* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2024-12-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #655 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_11_26*
*Discussions*
- New requests for permissions/Bot: ThesaurusLinguaeAegyptiaeBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/ThesaurusLinguaeAegyptiaeBot - Task(s): Creating and updating Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian and Coptic lexemes and ancient Egyptian text artifact items. It is also to maintain links to the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae project via approved properties. - New request for comments: Schema Virtual Tour https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Schema_virtual_tour - User:Brechtd https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Brechtd would like feedback on determining a data model and schema for Wikidata items that are an instance of virtual tour(Q2915546) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2915546 - See Schema Proposal - Virtual Tour https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schema_proposals/virtual_tour for more info. - Closed request for comments: Create items for Property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Create_items_for_property_proposals - Despite a spirited discussion with many comments both in favour and opposition, no consensus was reached.
*Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events*
- Upcoming: - Wikimedia Deutschland is providing a total of 15 participation scholarships for Wikimania 2025 (7 individual and 4 tandem scholarships). Further information is available on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Wikipedia:F%C3%B6rderung/Wikimania/English. An overview of all questions in the application form is here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024-11-14_Wikimania_2025_scholarship_application_(Wikimedia_Deutschland).pdf. Apply here https://zforms.wikimedia.de/wmde/form/Wikimania2025scholarshipapplicationform/formperma/z3vs3NSu6TildxnidcQlBrJ3YQiEDDXP0x9E3l6T6is. Closes 8 December 2024. - Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 4, 2024 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/BL5D7RN65PLSLAA3AGNI32LTCXR7UKDM/. The time is 17:00 CET - Tomorrow / 3rd December 2024: Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group Group session @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC / 6pm CET. If you would like to attend, please fill out the Etherpad form https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/LD4-WDAG_Lexicographical_Data_Series to ensure all necessary materials are provided for you. - Deadline for the Central Asian WikiCon 2025 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Central_Asian_WikiCon_2025 scholarship application is December 30, 2024. We encourage you to make Wikidata-related submissions (the deadline for submission is March 22, 2025.
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Research - Statement Signals: Wikidata usage on other Wikis https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects/Research/Statement_Signals: A new research report is available. Explores what trace Wikidata data is measurable on other Wiki pages and proposes initial metrics for measuring Wikidata statement usage on Wikimedia content pages. Also suggests methods to improve data analysis and collection. PDF is available on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statement_Signals_Measuring_Wikidata_Usage_on_Other_Wikis.pdf - Blogs
- - Celebrating Wikidata’s 12th birthday across the world https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/2024/11/28/celebrating-wikidatas-12th-birthday-across-the-world/ - Wikidata celebrated its 12th birthday in October and November 2024, with a series of global events and activities aimed at commemorating the platform's contributions to the open knowledge movement, engaging its community of volunteers, and highlighting the significant role Wikidata plays in the digital landscape. By Dan Shick - Papers - Beyond the Library Catalogue: Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386043293_Beyond_the_Library_Catalogue_Connecting_Library_Metadata_to_Wikidata - This paper explores how libraries can leverage Wikidata to enhance resource discoverability, foster interoperability, and integrate into the global knowledge ecosystem. By Omorodion Okuonghae (2024). - A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords https://www.deslab.org/publication/a-framework-for-integrating-biomedical-knowledge-in-wikidata-with-open-biological-and-biomedical-ontologies-and-mesh-keywords/ - Enhancing Wikidata’s biomedical knowledge by integrating OBO ontologies and PubMed’s MeSH keywords, addressing gaps, improving classification accuracy, and verifying relations for stronger interoperability and accuracy. By Chebil et al. (2024). - Class Order Disorder in Wikidata and First Fixes https://arxiv.org/html/2411.15550v1 analyzes class order violations in Wikidata's ontology using SPARQL, evaluates fixes, and offers solutions through improved tools or community involvement. By P. Patel-Schneider and E. Doğan. - Videos - Edit a Wikidata Item and Lexeme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey-D-oiBcx4 - The Tyap Wikimedia User Group produced this tutorial on editing as part of the Wikidata 12th Birthday celebrations for the Wikidata @12 Data-a-thon. - State of the art in combining OpenStreetMap and Linked Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzo6IysvZNk - Covers Linked Data basics, its potential with OSM, and popular methods for linking, extracting, combining, and querying data from both sources. Jump to ( Wikidata https://youtube.com/watch?v=gzo6IysvZNk?t=359) - (正體字, CN Trad.) Getting Started with Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5WuyQh_m8s - An introduction and overview to Wikidata and some associated tools such as ORES and LiftWing. - (正體字, CN Trad.) Wikidata Basic Editing Tutorial https://youtube.com/watch?v=obvET8QyHRw - This session was given as part of the COSCUP '24 conference on the OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Agenda Track. - LLM-based natural-language representations for SPARQL queries over Wikidata and DBpedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s499PeolbOg - LORiS: This tool can help you understand complex SPARQL queries by converting them to natural language. - Towards an Open NLI LLM-based System for KGs: A Wikidata Case Study https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrwvxIsWRKs - At the 7th ISRITI 2024 conference, Jaycent Ongris shows how RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) has been used in a natural-language question-answer platform to directly query Wikidata. - How knowledge representation is changing in a world of LLM's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmCbTOZ4Yos - Denny Vrandečić gives this keynote session at the SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference. - the Capacity to Grieve Once More https://youtube.com/watch?v=PKk_b7zC1KA?t=1170Finding - Alexandros Kosiaris of the Wikimedia Foundation explains changes made to make Wikipedia more stable and prevent outages, including how it calls and fetches data from Wikidata. Session given at SREcon24.
*Tool of the week*
- LoRiS https://wse-research.org/LoRiS-LLM-generated-representations-of-SPARQL-queries/ - Generate natural-language descriptions of SPARQL queries via LLM's.
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Wikidata:WordGraph https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WordGraph: Google released the WordGraph dataset as a belated present for Wikidata’s 12th birthday. The dataset contains 968,153 forms in 39 languages. - Product Manager: Wikibase Suite https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/50824818/Product-Manager-Wikibase-Suite-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=171424268&l=en: Wikimedia Deutschland has an open and exciting vacancy for a Product Manager of Wikibase Suite. Apply! https://jobdb.softgarden.de/jobdb/public/jobposting/applyonline/click?jp=50824818 - Tools or bots which use the wiki replicas https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_Replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected. (This was previously announced 2024-11-11 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_11_11 but didn’t actually take place yet.)
*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 properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - picture of this person doing their job https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13146 (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits) - ISCC https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13150 (ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing) - External identifiers: Kultboy editor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13129, WikiBaseball ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13130, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13131, ANID Researcher Portal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13132, TOPO ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13133, DBIS Resource ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13134, ITV News topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13135, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13136, ISFDB editorial collection ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13137, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13138, ILEC World Lake Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13139, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13140, El Moudjahid tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13141, SGES monument ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13142, DEX ’09 entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13143, Electronic Language International Festival person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13144, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13145, Paramount+ video ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13147, Le Club Mediapart blogger ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13148, Phish.net venue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13149 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - study or design for this work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/study_or_design_for_this_work (preliminary work for this finished work) - OAI formatter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OAI_formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services) - Open Library Collection https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Library_Collection (Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics) - scientific illustration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/scientific_illustration (an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.) - thesis submitted for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/thesis_submitted_for (academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted) - meeting of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/meeting_of (subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.)) - UMC rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UMC_rating (Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC)) - Third-gender population https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Third-gender_population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place) - role named as https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/role_named_as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work) - bequest income https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/bequest_income (The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.) - Audio tour https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Audio_tour () - Augmented reality tour https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Augmented_reality_tour () - Virtual reality tour https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Virtual_reality_tour () - extension that populates category https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/extension_that_populates_category (analogous to {{P|4329}} for tracking cat:s populated by extensions of MediaWiki, linking to extension causing the population) - CUATM statistical code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CUATM_statistical_code (7-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova) - CUATM unique identification code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CUATM_unique_identification_code (4-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova) - External identifiers: ISLRN https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/erail.in_railway_station_identifier, Gallimard author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gallimard_author_ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Japanese_Health_Insurance_System_Facility_ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27un(e)_artiste_sur_Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Eyrolles_author_ID, Zvuk album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Zvuk_album_ID, Chtyvo author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chtyvo_author_ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioth%C3%A8que_du_S%C3%A9minaire_de_Tournai_IDs, EU Corporate body code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EU_Corporate_body_code, SBOID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SBOID, Waymark code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Waymark_code, Radio Algeria tag ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Radio_Algeria_tag_ID, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Academic_Dictionary_of_Lithuanian_entry_ID, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PBY_Ben-Yehuda_dictionary_identifier, ThePWHL.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ThePWHL.com_player_ID, Radio Algeria tag ID (Arabic) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Radio_Algeria_tag_ID_(Arabic), Identifiant L'AF au champ d'honneur https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_L%27AF_au_champ_d%27honneur, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans Vidas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27un(e)_auteurice_dans_Vidas, Open Source Security Foundation Best Practices Identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/_Open_Source_Security_Foundation_Best_Practices_Identifier, OpenSSF Best Practices ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenSSF_Best_Practices_ID, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_American_Heritage_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language_entry, Identifiant sur Mémoire des avocats https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_sur_M%C3%A9moire_des_avocats, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BCU_Kirundi-English_Dictionary_ID, Wurfhand https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wurfhand, University Bibliography Tübingen ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/University_Bibliography_T%C3%BCbingen_ID, ZSL Authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ZSL_Authority_ID, PUG authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PUG_authority_ID, Three Decks class ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Three_Decks_class_ID, HCERES expert ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HCERES_expert_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples: - Using cross-product / cross-join to produce list of categories https://w.wiki/CCfd - Map of individuals charged, convicted and/or exonerated of Witchcraft with place of death in Switzerland https://w.wiki/CEmt - Names and Locations of French Castles (Château) https://w.wiki/CEn6 - Train Station information (with a Spanish Wikipedia article) https://w.wiki/CEnW - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- Bibliothek UvA/HvA https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Bibliotheek_UvA/HvA - documenting, archiving and creating items from collections from the UvA/AUAS Library in Amsterdam, beginning with the works of Allard Pierson https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130736773&action=edit&redlink=1 . - Ghana https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ghana - A hub for Ghanaian activities and entities, including regional languages: Dagbanli, Twi and Dagari. - Thao (Taiwan) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Taiwan/Thao: For collecting information related to Thao cultural themes, including statistics and activity records. - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Recent Deaths https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Recent_deaths - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Miguel de Cervantes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5682: Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616) - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: புறவு (L1236574) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L1236574 - A Tamil lemma for dense forest, impassable jungle and a pigeon dove.
*Development*
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema. - PropertySuggester: We have updated the script that generates the suggestions and will update the suggestions next. - Lexicographical data: We fixed a visual issue with search results on the Codex-based Special:NewLexeme (phab:T370057 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370057) - Vector 2022: We are working on designs to fix the remaining issues with the skin on Wikidata. - Wikibase REST API: We are finishing the prototype for supporting search in the API.
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? . - Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Ghana - 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
*· Previous issue https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_11_26 · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE) (talk https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)) · MediaWiki message delivery https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery (talk https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:MediaWiki_message_delivery) 16:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_12_02#c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20241202153000*