Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
*Discussions *
- Open request for adminship: Madamebiblio https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Madamebiblio (RfP scheduled to end after 3 March 2024 04:25 UTC) - New requests for permissions/Bot: - BorkedBot 11 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BorkedBot_11 - Task: BorkedBot 11 will scan Twitch API for FollowerCount metrics for influencers that are entered in Wikidata and if necessary, update P8687 (social media followers). - GergesBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/GergesBot - Task:Change entries Sitelinks and title - Closed request for permissions/Bot: HubaishanBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/HubaishanBot - Bot permission request withdrawn by author (21.02.2024)
*Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events*
- 50 States of Comics: https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/4757?eventId=33483902 a Wikidata Edit-a-thon, 22 - 23 Feb 2024. Join this virtual editathon and contribute to comic book and art published in Illinois, with an emphasis on BIPOC characters, heroes, villains and their creators.
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Blogs - Wikidata & AI, Together Again https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2024/02/19/wikidata-ai-together-again/ - Blog post exploring how the recently launched LangChain offers support for interfacing Wikidata with Large Language Models (LLMs). By Daniel Erenrich. - An Intro to Querying https://librarycarpentry.org/lc-wikidata/05-intro_to_querying.html - Part 5 of the Library Carpentry introduction to Wikidata. Brush up on your SPARQL and see many examples of how to use the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). - Wikidata Literary Influencers https://fetstudy.uwe.ac.uk/~pmatthew/posts/wikidata-literary-influencers/index.html - On the coverage of influences between writers on Wikidata. This project explores the quality, content and completeness of information about the literary influences of writers who are represented on Wikidata, by Paul Mathews. - Using Gossip Machine to Catch Up on Hunter Biden News https://researchbuzz.me/2024/02/22/gossip-machine-biden/ - Papers - OSS2023: Ontologies for Services and Society, 9th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2023) https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3637/paper13.pdf, by Beverley et al., discusses updates, collaborations, and strategies for integrating Wikidata and occupation standards using OccO as a common language. - Videos - Wikimedia & Wikidata: Collaboration and authority data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dLkGkNB9HI - Session 6 of SunoikisisDC's 'Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage'. Part 1 is a high-level introduction to Wikidata and Part 2 examines its use in representing LOD for ancient sites such as Dura Europos for the International Digital Archive of Dura Europos (IDEA). - Enriching data on dance - part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kznzcnXmpvM, part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgCzGovvpyc (French) - The 'Regroupement québécois de la danse' show how Wikidata can be used to enrich metadata about culturally significant dances in an abstract way. - Part 3: Create a Wikidata Schema https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TPTCKqwEv0 (French) - Wiki Wake Up Afrique training on OpenRefine. This workshop shows how to prepare a CSV file and process it into Wikidata entities and statements. Hosted by Houcemeddine Turki. - Wikidata Weekly Summary - React / Podcast - Week before 2024 02 19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm1TgspDwi8, by Tiago Lubiana - Adding a new term to the Cell Ontology issue tracker using Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeKawblkIO4, by Tiago Lubiana - Kick-Off Panel Discussion: Black Histories Wikipedia & Wikidata Edit-a-thon 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx17GB5Mmt, by Black Histories Wikiproject.
*Tool of the week *
- CAT🐈 https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cat-claim-analysis-toolkit is an analysis toolkit for items corresponding to a simple claim. For items corresponding to a claim, it provides a set of statistics and dataviz.
*Other Noteworthy Stuff *
- OpenRefine 3.8-beta1 was released https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/3.8-beta1 - Updates to a fork of TFT https://github.com/AndreaWesterinen/TFT (Tester for Triplestore from BorderCloud) can be used to evaluate the conformance of various graph databases to the RDF SPARQL 1.1 specification. The repository has been updated to execute the latest W3C RDF SPARQL 1.1 tests https://github.com/w3c/rdf-tests. A complete description of the code base and test modifications, as well as information on how to run the tests is available on WikiTech https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AndreaWest/WDQS_Testing/Running_TFT. This can be used to test alternative stores to WDQS's Blazegraph. - Do you need to understand constraint violations in Wikidata? Currently, violation information is not available in the RDF Dumps. A Jupyter notebook has been created to scrape the mandatory constraint violations page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/Mandatory_constraints/Violations and construct RDF triples from the data. The notebook to do this https://github.com/AndreaWesterinen/Wikidata-and-OWL/blob/main/notebooks/Wikidata-Constraint-Violations.ipynb is in GitHub. This tool makes it easier to understand the "noisiness" of the item data, and enable bots or knowledge-graph code to selectively delete triples (such as properties with erroneous values), or to insert triples (for example, adding inverse relationships where they are missing).
*Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties and property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review *
- Newest General datatypes: - top scorer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12475 (best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition) - filial church https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12476 (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish) - television judge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12484 (person who participates in a television show as a competition judge or mentor) - Papers with Code URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12490 (URL for subject in Papers with Code system) - SMIRKS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12491 (line notation that represents generic chemical reactions) - form decomposition https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12497 (''(without English description)'') - thesaurus's main topic https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12503 (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus) - thesaurus combines topics https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12504 (this theasurus combines (intersects) these two or more topics) - topic's main thesaurus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12505 (main Wikimedia theasurus) - latest end date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12506 (latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true) - Newest External identifiers: AniSearch anime ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12477, Brazzers ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12478, Tekściory artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12479, Hong Kong Cinema ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12480, PlaymakerStats.com sports executive ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12481, Műemlékem.hu identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12482, PMB – Personen der Moderne Basis person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12483, British Listed Buildings ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12485, GNM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12486, 2GIS place-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12487, 2GIS route-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12488, livechart.me anime ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12489, Trakt film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12492, NACSIS-CAT library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12494, Epigraphic Database Roma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12495, WhatPub pub ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12496, JAHIS Law Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12498, literatura.kg person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12499, nagrada.srs.kg person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12500, who.ca-news.org person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12501, UCA authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12502, European Union trade mark number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12507 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - Rug style https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rug_style (classification of an individual textile floor covering based on geographic or cultural origin, structure, or pattern) - New External identifier property proposals to review: Köztérkép creator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/K%C3%B6zt%C3%A9rk%C3%A9p_creator_ID, Encyclopedia Astronautica ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_Astronautica_ID, TNHR&CE Temple ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TNHR%26CE_Temple_ID, Finnish Service Catalogue organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Finnish_Service_Catalogue_organization_ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lisaan_Masry_Egyptian_Arabic_Dictionary_ID, ICANNWiki page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ICANNWiki_page, FSA Food Hygiene Rating System ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FSA_Food_Hygiene_Rating_System_ID, Senatori del Regno new ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Senatori_del_Regno_new_ID, Saudipedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Saudipedia_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
*Did you know? *
- Query examples: - 10 most famous places in New Dehli (measured by Sitelinks) https://w.wiki/9BTX (source https://wikis.world/@lubianat@scholar.social/111938924611742044) - Map of objects on the banks of the Kama and the rivers flowing into it https://w.wiki/9Hzh (source https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1762108328971264085) - Duration of Wikimedia residencies (the average duration is 11 months) https://w.wiki/Cx6 (source https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1760975880992756172) - Real numbers with their approximate value https://w.wiki/9J7N - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Gloss which is the same as the lemma https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Reports/Gloss_matches_lemma - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: ethanol (Q153) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153 - chemical compound - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: حَلِيب (L2355) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2355 - arabic for "milk"
*Development *
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding/replacing a sitelink on an Item for a given wiki (phab:T342987 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342987) and modifying an Item's sitelinks (phab:T342988 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342988) - IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase to the upcoming IP masking changes in MediaWiki - mul language code: We finished the testing and we made a plan for what remaining issues to resolve before release
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.
*Weekly Tasks *
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review . - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? . - Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php: - Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? in one or two sentences. - 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