Discussions

- Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Saroj (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Saroj! (see the closed request https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Saroj ) - New requests for permissions/Bot: - Tildebot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Tildebot (Task: Upload about 16,000 AARoads Wiki article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12052 statements based on reconciliation in OpenRefine https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:OpenRefine) - GamerProfilesBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/GamerProfilesBot (Task: Regularly update existing video games with the GamerProfiles game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12001 sourced from GamerProfiles.com https://gamerprofiles.com)

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events

- Upcoming: - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg. *The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.* - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 13, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The fifth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually adding authors and publishers from our bibliography into Wikidata. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-October-13_Wikidata_Working_Hour - Wikidata's 11th birthday is around the corner, on October 29th! Discover how you can prepare and present a gift to the community and organize a local birthday celebration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday. - New round open HDI course on Knowledge Graphs. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Sign up enrol here https://open.hpi.de/courses/knowledgegraphs2023. - Data Modelling Days https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023, November 30-December 2. An online event dedicated to our data modelling challenges. You can already submit a session or ideas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023 . - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #112, Dogs https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=112 (Challenge started on 2023-10-09 12:01:19)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

- Blogs - Connecting They Work For You to Wikidata http://chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/twfy_wikidata_crosswalk/ by Chris Hanretty - Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2023/Contents/New_Zealand_report by Prosperosity https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Prosperosity & Giantflightlessbirds https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Giantflightlessbirds - These are the top 10 most famous musicians of all time, according to MIT https://www.deseret.com/2023/10/4/23901215/most-famous-musicians-of-all-time, by Hannah Murdock - COVID-19 Wikipedia pageview spikes, 2019-2022 https://addshore.com/2023/10/covid-19-wikipedia-pageview-spikes-2019-2022/ < Wikipedia pageviews spikes using Wikidata as a source for determining page titles for topics across languages. By Addshore https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore - Papers - Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15047.pdf by Jonathan Gabel Christiansen, Mathias Lykke Gammelgaard, and Anders Søgaard - Press - Is AI lying to us? These researchers built an LLM lie detector of sorts to find out https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-ai-lying-to-us-these-researchers-built-an-llm-lie-detector-of-sorts-to-find-out/ - Tiernan Ray, ZDNET ("Step one is to come up with a list of over 20,000 questions and known answers, drawn from sources such as Wikidata, for which the large language model, in this case, OpenAI's GPT-3.5, can be reliably expected to provide the correct answer.") - Videos - Graphic Possibilities 50 States of Comics Wikidata Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W634CXHdI8 < discusses data modeling, notability, cultural importance of Comic books and how to add them to Wikidata. By Kate Topham - Linking cultural heritage data in practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7aYSiqafSg < discusses interlinking diverse museum data between Sweden’s National Museum and National Historical Museums and Wikidata. - Data Scraping, Gathering & Annotation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVWn97wFfFM (in Ukrainian VO, English text) < lecture on data gathering, Wikidata, SPARQL and structured data from Ukrainian Catholic University - Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwfGs9asLVY (in French) < adding a link in Wikidata between work and the edition, and beyond. - Proposal and creation of properties https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ij2r56P7aY (in French) by VIGNERON https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:VIGNERON < Exploring the property creation process on Wikidata. - Wikidata: first pragmatic approach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdG9yc-xZQQ - Ismael Olea - OpenSouthCode 2023 < an introduction to Wikidata - the objective of this talk is for the public to leave amazed and addicted to Wikidata.

Tool of the week

- https://aletheiafact.org <- is a new fact-checking website using Wikidata for people/concept identification. The website allows users to contribute to fact-checking claims made by public figures, such as politicians, celebrities, and influencers.

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: BAN ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12053, Metacritic game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12054, Dicionário Aberto ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12055, Online Etymology Dictionary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12056, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12057, ‎Gematsu game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12058, Encyclociné ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12059, DBIL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12060, Pinakes country ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12061, Pinakes city ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12062, Pinakes institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12063, Pinakes fonds ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12064, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12065, Aparat channel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12066, FaroeSoccer referee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12067, Matilda paper ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12068, Sessionize speaker ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12069 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - self-identified name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/self-identified_name (the name by which a group of humans refers to itself) - non-self-identified name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/non-self-identified_name (name used to identify a group of humans against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts) - fonds https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fonds () - External identifiers: WikiKids ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiKids_ID, Aves de Chile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aves_de_Chile_ID, Klingon Word Wiki id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Klingon_Word_Wiki_id, Metacritic company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Metacritic_company_ID, Metacritic publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Metacritic_publication_ID, StopGame series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/StopGame_series_ID, Game Jolt ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Jolt_ID, SlackBuilds package https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SlackBuilds_package, California State Park ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/California_State_Park_ID, SBL player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SBL_player_ID, identificador Qué series ver https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identificador_Qu%C3%A9_series_ver, Steam Workshop file ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Steam_Workshop_file_ID, Find my School ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Find_my_School_ID, Fichier des ecclésiastiques ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fichier_des_eccl%C3%A9siastiques_ID, Walmart product ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Walmart_product_ID, Open Library publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Open_Library_publisher_ID, kihondōshi handbook ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/kihond%C5%8Dshi_handbook_ID, OzBargain tag https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OzBargain_tag, OzBargain brand https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OzBargain_brand, ELSST Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ELSST_Thesaurus_ID, Gematsu company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gematsu_company_ID, Valve Developer Community article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Valve_Developer_Community_article_ID, Royal Irish Academy ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Royal_Irish_Academy_ID, Illinois State Parks ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Illinois_State_Parks_ID, Flixy.dk emne ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flixy.dk_emne_ID - Query examples: - Accused witches in Scotland accused of shapeshifting https://w.wiki/7gFH(source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Scotland%27s_Accused_Witches/Queries ) - Argentinian national team football players that participating in 3 matches or bellow https://w.wiki/7iBa (source https://twitter.com/tin_nqn_/status/1709349283525210380) - List of people who are in Art Looting Investigation Unit red flag list https://w.wiki/7gg3 (source https://twitter.com/OpenLinkArtData/status/1710521967873249428) - Main Subject bubble chart of Articles in Journals with AJOL ID, published in Ghana, about diseases https://w.wiki/7eQQ (source: @espejolento https://twitter.com/espejolento)

Development

- Wikibase REST API: We worked on the new routes for PATCHing Property and Item aliases as well as PUTing Property labels and descriptions ( phab:T342982 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342982, phab:T337371 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337371, phab:T337371 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337371, phab:T348150 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348150) - We are continuing to work on fixing an issue with Lexeme pages missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344362) - We’re adding some missing license notes to some javascript UI interfaces (phab:343998 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/343998, phab:T343999 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343999) - Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on supporting mismatches for data that is stored in qualifiers (phab:T313467 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313467)

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