Wikidata December 2021

wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

28 participants
26 discussions

[events] Wiki Workshop 2022 Announcement and Call for Papers
by Leila Zia 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

Hi everyone, Summary: Wiki Workshop 2022 [0] will take place virtually as part of The Web Conference 2022 [1]. Call for papers is now open: https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/#call . Deadline to submit for paper to appear in the proceedings of the conference is Feb 3, for all other submissions March 10. The workshop will take place on April 25, 2022. -- We are delighted to announce that Wiki Workshop 2022 [0] will be held virtually April 25, 2022 and as part of the Web Conference 2022 [1]. In the past years, Wiki Workshop has traveled to Oxford, Montreal, Cologne, Perth, Lyon, and San Francisco, and (virtually) to Taipei and Ljubljana. Last year, we had more than 150 participants in the workshop along with 22 accepted paper presentations, keynote, panel, music and more. The workshop is now a vibrant event for Wikimedia researchers and those interested in this space to get together on an annual basis. We encourage contributions by all researchers who study the Wikimedia projects. We specifically encourage 1-2 page submissions of preliminary research. You will have the option to publish your work as part of the proceedings of The Web Conference 2022. You can read more about the call for papers and the workshop at http://wikiworkshop.org/2022/#call. Please note that the deadline for the submissions to be considered for proceedings is February 3. All other submissions should be received by March 10. If you have questions about the workshop, please let us know on this list or at wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com. Looking forward to seeing many of you in this year's edition. Best, Srijan Kumar, Georgia Tech Emily Lesack, Wikimedia Foundation Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation Bob West, EPFL Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation [0] https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/ [1] https://www2022.thewebconf.org/

1 2

Invitation from the Ethics in Linked Data Affinity Group
by B. M. Watson 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Hello (& with crossposting apologies!), The Ethics in Linked Data Affinity Group <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/LD4P2/Ethics+in+Linked+Data+Affinity+Group>, an active member of LD4, is planning its activities for 2022. If you are unfamiliar with ELD Affinity Group, previous minutes are publically available, but recently meetings have included reports on the development of CIDOC-CRM, discussions about the treatment of gender in Wikidata with Meg Wacha of Wikimedia NYC, and work on our upcoming book, Ethics in Linked Data <https://litwinbooks.com/books/ethics-in-linked-data/>. In order to schedule our meeting dates and times for next year we have set up a poll (link <https://www.when2meet.com/?13842613-tnWlm>). If you are interested in attending please fill out the when2meet by December 21st. This is a general availability poll, so fill it out like a generic work week. Additionally, we co-convenor(s) for the coming year to help coordinate meetings and topics if you're interested in being a co-convenor, please get in touch with Bri at bmwatson1989(a)gmail.com. Finally, the editors of the Ethics in Linked Data book are looking for peer reviewers for book chapters; they especially welcome reviewers interested in the ways that Linked Data interacts with gender, race, indigenity, history, and technology. bri -- *b. m. watson*they/m <http://pronoun.is/they/.../themself> - twitter <https://twitter.com/brimwats> - website <https://brimwats.com/> PhD: UBC iSchool <https://ischool.ubc.ca/>, Musqueam Traditional Territory Archivist-Historian: APA Division 44 CNM Taskforce <https://www.apadivisions.org/division-44/leadership/task-forces/> Director: HistSex.org <https://histsex.com/> | Editorial Board: Homosaurus <http://homosaurus.org/about>

1 1

Activities - because we all need to find something to do sometimes :-)
by Thad Guidry 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Hi Community! We are currently in discussions about possibly introducing a new property that might simply be called* "activity" or "activities"* to hold the value of a popular *"things to do"* that you typically see in search results when looking around tourist attractions, parks, etc. The risk is that of large lands, administrative territories, or country being abused, but this could be mitigated by disallowing that new property on those broader kinds of instances where it doesn't make sense. I.E. a proposed property would likely be much more specific to things that typically do have activities as advertised or managed by governments through various amenities or resources, such as "boating" because the government maintains a "boat ramp" for public use, etc. And would *not allow* something like Switzerland https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39 = "activity": "snow skiing" as an example. "activity" has a corollary with "amenity" which is different. "swimming" an activity *is not* "swimming pool" an amenity. The discussion over this new property is likely to directly overlap with OpenStreetMap and their properties and tags (some of which are enumerated), where they have Tag:amenity=swimming pool (new tag is leisure:swimming pool) <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dswimming_pool> as an example. Some activities are *a sport*, and others are *not a sport*. In Schema.org, we already have https://schema.org/TouristAttraction but there's no property already made to hold "hasActivities" for example. (but we could in the future if deemed useful) @Dan Brickley <danbri(a)google.com> ? Also, a new property like "activity" or "has activities" would align quite well to many search services such as Google, Bing, Yandex having similar lookup services such as https://www.google.com/search?q=activities+near+me as well as Government services such as https://www.recreation.gov like https://www.recreation.gov/search?q=boating and several other European and international lookup services. The initial discussion is here if you want to see some of the provenance and work I've been doing: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Protected_areas#Nat… Whew, too long, ok... Thoughts? Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ https://calendly.com/thadguidry/

2 2

Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021
by Léa Lacroix 28 Dec '21

28 Dec '21

Hello all, If you are interested in learning more about how we organized the WikidataCon 2021 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021>, the formats, tools and methods we used for the online conference, and the lessons we learned from this experience, the event organizers published *a documentation page available on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation/Docu…>* . We also published *the results of the participants survey <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikidataCon_2021_Survey_report.pdf>*, where you can discover some interesting statistics about the conference participants, and the highlights of feedback sent by the respondents. Finally, we are in the process of uploading the *video recordings* of Day 2 & 3 sessions on Youtube ; you can find the links on this list <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Documentation/List_…>, and also sorted by tracks in these playlists <https://www.youtube.com/user/wikimediaDE/playlists>. We will provide English subtitles on a selection of videos, that will be published later in January. If you're interested in helping us in this documentation effort, for example by transferring the videos on Commons or providing subtitles and translations, feel free to coordinate on the talk page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2021#WikidataCon_20…> . Thanks a lot to everyone involved in preparing these documents! If you have any additional questions, feel free to write directly on this talk page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2021> or to info[image: at]wikidatacon.org. For the organization team, -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement Coordinator Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

1 0

A new property or better qualifiers?
by Thad Guidry 28 Dec '21

28 Dec '21

Hello Wikidata users, I am worried about a growing trend I have been noticing in new property proposals over the last 3 years or so. This is around SEO tactics, but slighted against our lovely GLAM institutions who I have the utmost respect for as I've worked for some over my career. I've written a quick summary comment in one of the pending property proposals to bring some attention to my worries, but I thought it was probably important enough to copy here for a wider audience. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/documented_files#D… [image: Pictogram voting comment.svg] *Comment* Finally, I'm worried that I am seeing more "at" kind of properties being proposed in the last 3 years, that are basically providing little metadata to users, and instead are simply being minted as more or less "GLAM SEO tactics". We should be trying to provide deeper information for users, and not simply "more info about subject at this institution" style properties (in whatever subform they are taking). We are better than that. We can do better than that. Let's think more about what users are likely missing from finding information on a given subject, and their needs for *disambiguating that information*. It might mean we need less properties and instead provide richer metadata in the form of qualifiers or better qualifiers than we have now to help users. --Thadguidry <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Thadguidry> (talk <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Thadguidry>) 05:08, 28 December 2021 (UTC) Replies in kind are best done in the property proposal discussion link above for the best context, if you can. Otherwise, you can reply in this thread. Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ https://calendly.com/thadguidry/

1 0

Weekly Summary #500
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week! Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary! - Item #500 is Citrus ×limon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500>; Property #500 is exclave of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P500>; and Lexeme #500 is "കുടുംബം <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L500>" - Malayalam for “family”. - “Roughly” 500 people were participants at WikidataCon 2021 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021> - Q207742 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207742> is about the natural number 500 - Q560388 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q560388> disambiguates "500" for Wikipedias in 14 languages. - The Roman numeral for 500 is "D <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9884>" - Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 500 <https://w.wiki/4aS5> - Wikidata was 500 days old on Friday 14 March 2014 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17922993>. It will be 500 weeks old on Tuesday 31 May 2022 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69306446> Discussions - Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: - The next Wikibase live session <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.12.30> is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute <https://semlab.io/>. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome! - Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour>. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task. - Coolest Tools Awards <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #22, New Year <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=22> - Past: - Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-1jcBxbbM> is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is. - WikidataCon 2021 (replay on YouTube) - Wikidata sessions: - Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smiths. Inst. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT_-pZ4Fgmw> - A Wikidata university course? Lessons learned from featuring Wikidata in an elective course at TAU. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9PG7tjFaA> - Linking Indian Local Self Government's Structured Data with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZQUn9KjJOc> - Finding new pathways of collaborating for a sustainable Wikidata software development <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VxTlBNkyk> - How can we reimagine Wikidata from the margins? Conversation with Maryana Iskander <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RkKc19ozso> - Wikidata at Texas A&M University Libraries: Enhancing Discovery for Dissertations <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgDkNgAibds> - Wiki API Connector - Simplifying ETL workflows from open APIs to Wikidata/Commons <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z6dUiAG_6c> - IG WIKIDATA HUB - The Journey towards building a WIKIDATA community in Nigeria <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVxV4Y7XSW0> - Integration of Wikidata 4OpenGLAM into data and information science curricula <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wp8m_kxlks> - Description from Wikidata on sister projects and concerns about vandalism <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjantQX_nvc> - Knowledge Quality In Wikidata: Vandalism Insights and Data Collaborations <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AIbjmaInNI> - Shared Citations - A proposed citation management database for Wikimedia <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIkHxuaR_g> - Analyzing, visualizing and improving Wikidata using the Wolfram Language <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpyYvcEXu3o> - Challenges and Lessons from a Pilot Project: Christian Hymns in Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZa-57F1h3w> - Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvgfOtU1CB4> - Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9JnKcdDz68> - A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7nS78lHQM4> - Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database to Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g_3GeQC0YY> - Global templates: Towards a New Age of Cross-wiki Data Collaboration <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRQhuz-OD5w> - From QRPedia to AudioQRPedia : how to improve QRPedia using Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20vs7Uj6F_0> - Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments presentations and discussion <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-tQzj3nouw> - From Google Scholar to Wikidata: The RIDC NeuroMat Experience <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xLBCMCui9U> - Assessing the quality of sources in Wikidata across languages <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9efakAhmw> - IFLA Wikidata Working Group: Updates from the library field <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p78ZoWZeQ_o> - A process to roundtrip Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOUoAB6XKts> - Arrange river data in Taiwan by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6IDREkqUrA> - Look both ways: integrating Wikidata and OpenStreetMap <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n312s09k4cQ> - Wikidata in the Classroom: Updates from North America <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyEjo9nPW9o> - Learning Wikidata in 8 Weeks as a Smithsonian Intern <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMJx0Nzzx6M> - Wikidata-based Narratives for Research and Education <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3flyyeWzV8> - Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5XQmjSUnBs> - Sorting out industry classifications in Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDRrIO0G84g> - Systematic Review Automation driven by Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfMeLYDtWY> - The Lindy Effect in Wikidata User Retention <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSS5kviMkTM> - Non-binary Gender Identities in Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIsmFUuGvCw> - Measuring and monitoring data quality <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15sSKQPHymY> - Wikidata & Education: A Global Panel <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfSqxWn0suI> - Integrating Wikidata into education <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEg5R7o-Rww> - Integrating Wikidata into education <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEg5R7o-Rww> - Wikidata in Australia showcase <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfgdzN7nd-8> - Wikidata and R: a perfect pair <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-uYETVjCLE> - Writing schemas for Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5cI5p2hSog> - Overview of ontology issues <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AYzuBOkXeI> - Wikidata and OCCRP <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3vRSnM3v-w> - Wikibase talks: - Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCFLlx4dQvY> - How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c05_SZiZm9g> - Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBWo-ka9JU> - "A Wikibase for what?" - diverse users at the edge of the graph <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPsTEbxZZpQ> - Wikibase lightning talks: data upload and extensions session <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knY30zUmkGI> - How to open Authority Control system - The GND & Wikibase <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD3Ghiaw8hc> - Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Z4hbgpIH8> - Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8rE-7F-zs> - Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieuRJz14Sk> - Wikibase lightning talks: inspiration session <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k37WvpjqIAw> - Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVAnQVabhYs> Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Blogs - Why you need to understand Wikidata, no matter what field you’re in <https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/12/21/why-you-need-to-understand-wikidata-no-…> - Papers - Improving the Question Answering Quality using Answer Candidate Filtering based on Natural-Language Features <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.05452.pdf> - Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter <https://www.pnas.org/content/119/1/e2025334119> - Videos - SPARQL queries on Wikidata - advanced level (in Italian) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWyMMrAFz6k> - How to link items to Dagbani Wikipedia articles using databox by Dnshitobu <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Dnshitobu> - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXT8Pt9MLa8> - Alias names in Wikidata - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGb30Tu1hAQ> Tool of the week - Articles created by country of citizenship <https://observablehq.com/@pac02/articles-created-by-country-of-citizenship?…> : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library. Other Noteworthy Stuff - WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021 <http://Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS-State-of-the-union-2021-Dec> now available. - If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in phab:T275251 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275251>. - Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links - Wikibase Installation Survey <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAR1kj9th1wRZU027zEPJd_xP8nFgj-T2…> - Wikibase Software Updating Survey <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-8wDOCDR-uXLecNLzuM3jxc9K81mIKq1…> - Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams - Engineering Director <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/14145264/Director-Engineeri…> - Full-Stack Developer <https://short.sg/j/4361894> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: type host <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10176>, CSS code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10177> - External identifiers: Rutube channel ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10152>, Nasha Versia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10153>, Irkipedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10154>, Babesdirectory ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10155>, Numelyo ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10156>, ua-football.com player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10157>, soccerpunter.com player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10158>, pfl.uz player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10159>, PGM author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10160>, Irish Times profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10161>, politika-crimea.ru person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10162>, Kinomania.ru actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10163>, Kinomania.ru film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10164>, bards.ru person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10165>, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10166>, kinobaza.com.ua film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10167>, Zürich Herbaria collector ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10168>, N64-Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10169>, Channel One Russia show ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10170>, Kanobu ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10171>, Lambic.Info ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10172>, Smotrim.ru film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10173>, CH district ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10174>, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10175>, Genie album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10178>, Genie song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10179>, Genie artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10180>, Austrian school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10181>, DFIH business ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10182>, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10183>, Ruskino actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10184>, Ruskino film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10185>, Joconde use ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10186>, JSTOR artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10187>, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10188>, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10189>, MTBdata ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10190>, All About Birds ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10191>, Homosaurus ID (V3) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10192>, GISAID identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10193>, oKino.ua actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10194>, Library of Congress providers ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10195> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: documented files <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/documented_files>, start and end time in video <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/start_and_end_time…>, is an individual of a taxon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/is_an_individual_o…>, facilitates flow of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/facilitates_flow_of>, LKI ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LKI_ID>, service hosted by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/service_hosted_by>, service hosted at <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/service_hosted_at>, everyeye.it ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/everyeye.it_ID> - External identifiers: Artland artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artland_artist_ID>, Artland gallery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artland_gallery_ID>, ILAB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ILAB_ID>, UNESCO ICH ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UNESCO_ICH_ID>, Maritimt Magasin skips ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Maritimt_Magasin_s…>, AMPAS collections item ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AMPAS_collections_…>, Kinofilms.ua actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinofilms.ua_actor…>, Kinofilms.ua film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinofilms.ua_film_…>, Artland fair ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artland_fair_ID>, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archivio_Storico_d…>, Regroupement Québécois de la danse (RQD) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Regroupement_Qu%C3…>, NatureServe Explorer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NatureServe_Explor…>, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Key_Biodiversity_A…>, CNSflora ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CNSflora_ID>, Rusactors actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rusactors_actor_ID>, Rusactors film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rusactors_film_ID>, eurasian-defence.ru person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eurasian-defence.r…>, artchive person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/artchive_person_ID>, nzs.si player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nzs.si_player_ID>, Der Spiegel topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Der_Spiegel_topic_…>, NLC Bibliography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NLC_Bibliography_ID>, PKULaw CLI Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PKULaw_CLI_Code>, LGBT Info Wiki ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LGBT_Info_Wiki_ID> - Query examples: - Places that appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopaedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopaedia and the Store Norske Leksikon <https://w.wiki/4aUy>, (ordered by country) (source <https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1473054945624608769>) - Christmas traditions around the world <https://w.wiki/4bmy> (with pictures) (source <https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1474772209482842116>) - UK parties since 1935 that have only ever been represented by a single MP <https://w.wiki/4bb7> (source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1474414883005415424>) - Brazilians with most Wikipedia pages across languages <https://w.wiki/4avE> (source <https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1473710122362941449>) 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 <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 for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de 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.

1 0

WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021
by Mike Pham 22 Dec '21

22 Dec '21

Hi all, I’m trying to make sure we keep everyone updated with WDQS progress. Here is the latest State of the Union <http://Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS-State-of-the-union-2021-Dec>. Have a great end of 2021, and we’ll see you next year! Mike — *Mike Pham* (he/him) Sr Product Manager, Search Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

3 3

Weekly Summary #499
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions - New request for comments: - Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Creating_new_Wi…> - Other: - SPARQL query service (SDC) mandatory authentication considered harmful <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:SPARQL_query_service/Upcomi…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: - The next Wikibase live session <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.12.30> is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute <https://semlab.io/>. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome! - Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour>. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task. - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #21, Celebration <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=21> - Past: - EduWiki Live on the theme of Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization. ( replay <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbK_-C6Rlc&t=2044s>) - Wikidata workshop (in Italian) (replay <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD4Eptg8KxE>) - Semantic Web in Libraries: SWIB21 (replay) - From string to thing: Wikidata based query expansion <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWx4IQyiA8> - Representing the Luxembourg Shared Authority File based on CIDOC-CRM in Wikibase <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDjyiYrOWJQ> Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Blogs - Wikidata user and project talk page connection graph <https://addshore.com/2021/12/wikidata-user-and-project-talk-page-connection…> - Images from Wellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views on Wikipedia <https://stacks.wellcomecollection.org/images-from-wellcome-collection-pass-…> - Integrating the PM20 companies archive: part 3 of the data donation to Wikidata <https://zbw.eu/labs/en/blog/integrating-the-pm20-companies-archive-part-3-o…> - Parliamentary debates are made more transparent and accessible with Wikidata <https://blog.wikimedia.de/2021/12/20/parlamentsdebatten-werden-mit-wikidata…> - A parliamentary document says more than a thousand words <https://wikimedia.se/2021/12/15/ett-riksdagsdokument-sager-mer-an-tusen-ord/> (in Swedish) - The Longest Serving MP in Sweden <https://www.datastory.org/blog/the-longest-serving-mp-in-sweden> - * "With artificial intelligence, common sense is uncommon* <https://news.usc.edu/195978/commonsense-artificial-intelligence-ai/>*. "To help overcome this challenge, researchers use several sources of commonplace knowledge like Wikidata to obtain a “reasoned” AI response." * - Papers - A botanical demonstration of the potential of linking data using unique identifiers for people <https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261130> - Survey on English Entity Linking on Wikidata <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01989.pdf> - Videos - Tutorial for Wikidata Mix'n'Match tool for database pairing (in Czech) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrzLSrxL7Lc> - SPARQL queries on Wikidata - basic level (in Italian) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rLpnydVOpY> - Presentation about the Wikidata community (in Italian) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VUCmFdilb0> - Wikidata Advanced Course (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - YouTube - Introduction <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buZRcYAV3Eg> - Concept of Linked Open Data <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcOyaPYjRB4> - SPARQL-Queries <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk4pGavI8v0> - Automatic data import <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhqwPraCiSc> - Querying Wikidata: Museums, Volcanoes (in French) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MPbbqFZgnw> - Wikidata Fundamentals (in French) by CAPACOA - YouTube - Triplets, licenses <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvVAKXotzYU> - Item, references and qualifiers, history tab <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvGUadO35oc> - Creation of a user account. Creation of a new items <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c7kEHpU6MM> - Wikidata Workshop: The basics by CAPACOA - YouTube - Wikimedia Foundation licenses, item, semantic triples <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERICpqHH7Nw> - User creation <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-P2TGnHWYM> - Searching and editing an item <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2IarHeJdxc> - Vector Search through Wikidata with Weaviate - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4zlvknSbGc> - Creating items on Wikidata using OpenRefine (without sound — subtitles only) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn793UQfaQc> Tool of the week - NoclaimsBot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:NoclaimsBot> adds the first statements on items without claims <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Items_without_statements> based on templates used on the linked Wikipedia article. Other Noteworthy Stuff - The 500th Wikidata weekly summary is 2 issues away. We are putting together interesting things related to the number 500 to include in that issue. Do you know any Wikidata facts or queries or anything cool related to 500? Please add them to Wikidata:Status updates/Next#Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Welcome_to_the_5…!> - Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), currently in beta, will soon be in production with a planned General Availability date of 1 Feb 2022. See the Upcoming General Availability release discussion page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/Upcoming_Ge…> for more details. - Seth <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1> started an essay to summarize the multiple data-related projects going on between Wikimedia Projects at the moment: User:Lectrician1/The grand mess of data on Wikimedia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1/The_grand_mess_of_data_on_Wi…> . - When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” by using “!Sxx” instead of “Sxx” syntax to start a new reference group <https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1468976001413754880>. - Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links - Wikibase Installation Survey <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAR1kj9th1wRZU027zEPJd_xP8nFgj-T2…> - Wikibase Software Updating Survey <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-8wDOCDR-uXLecNLzuM3jxc9K81mIKq1…> - Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams - Engineering Director <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/14145264/Director-Engineeri…> - Full-Stack Developer <https://short.sg/j/4361894> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: iTunes genre <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10150> - External identifiers: Pandora album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10138>, Indonesian College Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10139>, Institute of History of Ukraine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10140>, Academy of Athens authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10141>, ThENC@ ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10142>, CDAEM person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10143>, Famitsu game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10144>, EPA Facility Registry Service ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10145>, Levels.fyi company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10146>, U-PAD author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10147>, CAMPUS author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10148>, Original Esperanto Literature author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10149>, iTunes genre ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10151>, Rutube channel ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10152>, Nasha Versia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10153> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: Category for work of subject <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Category_for_work_…>, Honorary citizens category of entity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Honorary_citizens_…>, Kanobu numeric ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kanobu_numeric_ID>, cadastral district <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cadastral_district>, official shop URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/official_shop_URL>, website <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/website>, documented files <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/documented_files> - External identifiers: street number in Austria <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/street_number_in_A…>, EU Whoiswho ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EU_Whoiswho_ID>, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dicionario_da_Real…>, Österreichische Schulkennzahl <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%C3%96sterreichisc…>, iCSO ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/iCSO_ID>, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bloomsbury_Fashion…>, Lur Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lur_Encyclopedia_ID>, Zürich Herbaria collector ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Z%C3%BCrich_Herbar…>, KSH code (historical) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KSH_code_(historic…>, Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Kr…>, WikiStrinda ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiStrinda_ID>, Bokselskap.no ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bokselskap.no_ID>, Film.ru film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Film.ru_film_ID>, Film.ru actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Film.ru_actor_ID>, Artland artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artland_artist_ID>, Artland gallery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artland_gallery_ID>, ILAB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ILAB_ID>, UNESCO ICH ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UNESCO_ICH_ID>, Maritimt Magasin skips ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Maritimt_Magasin_s…> - Query examples: - Shijian (SJ 实践) experimental satellites <https://w.wiki/4Zgo> ( source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q11452851#Queries>) - Age of living Hawthorn FC players <https://w.wiki/3DzA> (source <https://twitter.com/FreoPope/status/1472166997513289728>) - People died on their 50th birthday <https://w.wiki/4Zmj> (Source <https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1471923820965646342>) - Relationship between London School of Economics doctoral advisors and students <https://w.wiki/3Z$7> (source <https://twitter.com/HelsKRW/status/1471388444593172481>) - Map of twinned towns (or partners) of municipalities of Puy-de-Dôme <https://w.wiki/4Yo8> (source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1470782945732538378>) - Map of the places named in reference the horse <https://w.wiki/4YTF> (source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1470374814972059655>) - Map of bridges in Kaliningrad <https://w.wiki/4XWd> (source <https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1468960428805869579>) - Latvian citizens by occupation <https://w.wiki/4a9v> (source <https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1470309158503301126>) - Wikidata items which are the most linked by lexemes using the property “item for this sense” <https://w.wiki/4WaA> (source <https://twitter.com/envlh/status/1467830070773432326>) - Actors in Christmas movies: by frequency, with film titles and sample film item <https://w.wiki/4aJw> (source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q28026639#actors>) - Filming locations of Christmas movies, with film titles and sample film item <https://w.wiki/4aJy> (source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q28026639#filming_locations>) - Recent Christmas movies lacking filming location <https://w.wiki/4aK4> (source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q28026639#films_lacking_filming_location> ) Development - Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :) 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 for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de 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.

1 0

Join the International Jury Team for the Months of African Cinema Contest
by Eben Mlay 17 Dec '21

17 Dec '21

Greetings from Afrocine Project, It is already the end of the Months of African Cinema global contest and a lot has been achieved! We have been able to get over 4,000 articles created in 16 languages! We are about to constitute the International Jury team, which will consist of members from all the languages that participated in the global contest/edit-a-thon. If you would like to join us in the Jury team, please let us know by 31 December 2021 by filling this form.[1] Thanks for all your contributions this year and congratulations to you! Together we are bridging the content gap and improving on the systemic bias, in-respect of the African continent. Regards, Ebenezer Mlay Community Liaison – Afrocine project 1. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrt_xGsVNV1rJthKrEQvRlPOTAlgTU0Iz…

1 0

Redirected entities
by Kapps Augustin Norbert Justin 17 Dec '21

17 Dec '21

Dear all, I am currently working on the wiki data knowledge graph to compute the article's embeddings. My question is the following: are some entities of the graph redirected? And if yes: how can I redirect these nodes, are there some redirection tables? Cheers, Augustin

3 3

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

Wikidata December 2021