Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Andrei Stroe - RfP scheduled to end after 23 September 2024 12:41 (UTC).
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Amazigh Bot 4 Task(s): Links Wikidata items to articles in the Standard Moroccan Tamazight Wikipedia, adds labels and descriptions, and creates items that do not yet exist.
  • BihiBot Task(s): Linking Standard Moroccan Tamazight Wikipedia articles to Wikidata items.
  • ThesaurusLinguaeAegyptiaeBot Task(s): Creates and updates Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian and Coptic lexemes and ancient Egyptian text artifact items. Also to maintain links to the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae project via approved properties.
• Other discussion: Enabling the CampaignEvents Extention on Wikidata - Proposal to enable the CampaignEvents extension on Wikidata to make it easier for organizers to manage community events and projects on the wikis.

Events

• Upcoming
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • LD4 2024 Conference - Registration is now open for this virtual conference on Building Community for Linked Open Data. Held online from October 7-11, 2024.
  • Wikidata, biographical lives, and linked infrastructures of women’s work 1870-1950 - A discussion on Wikidata and its role in modern knowledge infrastructures. Hear from James Baker as he discusses the Beyond Notability project and how they're documenting crucial historical work. October 8, 4:00pm - 5:30pm UTC at Edinburgh Futures Institute, booking required.
  • Wikidata and the Vocal Pedagogy Lineage Project - Seth Keeton introduces their project which leverages Wikidata to visualise the network of voice teachers and students. Includes a workshop on Query service. October 25, 2:00pm - 3:00pm MDT (UTC-7) at the Marriot Library, Room 2751, Utah.
  • Wikidata Days Bologna 2024, Italian language conference dedicated to Wikidata for libraries and research, taking place in the frame of Wikidata’s 12th birthday, on November 8-9 in Bologna, Italy.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • 2 years of Wikibase Cloud by WMDE: User:Addshore provides a timeline of the development work, challenges, successes and thoughts about the 2 year journey and growth turning WBStack into Wikibase.Cloud.
  • Wikimedia Germany develops semantic search for non-profit AI applications - Wikimedia Germany is developing a semantic search project to simplify access to Wikidata’s open data for non-profit AI applications, aiming to support open-source projects and enhance the quality of AI-generated content.
  • Wikidata and Artificial Intelligence: Simplified Access to Open Data for Open-Source Projects - A more expansive blog article from the above Press Release (also available in German).
  • Role Model data model - Creating a data model on "Role Model"
  • Wikidata unlocks its own knowledge base by vectorizing its data: WMDE partners with DataStax and China’s Jina AI to convert the mountain of data into semantic vectors that are readable to nonprofit AI applications.
  • (fr) Wikidata MOOC: 3rd edition - the latest round of the Wikidata MOOC will soon begin. This edition has new chapters and features, including a focus for secondary school teachers. If you're new to Wikidata and a Francophile, this is an amazing learning tool to expand your skills and knowledge of Wikidata.
• Papers
  • Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models - Manual efforts to clean up Wikidata's taxonomy are time-consuming and prone to error, this paper introduces WiKC (a new version of Wikidatataxonomy) which automatically cleans using a combination of large language models (LLMs) and graph mining techniques. Quality of the refined taxonomy is evaluated from both intrinsic and extrinsic perspectives, on a task of entity typing for the latter. By Y. Peng, T. Bonald & M. Alam.
• Videos
  • Wikimania 2024 Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, including : Extract Python library for Wikimedia tool i18n from Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool (Phab:T283376)
  • Wikidata Lab XLIII: Wiki Loves Brasil - Sandra Soster and Éder Porto present a workshop that covers the app developed based on Wikidata and the ontology and organizational work for the Wiki Loves Monuments in Brazil event!
• Research: Wikibase Cloud Usability Research (Q2-Q3 2024) - Research by Wikimedia Deutschland to better understand Wikibase Cloud novice user's experience as well as to identify opportunities to increase usability.
• Notebooks: Publications of French Sociologists

Tool of the week

• User:Bargioni has uploaded demonstrations of a small suite of gadgets for Wikidata:
  • Gadget: Description Translator - automatically translate descriptions to your default language. To install, go here.
  • Gadget: MoreIdentifier - A handy shortcut to add authority control IDs from VIAF with few edits. It adds a box before the section Identifiers, allowing you to choose which IDs should be added to the item. Instructions can be found here.
  • Gadget: VIAF

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The third iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course (in English) will begin from October 1 until November 13. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Stay tuned for the registration link!
• Wikitech accounts Migration to Wikimedia Unified Login (SUL) and introduction of Wikimedia IDM for developer accounts
• Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS graph split/Affected tools: "This is a page to collect all the tools that might be affected or that will be affected by the programmed graph split. This page will also help to track which tools have been fixed or migrated to the new endpoint, and which one still need to be worked on." You're welcome to add to add more!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
  • game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
  • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
  • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
  • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
  • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
  • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
• Newest External identifiers: Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz, ‎Altar of Gaming character ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Yediot Books book ID, Mapcarta ID, VIRIN, cnkgraph person ID, Tabletopia game ID, cnkgraph book ID, cnkgraph poem ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, ‎CNES ID, ‎Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, ‎TV Maze character ID, Say Who ID, ‎Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, ‎LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, ‎Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, ‎Ontobee ID, ‎typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • magazine capacity (In (real or fictional) devices like a firearm, weapon, or engineered thing, this is the default capacity or size of a devices' magazine, clip, or other container typically used to hold ammunition, bolts, cartridges, tools, etc. which pushes those items as needed usually through a spring-based mechanism into a receiver for further use by the device)
  • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • publication type of scholarly article (Publication type of scholarly article)
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this item)
  • Medietilsynets filmdatabase (identifier for a film in the Norwegian Medietilsynets database)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Board Game Arena ID, BoardGaming.com game ID, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, MinDat Feature ID, BoardGameGeek game mechanic ID, LWW journal ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, Koha Kütüphane ID, MyWaifuList character ID, Kotaku game ID, FantLab artist ID, Münzkabinett, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, identifiant inventaire Grand Est, RedBA Granada authority ID, MetalTabs.com musician ID, HA! ID, Identifiant Radio France d'une émission, Identifiant France Télévisions d'une émission

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • A list of black-and-white movies made in Greece after 2000 featuring an actor from Saturday Night Live, with a female assistant director who studied in the USA, written by an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and composed by a blind Lutheran (source)
  • Movies where a guy named Jack plays a guy named Jack (sources: [1], [2])
• WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Pokémon/Eighth generation Pokémon - List of the Pokémon introduced in the eighth generation
• Newest database reports: Wikimedia multilingual project main pages
• Showcase Items: Titanic (Q25173) - British transatlantic passenger liner, launched and foundered in 1912
• Showcase Lexemes: شِرِب (L1318926) - 'to drink' in Egyptian Arabic

Development

• Query Service:
  • We added a banner to the Query Service UI to inform people about the graph split.
  • We fixed an issue with visualisations caused by a library upgrade (phab:T375058)
• mul language code: We continued working on the remaining issues uncovered in testing (phab:T373088)
• Migrating to the Codex design system: We are in the process of migrating the Query Builder and Special:NewLexeme from Wikit to Codex.
• REST API: Continue work on improving error handling and messages
• Data access: We are preparing the survey for reusers to better understand which additional data access methods they need.

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.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Belgium
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!