* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2024-09-30. Please help Translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current. Missed the previous one? See issue #646 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous*
*Discussions*
- Closed request for adminship: Andrei Stroe https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Andrei_Stroe - Success! Welcome User:Andrei Stroe https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Andrei_Stroe as Wikidata's latest Admin. - New requests for permissions/Bot: QichwaBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/QichwaBot - Task(s): Creating wikidata lexemes for the Quechua languages. - Closed request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse statement creation and if so, how should they happen? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Do_we_want_automatic_inverse_statement_creation_and_if_so,_how_should_they_happen%3F - Closed due to lack of comments for longer than five years. Despite multiple suggestions, there is no clear consensus to move forward.
*Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events*
- Wikidata's 12th birthday https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday is coming up on October 29th. Have a look at the birthday parties and more planned around the world. - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group session 1 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 1 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1727798400). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Affinity_Group_Calls/First_Project_Series#Session_3_(October_1)_-_Working_session_using_a_data_model_and_the_UseAsRef_user_script_to_enhance_items .
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Papers - A Systematic Review of Wikidata in GLAM Institutions: a Labs Approach https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-72440-4_4 - Presents a systematic review of Wikidata use in GLAM institutions within the context of the work of the International GLAM Labs Community ( glamlabs.io). The results summarise academic literature on Wikidata projects. By G. Candela et al. - (es) Wikidata course in Spanish: Data for collaborative knowledge https://diff.wikimedia.org/es/2024/09/26/curso-de-wikidata-en-espanol-datos-para-el-conocimiento-colaborativo/ - Throughout October, the WikiLearn platform is hosting a course on Wikidata aimed especially at Latin Americans. Enroll here https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:WikimediaChile+WMC000+2024/about . - Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing https://arxiv.org/html/2408.14849v2 - SHADOW is a fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning, its performance is measured on a knowledge base construction task using Wikidata triple completion. By Hanna Abi Akl. - Using Wikidata for Managing Cultural Heritage Information https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/MZrm - The present study uses model wikidata elements as a basis and explores its dynamic formation into a cultural heritage information management tool within a museum. By D. Kyriaki-Manessi and S. Vazaiou. - Enriching Archival Linked Data Descriptions with Information from Wikidata and DBpedia https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-72437-4_23 - This paper investigates the potential to use information in archival records in a larger context for ArchOnto and aims to leverage classes and properties sourced from repositories deemed informal due to their crowd-sourcing nature. By I. Koch et al. - A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024144799 - This paper utilizes primary data sources of OBO ontologies and MeSH keywords classified using SPARQL queries for RDF knowledge graphs, to contribute to the robustness and accuracy of collaborative biomedical knowledge graphs. By H. Turki et al. - Videos - Serbian Novels on Wikidata: Project wikiELTeC & Tesla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-kq8-rO_o&t=3038s Part of Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 in İstanbul, this session presented by Filip Maljković charts progress on contributing Serbian literature to Wikidata. - Dataviz - Find your most famous neighbour https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people, a world map of notable people based on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
*Tool of the week*
- Three new Userscripts for Wikidata https://larsgw.blogspot.com/2023/12/three-new-userscripts-for-wikidata.html - User:Lagewi https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lagewi has written 3 scripts to simplify reading references, explore property-value pairs in use for a statement or attaching a full bibliography to the end of the item page.
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- OpenSactions:Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/wd_categories/ - Using PETScan https://petscan.wmcloud.org/, generates a list of profiles of politically exposed persons by querying specific categories on Wikidata and extracting the entities.
*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 properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - game designer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12969 (person(s) who devised and developed this game) - handwriting example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12981 (sample image of the person's handwriting) - objects of occurrence have role https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12992 (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.)) - agents of action have role https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12993 (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. )) - agent class of action https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12994 (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead)) - agent of action https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12995 (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions) - External identifiers: Altar of Gaming character ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12963, WikiYeshiva article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12964, Yediot Books book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12965, Mapcarta ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12966, VIRIN https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12967, cnkgraph person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12968, Tabletopia game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12970, cnkgraph book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12971, cnkgraph poem ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12973, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12975, CNES ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12976, Tretyakov Gallery artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12977, TV Maze character ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12978, Say Who ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12979, Finnish Business ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12980, Prosocour person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12983, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12984, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12985, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12986, LMFDB knowl ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12987, ACUM performer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12988, ACUM creator/publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12989, ACUM Work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12990, ACUM album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12991, culture.ru organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12996, Hindustan Times topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12997, Newgrounds submission ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12998, Storia della civiltà europea ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12999, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13000, Linked Open Vocabularies ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13001, Ontobee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13002, typeset.io journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13003, NooSFere editorial collection ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13004, pomniky.npmk.cz ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13005, Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13014, e-LIS publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13015, GameReactor company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13016 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - Larval host plant https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Larval_host_plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034) - has reading https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/has_reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji) - chemical formula https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/chemical_formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts) - mode of reproduction https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/mode_of_reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings) - health points https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/health_points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character) - damage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character) - magazine capacity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/magazine_capacity (In (real or fictional) devices like a firearm, weapon, or engineered thing, this is the default capacity or size of a devices' magazine, clip, or other container typically used to hold ammunition, bolts, cartridges, tools, etc. which pushes those items as needed usually through a spring-based mechanism into a receiver for further use by the device) - male mean age https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/male_mean_age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}}) - female mean age https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/female_mean_age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}}) - Mummy of a person https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mummy_of_a_person (mummy of a person) - publication type of scholarly article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/publication_type_of_scholarly_article (Publication type of scholarly article) - characteristic of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/characteristic_of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this item) - Medietilsynets filmdatabase https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Medietilsynets_filmdatabase (identifier for a film in the Norwegian Medietilsynets database) - Western Australian Biographical Index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Western_Australian_Biographical_Index (Card ID from the Western Australian Biographical Index, a set of handwritten index cards compiled in the 1970s.) - leased to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/leased_to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject) - WPBSA com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WPBSA_com_player_ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA) - JLPT level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JLPT_level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT) - External identifiers: case id (mainland China) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/case_id_(mainland_China), NWIS site ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NWIS_site_ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biblioteka_Nauki_IDs, LWW journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LWW_journal_ID, BioMed Central journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BioMed_Central_journal_ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Historical_Encyclopedia_of_Siberia_ID, FightTime fighters ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FightTime_fighters_ID, Korean Basketball League ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Korean_Basketball_League_ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_L%27Humanit%C3%A9_d%E2%80%99un_sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chinese_Basketball_Association_ID2, Koha Kütüphane ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Koha_K%C3%BCt%C3%BCphane_ID, MyWaifuList character ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MyWaifuList_character_ID, FantLab artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FantLab_artist_ID, Münzkabinett https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/M%C3%BCnzkabinett, Latgales dati person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Latgales_dati_person_ID, identifiant inventaire Grand Est https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_inventaire_Grand_Est, RedBA Granada authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RedBA_Granada_authority_ID, MetalTabs.com musician ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MetalTabs.com_musician_ID, HA! ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HA!_ID, Identifiant Radio France d'une émission https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Radio_France_d%27une_%C3%A9mission, Identifiant France Télévisions d'une émission https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_France_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9visions_d%27une_%C3%A9mission, beniabbandonati ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/beniabbandonati_ID, DDB person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DDB_person_ID, European Parliament document ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Parliament_document_ID, Hlídač státu subject ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hl%C3%ADda%C4%8D_st%C3%A1tu_subject_ID, Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kramerius_of_Czech_Digital_Library_UUID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Acervo_de_Literatura_Digital_Mato-Grossense_ID, Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Persons_and_Names_of_the_Middle_Kingdom_and_early_New_Kingdom_person_ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cihai_encyclopedia_entry_ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cihai_dictionary_entry_ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Duocet_Wiki_of_Plants_ID
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples: - Network of European Union Independent Fiscal Institutions https://w.wiki/BJ2c - Opera singers who are sopranos with an article on English Wikipedia https://w.wiki/BNAq - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Popular_items_without_claims https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_items_without_claims - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: هُئَڻُ L1126190 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L1126190 Sindhi verb (to be)
*Development*
- Search: The haswbstatement search magic word https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:WikibaseCirrusSearch#Keywords has been improved by the Search Platform Team. Previously it was limited in which Properties were indexed for it. Going forward haswbstatement:P123 will work for all Properties, regardless of their datatype. This will allow you to filter search results for Items that have a statement with a specific Property. (Searching for a specific complete statement with haswbstatement:P123=xxx will still only work for specific datatypes.) For this to work all Items have to be reindexed and this will take up to 1 month. - Design system migration: We have migrated the Special:NewLexeme page from Wikit to Codex and are working on finishing the migration for the Query Builder. - EntitySchemas: We finished the investigation about how to support search for EntitySchemas by label or alias when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement. (phab:T362005 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T362005 ) - Wikibase REST API: We worked on integrating language fallbacks into the API (phab:T371605 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371605)
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 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
*Read the full report https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current · Unsubscribe https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikidata · Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current · Previous issue https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Previous · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE) (talk) 19:03, 30 September 2024 (UTC) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)#c-Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)-20240930190300-Wikidata_weekly_summary_#647*