*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Welcome to the 600th Weekly Summary!
Lydia (Staff) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) initiated the weekly newsletter at the start of the Wikidata project, before it even went live, to keep the community in the loop about the developments, the new projects and tools. Léa (Staff) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE) carried on the newsletter in 2016 and then it was my turn in 2020. The newsletter has been going strong for eleven years, with its content powered by the community, and delivered every week without fail. Thank you to everyone who helped fill in the different sections of the Weekly Summary thus far ❤️ --Mohammed https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mohammed_Abdulai_(WMDE)
- Item #600 Ichiro Suzuki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q600; Property #600 is Wine AppDB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P600; and Lexeme #600 is the Japanese conjugation だから https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L600 - 600 in the multiverse: as a year https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25586 (another year https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q246827), a number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257138, a category https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257138, a track gauge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10676739, a jet https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q699843, an asteroid https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114661, an auto race https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1104915, a genetic element https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29707956, a death https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6643615, a birth https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6282893, a TV serie https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23136778, a car https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1125433, a galaxy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1037609, a sport discipline https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2817913, a radio telescope https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1590725, an engine https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17861788, a polygon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3135031, a film https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18811585, a GPU https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137069, a photolithography https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1050797, and many more… https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?go=Go&search=600&search=600&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1&ns120=1 - Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 600 https://w.wiki/7xRc - Map of things at an altitude of 600 m https://w.wiki/7xUE - List of items with an external ID equal to 600 https://w.wiki/7xU5 - Wikidata was 600 days old on Wednesday 11 June 2014 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17932511. It will be 600 weeks old on Monday 9 August 2027 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69308365
WikidataCon happened over the weekend
Birthday wishes from the community https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Messages#Birthday_wishes, and a special note from the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland below:
Today it is time to celebrate Wikidata’s 11th birthday. Let’s take a look back at the past year and what’s coming. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-map-2023-06-26-items-intensity-100.pngWikidata’s world - map of Wikidata Items with a geocoordinate
There are now over 12.200 amazing people who are actively editing on Wikidata - 3000 of them even making more than 100 edits a month ♥️ Thank you! Without you Wikidata wouldn’t be what it is today. Thank you for helping give more people more access to more knowledge every single day. This year also marks the year we can welcome a new sister to the Wikimedia projects: Wikifunctions is live, letting us all geek out on functions in anticipation of Abstract Wikipedia. Another big milestone was Wikibase Cloud coming out of private beta. Now you can more easily run your own Wikibase and collect and maintain data that doesn’t fit into Wikidata. 2023 was also the year when the efforts of Wikidata editors were recognized across the Wikimedia movement with the awarding of the Wikimedian of the Year award to Taufik Rosman and the Wikimedia Laureate award to Siobhan Leachman. Over the coming year I want us to find ways how we can bring more people, who are already editing a bit here and there, closer to the community and help them find their place in our community. If you are one of them and have not found your place yet, check out a WikiProject related to your interests. Wikidata has something for everyone 😉
Wikidata now has over 106 Million Items and nearly 1.2 Million Lexemes. We are closing in on 2 Billion edits, making about 20 Million edits per month. All this content is used to create useful, quirky, educational or just fun applications that wouldn’t be possible without Wikidata and all the work you put into it. Check out Notable People for example. Over the coming year we want to make that even easier by building better APIs, lessening the strain on the Query Service, doing more outreach to developers as well as making our data more usable by ironing out ontology issues. In addition there will be increased focus on improving how the other Wikimedia projects integrate Wikidata. With the opening up of Wikibase Cloud we will hopefully also see many new Wikibases pop up that cover more specialized data or be used as playgrounds to prepare data for Wikidata. I am looking forward to a growing Wikibase Ecosystem and excited about more Linked Open Data becoming available to the world, with Wikidata being an entryway to it all.
And last but not least: if you want to learn a bit more about the history and backstory of Wikidata, then you might like Wikidata: The Making Of by Denny, Markus and me. Lydia for the development team
- Documentation of the sessions https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/ is currently ongoing with the slides getting uploaded on Wikimedia Commons here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikidataCon_2023_presentations. The Livestream and replay of the conference per day are already available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@wikidatataiwan9726/streams. The individual sections are here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejPB3E7aMGVY43bEX71CivKX . - List of presents gathered by the community for Wikidata's eleventh birthday - *Luthor https://luthor.toolforge.org/* is a multi-lingual tool for adding *usage examples* to lexemes on Wikidata, from sentences found on *Wikisource* in the same language. (by Asaf Bartov https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ijon) - *সংকলক https://sangkalak.toolforge.org/* একটি সরঞ্জাম যেটা দিয়ে উইকিসংকলনের লেখাগুলির উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেম অনুসারে সে লেখাগুলিকে উন্নত ভাবে অনুসন্ধান করা যায়। - Sangkalak is a tool with which Wikisource works can be searched more readily, using the Wikidata items for those works. (present from Mahir256) (by মাহির২৫৬-এর (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mahir256 উপহার) - File:Wikidata 11th Birthday Card.jpg https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_11th_Birthday_Card.jpg (by Almaddy2022 https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Almaddy2022&action=edit&redlink=1 ) - *Quonter Vandal https://qop.toolforge.org* - is a tool powered by AI to help identify vandalism to Wikidata. For more details and to leave comments see Wikidata:Quonter_Vandal https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Quonter_Vandal. Developed by BrokenSegue (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:BrokenSegue (talk https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:BrokenSegue) - Creating new Lexemes? For a lot more languages you now no longer need to provide a spelling variant when creating a new Lexeme, making it even easier to contribute data about words in your language. (present from the development team) - The Mismatch Finder, the tool to help review mismatches between Wikidata and other data sources now also has support for mismatches on qualifiers. This allows it to be useful also for issues that are in the data in qualifiers. (present from the development team) - inteGraality https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/inteGraality service pack update from User:Jean-Frédéric https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric - support for grouping by predicates, particularly useful for Lexemes (example by wikibase:lexicalCategory https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Integraality/Lexemes_3, example by dct:language https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Integraality/Lexemes_4) ; other example by badge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Integraality/Badges - new column type: sitelinks (example 1 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Integraality/Video_games_sitelinks_by_country_or_origin, example 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/Integraality/Video_games_sitelinks_by_platform ) - Automatic support for grouping by datetime properties (example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Music/Statistics/Albums_by_year ) - Wikidata Lexeme Forms https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Lexeme_Forms experimental Wikifunctions support (details TBA) --Lucas Werkmeister https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister (talk https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Lucas_Werkmeister) - The projects WiseWoman briefly presented of students editing obscure corners of Wikidata are on her Wikidata user page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:WiseWoman. - Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit (by Houcemeddine Turki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Csisc): - 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.
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Hjart (A) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hjart! (see the closed request https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Hjart ) - New requests for permissions/Bot: - DifoolBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/DifoolBot (Task: Update pages containing an ECARTICO person ID (P2915) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2915 statement, currently 5709 pages) - MsynBot 13 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MsynBot_13 (Task: Remove unnecessary use of *preferred rank*)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group call October 31, 2023: We will hear from Darnelle Melvin, Cory Lampert, and Andre Hulet, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Libraries, on WireframeVG: A Search and Discovery Application for Wikidata Projects. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ALvaZdMeESOwO92yL3jsnn78xYcmcmK0mCFmo4eSs0/edit?usp=sharing - Ongoing: - WikiProject India/Events/Wikidata Eleventh Birthday online Datathon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Events/Wikidata_Eleventh_Birthday, Oct 26 - Nov 5th 2023 - Weekly Lexeme Challenge #115: Orchestra https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=115 (Challenge started on 2023-10-30 12:01:26) - Past: Wikidata Eleventh Birthday Distributed events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Events
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - From MeSH Keywords to Biomedical Knowledge in Wikidata: The giant move https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/10/23/from-mesh-keywords-to-biomedical-knowledge-in-wikidata-the-giant-move/ - Linking ACMI & Wikidata https://labs.acmi.net.au/linking-acmi-wikidata-aa33dd6fd58b, by Paul Duchesne - Enhanced Wikibase https://wikiworks.com/enhanced-wikibase.html, by Wikiworks MediaWiki consulting - Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-10-23/News_from_Diff, by Yamen https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Yamen - 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2023/Contents/Italy_report, By Dario Crespi (WMIT) & Ilaria Diterlizzi (WMIT) - The 11th Birthday of Wikidata was celebrated in Bhubaneswar by the Odia Wikimedians User Group https://orissadiary.com/the-11th-birthday-of-wikidata-was-celebrated-in-bhubaneswar-by-the-odia-wikimedians-user-group/ - Papers - Relevant Entity Selection: Knowledge Graph Bootstrapping via Zero-Shot Analogical Pruning https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.16296.pdf (Jarnac et al) - Press - The 11th Birthday Of Wikidata Was Celebrated In Bhubaneswar By The Odia Wikimedians User Group https://orissadiary.com/the-11th-birthday-of-wikidata-was-celebrated-in-bhubaneswar-by-the-odia-wikimedians-user-group/ via OrissaDiary.com - Find the most famous person in your city using this interactive map https://t3n.de/news/finde-den-bekanntesten-menschen-deiner-stadt-dank-interaktiver-karte-1489087/ (in German) by Kay Nordenbrock via t3n.de ("The database contains data on people from 3,500 BC to 2018 AD. It consists largely of data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.") - Videos - How cultural institutions use Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR5t0GptAFI (How cultural heritage institutions sharing their collection data, including implementing Wikidata projects, batch uploading datasets to Wikidata, and how to share successes to a broader audience) - Jackie Rubashkin, Metadata Technician, Barack Obama Presidential Library; Michelle van Lanschot, Project Coordinator at Wikimedia-Netherlands; William Blueher, Associate Museum Librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Will Kent, Wiki Education - (in Chinese) Wikidata基礎編輯教學 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9j0vIUtmc (Wikidata basic editor) - Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters (COSCUP) 2023 - How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0WFKHWB1Y - Yucheng Lin (COSCUP 2023) - Wikidata merge-gadget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ds8AyuUOI (in Swedish) by Magnus Sälgö - Wikidata Live editing session - NASA, inteGraality, dates and qualifiers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WPs91QvxZA (in French) by Nicolas VIGNERON - Pairing SBN with Wikidata via WikiLinker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGMj8j6t8BE (in Portuguese) - Introduction to Wikibase Cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-lZZQMEz4 (in Italian)
Tool of the week
- User:Magnus Manske/author sort.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/author_sort.js is a user script to automatically sort the authors of a paper in the order they appear on the paper, ie. by sorting author (P50) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P50 and author name string (P2093) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2093 statements by series ordinal (P1545) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1545. Example: One Hundred and Seventeen Clades of Euagarics (Q28209168) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28209168. - Notable People https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people is a map project by Topi Tjukanov https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/1552622792708874240 that showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. It uses the combined data of Wikipedia and Wikidata from the paper's "a cross-verified database of notable people, 3500 BC-2018 AD https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4" by Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoît Eyméoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique & Etienne Wasmer. The data shows only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/XAYTWBPD24H3H4VZMNVQAICOZ6FRLIM3/ . - Wikimedia Research Fund Update update https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SLFAWPKCJI3QCAYW43O6QEVGK7SJAMBQ/. *"You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 15, 2023. While all research proposals related to Wikimedia projects are welcome, we particularly encourage research studies on medium to small size languages and communities, as well as in low resourced languages and projects."* - The Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WD4WMP team is investigating the different ways Wikidata is used in the sister projects. We would like to speak with you about your experiences integrating or connecting Wikidata, if you'd like to tell us, please sign up for an interview on our project page or on our Registration Form https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Interviews.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: none - External identifiers: Illinois State Parks ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12117, Minnesota State Forests ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12118, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12119, Flickr photo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12120, IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12121, ManyVids ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12122, North Rhine-Westphalian school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12123, Repairs ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12124 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - nixpkgs path https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nixpkgs_path (other operating systems have their package manages as id properties) - Cultural Heritage Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cultural_Heritage_Online_ID (identifier for heritage assets and related institutions on Cultural Heritage Online) - External identifiers: Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Encyklopedia_Teatru_Polskiego_author_ID, Emerald network site ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Emerald_network_site_ID, Playdate Catalog ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Playdate_Catalog_ID, Rowing Canada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rowing_Canada_ID, Radio Paradise song ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Radio_Paradise_song_ID, Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tennessee-Kentucky_Plant_Atlas_ID, old-games id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/old-games_id, TheTVDB movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TheTVDB_movie_ID, Indiana Plant Atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indiana_Plant_Atlas_ID, cagb manuscript ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/cagb_manuscript_ID, la Repubblica TV series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/la_Repubblica_TV_series_ID, Filmweb ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmweb_ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Monasticon_Hibernicum_database_ID, Gale document ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gale_document_ID - Query examples: - Property completeness dashboard for manuscripts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Manuscripts/Dashboard - Map of narrative locations of romantic comedies https://w.wiki/7wSg (source https://mastodon.world/@mlpoulter/111318731640496853) - Tunisian scientists are cited by Nobel Prize winners https://w.wiki/7q$L (source https://twitter.com/Csisc1994/status/1715408704298770586) - Which cathedrals are the tallest in the world? https://w.wiki/7pGw (source https://twitter.com/jmcollado/status/1714353277083463979) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- Wikidata:WikiProject Source Reliability https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_Reliability - an project to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources - Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Academic_Publisher - a project to display open access shares (among others based on publishers) at the Austrian Datahub for Open Access Negotiations and Monitoring
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to remove a description in a given language from an Item, modify the label of an Item and add aliases to an Item (phab:T342986 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342986, phab:T342980 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342980, phab:T335842 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335842) - Lexicographical data: We switched the Property that is used to pre-select the spelling variant on the Special:NewLexeme page from P218 (ISO 639-1 code) to P305 (IETF language tag) to make use of the latter’s larger coverage. (phab:T348923 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348923) - EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on addressing the feedback from the testing of the new datatype in the test system.
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