*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