* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2024-11-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #654 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_11_19*
* Discussions *
- New requests for permissions/Bot: 333Bot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/333Bot - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there. - Closed request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Additional_rights_for_bureaucrats - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights.
* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events *
- Upcoming - 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - registration is now open https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/KP4H3NIV4BUZU4MVFOPP656SBW7OE7P3/ - Save the date: the Data Reuse Days 2025 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025, an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already propose sessions for the program https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event_talk:Data_Reuse_Days_2025. - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 3 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (Time zone converter https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1733245200). Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series Etherpad https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/LD4-WDAG_Lexicographical_Data_Series to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024, at our regular time of 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET. Event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls/Second_Project_Series - Wikimania 2025 Scholarships are now open! https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Scholarships This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Blogs - Why and for what purpose should Wikidata be used in Colombia? https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2024/Contents/Colombia_report - Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2024/Contents/Latvia_report - Wikidata and the 2024 Open Library Community Celebration https://blog.rayberger.org/wikidata-and-the-2024-open-library-community-celebration - Where the data may roam https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2024/11/where-the-data-may-roam-bringing-wild-west-performers-to-wikidata/: Bringing Wild West performers to Wikidata. Author Jason Sharp documents their experience adding legendary showman Buffalo Bill to Wikidata. - Advancing BHL’s Data for a Sustainable Future: Meet Tiago, Our New Wikimedian-in-Residence https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2024/11/meet-tiago-bhl-wikimedian-in-residence.html The BHL-Wiki Working Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL has enrolled a Wikimedian-in-Residence with a focus on Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons. - Papers - Beyond the Library Catalogue: Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata https://apcz.umk.pl/FT/article/view/52732 - examines how integrating Wikidata into libraries enhances resource discoverability, fosters interoperability, and empowers users within a global knowledge network. By Okuonghae, O. (2024). - On assessing weaker logical status claims in Wikidata cultural heritage records https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw243686 - approaches to representing weaker logical status (WLS) information in Wikidata, finding limited usage, variations and ambiguities between datasets, and proposes improvements for clarity and accuracy. By Di Pasquale et al.(2024) - Books: Tiziana Possemato, *Entity modeling: la terza generazione della catalogazione* https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0393-7: contains many references to the use of Wikidata in cataloguing - Videos - (Portuguese)Wikidata & OpenRefine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Oq6LVZCdY - Part of the “Introduction to digital platforms for research” sessions for the Centro Luís Krus of NOVA FCSH. Practical exercises for data reconciliation from the Portuguese Early Music Database using the OpenRefine tool. - NODES 2024: Using Dbpedia and Wikidata Knowledge Graphs With Neo4j https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8U9bheQorg - Cuneyt Tyler presents 'Semantic Space', a project using Dbpedia and Wikidata to enhance the user experience browsing articles on the web. - Uploading Images From Public Sites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGEDRHtRVtc - Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata make great bedfellows. Margaret Donald shows how to create Commons categories, create structured data and link categories to Wikidata. - WCNA: LOFESQ Lots of Farmers Empty Silos Quicker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Kry2fIHXc: building community through a named entity Wikibase. Experiences of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives setting up the WikiNames Wikibase instance and breaking down knowledge silos - Podcast series: Decolonizing structured data: a new season of Whose Voices? https://whoseknowledge.org/dsd-whose-voices/ including "Episode 5 -- Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (Staff) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE)" - Other - SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions" https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2024/November#"SPINACH":_LLM-based_tool_to_translate_"challenging_real-world_questions"_into_Wikidata_SPARQL_queries - De Wikidata à Wikibase : Pour une meilleure compréhension de vos données https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:De_Wikidata_%C3%A0_Wikibase-CampusDuLibre-23-Novembre-2024-John_Samuel.pdf, presentation by John Samuel https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jsamwrites at Le campus du libre 2024 (Q131312243) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131312243, Lyon, November 23, 2024.
* Tool of the week *
- Guess Image from Pronunciation https://ordia.toolforge.org/guess-image-from-pronunciation/ is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts. - ABECTO https://github.com/fusion-jena/abecto/releases/tag/v3.1.1 is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export (Tweet https://wikis.world/@janmartinkeil@mstdn.social/113480328404817505) - Wikidata Infernal https://wd-infernal.toolforge.org/ is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. (blog http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/750)
* Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties and property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review *
- Newest General datatypes: - picture of this person doing their job https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13146 (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits) - ISCC https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13150 (ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing) - Newest External identifiers: Kultboy editor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13129, WikiBaseball ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13130, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13131, ANID Researcher Portal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13132, TOPO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13133, DBIS Resource ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13134, ITV News topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13135, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13136, ISFDB editorial collection ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13137, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13138, ILEC World Lake Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13139, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13140, El Moudjahid tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13141, SGES monument ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13142, DEX ’09 entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13143, Electronic Language International Festival person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13144, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13145, Paramount+ video ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13147, Le Club Mediapart blogger ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13148, Phish.net venue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13149 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - study or design for this work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/study_or_design_for_this_work (preliminary work for this finished work) - OAI formatter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OAI_formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services) - Open Library Collection https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Library_Collection (Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics) - scientific illustration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/scientific_illustration (an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.) - thesis submitted for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/thesis_submitted_for (academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted) - meeting of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/meeting_of (subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.)) - UMC rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UMC_rating (Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC)) - Non-binary population https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Non-binary_population (number of non-binary people inhabiting the place) - role named as https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/role_named_as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work) - bequest income https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/bequest_income (The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.) - New External identifier property proposals to review: ISLRN https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/erail.in_railway_station_identifier, Gallimard author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gallimard_author_ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Japanese_Health_Insurance_System_Facility_ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27un(e)_artiste_sur_Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Eyrolles_author_ID, Zvuk album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Zvuk_album_ID, Chtyvo author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chtyvo_author_ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioth%C3%A8que_du_S%C3%A9minaire_de_Tournai_IDs, EU Corporate body code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EU_Corporate_body_code, SBOID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SBOID, Waymark code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Waymark_code, Radio Algeria tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Radio_Algeria_tag_ID, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Academic_Dictionary_of_Lithuanian_entry_ID, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PBY_Ben-Yehuda_dictionary_identifier, ThePWHL.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ThePWHL.com_player_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
* Did you know? *
- Query examples: - Map of Swedish municipalities colored by Wikipedia article length https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali/30_Day_Map_Challenge_2024#/map/4 (source https://social.coop/@ainali/113498913509281376) - Timeline of deaths from disasters in Spain https://w.wiki/C8KA ( source https://x.com/jmcollado/status/1861142531855032517)
- Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- Aargauer Bibliografie https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Aargauer_Bibliografie - WikiProject for the coordination of data ingests and Wikipedia workshops related to the official bibliography of the Aargau Cantonal Library https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q301235, operated by Bibliothek und Archiv Aargau https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113977165 (Switzerland) - WikiProject Taiwan/Amis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Taiwan/Amis - collects information related to the Ami culture, including statistics and activity records. - Rwanda https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Rwanda - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc...) relating to Rwanda Rwanda (Q1037) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1037 - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: A list of Items with a sitelink to English Wikipedia but without any Statements https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site/enwiki - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Cueva de las Manos (Q223385) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223385 - cave with cave paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: bezczelny (L2781) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2781 - Polish adjective that can mean "impudent" or "brazen" in English
* Development *
- Wikidata Query Service: The graph split rules https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_graph_split/Rules have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "publication type of scholarly work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13046" into the scholarly article graph. - Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (phab:T378627 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378627) - EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label and aliases when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema.(phab:T375641 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375641 ) - Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. ( phab:T371196 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371196, phab:T371752 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371752) - Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (phab:T377986 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377986 but first need to improve the underlying scripts (phab:T376604 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376604) - Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (phab:T379608 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379608) - Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table.
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/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority.
* Weekly Tasks *
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review . - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? . - Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Ghana - Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? in one or two sentences. - 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
Read the full report! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_11_26