*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming:
- First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop (wikibase-lex)
<https://wikibase-lex.sciencesconf.org/>. September 13, 14:00 to
18:00, at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna.
- German-speaking Wikipedia community meets in Linz
<https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20230905_OTS0131/deutschsprachige-wikipedia-community-trifft-sich-in-linz>
(in
German). September 29 - October 1, 2023.
- OpenRefine for beginners
<https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fotomarburg/aktuelles/nachrichten/workshop_openrefine-fuer-bauwerke>
(in
German). October 25-26, 2023.
- The second Mini Hackathon at Wikimedia Nederland
<https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mini%20Hackathon%20November%202023>,
for experienced Wikimedians, will take place on Saturday,
November 4. There
is room for 30 participants; you can apply here
<https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mini_Hackathon_November_2023>.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Starting fresh: the Wikibase REST API
<https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2023/09/07/starting-fresh-the-wikibase-rest-api/>
- Press
- Pamitouch Foundation pilots TTAG Goes Digital initiative at Accra
College of Education
<https://www.modernghana.com/news/1256630/pamitouch-foundation-pilots-ttag-goes-digital-init.html>.
The Open Foundation West Africa provided an introduction to Wikipedia and
its sister tools. The teacher trainees were guided on topics such as
Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikiversity.
- Papers
- Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched
Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231231192774> - Daria
Tisch and Emma Ischinsky
- Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data
Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231195552> -
Heather Ford and Andrew Iliadis
- KGConv, a Conversational Corpus grounded in Wikidata
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15298.pdf> - Quentin Brabant, Gwenole
Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, and Claire Gardent
- Videos
- Interoperability among the digital repository Tainacan and the
information networks Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: A case study of FILE
ARCHIVE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVj5Sccu5bk> - Paula
Perissinotto & Dalton Martins
- Link data from local index to Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSBEoNnAgPw> - Josef Moravec,
Moravian Library in Brno
- Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of
structured data in hearing health
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3PkyK0ICs> - Hector Gabriel
Corrale de Matos
Tool of the week
- Peppercat <https://peppercat.org/> is a website listing government
ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking
data from Wikidata. More information <https://peppercat.org/about.html>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Open call: train-the-trainer course for candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia
trainers
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_program_2023-24>,
with a focus on (structured data on) Wikimedia Commons. More info and
application form here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Train-the-trainer_program_2023-24>.
Application deadline is September 15.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes:
- state of transmission
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12020> (state of
transmission of a work (as a concept, not as a physical item;
for that, use
P5816))
- describes actor of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12027> (predicate sense
whose actor (an agent or a cause—basically the instigator of
an action) is
denoted by this sense)
- describes undergoer of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12028> (predicate sense
whose undergoer (a patient, a theme, or a recipient—basically a
non-instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense)
- External identifiers: Demozoo demo ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12013>, Demozoo group member
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12014>, animecons.com
event ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12015>, Museo
Italia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12016>, Dans nos
cœurs ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12017>, WWGR player
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12018>, futzal.rus player
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12019>, iNaturalist user
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12022>, alyga.lt player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12023>, UETK ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12024>, Windows Package
Manager Community package ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12025>, SEVIS school ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12026>, WikiChip article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12029>, Mageia package ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12030>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to
review:
- General datatypes:
- Red List of South African Plants conservation status
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Red_List_of_South_African_Plants_conservation_status>
(conservation
status of endemic South African plants assigned by the
[[w:South African
National Biodiversity Institute]])
- Educational level
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Educational_level>
(school
level in which the subject of the item is taught)
- FragDenStaat tag
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FragDenStaat_tag>
(tag
in FragDenStaat.de)
- Plate
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plate> (the
plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the
statement being made)
- External identifiers: Fansly ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fansly_ID>,
France
3 Régions journalist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/France_3_R%C3%A9gions_journalist_ID>
, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ordbok_%C3%B6ver_Finlands_svenska_folkm%C3%A5l_ID>
, BookBrainz series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BookBrainz_series_ID>
, BookBrainz edition ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BookBrainz_edition_ID>
, ManyVids ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ManyVids_ID>
, LoverFans ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LoverFans_ID>
, IGI Global affiliate ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IGI_Global_affiliate_ID>
, Aparat channel ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aparat_channel_ID>
, Pandit Project work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pandit_Project_work_ID>
, RKDexcerpts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RKDexcerpts>
- Query examples:
- Territories claimed by irredentism <https://w.wiki/7Qbr>
- Map of tram stop all over the world <https://w.wiki/7SBr> (source
<https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696636273409106140>)
- Map of public archives in Germany <https://w.wiki/7SBv> (source
<https://twitter.com/steinhoff_uwe/status/1696607768340230205>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
- WikiProject Patagonian Archaeology
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Patagonian_Archaeology>
-
The project works on the creation and improvement of items on Patagonian
Archaeology in Wikidata (archeology of the argentine patagonian coast
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115632712>).
- WikiProject Archive of National Debt Redemption Movement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archive_of_National_Debt_Redemption_Movement>
-
The purpose of this project is to promote the use of records
related to the National
Debt Repayment Movement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q623859> (국채보상운동)
by integrating data from the National Debt Repayment Movement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q623859> digital archive into Wikidata.
Development
- Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES
to the new Lift Wing (phab:T343731
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343731>)
- EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to
link to EntitySchemas in statements
- Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language
selector (phab:T344231 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344231>)
- We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting
them return to the page they came from after logging in (phab:T330550
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330550>); we’re also working on
showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (phab:T343979
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343979>)
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement
from a Property (phab:T342976 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342976>)
and get the labels of a Property (phab:T342977
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342977>)
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>
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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