Wikidata September 2023

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Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023

by Guillaume Lederrey

Hello all! The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting. Details for our next meeting: Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927 Have fun and see you soon! Guillaume -- *Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him) Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Weekly Summary #592

by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*Discussions - Open request for adminship: FlyingAce <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC) - New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Must_%27Serious…> (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.") Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: - Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/th…>. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET - Registration for 2nd edition of Wikidata MOOC is scheduled for Saturday September 23. [[ https://actualitte.com/article/113238/ressources/wikimedia-2e-edition-du-mo…. Link (in French) - Wikidata Days 2023 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_Days_2023>, 28-30* Sept. '23 | 10h00-18h00 | Auditorium and Training Room. Registration <https://www.guiadacidade.pt/pt/art/encontro-wikidata-days-2023-308423-11> (in Portuguess) - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #108, Roof <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=108> (Challenge started on 2023-09-04 12:01:27) Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Blogs - Wikipedia Will Survive A.I. <https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/wikipedia-artificial-intelligence-thre…> (including comments from Selena Deckelmann (WMF) and User:Jsamwrites <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jsamwrites>) - Wikidata query service Blazegraph JNL file on Cloudflare R2 and Internet Archive <https://addshore.com/2023/08/wikidata-query-service-blazegraph-jnl-file-on-…> - Improving equity on Wikipedia using Wikidata <https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/08/31/improving-equity-on-wikipedia-using-wik…> - Papers - Wikidata Research Articles Dataset <https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/40510> - Handling Wikidata Qualifiers in Reasoning <https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3375.pdf> - Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01535.pdf> - SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26 Billion RDF Triples <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.03671.pdf> - Videos - #SPARQL #Wikidata: first name, occupation and Academy, by VIGNERON - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDveI7tn7cc> (in French) - Newsletters - Wikidata and the epistemology of robots <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/2023-09-01#whoseknowled…> in RAW <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/2023-09-01> ((in French) - Explore Wikidata differently with Synia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/2023-09-01#synia> in RAW <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/2023-09-01> (in French) Tool of the week - User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js> - is a userscript that adds a button to add a reference which immediately suggests reference URL (P854) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P854>. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Job opening: Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d) <https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/35226834/Software-Engineer-…>. For our Team Wikidata, based in Berlin, we are looking for a permanent Software Engineer (m/f/d), full-time or part-time (min. 32h/week), as soon as possible. - Wikidata's eleventh birthday <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday> is around the corner! One of our traditions is to prepare birthday presents to the community. Now is a great time to start preparing yours! - Developer account signup from Wikitech removed. Now directing new users towards https://idm.wikimedia.org instead <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> . Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: - has heir or beneficiary <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12002> (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title) - towing capacity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12004> (the maximum sustainable force with which this vehicle can pull or push another object. Alternatively for road- or track-vehicles, the maximum weight of an object on wheels that this vehicle can reliably and safely pull given usual slopes) - learning outcome <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12006> (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program) - tribe <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12011> (recognised membership in a society, mainly denoted by shared cultural heritage; for ethnicity use P172) - External identifiers: ANPI person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12003>, Anikore anime ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12005>, Substack profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12007>, Artmajeur artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12008>, FantLab translator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12009>, ‎wadoku ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12010>, identifier in a register in Germany <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12012>, Demozoo demo ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12013>, Demozoo group member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12014> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - when used with property <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/when_used_with_pro…> (when used with property) - Wikimedia Commons campaign <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikimedia_Commons_…> (name of a Wikimedia Commons campaign) - near <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/near> (for geo-objects which are located ''near'' some other geo-object) - External identifiers: animecons.com event id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/animecons.com_even…>, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sayed_Ganj_Balochi…>, BioGRID Publication <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BioGRID_Publication>, iNaturalist user ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/iNaturalist_user_ID>, MyShows <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MyShows>, NHK News topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NHK_News_topic_ID>, Museoitalia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Museoitalia_ID>, DBpia author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DBpia_author_ID> - Query examples: - Old Greek personalities with entries in Prosopographia attica <https://w.wiki/7N6r> (source <https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696988392788042014>) - Largest heist by damage <https://w.wiki/7MPo> (source <https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1696524669199986968>) Development - EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (phab:T338797 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338797>) - We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (phab:T318981 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318981>) - Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (phab:T342238 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342238>) 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 S. Abdulai *Community Communications Manager, Wikidata* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466 https://wikimedia.de Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly. A lot is happening around Wikidata - Keep up to date! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates> 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 Charlottenburg, VR 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine, Dr. Christian Humborg

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