*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-11. Translations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current are available.*
* Discussions *
- Open request for adminship: Zafer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator#Zafer - (RfP scheduled to end after 12 March 2024 20:03 (UTC)) - Closed request for adminship: Mike Peel 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator#Mike_Peel_2 - Adminship re-granted, welcome back Mike! - New requests for permissions/Bot: - Mfchris84-Bot 1 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Mfchris84-Bot_1 - Task: Add *swisscovery edition ID (P9907)* to instance of (P31) version, edition or translation (Q3331189) based on checking ISBN-13 (P212) or ISBN-10 (P957). - NinoBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/NinoBot - Task: Semi-automatically create version, edition or translation (Q3331189) entries for Spanish Wikisource Index pages from Commons files. - Emijrpbot 10 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Emijrpbot_10 - Task: Create a written work (Q47461344) and version, edition or translation (Q3331189) item for works and editions in the National Library of Spain datos.bne.es project.
* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events *
- Upcoming - Queer Data Days https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-data-days-wikidata-gender-diversity-project-event-tickets-849406958077 - Wikidata Gender Diversity Project Event, a pair of virtual events welcoming a range of speakers investigating queer approaches to data and technology. Sign up for March 15 or March 16, 15:00 (CET). - Wikimedia Indonesia/Bulan Wiki Perempuan 2024 WM Indonesia Women's Wiki Month 2024 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Bulan_Wiki_Perempuan_2024 (Indonesian) - join classes on learning to edit Wikidata and address gender biases in Wikidata, Wikipedia and sibling projects. Program and register for Wikidata classes / datathon https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj20J2tMTWyXkI-o8Yl-kxk7eqOxDhuM0Xrbrsp3C5SGduHQ/viewform schedule - Wikidata Leveling Up Days https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Leveling_Up_Days_2024, an online event and a collection of resources to welcome new people to Wikidata. The online event takes place on April 5-7 and 12-14 with presentations, workshops and discussions. The program is open to contributions. Learn more about the project at the website WiGeDi https://wigedi.com/.
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Blogs - Standardization of publishing data with Wikidata https://zenodo.org/records/8325988 - a poster for the Austrian Transition to Open Access Two (AT2OA²). Join the project Wikiproject Academic Publisher https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Academic_Publisher - Wikibase Intro https://www.vvbad.be/meta/meta-nummer-20242/wikibase (Dutch) - Bart Magnus writes an article about the benefits of Wikibase for the Flemish Association for Library, Archives & Documentation (VVBAD). - A Red&Blue Wikibase disambiguation on the English Wikipedia https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-red-wikibase-disambiguation-on.html - - Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2023 edition https://commonists.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/wikidata-and-the-sum-of-all-video-games-2023-edition/ by Jean-Fred https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric - Multilingual entity linking and global insights https://www.ontotext.com/blog/gaining-global-insights-with-multilingual-entity-linking/ - Ontotext are developing AI products that can read text and establish of the same concept in different languages (MEL) and between knowledge graphs and plaintext. - Papers - A Knowledge Plug-and-Play Test Bed for Open-domain Dialogue Generation https://arxiv.org/html/2403.03496v1 - this paper details attempts at building chatbots that provide reliable, accurate information in a natural way from Wikidata and other sources. By Xiangci L., et al (2024). - Videos - Wikipedia Weekly #252: Bare words and red links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExTBicJZL2E (Swedish) with Jan Ainali and Magnus Olsson. - Evaluation of research put to the test: projects and experiments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9Rw0SqWsM (Italian) Camillo (WM Italy) and Alessandro (WM Switzerland) show and discuss how Wikidata is being used to support experiments and projects with UniFi Biblioteche.
* Tool of the week *
- GLAMorous Europe https://www.glam-europe.de/ - allows you to identify your artistic interests and put together your own artwork from existing art across Europe - List of all tools and scripts by Magnus Manske https://magnustools.toolforge.org/. There are currently 348 active tools.
* Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties and property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review *
- Newest General datatypes: - form decomposition https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12527 (decomposition of a word) - Newest External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12528, DLE entry ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12529, Malaysia company new number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12530, GARAE ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12531, Oyez Project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12532, Gematsu event ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12533, Singapore Infopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12534, OSL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12535, Combine OverWiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12536, EJAtlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12537, Galician Authors in BUSC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12538 - New General datatypes property proposals to review: - document keywords https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/document_keywords (Keywords associated with the text found in <code><meta name="keywords"></code> of an HTML document.) - New External identifier property proposals to review: SNS Info Saúde https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNS_Info_Sa%C3%BAde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Zentrum_f%C3%BCr_Dramatik_ID, RatingGraph TV show ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RatingGraph_TV_show_ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Michigan_Historical_Marker_ID, RERO+ ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RERO%2B_ID, Portal Wiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Portal_Wiki_ID - Deleted properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion: Eurovision Song Contest song ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion/P3736, surrounds the enclave https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion/P10613, Everipedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion/P10725
You can comment on all open property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview!
* Did you know? *
- Query examples: - Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight https://w.wiki/roX - Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline https://w.wiki/4mG8 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina - This project aims to be a central hub for the curation of all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc.) related to Bosnia and Herzegovina. - Wikiproject European Union https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiproject_European_Union - aims to create, maintain and improve items about the European Union (EU). - NYC Free Circulating Libraries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_NYC_Free_Circulating_Libraries - focuses on NYC Free Circulating Libraries - Te Papa Research Expeditions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Te_Papa_Research_Expeditions - aims to create or enrich Wikidata with data on research expeditions undertaken by Te Papa/ Dominion Museum/Colonial Museum and institutional staff - WikiProject Highlights: Looted heritage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiproject_Looted_heritage - this WikiProject is calling for Item suggestions to work on. The scope includes all forms of looted heritage; artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage. - Newest database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: unmarked supercentenarians https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/unmarked_supercentenarians - contains instance of (P31) human (Q5) with period of life greater than 110 years and not marked with subject has role (P2868) supercentenarian (Q1200828) or subject has role (P2868) alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708). - Showcase Items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205028 - 2010 film directed by Jon Favreau - Showcase Lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes: Vand (L8266) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L8266 - Danish noun, translates to "water"
* Development *
- IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase to the upcoming IP masking changes in MediaWiki - Mismatch Finder: Already reviewed mismatches are now ignored when mismatches are reuploaded (T329631) - Query Builder: Selecting the user interface language became easier in Query Builder (T353728) and Query Service (T353729)
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.
* Weekly Tasks *
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review . - Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? . - Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php: #131 Cooking - Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? in one or two sentences. - 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