Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • RudolfoBot - (Task: import lists of drugs with black box Warnings)
  • TiagoLubianaBot 4 - (Task: add drug-drug interactions from (Q123478206) A reference set of clinically relevant adverse drug-drug interactions)
  • LiMrBot - importing and updating information about asteroids and comets.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Register and Apply for Scholarships until January 5th 2024!
  • WikiMania 2024 Scholarships are open - You can apply now for paid accommodation, travel and registration of the event!
• Next:
  • Extended Semantic Web Conference 2024 < The deadline to submit your Papers is December 7th (23:59 UTC-12)!
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service team - the 1st Wednesday of every month, bring your questions on Wikimedia Search, Wikidata Query and Wikimedia Commons Query service.
• Past:
  • Data Modelling Days 2023 - (30 Nov - 2 Dec.) If you missed it, don't worry! We have recordings, slides and notes for each session, available here!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Press
  • Around 250 war-threatened architectural monuments documented (German) - Wikidata, Wikibase and Commons are helping preserve and plan the restoration of culturally-significant Monuments damaged or destroyed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• Blogs
  • How many properties are created on Wikidata each month?, by Envel Le Hir
• Videos
  • Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project A Wikidata Workshop provided by the British Institute at Ankara.
  • Metaphactory's advanced semantic search with Wikidata KG < shows a new way of building queries with Metaphacts visualised UI. Read more with their latest News Posts!
  • Wikibase for GLAM organizations: Collections in the Linked Open Data web by our excellent Partner Manager User:Christos Varvantakis (WMDE)
  • Intro to Wikidata and importing bibliographic elements from Zotero < (Italian) An initiative to expand Greek and Latin antiquities in Wikidata for use in humanistic studies. Read more here > Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche

Tool of the week

• ZotWb < export records in a Zotero group library to a custom Wikibase, prepare datasets to send to OpenRefine, feed OpenRefine reconciliaton results back to the Wikibase. Wikidata is envolved in the entity reconciliation.
  Here's a short explanation and demo video
  Tool is written and provided by David Lindermann with support from WMF Rapid Grant.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: We're looking for a new Product Manager for Wikibase Cloud. Are you interested or do you happen to know someone who might fit this position?
• Wikimedia Deutschland will be collaborating with Purdue Students to Find New Mismatches for the Mismatch Finder. We Need Your Help to Suggest External Datasets!
• Outreachy Round 27 interns selected, including 1 Wikidata related project.
• A cool new Obsidian plugin for Wikidata is in the works.
• Fulltext search for folders in an external archive via text in Wikidata items (more).
• Have you tried EntiTree yet? Explore relationship and connections between Wikidata entities with this new visualisation!
• Last call for the Wikibase.Cloud 2023 User survey. It only takes 10 minutes and it's fully anonymous so please participate!
• The StructuredDiscussions extension is being archived but your comments on the Project Chat are wanted.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • PAEnflowered taxon URL (URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website)
  • External identifiers: Rare Species Guide ID, Minnesota Plant List ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID, Go Botany taxon ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID, Art Gallery of Ontario object ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae text ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID, ‎Paradox Wikis article ID, Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire ID, Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame ID, SWERIK person ID, Team Wales athlete ID, ‎WikiIndex ID, ‎Theapolis person ID, TheTVDB movie ID, Shanghai Library surname ID, Shanghai Library era ID, Shanghai Library organization ID, Pinakes work ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, COR SEM ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
    • event role (item that describes a role in an event class)
    • role in event (event class for which the item describes a role)
    • selectional preference ((to be used only with the subclasses of Q_event_role) an item that plays this role in an event instance should descend from this item via a combination of P31 and P279)
    • event arguments and types (item that plays a role in an event instance; used with a qualifier "argument type")
    • BnF archives and manuscripts ID (identifier for a manuscript in the archives and manuscripts catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Do not include the initial "cc")
    • clerked for (this person has held a clerkship with the judge)
    • battery life (the length of time a device can continue to work before it needs its battery to be recharged)
  • External identifiers: China Animal Scientific Database taxon ID, DIMA ID, CoL Taiwan ID, RFI station ID, BUGZ ID, China Animal Scientific Database dbb ID, turismoroma.it place ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument & street IDs, International Hockey Federation competition ID, Black Games Archive ID, Al-shamila Book ID, Akadem person ID (new format), AustrianGames ID, Atari-8-bit Forever game ID
• Query examples:
  • People born somewhere named after them (source)
  • Rose cultivars named after screen writers source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Events and Role Frames
• Newest database reports:
• Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Showcase Lexemes: läsa - 'read' about this Swedish word.

Feel free to suggest next week's Showcase Item and Lexeme!

Development

• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the endpoint for removing an Item's label in a specific language (phab:T335841) and the endpoint for modifying descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981)
  • We are working on the endpoint for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
• Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on moving the tool over to the new design system Codex
• We adjusted the styling for the values of monolingual text statements to make the language easier to distinguish from the value (phab:T280774)
• mul language code: We made some final adjustments to get it ready for testing.
• Lexemes: We are adding a license note for anon users when editing a Lexeme’s lemma, a Form or Sense (phab:T343999)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

Anything to add? Please share! :)