*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - So9qBot 7 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/So9qBot_7. Task: Add not found in (P9660) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9660 --> Q123739672 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123739672 to Danish Lexemes - So9qBot 8 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/So9qBot_8. Task: Add missing names of European legal documents to labels and aliases of items with a CELEX identifier - LccnBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/LccnBot. Task: Adds Library of Congress authority ID (P244) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P244 to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.
- Other discussions: How to handle concepts of trans people on Wikidata? Should <privacy at wikidata.org> be redirected to <privacy at wikimedia.org> or should it be monitored by Wikidata volunteers? Join the discussion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#How_to_handle_concepts_of_trans_people? !
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour December 18th, 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 ninth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL and Scholia to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-December-18_Wikidata_Working_Hour - Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #121: Pottery https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=121
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: #LD42023. Part I: The Future of Wikidata + Libraries (A Workshop) https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/13/ld42023-part-i-the-future-of-wikidata-libraries-a-workshop/ - This blog series explores how libraries engage with Wikidata and Linked Data in the face of AI challenges. Led by Silvia Gutiérrez and Giovanna Fontenelle from the Wikimedia Foundation, the series summarizes insights from a collaborative session at the 2023 LD4 Conference, using Design Thinking strategies to connect the Library-Wikidata community with WMF, focusing on Wikidata, Wikibase, and Structured Data on Commons (SDC) in libraries. By Silvia Gutiérrez & Giovanna Fontenelle - Papers - Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87476/63565 - This review analyzes Wikipedia's gender gap from 2007 to 2022, revealing a slight majority of female authors, addressing key themes, and exploring strategies to mitigate the gap, providing valuable insights into the research landscape in this domain. By Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Juan-José Boté-Vericad and Julia Minguillón. - Ten years of Wikidata: A bibliometric study https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2023/papers/2__novel_ten_years_of_wikidata_a%5B1%5D.pdf - This research delves into scholarly publications about Wikidata from its inception in 2012 to late 2022, revealing 945 relevant papers, primarily from conferences. The analysis highlights a concentration of experts and contributors from the Global North, as well as governmental institutions as predominant funders. The study calls for enhanced networking and outreach to promote diversity and inclusion within the Wikidata research community. Emphasizing computer science perspectives, the research focuses on methods for developing and utilizing open knowledge graphs, notably Wikidata, with a narrower but significant interest in application-oriented studies in digital humanities, biology, and healthcare. (Turki, et al) - Videos - Duplicating Everywhere All at Once | Cebuano Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaKuKRdJojc - Five years ago, Lsjbot's Wikipedia articles caused duplicate Wikidata items, notably impacting geographic places on Cebuano Wikipedia. This video by User:Canley https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Canley at Wikimania 2023 delves into the history, visualizes the issue, and suggests cleanup strategies for Wikidata and Wikipedia, emphasizing Aotearoa New Zealand and parts of Australia, with implications for the global challenge of bot-created duplicates. - Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research with Alicia Fagerving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T66stEEwMKo - Alicia Fagerving, Wikimedia Sverige, introduces the project "Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research" and Wikidata. The project, spanning 2021-2023, links vocabularies from the databases of Nationalmuseum and Statens historiska museer to Wikidata, exploring it as a platform for semantic interoperability among cultural heritage institutions and providing tools and visualizations for similar projects. - 2023: OSM-Wikidata Map Framework https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdzzSEAdk-w. Combining OpenStreetMap and Wikidata allows to leverage the strengths of the two projects to create richer maps. This talk explores how OSM-Wikidata Map Framework simplifies this process. By Daniele Santini - Press: Adriano Rutz wins the Swiss National Open Research Data (ORD) Prize https://akademien-schweiz.ch/en/medien/press-releases/2023/adriano-rutz-gewinnt-ersten-schweizer-ord-preis/ for “The LOTUS Initiative” project. LOTUS explores new ways of promoting the re-use of data in the fields of biology and chemistry and thus of sharing knowledge in natural products research. More coverage https://www.miragenews.com/adriano-rutz-wins-swiss-national-ord-prize-1139345/ - Notebooks - It's not bad! Measuring Gérard Depardieu's mark on French cinema (in French) https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cest-pas-gege - The analysis centers on Gérard Depardieu's impact on French cinema amid legal issues and sexual assault allegations. Despite difficulties in addressing these accusations, the author leverages Wikidata to measure Depardieu's influence by querying films from directors born after 1930 to assess his involvement. - How to Become a Billionaire: A Billionaire's Occupations Network Analysis https://observablehq.com/d/f5bb6ee872abfa82 - This network analysis investigates billionaires’ primary sources of income with a network graph—based on their occupations—connecting billionaires from all over the world and uncovering some of the biggest industries in the world. - Documentation: User:Mahir256 (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mahir256 statred Lexemes documentation pages about Lemmata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation/Lemmata and Lexeme languages https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation/Lexeme_languages. Your contributions are welcome.
Tools of the week
- Drama Corpora Project (DraCor) https://dracor.org/ is a digital database of plays, primarily from Europe. It collects and organizes texts of plays in a way that allows researchers and others to extract and analyze information from those texts. This could include details about the characters, the dialogue, the stage directions, and more. The data is being pulled from Wikidata. - Magnus Manske https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske added a new game to the Wikidata game https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=88 to identify duplicate Items for researchers. - Mike Peel (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel set up a new Distributed Game https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=90&opt=%7B%22type%22%3A%22all%22%7D to add links to Wikiquote to Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase Cloud has a new website. Check it out: https://www.wikibase.cloud/
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - battery life https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12221 (length of time after a full charge that a device can continue to work under normal use before it needs its battery to be recharged) - External identifiers: Atari-8-bit Forever game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12211, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12212, FNAC artwork ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12213, Akadem person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12214, Game Classification game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12215, Game Classification machine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12216, Game Classification creation tool ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12217, TaiCOL ID (new version) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12218, a8.fandal.cz ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12219, Stadium 64 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12220, Filmweb.no film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12222, SixtyFour Originals DataBase game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12223, BUGZ ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12224 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - Substances in the reference https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Substances_in_the_reference (Substances studied in reference works such as papers, reports, etc.) - Book format https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Book_format (Page size of a historical book, manuscript, or artwork on paper, based on folding sheets into leaves) - beneficial owner https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/beneficial_owner () - External identifiers: DraCor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DraCor_ID, PCSX2 Wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PCSX2_Wiki_ID, Twitch numeric channel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Twitch_numeric_channel_ID, identifiant article ORBi https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_article_ORBi, identifiant auteur ORBi https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_auteur_ORBi, TheTVDB IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TheTVDB_IDs, RPCS3 Wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RPCS3_Wiki_ID, Retskrivningsordbogen ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Retskrivningsordbogen_ID, Kanjipedia word ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kanjipedia_word_ID, MAMCS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MAMCS_ID, Citra compatibility database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Citra_compatibility_database_ID, IGN wiki article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGN_wiki_article_ID, AreWeAntiCheatYet ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AreWeAntiCheatYet_ID, RPGFan game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RPGFan_game_ID, Swissubase ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Swissubase_ID, goalzz.com team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/goalzz.com_team_ID, MilliBase taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MilliBase_taxon_ID, Digicarmel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digicarmel_ID, Arcade Hub ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Arcade_Hub_ID, Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Great_American_Business_Leaders_of_the_20th_Century_ID, Consortium of Lichen Herbaria taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Consortium_of_Lichen_Herbaria_taxon_ID, Biota of New Zealand ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biota_of_New_Zealand_ID, NientePopCorn IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NientePopCorn_IDs, HistoriaGames game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HistoriaGames_game_ID - Query examples: - List of movies directed by French filmmakers born after 1930 with or without Depardieu https://w.wiki/8UjS (source https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cest-pas-gege) - Czech buildings carved into the rock https://w.wiki/8RtG (source https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1733440905669964260) - Top album languages found on Wikidata right now https://w.wiki/6TNS (source https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/111589767086008028) - Works created by females, died in 2023 https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Works%20created%20by%20females%20died%20in%202023%0APREFIX%20bd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreaLabel%20%3FworkLabel%20%28year%28%3Fdate%29as%20%3Fyear%29%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P170%2Fcreator%0A%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%23%20P50%2Fauthor%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P86%2Fcomposer%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP87%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P87%2Flibrettist%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP110%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P110%2Fillustrator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP655%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P655%2Ftranslator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP676%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P676%2Flyrics%20by%0A%20%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%20%23%20P21%2Fsex%20or%20gender%20-%20Q6581072%2Ffemale%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%222023-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%222023-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%29%20%23%20P570%2Fdate%20of%20death%20in%201945%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%7D%20%23%20P571%2Finception%20-%20P571%2Fpublication%20date%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fwork%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FcreaLabel%20%0A - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: User:Pasleim/Unsupported sitelinks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Unsupported_sitelinks - Found 279 items - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: lion (Q140) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140 - species of big cat - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: cevap (L1124154) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L1124154 - Turkish noun for 'answer' derived from the Arabic noun جَواب
Development
- Wikibase REST API: - We finished adding the endpoints 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) - We started working on the endpoint for removing a Property's description in a given language (phab:T342985 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342985) - We are fixing an issue with incorrect handling of lowercase statement IDs in edit requests (phab:T352644 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352644) - Special:PrefixIndex now shows label/lemma for Properties and Lexemes ( phab:T343115 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343115) - Language codes: We changed where Wikidata is getting its languages from for Lexemes and Monolingual text statements and thereby resolved many tasks requesting another language being added to them (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