*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
- *Discussions* - Open request for adminship: Mike Peel https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Mike_Peel_2 (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC)) - Closed request for adminship: Madamebiblio https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Madamebiblio requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful. - New requests for permissions/Bot: - Mfchris84-Bot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Mfchris84-Bot - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine *Syntopia Alpina* (Q112206291), then continuing by adding *swisscovery edition ID* (P9907) to version/edition items. - BorkedBot_12 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BorkedBot_12 - Task: Update number of *viewers/listeners* (P5436) with the qualifier *YouTube channel ID* (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers. - LocodeBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/LocodeBot - Task: Match *UN/LOCODE* (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations.
- *Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events* - Wiki-in-action: Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons at the Stars https://www.aib.it/corsi/wiki-in-action-laboratori-su-wikidata-e-wikimedia-commons-alle-stelline/ (Italian) - WM Italy, AIB Lombardia & GWMAB host a practical workshop on Wikidata Thursday, March 21, 16 - 18:00 CET in the Valvassori Peroni Library, Milan. Further details on the Wiki Event page: GWMAB/Stelline/2024 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Gruppo_Wikidata_per_Musei,_Archivi_e_Biblioteche/Stelline/2024 - Join the Queensbridge Tech Lab edit-a-thon https://volunteer.queenslibrary.org/opportunity/a0CRQ00000joHlg/join-the-edit-a-thon-at-queensbridge-tech-lab - create and enrich local diverse heroes in Queens, NYC as part of the NYC Open Data Week. March 16, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC -5). - Wikidata, Open Education Resources and Curriculum alignment discussion https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrfu-tqTkpHdJVTppB0mlkDVKQ3WZfSQf2#/registration - hosted by Creative Commons during the OEWeek event. Takes place 5th March 15:00 CET, register in the link!
- *Press, articles, blog posts, videos* - Blogs - Empowering BHL Staff with Wiki Education’s Wikidata Certificate Course https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2024/02/advancing-data-excellence-new-era-for-bhl-cataloging-metadata-committee.html - The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog celebrates committee members completing a Wikidata Certification course led by Will Kent, as part of the Wiki Education. Participants levelled up SPARQL queries, visualisations, federation, modelling and bulk loading and editing. - Observable tutorial for Wikidata users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/2024-03-01#Tuto_du_mois (French) published in the last issue of RAW in Wikipedia in French - Papers: LLMs Can Better Understand Knowledge Graphs Than We Thought https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11541.pdf - This paper employs CQA, complex question answering, to assess LLMs ability to comprehend knowledge graphs. Xinbang, D. et al. - Videos - OpenRefine - extract tables from Wikipedia for Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohEVe_ceeg (French) - Part 6 of the Wiki Wake Up Afrique, this shot tutorial will show a simple and advanced method of converting tabulated data to enrich Wikidata. - Breathing life into the women's archive through Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Q4ZNTmIJM - speaker Brodie Hoare advocates for adding data and information about women from historical archives to Wikidata at the National Digital Forum '23. - Application development using open knowledge graph, Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCP8_OFvb30 (Japanese) speaker Koji Furusaki hosts an open data study session and showcases examples of app development using Wikidata.
- *Tool of the week* - WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL https://vuejsexamples.com/wiquizz-a-game-generator-powered-by-nuxt-content-and-sparql-queries-from-wikidata/ WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata!
- *Other Noteworthy Stuff* - Claim Analysis Toolkit https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/claim-analysis-toolkit, collection of Observable notebooks to visualize simple Wikidata claims
- *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 properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - 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) - filial church https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12476 (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish) - television judge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12484 (person who participates in a television show as a competition judge or mentor) - Papers with Code URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12490 (URL for subject in Papers with Code system) - SMIRKS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12491 (line notation that represents generic chemical reactions) - thesaurus's main topic https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12503 (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus) - thesaurus combines topics https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12504 (this theasurus combines (intersects) these two or more topics) - topic's main thesaurus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12505 (main Wikimedia theasurus) - latest end date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12506 (latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true) - rug style https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12516 (classification of an individual textile floor covering based on geographic or cultural origin, structure, or pattern) - performing organization https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12526 (organization that received funding to create this entity) - External identifiers: AniSearch anime ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12477, Brazzers ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12478, Tekściory artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12479, Hong Kong Cinema ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12480, PlaymakerStats.com sports executive ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12481, Műemlékem.hu identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12482, PMB – Personen der Moderne Basis person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12483, British Listed Buildings ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12485, GNM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12486, 2GIS place-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12487, 2GIS route-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12488, livechart.me anime ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12489, Trakt.tv film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12492, NACSIS-CAT library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12494, Epigraphic Database Roma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12495, WhatPub pub ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12496, JAHIS Law Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12498, literatura.kg person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12499, nagrada.srs.kg person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12500, who.ca-news.org person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12501, UCA authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12502, European Union trademark number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12507, ONIX codelist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12508, GCatholic episcopal conference ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12509, Oxford English Dictionary object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12510, 2nd German Basketball Bundesliga ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12511, Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12512, nimi.li ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12513, Nye ord i dansk ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12514, OHDSI ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12515, Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12517, Encyclopedia Astronautica ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12518, Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12519, Italian Senate (1848-1943) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12520, ICANNWiki page ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12521, Dictionary of Gandhari ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12522, FSA Food Hygiene Rating System ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12523, Finnish Service Catalogue organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12524, Köztérkép creator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12525 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - date popularized https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/date_popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception) - Bild der Person bei der Tätigkeit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bild_der_Person_bei_der_T%C3%A4tigkeit (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits) - 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]]) - A New Nation Votes ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/A_New_Nation_Votes_ID (ID of a person in A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825) - form decomposition https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/form_decomposition (form decomposition) - Ludzie Nauki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ludzie_Nauki_ID (identifier in the Ludzie Nauki, the new official database of Polish scientists) - Nanopublication identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nanopublication_identifier (Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history.) - External identifiers: TNHR&CE Temple ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TNHR%26CE_Temple_ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lisaan_Masry_Egyptian_Arabic_Dictionary_ID, Saudipedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Saudipedia_ID, DLE entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DLE_entry_ID, Singapore Infopedia ID (new scheme) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Singapore_Infopedia_ID_(new_scheme), COBISS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COBISS_ID, DWDS sense ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DWDS_sense_ID, museum-digital tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/museum-digital_tag_ID, Gematsu event ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gematsu_event_ID, RERO+ ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RERO%2B_ID, Premier League player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Premier_League_player_ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/StatMuse_Premier_League_player_ID, 11v11 player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/11v11_player_ID, OSL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OSL_ID, EJ Atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EJ_Atlas_ID, Statbunker player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Statbunker_player_ID, BFO class ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BFO_class_ID, Combine OverWiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Combine_OverWiki_ID, Autores Galegos na BUSC https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Autores_Galegos_na_BUSC - Deleted properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion:
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
- *Did you know?* - Query examples: - 28 Female Biographies that exist in 50 Wikipedias, but not Catalan https://w.wiki/9MYF - a good example for finding knowledge gaps. - Explore data about Wikimedia Residencies https://w.wiki/Cx6 - see start and end dates, organisation employer, average duration and associated project. - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Te Papa Research Expeditions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Te_Papa_Research_Expeditions - create and enrich metadata and trial research expeditions schema for Te Papa, Dominion and Colonial Museums. - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Unauthorized Bots (active in last 30 days without Bot flag) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Unauthorized_bots - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Zootopia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15270647 - the 2016 animated Disney film about anthropomorphic Police officers. - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: bezczelny (L2781) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2781 (Polish) To be shameless, uncaring of others, arrogant, over-confident.
- *Development* - IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to no longer show IPs for non-logged in users. - Wikibase REST API: We are almost done with the routes for adding/editing/removing a sitelink. - Entity Schemas: We prototyped another approach to making it possible to link to Entity Schemas in statements.
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 - Suggested and open tasks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks ! - 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
*Read the full report https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current* · Unsubscribe https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikidata · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE) 16:11, 4 March 2024 (UTC) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)#c-Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)-20240304161100-Wikidata_weekly_summary_#618