*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: AytekUstundag-RoyalMapperBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/AytekUstundag-RoyalMapperBot>
(Task: Add missing historical figures from royalmapper database)
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming
- WikidataCon 2023
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023>, the
conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, is taking place
on October
28-29, online all around the world and onsite in Taipei. You can
now register
for the conference
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikidataCon_2023#WikidataCon_2023:_registration_open>
.
- WikiIndaba 2023 Microgrants available for community events!
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/7TM2PG5EWM4F55577Q4HV5SU5TU4X3RQ/>
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working
Hour September 29. This event is part of a series where you can gain
hands-on experience with Wikidata by working on a diverse library and
information science (LIS) dataset. In this fourth session, we'll
introduce
the Wikimedia PAWS environment for data gathering and processing in your
Wikidata projects. We'll focus on web scraping for article data using
Python and the Beautiful Soup package for parsing. You'll learn
about data
models for making your data accessible to both machines and humans. This
session will be recorded and shared on the event page. Event page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-September-29_Wikidata_Working_Hour>
.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=110> (Challenge
started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Mass-importing games from Steam into Wikidata
<https://connorshea.gitlab.io/blog/mass-import-wikidata.html> by
User:Nicereddy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nicereddy>
- Papers
- Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable
Planet
<https://assets.pubpub.org/ft1w1z4w/Unifying%20Biodiversity%20Knowledge%20to%20Support%20Life%20on%20a%20Sustainable%20Planet%20(1)-31687443808274.pdf>
(A Wikimedia Projects White Paper from the Biodiversity Heritage
Library).
Jacqueline J. Dearborn
- "Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical
perspectives" <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01535.pdf> Numerical
perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar
numbers. (Cao et
al, 2023)
- Response to Marcin Roszkowski 2023: Modelling doctoral
dissertations in Wikidata knowledge graph: Selected issues
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009913332300112X?dgcid=author>.
Tamsin L. Braisher
- Press
- They call it the Barassi Line, defining our footy codes - how
fitting that seems today
<https://inqld.com.au/culture/2023/09/19/they-call-it-the-barassi-line-defining-our-footy-codes-how-fitting-that-seems-right-now/>
- The Barassi Line has been a focus of my research and has recently been
plotted and visualised by Brett Tweedie as part of his Wikidata
fellowship.
- Videos
- The mess with Wikidata death location and the instance of a location
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhEJLY51qeI> - salgo60
- Developing a linked data workflow using Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLaYp7zRzc> - Will Kent
- Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and
Wikipedia <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGT5xE-jnOY> - Kai Labusch
- From EAD to MARC to Wikidata and back again
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXa7mz6bp8U> - Crystal Yragui, Adam
Schiff
- Adventures in Korean Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHh5zYdBhYE> - Margaret Donald
- Getting started on Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlkB3BNg4Eo> - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
- Wiki(su)data #2: Wikidata live editing in Italian
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TbEyHLnyC4> - Wikidata in italiano
- Wikibase as an institutional repository authority file
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKC0SiGp0H4> - Michael Lindsey
Tool of the week
- User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js> is a
script that can be used to search an identifier on an external site. It
provides a button to search for an identifier as soon as you type it in the
property input field. For example, if you type “ORCID”, an icon with a lens
will appear, and when you click it, a new tab will open with the ORCID site
looking for the name of the researcher. You can then copy the URL and paste
it to Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Want to play a game? Wikidata:Games
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Games> has some Wikidata-related
ones for you.
- Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IPGTE5XVAZ32DO3NWDSDQW2A3A4NZB5X/>!
September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Project submission deadline.
- Citation.js Toolforge <https://citation-js.toolforge.org/> is a
service to export citations from Wikidata items in various formats (BibTeX,
RIS) and various citations formats (Vancouver, APA, etc)
- As a next step in the deprecation process of ORES the WMF Machine
Learning team will switch the backend of
ores.wikimedia.org to ores-legacy
so users that have not yet migrated to Lift Wing will be transparently
migrated
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/EK65B7QCQHEG37C2ERPIUSP64OX3ZEUJ/>.
This change is planned to take place on Monday 25th of September.
- Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Engineering Manager Wikidata for
Wikimedia Projects and FunTech (d/f/m)
<https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/35655261/Engineering-Manager-Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Projects-and-FunTech-d-f-m-/?jobDbPVId=92161036&l=en>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes:
- type of musical notation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12041> (system of musical
notation used on a given music source or composition)
- chronological designation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12044> (stated scholarly
journal year to which reference is made by: source cited in
support of a
particular statement may not be the same as the publication
date or volume)
- External identifiers: J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12040>, Diktyon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12042>, RAWG tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12043>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes:
- Demo
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Demo>
(video game or software that this trial version is based on)
- ETCS level
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ETCS_level>
(ETCS level of implementation)
- adoption variant
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/adoption_variant>
(variant of this loanword with the same origin)
- Temaportalen ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Temaportalen_ID>
()
- External identifiers: Metacritic game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Metacritic_game_ID>,
BAN ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BAN_ID>,
handlingar.se
ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/handlingar.se_ID>,
identifiant Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_de_l%27histoire_du_protestantisme_fran%C3%A7ais>,
South African NPO number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/South_African_NPO_number>
- Query examples:
- Subclass of blogger <https://w.wiki/7YZo> (source
<https://twitter.com/wikidataid/status/1706181080557240593>)
- List of taxon name as first having been described by Dennis P.
Gordon <https://w.wiki/7W2V> (source
<https://twitter.com/MeMerricks/status/1704675287055860220>)
- Gallery of wood cuts made before 1600, including file description
and the link to the Wikimedia Commons file <https://w.wiki/7YHf> (
source
<https://wikis.world/@Ustinoff@mastodon.social/111121077812646847>)
- Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 38, 2023)
<https://w.wiki/6TNS> (source
<https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/111116087976103677>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
- WikiProject Chopin Thematic Catalog Concordance
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Chopin_Thematic_Catalog_Concordance>
- an effort by members of the Music Library Association (MLA) Linked
Data Working Group
<https://cmc.wp.musiclibraryassoc.org/mla-linked-data-working-group/>
(LDWG) to create and enhance Wikidata items for Frédéric Chopin's musical
works.
- WikiProject Museum AI projects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Museum_AI_projects>
- aims to map AI projects (including events, datasets) from museums into
Wikidata and create a data model for it.
Development
- Lexemes: We are fixing an issue that made edit links and styles
disappear (phab:T344362 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344362>)
- Mismatch Finder:
- We made improvements to the store part of the tool (phab:T335864
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335864>) and fixed small issues (
phab:T344336, <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344336,>,
phab:T343344 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343344>)
- We worked on making it possible to upload mismatches on qualifiers (
phab:T313467 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313467>)
- We are continuing to migrate tools from ORES to Lift Wing (phab:T343731
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343731>)
- We've added Wikifunktions as a new wiki for sitelinks (phab:T342857
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342857>)
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get labels,
descriptions and aliases from a Property as well as modify the description
of an Item
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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Mohammed S. Abdulai
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
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