*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>
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