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== Wikidata weekly summary #613 == |
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''' Discussions ''' |
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* Closed request for adminship: [[d:Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator#ROBERTSHST|ROBERTSHST]] requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed. |
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* New request for comments: [[d:Wikidata:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Block_of_Frettiebot|Frettiebot block?]] - [[d:User:Bovlb|Bovlb]] has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the [[d:User_talk:Frettiebot#Block|Frettiebot Discussion]] page. |
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''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' |
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* Books: [https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cilip.org.uk/resource/group/bd35bb32-65ad-475f-82be-dcfe36e1ec69/focus/focus_54-2.pdf Banned books, Wikipedia and Wikidata] - Volume 54, Number 2, 2023 of the focus on International Library and Information Work. Professor Núria Ferran of Women and Wikipedia. |
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* Papers |
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** [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.07683.pdf Assisted Knowledge Graph Authoring:] Human-Supervised Knowledge Graph Construction from Natural Language - a Web app allowing domain experts to create natural language Wikidata-based knowledge graphs. By Gohsen & Stein (2024). |
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** [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.12474.pdf Large Language Models are Superpositions of All Characters: Attaining Arbitrary Role-play via Self-Alignment] - Lu, K., Yu, B., Zhou, C. & Zhou, J., (2024),. This paper explores using Knowledge Graph data silos to enrich interactions and dialogues with AI NPC's in roleplay videogames. |
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** [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04695.pdf Narrowing the Knowledge Evaluation Gap:] Open-Domain Question Answering with Multi-Granularity Answers - evaluating predicted answers against a set of multi-granularity answers based on Wikidata. By Yona et al, (2024). |
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* Videos |
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** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZptQ94bxoo Introduction to Wikidata Query Tool] - Learn A Wiki Skill (LAWS). If you are a Wikidata beginner, enjoy this video provided by Open Foundation West Africa. |
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** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIIxn9FtZKU Wikibase Cloud For Cultural Heritage Data Online] and the SNARC Hub for Name Authority Records relating to Wales and the Welsh Language, with Jason J. Evans. |
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** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QbEIgY2Qhs How to use Wikidata in research:] good practices for using and sharing open data (Portugese). A training session by Rute Correia of Wikimedia Portugal. |
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* WikidataCon 2023 - (English Audio) |
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** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMUAp1ePsrg Wikifunctions: fulfilling one of Wikidata's missing promises?] - with Denny Vrandečić |
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** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC0H8PoSeKc Structured data and collaborative curation:] WikiProjects and Wikidata - with Daniel Mietchen. |
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** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_NwZhbVoHg Spreading our Data further with Wikibase REST API] by L. Pintscher. |
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* Presentations: |
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** [https://zenodo.org/records/10557209 Wikibase for a Research Project] - A slidedeck provided by Ruth v.d. Bussche presented at [[de:wp:Wikipedia:Arbeitsgemeinschaft_Kunstwissenschaften_%2B_Wikipedia/Provenance_loves_Wiki/English|Provenance Loves Wiki '24]] |
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** Provenance Loves Wiki 2024 slides on [https://zenodo.org/records/10569041 Linking Boetticher and 19th Century Paintings] through Wikidata and Wikisource |
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* Notebooks: [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/glam2 GLAM2: Geolocated and Labeled Articles Map] - much like the previously shared [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/lam GLAM1] visually representing distribution of Good & Featured Articles but in a different visualisation. |
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''' Tool of the week ''' |
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* [https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wifga Wikidata's insights for featured and good Wikipedia articles], a new Observable's notebook which helps exploring good articles or featured articles in any Wikipedia using Wikidata properties such as P31, P21, P106, P17, P27, etc. |
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* [https://speedpatrolling.toolforge.org/ SpeedPatrolling] - This tool helps Wikidata editors to patrol recent changes. |
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* metaphacts and Ontotext launch a new end-user interface on top of the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: [https://www.ontotext.com/company/news/metaphacts-ontotext-interface-for-wikidata-demo-system/?utm_campaign=Metaphacts&utm_content=272732273&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-33893047 try it here!] |
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''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' |
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* A job opening for a [https://careers.iscb.org/jobs/view/8682 Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer] to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded [https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23571/nsf23571.htm) Prototype Open Knowledge Network]. |
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* The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete [https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Feedback_on_stop_query_solution_for_Query_Service this survey on Lamapoll]. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you! |
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''' Newest [[d:Special:ListProperties|properties]] and [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property proposal|property proposals]] to review ''' |
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* Newest General datatypes: |
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**[[:d:Property:P12322|underlying structure(s)]] (<nowiki>mathematical structure(s) obtained by deleting some data of the subject</nowiki>) |
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**[[:d:Property:P12323|working memory type]] (<nowiki>specifies the type of working memory of this data object</nowiki>) |
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**[[:d:Property:P12324|production manager]] (<nowiki>manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production</nowiki>) |
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**[[:d:Property:P12328|simulates]] (<nowiki>item simulated, imitated, or made to appear real by this item</nowiki>) |
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**[[:d:Property:P12330|Philippine middle name]] (<nowiki>maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name</nowiki>) |
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**[[:d:Property:P12346|combines media]] (<nowiki>media files that composes this media file</nowiki>) |
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**[[:d:Property:P12363|clerked for]] (<nowiki>this person has held a clerkship with the judge</nowiki>) |
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* Newest External identifiers: [[:d:Property:P12321|RCS number]], [[:d:Property:P12325|Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID]], [[:d:Property:P12326|Vazhaju word ID]], [[:d:Property:P12327|Stage username]], [[:d:Property:P12329|Qué series ver series ID]], [[:d:Property:P12331|Baseball-Reference.com manager ID]], [[:d:Property:P12332|Playstation Store concept ID]], [[:d:Property:P12333|Pallaalcentro player ID]], [[:d:Property:P12334|Rowing Canada ID]], [[:d:Property:P12335|Rugby Database ID]], [[:d:Property:P12336|Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID]], [[:d:Property:P12337|Nebula channel ID]], [[:d:Property:P12338|fiba.basketball player ID]], [[:d:Property:P12339|Académie de Stanislas member ID]], [[:d:Property:P12340|National Natural Parks System ID]], [[:d:Property:P12341|Bandcamp track ID]], [[:d:Property:P12347|NientePopCorn movie ID]], [[:d:Property:P12348|NientePopCorn series ID]], [[:d:Property:P12349|NientePopCorn person ID]], [[:d:Property:P12350|Bavarian school ID]], [[:d:Property:P12351|BookBrainz edition ID]], [[:d:Property:P12352|British Pathé asset ID]], [[:d:Property:P12353|CRIS Unique Site Number]], [[:d:Property:P12354|Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century ID]], [[:d:Property:P12355|Merkur author page]], [[:d:Property:P12356|Globoplay ID]], [[:d:Property:P12357|BindingDB ID]], [[:d:Property:P12358|FFTT player ID]], [[:d:Property:P12359|Czech geological location ID]], [[:d:Property:P12360|etymologiebank.nl ID]], [[:d:Property:P12361|Bluesky handle]], [[:d:Property:P12362|Parliament of Victoria ID]], [[:d:Property:P12364|ArchDaily architecture office ID]], [[:d:Property:P12365|HistoryMakers Maker Directory ID]], [[:d:Property:P12366|OKRB 011-2022 code]], [[:d:Property:P12367|Plant Illustrations taxon ID]], [[:d:Property:P12368|Plant Illustrations species ID]], [[:d:Property:P12369|Bantumen Powerlist 100]], [[:d:Property:P12370|International Hockey Federation competition ID]], [[:d:Property:P12371|IndExs Exsiccata editor ID]], [[:d:Property:P12372|COSL profile ID]], [[:d:Property:P12373|The Models Resource entity ID]], [[:d:Property:P12374|HbVar ID]], [[:d:Property:P12375|TracesOfWar award ID]], [[:d:Property:P12376|Latindex 2022 ID]], [[:d:Property:P12377|Flashback lexicon ID]] |
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: |
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**[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Number of delegates|Number of delegates]] (<nowiki></nowiki>) |
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**[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/afd-verbot.de person id|afd-verbot.de person id]] (<nowiki></nowiki>) |
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**[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/date of application|date of application]] (<nowiki>date of a application/request that lead to a membership in an organisation, an employment or issuance of an identifier</nowiki>) |
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**[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/authorized image|authorized image]] (<nowiki>Proposing to distinguish images with reliable source from GLAM partners or cultural institutions</nowiki>) |
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**[[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Dejure.org-Schlagwort (de)|Dejure.org-Schlagwort (de)]] (<nowiki>searchword in Dejure.org</nowiki>) |
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* New External identifier property proposals to review:: [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/VD 17 ID|VD 17 ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID|Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/MobiTUKI English-Swahili Dictionary entry|MobiTUKI English-Swahili Dictionary entry]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Singerman Identifier|Singerman Identifier]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/X place ID|X place ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/PteridoPortal taxon ID|PteridoPortal taxon ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Plants of Hawaiʻi ID|Plants of Hawaiʻi ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Kalliope.org author ID|Kalliope.org author ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/The StoryGraph Author ID|The StoryGraph Author ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/EDIT16 title & place IDs|EDIT16 title & place IDs]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Myths on Maps Identifier|Myths on Maps Identifier]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry|Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Archives départementales du Vaucluse Fonds ID|Archives départementales du Vaucluse Fonds ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/ru.hayazg.info ID|ru.hayazg.info ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Sundance Institute Archive ID|Sundance Institute Archive ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Mindat taxon ID|Mindat taxon ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/notify.moe ID|notify.moe ID]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/nimi.li id|nimi.li id]], [[:d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Nintendo eShop (UK) ID|Nintendo eShop (UK) ID]] |
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You can comment on [[d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Overview|all open property proposals]]! |
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''' Did you know? ''' |
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* Query examples: |
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** [https://w.wiki/8vwq The 100 smallest mountains in France] ([https://wikis.world/@pac2/111803681068833819 source]) |
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** [https://w.wiki/8onv French Prime ministers ordered by age when they start in office] ([https://wikis.world/@pac2/111735781109610547 source]) |
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* Newest [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects|WikiProjects]]: |
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** [[d:Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024|Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024]] - The International Botanical Congress (IBC) takes place once every six years. The organisers of this WikiProject see this conference as an ideal opportunity to engage with the wider botanical community, educate them about the potential of Wikidata and to train them in its use. We will also use this opportunity to improve the data held in Wikidata about the participants, presenters and their contributions to botany. |
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** [[d:Wikidata:WikiProject Health Data Space|WikiProject Health Data Space]] - This project is about organising data related to health data spaces, in particular the efforts to create a European Health Data Space. Initially it will focus on Sweden. |
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* Newest [[d:Wikidata:Database reports|database reports]]: [[d:Wikidata:Database reports/Differences in birth and death dates|Differences in birth and death dates]] - This is list of reports when birth date or death date in Wikidata differs from other sources: |
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* [[d:Wikidata:Showcase items|Showcase Items]]: [[d:Q2513|Hubble Space Telescope (Q2513)]] - NASA and ESA space telescope (launched 1990) |
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* [[d:Wikidata:Showcase lexemes|Showcase Lexemes]]: [[d:Lexeme:L204262|šťastný (L204262)]] (Czech) - having luck, fortune, happy. This is our first Czech showcase lexeme and it just so happens to be the largest Lexeme on Wikidata! |
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''' Development ''' |
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* [Breaking Change] [[listarchive:list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AAFFOEC7HVHC7FTADBUC6GHMTM62JATY/|We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps]] |
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* Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) ([[:phab:T355697]]) |
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* mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing. |
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* IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore. |
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* Wikibase REST API: |
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** We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one ([[phab:T342987]]) |
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** We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks ([[phab:T355293]]) |
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[[phab:maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R|You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here]]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority the tasks needing a volunteer]. |
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''' Weekly Tasks ''' |
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* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed [[d:Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review|above]]. |
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* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme [[d:Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?|above]]. |
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* Participate in [https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php this week's Lexeme challenge]: Diplomacy |
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* Summarize your [[d:Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?|WikiProject's ongoing activities]] in one or two sentences. |
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* Help [[d:Special:LanguageStats|translate]] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! |
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* [[d:User:Pasleim/projectmerge|Help merge identical items]] across Wikimedia projects. |
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* Help [[d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next|write the next summary!]] |
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Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017
Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017
Editorial: Core models and topics
Wikimedians interest themselves in everything under the sun — and then some. Discussion on "core topics" may, oddly, be a fringe activity, and was popular here a decade ago.
The situation on Wikidata today does resemble the halcyon days of 2006 of the English Wikipedia. The growth is there, and the reliability and stylistic issues are not yet pressing in on the project. Its Berlin conference at the end of October will have five years of achievement to celebrate. Think Wikimania Frankfurt 2005.
Progress must be made, however, on referencing "core facts". This has two parts: replacing "imported from Wikipedia" in referencing by external authorities; and picking out statements, such as dates and family relationships, that must not only be reliable but be seen to be reliable.
In addition, there are many properties on Wikidata lacking a clear data model. An emerging consensus may push to the front key sourcing and biomedical properties as requiring urgent attention. Wikidata's "manual of style" is currently distributed over thousands of discussions. To make it coalesce, work on such a core is needed.
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Instead of inserting the bare references tag, why not just use the ReFill tool or learn how to do a full ref? it's easy. I made a tutorial in image form if you're interested.--Jennica✿ / talk 04:55, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- @Jennica: thanks for your message! ReFill is clearly intended as a labour-saving device, but my personal experience has been that it is not sufficiently reliable to be worth using. It seems to take a similar amount of time and effort for me to use ReFill as it does for me to manually make a full ref, and I have higher confidence in the latter. But making a full ref still takes me an age, and other than the satisfaction of adding durable verifiability to Wikipedia, I do not enjoy it.
- Editing Wikipedia is WP:NOTCOMPULSORY, so if it feels unenjoyable, then editors are liable to reduce or cease contributing. I am not immune to this effect. But I also think that verifiability is crucial, so I will not forego refs.
- My solution is simple: sometimes, instead of doing something I do not enjoy, I delegate it (which is fine, because there is WP:NORUSH). That is, instead of only ever adding full refs, I sometimes add bare refs and tag them for cleanup by those who would enjoy turning them into full refs. (Based on their edit histories, I believe there to be several such editors on the English Wikipedia, and some of them are very active.) This way, I get to make edits I enjoy, others get to make edits they enjoy, and Wikipedia articles gain verifiability. Triple win! zazpot (talk) 11:42, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Because of you I am a staunch reFill convert. Now, how to write a script so a.m. and p.m. reign supreme...? kencf0618 (talk)
- If you still refuse to add full refs or use refill, there is still no need to add a bare url banner for the one bare link you add. People will clean up after you on the heavily edited pages, but are less likely to be cleaned instantly on those that aren't. Consider using the inline template, or better yet, with all due respect, just fill them in or use the dang tool—the amount of time it takes you to paste the bare url template in a second edit, you would've been done filling in the citation by then! Also, I don't think anyone enjoys filling in references, it is just a task that must be done (perhaps to satisfy an editor's "OCD") to prevent link rot, but the time of those editors' could be put to much better use if the problem did not exist, and the problem definitely should not be exacerbated needlessly by an experienced content editor. Thanks for your consideration, Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 22:32, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- @Vaselineeeeeeee:, I just tried reFill again, and this time it didn't work for me at all. Literally. It seems to rely on JavaScript, which I don't use. (The Visual Editor doesn't work for me either, for the same reason.)
- As for the template, I used to use {{bareurls|section}} in the relevant section. However, MarnetteD requested that I use {{bareurls}} instead, so that is what I have been doing recently. Now you are asking me not to do that.
- I don't much mind which template I use to tag an article as having bare URLs, but I'm not usually content to leave such articles untagged as that truly could lead to link rot. So, I would be grateful if both you and MarnetteD will chime in here in order that we may find a mutually acceptable solution.
- MarnetteD: would Vaselineeeeeeee's suggestion of {{Bare URL inline}} be acceptable to you? If not, then Vaselineeeeeeee: can you think of a better suggestion?
- Thanks, Zazpot (talk) 23:38, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- No please do not use the inline one. It is difficult to find even in small articles and a real bear to locate in big ones. Also it does not allow access to refill the way the regular template does. It does not matter what section or sentence has a bare url. Placing the simple template at the top of the article gives those of us who work on them a quick and simple start on putting bare refs into cite templates. Everything else slows that work down. Also, I can't tell you how many times I've seen the section or the inline template used on articles that have bare urls in other parts of the article as well. The basic one at the top of the page lets us get all of them at the same time. For years now (even going back to before I started working on them) there is a small group of editors who fix bare urls on a daily basis so the template rarely stays on the article for more than a day. One exception is when there are dozens or hundreds of bare urls in an article. Refill (and the late lamented reflinks) stop after a certain point so, in that situation, I have to format them in sections. Even then it usually doesn't take more than a few days. Z I don't know why refill isn't working for you but if it starts and then just stays on the "Pending - waiting for available worker page" just hit ctrl-F5 at the same time and that usually gets it going. Also, if an article has only one or two bare urls Citer is always available. Now it only works on one ref at a time so I wouldn't ask anyone to use it on an article with numerous bare urls. As to whether it is enjoyable or not that is up to the tastes of each individual editor. There are time I enjoy the task and times that I dread it. If an article with a dozen or more PDFs as refs they have to be done manually one at a time and that can be a pain in the patoot; Regards to all. MarnetteD|Talk 00:03, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- MarnetteD, that's a good point about using the banner. I bet it's more enjoyable when refill fixes 10+ links, but when it's just one link, it's like come on, man. Zazpot, I think MarnetteD gave you some good suggestions there, hopefully they work for you. Regards, Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 00:09, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- You got that right V. A year or so ago someone but over 20 inline tags on one article. After I recovered from my nervous breakdown :-P I got to work but it most definitely was NOT fun :-) MarnetteD|Talk 00:15, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Vaselineeeeeeee, MarnetteD, thank you both.
- It seems there is consensus now against using the section or inline variants of the template. So, on occasions when I use a template, I will continue to use {{bareurls}}.
- Re: tools, as I say, unfortunately reFill really does not work for me (even with Ctrl-F5), but I am grateful that there are several editors (including MarnetteD) who make great use of it.
- MarnetteD: thanks for suggesting Citer. I think I tried it previously, but ultimately found it hit-and-miss so stopped using it. I am happy to give it another go. If it works well for me, great.
- Also, I understand your frustration with PDFs. With those, I normally aim to either find an HTML alternative (e.g. with scientific papers) or else to fill the references manually.
- Thanks again to both of you for following up, Zazpot (talk) 00:49, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Glad I could help. Reflinks could format many PDFs which is one of the reasons I miss it. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 01:55, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Last month I gave a talk at the WMUK AGM about understanding Wikidata as a human language and I thought you might be interested in this topic. The slides are available at c:File:Wikidata is a language.pdf. Deryck C. 21:50, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
Greetings!
The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.
Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.
We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
- Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
- Diversity winner - $100
- Gender-gap fillers - $100
- Language Winners - up to $100*
We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
Greetings!
The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!
Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.
The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:
- Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
- Diversity winner - $100
- Gender-gap fillers - $100
- Language Winners - up to $100*
Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Other discussions: How to handle concepts of trans people on Wikidata? Should {privacy at wikidata.org} be redirected to {privacy at wikimedia.org} or should it be monitored by Wikidata volunteers? Join the discussion!
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour December 18th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to.The ninth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL and Scholia to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #121: Pottery
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: #LD42023. Part I: The Future of Wikidata + Libraries (A Workshop) - This blog series explores how libraries engage with Wikidata and Linked Data in the face of AI challenges. Led by Silvia Gutiérrez and Giovanna Fontenelle from the Wikimedia Foundation, the series summarizes insights from a collaborative session at the 2023 LD4 Conference, using Design Thinking strategies to connect the Library-Wikidata community with WMF, focusing on Wikidata, Wikibase, and Structured Data on Commons (SDC) in libraries. By Silvia Gutiérrez & Giovanna Fontenelle
- Papers
- Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review - This review analyzes Wikipedia's gender gap from 2007 to 2022, revealing a slight majority of female authors, addressing key themes, and exploring strategies to mitigate the gap, providing valuable insights into the research landscape in this domain. By Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Juan-José Boté-Vericad and Julia Minguillón.
- Ten years of Wikidata: A bibliometric study - This research delves into scholarly publications about Wikidata from its inception in 2012 to late 2022, revealing 945 relevant papers, primarily from conferences. The analysis highlights a concentration of experts and contributors from the Global North, as well as governmental institutions as predominant funders. The study calls for enhanced networking and outreach to promote diversity and inclusion within the Wikidata research community. Emphasizing computer science perspectives, the research focuses on methods for developing and utilizing open knowledge graphs, notably Wikidata, with a narrower but significant interest in application-oriented studies in digital humanities, biology, and healthcare. (Turki, et al)
- Videos
- Duplicating Everywhere All at Once | Cebuano Wikipedia - Five years ago, Lsjbot's Wikipedia articles caused duplicate Wikidata items, notably impacting geographic places on Cebuano Wikipedia. This video by User:Canley at Wikimania 2023 delves into the history, visualizes the issue, and suggests cleanup strategies for Wikidata and Wikipedia, emphasizing Aotearoa New Zealand and parts of Australia, with implications for the global challenge of bot-created duplicates.
- Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research with Alicia Fagerving - Alicia Fagerving, Wikimedia Sverige, introduces the project "Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research" and Wikidata. The project, spanning 2021-2023, links vocabularies from the databases of Nationalmuseum and Statens historiska museer to Wikidata, exploring it as a platform for semantic interoperability among cultural heritage institutions and providing tools and visualizations for similar projects.
- 2023: OSM-Wikidata Map Framework. Combining OpenStreetMap and Wikidata allows to leverage the strengths of the two projects to create richer maps. This talk explores how OSM-Wikidata Map Framework simplifies this process. By Daniele Santini
- Press: Adriano Rutz wins the Swiss National Open Research Data (ORD) Prize for “The LOTUS Initiative” project. LOTUS explores new ways of promoting the re-use of data in the fields of biology and chemistry and thus of sharing knowledge in natural products research. More coverage
- Notebooks
- Documentation: User:Mahir256 statred Lexemes documentation pages about Lemmata and Lexeme languages. Your contributions are welcome.
- Tools of the week
- Drama Corpora Project (DraCor) is a digital database of plays, primarily from Europe. It collects and organizes texts of plays in a way that allows researchers and others to extract and analyze information from those texts. This could include details about the characters, the dialogue, the stage directions, and more. The data is being pulled from Wikidata.
- Magnus Manske added a new game to the Wikidata game to identify duplicate Items for researchers.
- Mike Peel set up a new Distributed Game to add links to Wikiquote to Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- battery life (length of time after a full charge that a device can continue to work under normal use before it needs its battery to be recharged)
- External identifiers: Atari-8-bit Forever game ID, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes object ID, FNAC artwork ID, Akadem person ID, Game Classification game ID, Game Classification machine ID, Game Classification creation tool ID, TaiCOL ID (new version), a8.fandal.cz ID, Stadium 64 ID, Filmweb.no film ID, SixtyFour Originals DataBase game ID, BUGZ ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- External identifiers: DraCor ID, PCSX2 Wiki ID, Twitch numeric channel ID, identifiant article ORBi, identifiant auteur ORBi, TheTVDB IDs, RPCS3 Wiki ID, Retskrivningsordbogen ID, Kanjipedia word ID, MAMCS ID, Citra compatibility database ID, IGN wiki article ID, AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, RPGFan game ID, Swissubase ID, goalzz.com team ID, MilliBase taxon ID, Digicarmel ID, Arcade Hub ID, Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century ID, Consortium of Lichen Herbaria taxon ID, Biota of New Zealand ID, NientePopCorn IDs, HistoriaGames game ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/Unsupported sitelinks - Found 279 items
- Showcase Items: lion (Q140) - species of big cat
- Showcase Lexemes: cevap (L1124154) - Turkish noun for 'answer' derived from the Arabic noun جَواب
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished adding the endpoints for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
- We started working on the endpoint for removing a Property's description in a given language (phab:T342985)
- We are fixing an issue with incorrect handling of lowercase statement IDs in edit requests (phab:T352644)
- Special:PrefixIndex now shows label/lemma for Properties and Lexemes (phab:T343115)
- Language codes: We changed where Wikidata is getting its languages from for Lexemes and Monolingual text statements and thereby resolved many tasks requesting another language being added to them (phab:T341409)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Wikidata weekly summary #608
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:
- Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
- Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
- Videos
- Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
- Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
- Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
- No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
- Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
- Notebooks
- Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
- Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
- The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
- Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
- State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
- An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.
- Tool of the week
- Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
- Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, Twitch numeric channel ID, RPCS3 Wiki ID, Black Games Archive ID, Citra compatibility database ID, DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, IGN wiki article ID, AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, RPGFan game ID, Arcade Hub ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
- production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
- External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
- Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
- Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
- Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'
- Development
- Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Wikidata weekly summary #609
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.
- Events
- Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
- Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Schnittberichte.com title ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, GamesMeter game ID, GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, Indie DB company ID, NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, AFJV directory ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
- International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
- creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
- television judge ()
- External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
- Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
- Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.
- Development
- The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Wikidata weekly summary #610
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.
Events
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
- Papers
- Videos
- Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.
Tool of the week
Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
- (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
- plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
- Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, The Criterion Collection spine number
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID
Did you know?
Development
- IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
- Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
- We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
- New request for comments: Community request for the development team to access inverse properties on client wikis. (Summary: We currently cannot access inverse property values on Wikipedia. This can be a data management issue on Wikipedia as we must always ask ourself if we must introduce an inverse property for cases where we need them. So I think it’s useful to gather the usecases community would want and draft a request for an API to the devteam to do that.)
Events
- Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Past
- Provenance Loves Wiki (PLW24), Jan 12th - 14th, research and data on the origin of artworks and cultural heritage and how Wikibase and Wikidata can support this.
- WikiLovesWomen #SheSaid campaign wrapped up the 2023 campaign by visiting Kinshasha and Kisangani, where local Wikimedians improved quotes from women on FR Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Building Connected Libraries in Nigeria: --> Reflections from the Wikibase Journey on collaboration and resouce sharing between Nigerian Libraries.
- Wikidata and ChatGPT integration failure --> read about Finn Årup Nielsen's attempts to integrate LLM's with Wikidata.
- QLever: a new way to query OpenStreetMap --> Discussion of the new opportunities offered by QLever to query OpenStreetMap and to run federated queries with Wikidata
- Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work --> The three-year Wikidata for authority control project, a collaboration between Wikimedia Sverige and Swedish museums, concluded in December 2023. It equipped museum staff with tools and skills to integrate their authority databases with Wikidata, resulting in added identifiers, SPARQL query proficiency, and enhanced knowledge sharing within the GLAM sector.
- Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg --> The GLAM-BW project, under "GLAM goes OpenData," connects major collections in Baden-Württemberg, focusing on the württembergische Kunstkammer. With over 3,000 objects, the project integrates information on collectors, histories, and objects into a knowledge graph for semantic searches, contributing to the broader realm of linked open data, akin to Wikidata.
- Swiss GLAM Programme --> Wikimedia CH imported the Museum of Natural History of Neuchâtel's urchin fossil casts to Wikimedia Commons, connecting structured data on Wikidata. The project involved data cleaning, adding missing elements, and file imports via OpenRefine, highlighting seamless integration between Wikidata and Commons.
- Papers
- Videos
- Interactive notebooks: GLAM : Geolocated and Labelled Articles Map - explore Featured and Good Wikipedia articles through a map, powered by Wikidata.
Tool of the week
- Brian M Sperlongano released US boundary QA checker, a quality assurance tool for finding issues with boundary data in the United States by using Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and US Census Bureau data.
- The Surrounding Ocean (available at vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean) - is a tool that allows you to browse lexicographical data. You can use the tool to explore words and their meanings, translations, and synonyms. The tool is currently under development, and the developer, Danny, would appreciate feedback to fix any issues with the tool. More info: Wikidata:The Surrounding Ocean.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes: none
- Newest External identifiers: Walk Score ID, HistoriaGames game ID, Deutsche Bahn station number, Legends Tour player ID, Moscow Cultural Heritage ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, Cathopedia article ID, TouchArcade game ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, Biota of New Zealand ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Consortium of Lichen Herbaria taxon ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, SERNEC taxon ID, TORCH taxon ID, Penstemon Database ID, Digicarmel ID, Retskrivningsordbogen ID, MAMCS artwork ID, Sofascore player ID, Mod.io game ID, Sina Chinese Basketball player ID, turismo.marche.it place ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- describes (Data objects that are described by this entity (e.g. an encyclopedia or topic-related book; intended for input of several data objects.))
- memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
- filial church (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
- TOPO id (unique code to identify topographical features of France (department, city, thoroughfare...))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Bluesky handle, Merkur author ID, Bavarian school ID, Rugby Database ID, Playstation Store Concept ID, ArchDaily Architecture Office ID, Il Nuovo De Mauro ID, Bluesky DID
Did you know?
Development
- IP masking: We are working on adjusting Wikibase to handle the upcoming introduction of IP masking, which will give editors who are not logged in a temporary account name instead of using their IP to attribute edits to (phab:T351968)
- Lexicographical data: We are changing how empty Senses and Forms are represented in the dumps (phab:T305660)
- mul language code: We are doing user testing for the current implementation to see if it is understandable for people.
- Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on migrating it to the Codex design system.
- REST API:
- We improved the handling of lower-case statement IDs (phab:T354262)
- We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)
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Wikidata weekly summary #612
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.
Discussions
- New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)
Events
- Past
- Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Tool of the week
- Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- underlying structure (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost)
- working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
- production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
- simulate (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
- Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
- Newest External identifiers: ISzDb series ID, IFTTT service ID, National-Football-Teams.com team ID, Moviefone person ID, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID, Team Scotland athlete ID, Kicker team ID, goalzz.com team ID, vesti.kz team ID, Am Faclair Beag ID, tourist information point number, Alexandria.dk person ID, Babelio serial ID, Moviebuff ID, RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju Word ID, Stage, Qué series ver ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID, TopKar ID, IFOPT stop identifier, Flashback lexicon ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, HbVar ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID
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Development
- IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
- Wikibase REST API:
- We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
- We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
- We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
- mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: ROBERTSHST requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed.
- New request for comments: Frettiebot block? - Bovlb has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the Frettiebot Discussion page.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Books: Banned books, Wikipedia and Wikidata - Volume 54, Number 2, 2023 of the focus on International Library and Information Work. Professor Núria Ferran of Women and Wikipedia.
- Papers
- Videos
- WikidataCon 2023 - (English Audio)
- Presentations:
- Notebooks: GLAM2: Geolocated and Labeled Articles Map - much like the previously shared GLAM1 visually representing distribution of Good & Featured Articles but in a different visualisation.
Tool of the week
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A job opening for a Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
- The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this survey on Lamapoll. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you!
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- underlying structure(s) (mathematical structure(s) obtained by deleting some data of the subject)
- working memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
- production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production)
- simulates (item simulated, imitated, or made to appear real by this item)
- Philippine middle name (maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name)
- combines media (media files that composes this media file)
- clerked for (this person has held a clerkship with the judge)
- Newest External identifiers: RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju word ID, Stage username, Qué series ver series ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, Playstation Store concept ID, Pallaalcentro player ID, Rowing Canada ID, Rugby Database ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, Nebula channel ID, fiba.basketball player ID, Académie de Stanislas member ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Bandcamp track ID, NientePopCorn movie ID, NientePopCorn series ID, NientePopCorn person ID, Bavarian school ID, BookBrainz edition ID, British Pathé asset ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century ID, Merkur author page, Globoplay ID, BindingDB ID, FFTT player ID, Czech geological location ID, etymologiebank.nl ID, Bluesky handle, Parliament of Victoria ID, ArchDaily architecture office ID, HistoryMakers Maker Directory ID, OKRB 011-2022 code, Plant Illustrations taxon ID, Plant Illustrations species ID, Bantumen Powerlist 100, International Hockey Federation competition ID, IndExs Exsiccata editor ID, COSL profile ID, The Models Resource entity ID, HbVar ID, TracesOfWar award ID, Latindex 2022 ID, Flashback lexicon ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- New External identifier property proposals to review:: VD 17 ID, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID, MobiTUKI English-Swahili Dictionary entry, Singerman Identifier, X place ID, PteridoPortal taxon ID, Plants of Hawaiʻi ID, Kalliope.org author ID, The StoryGraph Author ID, EDIT16 title & place IDs, Myths on Maps Identifier, Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry, Archives départementales du Vaucluse Fonds ID, ru.hayazg.info ID, Sundance Institute Archive ID, Mindat taxon ID, notify.moe ID, nimi.li id, Nintendo eShop (UK) ID
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- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024 - The International Botanical Congress (IBC) takes place once every six years. The organisers of this WikiProject see this conference as an ideal opportunity to engage with the wider botanical community, educate them about the potential of Wikidata and to train them in its use. We will also use this opportunity to improve the data held in Wikidata about the participants, presenters and their contributions to botany.
- WikiProject Health Data Space - This project is about organising data related to health data spaces, in particular the efforts to create a European Health Data Space. Initially it will focus on Sweden.
- Newest database reports: Differences in birth and death dates - This is list of reports when birth date or death date in Wikidata differs from other sources:
- Showcase Items: Hubble Space Telescope (Q2513) - NASA and ESA space telescope (launched 1990)
- Showcase Lexemes: šťastný (L204262) (Czech) - having luck, fortune, happy. This is our first Czech showcase lexeme and it just so happens to be the largest Lexeme on Wikidata!
Development
- [Breaking Change] We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps
- Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) (phab:T355697)
- mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing.
- IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore.
- Wikibase REST API:
- We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one (phab:T342987)
- We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks (phab:T355293)
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