Wikidata April 2023

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by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New requests for permissions/Bot: - RPI2026F1Bot 7 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RPI2026…> (Add start time (P580) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P580> as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3984>) - BotFunast <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BotFuna…> (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia <https://shi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasna_Tamzwarut>. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.) - Closed request for permissions/Bot: - RPI2026F1Bot 6 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RPI2026…> (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive> ) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group <https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>. 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. - Registration for Wiki Workshop 2023 on May 11, 2023 has started <https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/>. - Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #87, Beach <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=87> Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Blogs - Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/05/7-in-7-celebrating-the-impacts-of-wik…> - How Open Data can help you out in more diverse situations! <https://the-qa-company.com/blog/blog-extended/72> - Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment <https://github.com/stefangrotz/Auto-GPT-Wikidata> - Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2023/Contents/Wik…> - The Whelming - Cram as cram can, by Magnus Manske <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=695> - Finding Impossible Witches: Part One The Search Begins <https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/witchcraft_visualisation/finding-impossible-witches-…> - Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons as Linked Data Hubs: Dissemination of KU Leuven Libraries’ digitized collections <https://enrichingheritage.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/wikidata-and-wikimedia-c…> - Papers - Knowledge Graphs and their Role in the Knowledge Engineering of the 21st Century <https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/17810/> - Videos - LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QnzIvcJbd0&t=4s> - Bootstrap a News Signals Dataset using Wikidata SPARQL Query Service - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCYQ0TP_0dQ> - SEMIC community: Third workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd8siJCHxfg> - Wikidata The Making Of trailer Web Conference 2023 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxWs_BS31QE> - [Open Data Day Taiwan 2023] Wikidata Community Workshop Day 1 (in Chinese - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKQbcexFkco> - Notebooks - Fork of Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata <https://observablehq.com/d/81039c52dd33a9c0> Tool of the week - Pauken! <https://pauken.toolforge.org/#/> ("to cram" in German) - is a tool that lets you learn words in different languages, based on images. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Mozilla launched the Responsible AI Challenge <https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launches-responsible-ai-challen…>, in case someone wants to apply with a great Wikidata-supported project. - Wikimedia Deutschland job openings - Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30730373?l=en> - Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30596953?l=en> - UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30432915?l=en> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: - information sign <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11702> (property for the image of a (historical or other) information sign or board) - location URL match pattern <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11707> (regex pattern of URL that individual shops/amenity within a chain can be matched against) - External identifiers: INEP ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11704>, Facebook numeric ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11705>, Aligulac player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11706>, U.S. Epigraphy Project ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11708>, Artist Directory ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11709>, LIBRA Unine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11710>, Litres author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11711>, NHF club ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11712> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - orchestration <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/orchestration> (the instruments used in a musical composition or arrangement in notated form) - part of other combined lexeme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/part_of_other_comb…> (qualifier on P5238 to indicate that a component appearing in a compound lexeme actually comes from the appearance of another compound lexeme) - External identifiers: MEL residence ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MEL_residence_ID>, Kress Collection Digital Archive ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kress_Collection_D…>, IRIS Lombardy IDs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Lombardy_IDs> - Query examples: - Superheroes with a degree in the humanities <https://w.wiki/6UeA> ( source <https://twitter.com/tophkat/status/1638647034914955264>) - Places of discovery of objects held in the Musée de Bretagne (colored according to the period of the object) <https://w.wiki/6Zu5> (source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1645732696105136130>) - People with far apart reported death dates <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3…> (source <https://twitter.com/cuniiform/status/1645253579043659777>) - Top album languages found on Wikidata right now <https://w.wiki/6TNS> (source <https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110162296549080264>) - Articles in a specific venue citing retracted articles <https://w.wiki/6YpN> (source <https://wikis.world/@egonw@scholar.social/110162154446780288>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: - WikiProject Minecraft <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Minecraft>: Creates and maintains items for the video game Minecraft <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Minecraft>, along with items for user-generated content (like mods <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Minecraft_modding>). Development - EntitySchemas: We continued the work on creating a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T332139 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332139>) - Query Builder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the language of the UI (phab:T328148 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328148>) - REST API: - We continued the work on making it possible to create or replace, a label or a description in a given language" (phab:T323813 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323813>) - The new endpoints for getting labels, descriptions and aliases respectively are now online. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/rest.php/wikibase/v0/entities/items/Q10998/label… You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Mohammed Sadat *Community Communications Manager, Wikidata* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466 https://wikimedia.de Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly. Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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by Leila Zia

Hi all, We are excited to invite you to the *10th edition* of Wiki Workshop on *May 11, 2023 *(starting 12:00 UTC). We are putting an engaging program for this year's special edition. Thanks to many of you, we have received more than 60 research submissions, the largest in the history of Wiki Workshop. :) We are gradually posting content on https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/ but until then: We hope that you decide to join us for this year's edition. *To register*: Please go to (privacy statement for pretix [0]) https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/wikiworkshop2023/ . This year's event is free of charge and held virtually. We look forward to connecting with many of you on May 11th. Best, Leila, on behalf of Wiki Workshop 2023 organizers [1] [0] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Wiki_Workshop_Privacy_Statement [1] https://wikiworkshop.org/2023/#organization

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Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—April 5, 2023

by Guillaume Lederrey

Hello all! The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927 Have fun and see you soon! Guillaume -- *Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him) Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Weekly Summary #566

by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New requests for permissions/Bot: - RPI2026F1Bot 6 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/RPI2026…> (Task: Auto create month/year pages for Wikidata:Requests for deletions/Archive <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions/Archive> ) - IngeniousBot 3 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Ingenio…> (Task: Adding identifiers to album items, based on existing identifiers) - Closed request for permissions/Bot: - Bitbotje 2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Bitbotj…> (Task: remove redundant item aliases) - MidleadingBot 4 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Midlead…> (Task: Add social media followers (P8687) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8687> statements for Baidu Tieba name (P11196) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11196>) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past - Query Service Office Hours February 2022 community meetings <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_up…> (Etherpads: Meeting #1 <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/R5n382Ld0Vvykc7Ak3iH>, Meeting #2 <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/yPUhyhbmXglC_Magx0Go>) - WikiCite callabout scientific articles in the bigger Wikidata picture (notes <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikicite-monthly-2023-03>, slides <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_Scientific_articles_and_beyond_…> ) - Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge *(previous challenge: #84, Bones <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=84>)* - Upcoming - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> call April 4, 2023: Magnus Manske will discuss Wikidata editing tools and tools that use linked data from other sources (eg GND, VIAF) to integrate in Wikidata. Agenda <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gxWQP7yrCYAZFnjLdhMPmmVrx2_GPlWcd1rTiqg…> Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Blogs - The Whelming - Musings on the backend, by Magnus Manske <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=691> - Boosting interoperability: towards an increasingly reusable bioinformatics knowledge base <https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12329> - Papers - In Search of Queer Narratives Through the Centuries <https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/_la_recherche_des_r_cits_queer_t…> (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023 <https://sassqueer.fr/>, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023: Talk on documenting queer history on Wikidata - Extracting Data from Wikidata Using SPARQL and Python <https://itnext.io/extracting-data-from-wikidata-using-sparql-and-python-59e…> - A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata <https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3330.pdf> - Can you trust Wikidata? <https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3376.pdf> - Videos - Wiki In Africa - Wikidata Office Hour Session by Yamen Bousrih - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj532KOWmIM> - LIVE Wikidata editing #108 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QnzIvcJbd0> - Reuse of Wikidata Data - Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 (in Chinese) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1DdmhHfpig> - Adding sitelinks to Wikidata in Mobile view (in Hausa) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AegX6jcqNE> - Introduction to Wikidata (OBO Academy Tutorial) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KonJqKquUSU> - WikiArchives/Wikidata/Wikibase by Léa Lacroix, Nicolas Vigneron and Gilliane Kern (in French) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udq37sRU60c> - A (very) short introduction to Wikidata - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-1f6CKEgU> - Creating a News Signal from a Wikidata Entity - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdoOiMXOrQ8> - Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata - (Everything Open 2023) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87A7QMbfpI> - Wikibase and Semantic MediaWiki Knowledge Graphs as part of Linked Open Data - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKEbxTNFSFM> - Notebooks - Statistics on Wikidata property scopes <https://observablehq.com/d/154c19f1a036f8d6> Tool of the week - User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js> is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikimedia Deutschland job openings - Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30730373?l=en> - Community Communications Manager, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30596953?l=en> - UX Designer / Researcher Wikidata for Wikimedia projects <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/30432915?l=en> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: - student retention rate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11698> (Proportion of first-year students at the educational institution who return for their second year) - External identifiers: Newguineaworld ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11696>, Ticino Scienza IBSA Foundation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11697>, China movable cultural relic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11699>, JMdict sequence number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11700>, TASVideos game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11701> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Kinoglaz person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinoglaz_person_ID>, Tatoeba sentence ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tatoeba_sentence_ID>, IRIS private universities (3) IDs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_private_unive…> - Query examples: - Authors from Latin America born today <https://w.wiki/6WGF> (source <https://twitter.com/espejolento/status/1640790970781540353>) - Businesses who's official websites use the ".biz" top-level domain <https://w.wiki/6VY6> (source <https://twitter.com/philbgorman/status/1639746513919176704>) Development - EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884>) - Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas ( phab:T321543 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321543>) - REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323813>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Mohammed Sadat *Community Communications Manager, Wikidata* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466 https://wikimedia.de Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly. Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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