*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Congratulations to our new Admin! S8321414 (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:S8321414 - (See the closed request https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/S8321414 ) - New requests for permissions/Bot: KormiSKbot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/KormiSKbot - (Task: Linking newly created pages on Slovak Wikipedia https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia to the appropriate Wikidata items)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - Data Modelling Days https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023, from November 30th to December 2nd: 3 days of online events to address data modelling challenges, discuss how to improve the way we structure data together, and discover the point of view of external reusers. Feel free to have a look at the program https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023#Sessions (under construction) and to sign up as a participant https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023/Participants . - Wikidata Lab XXXIX: Structuring the Wikimedia Ecosystem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxEJE-LiQuc&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D presented by Wiki Movimento Brasil. November 21 at 2:00 PM CEST. The presentation will be held in English by the wikimedian Mike Peel. - Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour November 20th, 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 seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles.During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-November-20_Wikidata_Working_Hour - Wikibase for art and cultural data https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:Wikipedia:Arbeitsgemeinschaft_Kunstwissenschaften_%2B_Wikipedia/tips_%26_tools (German) - #9 of kuwiki tips & tools, taking place Thursday, 23 November 2023, 19-20.30 - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexeme Challenge #118: Diseases https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=118 (Challenge started on 2023-11-20 12:01:41) - Past: - ItWikiCon '23 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ItWikiCon/2023 (Italian) was hosted in Bari, Italy between the 17th - 19th November. Check the Programme https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ItWikiCon/2023/Programma for details on sessions and check for recordings or slidedecks of presentations. - GLAM Wiki 2023 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. There were several Wikidata-related sessions some of which are linked in the Videos section.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - New study shows how authors’ personal circumstances influence the depiction of nature in their works https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1007836 - Papers - Can you trust Wikidata? https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/can-you-trust-wikidata-1 - is a paper exploring Wikidata's veracity and trustability for providing values to Knowledge Graphs. Written by V. Santos et al. - Videos - Wikidata for Cultural Heritage, available in Spanish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNvUmArXgA, Portugese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gohj12__Wo0, English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K337fNxiOvw - Find-A-Grave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNZ5VkkAuPw of Swedish politicians in Magnus Sälgö's exploration of Wikidata, OpenRefine, SPARQL and Svenskagravar (Swedish). - Wikidata Live Editing #111 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faeXRNSh_0Q&pp=ygUIV2lraWRhdGE%3D with the Wikipedia Weekly Network, hosted by Ainali https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali and Abbe98 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Abbe98 - Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfTA7AhgWBA presented by Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda. Get essential Wikidata-editing skills for Listeria, OpenRefine, run queries and structured data on Commons. - How to upload collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbz_ANgtD8k (in Portuguese). Training on uploading collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine. - Cohort 2 Graduation: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqm0J1UrULQ. The session includes exciting testimonials from participants and goodwill messages. - Enhancing Factuality in Large Language Models with Wikidata's 12B Facts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NEsk5iWTwQ. This HackerNews video discusses a paper that explores the use of Wikidata, which contains over 12 billion facts, to improve the factuality of large language models (LLMs) - Back to basics and #SPARQL #Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tBIOVdOWk (in French). Using Wikidata SPARQL query by VIGNERON - Wikidata for cultural heritage (ES) - GLAM Wiki Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNvUmArXgA - Presentations: "Wikidata Lexemes: Introduction to the Possibilities" - workshop on at WikiConference North America https://elemwala.toolforge.org/static/wcna2023/wcna2023.html, by User:Mahir256 (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mahir256 - Notebooks: - The End of an Era https://observablehq.com/d/6086664e20f8c4cd - A study on the major deaths that have occurred in our generation and the people that were left behind. (1997-2012) - Relationship Between Senators and Political Parties https://observablehq.com/d/5501fe52e156508e - A sample network graph that depicts the political parties of Senators. - Family Network of Female Horse https://observablehq.com/d/7ec76ff6cf531e70 - A sample network graph that depicts the relationships of female horses. - Poets and the Monarchs they were appointed by https://observablehq.com/d/e0d2119c438156de - Metro stations of The Metropolitan line (Q19891) of the London Underground Metro System https://observablehq.com/d/db18c33354921fac - A sample network graph that depicts the stops and adjacent stops of metro stations of the London Underground's Metropolitan line.
Tool of the week
- User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia https://observablehq.com/@pac02/user-level-gender-statistics-for-wikipedia - a tool that computes the number of articles created by gender has been repaired after some months of unavailability. It relies on xtools and P21 property. - Luthor https://luthor.toolforge.org - tool for finding usage examples from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are now open until December 18th! https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/15/wikimania-2024-scholarships-open-apply-now/
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Fondazione Fiera ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12141, EIDR party ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12142, Gaming Wiki Network article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12143, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) heritage ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12144, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12145, Playdate community wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12146, Danacode (short) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12147, Danacode (long) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12148, archINFORM ID (awards) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12149, shukach.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12150, BNE periodical SID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12151, Moviepilot.de person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12152, FilmAffinity person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12153, Archiefpunt archive ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12154, Archiefpunt compiler ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12155, Archiefpunt curator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12156, Capitolium Art artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12157, BioGRID ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12158, la Repubblica TV series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12159, CECC Political Prisoner ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12160, One Earth ecoregion ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12161, Spectrum Computing ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12162, IDVT https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12163, BISAC Subject Heading https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12164 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - Papers with Code URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Papers_with_Code_URL (URL for subject in Papers with Code system) - PAEnflowered taxon URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PAEnflowered_taxon_URL (URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website) - BioCyc ID (Pathway/Genome Databases) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BioCyc_ID_(Pathway/Genome_Databases) () - External identifiers: Star Citizen Tools Wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Star_Citizen_Tools_Wiki_ID, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alaska_Women%27s_Hall_of_Fame_ID, Shanghai Library organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shanghai_Library_organization_ID, Shanghai Library era ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shanghai_Library_era_ID, Shanghai Library surname ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shanghai_Library_surname_ID, Paradox wikis article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Paradox_wikis_article_ID, Shanghai Library movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shanghai_Library_movie_ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Internet_Dictionary_of_Polish_Surnames_ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Thesaurus_Linguae_Aegyptiae_lemma_ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Thesaurus_Linguae_Aegyptiae_object_ID, Rare Species Guide ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rare_Species_Guide_ID, TLA thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TLA_thesaurus_ID, Minnesota Plant List ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Minnesota_Plant_List_ID, ELMCIP person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ELMCIP_person_ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flora_of_the_Southeastern_United_States_ID, SWERIK Person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SWERIK_Person_ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digital_Atlas_of_the_Virginia_Flora_ID, Go Botany taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Go_Botany_taxon_ID, Team Wales ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Team_Wales_ID, Unified Saudi Occupational Classification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Unified_Saudi_Occupational_Classification, Pinakes work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pinakes_work_ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Search_System_of_Japanese_Red_Data_ID, ELMCIP organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ELMCIP_organization_ID, Japan Search ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Japan_Search_ID - Query examples: - Articles on English Wikipedia tagged 'Water pollution' with no equivalent article in Spanish https://w.wiki/8Cmp (source https://twitter.com/OpenResLeeds/status/1726325166240907347) - Highest point (in meters) per counties in Finland https://w.wiki/8D89 (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Highest_point_per_county_in_Finland ) - Week 46, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now https://w.wiki/6TNS (source https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/111431233523655531) *"Basque are back on top for the second time this month"* - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Manuscripts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Manuscripts - This WikiProject coordinates efforts on Wikidata to gather and curate structured data on manuscripts. - WikiProject Grove Hall Black Women Lead https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Grove_Hall_Black_Women_Lead - aims to shed light on the lives and stories of Black women leaders who have shaped Boston’s history from the colonial era to the present day. - Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/projectmerge/enwiki-svwiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge/enwiki-svwiki - 3875 merge candidates in English Wikipedia and Swedish Wikipedia based on same sitelink name. - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: University of Konstanz (Q835440) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q835440 - University in Konstanz, Germany (feel free to suggest the next one for next week) - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: rød https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2310 - Danish word for red with features in many compounds and derivations (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)
Development
- We are taking steps towards making many more languages available in Lexemes and monolingual text statement values. (phab:T341409 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341409) - Nikki fixed a bug where the CSS class for a statement rank wasn't updated after a rank change (phab:T209138 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209138) - We are continuing the work on improving EntitySchemas by making it possible to link to them in statements. - We are migrating several tools from the Wikit design system to the Codex design system to be able to deprecate Wikit in the future.
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.
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