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by Srishti Sethi

Hello all, The first language community meeting is coming up in a few weeks - November 17th, 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page: < https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/…> [1]. We would like to invite all of you who are involved in creating content or managing technical aspects across different language communities. This will be a participant-driven meeting, where we collectively discuss specific technical issues related to our language wikis and work together to find possible solutions. This could involve anything from fixing a broken template on the Kurdish wiki to brainstorming ideas for growing content on the Tulu Wiktionary, currently in the Wikimedia Incubator, or celebrating the creation of Fon Wikipedia, to using MinT for content translation. You can view the meeting structure and add ideas for discussion to the notes document here: < https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-november-2023> [2] If you need interpretation support from English to another language, please let us know by sending an email to ssethi(a)wikimedia.org. Looking forward to your participation! Cheers, Srishti & Jon [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/… [2] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-november-2023 *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

6 months, 3 weeks

SMWCon 2023 - Call for Contributions: MediaWiki in the age of AI

by Bernhard Krabina, KM-A

Hello (Semantic) MediaWiki users, maintainers, software developers, consultants, researchers! [Ein Bild, das Text, Grafiken, Grafikdesign, Blume enth?lt. Automatisch generierte Beschreibung] The SMWCon in fall 2023 (https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023) will be held on location in Paderborn, Germany. On three days there will be talks, tutorials and hackathons. This conference addressed everybody interested in wikis and open knowledge, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business or government representatives, and researchers. This conference aimed to: * inspire/onboard new users, * inform on where and how MediaWiki is used, * convey and consolidate best practices, * initiate/foster/integrate application and development and * strengthen the community of stakeholders and its service portfolio. Learn how to "do" MediaWiki in order to assume your responsibilities regarding your organization's knowledge management. Please not that early-bird ticket sale ends today! Call for Contributions ---------------------------- We are looking for use cases and best practices that provide insight in issues like * How does AI change the way we use MediaWiki * How do semantic wikis fit in and be combined with AI tools * How can we use Semantic MediaWiki in research and organizations * How do we develop and deploy MediaWiki and extensions Your experience is valuable for all of us! So please share and propose a talk, tutorial or other contribution. Go to the Conference Page (https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_202<https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2022>3) and hit the 'Propose a talk here' button. Please propose a contribution if you plan to have one, even if you don't have the details yet. For us it is important to know what we can expect. We look forward to your contribution! Sponsoring ---------------- Thank you to the sponsors of SMWCon 2023! [Logo of XL&Knowledge]<http://www.archixl.nl/> ArchiXL<http://www.archixl.nl/> Specialists in enterprise architecture, knowledge management, and semantics [Hallo Welt!]<https://bluespice.com/> Hallo Welt!<https://bluespice.com> The company behind BlueSpice, the open-source enterprise wiki software [MyWikis Europe]<https://mywikis.eu/> MyWikis Europe<https://mywikis.eu> GDPR compliant (Semantic) MediaWiki hosting from the heart of Europe. [Wikibase Solutions]<https://wikibase-solutions.com/> Wikibase Solutions<https://wikibase-solutions.com/> Specialist in business solutions with MediaWiki Organization ------------------ The organizers of SMWCon 2023 and MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group<https://mwstake.org> * Bernhard Krabina, KM-A Knowledge Management Associates<https://km-a.net> (General Chair) * Ad Strack van Schijndel, Juggel<https://www.juggel.com> (Program Chair) * Tobias Oetterer, Paderborn University<https://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/> (Local Chair)

6 months, 3 weeks

Weekly Summary #600

by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Welcome to the 600th Weekly Summary! Lydia (Staff) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE)> initiated the weekly newsletter at the start of the Wikidata project, before it even went live, to keep the community in the loop about the developments, the new projects and tools. Léa (Staff) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE)> carried on the newsletter in 2016 and then it was my turn in 2020. The newsletter has been going strong for eleven years, with its content powered by the community, and delivered every week without fail. Thank you to everyone who helped fill in the different sections of the Weekly Summary thus far ❤️ --Mohammed <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mohammed_Abdulai_(WMDE)> - Item #600 Ichiro Suzuki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q600>; Property #600 is Wine AppDB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P600>; and Lexeme #600 is the Japanese conjugation だから <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L600> - 600 in the multiverse: as a year <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25586> (another year <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q246827>), a number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257138>, a category <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257138>, a track gauge <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10676739>, a jet <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q699843>, an asteroid <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114661>, an auto race <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1104915>, a genetic element <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29707956>, a death <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6643615>, a birth <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6282893>, a TV serie <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23136778>, a car <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1125433>, a galaxy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1037609>, a sport discipline <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2817913>, a radio telescope <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1590725>, an engine <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17861788>, a polygon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3135031>, a film <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18811585>, a GPU <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137069>, a photolithography <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1050797>, and many more… <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?go=Go&search=600&search=600&title=Spec…> - Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 600 <https://w.wiki/7xRc> - Map of things at an altitude of 600 m <https://w.wiki/7xUE> - List of items with an external ID equal to 600 <https://w.wiki/7xU5> - Wikidata was 600 days old on Wednesday 11 June 2014 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17932511>. It will be 600 weeks old on Monday 9 August 2027 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69308365> WikidataCon happened over the weekend Birthday wishes from the community <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Messages#Birthday_…>, and a special note from the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland below: Today it is time to celebrate Wikidata’s 11th birthday. Let’s take a look back at the past year and what’s coming. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-map-2023-06-26-items-inten…>Wikidata’s world - map of Wikidata Items with a geocoordinate There are now over 12.200 amazing people who are actively editing on Wikidata - 3000 of them even making more than 100 edits a month ♥️ Thank you! Without you Wikidata wouldn’t be what it is today. Thank you for helping give more people more access to more knowledge every single day. This year also marks the year we can welcome a new sister to the Wikimedia projects: Wikifunctions is live, letting us all geek out on functions in anticipation of Abstract Wikipedia. Another big milestone was Wikibase Cloud coming out of private beta. Now you can more easily run your own Wikibase and collect and maintain data that doesn’t fit into Wikidata. 2023 was also the year when the efforts of Wikidata editors were recognized across the Wikimedia movement with the awarding of the Wikimedian of the Year award to Taufik Rosman and the Wikimedia Laureate award to Siobhan Leachman. Over the coming year I want us to find ways how we can bring more people, who are already editing a bit here and there, closer to the community and help them find their place in our community. If you are one of them and have not found your place yet, check out a WikiProject related to your interests. Wikidata has something for everyone 😉 Wikidata now has over 106 Million Items and nearly 1.2 Million Lexemes. We are closing in on 2 Billion edits, making about 20 Million edits per month. All this content is used to create useful, quirky, educational or just fun applications that wouldn’t be possible without Wikidata and all the work you put into it. Check out Notable People for example. Over the coming year we want to make that even easier by building better APIs, lessening the strain on the Query Service, doing more outreach to developers as well as making our data more usable by ironing out ontology issues. In addition there will be increased focus on improving how the other Wikimedia projects integrate Wikidata. With the opening up of Wikibase Cloud we will hopefully also see many new Wikibases pop up that cover more specialized data or be used as playgrounds to prepare data for Wikidata. I am looking forward to a growing Wikibase Ecosystem and excited about more Linked Open Data becoming available to the world, with Wikidata being an entryway to it all. And last but not least: if you want to learn a bit more about the history and backstory of Wikidata, then you might like Wikidata: The Making Of by Denny, Markus and me. Lydia for the development team - Documentation of the sessions <https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/> is currently ongoing with the slides getting uploaded on Wikimedia Commons here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikidataCon_2023_presentations>. The Livestream and replay of the conference per day are already available on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/@wikidatataiwan9726/streams>. The individual sections are here <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejPB3E7aMGVY43bEX71CivKX> . - List of presents gathered by the community for Wikidata's eleventh birthday - *Luthor <https://luthor.toolforge.org/>* is a multi-lingual tool for adding *usage examples* to lexemes on Wikidata, from sentences found on *Wikisource* in the same language. (by Asaf Bartov <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ijon>) - *সংকলক <https://sangkalak.toolforge.org/>* একটি সরঞ্জাম যেটা দিয়ে উইকিসংকলনের লেখাগুলির উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেম অনুসারে সে লেখাগুলিকে উন্নত ভাবে অনুসন্ধান করা যায়। - Sangkalak is a tool with which Wikisource works can be searched more readily, using the Wikidata items for those works. (present from Mahir256) (by মাহির২৫৬-এর (A) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mahir256> উপহার) - File:Wikidata 11th Birthday Card.jpg <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_11th_Birthday_Card.jpg> (by Almaddy2022 <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Almaddy2022&action=edit&red…> ) - *Quonter Vandal <https://qop.toolforge.org>* - is a tool powered by AI to help identify vandalism to Wikidata. For more details and to leave comments see Wikidata:Quonter_Vandal <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Quonter_Vandal>. Developed by BrokenSegue (A) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:BrokenSegue> (talk <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:BrokenSegue>) - Creating new Lexemes? For a lot more languages you now no longer need to provide a spelling variant when creating a new Lexeme, making it even easier to contribute data about words in your language. (present from the development team) - The Mismatch Finder, the tool to help review mismatches between Wikidata and other data sources now also has support for mismatches on qualifiers. This allows it to be useful also for issues that are in the data in qualifiers. (present from the development team) - inteGraality <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/inteGraality> service pack update from User:Jean-Frédéric <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric> - support for grouping by predicates, particularly useful for Lexemes (example by wikibase:lexicalCategory <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Integraality/Lex…>, example by dct:language <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Integraality/Lex…>) ; other example by badge <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Integraality/Bad…> - new column type: sitelinks (example 1 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Integraality/Vid…>, example 2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Integraality/Vid…> ) - Automatic support for grouping by datetime properties (example <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Music/Statistics/Albums_…> ) - Wikidata Lexeme Forms <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Lexeme_Forms> experimental Wikifunctions support (details TBA) --Lucas Werkmeister <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister> (talk <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Lucas_Werkmeister>) - The projects WiseWoman briefly presented of students editing obscure corners of Wikidata are on her Wikidata user page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:WiseWoman>. - Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit (by Houcemeddine Turki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Csisc>): - MedCYN <https://www.youtube.com/live/-LdIz8ncCpw> as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support. - MeSH2Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/live/hgikdP8Fuaw> as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications. Discussions - Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Hjart (A) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hjart>! (see the closed request <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> ) - New requests for permissions/Bot: - DifoolBot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/DifoolB…> (Task: Update pages containing an ECARTICO person ID (P2915) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2915> statement, currently 5709 pages) - MsynBot 13 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MsynBot…> (Task: Remove unnecessary use of *preferred rank*) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> call October 31, 2023: We will hear from Darnelle Melvin, Cory Lampert, and Andre Hulet, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Libraries, on WireframeVG: A Search and Discovery Application for Wikidata Projects. Agenda <https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ALvaZdMeESOwO92yL3jsnn78xYcmcmK0mCFmo4…> - Ongoing: - WikiProject India/Events/Wikidata Eleventh Birthday online Datathon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Events/Wikidata_El…>, Oct 26 - Nov 5th 2023 - Weekly Lexeme Challenge #115: Orchestra <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=115> (Challenge started on 2023-10-30 12:01:26) - Past: Wikidata Eleventh Birthday Distributed events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Events> Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Blogs - From MeSH Keywords to Biomedical Knowledge in Wikidata: The giant move <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/10/23/from-mesh-keywords-to-biomedical-know…> - Linking ACMI & Wikidata <https://labs.acmi.net.au/linking-acmi-wikidata-aa33dd6fd58b>, by Paul Duchesne - Enhanced Wikibase <https://wikiworks.com/enhanced-wikibase.html>, by Wikiworks MediaWiki consulting - Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-10-23/News_…>, by Yamen <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Yamen> - 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2023/Contents…>, By Dario Crespi (WMIT) & Ilaria Diterlizzi (WMIT) - The 11th Birthday of Wikidata was celebrated in Bhubaneswar by the Odia Wikimedians User Group <https://orissadiary.com/the-11th-birthday-of-wikidata-was-celebrated-in-bhu…> - Papers - Relevant Entity Selection: Knowledge Graph Bootstrapping via Zero-Shot Analogical Pruning <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.16296.pdf> (Jarnac et al) - Press - The 11th Birthday Of Wikidata Was Celebrated In Bhubaneswar By The Odia Wikimedians User Group <https://orissadiary.com/the-11th-birthday-of-wikidata-was-celebrated-in-bhu…> via OrissaDiary.com - Find the most famous person in your city using this interactive map <https://t3n.de/news/finde-den-bekanntesten-menschen-deiner-stadt-dank-inter…> (in German) by Kay Nordenbrock via t3n.de ("The database contains data on people from 3,500 BC to 2018 AD. It consists largely of data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.") - Videos - How cultural institutions use Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR5t0GptAFI> (How cultural heritage institutions sharing their collection data, including implementing Wikidata projects, batch uploading datasets to Wikidata, and how to share successes to a broader audience) - Jackie Rubashkin, Metadata Technician, Barack Obama Presidential Library; Michelle van Lanschot, Project Coordinator at Wikimedia-Netherlands; William Blueher, Associate Museum Librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Will Kent, Wiki Education - (in Chinese) Wikidata基礎編輯教學 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9j0vIUtmc> (Wikidata basic editor) - Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters (COSCUP) 2023 - How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0WFKHWB1Y> - Yucheng Lin (COSCUP 2023) - Wikidata merge-gadget <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ds8AyuUOI> (in Swedish) by Magnus Sälgö - Wikidata Live editing session - NASA, inteGraality, dates and qualifiers <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WPs91QvxZA> (in French) by Nicolas VIGNERON - Pairing SBN with Wikidata via WikiLinker <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGMj8j6t8BE> (in Portuguese) - Introduction to Wikibase Cloud <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-lZZQMEz4> (in Italian) Tool of the week - User:Magnus Manske/author sort.js <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/author_sort.js> is a user script to automatically sort the authors of a paper in the order they appear on the paper, ie. by sorting author (P50) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P50> and author name string (P2093) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2093> statements by series ordinal (P1545) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1545>. Example: One Hundred and Seventeen Clades of Euagarics (Q28209168) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28209168>. - Notable People <https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people> is a map project by Topi Tjukanov <https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/1552622792708874240> that showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. It uses the combined data of Wikipedia and Wikidata from the paper's "a cross-verified database of notable people, 3500 BC-2018 AD <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4>" by Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoît Eyméoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique & Etienne Wasmer. The data shows only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank. Other Noteworthy Stuff - The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org…> . - Wikimedia Research Fund Update update <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia…>. *"You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 15, 2023. While all research proposals related to Wikimedia projects are welcome, we particularly encourage research studies on medium to small size languages and communities, as well as in low resourced languages and projects."* - The Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WD4WMP> team is investigating the different ways Wikidata is used in the sister projects. We would like to speak with you about your experiences integrating or connecting Wikidata, if you'd like to tell us, please sign up for an interview on our project page or on our Registration Form <https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Interviews>. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Illinois State Parks ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12117>, Minnesota State Forests ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12118>, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12119>, ‎Flickr photo ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12120>, ‎IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12121>, ManyVids ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12122>, ‎North Rhine-Westphalian school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12123>, Repairs ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12124> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - nixpkgs path <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nixpkgs_path> (other operating systems have their package manages as id properties) - Cultural Heritage Online ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cultural_Heritage_…> (identifier for heritage assets and related institutions on Cultural Heritage Online) - External identifiers: Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyklopedia_Teatr…>, Emerald network site ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Emerald_network_si…>, Playdate Catalog ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Playdate_Catalog_ID>, Rowing Canada ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rowing_Canada_ID>, Radio Paradise song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Radio_Paradise_son…>, Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tennessee-Kentucky…>, old-games id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/old-games_id>, TheTVDB movie ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TheTVDB_movie_ID>, Indiana Plant Atlas ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indiana_Plant_Atla…>, cagb manuscript ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cagb_manuscript_ID>, la Repubblica TV series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/la_Repubblica_TV_s…>, Filmweb ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmweb_ID>, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Monasticon_Hiberni…>, Gale document ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gale_document_ID> - Query examples: - Property completeness dashboard for manuscripts <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Manuscripts/Dashboard> - Map of narrative locations of romantic comedies <https://w.wiki/7wSg> (source <https://mastodon.world/@mlpoulter/111318731640496853>) - Tunisian scientists are cited by Nobel Prize winners <https://w.wiki/7q$L> (source <https://twitter.com/Csisc1994/status/1715408704298770586>) - Which cathedrals are the tallest in the world? <https://w.wiki/7pGw> (source <https://twitter.com/jmcollado/status/1714353277083463979>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: - Wikidata:WikiProject Source Reliability <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_Reliability> - an project to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources - Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Academic_Publisher> - a project to display open access shares (among others based on publishers) at the Austrian Datahub for Open Access Negotiations and Monitoring Development - Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to remove a description in a given language from an Item, modify the label of an Item and add aliases to an Item (phab:T342986 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342986>, phab:T342980 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342980>, phab:T335842 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335842>) - Lexicographical data: We switched the Property that is used to pre-select the spelling variant on the Special:NewLexeme page from P218 (ISO 639-1 code) to P305 (IETF language tag) to make use of the latter’s larger coverage. (phab:T348923 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348923>) - EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on addressing the feedback from the testing of the new datatype in the test system. 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

6 months, 3 weeks

Weekly Summary #599

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: Hjart <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> (RfP scheduled to end after 26 October 2023 11:20 UTC) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour, Q4 2023 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2023-10-…> - Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #114: Cars <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=114> (Challenge started on 2023-10-23 12:01:27) - Upcoming: - How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world <https://wikiedu.org/speaker-series/> < organised by WikiEdu, happening today, Oct. 23. - Edit-A-Thon for LGBTQ+ History Month <https://twitter.com/bingulibraries/status/1714735878847770750/photo/1> < Binghamton University Library, New York, Oct. 25th. Help make visible the important contributions of queer figures. - Bridging Art Archive to the Wikidata Ecosystem <https://twitter.com/hkbulibdmss/status/1713857483792437497> < a guest lecture from Joyce Chen at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship '23, Oct. 27, via Zoom. - Wikidata Birthday Edit-A-Thon (Albanian) <https://twitter.com/SQWikimediansUG/status/1714944884459618622> < Albanian language Wikimedians celebrate Wikidata's Birthday with a 2-day event (Oct. 28 - 29, 2023) near the "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Elbasan. - Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 23, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover batch creating items using OpenRefine.This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the Event page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> - 4th Wikidata Workshop <https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2023/> as part of the International Semantic Web Conference. 7th Nov., Athens, Greece. Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Blogs - Final Report of the Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Adapting_Wikidata_to_support_clini…> Project funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund. - Videos - Let's Connect Learning Clinic #2: Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW6SbOPb-8I> < Learn how to run SPARQL queries, create Listeria lists, and structure data on commons for Wiki Loves Monuments and other WikiLoves campaigns, provided by Wikimedia Sweden. Missed Clinic #1? Find it here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiTjxAy_Z8>. - Live Editing #110 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke4izHB0GT0> < Develop your SPARQL query-building skills in this follow-along session. - Tutorial on Wikidata for or WikiConnect course <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Gj5bHIYwU> (in Portuguese) <-- Explaining the Wiki Movimento Brasil's WikiConecta Wikidata course. The course entails Understanding what Wikidata is and its operating logic, Learning the basics of editing and recovering data, and Understanding why and how to use Wikidata with your students. - Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit: - MedCYN <https://www.youtube.com/live/-LdIz8ncCpw> as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support. - MeSH2Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/live/hgikdP8Fuaw> as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications. Tool of the week - User:Magnus Manske/annas archive.js <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/annas_archive.js> is a userscript that automatically links to Anna's Archive from Wikidata items for books and research articles, for title, DOI, ISBN, etc. so that people can easily get access to them. Other Noteworthy Stuff - There is a new update <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_up…> relative to the Wikidata Query Service scaling of the backend, that explains how the team will experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs. - Mismatch Finder tool improvements <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/th…>: In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: - ‎fonds <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12095> (archival fonds (part of a collection) which an item belongs to) - parent form of an active substance <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12099> (parent form of a chemical entity (e.g. a salt) used as an active substance in pharmaceutical products) - ‎Red List of South African Plants conservation status <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12105> (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the South African National Biodiversity Institute) - Parpulov group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12110> (class of similar manuscripts with Catenae as assigned by Georgi Parpulov) - External identifiers: ‎DfE group UID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12094>, Kinobox film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12096>, Kinobox person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12098>, FloraVeg.EU taxon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12100>, DBpia author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12101>, ‎Mod DB company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12102>, ‎GameBrew ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12103>, Royal Irish Academy ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12104>, ‎RKDexcerpts ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12106>, ELSST Thesaurus ID (Version 4 - 2023) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12107>, JLPSA player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12108>, ‎Catenae Catalogue ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12109>, ‎IGI Global author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12111>, ‎Pandit Project work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12112>, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12113>, Flora of New Jersey Project atlas ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12114>, ‎GNU Savannah project ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12115>, ‎Rahlfs number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12116> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - used by practitioners of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/used_by_practition…> (item used by a practitioner of another item) - Plant Illustrations taxon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plant_Illustration…> (URL for a taxon on the Plant Illustrations website) - Art Platform Japan ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Art_Platform_Japan…> (identifier in {{Q|123139107}} (Japanese & English)) - External identifiers: IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IBP_6-letter_bird_…>, Flickr Photo ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flickr_Photo_ID>, North Rhine-Westphalian school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/North_Rhine-Westph…>, identifiant d'un membre de l'Académie de Stanislas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_d%27un…>, Bantumen Powerlist 100 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bantumen_Powerlist…>, identifiant Repairs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Repairs>, Legends Tour ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Legends_Tour_ID>, Radio Paradise song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Radio_Paradise_son…>, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archivio_storico_a…>, Cycling Archives race ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cycling_Archives_r…>, Gale ACID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gale_ACID>, ID osoby Medvik <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ID_osoby_Medvik>, HBL topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HBL_topic_ID>, National Humanities Center Fellow ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Humanitie…> - Query examples: - Birthplace of recipients of the Nazi Germany Iron Cross <https://w.wiki/7p8c> - Burial place of Swedish Prime Ministers <https://w.wiki/4tJ3> - List of cathedrals around the world with its height <https://w.wiki/7pGw> (source <https://twitter.com/jmcollado/status/1714353277083463979>) - Population of Check villages with rivers flowing through them <https://w.wiki/7jeC> (source <https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1712053220510437379>) - Ships with multiple operators that do not have multiple official names <https://w.wiki/7skK> (source <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Ships_with_multiple_…> ) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects> - WikiProject Photography in Finland <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Photography_in_Finland> - a project for photography in Finland, including photographers, studios and other related items - WikiProject Celtic Music <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Celtic_Music> - a project for collecting Celtic tunes Development - We are preparing for WikidataCon and the Data Modelling Days. - We are looking more into where Wikibase needs to be adapted to the upcoming IP Masking changes. - We added a notification about the license to all edits to labels, descriptions and aliases that was missing still (phab:T343998 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343998>) The same for Lexemes is coming next (phab:T343999 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343999>) 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

7 months

Wikidata birthday celebrations in India

by Jinoy Tom Jacob

Dear Wikimedians, Greetings to all of you. As you are aware, Wikidata is celebrating its remarkable journey as it marks its 11th birthday, reflecting on the remarkable transformation of the past decade. These birthday festivities span a wide array of events taking place both online and offline across the globe <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Events>, attracting participation from Wikimedians, data enthusiasts, and open knowledge advocates. Through activities such as edit-a-thons, workshops, and meetups, these gatherings serve as a unifying force for contributors and open data enthusiasts. To celebrate Wikidata's 11th birthday, we've organized a series of thrilling events and activities in India. *Datathon* A *11 day long Wikidata data-thon* is planned to celebrate Wikidata's 11th birthday in India.[1] The data-thon is organised to celebrate the birthday of Wikidata along with learning how we can contribute to Wikidata and make use of it in different Wikimedia projects. The data-thon aims to enhance Wikidata items by incorporating labels and descriptions in your native language, along with the addition of references, qualifiers, and statements. Additionally, it encourages the utilization of India-related properties within these items, ultimately contributing to the improvement of structured data in Wikidata. To stay updated and get involved, please have a look at the event page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Events/Wikidata_El…> [1] and join the datathon by adding your name in the participants section. The page also provides details about the tasks and activities scheduled as part of the datathon. - *Date:* Oct 26th - Nov 5th 2023 (Online) - *Event Page: *Wikidata:WikiProject India/Events/Wikidata Eleventh Birthday Datathon Your contributions play a pivotal role in shaping the success and impact of the data-thon, and it will help enrich the shared knowledge that benefits us all. *Community Meetup and Birthday Celebration* We *Wikimedians of Kerala UG <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Kerala> *is thrilled to celebrate Wikidata's 11th birthday this year along with the OpenStreetMap Community. Joining hands with the OSM Kerala Community meetup <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Kerala_Community_Meetup_2023>, we're joyfully organising Wikidata's 11th birthday with a delightful cake-cutting ceremony, enlightening talks, and engaging data-a-thons We cordially invite you to join us for the in-person community event and birthday celebration in Thrissur, Kerala. We are pleased to announce that a limited number of scholarships for travel and accommodation facilities are available for those traveling to attend the event from India. Please check the event page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Kerala/Events/Wikidata_E…> [2] for more information on how to apply for these scholarships and register for the event. - *Event page: *Wikidata Eleventh Birthday celebration in Kerala <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Kerala/Events/Wikidata_E…> - *Date:* Nov 4th - Nov 5th 2023 - *Venue: *Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Thrissur, Kerala, India - *Registration: * https://airtable.com/app2OaYApDXzm9ib5/shrneKnUQU4AHGzEF Join us in celebrating Wikidata's birthday celebrations in Thrissur, Kerala and let's continue to support and enrich the world of open knowledge. *Discover More Celebrations* We have a page to list all the birthday celebrations happening online and offline in India <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/India>.[3] If you're planning to host a Wikidata birthday celebration (virtual meetup, a local gathering) in your community, please feel free to add it to the event page. Additionally if you or your community have created any presents for Wikidata's birthday those can be presented online during the WikidataCon 2023. To register for a slot, please read the instructions and add your project to this page <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataCon2023-BirthdayLTsession>.[4] If you have any questions or need support, feel free to contact me. [1] - Datathon - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Events/Wikidata_El… [2] - Community Meetup and Birthday Celebration in Kerala - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Kerala/Events/Wikidata_E… [3] - 11th Birthday Celebrations in India - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/India [4] - Projects to present during WikidataCon https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataCon2023-BirthdayLTsession Regards, *Jinoy* User:Gnoeee *Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to.Every 3000 sheets consume a tree. Conserve Trees for a better tomorrow!*

7 months

Celebrating the Success of Our Interns and GSoC Mentor Summit Recap

by Vasanth Gopa

Hello everyone, We are delighted to share the fantastic news of our interns' accomplishments during GSoC 2023 and Outreachy Round 26, under the guidance of their mentors. Please join us in congratulating these remarkable individuals for their unwavering commitment and hard work: *GSoC’ Interns*: 1. Ahmed Amine Hassou (Morocco) Project: Wiki Education Dashboard - Refactoring and upgrading React Mentors: Sage Ross, Will Kent 2. Chenhao Liu (United States of America) Project: Wiki Farm Support for Canasta Mentors: Yaron Koren, Jeffrey Wang 3. Nikhil Mahajan (India) Project: End-to-end test coverage for Abstract Wikipedia's Wikifunctions Mentors: Stef Dunlap, James Forrester, Cory Massaro, Denny Vrandečić 4. Zexi Gong (China) Project: Wikidocumentaries to import images from the web to Structured Data on Commons Mentors: TuukkaH, Susannaanas 5. Shashwat Khanna (India) Project: Improve Programs & Events Dashboard UX for Article Scoped Programs Mentor: Sage Ross 6. Saurabh Jamadagni (India) Project: Adding a menu to Scribe-iOS application and expanding keyboard languages Mentor: Andrew McAllister 7. Ritika Pahwa (India) Project: Commons Android app - Make upload more reliable Mentors: Nicolas Raoul, Kaartic Sivaraam 8. Punith Nayak (India) Project: Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool - New features Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta 9. Varun Shrivastava (India) Project: Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool - Code Quality/Code Health Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta Additionally, we have the following *Outreachy interns*: 1. Abhishek Bhardwaj (India) Project: Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia Mentors: Adam Wight, Simulo, Kavitha A 2. Nathaly Toledo (Venezuela) Project: Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia Mentors: Adam Wight, Simulo, Kavitha A 3. Sulagna Saha (Bangladesh) Project: Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata edits Mentors: Sage Ross, Will Kent These diligent interns have made significant contributions to our community, and we encourage you to explore their reports and blogs to learn more about their exceptional work. You can find additional information about these projects on the following pages: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023 - https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26 Furthermore, we are thrilled to inform you that Srishti Sethi and I (Gopa) recently attended the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit held at Google Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. We represented the outstanding work of our nine GSoC 2023 interns on Wikimedia projects and had the privilege of learning from peers in various open-source software fields, including arts, education, music, robotics, and more. This event, conducted in an unconference, participant-driven style, provided a platform for attendees to discuss the challenges of running open-source projects and share valuable tips and advice for mentoring interns. It's worth noting that Wikimedia has been an active participant in Google Summer of Code since 2006. Once again, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to all our interns, mentors, and everyone who supported them throughout this journey. We eagerly anticipate their continued contributions to Wikimedia projects. Cheers, Wikimedia Organization Administrators (Srishti Sethi, Soham Datta, Sheila and Gopa) -- Regards, Gopa Vasanth <https://gopavasanth.github.io/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopa-vasanth/> | GitHub <https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth> “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

7 months

Mismatch Finder tool improvements: Ability to report mismatches on Qualifiers

by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai

Hello everyone, We have a quick update regarding the Mismatch Finder tool. In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement. A Quick Overview For those who might not be familiar with the Mismatch Finder, it's a tool that helps spot potential mismatches between Wikidata Items and external databases, presenting them to editors for review and correction. This tool is also used to suggest new statements that should be part of Wikidata, but need a human-review step before adding them. You can explore more about it at Wikidata:Mismatch Finder <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder>. What's on the Horizon? The Mismatch Finder currently allows mismatch providers to report mismatches to data that is stored in the main part of a statement. In the upcoming deployment, mismatch providers will have the option to report mismatches found within qualifiers, as important data is stored there as well. This change will require mismatch uploaders to adjust their workflow, as we will introduce a new 'type' column to the accepted CSVs. The CSV upload will look as follows: CSV for a Q42 statement with qualifier, where both the statement and the qualifier are mismatched: item_id,statement_guid,property_id,wikidata_value,external_value,external_url,type Q42,Q42$A3B1288B-67A9-4491-A3AA-20F881C292B9,P3373,Q14623673,”Shoshanna Adams”,example.com,statement Q42,Q42$A3B1288B-67A9-4491-A3AA-20F881C292B9,P1039,Q10943095,”cousin”, example.com,qualifier CSV for a Q42 statement with qualifier, where only the qualifier is mismatched: item_id,statement_guid,property_id,wikidata_value,external_value,external_url,type Q42,Q42$A3B1288B-67A9-4491-A3AA-20F881C292B9,P1039,Q10943095,”cousin”, example.com,qualifier This new feature is currently being developed under T313467 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313467> where you can find more detailed information and to follow the progress of this enhancement. If you have questions or concerns or want to provide feedback, please use the linked Phabbricator ticket or leave us a note at Wikidata talk:Mismatch Finder <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Mismatch_Finder>. Cheers, -- 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

7 months

Upcoming Wikidata & Wikibase office hours on Wednesday, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin) in the Wikidata Telegram group

by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai

Hi everyone, Our next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> will be held at 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin) in the Wikidata Telegram <https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg> group. *The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what we have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.* See you there. -- 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

7 months, 1 week

Wikidata Query Service - Scaling Update - October 2023

by Guillaume Lederrey

Dear Wikidata community members, The Search Platform team has been busy on the Search side improving how we ingest documents into Elasticsearch <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Search/Update_Pipeline>. This work is ramping down and our next priority is to focus on exploring options to scale Wikidata Query Service as mentioned in our annual plan. What are we trying to address? We are convinced that the current highest risk to Wikidata Query Service is the data size and data growth. Wikidata is growing at a rate of roughly 1 billion triples per year and is already one of the largest public SPARQL endpoints on the internet. This is already causing visible issues, such as queries that used to run in a reasonable amount of time that are now timing out. It is also creating less visible issues, both in managing the infrastructure (it took us ~3 months to reload data from scratch last time we tried) and in the overall stability of the system (see the Blazegraph failure playbook <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_up…>). We have strong evidence that increased data size could lead to a hard scaling limit of the service. What are we NOT trying to address? Write load: Wikidata sees around 1 million edits per day. Wikidata Query Service used to be a bottleneck, and was preventing bots from editing via maxlag <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maxlag_parameter>. This has been addressed with the Wikidata Streaming Updater and does not need further work at the moment. Query load / query optimization: We know there are issues with queries timing out, and that Wikidata Query Service is sometimes overloaded to the point where we are dropping queries. The stability of the system is imperfectly addressed by throttling queries, and more servers have been added to handle additional load. While this is certainly inconvenient to WDQS users, we think this is manageable and does not have as much impact as complete failure of the system due to data size. Replacing Blazegraph: Blazegraph is unmaintained and will eventually need to be replaced. Our analysis of alternative backend <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_up…> shows that there are limited options for a graph the size of Wikidata. Addressing the graph size first will open more options when we work on replacing Blazegraph. What is the plan? We want to experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs. This is a breaking change, which will require a number of queries to be rewritten, either to access a new SPARQL endpoint, or to use federation. We want to have a good understanding of the trade-offs before we commit to any long-term solution. We’ve identified separation of scholarly articles as a good first experiment: Scholarly articles represent roughly half of Wikidata triples <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AKhatun/Wikidata_Subgraph_Analysis…>, affect only about 2% of queries <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AKhatun/Wikidata_Scholarly_Article…> (many of which are done as part of the data imports), and such a split would be easy to understand. We did consider other potential splits, but they don’t seem as promising. For example: - Truthy vs fully reified graph <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/RDF_Dump_Format#Statement_…>: the truthy graph would be smaller, but we would still need to maintain the full graph - Labels and descriptions: only amounts to ~20% of the graph, and would require most queries to use federation - Astronomical objects: only amounts to ~10% of the graph To better understand the impact of such a split, we will create a test environment based on a split of a static dump, and create a test plan based on a subset of queries that we see in the current WDQS production environment. Eventually, we will expose this test environment to gather more feedback from all of you. What is the approximate schedule? We anticipate the following, but may need to adjust if there are unforeseen challenges. - By end of January 2024: availability of a somewhat stable testing environment - By end of January 2024: testing of the split on a subset of existing queries, feedback from all of you about how this split is functioning for different workloads - By end of March 2024: reflection on this experiment and next steps, either experimentation with a different split, or productionize the current one What is NOT part of the plan? - Other splits than scholarly articles. Other experiments might come up in the future, but we want to focus on scholarly articles first. - Real-time updates. To reduce the complexity of the experiment, we will focus on a static dump. If the experiment is successful, more work will be done to ensure that those split graphs can be updated in real time. - Production implementation of multiple graphs: we will only commit to a production implementation if the experiment is successful. Success criteria Part of the experimentation is understanding the impacts of this split, so we only have imperfect metrics at this time. - Blazegraph stability is not threatened by the size of the graph. Our expectation is that a size reduction of 25% will give us leeway. A proxy metric for stability is our ability to reload the data from scratch in less than 10 days. - Query time is not increased for most queries. - The number of queries requiring rewrite due to federation is minimal. - The number of queries rendered too expensive by federation is minimal. How to learn more? We will create a wiki page for the project shortly, this will be the main focus point for discussions. You are always welcome to join the Search Platform Office Hours <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Search_Platform/Contact#Office_Hours> (first Wednesday of every month) to ask more questions and have a direct discussion with the team. This communication is also available on wiki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_up…> . Thank you all for your help and support! Guillaume -- *Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him) Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

7 months, 1 week

by Léa Lacroix

Hello all, As you may know, the WikidataCon 2023 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023>, the conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, will take place on October 28-29. People around the world can join online <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023/Attend_online>, access the content of the conference live or in replay, and discuss with other participants on the interactive and friendly platform Gathertown. People living in the neighbouring regions have the possibility to join the onsite event <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023/Attend_in_Taipei> taking place at the National Taipei University. Whether you join online or onsite, we strongly encourage you to sign up by filling out the registration form <https://pretix.eu/wikidatatw/Wikidatacon2023/> before October 22, so you can receive all the information you need to attend the event. While waiting for the WikidataCon to start, you can already have a look at the exciting program <https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/> put together by community members from the ESEAP region and all around the world. Finally, you can also consider preparing a present for the Wikidata birthday and presenting it during the birthday presents lightning talks session <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday#Birthday_presents_…>, and join or organize a satellite event <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Events> with your local community. Questions ? Feel free to contact the organizing team by writing on this talk page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2023> or at contact(a)wikidatacon.org. We are looking forward to seeing you at the WikidataCon 2023! — 信件主旨：線上註冊參加或現場參加 WikidataCon 2023 大家好， WikidataCon 2023 是專門針對 Wikidata 社群的會議，將於 10 月 28 日至 29 日舉行。來自全球的人可以在線上參加，選擇觀看直播或看重播的會議內容，並在具有互動性和友善的平台 Gather Town 上，與其他會議參與者進行討論。居住在臺灣鄰近區域的人，將有機會參加在國立臺北大學舉辦的現場活動。無論你是參加線上，或是參加實體，我們強烈建議：請於 10 月 22 日以前，填寫報名表，以便你可以取得參加活動所需的所有資訊。期待 WikidataCon 開始的時間，你可以看到由來自 ESEAP 地區與世界各地的社群成員已經彙整出的精彩議程內容。最後，你還可以考慮，為 Wikidata Birthday 準備一項禮物，並在生日禮物閃電演講會議期間獻上祝福，並與當地社群一起參加或組織衛星活動。還有哪些問題嗎？請隨時在此討論頁面上寫信，或發送電子郵件至 contact(a)wikidatacon.org 與主辦團隊聯絡。我們期待在 WikidataCon 2023 上見到你！ -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement & Events Consultant Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

7 months, 1 week

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