*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- AramBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/AramBot>
(Task: adding site links, especially from ckbwiki and kuwiki pages to
Wikidata).
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Past: Search Platform / Query Service Team office hour log — November
1, 2023 <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours>
- This Week:
- Wikidata for Digital Humanities
<https://brownlibrary.lwcal.com/#!view/event/slug/1293-wikidata-for-digital-humanities>
workshop hosted by Brown University Library, Nov. 6th 19:00 - 20:00 CEST.
- Wiki Loves Monuments: Learning Clinic #3
<https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/lets-connect-learning-clinic-wikidata-for-wiki-loves-monuments-series-3/3586>
hosted by WM Sweden in partnership with WM Uganda, Nov. 9th
- Upcoming: Data Modelling Days
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023>,
November 30-December 2. You can propose a session
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023>
until November 19. If you are running another event or meetup and would
like to connect it to the Data Modelling Days, you can add it to
the satellite
events section
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023#Satellite_events>
.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Wikidata Arabic Community
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/02/wikidata-arabic-community/>.
- ULTRA: Foundation Models for Knowledge Graph Reasoning
<https://towardsdatascience.com/ultra-foundation-models-for-knowledge-graph-reasoning-9f8f4a0d7f09>
.
- Papers
- PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via
Wikibase: Proof of Concept <https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/> A White
Paper released from Charles Faulhaber
- Using Pregel to Create Knowledge Graphs Subsets Described by
Non-recursive Shape Expressions
<https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/using-pregel-to-create-knowledge-graphs-subsets-described-by-non/26242354>
by Á. Préstamo & J. Gayo
- Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web
<https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/knowledge-graphs-and-semantic-web/26242350>
is a collection of preceedings from the 5th Iberoamerican Conference and
4th Indo-American Conference, KGSWC 2023, Nov. 13–15. By F.
Ortiz-Rodriguez, B. Villazón-Terrazas, S. Tiwari & C. Bobed.
- Videos
- OpenHPI Querying Wikidata with SPARQL
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkAwDVvJKMs>
- OpenHPI Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7kRL40PLPo>
- Wikidata 11th Birthday Celebrations
<https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WCLmIPdR5rA>(YouTube shorts) are
celebrated by the Community
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua4IXcyzRrA>
- Live Editing with Wikidata in Italiano
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmY5t_DaUKk> (Italian)
- Intro to Wikibase Cloud
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-lZZQMEz4> (Italian)
Tool of the week
- subclass of <https://observablehq.com/@pac02/subclass-of>, new
Observable tool to test which item is a subclass of another.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- SMWCon 2023 Call for Contributions
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZDHNJCVBE4XLEEZULCGF3B3Z55UELW34/>
on the topic 'MediaWiki in the age of AI'
- The Wikidata Lexeme Forms <https://iw.toolforge.org/lexeme-forms> tool
was upgraded to autogenerate the different forms of a regular word with
functions from Wikifunctions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Lexeme_Forms>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Playdate Catalog ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12125>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes:
- linguistic family of place name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/linguistic_family_of_place_name>
(Relates directly a placename to its original language
family. It's not the
language in which the toponym is written, but the language
from which the
word (place name) comes from.)
- according to
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/according_to>
(to be used together with P248 if the statement is taken from
an aggregator
rather than directly from the source)
- counterexample
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/counterexample>
(qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance
or subclass of
the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not
hold (alias:
"item belonging to the subject class but not the value class"))
- Book ordinal in a publication series
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Book_ordinal_in_a_publication_series>
(This property describes the order of the book within a book series.)
- Comitato Italiano Paralimpico ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Comitato_Italiano_Paralimpico_ID>
(Athlete ID in the Italian Paralympi Committee website (
comitatoparalimpico.it))
- tax base
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tax_base>
(This property describes the calculation basis for the item
of Taxation.)
- tax objects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tax_objects>
(This property describes certain objects, acts, or other
facts that are the
basis for calculating taxes.)
- taxpayer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/taxpayer>
(This property describes someone who owes money.)
- External identifiers: Pallaalcentro player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pallaalcentro_player_ID>,
Propylaeum-VITAE id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Propylaeum-VITAE_id>,
Linked Open Data Comune Firenze ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linked_Open_Data_Comune_Firenze_ID>,
Alexandria.dk person
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alexandria.dk_person>,
Identifiant One Earth d'une écorégion
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_One_Earth_d%27une_%C3%A9cor%C3%A9gion>,
CECC Political Prisoner ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CECC_Political_Prisoner_ID>,
shukach.com ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/shukach.com_ID>,
Carte d'autore online ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Carte_d%27autore_online_ID>,
Fondazione Fiera ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fondazione_Fiera_ID>,
Il Sole 24 Ore cinema IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Il_Sole_24_Ore_cinema_IDs>,
Dongqiudi.com team ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dongqiudi.com_team_ID>,
Moviepilot.de person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Moviepilot.de_person_ID>,
IDVT <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IDVT>,
National-Football-Teams.com
national team ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National-Football-Teams.com_national_team_ID>,
Kicker team ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kicker_team_ID>,
FilmAffinity person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FilmAffinity_person_ID>
- Query examples:
- List of phobias in French <https://w.wiki/7yv$>
- Interviewees who were part of the Suffragette Movement
<https://w.wiki/84Di> and
- Interviewees who had a relative or friend in the Suffragette
Movement <https://w.wiki/84DU> as part of the LSE Suffrage Interviews
Project
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LSESuffrageInterviewsProject>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Source Reliability
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_Reliability>
"is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of
the reliability and credibility of sources".
Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We have implemented the endpoints for *PATCH
/entities/items/{item_id}/aliases* (phab:T337371
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337371>), *PATCH
/entities/properties/{property_id}/aliases* (phab:T342982
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342982>) and *PATCH
/entities/properties/{property_id}/labels* (phab:T342980
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342980>)
- We started working on the new endpoints for *POST
/entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code}* (phab:T335842
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335842>) and *DELETE
/entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code}* (phab:T342986
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342986>)
- Language codes:
- We made Special:NewLexeme more likely to guess the spelling variant
for you by changing the Property we use to get the language code. Now you
will see the spelling variant input pop up less often. (phab:T349652
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T349652>)
- We started work towards allowing many more languages by default for
Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will
remove the need
for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (
phab:T341409 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341409>)
- Query Service UI: We’ve fixed a small issue in the Query Service UI
that was introduced when updating CSS variables. Content of selected cells
in the query result should be readable again. (phab:T350153
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350153>)
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for
linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.
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!
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