Wikidata September 2023

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Weekly Summary #593
by Léa Lacroix 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

*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: - First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop (wikibase-lex) <https://wikibase-lex.sciencesconf.org/>. September 13, 14:00 to 18:00, at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna. - German-speaking Wikipedia community meets in Linz <https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20230905_OTS0131/deutschsprachige-w…> (in German). September 29 - October 1, 2023. - OpenRefine for beginners <https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fotomarburg/aktuelles/nachrichten/workshop_op…> (in German). October 25-26, 2023. - The second Mini Hackathon at Wikimedia Nederland <https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mini%20Hackathon%20November%202023>, for experienced Wikimedians, will take place on Saturday, November 4. There is room for 30 participants; you can apply here <https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mini_Hackathon_November_2023>. Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Blogs - Starting fresh: the Wikibase REST API <https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2023/09/07/starting-fresh-the-wikibase-re…> - Press - Pamitouch Foundation pilots TTAG Goes Digital initiative at Accra College of Education <https://www.modernghana.com/news/1256630/pamitouch-foundation-pilots-ttag-g…>. The Open Foundation West Africa provided an introduction to Wikipedia and its sister tools. The teacher trainees were guided on topics such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikiversity. - Papers - Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231231192774> - Daria Tisch and Emma Ischinsky - Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231195552> - Heather Ford and Andrew Iliadis - KGConv, a Conversational Corpus grounded in Wikidata <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15298.pdf> - Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, and Claire Gardent - Videos - Interoperability among the digital repository Tainacan and the information networks Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: A case study of FILE ARCHIVE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVj5Sccu5bk> - Paula Perissinotto & Dalton Martins - Link data from local index to Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSBEoNnAgPw> - Josef Moravec, Moravian Library in Brno - Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of structured data in hearing health <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3PkyK0ICs> - Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos Tool of the week - Peppercat <https://peppercat.org/> is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information <https://peppercat.org/about.html> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Open call: train-the-trainer course for candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia trainers <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_pro…>, with a focus on (structured data on) Wikimedia Commons. More info and application form here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_pro…>. Application deadline is September 15. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: - state of transmission <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12020> (state of transmission of a work (as a concept, not as a physical item; for that, use P5816)) - describes actor of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12027> (predicate sense whose actor (an agent or a cause—basically the instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense) - describes undergoer of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12028> (predicate sense whose undergoer (a patient, a theme, or a recipient—basically a non-instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense) - External identifiers: Demozoo demo ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12013>, Demozoo group member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12014>, ‎animecons.com event ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12015>, Museo Italia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12016>, Dans nos cœurs ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12017>, WWGR player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12018>, futzal.rus player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12019>, iNaturalist user ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12022>, alyga.lt player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12023>, UETK ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12024>, Windows Package Manager Community package ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12025>, SEVIS school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12026>, WikiChip article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12029>, Mageia package ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12030> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - Red List of South African Plants conservation status <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Red_List_of_South_…> (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the [[w:South African National Biodiversity Institute]]) - Educational level <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Educational_level> (school level in which the subject of the item is taught) - FragDenStaat tag <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FragDenStaat_tag> (tag in FragDenStaat.de) - Plate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plate> (the plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made) - External identifiers: Fansly ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fansly_ID>, France 3 Régions journalist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/France_3_R%C3%A9gi…> , Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ordbok_%C3%B6ver_F…> , BookBrainz series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BookBrainz_series_…> , BookBrainz edition ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BookBrainz_edition…> , ManyVids ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ManyVids_ID> , LoverFans ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LoverFans_ID> , IGI Global affiliate ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGI_Global_affilia…> , Aparat channel ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aparat_channel_ID> , Pandit Project work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pandit_Project_wor…> , RKDexcerpts <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RKDexcerpts> - Query examples: - Territories claimed by irredentism <https://w.wiki/7Qbr> - Map of tram stop all over the world <https://w.wiki/7SBr> (source <https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696636273409106140>) - Map of public archives in Germany <https://w.wiki/7SBv> (source <https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696607768340230205>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: - WikiProject Patagonian Archaeology <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Patagonian_Archaeology> - The project works on the creation and improvement of items on Patagonian Archaeology in Wikidata (archeology of the argentine patagonian coast <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115632712>). - WikiProject Archive of National Debt Redemption Movement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archive_of_National_Debt…> - The purpose of this project is to promote the use of records related to the National Debt Repayment Movement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q623859> (국채보상운동) by integrating data from the National Debt Repayment Movement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q623859> digital archive into Wikidata. Development - Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (phab:T343731 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343731>) - EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements - Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (phab:T344231 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344231>) - We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (phab:T330550 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330550>); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (phab:T343979 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343979>) - Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342976>) and get the labels of a Property (phab:T342977 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342977>) 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> -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement & Events Consultant Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

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Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023
by Guillaume Lederrey 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

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 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

*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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