* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-26. Please help Translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current.*
* Discussions *
- Open request for adminship: - Gwanki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Gwanki - RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2024 05:54 (UTC) - Putnik 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Putnik_2 - RfP scheduled to end after 27 August 2024 23:17 (UTC) - Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins: Mohammed Qays https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Mohammed_Qays and Wüstenspringmaus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/W%C3%BCstenspringmaus ! - New requests for permissions/Bot: Leaderbot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Leaderbot - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (see Phab:T370842 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370842) - Closed request for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Bot5958_1b - RfP successful! - New request for comments: - Citations from Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Citations_from_Wikidata from Author: Palu https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Palu - Audio Transcription (P9533) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/audio_transcription_(P9533) from Author: Yug https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Yug. P9533 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9533 is described as *transcription of the word/text being spoken in this file*. Does this exclude other communications modalities?
* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events *
- "The Future of Wikidata Events" report by Wikimedia Deutschland is now available on Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_future_of_Wikidata_Events_-_Research_Report_2024.pdf. This report provides valuable insights into the current state and future possibilities of Wikidata events. We encourage everyone to read the report and share their thoughts to help shape the future of our community events: Wikidata talk:Events#"The Future of Wikidata Events" Report Now Available on Wikimedia Commons https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Events#"The_Future_of_Wikidata_Events"_Report_Now_Available_on_Wikimedia_Commons . - Wikidata's 12th Birthday is fast approaching. Do you need financial support to organize a birthday event? Here is some useful information about how to get funding: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Funding https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday/Run_an_event/Funding. The deadline to apply is September 1st. - WikiLibCon25 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%2BLibraries_International_Convention_2025 The Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 takes place in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 - 17 January 2025 - Call for Scholarships (ends 31 August0 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%2BLibraries_International_Convention_2025/Scholarships and Proposals (ends 15 September) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%2BLibraries_International_Convention_2025/Call_for_Papers_WikiLib_Con_2025 are open. WikiLibCon25 brings together Wikimedians, Wikibrarians, information professionals, library workers and mission-aligned partners from around the globe to create a vivid community and promote cooperative projects in the Library & Wikimedia sphere.
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Papers - What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? https://academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ccc/tcae029/7739141: Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al. - Diversity and bias in DBpedia and Wikidata as a challenge for text-analysis tools https://www.o-bib.de/bib/article/download/5894/8905?inline=1 by B. Berendt et al. This paper explores how data sources can impact content analysis of their tool Diversity Searcher for analysing diversity in news media texts. - Videos - (sw) Wikipedia vs Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx6GfpK1mUw - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized. - Wikimania Coolest Tool Award! 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjocbzBwn-w - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout. - Qichwabase: Building Knowledge Graphs for Under-Resourced Languages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxAqX2qhgcw Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages. - Slides: Giving metabolites (and lipids) a chemical and biological context with open science https://zenodo.org/records/13373746. This talk discusses the role of open science in providing chemical and biological context for metabolites and lipids, highlighting open-source cheminformatics, open standards, and open data to facilitate linking knowledge across databases and publications, as well as describing chemical interactions in biological pathway databases. By Egon Willighagen. - Notebooks - Olympic medals by group of countries 🥇🥈🥉 https://observablehq.com/@pac02/olympic-medals-by-group-of-countries: Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries - Unequal distribution of medals from the Summer Olympics https://observablehq.com/@pac02/unequal-distribution-of-medals
* Tool of the week *
- Wikidata distributed/#game=94 https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=94 - Help adding missing information related to artists on BNU's catalog (Select the option that fits best).
* Other Noteworthy Stuff *
- New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit (YouTube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Qbb1yuLkE). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!
* 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: - denomination https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12949 (value of a currency or type of currency) - Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12935, Slekt og Data grave ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12936, FolkWiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12937, iasj article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12938, 365scores football team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12939, speedrun.com series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12940, All Musicals lyrics ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12941, MobyGames critic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12942, Polygon game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12943, Madain Project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12944, 365scores basketball player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12945, FOLDOC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12946, GameFAQs genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12947, Retromags game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12948, Nomes e Voces ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12950, Altar of Gaming company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12951, Altar of Gaming franchise ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12952, Altar of Gaming game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12953, Altar of Gaming person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12954, Ciel d'oc ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12955 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - Larval host plant https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Larval_host_plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034) - board game designer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/board_game_designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game) - New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ACUM_IDs, DOS Game Modding Wiki article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DOS_Game_Modding_Wiki_article, Mapcarta https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyclopedia_of_Brno_History_literature_ID, WikiYeshiva article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiYeshiva_article_ID, Denkmalnummer des Archivs der Stadt Linz https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Denkmalnummer_des_Archivs_der_Stadt_Linz, GameSpot genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GameSpot_genre_ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VideoGameGeek_genre_ID, Identifiant Say Who https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Say_Who, VIRIN https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tabletopia_game_ID, Board Game Arena ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Board_Game_Arena_ID, CNES identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CNES_identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BoardGaming.com_game_ID, Finnish Company Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Finnish_Company_Number
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
* Did you know? *
- Query examples: - Of the 15424 existing subway stations on Earth, 5726 of them are in https://w.wiki/AzvB People's Republic of China (Q148) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148 - Map of tripoints known to Wikidata https://w.wiki/AzMm (source https://x.com/slaettaratindur/status/1826982823674220733) - WikiProject Highlights: - Sweden/Banks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sweden/Banks - All Swedish banks still in operation - Antiquity/Mythology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Antiquity/Mythology - This WikiProject deals with everything connected to Greek mythology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34726 with an outlook on the traditional tales and divinities which came before and/or inspired it, like Ancient Egyptian mythology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205740, Mesopotamian mythology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3859459 (Sumerian https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275051, Akkadian https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102201772 and Babylonian https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3859450) and Hittite mythology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1142277, as well as those of adjacent cultures and those influenced by the Greeks, most notably Roman mythology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122173). - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Aotearoa Asian Artists https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Aotearoa_Asian_Artists - This project aims to improve the data available about Aotearoa Asian Artists - Asian diaspora artists from, living in, and connected to Aotearoa New Zealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand. - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Terminator: Articles with no interwikis in a given Wikipedia https://wikidata-terminator.toolforge.org/?list&mode=tx#/ - Wikidata Items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language. - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3508109 - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania
* Development *
- Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.
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? . - 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 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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