*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
- *Discussions*
- Open request for adminship: Mike Peel
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Mike_Peel_2>
(scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC))
- Closed request for adminship: Madamebiblio
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Madamebiblio>
requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was
closed as successful.
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Mfchris84-Bot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Mfchris84-Bot>
- Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and
schedule edits on
bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine *Syntopia
Alpina* (Q112206291), then continuing by adding *swisscovery
edition ID* (P9907) to version/edition items.
- BorkedBot_12
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/BorkedBot_12>
- Task: Update number of *viewers/listeners* (P5436) with the
qualifier *YouTube channel ID* (P2397) for YouTuber content
creators and influencers.
- LocodeBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/LocodeBot>
- Task: Match *UN/LOCODE* (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO
3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN
organisations.
- *Events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>*
- Wiki-in-action: Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons at the Stars
<https://www.aib.it/corsi/wiki-in-action-laboratori-su-wikidata-e-wikimedia-commons-alle-stelline/>
(Italian) - WM Italy, AIB Lombardia & GWMAB host a practical workshop on
Wikidata Thursday, March 21, 16 - 18:00 CET in the Valvassori Peroni
Library, Milan. Further details on the Wiki Event page:
GWMAB/Stelline/2024
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Gruppo_Wikidata_per_Musei,_Archivi_e_Biblioteche/Stelline/2024>
- Join the Queensbridge Tech Lab edit-a-thon
<https://volunteer.queenslibrary.org/opportunity/a0CRQ00000joHlg/join-the-edit-a-thon-at-queensbridge-tech-lab>
- create and enrich local diverse heroes in Queens, NYC as part
of the NYC
Open Data Week. March 16, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC -5).
- Wikidata, Open Education Resources and Curriculum alignment
discussion
<https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrfu-tqTkpHdJVTppB0mlkDVKQ3WZfSQf2#/registration>
- hosted by Creative Commons during the OEWeek event. Takes
place 5th March
15:00 CET, register in the link!
- *Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs
- Empowering BHL Staff with Wiki Education’s Wikidata Certificate
Course
<https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2024/02/advancing-data-excellence-new-era-for-bhl-cataloging-metadata-committee.html>
- The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog celebrates committee members
completing a Wikidata Certification course led by Will Kent,
as part of the
Wiki Education. Participants levelled up SPARQL queries,
visualisations,
federation, modelling and bulk loading and editing.
- Observable tutorial for Wikidata users
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Wikip%C3%A9dia:RAW/2024-03-01#Tuto_du_mois>
(French) published in the last issue of RAW in Wikipedia in French
- Papers: LLMs Can Better Understand Knowledge Graphs Than We Thought
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11541.pdf> - This paper employs CQA,
complex question answering, to assess LLMs ability to comprehend
knowledge
graphs. Xinbang, D. et al.
- Videos
- OpenRefine - extract tables from Wikipedia for Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohEVe_ceeg> (French) - Part 6 of
the Wiki Wake Up Afrique, this shot tutorial will show a simple and
advanced method of converting tabulated data to enrich Wikidata.
- Breathing life into the women's archive through Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Q4ZNTmIJM> - speaker Brodie
Hoare advocates for adding data and information about women
from historical
archives to Wikidata at the National Digital Forum '23.
- Application development using open knowledge graph, Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCP8_OFvb30> (Japanese) speaker
Koji Furusaki hosts an open data study session and showcases
examples of
app development using Wikidata.
- *Tool of the week*
- WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL
<https://vuejsexamples.com/wiquizz-a-game-generator-powered-by-nuxt-content-and-sparql-queries-from-wikidata/>
WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is
generated
from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with
Wikidata!
- *Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- Claim Analysis Toolkit
<https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/claim-analysis-toolkit>,
collection of Observable notebooks to visualize simple Wikidata claims
- *Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties> and property
proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review*
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes:
- top scorer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12475> (best
scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or
the best ever
scorer of the history of a competition)
- filial church <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12476>
(church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
- television judge <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12484>
(person who participates in a television show as a
competition judge or
mentor)
- Papers with Code URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12490> (URL for subject
in Papers with Code system)
- SMIRKS <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12491> (line
notation that represents generic chemical reactions)
- thesaurus's main topic
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12503> (primary topic of
the subject Wikimedia thesaurus)
- thesaurus combines topics
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12504> (this theasurus
combines (intersects) these two or more topics)
- topic's main thesaurus
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12505> (main Wikimedia
theasurus)
- latest end date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12506>
(latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true)
- rug style <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12516>
(classification of an individual textile floor covering based
on geographic
or cultural origin, structure, or pattern)
- performing organization
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12526> (organization that
received funding to create this entity)
- External identifiers: AniSearch anime ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12477>, Brazzers ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12478>, Tekściory artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12479>, Hong Kong Cinema ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12480>, PlaymakerStats.com
sports executive ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12481>, Műemlékem.hu
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12482>, PMB –
Personen der Moderne Basis person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12483>, British Listed
Buildings ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12485>, GNM ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12486>, 2GIS place-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12487>, 2GIS route-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12488>, livechart.me anime ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12489>, Trakt.tv film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12492>, NACSIS-CAT library
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12494>, Epigraphic
Database Roma ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12495>, WhatPub
pub ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12496>, JAHIS Law
Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12498>,
literatura.kg
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12499>, nagrada.srs.kg
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12500>,
who.ca-news.org
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12501>, UCA
authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12502>, European
Union trademark number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12507>,
ONIX codelist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12508>, GCatholic
episcopal conference ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12509>, Oxford English
Dictionary object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12510>, 2nd
German Basketball Bundesliga ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12511>, Tashrihi Qamos
Pashto Glossary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12512>, nimi.li
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12513>, Nye ord i dansk
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12514>, OHDSI ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12515>, Consortium of
Midwest Herbaria taxon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12517>, Encyclopedia
Astronautica ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12518>, Spesalay
Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12519>, Italian Senate
(1848-1943) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12520>, ICANNWiki
page ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12521>, Dictionary
of Gandhari ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12522>, FSA
Food Hygiene Rating System ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12523>, Finnish Service
Catalogue organization ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12524>, Köztérkép creator ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12525>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes:
- date popularized
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/date_popularized>
(point in time the subject became well known to the public,
if different
from its inception)
- Bild der Person bei der Tätigkeit
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bild_der_Person_bei_der_T%C3%A4tigkeit>
(picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual
artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
- Hindawi Foundation book ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hindawi_Foundation_book_ID>
(A property for IDs of books published by [[Q20397014|Hindawi
Foundation]])
- A New Nation Votes ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/A_New_Nation_Votes_ID>
(ID of a person in A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns,
1788-1825)
- form decomposition
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/form_decomposition>
(form decomposition)
- Ludzie Nauki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ludzie_Nauki_ID>
(identifier in the Ludzie Nauki, the new official database of Polish
scientists)
- Nanopublication identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nanopublication_identifier>
(Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to
Wikidata Statements with references and history.)
- External identifiers: TNHR&CE Temple ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TNHR%26CE_Temple_ID>,
Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lisaan_Masry_Egyptian_Arabic_Dictionary_ID>,
Saudipedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Saudipedia_ID>,
DLE entry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DLE_entry_ID>,
Singapore Infopedia ID (new scheme)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Singapore_Infopedia_ID_(new_scheme)>,
COBISS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/COBISS_ID>,
DWDS
sense ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DWDS_sense_ID>,
museum-digital tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/museum-digital_tag_ID>,
Gematsu event ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gematsu_event_ID>,
RERO+ ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RERO%2B_ID>,
Premier League player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Premier_League_player_ID>,
StatMuse Premier League player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/StatMuse_Premier_League_player_ID>,
11v11 player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/11v11_player_ID>,
OSL ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OSL_ID>, EJ
Atlas ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/EJ_Atlas_ID>,
Statbunker player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Statbunker_player_ID>,
BFO class ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BFO_class_ID>,
Combine OverWiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Combine_OverWiki_ID>,
Autores Galegos na BUSC
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Autores_Galegos_na_BUSC>
- Deleted properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion>:
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>!
- *Did you know?*
- Query examples:
- 28 Female Biographies that exist in 50 Wikipedias, but not
Catalan <https://w.wiki/9MYF> - a good example for finding
knowledge gaps.
- Explore data about Wikimedia Residencies <https://w.wiki/Cx6> -
see start and end dates, organisation employer, average duration and
associated project.
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Te Papa Research Expeditions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Te_Papa_Research_Expeditions>
- create and enrich metadata and trial research expeditions schema for Te
Papa, Dominion and Colonial Museums.
- Newest database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: Unauthorized
Bots (active in last 30 days without Bot flag)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Unauthorized_bots>
- Showcase Items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>: Zootopia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15270647> - the 2016 animated Disney
film about anthropomorphic Police officers.
- Showcase Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: bezczelny
(L2781) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2781> (Polish) To be
shameless, uncaring of others, arrogant, over-confident.
- *Development*
- IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the
upcoming change to no longer show IPs for non-logged in users.
- Wikibase REST API: We are almost done with the routes for
adding/editing/removing a sitelink.
- Entity Schemas: We prototyped another approach to making it
possible to link to Entity Schemas in statements.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>.
- *Monthly Tasks*
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>
- Suggested and open tasks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>
!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
*Read the full report
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Current>*
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