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On the subject of Linked Data Availability and Retention
by Thad Guidry 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Hi Community! We often act like and think that things are, well ... forever (even our own lives!). But Time waits for no one. So... I had posted this over in the LD4 Slack channel but thought that this would be good for folks here to at least always be aware of and think about in our growing Linked Data world. ---- All Linked Data efforts need stable identifiers (on both ends of a "link"). I.E. linking is only good if the other side will be retrievable and available (online or offline through web/archives/files) throughout the expected lifetime of an effort and beyond. Think closely about "knowledge retention" (libraries/books hold knowledge for hundreds of years!) and what the Linked Data lifecycle itself that ideally will do that for your projects. Then look towards not the tools, but instead the communities that are well established and have the likelihood to continue to provide stable identifiers that are retrievable well into the future + another 100+ years. This might include government efforts, or communities that have foundations behind them that are well grounded through philanthropic means with perpetuity ... to avoid link rot or non-retrievability through complete void of the knowledge or stable identifiers in the future. I'm hopeful that communities will think about data retention policies and generally "Linked Data Availability" much more deeply and seriously. This could be likened to something like GitHub's Arctic Vault, Internet Archive, or decentralized storage solutions like Filecoin, to be able to backup and retain the knowledge for thousands of years, if need be. --- Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ https://calendly.com/thadguidry/

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Weekly Summary #474
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Automatic_analy…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past: - log of Wikibase Live session 2021-06-24 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/2021…> - Upcoming: - SPARQL queries live on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> and in French by Vigneron, June 28 at 18:00 CEST - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> call: Robert Chavez (Northeastern University) will provide an introduction to SPARQL and using the Wikidata Query Service.; [1] <https://docs.google.com/document/d/14wazqg7XJM3Asqq4kFcNHCVgBOGODRp0U8yFc-2…>, June 29th. - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #69 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träf…>, July 4 Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Blogs - A Journey Into Wikidata with Five Indigenous Artists <https://linkeddigitalfuture.ca/2021/06/22/wikidata-with-five-indigenous-art…> - Adding Data to Wikidata is Efficient with QuickStatements <https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2021/06/adding-data-to-wikidata-is-…> - Papers - Which methods are the most effective in enabling novice users to participate in ontology creation? A usability study <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107338764> (compares Wikidata to other knowledge modelling tools) - Videos - LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QywDX83OZrw>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/298581516170364…>, for the #ArcticKnot. - SPARQL queries live on Twitch about lexicography and lexemes <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dvzb4Svzck> by Vigneron, for the #ArcticKnot. - Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for Tainacan - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6m0rRgadu4> - Creating a new faculty item in Wikidata - [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu68LM5NicM YouTube - Writing data to Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fC3oXvQfqI>, Wikidata Sandbox items <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWkaCcEEHA> Tool of the week - Template:Item documentation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Item_documentation> now includes Template:Generic queries for positions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Generic_queries_for_positions>. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q81066>. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Community_Survey_2021.pdf>. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. Feel free to give us your feedback on this discussion page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Usability_and_usefulness/2021-2…> . - Call for candidates for the 2021 election to the position of primary contact <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/2021_contact_…> for the Wikibase Community User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group>. Applicants should present themselves on this page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/2021_contact_…> before *2021-07-08 17:00 (UTC)*, after which voting will commence. - Bodh <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bodh> is a new tool to edit Lexemes by hand on a larger scale. - Wikidata Vertical Analysis <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AKhatun/Wikidata_Vertical_Analysis> by AKhatun (WMF) - Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Igbo nouns <https://lexeme-forms.toolforge.org/template/igbo-noun/> - Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Malayalam proper nouns <https://twitter.com/LucasWerkmeistr/status/1406334472891551745> - A new version of the Open Art Browser allows discovering works of art in the new section "Types", which presents you more than 1500 expressions of art. Explore it! <http://openartbrowser.org/en/classes> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: date of resignation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9667>, curid <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9675>, consequence of text <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9680> - External identifiers: RBF event ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9666>, cirkev.cz Catholic services ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9668>, Olympic Committee of Israel athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9669>, ZKM person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9670>, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9671>, Fotodok ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9672>, museumPASSmusées ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9673>, Burke Herbarium Image Collection contributor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9674>, Vindskyddskartan.se ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9676>, Hokej.cz player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9677>, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9678>, Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9679> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: delta of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/delta_of>, Astrological sign <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Astrological_sign>, announced at <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/announced_at>, contact point (2) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/contact_point_(2)> - External identifiers: WTA-Trainer-ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WTA-Trainer-ID>, Villo! station ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Villo!_station_ID>, LexM ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LexM_ID>, Classical Archives composer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Classical_Archives…>, UFC ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UFC_ID>, Tapology ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tapology_ID>, Bellator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bellator_ID>, Bauforschung Baden-Württemberg Objekt-ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bauforschung_Baden…>, FightMatrix ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FightMatrix_ID>, World Curling Federation Championship ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Curling_Fede…>, Ethereum token address <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ethereum_token_add…>, Legie 100 legionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Legie_100_legionar…>, PsycNET ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PsycNET_ID>, Index Theologicus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Index_Theologicus_…>, MK ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MK_ID>, CCC in Idaho Collection ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CCC_in_Idaho_Colle…>, Gameblog.fr game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gameblog.fr_game_ID>, African Film Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/African_Film_Datab…>, Games und Erinnerungskultur Datenbank ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Games_und_Erinneru…>, Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Great_Ukrainian_En…>, Native-Land.ca Territory ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Native-Land.ca_Ter…>, Native-Land.ca Language ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Native-Land.ca_Lan…>, Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Great_Encyclopedia…>, HockeyLive player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HockeyLive_player_…>, eishockey.info player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/eishockey.info_pla…> - Query examples: - Street names in Alsatian <https://w.wiki/3Yev> (source <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262922#7178793>) - What kind of places in Wales host public toilets? <https://w.wiki/3Z8o> (Source <https://twitter.com/WICI_LLGC/status/1409488011197300742>) - UK Health Ministers and their occupations on Wikidata <https://w.wiki/3Yoe> (Source <https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1409081946865610756>) - Count of statements by property for theatrical plays <https://w.wiki/3YJM> (Source <https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1408382965898436610>) - Things dedicated to St. John the Baptist <https://w.wiki/3XdN> ( Source <https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1407790562917367816>) Development - Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/... - Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176312> ) - Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275958>) - Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200689>) - Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284219>) - Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285131>) - Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs ( phab:T284538 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284538>) - Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits ( phab:T219215 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219215>) - Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281669>) - Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283040>) - Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage ( phab:T262922 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262922>, phab:T252198 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252198>, phab:T283364 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283364>, phab:T265297 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265297>) - The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240350>, phab:T281702 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281702>) - Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. ( phab:T282512 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282512>, phab:T279557 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279557>) - It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273705>), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia" - Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230786>) - A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed ( phab:T245927 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245927>) - "en-simple: <https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/>" can be used instead of "simple: <https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/>" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283149>). - There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212313>) 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.

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[CfP] Wikidata Workshop 2021: Second Call for Papers
by Lucie Kaffee 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Please find the second call for papers for the Wikidata workshop below. I am looking forward to reading your work related to Wikidata and seeing some of you there! The Second Wikidata Workshop Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2021). Date: October 24 or 25, 2021 The workshop will be held online, afternoon European time. Website: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2021/ == Important dates == Papers due: Friday, July 30, 2021 Notification of accepted papers: Friday, September 24, 2021 Camera-ready papers due: Monday, October 4, 2021 Workshop date: October 24/25, 2021 == Overview == Wikidata is an openly available knowledge base, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It can be accessed and edited by both humans and machines and acts as a common structured-data repository for several Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikisource. It is used in a variety of applications by researchers and practitioners alike. In recent years, we have seen an increase in the number of publications around Wikidata. While there are several dedicated venues for the broader Wikidata community to meet, none of them focuses on publishing original, peer-reviewed research. This workshop fills this gap - we hope to provide a forum to build this fledgling scientific community and promote novel work and resources that support it. The workshop seeks original contributions that address the opportunities and challenges of creating, contributing to, and using a global, collaborative, open-domain, multilingual knowledge graph such as Wikidata. We encourage a range of submissions, including novel research, opinion pieces, and descriptions of systems and resources, which are naturally linked to Wikidata and its ecosystem or enabled by it. What we’re less interested in are works that use Wikidata alongside or in lieu of other resources to carry out some computational task - unless the work feeds back into the Wikidata ecosystem, for instance by improving or commenting on some Wikidata aspect, or suggesting new design features, tools, and practices. We also encourage submissions on the topic of Abstract Wikipedia, particularly around collaborative code management, natural language generation by a community, the abstract representation of knowledge, and the interaction between Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata on the one, and Abstract Wikipedia and the language Wikipedias on the other side. We welcome interdisciplinary work, as well as interesting applications that shed light on the benefits of Wikidata and discuss areas of improvement. The workshop is planned as an interactive half-day event, in which most of the time will be dedicated to discussions and exchange rather than oral presentations. For this reason, all accepted papers will be presented in short talks and accompanied by a poster. All works will be presented online. == Topics == Topics of submissions include, but are not limited to: - Data quality and vandalism detection in Wikidata - Referencing in Wikidata - Anomaly, bias, or novelty detection in Wikidata - Algorithms for aligning Wikidata with other knowledge graphs - The Semantic Web and Wikidata - Community interaction in Wikidata - Multilingual aspects in Wikidata - Machine learning approaches to improve data quality in Wikidata - Tools, bots, and datasets for improving or evaluating Wikidata - Participation, diversity, and inclusivity aspects in the Wikidata ecosystem - Human-bot interaction - Managing knowledge evolution in Wikidata - Abstract Wikipedia == Submission guidelines == We welcome the following types of contributions. - Full research paper: Novel research contributions (7-12 pages) - Short research paper: Novel research contributions of smaller scope than full papers (3-6 pages) - Position paper: Well-argued ideas and opinion pieces, not yet in the scope of a research contribution (6-8 pages) - Resource paper: New dataset or other resources directly relevant to Wikidata, including the publication of that resource (8-12 pages) - Demo paper: New system critically enabled by Wikidata (6-8 pages) Submissions must be as PDF or HTML, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions. The papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three researchers. Accepted papers will be published as open access papers on CEUR (we will only publish to CEUR if the authors agree to have their papers published). Papers have to be submitted through easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikidata21 == Proceedings == The complete set of papers will be published with the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org). == Organizing committee == Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, University of Southampton, lucie.kaffee[[(a)]]gmail.com Simon Razniewski, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, srazniew[[@]] mpi-inf.mpg.de Aidan Hogan, University of Chile, ahogan[[(a)]]dcc.uchile.cl == Programme committee == Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation John Samuel, CPE Lyon Dennis Diefenbach, University Jean Monet Lydia Pintscher, Wikimedia Deutschland Edgar Meij, Bloomberg L.P. Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Lexistems Hiba Arnaout, MPI for Informatics Fabian Suchanek, Télécom ParisTech Filip Ilievski, ISI Marco Ponza, Bloomberg L.P. Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim Cristina Sarasua, University of Zurich Pavlos Vougiouklis, Huawei Technologies, Edinburgh Finn Årup Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research & University of Edinburgh -- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee

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CfP ISWC 2021 - Call for Posters, Demos and Lightning Talks *one week left*
by International Semantic Web Conference 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) Virtual, October 24-28, 2021 https://iswc2021.semanticweb.org Call for Posters, Demos, and Lightning Talks ******************************************* The ISWC 2021 Posters and Demos Track complements the paper tracks of the conference by offering an opportunity to present late-breaking research results, on-going research or resource projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. The Lightning Talks track will open a few weeks before ISWC 2021 takes place. We invite submissions relevant to the area of the Semantic Web and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the Research Track, the Resources Track, the In-Use Track, and the Industry Track. We also invite Visionary ideas, Position statements, Negative results, Outrageous ideas, Novel but thoughtful speculation, and Humorous thoughts (or similar). Track details: https://iswc2021.semanticweb.org/posters-demos Track chairs: - Catia Pesquita (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) - Oshani Seneviratne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA) Contact: iswc2021-poster-demo(a)easychair.org ***** Important Dates ***** - Papers due: 5 July 2021 - Notifications: 28 July 2021 - Camera-ready paper due: 1 September 2021 *** All deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth) *** Submission link for all papers: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2021 Follow ISWC on social media: - Twitter: @iswc_conf #iswc_conf (https://twitter.com/iswc_conf) - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13612370 - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISWConf The ISWC 2021 Organising Team https://iswc2021.semanticweb.org/organizing-committee

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Bodh: a new tool for for lexicographical data
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hello all, We are happy to announce that a new tool <https://bodh.toolforge.org/>, named Bodh, has been developed by Jayprakash, <User:Jay (CIS-A2K)> as a CIS-A2K assignment, to add or modify statements for lexemes, senses and forms. This tool presents lexicographical data in tabular format generated from SPARQL queries or from manual lists. Users can switch whether to work on lexeme proper, sense or form and add or modify statements there. The idea of this tool was inspired by the one and only Magnus Manske's <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13520818> Tabernacle <https://tabernacle.toolforge.org/#/> which helps editors to add or modify statements, labels, descriptions and aliases for Wikidata's entity data. The tool is going to be documented here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bodh>. Users of this tool can request for more features or report for bugs using this phabricator project profile <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/5166/>. Happy editing! Regards, Bodhisattwa Wikidata Co-ordinator, CIS-A2K

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Re: [Wikibase] Re: SPARQL and January 1 dates
by Olaf Simons 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

Dear all, thank you, Dragan for the answer, yet this is nothing I can explain to "normal users". They use the Query Service with the recommended input help and they do get inexplicable January 1st dates (which, if the are not suspicious, they will accept as the new knowledge). What would speak against a a Query helper that gives data pretty much as we have entered them? Best, Olaf > Dragan Espenschied <dragan.espenschied(a)rhizome.org> hat am 23.06.2021 19:53 geschrieben: > > > Hello Olaf, > > The trick is to query for the property value node instead of the > proterty direct value. > > Example in ArtBase: > > https://tinyurl.com/yft9u5kg > On Wikidata, you can replace > "rt:" --> "wdt:" > "rp:" --> "p:" > "rpsv:" --> "psv:" > > With the "property direct" ("rt") you query for just the value of the > property. > > With "property" ("rp") you query for the node that holds the value, and > more meta-information about the value. > > The node contains the "node value" ("rpsv"), and that value has a > precision value ("wikibase:timePrecision"). 9 is year level, 10 is > month level, 11 is day level. > > Hope that helps! :) > > > > select ?artwork ?inception ?date_precision WHERE { > ?artwork rt:P3 r:Q5 . > ?artwork rt:P26 ?inception . > > ?artwork rp:P26 ?inception_node . > ?inception_node rpsv:P26 ?inception_value . > ?inception_value wikibase:timePrecision ?date_precision . > } > LIMIT 100 > > > > > > > -- > Dragan Espenschied > Preservation Director > Rhizome at the New Museum > > On Mi, Jun 23 2021 at 11:50:12 +0200, Olaf Simons > <olaf.simons(a)pierre-marteau.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I wonder whether there is a simple way to retrieve dates with the > > precision in they have been put into a wikibase. > > > > Using SPARQL I get all years such as "1749" as "1 January 1749" > > statements, no matter whether the person is born that day or not. > > Should I run different searches? > > > > Best, > > Olaf > > > > > > > > > > > > Dr. Olaf Simons > > Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt > > Am Schlossberg 2 > > 99867 Gotha > > Büro: +49-361-737-1722 > > Mobil: +49-179-5196880 > > Privat: Hauptmarkt 17b/ 99867 Gotha > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikibaseug mailing list -- wikibaseug(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to wikibaseug-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikibaseug mailing list -- wikibaseug(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikibaseug-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org Dr. Olaf Simons Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt Am Schlossberg 2 99867 Gotha Büro: +49-361-737-1722 Mobil: +49-179-5196880 Privat: Hauptmarkt 17b/ 99867 Gotha

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[Virtual OM-2021] 2nd CFP: 16th workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC
by Pavel Shvaiko 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS ON AUGUST 9TH, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Sixteenth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2021) http://om2021.ontologymatching.org/ October 25th, 2021, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2021 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2021/ 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) datasets, benchmarks and replication studies, services, software, methodologies, protocols and measures (not necessarily related to OAEI), and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data); Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios (e.g., public sector, homeland security); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., in cloud, with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access; Matching and knowledge graphs; Matching and deep learning; Matching and embeddings; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Privacy-aware matching; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Expressive alignments; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2021 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 5 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages. All contributions have to be prepared using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 and should be submitted in PDF format (no later than August 9th, 2021) through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2021 Contributors to the OAEI 2021 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2021/. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: August 9th, 2021: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6th, 2021: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 20th, 2021: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 25th, 2021: OM-2021, Virtual Conference. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Trentino Digitale, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway 4. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 5. Cássia Trojahn IRIT, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed): Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM, France Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK Valerie Cross, Miami University, USA Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciéncia, Portugal Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Marko Gulic, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Fiona McNeill, Heriot Watt University, UK Peter Mork, MITRE, USA Axel Ngonga, University of Paderborn, Germany George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Pedro Szekely, University of Southern California, USA Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China Ondrej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Trentino Digitale, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ https://www.trentinodigitale.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel -- Cap. Soc. Euro 6.433.680,00 - REG. IMP. / C.F. / P.IVA 00990320228 E-mail: tndigit(a)tndigit.it <mailto:tndigit@tndigit.it> - www.trentinodigitale.it <http://www.trentinodigitale.it> Società soggetta ad attività di direzione e coordinamento da parte della Provincia Autonoma di Trento - C.Fisc. 00337460224. Questo messaggio è indirizzato esclusivamente ai destinatari in intestazione, può contenere informazioni protette e riservate ai sensi della normativa vigente e ne è vietato qualsiasi impiego diverso da quello per cui è stato inviato. Se lo avete ricevuto per errore siete pregati di eliminarlo in ogni sua parte e di avvisare il mittente

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SPARQL and January 1 dates
by Olaf Simons 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

Dear All, I wonder whether there is a simple way to retrieve dates with the precision in they have been put into a wikibase. Using SPARQL I get all years such as "1749" as "1 January 1749" statements, no matter whether the person is born that day or not. Should I run different searches? Best, Olaf Dr. Olaf Simons Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt Am Schlossberg 2 99867 Gotha Büro: +49-361-737-1722 Mobil: +49-179-5196880 Privat: Hauptmarkt 17b/ 99867 Gotha

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WDQS Data Reloads Complete
by Ryan Kemper 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

Hi all, We recently reloaded our Wikidata journal files (the database, basically) across our whole wdqs fleet, which should resolve a number of inconsistency issues. The ticket for the data reload itself is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267927. The reload resolves the following tickets: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274982 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266211 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255657 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268408 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272120 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273937

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We are working on a tool to perform checks on mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Hello everyone, This is to announce that we have finalized the concepts and started development for a tool to help editors work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites. Why are we doing this? Wikidata is becoming too big for the editors to monitor individual data points. Additionally, keeping Wikidata’s data in sync with the external database (meant in the broadest way possible) requires a lot of effort and existing workflows are haphazard and one-off. Who are we doing this for? The target audience of this tool are tech-savvy editors whose primary goal is finding mismatches and data quality improvement. They are: - Dedicated data quality workers who specifically seeks out lists of issues in an area of their interest to fix a number of mistakes - Heavily affected by the data quality - Experienced using bots and mass editing gadgets What is the solution? We will build a system that will have a store for mismatches. Different people and organizations can load mismatches they found into this system. Various tools can then get mismatches from the system to help editors resolve them. Sources for the mismatches can be many. We will start with mismatches that we found as part of previous work to find references for statements lacking references (aka Reference Treasure Hunt <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Automated_finding_references_input>). In the future, categories on Wikipedia that indicate a mismatch between the local value on that Wikipedia and the corresponding value on Wikidata could also be possible. Various research organizations as well as large data re-users could also contribute mismatches they found in their internal processes when doing quality assurance on Wikidata’s data. We hope that this tool will help to make it easier for editors to find and fix the mismatches between Wikidata’s data and other databases. Feel free to ask questions or give us feedback at the discussion page: Wikidata_talk:Mismatch_Finder <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Mismatch_Finder> Cheers, -- 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.

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Weekly Summary #473
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming - The next Wikibase live session <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WBUG_2021.06.24> is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th June 2021 <https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1624550400> (18:00 Berlin time). This month we'll have a team member from Wikibase Stakeholders Group <https://wikibase-stakeholder-group.github.io/> talk briefly about their work, and then we'll welcome people to share out about their work around Wikibase. We'll leave some space in the agenda to discuss meta issues related to the Wikibase Community Usergroup. - SPARQL queries live on Twitch <https://www.twitch.tv/belett> and in English by Vigneron, June 22 at 18:00 CEST - *24/06 (17:30 UTC):* Wikidata Lab XXX: Roundtripping process for tainacan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Edit-a-thon/Atividades_em_p…> with Ederporto <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ederporto> and Dalton Lopes Martins (https://tainacan.org/en/ Tainacan) (*in English*), on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6m0rRgadu4> - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #68 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träf…>, June 27 - LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QywDX83OZrw>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/298581516170364…>, June 26 at 18:00 UTC Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Papers - Beyond VIAF. Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107308059> (with detailed statistics on VIAF and Wikidata <https://catalogo.pusc.it/beyond_viaf/>) - Videos - Using OpenRefine and creating wikidata schema - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osYFU2UvE1Y> - Query SPARQL Wikidata around genealogy (in French) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc0pkmFkbYA> - LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD5L5iTHa1c>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/298070560888126…> - Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50GBWVUCsO8> Tool of the week - Template:PositionHolderHistory <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:PositionHolderHistory> displays the full list of position holders for a given position. - Template:Generic queries for positions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Generic_queries_for_positions> new template with generic queries for positions. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Interlanguage links now work for multilingual Wikisource. phab:T275958 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275958> - User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js> now supports searching for senses for the translation property. - The call for candidates <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida…> for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021. - Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/language_codes/> provides an overview, phab:T284856 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284856> attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284276> determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284808> should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual_text_languages <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Monolingual_text_languages>). Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: not found in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9660>, named place on map <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9664> - External identifiers: Ropiky.net pillbox ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9655>, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9656>, Memobase ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9657>, Standard Citation Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9658>, Skipsrevyen ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9659>, EBAF authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9661>, LdiF person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9662>, Musica Baltica person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9663>, EGID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9665>, RBF event ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9666> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: named after lexeme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/named_after_lexeme>, replacement value <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/replacement_value>, Qualis rank <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Qualis_rank>, role of component <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/role_of_component>, table of contents available at URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/table_of_contents_…>, DICOM modality page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DICOM_modality_page>, Flemish Heritage Themes ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flemish_Heritage_T…> - External identifiers: OlympicsIL ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OlympicsIL_ID>, EBIDAT ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EBIDAT_ID>, Crosscut author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Crosscut_author_ID>, identifier BNM <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifier_BNM>, Chidlovski.Com USSR national ice hockey team player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chidlovski.Com_USS…>, Handzone player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Handzone_player_ID>, BES-Net user ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BES-Net_user_ID>, Hokej.cz player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hokej.cz_player_ID>, Research Resource Identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Research_Resource_…>, VK artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VK_artist_ID>, MonumentalTrees.com <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MonumentalTrees.com>, Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lexikon_Westf%C3%A…>, E-Flora BC species ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/E-Flora_BC_species…>, E-Fauna BC species ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/E-Fauna_BC_species…>, Villo! station ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Villo!_station_ID>, LexM ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LexM_ID> - Query examples: - Map of public bookcases <https://w.wiki/3VT7> - SPARQL Jupyter notebook to explore generic queries for positions <https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/Generic%20queries%20for%20positio…> (using PAWS) - Biographies that can be linked in different Wikipedias (apart from deWP) <https://w.wiki/3W7h> (Source <https://twitter.com/RegiowikiAt/status/1405806412039704579>) - Vulnerable, endangered or extinct languages with number of lexemes in Wikidata <https://w.wiki/3WVb> (Source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1404841876134445059>) - Articles in English Wikipedia about women that have the good article badge but do not have an article written in Spanish <https://w.wiki/3Lhb> (Source <https://twitter.com/editatona/status/1404553060223946755>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: - Wikidata:WikiProject Outdoor Gyms <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Outdoor_Gyms> Development - Fixed a bug that broke the "Add sitelink" popup on Commons ( phab:T284854 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284854>) - Working on a fix for suggesters popping up unexpectedly when tabbing quickly (phab:284219 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/284219>) - Reviewing code for a new Property Suggester by a student (phab:T284820 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284820>) - Mismatch Finder: Working on a tool to work through mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases. Your feedback is welcome on Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Mismatch_Finder> - Curious Facts: We developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata. Try it <https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/app/CuriousFacts> and give us your feedback on Wikidata talk:Curious Facts <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Curious_Facts> - Kicked off our continued work on Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2) with preparatory work, including: - Testing infrastructure investigation and decision <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284909> - Investigation: How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284913> 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.

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Second Call for Papers: First International Workshop on Multilingual Semantic Web(IWMSW-2021)
by Dr. Sanju Tiwari 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

We apologize for the cross-postings. Please circulate this CFP among your colleagues and students. ======================================================== Second CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Multilingual Semantic Web(IWMSW-2021) Uyo, Nigeria, November 18-19, 2021 Co-located with KGSWC 2021 http://www.kgswc.org/iwmsw-2021/ ================================================= Objective This workshop aims at demonstrating recent and future advances in deep learning by using Semantic Web and its underlying technology and NLP techniques which can provide therapeutic solutions multilingual problems particularly among under-resourced languages. Also, results of on-going research in natural language processing, structured knowledge representations (featuring ontologies and knowledge graphs) and deep learning approaches as they are used by experts from industry, science and academia are encouraged for discussions. We invite submission of original related researches, but are not limited to the topics below. Topics of interests: - Construction ontology embeddings - Ontology-based text classification - Learning ontology embeddings - Semantic role labelling - Ontology reasoning with Deep Neural Networks - Deep learning for ontological semantic annotations - Spatial and temporal ontology embeddings - Integrating Fuzzy Logic with Ontology - Ontology alignment and matching based on deep learning models - Ontology learning from text using deep learning models - Knowledge Graphs - Unsupervised Learning - Text classification using deep models - Neural machine translation - Deep question answering - Deep text summarization - Deep speech recognition Submission The workshop is open to submit unpublished work resulting from researches that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches. All submissions must be PDF documents written in English and formatted according to LNCS instructions for authors. Papers are to be submitted through the workshop’s EasyChair submission page. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwmsw2021 We welcome the following types of contributions: - Full research papers (8-10 pages): Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Workshop topics - Short papers (4-6 pages): Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, opened to discussion. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop, in order to present the paper, there, and to the conference. For further instructions please refer to the KGSWC 2021 page. Important dates: - Workshop paper submission due: July 30, 2021 - Workshop paper notifications: September 15, 2021 - Workshop paper camera-ready versions due: October 15, 2021 - Workshop: November 18-19, 2021 All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (WAT -12). Publication: All accepted workshop papers will be published in a book. The best papers from this workshop may be included in the supplementary proceedings of KGSWC 2021. Contacts Ijebu, Francis F., University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria – ijebufrancis(a)uniuyo.edu.ng Ollawa, Ikechukwu, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria – ikymorris(a)gmail.com -- Regards Dr. Sanju Tiwari (PhD, Post-Doc), SMIEEE Sr. Researcher, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico Adjunct Professor, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India Ph.D. Supervisor, Rai University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India DAAD Post-Doc-Net AI Fellow General Chair *KGSWC-2021* (Second Indo-American Conference) http://www.kgswc.org/indo-american/ Senior Member IEEE Member Machine Intelligence Research Labs(MIR Lab), USA

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We have developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Hello everyone, This is to announce that over the past few months we've been investigating ways to help Wikidata editors maintain high data quality standards by making it easier to spot mistakes. One type of data that hints at potential errors in the data are outliers and similar anomalies. However, they might also be a hint at something really curious happening in the world. A few outlier examples include the Item of a woman who married the Eiffel Tower, or countries with several capitals, the town with a cat as the mayor, and so on. It's tricky for a machine to identify if something is a real curiosity or a data error, but a human usually can. For this purpose, we worked on developing a tool to find such outliers and anomalies and make the process of checking these facts a little more fun. It's now available at Curious Facts <https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/app/WikidataAnalytics> How does the Curious Facts system work? You go to the curious facts website and select 'Give me some new weird stuff!' from the tool. A random curious fact from Wikidata is shown. You can now look over these Items to figure out what's going on. To fix the issue, make sure you're logged in on Wikidata, so you can view the constraint violations indicators in case there are any statements triggering a constraint violation. Please try out the tool and let us know what you think. If you encounter any issues or want to provide general feedback, feel free to leave us a note on this discussion page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata talk:Curious_Facts>. Oh and please share if you stumble upon something fun along the way ;-) Cheers, -- 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.

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Weekly Summary #472
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past - SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 2/2 (session 8) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu2kzcbIWnY> - Open Repositories 2021: Wikidata Integration with Repository Contents - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNxmj94ZSfs&t=5732s> - Information Service Engineering 2021 - SPARQL complex queries, SPARQL aggregation and variable assignment, Wikidata SPARQL examples <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dpltkumoDE> - SPARQL Federated Queries, DBpedia and Wikidata, SPARQL query aggregation and variable assignment <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9gvVClaI9A> - Upcoming - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Producti…> call: Diego de la Hera <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Diegodlh> on Cita <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Zotero/Cita>, a Wikidata add-on for Zotero. Agenda <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J_VTVktvmpMd4dTzFjQlGgKDEr7YaS5Mrxj6ME3…>, June 15 - Wikidata Bug Triage Hour <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour> about quality constraints, June 17 - LIVE Wikidata editing #47 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD5L5iTHa1c>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/298070560888126…>, June 19 at 18:00 UTC - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #67 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träf…>, June 20 - OpenStreetMap TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1867> Meetup 2021-07-05 Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Videos - Gateway into Linked Data: Breaking silos with Wikidata - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7AyM8XCcTo&t=1316s> - LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45BdQRcIek8>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/297554537939728…> Tool of the week - SPARQL Jupyter notebooks in PAWS <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS>: PAWS is a wikitech services which allows to run Jupyter notebooks. There is a SPARQL kernel which makes it possible to run SPARQL queries. See this example notebook <https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/Women%20as%20scientific%20discove…> . Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Community_Survey_2021.pdf>. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. - WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/th…>. Information about *"the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself"*. - The call for candidates <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida…> for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: personality trait of fictional character <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9652> - External identifiers: Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9625>, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9626>, Romanistenlexikon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9627>, composers.am person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9628>, Armeniapedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9629>, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9630>, armradioarchive.am person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9631>, PANGO lineage code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9632>, AZGS Document Repository ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9633>, AADFI member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9634>, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9635>, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9636>, Erfgoedkaart ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9637>, Romanian diplomatic mission ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9638>, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9639>, PAS member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9640>, fondoambiente.it ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9641>, Olschki author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9642>, French Etalab parcel visualization code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9643>, Geneanet family name ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9644>, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9645>, senato.archivioluce.it person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9646>, DIP ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9647>, Newspaper Genre List ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9648>, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9649>, Internet Game Database developer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9650>, Book Owners Online person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9651>, Bod-Inc Online author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9653>, Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9654>, Ropiky.net pillbox ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9655>, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9656> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: LdiF person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LdiF_person_ID>, board game mechanism <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/board_game_mechani…>, Date of resignation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Date_of_resignation>, sex or gender of the position <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/sex_or_gender_of_t…>, regime <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/regime>, earliest known OpenTimestamps <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/earliest_known_Ope…>, Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioteca_Naciona…>, named after lexeme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/named_after_lexeme> - External identifiers: TBDB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TBDB_ID>, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cirkev.cz_bohoslu%…>, GCD creator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GCD_creator_ID>, Memobase ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Memobase_ID>, Central records of collections ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Central_records_of…>, Musica Baltica person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Musica_Baltica_per…>, Standard Citation Forms ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Standard_Citation_…>, Montana Field Guide species ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Montana_Field_Guid…>, PRISM Break project ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PRISM_Break_projec…>, Idaho Species ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Idaho_Species_ID>, Room of Names ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Room_of_Names_ID>, ZKM person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ZKM_person_ID>, fotodok ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fotodok_ID>, IFFR film director ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IFFR_film_director…>, EUIPO OoC-name id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EUIPO_OoC-name_id>, Gutenberg Biographics ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gutenberg_Biograph…>, EUIPO OoC-work id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EUIPO_OoC-work_id>, Games(a)Mail.ru ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Games@Mail.ru_ID>, museumPASSmusées ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/museumPASSmus%C3%A…>, Handlingar.se <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Handlingar.se>, NAD agent ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NAD_agent_ID>, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bundesstiftung_Auf…>, OlympicsIL ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OlympicsIL_ID> - Query examples: - Lakes within 10 km of Berlin <https://w.wiki/3Szs> - Old bath pictures from Swedish Digitalmuseum <https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%7B%22hi…> - Bath water in Sweden with distance to the center of the lake it is connected to <https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23title%3A%20Swedish%20Bathwaters%20with%20line%20to%20connected%20water%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fbathcoord%22%2C%22%3Flakecoord%22%2C%22%3Fline%22%2C%22%3Fstr%22%2C%22%3Flayer%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fstr%20%3Fbathwater%20%3FbathwaterLabel%20%3Fbathcoord%20%3Flake%20%3FlakeLabel%20%3Flakecoord%20%3Fdist%20%3Fline%20%3FSJOID%20%3Flayer%20%3FEionetBathingWaterIDentifier%20%3FHav%20%3FVISS%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fbathwater%20wdt%3AP6104%20wd%3AQ106774536.%0A%20%20%20%3Fbathwater%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fxx.%0A%20%20%20%3Fbathwater%20%20p%3AP625%20%5B%20a%20wikibase%3ABestRank%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fbathcoordlat%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Fbathcoordlon%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoGlobe%20%3Fglobe%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP625%20%3Fbathcoord%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fbathwater%20wdt%3AP9616%20%3FEionetBathingWaterIDentifier.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fbathwater%20wdt%3AP206%20%3Flake.%0A%20%20%20%3Flake%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Frr.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Flake%20%20p%3AP625%20%5Ba%20wikibase%3ABestRank%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20psv%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flong%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoGlobe%20%3Fglobe2%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP625%20%3Flakecoord%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flake%20wdt%3AP761%20%3FSJOID.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20BIND%28geof%3Adistance%28%3Fbathcoord%2C%20%3Flakecoord%29%20as%20%3Fdist%29%20.%20%0A%20%20%23filter%20%28%3Fdist%20%3E%3D%203%29%0A%20%20BIND%20%28floor%28%3Fdist%2F10%29%2a10%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%0A%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27LINESTRING%20%28%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fbathcoordlon%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Fbathcoordlat%29%2C%20%27%2C%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flong%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20.%0A%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%20%0A%20%20BIND%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Fbadplatsen.havochvatten.se%2Fbadplatsen%2Fkarta%2F%23%2Fbath%2F%22%2C%3FEionetBathingWaterIDentifier%29%29%20AS%20%20%3FHav%29%0A%20%20BIND%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22https%3A%2F%2Fviss.lansstyrelsen.se%2FWaters.aspx%3FwaterEUID%3DSE%22%2C%3FSJOID%29%29%20AS%20%3FVISS%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Csv%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fdist%29> - Bath water in Sweden located in Nature reserves (protected area, geojson) <https://w.wiki/3TrJ> - Map of the standard English and Welsh spellings of all places in the database <https://w.wiki/3RHs> (Source <https://twitter.com/WIKI_NLW/status/1403327228629377024>) - Films directed by Agnès Varda and their publication date <https://w.wiki/3Qvi> (Source <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1402037551309991937>) - List of women who hold or have held the position of rector at a university <https://w.wiki/3Jkb> (Source <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx/status/1404234275147419658>) - Schema examples: - EntitySchema:E319 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E319> - European bath waters - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: - Wikidata:WikiProject European Bath Waters <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_European_Bath_Waters> - Europe is open up and its summer - *lets add bath waters to Wikidata* Development - Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176312>) - Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284538>) - Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/... 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.

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2021 WMF Board of Trustees elections - Call for Candidates
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hello all, The 2021 Board of Trustees election[1] is coming soon. Candidates from the community are needed to fill the available seats. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. Community trustees and appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three-year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community trustees. Wikimedia contributors will vote to fill four seats on the Board in 2021. This is an opportunity to improve the Board's representation, diversity, and expertise as a team. For potential candidates: - *Traits:* Wikimedia is a global movement and seeks candidates from the broader community. Candidates should think about what experiences and perspectives they will bring to the Board. Ideal candidates align with the Wikimedia mission and are thoughtful, respectful, and community-oriented. The Board would like to find perspectives and voices that are under-represented and essential for our movement. They should bring what Wikimedia needs from a new Trustee. - *Commitment: *Trustees serve a three-year term and can serve up to three consecutive terms. The time commitment is about 150 hours per year, excluding travel. This time is not evenly spread throughout the year. The time is concentrated around meetings. The expectation is that Trustees serve on at least one of the Board’s committees. - *Requirements*[2]: English is the language of business for the Board. Candidates need a basic understanding of English, but support and training are part of onboarding. Candidate applications will be translated into several languages to reach a broad audience of voters. - *Apply*[3]: Candidates from all projects and communities who meet the needs of Wikimedia Trustee are welcome. If you know someone who could be a good trustee, encourage them to run for election. Candidates can find information and submit their nomination on the Apply to be a Candidate page. - *Resources*[4]: A toolkit has been developed for community members who are considering submitting their candidacy for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, and who want to better understand what to expect and how to prepare for the role. Thank you for your support, The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Apply_t… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Candidate_Re… -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (he/him) Board Governance Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation

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IP Masking Engagement - New Update
by Sandister Tei 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hello Wikidata community, The Anti-Harassment Team has updates on IP Masking here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/IP_Masking_Enga…>. In this update, there are details on the proposal for sharing IP addresses with those who need access and there’s also an update on tool development. Please pass by, check the new details out, and give your feedback. –– Sandister Tei (she/her) Community Relations Specialist (Anti-Harassment) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:STei_(WMF)

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Wikidata Community/Diversity Survey 2021 has been published
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hi everyone, In March, many of you participated in our first community survey (see announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/me…>). We analyzed and summarized the results – you can have a look at the slides on commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Community_Survey_2021.pdf> . Your answers helped us to get a better understanding of where editors come from and which gender and age they have, as well as what activities you do on Wikidata. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future. We also hope that the data might inspire community activities around increasing diversity and give some more insights in who your fellow editors are and what they do. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Cheers, -- 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.

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Re: Unsheduled Wikimedia Commons Query Service Downtime
by Zbyszko Papierski 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Downtime is over - WCQS beta service has been restored from the latest (available on Monday) dump. Unfortunately, due to the issue with skolemization for SDC dataset, using skolemized blank nodes change was reverted - we will be working on figuring out what's the problem. Have a good day, Zbyszko On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 10:04 AM Zbyszko Papierski <zpapierski(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > We are using this downtime to introduce blank node skolemization to WCQS > Beta[1]. This change is a prerequisite on our future work on real time > updates for that service. > > [1] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/Blank_Node_Skolemizat… > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 9:54 AM Zbyszko Papierski <zpapierski(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Due to low disk space on the WCQS beta instance and possible data >> corruption that might've happened because of it, we need to take down WCQS >> beta and rebuild its journal - operation should take about 2 days - >> starting now. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. >> This is a recurring issue, but we have a permanent solution in the >> pipeline on which we plan to start working on soon: [1]. >> >> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262265 >> -- >> >> Zbyszko Papierski (He/Him) >> >> Senior Software Engineer >> >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> > > > -- > > Zbyszko Papierski (He/Him) > > Senior Software Engineer > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > -- Zbyszko Papierski (He/Him) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata
by Érica Azzellini 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Hello all, The *WikidataCon 2021 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021>* team has moved forward with the conference organization and we are proud to share with the community many exciting news: the conference theme, its three day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself. For the past nine years, Wikidata has been rapidly growing: more data, more contributors, more reuse of the data by various stakeholders. Where are we headed? What is our compass point? Who is doing this journey with us? Who should be with us and is not yet? During the WikidataCon 2021, we want to *envision a sustainable future for Wikidata* and address challenges the Wikidata ecosystem faces while the project is growing. We are especially interested in tackling four interrelated points in the conference: - *technical infrastructure;* - *data quality;* - *community health; and* - *diversity.* So for 2021, we’ll go with *“WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata”*! We especially want to raise awareness on the issues encountered by communities in the Global South and marginalized communities in the Global North, and their hopes on how Wikidata’s structure, content and community could *represent the diversity of the world in a more inclusive way*. Before, during and after the conference, we will lead discussions about how to decenter Wikidata from its current focus on Europe and North America and how to address the biases that currently exist in the structure of the data and in the community. For doing so, we also proudly announce the *“Reimagining Wikidata from the margins” <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Reimagining_Wikidata_from_the_margins>* project: starting in June, we will coordinate a series of discussions with communities in the Global South and other marginalized communities from the Global North. This is an open invitation to think about how more diverse people can add their local knowledge to the database while meaningfully joining our community. It is about connecting with each other's realities and perspectives, understanding its challenges and expectations, and working together to foster a plural environment in our ecosystem! We’ll release at WikidataCon a document/manifesto based on the discussions with individuals and communities. If you’re interested in participating in this process, please, *sign up on the project page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Reimagining_Wikidata_from_the_margin…>* and I’ll contact you for further details. Last but not least, we also want to share with you that the conference taking place at *October 29, 30 and 31* will be structured in the following way: - *Day one:* Formal program & networking + Wikidata birthday celebration - *Day two:* Community sessions - *Day three:* Hackathon & special events This will be a distributed event with a full online program that people can access and participate from anywhere in the world. Although São Paulo will not host an in person event as initially planned due the hardening of the pandemic in Brazil, the possibility of connecting local gatherings to the online program is still valid, if your chapter or group is based somewhere sanitary safe. Let’s explore how to safely celebrate Wikidata and our community! Please, don’t hesitate to reach out to the organizers at *info(a)wikidatacon.org <info(a)wikidatacon.org>* or by leaving a message on the discussion page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2021>. Hope to see you all at WikidataCon! On behalf of the WikidataCon 2021 organization team, *Érica Azzellini | User:EAzzellini (WMB)* *Communications Manager | **Wiki Movimento Brasil* *wmnobrasil.org <http://wmnobrasil.org/>*

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Mix'n'Match Import Question
by Adam Harangozó 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Hi All, I have imported two catalogues to Mix'n'Match and I have matched some of the items already in OpenRefine. I have created the column 'q" for indicating those but after importing they were not converted to manual matches. Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thank you. These are the two catalogues: https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/4510 https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/4511 Best, Adam Harangozó -- *'Thank you' emails have a massive carbon footprint:* So this is me saying thanks without sending it. Every email has a carbon footprint, reduce it by sending less <https://www.ovoenergy.com/blog/ovo-news/think-before-you-thank.html>. *#WhatWeCanDo*

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Maintenance of query-preview.wikidata.org - Tuesday June 8
by Ryan Kemper 09 Jun '21

09 Jun '21

Hi all, We need to re-image our host wdqs1009.eqiad.wmnet, which is the test host powering *query-service.wikidata.org <http://query-service.wikidata.org>*. Service will be offline while we transfer its journal file (the wikidata equivalent of the database) to another server, re-image the original server, and then transfer it back. The whole procedure will begin around *18:00 UTC June 8* and will take a *few hours*. This is only for query-preview.wikidata.org and not for query.wikidata.org. There will be no interruption to normal WDQS operation. We'll send another message to the Wikidata mailing list when the operation begins.

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Call for Posters: 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data
by jaho＠library.tamu.edu 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Call for Posters: 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Building Connections Together” Do you have a tool, project, or idea related to linked data in archives, libraries, or museums? The 2021 LD4 Conference Program Committee invites you to submit a proposal for the 2021 LD4 Conference virtual poster session on July 20, 2021! Themes and Criteria: While posters can focus on any topic related to linked data in libraries, we especially encourage submissions aligned with this year's conference themes: --Linked data education --Inclusion of diverse voices --Practical steps toward linked data adoption --Reliability and availability of linked data --Incorporating linked data into day-to-day library operations --Linked data advocacy --The Program Committee will evaluate proposals based on the following criteria: --Support of the conference theme and goals --Interest to the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) community --Representation from groups, regions, and topics that are traditionally underrepresented in conferences related to linked data Details: To propose a poster for the conference, please fill in this proposal submission form by June 21, 2021. The Program Committee will communicate decisions for proposals by June 28, 2021. If accepted, you'll be asked to submit your poster by July 12, 2021. Recommended file types for poster submissions are PDF, PNG or JPEG, but please let us know if there is a format that better suits your topic. The virtual poster session will take place on July 20, 2021. Each presenter will have 2 minutes to give an overview of their poster and then have an opportunity to answer questions. Posters will be available on the LD4 conference website for the entire week of the conference and presenters will be asked to monitor the LD4 2021 conference slack to answer questions. The LD4 2021 conference is free of charge and open to all. General registration will open in June. The conference is an initiative of the LD4 Community. Questions about the conference and this call for proposals? See our website bit.ly/ld42021 or contact 2021_ld4conf_chairs(a)googlegroups.com Jeannette Ho Cataloging/Metadata Librarian Texas A&M University Libraries

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Call for Posters: 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data
by jaho＠library.tamu.edu 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Call for Posters: 2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Building Connections Together” Do you have a tool, project, or idea related to linked data in archives, libraries, or museums? The 2021 LD4 Conference Program Committee invites you to submit a proposal for the 2021 LD4 Conference virtual poster session on July 20, 2021! Themes and Criteria: While posters can focus on any topic related to linked data in libraries, we especially encourage submissions aligned with this year's conference themes: --Linked data education --Inclusion of diverse voices --Practical steps toward linked data adoption --Reliability and availability of linked data --Incorporating linked data into day-to-day library operations --Linked data advocacy --The Program Committee will evaluate proposals based on the following criteria: --Support of the conference theme and goals --Interest to the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) community --Representation from groups, regions, and topics that are traditionally underrepresented in conferences related to linked data Details: To propose a poster for the conference, please fill in this proposal submission form by June 21, 2021. The Program Committee will communicate decisions for proposals by June 28, 2021. If accepted, you'll be asked to submit your poster by July 12, 2021. Recommended file types for poster submissions are PDF, PNG or JPEG, but please let us know if there is a format that better suits your topic. The virtual poster session will take place on July 20, 2021. Each presenter will have 2 minutes to give an overview of their poster and then have an opportunity to answer questions. Posters will be available on the LD4 conference website for the entire week of the conference and presenters will be asked to monitor the LD4 2021 conference slack to answer questions. The LD4 2021 conference is free of charge and open to all. General registration will open in June. The conference is an initiative of the LD4 Community. Questions about the conference and this call for proposals? See our website bit.ly/ld42021 or contact 2021_ld4conf_chairs(a)googlegroups.com Jeannette Ho Cataloging/Metadata Librarian Texas A&M University Libraries

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Wikidata weekly summary #471
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past: - Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 (replay) "Wikidata Live Querying <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9sLTEdcSo>" by Lucas Werkmeister <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister> - SPARQL #Wikidata Préfixes 1/2 (in French) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ricJjl4WU> - Upcoming: - Meta meeting <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Meetings/2021…> of the Wikibase Community User Group, Wednesday, June 9, 16:00 UTC - LIVE Wikidata editing #46 - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45BdQRcIek8>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/297554537939728…>, June 12 at 18:00 UTC - Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #66 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Träf…>, June 13 - (Dutch) 16 june 2021, 15.00-16.30 CEST, "Universiteitsbibliotheek: Bijzondere Collecties zichtbaar en vindbaar maken in Wikidata", during "Digitaal Erfgoed @UM | zichtbaar, bruikbaar, houdbaar <https://library.maastrichtuniversity.nl/digitaal-erfgoed-um-zichtbaar-bruik…> " Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Blogs - "Wikidata and R: a perfect pair" <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/06/03/wikidata-and-r-a-perfect-pair/> by Evolution and evolvability <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Evolution_and_evolvability> and Canley <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Canley>. A *WikiCite* eScholarship. - "Brazil’s Laws: Modeling the Brazilian legislation in Wikidata <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/06/04/brazilian-laws-modeling-the-brazilian…>", by Ederporto <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ederporto>. A WikiCite project grant project. - Papers - (Preprint) KGPool: Dynamic Knowledge Graph Context Selection for Relation Extraction <https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00459> (Wikidata dataset used in evaluation) - (Article) “Wikidata Projects in Times of COVID-19: IUPUI Libraries’ Engagement in Open Knowledge” <https://www.infodocket.com/2021/06/06/article-wikidata-projects-in-times-of…> - (Presentation) Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties <https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/Explore_Analyse_and_Translate_Mu…> by User:Jsamwrites <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jsamwrites> at Contribuling <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ContribuLing/Program> - Videos - Understanding data import into Wikidata via Quickstatements (in Portuguese) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbvtAqZqXeY> - Workshop for "Cita" <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Zotero/Cita>: a Wikidata addon for Zotero, hosted by Diegodlh <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Diegodlh> - English <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t7vMWNoi2M> & en español <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1admRZlWrkQ>. A *WikiCite* grant project. - Wikidata: Municipalities of Romania + a map of places in Kuopio - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj8wQebsQno> - Wikidata Editing training (in Tamil) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xSZCRI3Rc> - Excursus: Wikidata Knowledge Graph - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRqzlIrmTc> Tool of the week - Wikidata Image Positions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Wikidata_Image_Positio…> is a tool to show and add relative position within image (P2677) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2677> qualifiers on depicts (P180) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P180> statements on Wikidata items as areas on the item’s image (P18) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P18>. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Badkartan.se ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9615>, Eionet bathingWaterIdentifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9616>, ifixit device ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9617>, AlternativeTo software ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9618>, Price One Penny author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9619>, Nevada Women's History Project ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9620>, Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9621>, Price One Penny work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9622>, Price One Penny library ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9623>, Price One Penny publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9624>, Dizionario Biografico dell'Educazione (1800–2000) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9625>, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9626>, Romanistenlexikon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9627>, composers.am person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9628>, Armeniapedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9629>, OpenCorporates register jurisdiction <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9630>, armradioarchive.am person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9631>, PANGO lineage code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9632>, AZGS Document Repository ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9633>, AADFI member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9634>, electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9635>, Japan PlayStation Software Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9636>, Erfgoedkaart ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9637>, Romanian diplomatic mission ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9638>, Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9639>, PAS member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9640>, fondoambiente.it ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9641> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: Range <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Range>, not found in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/not_found_in>, LdiF person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LdiF_person_ID>, board game mechanism <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/board_game_mechani…>, Date of resignation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Date_of_resignation> - External identifiers: DIP-ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DIP-ID>, Castforward ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Castforward_ID>, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Istituto_Veneto_di…>, EBAF ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EBAF_ID>, FCCOS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FCCOS_ID>, Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dutch_Caribbean_Sp…>, TBDB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TBDB_ID>, cirkev.cz bohoslužby ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cirkev.cz_bohoslu%…>, Ropiky.net pillbox ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ropiky.net_pillbox…>, GCD creator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GCD_creator_ID> - Query examples: - Properties used to describe themselves <https://w.wiki/3SnX> ( Inspiration <https://twitter.com/cthoyt/status/1401691538040651777>) - Most common name in Germany by year of birth <https://w.wiki/3Sxm> ( Source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query/Archive/2021/03#Most…> ) - Famous (not French) people born in France <https://w.wiki/3Sxu> ( Source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query/Archive/2020/01#Famo…> ) Development - You can now add a title to a query visualisation by adding #title:YourTitle to your SPARQL code (phab:T225883 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225883>, example query with a title <https://w.wiki/3RpY>) - Added a new constraints type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes of a certain language (phab:T200689 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200689>) - Working on not checking the format constraints via SPARQL to take that load off the SPARQL endpoint and make it technically better (phab:T176312 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176312>) - Working on making the API-Sandbox not suggest edits to real Items ( phab:T219215 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219215>) 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.

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Fwd: Unsheduled Wikimedia Commons Query Service Downtime
by Zbyszko Papierski 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

Hi all, I'm sorry for crossposting from commons-l, but from our experience, WCQS is in the area of interest to Wikidata users. Due to low disk space on the WCQS beta instance and possible data corruption that might've happened because of it, we need to take down WCQS beta and rebuild its journal - operation should take about 2 days - starting now. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. This is a recurring issue, but we have a permanent solution in the pipeline on which we plan to start working on soon: [1]. We are using this downtime to introduce blank node skolemization to WCQS Beta[1]. This change is a prerequisite on our future work on real time updates for that service. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262265 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/Blank_Node_Skolemizat… -- Zbyszko Papierski (He/Him) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> -- Zbyszko Papierski (He/Him) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Second Call for Papers: KGSWC-2021 with the Opportunity of SCI/ESCI-Scopus Journal for Extended Version
by Dr. Sanju Tiwari 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

##apologies if multiple copies received## *######Second Call for Papers######* *KGSWC-2021Third Ibero-American Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference joint with Second Indo-American Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference*22-24 November 2021 Texas A & M University, Kingsville http://www.kgswc.org Dear Researcher We are glad to confirm KGSWC-2021 will be published by Springer CCIS Proceedings. We invite to enjoy the following events and talks: a) Keynotes *(Top Experts of Knowledge Graph & Semantic Web Community*) b) Hackathon supported by Prof Amit Sheth and Team c) Winter School (Worldwide Academician on Knowledge Graphs & Semantic Web) d) Workshops (Based on Different Continents) We also have an exciting opportunity to invite accepted papers in the following *SCIE/ESCI* journals. *a) **Data Technologies and Applications (SCIE)* https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dta *b) **Journal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences (SCIE)* https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-king-saud-university-computer-… sciences *c) **International Journal of Web Information Systems (ESCI, SCOPUS)* https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijwis *d) **International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD) (ESCI, Scopus)* https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-information-system… *Submission Link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kgswc2021 *Important Dates* ============== Submission Deadline July 31, 2021 Notification Due September 30, 2021 Final Version Due October 31, 2021 Some of you are the evidence of our previous events that are successfully held in Cuba, 2019 and Mexico, 2020. The registration fees of all KGSWC-2020 events were fully free due to COVID-19 impact. Proceedings of previous events are available : *Proceeding 2019:* https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030213947 *Proceeding 2020:* https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030653835 *Please feel free to contact the organizers for any queries.* -- Regards Dr. Sanju Tiwari (PhD, Post-Doc), SMIEEE Sr. Researcher, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico Adjunct Professor, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India Ph.D. Supervisor, Rai University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India DAAD Post-Doc-Net AI Fellow General Chair *KGSWC-2021* (Second Indo-American Conference) http://www.kgswc.org/indo-american/ Senior Member IEEE Member Machine Intelligence Research Labs(MIR Lab), USA

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User Interaction with Linked Data Patterns - Masters Dissertation
by up201605904＠edu.fe.up.pt 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Dear all, I'm a master's student currently working on my final dissertation on user interaction with Linked Data. Our goal is to create a set of design patterns to gather and document best practices on how to model user interaction with Linked Data. After conducting interviews with Linked Data researchers and developers, we have come to a small set of user interaction patterns for Linked Data. If you are someone who has experience or is interested in this field, and would like to participate, please fill this form (20min) about the adoption of these patterns and your opinions and thoughts on them: [https://forms.gle/qLjt6AETAkXb41v37](https://forms.gle/qLjt6AETAkXb41v37) We apologize if this is of no interest to you! Any questions, feel free to send them to the following address: up201605904(a)edu.fe.up.pt Best regards, Mariana Aguiar Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto

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2021 Creative Commons Summit: Call for Proposals is Open!
by Shani Evenstein 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Hi all, As Creative Commons is celebrating its 20th year, I am honored to serve on the Program Committee for the 2021 CC Summit (with some great WikiFriends) and happy to share that the call for proposals <https://creativecommons.org/2021/06/02/the-2021-cc-global-summit-call-for-p…> is now open! The program tracks <https://summit.creativecommons.org/2021-summit-program/> are: - *Creators of the Commons* – The faces, work, and stories of those building the Commons - *Powering the Commons** – *Exploring the tools, technology, and communities that power the Commons - *Open Education and Open Scholarship* *– *Supporting and empowering communities that practice open access to education and scholarship - *Open Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums* – Improving and expanding open access to cultural heritage + Hack4OpenGLAM - *Policy and Advocacy promoting the Commons* – Strategies for legal action and copyright reform Would be wonderful to have a strong Wiki presence there and celebrate with our colleagues from CC. So please share, apply and engage. :) Cheers, Shani.

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LinkedArchives @TPDL 2021 | Submission deadline is approaching | June 20th
by xavier.aranda＠colectic.coop 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Hola! Aquesta adreÃ§a no es troba en funcionament actualment, podeu contactar amb nosaltres escrivint a hola(a)colectic.coop

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LinkedArchives @TPDL 2021 | Submission deadline is approaching | June 20th
by Carla Teixeira Lopes 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

We want to remind you that the submission deadline for the LinkedArchives workshop in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2021) is approaching. Please submit your contributions until *June 20*. Best, Carla Teixeira Lopes (on behalf of the Organizing Committee) ------- We are thrilled to announce that the International Workshop on Archives and Linked Data (https://linkedarchives.inesctec.pt/) will be run in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2021) (http://www.tpdl.eu/tpdl2021/). The workshop aims to gather researchers and specialists who are engaged in initiatives that cross Archives and the Semantic Web and those planning similar initiatives in cultural heritage organizations. We'd love to have your contributions, so please take a look at the call: https://linkedarchives.inesctec.pt/#submission. Please note that *20 June 2021* is the submission deadline. The workshop will include invited talks, presentations of papers and demos, as well as an opportunity for participants to meet and discuss latest developments and opportunities in the field. TPDL 2021 is an online event and registration will be free of cost. Workshop papers are published and extended versions of best papers are candidates for publication in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage <https://dl.acm.org/journal/jocch> (JOCCH). We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in September! Best, Carla Teixeira Lopes (on behalf of the Organizing Committee)

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Invitation for Wikimedia Research Office hours June 01, 2021
by Martin Gerlach 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Hi all, Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly Office hours on 2021-06-01 at 16:00-17:00 UTC (9am PT/6pm CEST). To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g. about how to attend) can be found here [4]. Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to support you in: - You have a specific research related question that you suspect you should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it. For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors in my wiki? - You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future. - You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates: if you are interested in building relationships with the academic institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those of you interested more closely in this space. - You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5]. Hope to see many of you, Martin on behalf of the WMF Research Team [1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html [2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours [3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours [5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html -- Martin Gerlach Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: Wikidata Digest, Vol 114, Issue 19
by Mateusz Malinowski 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Is there anyone who knows more about this project? It looks like Mix'n'match tool. Mateusz Malinowski wt., 25 maj 2021, 14:04 użytkownik <wikidata-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> napisał: > Send Wikidata mailing list submissions to > wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikidata.lists.wikimedia.org/ > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikidata-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikidata digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Weekly Summary #469 (Thad Guidry) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 11:35:00 -0500 > From: Thad Guidry <thadguidry(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Wikidata] Re: Weekly Summary #469 > To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project > <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <CAChbWaN0xuNT5wmmmQDcMY2A7avG-S+Nv3UsZZ1= > 1N9cxG31jA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="00000000000064141605c315fe49" > > > > > Development > > > > - Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare > > Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that > might need > > fixing > > > > > NICE ! > > Thad > https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ > https://calendly.com/thadguidry/ >

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