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>
--
Mohammed S. Abdulai
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
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