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The Signpost: 31 October 2022
- From the team: A new goose on the roost
- News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
- Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
- Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
- Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
- Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
Wikidata weekly summary #544
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- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 1, 2022: Egon Willighagen (d:User:Egonw) on SARS-CoV-2 queries, a a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to d:Wikidata:Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda.
- Past
- Wikidata's 10th birthday: see the list of events (some of them are taking place in November), the presents and birthday messages, and the Commons category with photos and videos of the events
- Some additional materials have been made available from the Wikimedia session at the Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) that took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online:
- Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- Community Data Mobilization in Wikidata: A paleontology perspective
- Connecting IndExs Editors and exsiccata IDs with Wikidata for Disambiguation of People Names and Work in Botanical and Mycological Collections
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Make Wikidata also Colorful: Using Media in Wikidata by Jsamwrites
- Interview of Lydia Pintscher for Wikidata's 10th birthday (English and German)
- Videos
- Threads
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: embargoed until
- External identifiers: HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID, C64-Wiki ID, Merriam-Webster online dictionary entry, Undiscovered Scotland ID, Mod DB engine ID, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Inventory identifier, CCB ID, Project Identification Code (Dams), shortened URL formatter, Reddit topic ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma Dada organisation ID, Asian Tour player ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: about, Rotational speed, NIP, Imagem da platibanda, tiratge, Dictionary.com entry, software feature, Base Units, processes to, build system, one of class, Mac OS creator code
- External identifiers: Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID, RISM siglum, Cinemaazi ID, Hypothèses notebook ID, SMA ID, KBR Catalogue ID for writers, Aathavanitli Gani song ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, Identificador Musicsperlacobla de sardana, Identificador musicsperlacobla de compositor, Identificador boig sardanista de sardana, travelweekly hotel ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Cinemaazi people ID
- Query examples:
- Collaborative map of events taking place for Wikidata's 10th birthday
- Birth year of winning candidate of the last eight U.S. presidential elections (source)
- Number of music albums by language in descending order (source)
- French préfets with their signature on Commons (source)
- Graph of filmi music composers (source)
- Map of the highest points of Spain provinces (source)
- Twitter usernames and associated mastodon adresses
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Sitelinks to Redirects are now available on Wikidata
- Lexicographical data: We are replacing the existing Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866)
- Mismatch Finder: Working on improving the handling of calendar models and precision in dates (phab:T288511)
- REST API: Continued working on better error handling for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- ☑️ Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #545
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- 🧵Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: MsynBot 10, Mr Robot
- New request for comments: Create items for property proposals
- Other discussions: State of the Wikidata, thoughts on data quality and structure (on the mailing-list)
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
- Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
- Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
- Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
- Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
- A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Analysis of City Information on Wikidata by Jsamwrites
- Exploring government departments by linking Wikidata to the National Archives of Australia by Tim Sherratt
- Trust in Rust by Magnus Manske
- Papers
- Leveraging Wikidata's edit history in knowledge graph refinement tasks (Gonzalez-Hevia and Gayo-Avello)
- Videos
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: collection items at
- External identifiers: Language of Bindings ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, AUTC herritage object ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Universal Content Identifier, Léonore Web ID, BritBox ID (UK version), OMED ID, Municipal Library of Trikala ID, MMB ID, HiSCoD ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ILAMDIR ID, Cannabis Database ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, island code of Indonesia, SR-Archiv print media ID, SR-Archiv record ID, EuDML work ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: official demo URL, WMOOV movie ID, press information URL, contact page URL, sitemap URL, REGON, Check Digit, impressum URL, from language & to language, object identifies
- External identifiers: Oblio author ID, Pittori Liguri ID, Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, SciSpace author ID, RomArchive person ID, Webtoon creator ID, Archives West repository ID, npm scope, Team Norway profile ID, identifiant USTC, worldofsam ID, Open Supply Hub organization ID, Kotobank ID, Weblio ID, Haymarket Books Author ID, ILNM ID, BookWalker series ID, IRIS Sicily IDs
- Query examples:
- Intangible cultural heritage (source)
- Wikimedians with Mastodon accounts
- Politicians with Mastodon accounts (source)
- Graph of the characters of the book "We Are Here" (source)
- Map of birth places of women mentioned in the book "Femmes de lettres en Bretagne" (source)
- Participants in the 1955 Bandung Conference (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
- Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
- Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
- Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
- REST API:
- Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
- Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 🫶 Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Sunday November 13 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting
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The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.
We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Wikimedia Research Fund, 2023 Ombuds commission and Case Review Committee appointments process, feedback on consultation and community session of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, various Wikimania topics: (ideas/suggestions for Wikimania 2023, expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and beyond, expressions of interest to join Wikimania Steering Committee), and other ongoing activities.
This month we are meeting on Sunday November 13, and you are all invited to RSVP here.
(UTC meeting times are and
UTC times are different from before, and also note that some areas may have recently experienced daylight savings time changes.).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:59, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: October 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #546
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- 🧵Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- MsynBot 11
- Task: update Wikidata:Main Page/Popular daily
- VojtěchDostálBot 1
- Task/s: Import of field of work (P101) from Czech National Authority Database (Q13550863)
- MsynBot 11
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- MsynBot 10
- Task/s: manage badges in sitelinks to redirects
- Josh404Bot 4
- Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
- BorkedBot 8
- Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate
- DwdsBot
- Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
- MsynBot 10
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
- Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Numbers (5/n)
- Past:
- Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)
- Upcoming:
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Awesome Wikidata: Curated list of Wikidata Projects and information
- The Wednesday index, evolution of gender diversity in a selection of Wikipedia articles. The data are collected from Wikidata using @pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article
- The Enduring Allure of the Library of Alexandria
- Cultural AI team wins special award at the Heritage Hackathon
- Checking lexical forms - Abstract Wikipedia Updates
- Papers
- Videos
- Get to know Wikidata Lexemes (in Indonesian) - YouTube
- Live Wikidata editing #98 - YouTube - The theme is music! with User:Moebus as guest.
- David Lindemann: LOD-infication of Bibliographical Data Using Free Software: CLB Wikibase - YouTube
- Experience in Integrating Wikidata and Government Open Data, By Wikidata Taiwan (in Chinese) - YouTube
- The Greek Wikidata community celebrated the Wikidata 10th birthday (in Greek) - YouTube
- 10 Years of Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, by Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
- Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, JioSaavn artist ID, England Hockey ID, UWIND ID, NCUA Charter ID, FDIC Certificate ID, Niconico ID, Camp Wild ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, MSVF ID, Central Library of Volos authority ID, Aerodrome identification Code, UOM ID, Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, Levadia Library ID, IHF profile ID, ihg Hotel ID, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Louisiana Plant ID, WMOOV movie ID, PGA of Australia Player Profile ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (A) ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (B) ID, Famous Birthdays ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: subfunction, mastodon URL, unique name, user input & output, Cuneiform character in this lexeme, fruit color, headline, chapter or section
- External identifiers: BestWestern hotel ID, Wyndham Hotel ID, Hilton Hotel ID, DML-CZ publication ID, Accor Hotel ID, article ID in Alex Författarlexikon, Hlídač státu, Kirjasampo ID, Boksampo ID, UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID, KOBIS people ID, RISM siglum, Infopédia ID, ResearchGate journal ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry, Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
- Query examples:
- Biggest Mastodon instances according to Wikidata
- Mastodon accounts of researchers (source)
- Most annotated servers according to Wikidata (source)
- Map of birthplaces of people with known mastodon address (source)
- European islands culminating at more than 1,000 m of altitude (source)
- Map of water bodies in France (source)
- Other awards won by winners of the Booker Prize (source)
- Timeline of Libre and Open Source videogames (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- REST API:
- Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
- Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
- Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459)
- Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511)
- New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093, phab:T317682)
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 🫶 Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #547
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- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Cewbot 5
- Task/s: Add sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) for sitelinks to redirects without intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304).
- Cewbot 5
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
- Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
- Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #68, SI base units
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing — covers a range of identifiers (including Wikidata ones) for taxa, people, institutions and other entities relevant to biodiversity studies
- Videos
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #99 - YouTube
- The Greek Wikidata community celebrates their 10th birthday (Part 2) (in Greek) - YouTube
- Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
- Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata - YouTube
- Import Wikidata into an RDF based Ontology using Apache Jena - YouTube
- SMWCon 2022 - Day 3 - Wikidata Synchronization for the CEUR-WS publishing platform - Tim Holzheim - YouTube
- Sitelinks wikibase cloud - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js is a userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts is a model that tries to predict the instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279) of unlabeled items. You can play with it and leave Daniel some feedback.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: build system, tiratge, official demo URL, pinout, sitemap URL
- External identifiers: Annales des mines person ID, Baidu Tieba name, DrugCentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, Musicsperlacobla sardana ID, Musicsperlacobla composer ID, Boig Sardanista sardana ID, npm scope, IRIS UNICT author ID, IRIS UNIME author ID, IRIS UNIPA author ID, IRIS UNIKORE author ID, Hlídač státu person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: has visual representation, chapter and verse in the Bible, commit hash, official server list URL, translation management URL
- External identifiers: Datastory Glossary ID, SNE publisher ID, Livres Hebdo ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, AniList staff ID, ECOF saint ID, DFK Paris person ID, Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) ID, Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions ID
- Query examples:
- Newest templates:
- Template:Quickquery can be used to quickly write and link SPARQL queries on the Wikidata wiki
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459)
- Lexicographical data:
- Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310)
- Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687)
- Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (phab:T315161)
- Mismatch Finder:
- Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511)
- Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #548
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- ChristianKl 2 (RfP scheduled to end after 4 December 2022 17:22 UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Identifier sync bot
- Task: Add database identifiers to items, mainly journal article items.
- BorkedBot 9
- Task: Import values of YouTube handle based on YouTube channel ID (P2397) and vice versa.
- Botcrux 11
- Task/s: Replace stated in (P248) to publisher (P123) where the value is World Athletics (Q1158).
- Identifier sync bot
- Open request for adminship:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
- Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
- A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
- Past:
- Wikibase live session (November 2022) log
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #99
- WikiMentorAfrica - Displaying Wikidata DataViz on external web pages day - YouTube (part1, part 2)
- Wikidata Workshop (Digital Humanities on Wikipedia - Archiving of COVID-19 under debate) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Creating a Wikidata item (in Estonian) - YouTube
- Wikidata 10th Birthday Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2022 (in Chinese) - YouTube
- The past and future of Wikidata in Taiwan
- An Attempt to Connect Wikidata with OpenStreetMap
- Wikidata teaching experience in National Cheng Kung University's "Integrating Wiki into History Teaching"
- Is it composition or construction? Talking about the System Thinking of "Data Translation" Opening up in Data Dictionary
- Other
- Tool of the week
- The user script User:Ainali/common-properties.js shows the most common properties using a specific value (video (YouTube))
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenCheck is a new effort to build an open community-powered identity verification system, among other things with the help of Wikidata.
- The Digital Benin website is linking to Wikidata identifiers, making more exploration and understanding possible beyond what the site itself has: https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109380697777661025
- Wikidata is on Mastodon: wikis.world/@wikidata. Remember to toot using the #Wikidata hashtag so people can find related topics.
- New product managers have joined the Wikimedia Deutschland development team:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: fedpress.ru person ID, UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID, OVO ID, Best Western hotel ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, New Zealand Legislation ID, Travel Weekly hotel ID, fruit color, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, Accor hotel ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, ID of část obce díl, Livres Hebdo ID, AniList staff ID, Dictionary.com entry, Golfdata ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry
- New property proposals to review: Verbalization by lexeme, Cultural Good of Croatia ID, access via, Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, image of feces, image of fauna tracks, hackage package, Packagist package, supports authentication method, package registry usernames, Go package path, Dongqiudi.com player ID, Plazi reference ID, Kanjipedia ID, kino1tv.ru ID, EuDML journal ID, Jiten Online kanji ID, lexeme of other gender, serves resource, YouTube handle, Wikimedia Phabricator project, ISFDB award ID, Trismegistos author ID, Africultures Structure-ID, African American Visual Artists Database ID, Lighthouse Directory page, UniProt Disease ID, Google Product Taxonomy ID, object pertains to, negates property, GCD issue ID, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, Nîmes cemetieres person ID, LMÍ id, kód adresního místa podle RÚIAN, IdnaMapping, экологическая группа растений, International Computer Game Collection work ID, JLect entry ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Au Senate ID, manchu.work lexeme ID, Israeli Opera site (English) person id, of instances of, subclass of with uncertain existance, vazn, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Sense relationships connected to semantic roles, TV Maze episode ID
- Query examples:
- Translated Wikidata property labels (top 100 languages) (source)
- Dentists who are notable footballers (source)
- Map of obelisks over 40 m high (source)
- Notable doctoral student/advisor pairs where at least one of them is within the Wikidata:WikiProject NZThesisProject (source)
- Wikimedia affiliates on Mastodon (source)
- Development
- REST API:
- Finished the adjusted statement data structure (phab:T321459)
- Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (phab:T321483)
- Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (phab:T322734)
- Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (phab:T322746)
- Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
- Mismatch Finder:
- Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (phab:T313468)
- Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (phab:T288511)
- Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:
- Improved the markers that indicate the field is required input (phab:T322683)
- Improved a help link (phab:T315161)
- REST API:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Go through the list of pages with sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) and update them either to intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304) or remove the sitelink. We have worklists for many languages.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 28 November 2022
- News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
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Wikidata weekly summary #549
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- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship:
- ChristianKl 2 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- New request for comments:
- Closed request for adminship:
- Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and playing with some tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. This will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work together. Event page
- Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC, on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come with your favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
- Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023 page.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles
- Upcoming
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in Wikipedia - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- The Archaeology Data Service and Wikidata
- Animals to Play H-O-R-S-E With
- Mini hackathon in Utrecht, by Jan Ainali
- Papers
- Videos
- How to edit a Wikidata item to appear in an Infobox on Wikipedia (in Portuguese) - YouTube
- Library data on Wikidata: a case study of the National Library of Latvia - YouTube
- Wikidata / National Archives of Australia Project with Tim Sherratt - YouTube
- How WMDE can support partnerships with GLAM institutions for Wikibase and Wikidata projects - YouTube
- 2022 edition: Timelapse of railway stations in Denmark (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
- Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 14: How To Add References To Wikidata Articles (in Dagbani) - YouTube
- Wikidata 10th Birthday celebration events, By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
- Wikidata Istanbul 2022
- Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (I-II) by Asaf Bartov (Day 1: English, Turkish)
- Modeling Our Languages with Lexeme (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
- A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata Querying with SPARQL (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
- Wikidata and GLAM: Museums of Turkey (Day 3: Turkish, English)
- Potential Benefits of Wikidata to the Health System, Nevit Dilmen (Day 3, Turkish)
- Useful Wikipedia Tools, Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, Turkish)
- Handy Wikidata Gadgets by Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, English)
- Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and Beyond, Lydia Pintscher (Day 1: Turkish, English)
- Structured Data Across Wikimedia by Luca Martinelli (Day 2, English)
- Getting Inspiration from Projects Using Wikidata, Neslihan Turan (Day 1: Turkish, English)
- Podcasts
- WikiProject Biography, a podcast episode presenting Wikidata:WikiProject Biography
- Thread
- The advent of Wikiviz, 24 dataviz about Wikipedia and Wikidata until Christmas
- Other
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- How many edits does Wikidata get per second? listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opportunities: Post-doc in Natural Language Processing (1.0 FTE), University of Groningen
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: has biological vector, EuDML journal ID, SciSpace author ID, Oblio author ID, Dams in Japan number, SNE publisher ID, KOBIS people ID, OpenML dataset ID, DFK Paris person ID, PIM publication ID, Pittori Liguri ID, USTC identifier, EPA ID, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959 ID, YouTube handle, hackage package, Observation.org place ID, Diskograf artist ID, KBR person ID, Miraheze article ID, ILNM ID, Trismegistos author ID, Packagist package, translation contribution URL, Cinemaazi people ID, Cinemaazi film ID, MAK Collection Online person ID, MAK Collection Online object ID, BookWalker series ID (JP version), list item, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, alt text
- New property proposals to review: Amazon Browse Node, Beatport release ID, Bandcamp release ID, subject of qualifier, has part part of, property metamodelling, MangaUpdates IDs, man page, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, MyAnimeList magazine ID, OpenPlaques place ID, is a number of, source of action & destination of action, CSD Refcode, Ès lettres ID, is the change of, removed in version (2), PodLink ID, KOBIS film festival ID, KOBIS film company ID, DBpia journal ID, DBpia publisher ID, tuxDB game ID, Crunchyroll series ID, US-DMF ID, Dehkhoda ID, CocoaPods pod, Appsight app, Appsight SDK, Maven groupID and Maven artifactID, Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, Game Boy hardware database ID, Bane NOR Network Statement station ID, Olympedia-Veranstaltungsort-ID, has duplicate Wikimedia page, GBDB ID, Lygaeoidea Species File ID
- Query examples:
- Development
- Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (phab:T320490)
- Made the Property namespace a content namespace (phab:T321282)
- Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (phab:T315161)
- Mismatch Finder:
- Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (phab:T323680)
- Made the layout more compact (phab:T323678)
- Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table was a link instead of just the Item ID (phab:T323823)
- Improved the text on a button (phab:T323682)
- Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision (phab:T288511)
- Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more sense (phab:T323819)
- Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL interface languages (phab:T321441)
- Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (phab:T324148)
- Query Service:
- Making the popup less intrusive that leads to the Query Builder (phab:T296135)
- Adding tooltips for Lexemes (phab:T255245)
- Unifying the way to get a link to a query (phab:T324218)
- mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on mobile that is currently blocking it (phab:T323098)
- REST API:
- Finalized json format for sitelinks and data values (phab:T321483, phab:T322734)
- Investigating rate limiting (phab:T322746)
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!