Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Hjart (RfP scheduled to end after 26 October 2023 11:20 UTC)

Events

• Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour, Q4 2023
• Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #114: Cars (Challenge started on 2023-10-23 12:01:27)
• Upcoming:
  • How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world < organised by WikiEdu, happening today, Oct. 23.
  • Edit-A-Thon for LGBTQ+ History Month < Binghamton University Library, New York, Oct. 25th. Help make visible the important contributions of queer figures.
  • Bridging Art Archive to the Wikidata Ecosystem < a guest lecture from Joyce Chen at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship '23, Oct. 27, via Zoom.
  • Wikidata Birthday Edit-A-Thon (Albanian) < Albanian language Wikimedians celebrate Wikidata's Birthday with a 2-day event (Oct. 28 - 29, 2023) near the "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Elbasan.
  • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 23, 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 sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover batch creating items using OpenRefine.This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the Event page
  • 4th Wikidata Workshop as part of the International Semantic Web Conference. 7th Nov., Athens, Greece.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Final Report of the Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning Project funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund.
• Videos
  • Let's Connect Learning Clinic #2: Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments < Learn how to run SPARQL queries, create Listeria lists, and structure data on commons for Wiki Loves Monuments and other WikiLoves campaigns, provided by Wikimedia Sweden. Missed Clinic #1? Find it here.
  • Live Editing #110 < Develop your SPARQL query-building skills in this follow-along session.
  • Tutorial on Wikidata for or WikiConnect course (in Portuguese) <-- Explaining the Wiki Movimento Brasil's WikiConecta Wikidata course. The course entails Understanding what Wikidata is and its operating logic, Learning the basics of editing and recovering data, and Understanding why and how to use Wikidata with your students.
  • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit:
    • MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
    • MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.

Tool of the week

• User:Magnus Manske/annas archive.js is a userscript that automatically links to Anna's Archive from Wikidata items for books and research articles, for title, DOI, ISBN, etc. so that people can easily get access to them.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• There is a new update relative to the Wikidata Query Service scaling of the backend, that explains how the team will experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs.
• Mismatch Finder tool improvements: In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • ‎fonds (archival fonds (part of a collection) which an item belongs to)
    • parent form of an active substance (parent form of a chemical entity (e.g. a salt) used as an active substance in pharmaceutical products)
    • ‎Red List of South African Plants conservation status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the South African National Biodiversity Institute)
    • Parpulov group (class of similar manuscripts with Catenae as assigned by Georgi Parpulov)
  • External identifiers: ‎DfE group UID, Kinobox film ID, Kinobox person ID, FloraVeg.EU taxon ID, DBpia author ID, ‎Mod DB company ID, ‎GameBrew ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, ‎RKDexcerpts ID, ELSST Thesaurus ID (Version 4 - 2023), JLPSA player ID, ‎Catenae Catalogue ID, ‎IGI Global author ID, ‎Pandit Project work ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID, Flora of New Jersey Project atlas ID, ‎GNU Savannah project ID, ‎Rahlfs number
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • used by practitioners of (item used by a practitioner of another item)
    • Plant Illustrations taxon ID (URL for a taxon on the Plant Illustrations website)
    • Art Platform Japan ID (identifier in {{Q|123139107}} (Japanese & English))
  • External identifiers: IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code, Flickr Photo ID, North Rhine-Westphalian school ID, identifiant d'un membre de l'Académie de Stanislas, Bantumen Powerlist 100, identifiant Repairs, Legends Tour ID, Radio Paradise song ID, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID, Cycling Archives race ID, Gale ACID, ID osoby Medvik, HBL topic ID, National Humanities Center Fellow ID
• Query examples:
  • Birthplace of recipients of the Nazi Germany Iron Cross
  • Burial place of Swedish Prime Ministers
  • List of cathedrals around the world with its height (source)
  • Population of Check villages with rivers flowing through them (source)
  • Ships with multiple operators that do not have multiple official names (source)
• Newest WikiProjects
  • WikiProject Photography in Finland - a project for photography in Finland, including photographers, studios and other related items
  • WikiProject Celtic Music - a project for collecting Celtic tunes

Development

• We are preparing for WikidataCon and the Data Modelling Days.
• We are looking more into where Wikibase needs to be adapted to the upcoming IP Masking changes.
• We added a notification about the license to all edits to labels, descriptions and aliases that was missing still (phab:T343998) The same for Lexemes is coming next (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!