*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- AramBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/AramBot (Task: adding site links, especially from ckbwiki and kuwiki pages to Wikidata).
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Past: Search Platform / Query Service Team office hour log — November 1, 2023 https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours - This Week: - Wikidata for Digital Humanities https://brownlibrary.lwcal.com/#!view/event/slug/1293-wikidata-for-digital-humanities workshop hosted by Brown University Library, Nov. 6th 19:00 - 20:00 CEST. - Wiki Loves Monuments: Learning Clinic #3 https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/lets-connect-learning-clinic-wikidata-for-wiki-loves-monuments-series-3/3586 hosted by WM Sweden in partnership with WM Uganda, Nov. 9th - Upcoming: Data Modelling Days https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023, November 30-December 2. You can propose a session https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023 until November 19. If you are running another event or meetup and would like to connect it to the Data Modelling Days, you can add it to the satellite events section https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023#Satellite_events .
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Wikidata Arabic Community https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/02/wikidata-arabic-community/. - ULTRA: Foundation Models for Knowledge Graph Reasoning https://towardsdatascience.com/ultra-foundation-models-for-knowledge-graph-reasoning-9f8f4a0d7f09 . - Papers - PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/ A White Paper released from Charles Faulhaber - Using Pregel to Create Knowledge Graphs Subsets Described by Non-recursive Shape Expressions https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/using-pregel-to-create-knowledge-graphs-subsets-described-by-non/26242354 by Á. Préstamo & J. Gayo - Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/knowledge-graphs-and-semantic-web/26242350 is a collection of preceedings from the 5th Iberoamerican Conference and 4th Indo-American Conference, KGSWC 2023, Nov. 13–15. By F. Ortiz-Rodriguez, B. Villazón-Terrazas, S. Tiwari & C. Bobed.
- Videos - OpenHPI Querying Wikidata with SPARQL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkAwDVvJKMs - OpenHPI Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7kRL40PLPo - Wikidata 11th Birthday Celebrations https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WCLmIPdR5rA(YouTube shorts) are celebrated by the Community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua4IXcyzRrA - Live Editing with Wikidata in Italiano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmY5t_DaUKk (Italian) - Intro to Wikibase Cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-lZZQMEz4 (Italian)
Tool of the week
- subclass of https://observablehq.com/@pac02/subclass-of, new Observable tool to test which item is a subclass of another.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- SMWCon 2023 Call for Contributions https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZDHNJCVBE4XLEEZULCGF3B3Z55UELW34/ on the topic 'MediaWiki in the age of AI' - The Wikidata Lexeme Forms https://iw.toolforge.org/lexeme-forms tool was upgraded to autogenerate the different forms of a regular word with functions from Wikifunctions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Lexeme_Forms
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Playdate Catalog ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12125 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - linguistic family of place name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/linguistic_family_of_place_name (Relates directly a placename to its original language family. It's not the language in which the toponym is written, but the language from which the word (place name) comes from.) - according to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/according_to (to be used together with P248 if the statement is taken from an aggregator rather than directly from the source) - counterexample https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/counterexample (qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance or subclass of the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not hold (alias: "item belonging to the subject class but not the value class")) - Book ordinal in a publication series https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Book_ordinal_in_a_publication_series (This property describes the order of the book within a book series.) - Comitato Italiano Paralimpico ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Comitato_Italiano_Paralimpico_ID (Athlete ID in the Italian Paralympi Committee website ( comitatoparalimpico.it)) - tax base https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tax_base (This property describes the calculation basis for the item of Taxation.) - tax objects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tax_objects (This property describes certain objects, acts, or other facts that are the basis for calculating taxes.) - taxpayer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/taxpayer (This property describes someone who owes money.) - External identifiers: Pallaalcentro player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pallaalcentro_player_ID, Propylaeum-VITAE id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Propylaeum-VITAE_id, Linked Open Data Comune Firenze ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linked_Open_Data_Comune_Firenze_ID, Alexandria.dk person https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alexandria.dk_person, Identifiant One Earth d'une écorégion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_One_Earth_d%27une_%C3%A9cor%C3%A9gion, CECC Political Prisoner ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CECC_Political_Prisoner_ID, shukach.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/shukach.com_ID, Carte d'autore online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Carte_d%27autore_online_ID, Fondazione Fiera ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fondazione_Fiera_ID, Il Sole 24 Ore cinema IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Il_Sole_24_Ore_cinema_IDs, Dongqiudi.com team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dongqiudi.com_team_ID, Moviepilot.de person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moviepilot.de_person_ID, IDVT https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IDVT, National-Football-Teams.com national team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National-Football-Teams.com_national_team_ID, Kicker team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kicker_team_ID, FilmAffinity person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FilmAffinity_person_ID - Query examples: - List of phobias in French https://w.wiki/7yv$ - Interviewees who were part of the Suffragette Movement https://w.wiki/84Di and - Interviewees who had a relative or friend in the Suffragette Movement https://w.wiki/84DU as part of the LSE Suffrage Interviews Project https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LSESuffrageInterviewsProject
- Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Source Reliability https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_Reliability "is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources".
Development
- Wikibase REST API: - We have implemented the endpoints for *PATCH /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases* (phab:T337371 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337371), *PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/aliases* (phab:T342982 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342982) and *PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/labels* (phab:T342980 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342980) - We started working on the new endpoints for *POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code}* (phab:T335842 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335842) and *DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code}* (phab:T342986 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342986) - Language codes: - We made Special:NewLexeme more likely to guess the spelling variant for you by changing the Property we use to get the language code. Now you will see the spelling variant input pop up less often. (phab:T349652 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T349652) - We started work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. ( phab:T341409 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341409) - Query Service UI: We’ve fixed a small issue in the Query Service UI that was introduced when updating CSS variables. Content of selected cells in the query result should be readable again. (phab:T350153 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350153) - EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.
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!