Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Tomodachi94> (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC) - New requests for permissions/Bot: - Peuc bot 3 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Peuc_bot_3> (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works) - MajavahBot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/MajavahBot> (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI <https://pypi.org/>) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/MNSAJ5XLNLF6XBCYGB3CYHB72O6XVQGL/> - Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, Archives <https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=101> (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18 - Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Telegram_office_hour_2023-07-12> Press, articles, blog posts, videos - Blogs - Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet? <https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/internets-architects-wikipedia-wikimedia-editors#:~:text=the%20internet%20itself.-,KALLI%20MATHIOS,-Can%20you%20describe> - Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-07-17/In_focus> in *The Signpost <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost>*, July 17, 2023 - The humble guide to building an asset library <https://beforesandafters.com/2023/07/11/the-humble-guide-to-building-an-asset-library/> - Papers - OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction <https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00569/116618> - "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia" <https://figshare.com/s/a1ed9cdbd917c923b884> (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass) - A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia <https://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc/article/view/1519/2297> - Videos - Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Aw9fkPyoM> - Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FYhm9OI1c> - LD4 conference (YouTube) - Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFl28pCkoHs> - Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgGq1yNM1Q> - Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CiFIIZSCxo> - WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoD6-aw80M> - Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvrxTh8xfdY> - How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70oWw3sXk8> Tool of the week - Wikidata Recent Changes API <https://wdrc.toolforge.org/> (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=665>) Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: - autosuggest value <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11889> (qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject) - External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11870>, ComingSoon.it TV series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11871>, ComingSoon.it TV program ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11872>, parliament.bg MP ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11873>, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11874>, Flashpoint database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11875>, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11876>, Gameswelt ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11877>, Vélo'v station ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11878>, Lithuanian protected object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11879>, Saugoma.lt area ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11880>, Saugoma.lt object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11881>, Alienor.org ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11882>, Musées Occitanie ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11883>, Trésors de Nice ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11884>, Image Duplicator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11885>, CNR ExploRA author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11886>, ECLI court code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11887>, Romanian river code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11888>, German University Collections person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11890> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: - verdict <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/verdict> (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury) - Founder of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Founder_of> () - underlying structure <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/underlying_structure> (an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost) - timetable <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/timetable> () - Canadian Archival Information Network authority record <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Canadian_Archival_Information_Network_authority_record> () - External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BDFutbol_manager_ID_2>, GSA player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GSA_player_ID>, DigiListan artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DigiListan_artist_ID>, FSHF player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FSHF_player_ID>, WWGR player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WWGR_player_ID>, Threads username <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Threads_username>, ProQuest publication ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ProQuest_publication_ID>, Lift Up profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lift_Up_profile_ID>, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Internet_Broadway_Database_touring_theatre_ID>, Ligue nationale de rugby ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ligue_nationale_de_rugby_ID>, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mus%C3%A9e_critique_de_la_Sorbonne_ID>, FantLab translator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FantLab_translator_ID>, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Literary_Encyclopedia_work_ID>, Acclaimed Music album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Acclaimed_Music_album_ID>, Hugging Face user or organization ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hugging_Face_user_or_organization_ID>, Friedländer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Friedl%C3%A4nder_ID>, IMDb keyword <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IMDb_keyword> - Query examples: - List of data journals at Wikidata <https://w.wiki/6$vi> (source <https://twitter.com/_shigapov/status/1678780961214050306>) - Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now <https://w.wiki/6TNS> (source <https://wikis.world/@[email protected]/110718631093218142>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: - WikiProject Antiquity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Antiquity> (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity) - WikiProject Lodging <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Lodging> (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics) Development - Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (phab:T327510 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327510>) - EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (phab:T339924 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T339924>) - Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328149> ) - mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (phab:T340832 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340832>) 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> -- Mohammed S. Abdulai *Community Communications Manager, Wikidata* Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466 https://wikimedia.de Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly. 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