Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC) - New requests for permissions/Bot: - Peuc bot 3 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Peuc_bot_3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works) - MajavahBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI https://pypi.org/)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/MNSAJ5XLNLF6XBCYGB3CYHB72O6XVQGL/ - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, Archives https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=101 (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18 - Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2023-07-12
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet? https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/internets-architects-wikipedia-wikimedia-editors#:~:text=the%20internet%20itself.-,KALLI%20MATHIOS,-Can%20you%20describe - Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-07-17/In_focus in *The Signpost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost*, July 17, 2023 - The humble guide to building an asset library https://beforesandafters.com/2023/07/11/the-humble-guide-to-building-an-asset-library/ - Papers - OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00569/116618 - "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia" https://figshare.com/s/a1ed9cdbd917c923b884 (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass) - A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia https://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc/article/view/1519/2297 - Videos - Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Aw9fkPyoM - Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FYhm9OI1c - LD4 conference (YouTube) - Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFl28pCkoHs - Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgGq1yNM1Q - Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CiFIIZSCxo - WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoD6-aw80M - Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvrxTh8xfdY - How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70oWw3sXk8
Tool of the week
- Wikidata Recent Changes API https://wdrc.toolforge.org/ (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=665)
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - autosuggest value https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11889 (qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject) - External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11870, ComingSoon.it TV series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11871, ComingSoon.it TV program ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11872, parliament.bg MP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11873, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11874, Flashpoint database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11875, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11876, Gameswelt ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11877, Vélo'v station ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11878, Lithuanian protected object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11879, Saugoma.lt area ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11880, Saugoma.lt object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11881, Alienor.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11882, Musées Occitanie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11883, Trésors de Nice ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11884, Image Duplicator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11885, CNR ExploRA author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11886, ECLI court code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11887, Romanian river code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11888, German University Collections person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11890 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - verdict https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury) - Founder of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Founder_of () - underlying structure https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/underlying_structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost) - timetable https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/timetable () - Canadian Archival Information Network authority record https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Canadian_Archival_Information_Network_authority_record () - External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BDFutbol_manager_ID_2, GSA player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GSA_player_ID, DigiListan artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DigiListan_artist_ID, FSHF player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FSHF_player_ID, WWGR player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WWGR_player_ID, Threads username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Threads_username, ProQuest publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ProQuest_publication_ID, Lift Up profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lift_Up_profile_ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Internet_Broadway_Database_touring_theatre_ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ligue_nationale_de_rugby_ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mus%C3%A9e_critique_de_la_Sorbonne_ID, FantLab translator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FantLab_translator_ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Literary_Encyclopedia_work_ID, Acclaimed Music album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Acclaimed_Music_album_ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hugging_Face_user_or_organization_ID, Friedländer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Friedl%C3%A4nder_ID, IMDb keyword https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IMDb_keyword - Query examples: - List of data journals at Wikidata https://w.wiki/6$vi (source https://twitter.com/_shigapov/status/1678780961214050306) - Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now https://w.wiki/6TNS (source https://wikis.world/@moebeus@mastodon.online/110718631093218142) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Antiquity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity) - WikiProject Lodging https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)
Development
- Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (phab:T327510 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327510) - EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (phab:T339924 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T339924) - Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328149 ) - mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (phab:T340832 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340832)
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