*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*Discussions
- Open request for adminship: WT2O_2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/WT20_2>
- (RfP deadline: February 22, 2024 17:46 UTC)
- Other: Project chat: PI Bot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#PI_Bot> is an
interesting conversation about the function of PI Bot in creating Stub
articles and evolves into discussing ways of matching articles, categories
and templates in sibling projects with their Wikidata items. Contribute to
the discussion or even better, use one of the many tools posted and get
linking!
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call February 20, 2024: In honor of Valentine's Day month, we are bringing
back the popular program from last February: What's Your Wikidata Passion?
What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or
personal project, even if you’re just beginning to think about it, or just
what you like to edit when you have time. This is a great way to share your
ideas, solicit community input and ask questions about resources or tools.
This will be an open mic session, completely informal. Please add
yourselves to the list on our agenda here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeDJ7luVK6s4rhkW6X4W5KJwyv0Zg9S-CWklGYLVlyg/edit#heading=h.wfymokwg49yg>
if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so. You can share your screen if
you like, but there’s no need for slides. Or just show up and talk on the
spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all
to participate! Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeDJ7luVK6s4rhkW6X4W5KJwyv0Zg9S-CWklGYLVlyg/edit?usp=sharing>
- Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM) at ACL 2024
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/MGQS37IBVC6APWPGDC6XCZKJHM2WYJCF/>.
Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE
- Wiki Workshop 2024 ― Research Track Papers - Call for contributions
<https://wikiworkshop.org/2024/call-for-papers>. Submission deadline:
April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- 2023 Year Review <https://addshore.com/2024/02/2023-year-review/>
by ADDSHORE, a prominent contributor and community member for WBStack and
Wikibase.Cloud.
- Wikidata Literary Influencers
<https://fetstudy.uwe.ac.uk/~pmatthew/blog/2024/02/05/wikidata-literary-influencers/>
by Paul Matthews shows step-by-step how to get to an interactive network
visualization based on Wikidata data
- Papers: Language models for extracting Wikidata statements and
generating Wikipedia content
<https://openreview.net/pdf/2a8fab0e8d49115d68ce912ba361f246219a37f4.pdf>
- is a Wikimedia Research proposal to improve Wikidata and English
Wikipedia content using machine-learning power of AI and LL Models; by
Thang, T.
- Videos
- Kairntech Demo Entity Extraction using Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqy5OlYCS8> - is an example of how
Wikidata is being used as a knowledge base to populate AI companions and
LLM's with relevant content for profit.
- Dancing Digital Project
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDFqBrXhBwM> with Rebecca Salzer is
a Wikibase instance sharing LOD between itself, video archives
and Commons.
- WikiPod AI <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj13oaCw8cw> - try
listening to last week's Status Updates with AI-generated speaking, an
experiment by Tiago Lubiana
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TiagoLubiana>.
- Notebooks: TTTTRPG <https://observablehq.com/@pascaliensis/ttttrpg> -
Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games queried using SPARQL from
Wikidata.
Tool of the week
- User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Yair_rand/DiffLists.js> - this
userscript changes the appearance of Recent Changes, Watchlist,
Contributions, History pages, and Related Changes. It also adds filter
options.
- Wikidata Topic Curator
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata_Topic_Curator> (a
rewrite of ItemSubjector
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/ItemSubjector> into a
webapp) help wikimedians add relevant topics to items. Based on a given
topic QID it fetches articles matching the label, aliases or a custom
user-provided term of that QID that is currently missing the main subject
property.
- Author Disambiguator
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Author_Disambiguator> - is
a tool for editing the authors of works recorded in Wikidata, e.g. for
finding Wikidata Items for the authors (P50 instead of 'author name
string').
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 General datatypes:
- has cabinet <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12443> (value
is the advisory committee to the item's head of state)
- ISCED field <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12446>
(mapping of a particular course or curriculum to the
International Standard
Classification of Education (ISCED))
- appeals to <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12452> (court
or other body that hears appeals from subject's decisions)
- location information URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12454> (URL of a web page
providing information on the locations of stores or other physical
locations of a brand or operator)
- phonographic copyright
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12456> (person or
organization that holds the phonographic copyright)
- is invariant under <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12457>
(subject is unchanged by this process / function / group of
transformation)
- formatter URL for IIIF manifest
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12463> (URL to generate IIIF
manifest from specific ID)
- PyPI trove classifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12468> (standardized
classification system for software, used and maintained by the Python
Package Index)
- graduation rate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12469>
(proportion of students who graduate from the institution in the given
timeframe)
- normal graduation time
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12470> (expected or typical
duration of an educational program from matriculation to graduation)
- multiplier of normal graduation time
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12471> (how much longer than
"normal" someone took to graduate; used as a qualifier for the
"graduation
rate (P12469)")
- top scorer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12475> (best
scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever
scorer of the history of a competition)
- Newest External identifiers: Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12441>, TopKar ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12442>, Mindat taxon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12444>, China Animal Scientific
Database taxon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12445>, Daryab
Pashto Glossary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12447>,
Dictionary
of American Regional English ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12448>, Dictionary of Old
English ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12449>, Encyclopedia
Mythica ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12450>, Arabic
Ontology lexical concept ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12451>, Great Plains Herbaria
taxon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12453>, FrameNet frame
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12455>, Parsifal cluster ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12458>, Archives
départementales de Vaucluse fonds ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12459>, Dictionnaire du Moyen
Français (1330-1500) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12460>, National
Buildings Repository identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12461>, Location Memory
building ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12462>, JSTOR
Global Plants type specimen ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12464>, EDIT16 catalogue title
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12465>, EDIT16 catalogue
place ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12466>, Trismegistos
god ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12467>, Universal
Spectrum Identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12472>, Weird
Gloop article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12473>, Kremlin.ru
glossary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12474>
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Hindawi Foundation book ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hindawi_Foundation_book_ID>
(A property for IDs of books published by [[Q20397014|Hindawi
Foundation]])
- Castradenumber
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Castradenumber>
(number for a registred subject in a Castrade)
- latest end date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/latest_end_date>
((qualifier) latest date on which the statement could have ceased to be
true (i.e., latest date beyond which the statement could no
longer be true))
- anthesis start
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/anthesis_start>
(time of the year when a plant normally starts flowering)
- leaf morphology
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/leaf_morphology>
(characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Oyez Project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Oyez_Project_ID>,
GARAE <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GARAE>,
WhatPub
pub ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WhatPub_pub_ID>,
Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tashrihi_Qamos_Pashto_Glossary_ID>,
Dictionary of Gandhari ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Gandhari_ID>,
UCA authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UCA_authority_ID>,
DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DoblajeVideojuegos_dub_actor_ID>,
Epigraphic Database Roma ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Epigraphic_Database_Roma_ID>,
European Union trade mark number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Union_trade_mark_number>,
GCatholic Episcopal Conference ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GCatholic_Episcopal_Conference_ID>,
Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Consortium_of_Midwest_Herbaria_taxon_ID>
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Graph of ancient philosophers master/student relationships
<https://query-chest.toolforge.org/redirect/nLEtPIeooSMGuSi4iaiuUWskUKwgIOQWOaSyKYSg4sT>
- Properties for UK lakes <https://w.wiki/9DMg> (contains a
report-within-a-report allowing to look at Items having the Property) (
source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#List_all_properties_and_their_aliases_used_by_a_class_or_any_of_its_subclasses>
)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Looted heritage
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiproject_Looted_heritage> -
aims to use Wikidata to document looted cultural heritage. Its primary
focus is on the colonial era, but it also encompasses other relevant
historical periods. It's scope includes artworks, sacred items, human
remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be
considered a part of a people's heritage.
- WikiProject Highlights: Staedel Museum Wikidata Clean-up
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_St%C3%A4del_Museum_Wikidata_Clean-Up>
The Staedul Museum comprises 24,000+ works of art spanning more than 700
years. They have generously opened up digital surrogates of their
collection to the Wikimedia community. This project improves the metadata
quality and create Wikidata items for works of art.
- Newest database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: Genderless
people with Facebook ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Genderless_people_with_Facebook_ID>
- Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>:
Varanus komodoensis (Q4504) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4504> -
species of reptile
- Showcase Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: scala
(L683571) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L683571> - "stairs" in
Italian
Development
- IP Masking: We added redirect-related parameters to most Wikibase API
modules (phab:T357024 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357024>; an
announcement is in the works)
- We migrated Termbox SSR from Node 16 to 18 (phab:T355685
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355685>)
- We made the (legacy) termbox remember its expanded/collapsed state for
anonymous visitors and temporary users (phab:T351976
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T351976>)
- We deployed and backported several security fixes to Wikibase release
branches (phab:T345064 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345064>,
phab:T356764 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356764>)
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?>
.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php>: #128 Languages
- 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>
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