* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-15. Please help Translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current.*
* Discussions *
- New requests for permissions/Bot: SpinachBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/SpinachBot - Task/s: AI agent-enabled question answering through the creation and execution of complex SPARQL queries on Wikidata. Users tag the bog with wikidata-related questions, and it tries to come up with an answer by iteratively creating SPARQL queries.
* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events *
- Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-07-10 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2024-07-10
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Blogs - An Intelligent System: What I learned through taking an introductory Wikidata course https://wikiedu.org/blog/2024/07/10/an-intelligent-system-what-i-learned-through-taking-an-introductory-wikidata-course/ - The author, Anne-Christine Hoff, dispels misconceptions about Wikidata. She highlights that it is a relational communication system, not solely bot-driven, and allows users worldwide to add localized data in multiple languages, creating a self-structuring repository of information - Merge and diff http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/731 - blog post by Magnus about adding new properties (taxon data speficially, NCBI, GBIF, and iINaturalist) to the AC2WD tool. If you have the user script installed on Wikidata (see tool below), AC2WD will automatically show up on relevant taxon items. - Documenting Women Artists Through Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2MXK2yWJko - this project reveals how works by women artists can be given greater public visibility. - Dagbani Lexemes (how-to-workshop in Dagbanli) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVe2CSWCDZ0 - increase the vocabulary and standardize existing entries. - Papers: Automatic Generation of Hindi Wikipedia Pages" based on information from Wikidata https://acl-bg.org/proceedings/2023/RANLP%202023/pdf/2023.ranlp-1.2.pdf - Videos - Online workshop Upskilling in Wikidata for maximum impact IBC 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRD2XbxQqPQ - Recording of the virtual Wikidata workshop given on the 9th of July 2024. An onboarding and introductory event in anticipation of a full in-person workshop to be held at the International Botanical Congress 2024 in Madrid on the 21st of July 2024 - Connecting University Art Collections Wikidata Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-qOCk2fUE - Notebooks - Collection of notebooks about the Tour de France https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/tour-de-france - Computing Jaccard similarity index between Wikidata items based on properties used in statements https://observablehq.com/@pac02/computing-jaccard-similarity-between-wikidata-item .
* Tool of the week *
- Relationships between two Wikidata items https://observablehq.com/@pac02/relationships a new tool hosted on Observable which looks at all statements involving a pair of Wikidata items. - User:Magnus Manske/ac2wd.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/ac2wd.js - This script adds an "AC2WD" link in the tools sidebar. When you click on it, it uses the AC2WD https://ac2wd.toolforge.org tool to check the item for certain Authority Control IDs (eg VIAF). It then checks these AC datasets for statements (and more AC IDs). It will then add any new information it found as new statements, or add more references to existing statements where possible. A green checkmark will be appended to the link if data was added (reload the page to see), otherwise a "—" if no new data was available.
* Other Noteworthy Stuff *
- OpenRefine 3.8.2 was released https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/3.8.2 - Awesome Wikidata: Shape Expressions (Entity Schemas) https://github.com/johnsamuelwrites/awesome-wikidata/blob/main/README.md#shape-expressions-entity-schemas - Tools for creating, editing, and generating entity schemas
* 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: - music mood https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12830 (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording) - coin edge image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12849 (image or images that show the edge of a coin) - ozone depletion potential https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12853 (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11) - EntitySchema for class https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12861 (schema that members of a class should conform to) - writing technique https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12876 (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support) - last appearance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12878 (last work featuring a fictional character or item) - Tüik mahalle ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12883 (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database) - Sandbox-EntitySchema https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12886 (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema") - myfixguide.com https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12889 (photos about how to disassemble hardware) - indexer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12895 (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly) - Newest External identifiers: Irish-English Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12824, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12825, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12826, danskfodbold.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12827, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12828, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12831, Canadian Great War Project person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12832, English-Irish Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12833, PMC journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12834, Census ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12835, Douban personage ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12836, Avibase person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12837, Brezhoneg21 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12838, European Education Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12839, Cineuropa distributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12840, Cineuropa production company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12841, OpenCitations Meta ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12842, IGN franchise ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12843, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12844, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12845, Devri ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12846, Cambridge University Press ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12847, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12848, Personnel Records of the First World War ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12850, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12851, NooSFere publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12852, Plex person key https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12854, BHMPI OBJ ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12855, Index Fungorum person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12856, stiga.trefik.cz player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12857, UNIBO professor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12858, Cineuropa international sales agent ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12859, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12860, Il Nuovo DOP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12862, RGALI person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12863, RGALI organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12864, Archelec person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12865, Lojas com História ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12866, milononline.net entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12867, Hebrew Academy term ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12868, LAGL author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12869, KANAL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12870, Google Play author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12871, Overcast episode ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12872, ArchWiki article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12873, Valencian Library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12874, Star Wars.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12875, ScienceDirect journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12877, Filmová databáze film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12879, Filmová databáze person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12880, FC Krasnodar player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12881, Iraqnla book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12882, All castles https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12884, Italian-English Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12885, islamway authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12887, Metamath statement ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12888, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12890, Coptic Dictionary Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12891, English-Italian Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12892, autoritateak.eus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12893, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12894 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - number of local branches https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_local_branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level) - KANAL inventory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KANAL_inventory_ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL) - date de vote https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/date_de_vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot) - WorldCyclingStats ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WorldCyclingStats_ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats ( www.worldcyclingstats.com)) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pocket_Oxford_German_Dictionary:_English-German_ID, FEI horse ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FEI_horse_ID, Standard Ebooks ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Standard_Ebooks_ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pocket_Oxford_German_Dictionary:_German-English_ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pocket_Oxford-Hachette_French_Dictionary:_French-English_ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Manhom_Arabic_Profile_ID, Hermitage Museum artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hermitage_Museum_artist_ID, Thinkwiki article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Thinkwiki_article, Wiley Online Library journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiley_Online_Library_journal_ID, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifier_of_the_educational_center_of_resistance_and_deportation_of_Landes, Nintendo Life company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nintendo_Life_company_ID, SideReel series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SideReel_series_ID, SideReel series URL slug https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SideReel_series_URL_slug, Helveticat ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Helveticat_ID, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/africanmusiclibrary.org_artist_id, Museums in Russia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Museums_in_Russia_ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hawramani_Arabic_Lexicon_entry_ID, ARABTERM entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ARABTERM_entry_ID, The New Mithraeum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_New_Mithraeum_ID, Frauen im Widerstand ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Frauen_im_Widerstand_ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Stichting_Erfgoed_Nederlandse_Biercultuur_beer_ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Taylor_%26_Francis_journal_ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JTA_Sightseeing_Database_ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Emerald_Group_Publishing_journal_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
* Did you know? *
- Query examples: - Arabic periodicals known to Wikidata https://w.wiki/AeWy (source https://wikis.world/@tillgrallert@digitalcourage.social/112776085963304676 ) - X account of politicians https://w.wiki/AftC - Characters whose actors died recently https://w.wiki/AftQ - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Human Cells https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Human_Cells - dedicated to improve our coverage of information about these fundamental entities that compose organisms. The project focuses mainly on two kinds of cell classes: species-agnostic classes, such as neutrophil (Q188417) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188417, and human-specific classes, such as human neutrophil (Q101405102) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101405102. - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Descriptions containing Q-Id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Descriptions_with_Q - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Lucy (Q13365715) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13365715: female given name - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: Nachbar (L230775) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L230775: "someone nearby" in German
* Development *
- Wikibase REST API https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API: Continuing to improve error handling and error messages. - EntitySchemas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schemas: Fixed issues that popped up after release (phab:T369149 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369149, phab:T369155 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369155, phab:T368010 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368010) - Query Service graph split https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_graph_split: Adapting constraints that make use of the Query Service to be able to deal with 2 endpoints (phab:T369079 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369079)
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: Albania https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Albania - 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