Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Madamebiblio (RfP scheduled to end after 3 March 2024 04:25 UTC)
• New 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 - Task:Change entries Sitelinks and title
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: HubaishanBot - Bot permission request withdrawn by author (21.02.2024)

Events

• 50 States of Comics: 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
• Papers
  • OSS2023: Ontologies for Services and Society, 9th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2023), 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 - 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, part 2 (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 (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, by Tiago Lubiana
  • Adding a new term to the Cell Ontology issue tracker using Wikidata, by Tiago Lubiana
  • Kick-Off Panel Discussion: Black Histories Wikipedia & Wikidata Edit-a-thon 2024, by Black Histories Wikiproject.

Tool of the week

• CAT🐈 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
• Updates to a fork of 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. A complete description of the code base and test modifications, as well as information on how to run the tests is available on WikiTech. 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 and construct RDF triples from the data. The notebook to do this 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 and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • top scorer (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 (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
  • television judge (person who participates in a television show as a competition judge or mentor)
  • Papers with Code URL (URL for subject in Papers with Code system)
  • ‎SMIRKS (line notation that represents generic chemical reactions)
  • form decomposition (''(without English description)'')
  • thesaurus's main topic (primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
  • thesaurus combines topics (this theasurus combines (intersects) these two or more topics)
  • topic's main thesaurus (main Wikimedia theasurus)
  • ‎latest end date (latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true)
• Newest External identifiers: AniSearch anime ID, Brazzers ID, Tekściory artist ID, Hong Kong Cinema ID, PlaymakerStats.com sports executive ID, Műemlékem.hu identifier, PMB – Personen der Moderne Basis person ID, British Listed Buildings ID, ‎GNM ID, 2GIS place-ID, 2GIS route-ID, livechart.me anime ID, Trakt film ID, ‎NACSIS-CAT library ID, Epigraphic Database Roma ID, ‎WhatPub pub ID, JAHIS Law Database ID, literatura.kg person ID, nagrada.srs.kg person ID, who.ca-news.org person ID, UCA authority ID, ‎European Union trade mark number
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • 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, Encyclopedia Astronautica ID, TNHR&CE Temple ID, Finnish Service Catalogue organization ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, ICANNWiki page, FSA Food Hygiene Rating System ID, Senatori del Regno new ID, Saudipedia ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • 10 most famous places in New Dehli (measured by Sitelinks) (source)
  • Map of objects on the banks of the Kama and the rivers flowing into it (source)
  • Duration of Wikimedia residencies (the average duration is 11 months) (source)
  • Real numbers with their approximate value
• Newest database reports: Gloss which is the same as the lemma
• Showcase Items: ethanol (Q153) - chemical compound
• Showcase Lexemes: حَلِيب (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) and modifying an Item's sitelinks (phab: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. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• 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!