*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Saroj https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Saroj (RfP scheduled to end after 8 October 2023 12:01 (UTC)) - New request for comments: MotoGP riders' links https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/MotoGP_riders%27_links (Update the broken links of MotoGP racer ID (P3928) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3928)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
Upcoming
- November 7, 2023, Hannover, Germany - WikiRemembrance: researching and remembering National Socialism https://www.tib.eu/en/tib/news-and-events/news/details/wikiremembrance-researching-and-remembering-national-socialism - Wikipedia and Wikidata's role in documenting memorial sites. - January 12 - 14, 2024, Berlin, Germany (and online) - CFP: Provenance Loves Wiki https://www.artmarketstudies.org/cfp-provenance-loves-wiki-2024-online-berlin-12-14-jan-2024/ - A workshop on art history, art science and provenance research in Wikidata/Wikipedia & Wikibase
Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=110 (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)
This Week
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ni0d5qbFZsCQIBtjJzl9X8V7cwLN01gv1MvZ7zpntYU/edit
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - The State of Wikimedia Research 2022 - 2023 https://blog.communitydata.science/the-state-of-wikimedia-research-2022-2023/ - Papers - Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Wikidata Case Study https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.08491.pdf - Zhang et al, 2023 - Chain-of-Verification reduces hallucination in Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.11495.pdf across a variety of tasks, including list-based questions from Wikidata - Dhuliawala et al, 2023 - Videos - Intro about WikiPathways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSyoDU2r4Q0< showing bits of Wikidata and Scholia - Wikidata for Better Health (in French) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2whuhQ3628 - Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Sciences SFAX < closing session of "Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning" - Notebooks - Implementing a parser for a sample Wiki article https://observablehq.com/d/c3c33fa19bd8754d - Artist selection https://observablehq.com/d/0035947e1c7ea36c (in French)
Tool of the week
- Swiss Archives https://map.wikimedia.swiss/v/swiss-archives/?l=de is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - Michael Gasser (X post) https://twitter.com/M_Gasser/status/1665605556768321537
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WikidataCon 2023: first version of the program is out https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/64SRNVJI7DMSDRWUVBEEYVISWHAONEGU/ - find out more about the format, registration and scheduled program https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/. - The Search Platform / Query Service Team monthly Open Meeting https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/S7OCXSRJQR4ITMOZVJXY6ND3XG4YIGGG/ is coming up. Got any Wikidata Query Service questions? Feel free to join! - Wikimedia Deutschland is still looking for an Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/35655261/Engineering-Manager-Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Projects-and-FunTech-d-f-m-?jobDbPVId=92161036&l=en .
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - demo of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12050 (video game or software that this trial version is based on) - External identifiers: Codeberg username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12045, ADVN ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12046, MiMoText ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12047, BookBrainz series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12048, National Register of Monumental Trees ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12049, National Library of Albania ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12051 , AARoads Wiki article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12052, BAN ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12053 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - self-identified name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/self-identified_name (the name used by an ethnic group to refer to itself) - non-self-identified name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/non-self-identified_name (name used to identify an ethnic group against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts) - exception to constraint (lexeme) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/exception_to_constraint_(lexeme) (lexeme that is an exception to the constraint, qualifier to define a property constraint in combination with P2302) - External identifiers: Metacritic numeric game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Metacritic_numeric_game_ID , DBIL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DBIL_ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_du_mus%C3%A9e_des_Beaux-Arts_de_Bordeaux , Gematsu game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gematsu_game_ID , Matilda paper ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Matilda_paper_ID , Basketball Bundesliga Teams UUID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Basketball_Bundesliga_Teams_UUID , World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Auchenorrhyncha_Database_ID , Nordic Women in Film-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nordic_Women_in_Film-ID , Pinakes IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pinakes_IDs , WikiKids ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WikiKids_ID , Aves de Chile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aves_de_Chile_ID , Klingon Word Wiki id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Klingon_Word_Wiki_id , Metacritic company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Metacritic_company_ID , Metacritic publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Metacritic_publication_ID , StopGame series ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/StopGame_series_ID , Game Jolt ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Jolt_ID , SlackBuilds package https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SlackBuilds_package , California State Park ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/California_State_Park_ID - Query examples: - Most frequent birth places for PTBNP authors https://w.wiki/7ami ( source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ep%C3%ACdosis/sandbox#Birth_and_death_places_on_map ) - University's museum in France https://w.wiki/7c3B (source https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/1708129619558191449) - 52,153 French words which have both masculine and feminine forms https://w.wiki/7dPB (source https://twitter.com/_lerner_paul/status/1705206707297685805) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: - WikiProject African Literary Metadata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_African_Literary_Metdata - a project dedicated to create and improve Wikidata's coverage of African informal literatures. - WikiProject GLAM-BW https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_GLAM-BW - a project to connect major collections held by museums in Baden-Württemberg by uploading information on collectors, former collection locations, collecting histories, and objects
Development
- Wikibase REST API: - We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property. - We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item. - You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions (phab:T342857 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342857) - We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE/Wikidata/Reports/2023/2023-09-18_Ramifications_of_IP_masking_on_Wikidata_related_extensions and where code changes are needed - Lexicographical data: - We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer (phab:T322683 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322683) - If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses (phab:T343979 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343979) - We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon ( phab:T286239 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286239) - Mismatch Finder: - Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results ( phab:T335864 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335864) - We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers ( phab:T313467 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313467) - The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled (phab:T343344 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343344)
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