*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop (wikibase-lex) https://wikibase-lex.sciencesconf.org/. September 13, 14:00 to 18:00, at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna. - German-speaking Wikipedia community meets in Linz https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20230905_OTS0131/deutschsprachige-wikipedia-community-trifft-sich-in-linz (in German). September 29 - October 1, 2023. - OpenRefine for beginners https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fotomarburg/aktuelles/nachrichten/workshop_openrefine-fuer-bauwerke (in German). October 25-26, 2023. - The second Mini Hackathon at Wikimedia Nederland https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mini%20Hackathon%20November%202023, for experienced Wikimedians, will take place on Saturday, November 4. There is room for 30 participants; you can apply here https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mini_Hackathon_November_2023.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Starting fresh: the Wikibase REST API https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2023/09/07/starting-fresh-the-wikibase-rest-api/ - Press - Pamitouch Foundation pilots TTAG Goes Digital initiative at Accra College of Education https://www.modernghana.com/news/1256630/pamitouch-foundation-pilots-ttag-goes-digital-init.html. The Open Foundation West Africa provided an introduction to Wikipedia and its sister tools. The teacher trainees were guided on topics such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikiversity. - Papers - Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231231192774 - Daria Tisch and Emma Ischinsky - Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231195552 - Heather Ford and Andrew Iliadis - KGConv, a Conversational Corpus grounded in Wikidata https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15298.pdf - Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, and Claire Gardent - Videos - Interoperability among the digital repository Tainacan and the information networks Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: A case study of FILE ARCHIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVj5Sccu5bk - Paula Perissinotto & Dalton Martins - Link data from local index to Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSBEoNnAgPw - Josef Moravec, Moravian Library in Brno - Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of structured data in hearing health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3PkyK0ICs - Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos
Tool of the week
- Peppercat https://peppercat.org/ is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information https://peppercat.org/about.html
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open call: train-the-trainer course for candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia trainers https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_program_2023-24, with a focus on (structured data on) Wikimedia Commons. More info and application form here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_program_2023-24. Application deadline is September 15.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - state of transmission https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12020 (state of transmission of a work (as a concept, not as a physical item; for that, use P5816)) - describes actor of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12027 (predicate sense whose actor (an agent or a cause—basically the instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense) - describes undergoer of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12028 (predicate sense whose undergoer (a patient, a theme, or a recipient—basically a non-instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense) - External identifiers: Demozoo demo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12013, Demozoo group member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12014, animecons.com event ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12015, Museo Italia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12016, Dans nos cœurs ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12017, WWGR player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12018, futzal.rus player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12019, iNaturalist user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12022, alyga.lt player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12023, UETK ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12024, Windows Package Manager Community package ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12025, SEVIS school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12026, WikiChip article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12029, Mageia package ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12030 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - Red List of South African Plants conservation status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Red_List_of_South_African_Plants_conservation_status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the [[w:South African National Biodiversity Institute]]) - Educational level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Educational_level (school level in which the subject of the item is taught) - FragDenStaat tag https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FragDenStaat_tag (tag in FragDenStaat.de) - Plate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plate (the plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made) - External identifiers: Fansly ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fansly_ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/France_3_R%C3%A9gions_journalist_ID , Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ordbok_%C3%B6ver_Finlands_svenska_folkm%C3%A5l_ID , BookBrainz series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BookBrainz_series_ID , BookBrainz edition ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BookBrainz_edition_ID , ManyVids ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ManyVids_ID , LoverFans ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LoverFans_ID , IGI Global affiliate ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGI_Global_affiliate_ID , Aparat channel ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aparat_channel_ID , Pandit Project work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pandit_Project_work_ID , RKDexcerpts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RKDexcerpts - Query examples: - Territories claimed by irredentism https://w.wiki/7Qbr - Map of tram stop all over the world https://w.wiki/7SBr (source https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696636273409106140) - Map of public archives in Germany https://w.wiki/7SBv (source https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696607768340230205) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: - WikiProject Patagonian Archaeology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Patagonian_Archaeology - The project works on the creation and improvement of items on Patagonian Archaeology in Wikidata (archeology of the argentine patagonian coast https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115632712). - WikiProject Archive of National Debt Redemption Movement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archive_of_National_Debt_Redemption_Movement - The purpose of this project is to promote the use of records related to the National Debt Repayment Movement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q623859 (국채보상운동) by integrating data from the National Debt Repayment Movement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q623859 digital archive into Wikidata.
Development
- Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (phab:T343731 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343731) - EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements - Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (phab:T344231 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344231) - We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (phab:T330550 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330550); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (phab:T343979 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343979) - Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342976) and get the labels of a Property (phab:T342977 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342977)
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