*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*Discussions
- Open request for adminship: FlyingAce https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/FlyingAce (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC) - New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Must_%27Serious%27_WikiData_sources_be_selective%3F (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.")
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming: - Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023 https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/BYQA6RIUH4GAGKIHKOCTMR274XJMCEDZ/. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET - Registration for 2nd edition of Wikidata MOOC is scheduled for Saturday September 23. [[ https://actualitte.com/article/113238/ressources/wikimedia-2e-edition-du-moo.... Link (in French) - Wikidata Days 2023 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_Days_2023, 28-30* Sept. '23 | 10h00-18h00 | Auditorium and Training Room. Registration https://www.guiadacidade.pt/pt/art/encontro-wikidata-days-2023-308423-11 (in Portuguess) - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #108, Roof https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=108 (Challenge started on 2023-09-04 12:01:27)
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs - Wikipedia Will Survive A.I. https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/wikipedia-artificial-intelligence-threat.html (including comments from Selena Deckelmann (WMF) and User:Jsamwrites https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jsamwrites) - Wikidata query service Blazegraph JNL file on Cloudflare R2 and Internet Archive https://addshore.com/2023/08/wikidata-query-service-blazegraph-jnl-file-on-cloudflare-r2-and-internet-archive/ - Improving equity on Wikipedia using Wikidata https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/08/31/improving-equity-on-wikipedia-using-wikidata/ - Papers - Wikidata Research Articles Dataset https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/40510 - Handling Wikidata Qualifiers in Reasoning https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj3375.pdf - Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01535.pdf - SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26 Billion RDF Triples https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.03671.pdf - Videos - #SPARQL #Wikidata: first name, occupation and Academy, by VIGNERON - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDveI7tn7cc (in French) - Newsletters - Wikidata and the epistemology of robots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/2023-09-01#whoseknowledge in RAW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/2023-09-01 ((in French) - Explore Wikidata differently with Synia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/2023-09-01#synia in RAW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/2023-09-01 (in French)
Tool of the week
- User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js - is a userscript that adds a button to add a reference which immediately suggests reference URL (P854) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P854.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d) https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/35226834/Software-Engineer-Wikidata-m-f-d-/?jobDbPVId=90681644&l=en. For our Team Wikidata, based in Berlin, we are looking for a permanent Software Engineer (m/f/d), full-time or part-time (min. 32h/week), as soon as possible. - Wikidata's eleventh birthday https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday is around the corner! One of our traditions is to prepare birthday presents to the community. Now is a great time to start preparing yours! - Developer account signup from Wikitech removed. Now directing new users towards https://idm.wikimedia.org instead https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/423GG6Z424DZYZNFVQ7PTWOLD6QCRRYQ/ .
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: - has heir or beneficiary https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12002 (people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title) - towing capacity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12004 (the maximum sustainable force with which this vehicle can pull or push another object. Alternatively for road- or track-vehicles, the maximum weight of an object on wheels that this vehicle can reliably and safely pull given usual slopes) - learning outcome https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12006 (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program) - tribe https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12011 (recognised membership in a society, mainly denoted by shared cultural heritage; for ethnicity use P172) - External identifiers: ANPI person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12003, Anikore anime ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12005, Substack profile ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12007, Artmajeur artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12008, FantLab translator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12009, wadoku ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12010, identifier in a register in Germany https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12012, Demozoo demo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12013, Demozoo group member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12014 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: - when used with property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/when_used_with_property (when used with property) - Wikimedia Commons campaign https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikimedia_Commons_campaign (name of a Wikimedia Commons campaign) - near https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/near (for geo-objects which are located ''near'' some other geo-object) - External identifiers: animecons.com event id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/animecons.com_event_id, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sayed_Ganj_Balochi_Glossary_ID, BioGRID Publication https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BioGRID_Publication, iNaturalist user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/iNaturalist_user_ID, MyShows https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MyShows, NHK News topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NHK_News_topic_ID, Museoitalia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Museoitalia_ID, DBpia author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DBpia_author_ID - Query examples: - Old Greek personalities with entries in Prosopographia attica https://w.wiki/7N6r (source https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696988392788042014) - Largest heist by damage https://w.wiki/7MPo (source https://twitter.com/infovarius/status/1696524669199986968)
Development
- EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (phab:T338797 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T338797) - We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (phab:T318981 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318981) - Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (phab:T342238 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342238)
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