Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-12-11. Contents
- 1 Discussions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Discussions - 2 Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Events - 3 Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Press,_articles,_blog_posts,_videos - 4 Tool of the week https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Tool_of_the_week - 5 Other Noteworthy Stuff https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Other_Noteworthy_Stuff - 6 Did you know? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Did_you_know? - 7 Development https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Development - 8 Monthly Tasks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2023_12_11#Monthly_Tasks
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: LccnBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/LccnBot (Task: Adds P244 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P244 to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.) - New request for comments: Duplicate References Data Model and UI https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Duplicate_References_Data_Model_and_UI < During Data Modelling Days '23, 2 proposals emerged trying to answer the question of how to handle duplicate References on Wikidata Items.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group call December 12, 2023: Several members of the Chinese Culture and Heritage Wikidata group will provide an overview of the group's Wikidata projects as well as the challenges they have encountered. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rwn2Y3TyTRIrejP2zqs7KyANMpuh9Yaxe5-6Xezn8yQ/edit?usp=sharing - Data-SHS Bordeaux Week: https://10times.com/e11x-sspk-2k54 Processing and Analyzing Quantitative Data in Human and Social Sciences 2023. Dec. 11 - 15, Bordeaux, FR.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Agreeing to agree: Roundtripping people identifiers with Wikidata https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/12/05/agreeing-to-agree-roundtripping-people-identifiers-with-wikidata/ < The Te Papa Museum of New Zealand shows how Wikidata is being used to verify subjects when sharing Collections and data between sources. Here's a video explaining more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbpf3r7EzFc - Papers / Books - 1Lib1Nearby with Wikidata https://www.o-bib.de/bib/article/view/5970 (German) < Queries and edits for the multilingual world knowledge of the nearby environment. - Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset: https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/114408/instance/9910689/ a case study of plant genera named for women < S. Mering, L. Gardiner, S. Knapp et al. - Fine-tuned LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less with Few-Shot Sequence-to-Sequence Semantic Parsing over Wikidata https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.353/ < Presented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference. Authors: S. Xu, S. Liu, T. Culhane et al. - Videos - BiCIKL to Wikidata: Harmonizing the chaotic universe of natural history collectors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGyvc6dRbfA < presented by Mathias Dillen at the TDWG 2023 Annual Conference. - Modelling Research Expeditions in Wikidata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7gpAcjsjuU Best Practice for Standardisation and Contexualisation. Presented by Dag Endresen also at the TDWG Annual Conference. - Riksdagen Corpus Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VtEMTZsntU < Magnus Sälgö. - Scholia - a profiling tool to explore scholarly knowledge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr-A8EMc788 < As part of the national research data infrastructure (NFDI) infratalk, Dr. Daniel Mietchen presents Scholia. - Catalogue of Premodern Manuscripts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZ5eB76sI4 < See a Wikibase instance used for The Digital Scriptorium Catalog. Presented by Lynn Ransom & L. P. Coladangelo. - Data Modelling Days 2023 Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AuoEYkEXYw&list=PLduaHBu_3ejM49Nb4_k652X9XmmvhuJjE < The list of recorded Sessions for the DMD '23 Online Conference is available here! - Building a semantic knowledge (wiki)base for synthetic phytochemistry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krbeWMTz5CY < Presented by Dr. Gitanjali Yadav - OpenRefine - a open source tool for working with data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVxi7ldSbrs < This session explores the advantages of using OR to wrangle, clean, transform and standardise data for Wikidata. Presented by Jinoy Tom Jacob at the IndiaFOSS3.0 Conference. - Various queries and modeling on Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykK8Wq6cycc (French) < User:VIGNERON https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VIGNERON introduces several SPARQL queries.
Tool of the week
- QLever SPARQl Engine https://qlever.cs.uni-freiburg.de/wikidata < If you attended Data Modeling Days '23, you may have seen an extraordinary Session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHyjdoSN54 given by Hannah Bast and Johannes Kalmbach showcasing the power and advantages of the QLever engine. QLever can handle queries that cause the WDQS to timeout or allowing Federated queries and Geospatial!
(QLEver has already featured in Tool of the Week but we wanted to showcase it again after experiencing it at DMD '23) Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Healthcare Disparities in the U.S.: Exploring Access to Healthcare in the Immigrant Population https://observablehq.com/d/6273b207e1d07eff < Zoomable Bar Charts and visualisations exploring access to healthcare across the U.S. Prison system, powered by Wikidata and WDQS. Authored by Haryn Shin. - DMD23: documentation and outcomes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Data_Modelling_Days:_documentation_and_outcomes can be viewed on Wikidata project Chat as well as related-topics from the Conference on Qualifiers for fuzzy properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Proposal:_add_qualifier_to_allow_for_fuzzy_property_values_to_help_with_real-life_data_ambiguity and Should WMF fund QLever? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Should_the_foundation_consider_funding_the_QLever_project?
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - official wiki URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12203 (URL of the official wiki for the item) - counterexample https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12208 (qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance or subclass of the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not hold) - External identifiers: ELMCIP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12204, RFI station ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12206, BnF archives and manuscripts ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12207, The Plant List ID (Arizona Native Plant Society) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12209, DIMA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12210 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - Flora of the Hawaiian Islands ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flora_of_the_Hawaiian_Islands_ID (URL of the entry for a plant species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website) - Hijri Date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hijri_Date (Hijri Date of claim) - External identifiers: Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mid-Atlantic_Herbaria_Consortium_taxon_ID, New words in Danish ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/New_words_in_Danish_ID, Game Classification game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Classification_game_ID, Lobbypedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lobbypedia_ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae text witness ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Thesaurus_Linguae_Aegyptiae_text_witness_ID, Game Classification machine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Classification_machine_ID, Game Classification creation tool ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Classification_creation_tool_ID, a8.fandal.cz ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/a8.fandal.cz_ID, Numer KRS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Numer_KRS, Stadium 64 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Stadium_64_ID, Sina Chinese Basketball ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sina_Chinese_Basketball_ID, Veterans Legacy Memorial https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Veterans_Legacy_Memorial, SixtyFour Originals DataBase game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SixtyFour_Originals_DataBase_game_ID, WHDLoad database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WHDLoad_database_ID - Deleted properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion: - Query examples: - Geolocalized object that have the same name than something named after some some kind of church building https://w.wiki/8TYJ. This includes streets, bus stops, … - Video games per Platform https://w.wiki/8TZv. Timeline of video game releases per platform. - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Heritage Collections https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Heritage_Collections: database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including contemporary scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection databases with Wikidata. - WikiProject 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. - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: (Q8409) Alexander The Great https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8409 - Alexander III, King of Macedon. - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: (L630387) Pri https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L630387 - the meaning of this Breton word is not 'muddy' with VIGNERON's contribution!
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We continued work on the routes for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342983) - Monolingual text values can now use many more languages than before. We’re still working on doing the same for Lexemes. (phab:T341409 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341409)
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! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next
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