*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 2024-03-11.
Translations
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current>
are available.*
* Discussions *
- Open request for adminship: Zafer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator#Zafer>
- (RfP scheduled to end after 12 March 2024 20:03 (UTC))
- Closed request for adminship: Mike Peel 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator#Mike_Peel_2>
- Adminship re-granted, welcome back Mike!
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Mfchris84-Bot 1
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Mfchris84-Bot_1>
- Task: Add *swisscovery edition ID (P9907)* to instance of (P31)
version, edition or translation (Q3331189) based on checking
ISBN-13 (P212)
or ISBN-10 (P957).
- NinoBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/NinoBot>
- Task: Semi-automatically create version, edition or translation
(Q3331189) entries for Spanish Wikisource Index pages from Commons files.
- Emijrpbot 10
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Emijrpbot_10>
- Task: Create a written work (Q47461344) and version, edition or
translation (Q3331189) item for works and editions in the
National Library
of Spain datos.bne.es project.
* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
*
- Upcoming
- Queer Data Days
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-data-days-wikidata-gender-diversity-project-event-tickets-849406958077>
- Wikidata Gender Diversity Project Event, a pair of virtual events
welcoming a range of speakers investigating queer approaches to data and
technology. Sign up for March 15 or March 16, 15:00 (CET).
- Wikimedia Indonesia/Bulan Wiki Perempuan 2024 WM Indonesia Women's
Wiki Month 2024
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Bulan_Wiki_Perempuan_2024>
(Indonesian) - join classes on learning to edit Wikidata and
address gender
biases in Wikidata, Wikipedia and sibling projects. Program and register
for Wikidata classes / datathon
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj20J2tMTWyXkI-o8Yl-kxk7eqOxDhuM0Xrbrsp3C5SGduHQ/viewform>
schedule
- Wikidata Leveling Up Days
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Leveling_Up_Days_2024>,
an online event and a collection of resources to welcome new people to
Wikidata. The online event takes place on April 5-7 and 12-14 with
presentations, workshops and discussions. The program is open to
contributions. Learn more about the project at the website WiGeDi
<https://wigedi.com/>.
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Blogs
- Standardization of publishing data with Wikidata
<https://zenodo.org/records/8325988> - a poster for the Austrian
Transition to Open Access Two (AT2OA²). Join the project Wikiproject
Academic Publisher
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Academic_Publisher>
- Wikibase Intro
<https://www.vvbad.be/meta/meta-nummer-20242/wikibase> (Dutch) - Bart
Magnus writes an article about the benefits of Wikibase for the Flemish
Association for Library, Archives & Documentation (VVBAD).
- A Red&Blue Wikibase disambiguation on the English Wikipedia
<https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-red-wikibase-disambiguation-on.html>
-
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2023 edition
<https://commonists.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-2023-edition/>
by Jean-Fred
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric>
- Multilingual entity linking and global insights
<https://www.ontotext.com/blog/gaining-global-insights-with-multilingual-entity-linking/>
- Ontotext are developing AI products that can read text and establish of
the same concept in different languages (MEL) and between
knowledge graphs
and plaintext.
- Papers
- A Knowledge Plug-and-Play Test Bed for Open-domain Dialogue
Generation <https://arxiv.org/html/2403.03496v1> - this paper details
attempts at building chatbots that provide reliable, accurate information
in a natural way from Wikidata and other sources. By Xiangci L., et al
(2024).
- Videos
- Wikipedia Weekly #252: Bare words and red links
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExTBicJZL2E> (Swedish) with Jan
Ainali and Magnus Olsson.
- Evaluation of research put to the test: projects and experiments
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9Rw0SqWsM> (Italian) Camillo (WM
Italy) and Alessandro (WM Switzerland) show and discuss how Wikidata is
being used to support experiments and projects with UniFi Biblioteche.
* Tool of the week *
- GLAMorous Europe <https://www.glam-europe.de/> - allows you to
identify your artistic interests and put together your own artwork from
existing art across Europe
- List of all tools and scripts by Magnus Manske
<https://magnustools.toolforge.org/>. There are currently 348 active
tools.
* Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>
and property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review *
- Newest General datatypes:
- form decomposition <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12527>
(decomposition of a word)
- Newest External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12528>, DLE entry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12529>, Malaysia company new
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12530>, GARAE ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12531>, Oyez Project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12532>, Gematsu event ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12533>, Singapore Infopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12534>, OSL ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12535>, Combine OverWiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12536>, EJAtlas ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12537>, Galician Authors in
BUSC ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12538>
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- document keywords
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/document_keywords>
(Keywords associated with the text found in <code><meta
name="keywords"></code> of an HTML document.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: SNS Info Saúde
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNS_Info_Sa%C3%BAde>,
Zentrum für Dramatik ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Zentrum_f%C3%BCr_Dramatik_ID>,
RatingGraph TV show ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RatingGraph_TV_show_ID>,
Michigan Historical Marker ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Michigan_Historical_Marker_ID>,
RERO+ ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RERO%2B_ID>,
Portal
Wiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Portal_Wiki_ID>
- Deleted properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>: Eurovision
Song Contest song ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion/P3736>,
surrounds
the enclave
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion/P10613>,
Everipedia
ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion/P10725>
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
* Did you know? *
- Query examples:
- Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a
type of aircraft made a flight <https://w.wiki/roX>
- Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline
<https://w.wiki/4mG8>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina>
- This project aims to be a central hub for the curation of all items
(biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc.) related to
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Wikiproject European Union
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiproject_European_Union> -
aims to create, maintain and improve items about the European Union (EU).
- NYC Free Circulating Libraries
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_NYC_Free_Circulating_Libraries>
- focuses on NYC Free Circulating Libraries
- Te Papa Research Expeditions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Te_Papa_Research_Expeditions>
- aims to create or enrich Wikidata with data on research expeditions
undertaken by Te Papa/ Dominion Museum/Colonial Museum and institutional
staff
- WikiProject Highlights: Looted heritage
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiproject_Looted_heritage> -
this WikiProject is calling for Item suggestions to work on. The scope
includes all forms of looted heritage; artworks, sacred items, human
remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be
considered a part of a people's heritage.
- Newest database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: unmarked
supercentenarians
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/unmarked_supercentenarians>
- contains instance of (P31) human (Q5) with period of life greater than
110 years and not marked with subject has role (P2868) supercentenarian
(Q1200828) or subject has role (P2868) alleged supercentenarian
(Q106991708).
- Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>:
Iron Man 2 (Q205028) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205028> - 2010 film
directed by Jon Favreau
- Showcase Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: Vand (L8266)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L8266> - Danish noun, translates
to "water"
* Development *
- IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase to the
upcoming IP masking changes in MediaWiki
- Mismatch Finder: Already reviewed mismatches are now ignored when
mismatches are reuploaded (T329631)
- Query Builder: Selecting the user interface language became easier in
Query Builder (T353728) and Query Service (T353729)
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>.
* Weekly Tasks *
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review>
.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?>
.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php>: #131 Cooking
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?>
in one or two sentences.
- 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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