*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Hjart https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Hjart (RfP scheduled to end after 26 October 2023 11:20 UTC)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour, Q4 2023 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2023-10-18 - Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #114: Cars https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=114 (Challenge started on 2023-10-23 12:01:27) - Upcoming: - How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world https://wikiedu.org/speaker-series/ < organised by WikiEdu, happening today, Oct. 23. - Edit-A-Thon for LGBTQ+ History Month https://twitter.com/bingulibraries/status/1714735878847770750/photo/1 < Binghamton University Library, New York, Oct. 25th. Help make visible the important contributions of queer figures. - Bridging Art Archive to the Wikidata Ecosystem https://twitter.com/hkbulibdmss/status/1713857483792437497 < a guest lecture from Joyce Chen at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship '23, Oct. 27, via Zoom. - Wikidata Birthday Edit-A-Thon (Albanian) https://twitter.com/SQWikimediansUG/status/1714944884459618622 < Albanian language Wikimedians celebrate Wikidata's Birthday with a 2-day event (Oct. 28 - 29, 2023) near the "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Elbasan. - Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 23, 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 sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover batch creating items using OpenRefine.This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the Event page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2023-October-23_Wikidata_Working_Hour - 4th Wikidata Workshop https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2023/ as part of the International Semantic Web Conference. 7th Nov., Athens, Greece.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Final Report of the Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Adapting_Wikidata_to_support_clinical_practice_using_Data_Science,_Semantic_Web_and_Machine_Learning Project funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund. - Videos - Let's Connect Learning Clinic #2: Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW6SbOPb-8I < Learn how to run SPARQL queries, create Listeria lists, and structure data on commons for Wiki Loves Monuments and other WikiLoves campaigns, provided by Wikimedia Sweden. Missed Clinic #1? Find it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiTjxAy_Z8. - Live Editing #110 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke4izHB0GT0 < Develop your SPARQL query-building skills in this follow-along session. - Tutorial on Wikidata for or WikiConnect course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Gj5bHIYwU (in Portuguese) <-- Explaining the Wiki Movimento Brasil's WikiConecta Wikidata course. The course entails Understanding what Wikidata is and its operating logic, Learning the basics of editing and recovering data, and Understanding why and how to use Wikidata with your students. - Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit: - MedCYN https://www.youtube.com/live/-LdIz8ncCpw as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support. - MeSH2Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/live/hgikdP8Fuaw as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.
Tool of the week
- User:Magnus Manske/annas archive.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/annas_archive.js is a userscript that automatically links to Anna's Archive from Wikidata items for books and research articles, for title, DOI, ISBN, etc. so that people can easily get access to them.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is a new update https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/October_2023_scaling_update relative to the Wikidata Query Service scaling of the backend, that explains how the team will experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs. - Mismatch Finder tool improvements https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/FWEVR4QEYOHPY7FEATMALXQZQM7I5PZW/: In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - fonds https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12095 (archival fonds (part of a collection) which an item belongs to) - parent form of an active substance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12099 (parent form of a chemical entity (e.g. a salt) used as an active substance in pharmaceutical products) - Red List of South African Plants conservation status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12105 (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the South African National Biodiversity Institute) - Parpulov group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12110 (class of similar manuscripts with Catenae as assigned by Georgi Parpulov) - External identifiers: DfE group UID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12094, Kinobox film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12096, Kinobox person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12098, FloraVeg.EU taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12100, DBpia author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12101, Mod DB company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12102, GameBrew ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12103, Royal Irish Academy ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12104, RKDexcerpts ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12106, ELSST Thesaurus ID (Version 4 - 2023) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12107, JLPSA player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12108, Catenae Catalogue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12109, IGI Global author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12111, Pandit Project work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12112, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12113, Flora of New Jersey Project atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12114, GNU Savannah project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12115, Rahlfs number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12116 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - used by practitioners of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/used_by_practitioners_of (item used by a practitioner of another item) - Plant Illustrations taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plant_Illustrations_taxon_ID (URL for a taxon on the Plant Illustrations website) - Art Platform Japan ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Art_Platform_Japan_ID (identifier in {{Q|123139107}} (Japanese & English)) - External identifiers: IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IBP_6-letter_bird_species_alpha_code, Flickr Photo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Flickr_Photo_ID, North Rhine-Westphalian school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/North_Rhine-Westphalian_school_ID, identifiant d'un membre de l'Académie de Stanislas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_d%27un_membre_de_l%27Acad%C3%A9mie_de_Stanislas, Bantumen Powerlist 100 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bantumen_Powerlist_100, identifiant Repairs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Repairs, Legends Tour ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Legends_Tour_ID, Radio Paradise song ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Radio_Paradise_song_ID, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archivio_storico_artisti_lucchesi_ID, Cycling Archives race ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cycling_Archives_race_ID, Gale ACID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gale_ACID, ID osoby Medvik https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ID_osoby_Medvik, HBL topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HBL_topic_ID, National Humanities Center Fellow ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Humanities_Center_Fellow_ID - Query examples: - Birthplace of recipients of the Nazi Germany Iron Cross https://w.wiki/7p8c - Burial place of Swedish Prime Ministers https://w.wiki/4tJ3 - List of cathedrals around the world with its height https://w.wiki/7pGw (source https://twitter.com/jmcollado/status/1714353277083463979) - Population of Check villages with rivers flowing through them https://w.wiki/7jeC (source https://twitter.com/medi_cago/status/1712053220510437379) - Ships with multiple operators that do not have multiple official names https://w.wiki/7skK (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Ships_with_multiple_operators_that_do_not_have_multiple_official_names ) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects - WikiProject Photography in Finland https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Photography_in_Finland - a project for photography in Finland, including photographers, studios and other related items - WikiProject Celtic Music https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Celtic_Music - a project for collecting Celtic tunes
Development
- We are preparing for WikidataCon and the Data Modelling Days. - We are looking more into where Wikibase needs to be adapted to the upcoming IP Masking changes. - We added a notification about the license to all edits to labels, descriptions and aliases that was missing still (phab:T343998 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343998) The same for Lexemes is coming next (phab:T343999 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343999)
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