[Wikidata] New Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase

* Telegram (@masssly) and IRC (mabdulai) Best Regards, -- Mohammed Sadat Abdulai *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de ___ Wikidata mailing l

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #416

r 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

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #433

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New request for comments: Alternate disclosure policy Events

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #431

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Past: Editing contest - Members of the 3rd Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #432

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Events - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Rob Fernandez (Wikimedia District of Columbia) on

[Wikidata] What’s your experience with reporting bugs or feature requests to the Wikidata development team?

Hello all, Currently, various channels exist to report bugs or make feature requests related to the Wikidata software. You can for example leave a message Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020

[Wikidata] Introducing a Service directory for Wikibase

*(Apologies for cross-posting)* Hi everyone, I am happy to announce that a Wikibase-specific consultants directory is now available on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Consultants_and_Support_Providers This service provider directory is intended to help people to find

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #436

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Fuzheado Events

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #437

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: MsynABot - Closed request for adminship: Fuzheado

[Wikidata] Feedback needed - REST API draft

Hi everyone, We regularly get feedback that Wikidata (and Wikibase in general) needs an API that’s easier to understand and use in order to get more people to build tools that use data from Wikidata and other Wikibase instances. The existing action API has several problems. The biggest ones are

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #438

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #430

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming: Wikidata distributed birthday in October. You can organize an (online) event with your local group or favorite

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #429

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions - Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ , Gnoeee

[Wikidata] [Reminder] What’s your experience with reporting bugs or feature requests to the Wikidata development team?

Please remember to give us feedback about your experience with the current bug report/feature request process on Wikidata. If you have not already taken the survey, you can either use this anonymous form[1], or answer the questions publicly on this talk page[2]. This feedback loop will run until

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #434

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming: Online Wikidata Introduction Workshop (German)

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #435

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Linking the 20th century paper history to the sum of all knowledge

Re: [Wikidata] How do you access Wikidata’s data and how does that work for you?

close On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:14 AM Jan Ainali wrote: > If someone don't want to use the Google form, how would they know which > questions to answer? > > Best, > Jan Ainali > http://ainali.com > > > Den ons 27 maj 2020 kl 12:18 skrev Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < >

[Wikidata] How do you access Wikidata’s data and how does that work for you?

u have any questions, feel free to reach out to me directly. Cheers, -- Mohammed Sadat Abdulai *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de ___ Wikidata mailin

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #417

isted above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - Contribute to a Showcase item . - Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the n

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #418

ickets 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=priority>. Monthly Task

[Wikidata] [Significant Change] lib/WikibaseLib.php is no longer an entry point to the Lib extension

*(Apologies for cross-posting)* Hi all, This is an announcement of a significant change to 3rd party Wikibase installs that still use lib/WikibaseLib.php as an entry point. *On September 30*, we will remove the lib/WikibaseLib.php file from the Wikibase code. Wikis which directly load that

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #439

For technical reasons, we can't send you the newsletter directly in this email this week, but you can read it here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2020_10_26 Cheers, -- Mohammed Sadat *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #427

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions - Open request for adminship: Wiki13 Events

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #428

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions - Open request for adminship: Hazard-SJ , Gnoeee

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #423

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Events - Past: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #424

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Events - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: New co-facilitator introductions and tools for

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #422

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions - Closed request for comments: Disallow merging into newer entity Events

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #421

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Stanglavine Events

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #420

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Stanglavine Events

Re: [Wikidata] How do you access Wikidata’s data and how does that work for you?

ove to get as many answers as possible before *June 9th*. Feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions: mohammed.sadat_...@wikimedia.org Cheers, -Mohammed On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:17 AM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < mohammed.sadat_...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > *Apologie

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #419

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions - New request for comments: Handling of stored IDs after they've been deleted or redirected in the external database

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #426

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Events - The *Wikidata track* of the LD4 conference on Linked Data in Libraries

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #425

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New request for comments: General semi protection for all property pages

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #450

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. *Discussions - Closed request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (successful) - New request for

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #444

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will have several speakers joining us to

[Wikidata] Wikidata weekly summary #445

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Comment on a proposal for proposed deletion system

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #443

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Past: Wikidata Workshop 2020 presentations YouTube playlist

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #446

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy Events

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #447

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Past: OpenAlt 2020 Conference (replay) - Wikidata: how to get involved

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #442

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, November 17 at 18:00 CET

[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] 2021 Community Wishlist Survey

Hello, The proposals phase of the Wikimedia Foundation Community Wishlist Survey 2021 has started. You can submit wishes in various categories, like Wikidata < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Wikidata> The survey is open until November 30th and the evaluation phase

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #441

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New request for comments: Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous - Other -

Re: [Wikidata] Feedback needed - REST API draft

t week November 10th. Many thanks for your time! -Mohammed On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 10:15 AM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < mohammed.sadat_...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We regularly get feedback that Wikidata (and Wikibase in general) needs an > API that’s easier to und

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #440

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Hasley (RfP scheduled to end after 2 November 2020 17:23 UTC)

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #452

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #451

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Alphama (RfP scheduled to end after 24 January 2021 15:12 (UTC))

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #449

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Martin Urbanec (RfP scheduled to end after 7 January 2021

[Wikidata] New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2021

Hi everyone, I’m excited to announce the new roadmap of the Wikidata development team for Wikidata and Wikibase for the year 2021! In 2021 we will continue developments to increase data quality and trust in Wikidata. Among the initiatives are to find more ways for people to find biases and gaps

[Wikidata] Wikidata Community/Diversity Survey 2021 has been published

Hi everyone, In March, many of you participated in our first community survey (see announcement ). We analyzed and summarized the results – you can have a look at the slides on

[Wikidata] Wikidata weekly summary #471

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Past: - Wikimedia Hackathon 2021 (replay) "Wikidata Live Querying "

[Wikidata] We are working on a tool to perform checks on mismatching data between Wikidata and external databases

Hello everyone, This is to announce that we have finalized the concepts and started development for a tool to help editors work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites. Why are we doing this? Wikidata is becoming too big for the editors to monitor individual data

[Wikidata] We have developed a tool to help editors check random curious facts on Wikidata

Hello everyone, This is to announce that over the past few months we've been investigating ways to help Wikidata editors maintain high data quality standards by making it easier to spot mistakes. One type of data that hints at potential errors in the data are outliers and similar anomalies.

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #473

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming - The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #467

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Ongoing - Wikidata contest for International Museum

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #468

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New request for comments: - Separating "citations" from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #470

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Closed request for comments: - Cleaning up the ontology of anonymous .

[Wikidata] [Breaking change] Wikidata forms without statements use empty JSON array instead of empty JSON object

Hi everyone, This change is relevant for everyone who uses the JSON serialization of Lexeme, Form or Sense entities. Currently, when a Lexeme Form or Sense has no statements stored, it is rendered as an empty array [] in JSON. (Example <

[Wikidata] [Update] Support process review - May 2021

Hi everyone, This is a short update on the Wikidata support process review we started last year. *As a reminder, our goal is to improve the way we (the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Germany)

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #469

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Past - HackaLOD Online: Estimating the interest of art relationships with Wikidata - YouTube

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #474

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New request for comments: Automatic analysis and breakdown of links (for social accounts reference)

[Wikidata] Wikidata & Wikibase office hours at 17:00 UTC on Wednesday 28th July 2021 (17:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group

Hello, The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group . *The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #476

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: - Emu (RfP scheduled to end after 13 July 2021 11:49 UTC)

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #475

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions - Open request for adminship: - Allenwang6212a (RfP scheduled to end after 6

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #465

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Other: Scientific papers' labels in other languages than English Events

[Wikidata] [Reminder] Wikidata & Wikibase office hours at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 28th April 2021 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group

Hello, The Wikidata & Wikibase office hours will happen later today at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group . *The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present what they have been

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #444

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Past: Parliament of Ghana Wikidata contest

[Wikidata] Request for feedback on CentralNotice banner for Wikidata user diversity survey

Hello, The Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Germany is planning a brief survey of the core demographics that make up the Wikidata community in order to provide us with a baseline for future diversity efforts. To yield representative results, we want to deploy the survey to a broad range of

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #453

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube , Facebook

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #462

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Past NIH Virtual Workshop on InChI (Q106114408) : "InChI and InChIKey in

[Wikidata] Wikidata user diversity survey will be activated on Wednesday 10th March, 2021

Hello, As you may recall, the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Germany requested for a CentralNotice banner earlier in February to deploy the Wikidata user diversity survey. The request has been approved

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #460

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New request for comments: Signed Statements (T138708) Events

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #459

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Minorax (RfP scheduled to end after 19 March 2021 11:23 UTC)

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #458

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Past: SORSE - Wikidata as a research tool for data modelling and integration in the humanities (replay on YouTube

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #457

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Closed request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber (unsussesful) - New request for

[Wikidata] It is now possible to manage interwiki links to/from multilingual Wikisource

Hi everyone, As you may know, you can include Sitelinks (also known as interwiki links or interlanguage links) that go from individual Items in Wikidata to pages on other Wikimedia sites including Wikisource . Until now, it was not possible to manage the

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #463

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New request for comments: Is it worth to import labels from interlanguage links of other wikipedia projects to wikidata

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #464

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Past: Wikidata - HackaLOD Online sessions (replay in Dutch

[Wikidata] We built two tools to help editors get a more complete picture of the data quality on Wikidata

Hi everyone, This is to announce that over the past month we started to look at ways to help us all get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. For this purpose we worked on building two tools; an Item Quality Evaluator and a Constraint Violation

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #455

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Other: Tool ideas/ImproveWikidata Events -

[Wikidata] Wikidata weekly summary #456

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber - RfP scheduled to end after 24 February

[Wikidata] Wikidata:Query_Builder has been deployed

Hi everyone, As you may know, the Wikidata development team has been working on a form-based query builder. It will allow people who don’t know how SPARQL to build lists of Items. I’m happy to announce that the Wikidata Query Builder has now been deployed: https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder/

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #483

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming: - Wikidata Labs XXXI

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #481

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Ongoing: - Wikimania Wikidata related events (On this page

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #485

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming: - WikidataCon update

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #484

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming: - Data Quality Days - a

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #480

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - July 2021 Wikidata+Wikibase office hours logs

[Wikidata] [Breaking change] Languages of entity stubs in RDF output

This breaking change is relevant for anyone who consumes Wikidata RDF data through Special:EntityData (rather than the dumps) without using the “dump” flavor. When an Item references other entities (e.g. the statement P31:Q5), the non-dump (?flavor=dump) RDF output of that Item would include the

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #477

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming: - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group

[Wikidata] Re: [Reminder] Wikidata & Wikibase office hours at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 28th July 2021 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group

dat Abdulai < mohammed.abdu...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Quick reminder: the Wikidata & Wikibase office hours is happening later > today at 18:00 CEST. > > See you shortly! > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 9:00 AM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < > mohammed.abdu...@wikimedia.

[Wikidata] Wikidata birthday: participate in a birthday present!

Hello all, As you may know, Wikidata was launched on October 29, 2012, and every year in October, we celebrate the anniversary of the project with birthday wishes, events and cake. As we will celebrate the 9th birthday of Wikidata this year ,

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #486

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events - Upcoming: - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #489

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Events - Upcoming: - We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata

[Wikidata] Re: Wikidata & Wikibase office hours at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group

in case you missed the office hour, here is the link to the session log --> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2021-10-20 The next office hour will be on Thu 20th Jan 2022 at 18:00 CEST. Cheers, On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 9:28 AM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < mohamme

[Wikidata] Re: Wikidata & Wikibase office hours at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group

Hello! Wikidata & Wikibase office hours is happening later today at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram channel <https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>. See you all soon. On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:06 AM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < mohammed.abdu...@wikimedia.de>

[Wikidata] Wikidata & Wikibase office hours at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group

Hello, The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 20th October 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group . *The Wikidata and Wikibase

[Wikidata] Re: Wikidata & Wikibase office hours at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group

Quick reminder: the Wikidata & Wikibase office hours is on Wednesday, 20th October 2021 at 18:00 CEST. Cheers! On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 12:00 PM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < mohammed.abdu...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hello, > > The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours > <http

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #490

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - New request for comments - Frequency of YouTube follower count data

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #487

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*Discussions - Open request for adminship: BrokenSegue (RfP scheduled to end after 27 September 2021

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #499

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions - New request for comments: - Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #500

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week! Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary! - Item #500 is Citrus ×limon ; Property #500 is exclave of ; and Lexeme #500 is

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