*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship:
- ChristianKl 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/ChristianKl_2>
*(successful)* Welcome on board \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- TaxonomyBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/TaxonomyBot>
- New request for comments:
- Remove watchlist summary
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Remove_watchlist_summary>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working
Hour
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours>
on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a
WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and
playing with some
tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to
work on. This
will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a
relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work
together. Event page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Wikidata_Working_Hours/2022-December-5_Wikidata_Working_Hour>
- Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour>,
on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come
with your
favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
- Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October
28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia
Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for
everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023
page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023>.
- Ongoing
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=69>
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Blogs
- Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in
Wikipedia
<https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2022/11/28/museology-myosotis-and-metadata-oh-my-sharing-sustainably-in-wikipedia/>
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- The Archaeology Data Service and Wikidata
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/2022/12/the-archaeology-data-service-and-wikidata/>
- Animals to Play H-O-R-S-E With
<https://aaronson.org/blog/animals-to-play-horse-with>
- Mini hackathon in Utrecht
<https://ainali.com/2022/mini-hackathon-in-utrecht/>, by Jan Ainali
- Papers
- Structural Quality Metrics to Evaluate Knowledge Graphs
<https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10011>
- Using the W3C Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web
recommendation to manage small Wikidata datasets
<https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw210443>
- Videos
- How to edit a Wikidata item to appear in an Infobox on Wikipedia
(in Portuguese) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm42PL-Sh0U>
- Library data on Wikidata: a case study of the National Library of
Latvia - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB2ZmmyfakU>
- Wikidata / National Archives of Australia Project with Tim Sherratt
- YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQ_-QgUOBw>
- How WMDE can support partnerships with GLAM institutions for
Wikibase and Wikidata projects - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jop9GOoH2HA>
- 2022 edition: Timelapse of railway stations in Denmark (Wikidata,
QGIS) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOaPh5zbE9M>
- Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 14: How To Add References To
Wikidata Articles (in Dagbani) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP21pFL9TVk>
- Wikidata 10th Birthday celebration events, By Dagbani Wikimedians
User Group <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z57WWLbomhQ>, Wikimedia
Community User Group Kenya
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iepKiU6mGNY>
- Wikidata Istanbul 2022
- Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (I-II) by Asaf Bartov (Day 1:
English <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfcHGRTdp7g>, Turkish
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htsVLVomoU8>)
- Modeling Our Languages with Lexeme (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2:
Turkish <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNfrkSM5I7U>, English
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B03pdha9fZ0>)
- A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata Querying with SPARQL (I-II),
Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFBxFo3FZ8c>, English
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEfTTODS_8E>)
- Wikidata and GLAM: Museums of Turkey (Day 3: Turkish
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGmXLg0SrD0>, English
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPzHvY85k-A>)
- Potential Benefits of Wikidata to the Health System, Nevit
Dilmen (Day 3, Turkish)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHrjWsgAkM>
- Useful Wikipedia Tools, Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, Turkish)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QK0qO4OGWg>
- Handy Wikidata Gadgets by Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, English)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjdrlGyLMZY>
- Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and Beyond, Lydia Pintscher (Day
1: Turkish <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEn4mjuGz1M>, English
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84teTD-xKoY>)
- Structured Data Across Wikimedia by Luca Martinelli (Day 2,
English) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zg4Uyt2OdE>
- Getting Inspiration from Projects Using Wikidata, Neslihan Turan
(Day 1: Turkish <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L0fGFows2A>,
English <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYXXcMua2KA>)
- Podcasts
- WikiProject Biography
<https://uvadatapoints.castos.com/podcasts/44037/episodes/wikiproject-biography>,
a podcast episode presenting Wikidata:WikiProject Biography
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Biography>
- Thread
- The advent of Wikiviz <https://vis.social/@pac2/109439887189554603>,
24 dataviz about Wikipedia and Wikidata until Christmas
- Other
- A rap battle between Wikipedia and Wikidata as envisaged by ChatGPT
<https://twitter.com/tilmanbayer/status/1598777304809107457>
Tool of the week
- How many edits does Wikidata get per second?
listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the
sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opportunities: Post-doc in Natural Language Processing (1.0 FTE),
University of Groningen
<https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0009QSP>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: has biological
vector <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11231>, EuDML journal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11232>, SciSpace author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11233>, Oblio author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11234>, Dams in Japan number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11235>, SNE publisher ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11236>, KOBIS people ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11237>, OpenML dataset ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11238>, DFK Paris person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11239>, PIM publication ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11240>, Pittori Liguri ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11241>, USTC identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11242>, EPA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11243>, Databank
Beschermheiligen anno 1959 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11244>, YouTube handle
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11245>, hackage package
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11246>, Observation.org place ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11247>, Diskograf artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11248>, KBR person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11249>, Miraheze article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11250>, ILNM ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11251>, Trismegistos author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11252>, Packagist package
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11253>, translation
contribution URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11254>, Cinemaazi
people ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11255>, Cinemaazi
film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11256>, MAK Collection
Online person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11257>, MAK
Collection Online object ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11258>, BookWalker series ID
(JP version) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11259>, list item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11260>, toli.query.mn lexeme ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11261>, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11262>, The Britannica
Dictionary entry <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11263>,
mongoltoli.mn
lexeme ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11264>, alt text
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11265>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review: Amazon Browse Node
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Amazon_Browse_Node>,
Beatport release ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Beatport_release_ID>,
Bandcamp release ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bandcamp_release_ID>,
subject of qualifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/subject_of_qualifier>,
has part part of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/has_part_part_of>,
property metamodelling
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/property_metamodelling>,
MangaUpdates IDs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MangaUpdates_IDs>,
man page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/man_page>, Islam
Dusunce Atlasi ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Islam_Dusunce_Atlasi_ID>,
MyAnimeList magazine ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MyAnimeList_magazine_ID>,
OpenPlaques place ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenPlaques_place_ID>,
is a number of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/is_a_number_of>,
source of action & destination of action
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/source_of_action_%26_destination_of_action>,
CSD Refcode
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CSD_Refcode>, Ès
lettres ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%C3%88s_lettres_ID>,
is the change of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/is_the_change_of>,
removed in version (2)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/removed_in_version_(2)>,
PodLink ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PodLink_ID>, KOBIS
film festival ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KOBIS_film_festival_ID>,
KOBIS film company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KOBIS_film_company_ID>,
DBpia journal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DBpia_journal_ID>,
DBpia publisher ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DBpia_publisher_ID>,
tuxDB game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/tuxDB_game_ID>,
Crunchyroll series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Crunchyroll_series_ID>,
US-DMF ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/US-DMF_ID>,
Dehkhoda
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dehkhoda_ID>,
CocoaPods pod
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CocoaPods_pod>,
Appsight app
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Appsight_app>,
Appsight
SDK
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Appsight_SDK>,
Maven
groupID and Maven artifactID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Maven_groupID_and_Maven_artifactID>,
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pixiv_Encyclopedia_ID>,
Game Boy hardware database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Boy_hardware_database_ID>,
Bane NOR Network Statement station ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Bane_NOR_Network_Statement_station_ID>,
Olympedia-Veranstaltungsort-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Olympedia-Veranstaltungsort-ID>,
has duplicate Wikimedia page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/has_duplicate_Wikimedia_page>,
GBDB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GBDB_ID>,
Lygaeoidea
Species File ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lygaeoidea_Species_File_ID>
- Query examples:
- Composers by country of birth and edition <https://w.wiki/64xE> (
source <https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1599693324805283840>)
- Researchers with a Mastodon account and a known field of work
<https://w.wiki/649f> (source
<https://twitter.com/fl0_id/status/1599101705202835456>)
- Count per each language of unique language codes used in lemmas for
Lexemes in that language <https://w.wiki/63FE>
Development
- Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (phab:T320490
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320490>)
- Made the Property namespace a content namespace (phab:T321282
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321282>)
- Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (
phab:T315161 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315161>)
- Mismatch Finder:
- Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (
phab:T323680 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323680>)
- Made the layout more compact (phab:T323678
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323678>)
- Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table
was a link instead of just the Item ID (phab:T323823
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323823>)
- Improved the text on a button (phab:T323682
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323682>)
- Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision
(phab:T288511 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288511>)
- Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more
sense (phab:T323819 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323819>)
- Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL
interface languages (phab:T321441
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321441>)
- Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (phab:T324148
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324148>)
- Query Service:
- Making the popup less intrusive that leads to the Query Builder (
phab:T296135 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296135>)
- Adding tooltips for Lexemes (phab:T255245
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255245>)
- Unifying the way to get a link to a query (phab:T324218
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324218>)
- mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on
mobile that is currently blocking it (phab:T323098
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323098>)
- REST API:
- Finalized json format for sitelinks and data values (phab:T321483
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321483>, phab:T322734
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322734>)
- Investigating rate limiting (phab:T322746
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322746>)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>.
Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
--
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*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata*
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