*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*Discussions
- Open request for adminship: WT2O_2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/WT20_2 - (RfP deadline: February 22, 2024 17:46 UTC) - Other: Project chat: PI Bot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#PI_Bot is an interesting conversation about the function of PI Bot in creating Stub articles and evolves into discussing ways of matching articles, categories and templates in sibling projects with their Wikidata items. Contribute to the discussion or even better, use one of the many tools posted and get linking!
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group call February 20, 2024: In honor of Valentine's Day month, we are bringing back the popular program from last February: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, even if you’re just beginning to think about it, or just what you like to edit when you have time. This is a great way to share your ideas, solicit community input and ask questions about resources or tools. This will be an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeDJ7luVK6s4rhkW6X4W5KJwyv0Zg9S-CWklGYLVlyg/edit#heading=h.wfymokwg49yg if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so. You can share your screen if you like, but there’s no need for slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeDJ7luVK6s4rhkW6X4W5KJwyv0Zg9S-CWklGYLVlyg/edit?usp=sharing - Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM) at ACL 2024 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/MGQS37IBVC6APWPGDC6XCZKJHM2WYJCF/. Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE - Wiki Workshop 2024 ― Research Track Papers - Call for contributions https://wikiworkshop.org/2024/call-for-papers. Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - 2023 Year Review https://addshore.com/2024/02/2023-year-review/ by ADDSHORE, a prominent contributor and community member for WBStack and Wikibase.Cloud. - Wikidata Literary Influencers https://fetstudy.uwe.ac.uk/~pmatthew/blog/2024/02/05/wikidata-literary-influencers/ by Paul Matthews shows step-by-step how to get to an interactive network visualization based on Wikidata data - Papers: Language models for extracting Wikidata statements and generating Wikipedia content https://openreview.net/pdf/2a8fab0e8d49115d68ce912ba361f246219a37f4.pdf - is a Wikimedia Research proposal to improve Wikidata and English Wikipedia content using machine-learning power of AI and LL Models; by Thang, T. - Videos - Kairntech Demo Entity Extraction using Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqy5OlYCS8 - is an example of how Wikidata is being used as a knowledge base to populate AI companions and LLM's with relevant content for profit. - Dancing Digital Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDFqBrXhBwM with Rebecca Salzer is a Wikibase instance sharing LOD between itself, video archives and Commons. - WikiPod AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj13oaCw8cw - try listening to last week's Status Updates with AI-generated speaking, an experiment by Tiago Lubiana https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TiagoLubiana. - Notebooks: TTTTRPG https://observablehq.com/@pascaliensis/ttttrpg - Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games queried using SPARQL from Wikidata.
Tool of the week
- User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Yair_rand/DiffLists.js - this userscript changes the appearance of Recent Changes, Watchlist, Contributions, History pages, and Related Changes. It also adds filter options. - Wikidata Topic Curator https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata_Topic_Curator (a rewrite of ItemSubjector https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/ItemSubjector into a webapp) help wikimedians add relevant topics to items. Based on a given topic QID it fetches articles matching the label, aliases or a custom user-provided term of that QID that is currently missing the main subject property. - Author Disambiguator https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Author_Disambiguator - is a tool for editing the authors of works recorded in Wikidata, e.g. for finding Wikidata Items for the authors (P50 instead of 'author name string').
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: - has cabinet https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12443 (value is the advisory committee to the item's head of state) - ISCED field https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12446 (mapping of a particular course or curriculum to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)) - appeals to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12452 (court or other body that hears appeals from subject's decisions) - location information URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12454 (URL of a web page providing information on the locations of stores or other physical locations of a brand or operator) - phonographic copyright https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12456 (person or organization that holds the phonographic copyright) - is invariant under https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12457 (subject is unchanged by this process / function / group of transformation) - formatter URL for IIIF manifest https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12463 (URL to generate IIIF manifest from specific ID) - PyPI trove classifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12468 (standardized classification system for software, used and maintained by the Python Package Index) - graduation rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12469 (proportion of students who graduate from the institution in the given timeframe) - normal graduation time https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12470 (expected or typical duration of an educational program from matriculation to graduation) - multiplier of normal graduation time https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12471 (how much longer than "normal" someone took to graduate; used as a qualifier for the "graduation rate (P12469)") - top scorer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12475 (best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition) - Newest External identifiers: Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12441, TopKar ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12442, Mindat taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12444, China Animal Scientific Database taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12445, Daryab Pashto Glossary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12447, Dictionary of American Regional English ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12448, Dictionary of Old English ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12449, Encyclopedia Mythica ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12450, Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12451, Great Plains Herbaria taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12453, FrameNet frame ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12455, Parsifal cluster ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12458, Archives départementales de Vaucluse fonds ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12459, Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12460, National Buildings Repository identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12461, Location Memory building ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12462, JSTOR Global Plants type specimen ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12464, EDIT16 catalogue title ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12465, EDIT16 catalogue place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12466, Trismegistos god ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12467, Universal Spectrum Identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12472, Weird Gloop article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12473, Kremlin.ru glossary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12474 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - Hindawi Foundation book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hindawi_Foundation_book_ID (A property for IDs of books published by [[Q20397014|Hindawi Foundation]]) - Castradenumber https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Castradenumber (number for a registred subject in a Castrade) - latest end date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/latest_end_date ((qualifier) latest date on which the statement could have ceased to be true (i.e., latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true)) - anthesis start https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/anthesis_start (time of the year when a plant normally starts flowering) - leaf morphology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/leaf_morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Oyez Project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Oyez_Project_ID, GARAE https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GARAE, WhatPub pub ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WhatPub_pub_ID, Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tashrihi_Qamos_Pashto_Glossary_ID, Dictionary of Gandhari ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Gandhari_ID, UCA authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UCA_authority_ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DoblajeVideojuegos_dub_actor_ID, Epigraphic Database Roma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Epigraphic_Database_Roma_ID, European Union trade mark number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Union_trade_mark_number, GCatholic Episcopal Conference ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GCatholic_Episcopal_Conference_ID, Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Consortium_of_Midwest_Herbaria_taxon_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview! Did you know?
- Query examples: - Graph of ancient philosophers master/student relationships https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/nLEtPIeooSMGuSi4iaiuUWskUKwgIOQWOaSyKYSg4sT - Properties for UK lakes https://w.wiki/9DMg (contains a report-within-a-report allowing to look at Items having the Property) ( source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#List_all_properties_and_their_aliases_used_by_a_class_or_any_of_its_subclasses ) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Looted heritage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiproject_Looted_heritage - aims to use Wikidata to document looted cultural heritage. Its primary focus is on the colonial era, but it also encompasses other relevant historical periods. It's scope includes artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage. - WikiProject Highlights: Staedel Museum Wikidata Clean-up https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_St%C3%A4del_Museum_Wikidata_Clean-Up The Staedul Museum comprises 24,000+ works of art spanning more than 700 years. They have generously opened up digital surrogates of their collection to the Wikimedia community. This project improves the metadata quality and create Wikidata items for works of art. - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Genderless people with Facebook ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Genderless_people_with_Facebook_ID - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Varanus komodoensis (Q4504) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4504 - species of reptile - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: scala (L683571) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L683571 - "stairs" in Italian
Development
- IP Masking: We added redirect-related parameters to most Wikibase API modules (phab:T357024 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357024; an announcement is in the works) - We migrated Termbox SSR from Node 16 to 18 (phab:T355685 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355685) - We made the (legacy) termbox remember its expanded/collapsed state for anonymous visitors and temporary users (phab:T351976 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T351976) - We deployed and backported several security fixes to Wikibase release branches (phab:T345064 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345064, phab:T356764 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356764)
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? . - Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php: #128 Languages - 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