open Location Code, CABR-identifier, Onsland-identifier, National Library of Spain Alma ID (BNE v2.0), PC98 Images game ID, Stadtwiki Meißen ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki-ID, R-Sport team ID, WürzburgWiki ID, AW-Wiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, OberpfalzWiki article ID, Tüik village id, viberate.com Artist Id, African Music Library Band ID, Delfi.lv theme ID, ESPN soccer team ID, 15min.lt theme ID, trove.scot ID, Identifiant d'une personne sur PRET19, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, IMDb Interest ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map of pubs in Scotland (source)
  • Data about all 60 members of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject_zelph - WikiProject zelph focuses on integrating a semantic network system with Wikidata to enhance data quality.
• Showcase Items: The Jungle Book (Q16857406) - 2016 film directed by Jon Favreau
• Showcase Lexemes: pukka (L339628) - English adjective (puh-kuh) that can mean "genuine", "highest class", or "complete"

Development

• UI: We are putting the finishing touches on the new search box that will make it easier to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas as well (phab:T321543)
• Dark mode: We fixed the last known issues and are getting ready to roll it out
• Mobile statement editing: We are refining prototypes for testing and started technical investigations
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on simple search, focusing on phrase matching now (phab:T389011)
• Query Service: We are working on a small experiment to show a notification for simple queries that are better run on other APIs (phab:T391264)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:46, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #681

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-05-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #680.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 12 - Task(s): Add PubMed publication ID(P698) to items that lack it, but have DOI(P356), which allows it to be looked up using the PubMed API.
• Talk: Wikidata Identifiers (No value for missing Ids): about how to indicate that a certain entity is absent in a given database

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects
    During 4 half-days of sessions showcasing and showing how Wikidata supports and is integrated to the other Wikimedia projects
    From Thursday, May 29 from 16:00 UTC to Sunday, June 1 13:30 UTC.
    Registration link - Program - Questions? (Talk page)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Taiwan Street-view Expedition (Huwei and Tuku, Yunlin, Taiwan) - joint OSM and Wikidata activity
• Papers
  • (Italian) Termini, dati e collegamenti: ‘conversazioni’ tra il Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata: This study is about the history of the cooperation between the Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario (the main thesaurus used by Italian libraries for subject indexing) and Wikimedia projects, initially Wikipedia and now mainly Wikidata
  • WikiDBGraph: Large-Scale Database Graph of Wikidata for Collaborative Learning By Wu et al., (2025) — This study introduces WikiDBGraph, a network of 100,000 linked databases from Wikidata, using 17 million connections to improve AI learning and reveal challenges in handling interconnected data.
  • Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps By Ripoll et al., (2025) – The paper systematically reviews content gaps in Wikidata, proposing a typology of missing data and a framework to measure these gaps, highlighting their impact on knowledge quality and completeness.
  • AI in Data Management and Analysis By Haber et al., (2025) – This paper explores how AI streamlines academic data tasks like cleaning and analysis, whike tools like Google DataPrep, Airtable and Wikidata help researchers, but human oversight is key to maintaining accuracy and ethics in research.
• Videos
  • Using PetScan to create lists from Wikipedia and Wikidata By Tamsin Braisher (Dr Thneed).
  • (Spanish) Connecting Collections: Wikidata as a Bridge between Museums and Communities By Museo de los Museos and Carla Toro.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Toolkit The Wikidata Toolkit is an open-source Java library for using data from Wikidata and other Wikibase sites. Its main goal is to make it easy for external developers to take advantage of this data in their own applications.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Some of the hypothesis involve Wikidata. You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Geographicus cartographer ID, ‎Wikibase of Czech Librarians ID, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Ons Land ID, ‎VejinBooks author ID, ‎PC98 Images game ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki ID, CvLAC ID, ‎Stadtwiki Meißen ID, ‎WürzburgWiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, AW-Wiki ID, ‎Tüik village ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • LSF rating (Indonesia film classification administered by the Indonesian Film Censorship Board)
    • image of cosplay (cosplay that depicts this character or person)
    • Classificazione Guizzi degli strumenti musicali (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments)
    • name translation (translation into native language)
  • External identifiers: Concertzender ID, MCW-PL article ID, Polska Biblioteka Muzyczna PBM, norsk soldatregister person ID, Databank verkiezingsuitslagen, TNT Sports soccer team ID, NHK Archives Portal Broadcasting History ID, Lithuanian lake ID, Sierra Wiki article ID, Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID, archive creator archieven.nl

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Exemplars of the Magna Carta (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Revitalizing UK History- A wikiproject with the aim of enriching UK historical figures.
• Showcase Items:The BFG (Q19689203) - 2016 film by Steven Spielberg
• Showcase Lexemes: trucco (L580449) - Italian noun (ˈtruk.ko) meaning "deceptive ploy", "makeup", or "strategic maneuver"

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #682

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #681.
Help with Translations.

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: Wikidata Translation Bot - task/s: Automate translation of Item Labels and Descriptions across supported languages and submit them using the official Wikidata API.
• New request for comments: Mass-editing policy
• Closed request for comments:
  • Rename PeakFinder ID (P3770) - Property was renamed.
  • Domain name as data - property domain name (P13337) was created.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our first event will include guests from the Wikidata Search team to discuss the recent graph split project. Join us Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #77 June 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
  • Revitalizing UK History #June 7 Time 16:00 UTC Revitalizing UK History
• Just missed it?
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects: full day videos and presentation slides are being made available on the program page.
  • Coordinate Me 2025, the contest to add geographic coordinates (P625) for countries with low representation has ended. Who will be declared winner?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikidata promotes Sister Projects through interwiki links SLUB Open Science Lab writer Jens Bemme has put together a comprehensive article covering the recent online event and many examples of Wikidata being used.
• Papers
  • MAKIEVAL: A Multilingual Automatic Wikidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs By Zhao et al., (2025) - This paper presents MAKIEVAL, a framework for evaluating cultural awareness in LLMs across languages, showing that models exhibit stronger cultural awareness when prompted in English.
  • Conversational Lexicography: Querying Lexicographic Data on Knowledge Graphs with SPARQL through Natural Language By Sennrich & Ahmadi (2025) - This paper develops a natural language interface for retrieving lexicographic data from Wikidata, creating a taxonomy and dataset, and evaluating language models, with GPT-3.5-Turbo showing the best generalization despite scalability challenges.
  • UAQFact: Evaluating Factual Knowledge Utilization of LLMs on Unanswerable Questions By Tan et al., (2025) - This paper introduces UAQFact, a bilingual dataset for evaluating LLMs on unanswerable questions, showing that models struggle to fully utilize stored factual knowledge even with external support.
• Videos
  • Listful Thinking:Using Wikidata to support editing workflows By Dr Thneed
  • (French) Using Wikidata to gain visibility on the internet? By Nelly Darbois
  • How to create a SPARQL Query to search Wikidata Item Description By vlogize
  • (Spanish) Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata tutorial for the subject of Virreinal Art By Luis Alvaz
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects (YouTube Playlist) - full daily recordings from the Wikidata and Sister Projects event.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Qrank is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Should I watch this? - Enter a film title or IMDb ID to get a recommendation, uses data from Wikidata.
• Job Openings - want to help shape the future of Wikidata or Wikibase?
  • Software Engineer (Wikidata)
  • Staff Engineer (Wikidata)
  • UX Designer (Wikibase Cloud)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • ‎reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
    • cosplay of (characters that are cosplayed in this image or video)
  • External identifiers: espn.com soccer team ID, ‎Yale LUX ID, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, verkiezingsuitslagen database ID, Norwegian soldier register 1940 ID, Polish Music Library PBM ID, ‎MCW-PL article ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • UK Mutual Registration Number (identifier for an organisation in the UK's Mutuals Public Register)
  • External identifiers: Scilit organization ID, paleo.ru person ID, identifiant Assemblée nationale du Québec non-élu, ThinkyGames genre ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, MAI person ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, MultimediaWiki page ID, Submarine Cable Map ID, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, CTS URN, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID, Virtual necropolis of Ukrainian emigration person ID, Russian Cycling Federation person ID, The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID, Yandex Books author ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID, CARLA ID, Boosty author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • All lexemes in Minangkabau (sorted chronologically by their entry time)
  • Film Directors who are still alive
• Schema examples:
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject WordNet
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Newest database reports:list of the most linked category page items
• Showcase Items: Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo
• Showcase Lexemes: (L1250690) spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die"

Development

• Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330)
• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation.
• Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585)
• Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try.
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011)
• Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261)

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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