Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end after 8 October 2023 12:01 (UTC))
• New request for comments: MotoGP riders' links (Update the broken links of MotoGP racer ID (P3928))

Events

Upcoming

• November 7, 2023, Hannover, Germany - WikiRemembrance: researching and remembering National Socialism - Wikipedia and Wikidata's role in documenting memorial sites.
• January 12 - 14, 2024, Berlin, Germany (and online) - CFP: Provenance Loves Wiki - A workshop on art history, art science and provenance research in Wikidata/Wikipedia & Wikibase

Ongoing

• Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

This Week

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • The State of Wikimedia Research 2022 - 2023
• Papers
  • Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Wikidata Case Study - Zhang et al, 2023
  • Chain-of-Verification reduces hallucination in Large Language Models across a variety of tasks, including list-based questions from Wikidata - Dhuliawala et al, 2023
• Videos
  • Intro about WikiPathways< showing bits of Wikidata and Scholia
  • Wikidata for Better Health (in French) - Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Sciences SFAX < closing session of "Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning"
• Notebooks
  • Implementing a parser for a sample Wiki article
  • Artist selection (in French)

Tool of the week

• Swiss Archives is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - Michael Gasser (X post)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WikidataCon 2023: first version of the program is out - find out more about the format, registration and scheduled program.
• The Search Platform / Query Service Team monthly Open Meeting is coming up. Got any Wikidata Query Service questions? Feel free to join!
• Wikimedia Deutschland is still looking for an Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • demo of (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
  • External identifiers: ‎Codeberg username, ADVN ID, ‎MiMoText ID, BookBrainz series ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, ‎National Library of Albania ID, AARoads Wiki article ID, BAN ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • self-identified name (the name used by an ethnic group to refer to itself)
    • non-self-identified name (name used to identify an ethnic group against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts)
    • exception to constraint (lexeme) (lexeme that is an exception to the constraint, qualifier to define a property constraint in combination with P2302)
  • External identifiers: Metacritic numeric game ID, DBIL ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Gematsu game ID, Matilda paper ID, Basketball Bundesliga Teams UUID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, Pinakes IDs, WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID
• Query examples:
  • Most frequent birth places for PTBNP authors (source)
  • University's museum in France (source)
  • 52,153 French words which have both masculine and feminine forms (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject African Literary Metadata - a project dedicated to create and improve Wikidata's coverage of African informal literatures.
  • WikiProject GLAM-BW - a project to connect major collections held by museums in Baden-Württemberg by uploading information on collectors, former collection locations, collecting histories, and objects

Development

• Wikibase REST API:
  • We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property.
  • We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item.
• You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions (phab:T342857)
• We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions and where code changes are needed
• Lexicographical data:
  • We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer (phab:T322683)
  • If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses (phab:T343979)
• We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon (phab:T286239)
• Mismatch Finder:
  • Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results (phab:T335864)
  • We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
  • The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled (phab:T343344)

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.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• 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!