*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - MangadexBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MangadexBot (Task: add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10589) - WingUCTBOT https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/WingUCTBOT (Task: Batch Upload of Niger-Congo B Lexemes, including Senses and Forms) - New request for comments: Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Adapt_blocking_policy_to_IPv6_networks (Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range )
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 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 first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. 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-August-18_Wikidata_Working_Hour - Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=104
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/08/02/some-things-i-like-about-the-expanding-wikipedia-universe/ - Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux https://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2023/gender-and-blps-on-wikipedia-redux/ - The Power of Shared Value Partnership: CIS-A2K & ACPR- GLAM Project https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/08/09/the-power-of-shared-value-partnership-cis-a2k-acpr-glam-project/ - Blog planets: blogging about Debian, GNOME, Wikimedia, FSFE, and many more https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2023/08/blog-planets-blogging-about-debian.html - Papers - Semantification of CEUR-WS with Wikidata as a target Knowledge Graph https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3447/Text2KG_Paper_13.pdf - The World Literature Knowledge Graph https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.16659.pdf - Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3322/short1.pdf - Videos - Adding Wikidata To Openstreetmap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcx-d2JhjvA - Recording mass paths on Wikimedia and Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2OdGib4Ido - FOSS4G 2023 - Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Edward Betts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaX3eGh8EeM - SPARQLE session - Sport, rugby and units - Nicolas VIGNERON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKM2biqHvBU - Virtual Inauguration: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course for Cohort 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDUvBuJ_NJ0 - Live Wikidata editing (in Italian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8tVpwDNsZw - KGC 2023 Masterclass: Wikibase and Question-Answering by The QA Company's CEO, Dennis Diefenbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNxxX_3IHY0 - Notebooks - SEmantic Graphs (SEG) - Cautiously nudging RDF towards more expressivity https://observablehq.com/d/57763b5d48fe9825 (paper) - Movie settings and population https://observablehq.com/@fgregg/movies-settings-and-population (What is the relation between how big a city is and how many movies are set in that city?) - Wikidata study day https://observablehq.com/@maison-mona/je-wikidata - SPARQL Queries for Cross-referencing and Data Cleanup https://observablehq.com/@getty/sparql-queries-for-data-cleanup - Presentations: Chemistry in Wikidata visualized with Scholia https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XlGUisIh8Tq5eGMaQEk5OehuxZwcfbocTlFtsY_yZ2Q/edit#slide=id.p1, Egon Willighagen et al.
Tool of the week
- Everything is connected https://everythingisconnected.toolforge.org/ - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections. - WMF is moving from ORES to Lift Wing, an open-source machine learning infrastructure https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/F4SBNGUTRRB3DUL5CY5K4WG2TUVDNVXU/. Your input is vital to train the model for more accurate bad edits detection on Wikidata. Join us in enhancing edits detection by using the Annotation tool: https://annotool.toolforge.org/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi are joining the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_Wikimedia_Deutschland_Staff_working_on_Wikidata_for_Wikimedia_Projects - wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats) https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/4UL7ZBYE2WRGIBQZ3BHGDTVWPRXZ7T4E/
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Tolkien Gateway ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11935, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11936, FSHF player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11937, Mandarin-Cantonese Comparative Study ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11938, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11939, British Institute at Ankara person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11940, British Institute at Ankara place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11941, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11942, GSAFD ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11943, USP Libraries Catalogue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11944, Nantes Museum of Arts ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11945, Mythoskop ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11946, Lemmy community ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11947, NFSA title ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11948, PesticideInfo chemical ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11949 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - Steam Deck compatibility rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Steam_Deck_compatibility_rating (official rating used to determine which games, as a result of the review process, are compatible with Steam Deck and which are not) - name version for other gender https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/name_version_for_other_gender (use for when names that are not given name or surnames are gendered (since those two have their own properties), would also be helpful for many noble titles and honorifics as well as affixes) - Curator of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Curator_of (has curated a collection or (art) exhibition) - Philippine middle name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Philippine_middle_name () - External identifiers: Rumble channel https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rumble_channel, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/protected_heritage_site_in_Brussels_ID_(web), archINFORM Awards ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/archINFORM_Awards_ID, RCS number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RCS_number, NFDI4Culture ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NFDI4Culture_ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Windows_Package_Manager_Community_package_ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AFC-Ajax.info_player_ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FaroeSoccer_referee_ID, Steam curator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Steam_curator_ID, Футзал.рус player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D0%A4%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB.%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81_player_ID, alyga.lt player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/alyga.lt_player_ID, CRIS Unique Site Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CRIS_Unique_Site_Number, Höhlenkataster ID (Österreich) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/H%C3%B6hlenkataster_ID_(%C3%96sterreich), Sitios ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sitios_ID, FNAC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FNAC_ID - Query examples: - Map of places located in Rennes with an article on the French Wikipedia https://w.wiki/78DD (and colored according to the number of pages in all Wikimedia projects) - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapon types, and primary colors https://w.wiki/7FGw (source https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1690826166066651136) - Number of albums in Wikidata by year of release https://w.wiki/7AqZ (source https://wikis.world/@wikidata/with_replies) - Objects in Dresden with significant event https://w.wiki/7FT9 ( source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#significant_event_and_time ) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Svenska Grillplatser https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Svenska_Grillplatser (WikiProject Swedish Grill Places) - The idea is to see what Wikidata and OSM can contribute when it comes to barbecue sites and connections to municipalities, grillplatser.nu, naturkartan. - WikiProject Nollywood https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Nollywood - This is a WikiProject for adding and enhancing items in Wikidata for Nollywood (Nigerian films) held as VHS at the Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies https://libguides.northwestern.edu/c.php?g=115173&p=749471. These films were primarily produced and collected from 1990-2000. Items will be added with information from the catalog record (MARC).
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (phab:T339363 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T339363, phab:T340006 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340006) - EntitySchemas: - We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas - We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (phab:T343333 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343333, phab:T343118 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343118) - IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (phab:T328454 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328454)
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