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 2023-12-11.
Contents
- 1 Discussions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Discussions>
- 2 Events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Events>
- 3 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Press,_articles,_blog_posts,_videos>
- 4 Tool of the week
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Tool_of_the_week>
- 5 Other Noteworthy Stuff
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Other_Noteworthy_Stuff>
- 6 Did you know?
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Did_you_know?>
- 7 Development
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Development>
- 8 Monthly Tasks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Monthly_Tasks>
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: LccnBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/LccnBot>
(Task: Adds P244 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P244> to
bibliographic entities base on library authority records.)
- New request for comments: Duplicate References Data Model and UI
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Duplicate_References_Data_Model_and_UI>
< During Data Modelling Days '23, 2 proposals emerged trying to answer the
question of how to handle duplicate References on Wikidata Items.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call December 12, 2023: Several members of the Chinese Culture and Heritage
Wikidata group will provide an overview of the group's Wikidata projects as
well as the challenges they have encountered. Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rwn2Y3TyTRIrejP2zqs7KyANMpuh9Yaxe5-6Xezn8yQ/edit?usp=sharing>
- Data-SHS Bordeaux Week: <https://10times.com/e11x-sspk-2k54>
Processing and Analyzing Quantitative Data in Human and Social Sciences
2023. Dec. 11 - 15, Bordeaux, FR.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Agreeing to agree: Roundtripping people identifiers with Wikidata
<https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/12/05/agreeing-to-agree-roundtripping-people-identifiers-with-wikidata/>
< The Te Papa Museum of New Zealand shows how Wikidata is being used to
verify subjects when sharing Collections and data between sources. Here's
a video explaining more! <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbpf3r7EzFc>
- Papers / Books
- 1Lib1Nearby with Wikidata
<https://www.o-bib.de/bib/article/view/5970> (German) < Queries and
edits for the multilingual world knowledge of the nearby environment.
- Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset:
<https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/114408/instance/9910689/> a case
study of plant genera named for women < S. Mering, L. Gardiner,
S. Knapp et
al.
- Fine-tuned LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less with Few-Shot
Sequence-to-Sequence Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
<https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.353/> < Presented at the
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference. Authors: S.
Xu, S. Liu, T. Culhane et al.
- Videos
- BiCIKL to Wikidata: Harmonizing the chaotic universe of natural
history collectors <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGyvc6dRbfA> <
presented by Mathias Dillen at the TDWG 2023 Annual Conference.
- Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7gpAcjsjuU> Best Practice for
Standardisation and Contexualisation. Presented by Dag Endresen
also at the
TDWG Annual Conference.
- Riksdagen Corpus Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VtEMTZsntU> < Magnus Sälgö.
- Scholia - a profiling tool to explore scholarly knowledge
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr-A8EMc788> < As part of the
national research data infrastructure (NFDI) infratalk, Dr.
Daniel Mietchen
presents Scholia.
- Catalogue of Premodern Manuscripts
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZ5eB76sI4> < See a Wikibase
instance used for The Digital Scriptorium Catalog. Presented by
Lynn Ransom
& L. P. Coladangelo.
- Data Modelling Days 2023 Playlist
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AuoEYkEXYw&list=PLduaHBu_3ejM49Nb4_k652X9XmmvhuJjE>
< The list of recorded Sessions for the DMD '23 Online Conference is
available here!
- Building a semantic knowledge (wiki)base for synthetic
phytochemistry <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krbeWMTz5CY> <
Presented by Dr. Gitanjali Yadav
- OpenRefine - a open source tool for working with data
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVxi7ldSbrs> < This session explores
the advantages of using OR to wrangle, clean, transform and standardise
data for Wikidata. Presented by Jinoy Tom Jacob at the IndiaFOSS3.0
Conference.
- Various queries and modeling on Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykK8Wq6cycc> (French) < User:VIGNERON
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VIGNERON> introduces several
SPARQL queries.
Tool of the week
- QLever SPARQl Engine <https://qlever.cs.uni-freiburg.de/wikidata> < If
you attended Data Modeling Days '23, you may have seen an extraordinary
Session <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHyjdoSN54> given by Hannah
Bast and Johannes Kalmbach showcasing the power and advantages of the
QLever engine. QLever can handle queries that cause the WDQS to timeout or
allowing Federated queries and Geospatial!
(QLEver has already featured in Tool of the Week but we wanted to showcase
it again after experiencing it at DMD '23)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Healthcare Disparities in the U.S.: Exploring Access to Healthcare in
the Immigrant Population <https://observablehq.com/d/6273b207e1d07eff> <
Zoomable Bar Charts and visualisations exploring access to healthcare
across the U.S. Prison system, powered by Wikidata and WDQS. Authored by
Haryn Shin.
- DMD23: documentation and outcomes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Data_Modelling_Days:_documentation_and_outcomes>
can be viewed on Wikidata project Chat as well as related-topics from the
Conference on Qualifiers for fuzzy properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Proposal:_add_qualifier_to_allow_for_fuzzy_property_values_to_help_with_real-life_data_ambiguity>
and Should WMF fund QLever?
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Should_the_foundation_consider_funding_the_QLever_project?>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes:
- official wiki URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12203>
(URL of the official wiki for the item)
- counterexample <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12208>
(qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance
or subclass of
the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not hold)
- External identifiers: ELMCIP ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12204>, RFI station ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12206>, BnF archives and
manuscripts ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12207>, The
Plant List ID (Arizona Native Plant Society)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12209>, DIMA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12210>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes:
- Flora of the Hawaiian Islands ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flora_of_the_Hawaiian_Islands_ID>
(URL of the entry for a plant species, subspecies, or variety
in the Flora
of the Hawaiian Islands website)
- Hijri Date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hijri_Date>
(Hijri Date of claim)
- External identifiers: Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mid-Atlantic_Herbaria_Consortium_taxon_ID>,
New words in Danish ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/New_words_in_Danish_ID>,
Game Classification game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Classification_game_ID>,
Lobbypedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lobbypedia_ID>,
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae text witness ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Thesaurus_Linguae_Aegyptiae_text_witness_ID>,
Game Classification machine ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Classification_machine_ID>,
Game Classification creation tool ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Classification_creation_tool_ID>,
a8.fandal.cz ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/a8.fandal.cz_ID>,
Numer KRS
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Numer_KRS>,
Stadium
64 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Stadium_64_ID>,
Sina Chinese Basketball ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sina_Chinese_Basketball_ID>,
Veterans Legacy Memorial
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Veterans_Legacy_Memorial>,
SixtyFour Originals DataBase game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SixtyFour_Originals_DataBase_game_ID>,
WHDLoad database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WHDLoad_database_ID>
- Deleted properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>:
- Query examples:
- Geolocalized object that have the same name than something named
after some some kind of church building <https://w.wiki/8TYJ>. This
includes streets, bus stops, …
- Video games per Platform <https://w.wiki/8TZv>. Timeline of video
game releases per platform.
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
- WikiProject Heritage Collections
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Heritage_Collections>:
database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including
contemporary
scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the
interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection
databases with Wikidata.
- WikiProject Source Reliability
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_Reliability>:
is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of
assessments of the
reliability and credibility of sources.
- Newest database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>:
- Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>:
(Q8409) Alexander The Great <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8409> -
Alexander III, King of Macedon.
- Showcase Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: (L630387) Pri
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L630387> - the meaning of this
Breton word is not 'muddy' with VIGNERON's contribution!
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We continued work on the routes for adding aliases
in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343721>) and removing a Property's
label in a given language (phab:T342983
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342983>)
- Monolingual text values can now use many more languages than before.
We’re still working on doing the same for Lexemes. (phab:T341409
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341409>)
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/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>.
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>
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