*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: S8321414 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/S8321414 (RfP scheduled to end after 13 November 2023 14:50 UTC) - New requests for permissions/Bot: - DiFoolBot 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/DifoolBot_2 (Task: import VIAF ID based on Union List of Artist Names ID) - KizuleBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/KizuleBot (Task: Adding sitelinks to Serbian Wikipedia for maintenance categories (see contributions of account) based on items for English Wikipedia's ones) - KormiSKbot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/KormiSKbot (Task: Linking newly created pages on SKWiki https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hlavn%C3%A1_str%C3%A1nka to the appropriate Wikidata items.)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group call November 14, 2023: We will hear from Diego Saez-Trumper on Wikidata Revert Risk and Annotool. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iIYs1U-6gDfAJeoKKwO-D1hhsEu0ccTXnetl4cq8qLY/edit?usp=sharing - Latin America in Wikidata Challenge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Concurso_Latinoam%C3%A9rica_en_Wikidata_2023 (Spanish) < Nov. 14 - Dec. 14. Play the game and help highlight the region hosting the GLAM Wiki conference! (Prizes available). - Edit-a-thon "Women in sciences" https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Editat%C3%B3n_Mujeres_en_las_ciencias < 17 Nov. 12:00 - 18 Nov. 03:00 (UTC). A live edit-a-thon to improve the quality and variety of articles of women who have won the prestigious L'Oréal-UNESCO National Award "For Women in Science". (Prizes available). - Language community meetings https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Community_meetings: A new initiative by WMF language team to organize quarterly gatherings to encourage collaboration among individuals and communities interested in language-related technical topics. First meeting: Friday, November 17, 2023, 16:00 to 17:00 (UTC) - Glam Wiki Program https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program - 16 - 18 November, Montevideo, Uruguay. Want to attend in person? - Register here https://wikimedistasuy.limesurvey.net/583765. Wikidata Related Sessions: - Wikidata For Cultural Heritage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Wikidata_for_cultural_heritage - WADE: Add artwork depiction information on Wikidata https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/WADE:_A_tool_for_adding_depiction_information_to_artworks_on_Wikidata - Workshopping Metadata Interoperability for Small Museums https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Workshopping_Metadata_Interoperability_for_Small_Museums - Wikisource and Wikidata: when two cool kids play together! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Wikisource_and_Wikidata:_when_two_cool_kids_play_together! - Using Wikidata integration on the Wikimedia projects to enhance GLAM-WIKI content sharing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Using_Wikidata_integration_on_the_Wikimedia_projects_to_enhance_GLAM-WIKI_content_sharing - Wikidata + Education + Heritage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Wikidata_%2B_Education_%2B_Heritage - Ongoing: - Weekly Lexeme Challenge #117: School https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=117 (Challenge started on 2023-11-13 12:01:25). Did you participate in last week's Challenge #116 : Storm https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=116? - Knowledge Graphs - Foundations and Applications course by Prof. Dr. Harald Sack. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Enrol here https://open.hpi.de/courses/knowledgegraphs2023 if you have not done so yet. - Past: WikiWitch: mapping witches from Switzerland and elsewhere http://institutions.ville-geneve.ch/fr/bge/actualites/actualites/agenda/tous-les-evenements-de-la-bibliotheque/wikiwitch-cartographier-les-sorcieres-de-suisse-et-dailleurs/ Nov. 4th
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Investigating the “formatter URI for RDF resource” (P1921) property and its uses in the Wikidata infrastructure https://pointstodots.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/investigating-the-formatter-uri-for-rdf-resource-p1921-property-and-its-uses-in-the-wikidata-infrastructure/ <-- It discusses how this property enables unique identification of resources, its usage in federated queries, and its role in the Wikidata Query Service. - Switzerland Witch hunt: over 2,000 victims, but no monument https://www.tio.ch/svizzera/attualita/1709525/svizzera-vittime-state-caccia-streghe-donne-uccise-monumento-perseguitate-2mila (Italian) WikiWitches project is using Wikidata to track execution sites of persecuted persons. Read about the project here https://sanspages.org/2021/08/05/. - Open Access Week and Wikidata; Opening Culture and Heritage training https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2023/Contents/Colombia_report (Colombia GLAM report) <-- details the Open Access Week and Wikidata event in Colombia, which included discussions on the use of Wikidata for academic journals and the use of Wikidata for open science. - Wikipedia for all of Sweden; Museums and Wikidata – why and how?; Photo memories from Stockholm and Rome; Negotiating Knowledge on Wikipedia https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2023/Contents/Sweden_report (Sweden GLAM report) <-- discusses the “Wikipedia for all of Sweden” project, which includes the use of Wikidata for authority control in museums. - Wikiwitches: giving back a soul to the victims of the witch-hunt https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/01/wikiwitches-giving-back-a-soul-to-the-victims-of-the-witch-hunt/ <-- The Wikiwitches project, initiated by the association Les sans pagEs in collaboration with Wikimedia CH, aims to map the victims of witch-hunts on Wikidata. - GSOC ‘23: Automating Area Management in MusicBrainz https://blog.metabrainz.org/2023/11/06/gsoc-23-automating-area-management-in-musicbrainz/ <-- Prathamesh, in their Google Summer of Code project, developed a data pipeline to automate the synchronization of area metadata between MusicBrainz and Wikidata. - Papers - Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world https://journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/article/view/10665 <-- The project “Usable Authorities for Data-driven Cultural Heritage Research” aims to link museum authority data to Wikidata, enhancing the visibility, accessibility, and relevance of information across different museum collections, and encouraging cultural heritage institutions in Sweden to contribute to and utilize the Wikimedia platforms. - The 4th Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community happened on 07 November 2023. You can find a full list of presented papers here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWp9Yi4v87c - Videos - Connecting Entomological Collectors ECN2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWp9Yi4v87c <-- A presentation for the Entomological Collections Network 2023 conference by Siobhan Leachman, this presentation explains how Wikidata can be used to create an identifier for entomological collectors, empowering the collation & linking of biographical data as well as the ability to link to other databases & catalogs relating to those collectors. - Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfTA7AhgWBA <-- The Learning Series offers practical guidance on using Wikidata for Wiki Loves campaigns, with hands-on experience and follow-up mentoring. - Wikidata projects in Wikimedia Spain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y4cVKKXspA <-- part of the online sessions organized by Wikimedia España to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Wikidata. In this session, Ángel Obregón, a member of Wikimedia España, presents some of the projects driven by Wikidata by the members of WMES. - Notebooks: - Subclass of... https://observablehq.com/@pac02/subclass-of <-- Wikidata's ontology is complex. This tool aims at finding if an item is a subclass of another one. - The Wednesday Index https://observablehq.com/d/632d9e0eccea271d <-- A longitudinal analysis of gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
Tool of the week
- OpenFlights.org https://openflights.org/ is now getting some of its airline data from Wikidata. It is a free open-source tool that allows you to log, map, calculate, and share your flights and trips.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.5 – minor changes https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/I34X4BR52DFEUHB6TX22TKLM72XJVFOQ/ (security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.5)
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - stated in source according to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12132 (to be used together with P248 if the statement is taken from an aggregator rather than directly from the source) - External identifiers: HBL topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12126, Art Platform Japan ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12127, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12128, Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12129, Aves de Chile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12130, cagb manuscript ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12131, Italian Paralympic Committee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12133, old-games.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12134, Carte d'autore online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12135, Indiana Plant Atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12136, Linked Open Data Comune Firenze ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12137, Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12138, Il Sole 24 Ore movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12139, Il Sole 24 Ore person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12140 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - Official wiki URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Official_wiki_URL (URL to the official wiki for the item) - maternal mortality ratio https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/maternal_mortality_ratio (number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) - External identifiers: Gaming Wiki Network article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gaming_Wiki_Network_article_ID, Playdate community wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Playdate_community_wiki_ID, BNE periodical SID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BNE_periodical_SID, vesti.kz team ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/vesti.kz_team_ID, EIDR parties (Entertainment Identity Registry) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EIDR_parties_(Entertainment_Identity_Registry), Art Gallery of Ontario object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Art_Gallery_of_Ontario_object_ID, GeoLOD ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GeoLOD_ID, Spectrum Computing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Spectrum_Computing, Museo Nacional de Arte artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Museo_Nacional_de_Arte_artist_ID, Catalogo Nazionale Dati ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Catalogo_Nazionale_Dati_ID - Query examples: - Map of every recorded battle the past 4,500 years https://w.wiki/84Hp (source https://twitter.com/MahmoudAlyosify/status/1721524460228935865) - Map of locations of witch memorials and sites of interest in Scotland https://w.wiki/7yDL (source https://twitter.com/emcandre/status/1719132942809587905) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- WikiProject IDEA https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_IDEA - This Wikiproject serves as a working group and process documentation archive for the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA), a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and in development at Bard College and Yale University. - WikiProject Interwiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Interwiki - The goal of this project is linking Wikidata items with wiki articles outside of the Wikimedia ecosystem. Niche wikis frequently offer more in-depth content compared to general online dictionary articles, although their quality can vary significantly. - WikiProject SrpKor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_SrpKor - The main aim of this project is building Wikidata entities for the novels from SrpKor: Corpus of the contemporary Serbian language. - WikiProject Manors https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Manors - Collecting data about manor house (Q879050) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q879050 as part of manor (Q2066754) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2066754 or manor estate (Q2116450) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2116450 as part of the Research Centre for manors in the baltic sea region (Q117756751) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117756751. - WikiProject Echinodermata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Echinodermata - A repository for information pertaining to the NSF Grant Echinoderm Project.
Development
- Wikibase REST API: We continued 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) - EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues. - Language codes: We continued 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)
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