*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:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group>
call October 17, 2023: Our scheduled speaker had to unexpectedly
cancel, so
please join us to transfer group call notes from the Google Drive to the
wiki project page (see instructions link in agenda document!) Agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hzVSHu9y8J0pCKzO5wGHRtiXpiYHkb7F4ePsCwSj0Y8/edit>
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Office_hours> will
take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time)
in the Wikidata Telegram group
<https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>. *The Wikidata and
Wikibase office hours are online events where the development
team presents
what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the
community is
welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the
development of Wikidata and Wikibase.*
- WikidataCon 2023 on October 28-29: don't forget to register for the
online or the onsite event
<https://pretix.eu/wikidatatw/Wikidatacon2023/>! You can also check
the program <https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/>, prepare
a present for the Wikidata birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday>, and join
or organize a satellite event
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Events>
with your local community.
- Wikidata Day NYC '23
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikidata-day-nyc-2023-tickets-735689496087>
Join fellow Wikidata-enthusiasts on October 29th at the Butler Library,
114th Street West, NYC for a free Wikidata-celebration with a
selection of
engaging workshops and presentations to attend.
- State of the Map EU 2023 <https://stateofthemap.eu/schedule> has a
session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov.,
taking place in
Antwerp, Belgium.
- Wikidata Days: WM-Peru
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedistas_de_Per%C3%BA/Actividades/D%C3%ADas_de_Wikidata_2023>
(in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata,
OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL.
- Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbVc63XyoVVXDcFQSvzRxSc1GEA1D02O1mUqzv6nvO0ZJ32w/viewform>
Staying in South America, Chilean and all Spanish-speakers can attend a
4-day Course and earn a participation Certificate. Online event - 17 to
20th October.
- Igbo Wikimedians User Group invites you to a Wikidata event tagged
"One Item, One Image"
<https://twitter.com/wikimediaigbo/status/1713469359996191043>.
October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=113> (Challenge
started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41)
- Past Week:
- Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=112> has
ended. Did you contribute?
- Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary
Studies
<https://www.temporal-communities.de/events/international-workshop-wikipedia-wikidata-wikibase.html>
International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata
<https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/TADA3.pdf> by Vogel & Binnig.
- Press: Indexing news with AI
<https://www.broadcastprome.com/case-studies/tv-networks/indexing-news-with-ai/>
via BroadCast Pro ME ("We are able to create a rich multilingual archive,
leveraging translations based on the Wikidata knowledge graph.")
- Videos
- Introduction to Properties: Proposal & Creation
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ij2r56P7aY> (in French), by Nicolas
VIGNERON.
- Drag'n'Drop Gadget <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJUPmZmUqS8>
<-- This handy gadget allows you to click and drag information from a
Wikipedia article and add it to a Wikidata-item as a Statement. By Magnus
Sälgö.
- Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwfGs9asLVY> (in French) <-- a
comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their
Wikidata-items.
- Introduction & Overview of Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdG9yc-xZQQ> (in Spanish), by Ismail
Olea.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali> and Abbe98
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Abbe98> do some live editing on
Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what
we are doing
and why we do it.
- Notebooks
- Analysis of Wikidata reconciliation results
<https://observablehq.com/@maison-mona/analyse-resultats-reconciliation-wikidata>
(in French)
- What's nearby, Wikidata?
<https://observablehq.com/@fgregg/whats-nearby-wikidata> will
generate a list of nearby places that have a Wikipedia article close to
your current location.
- Reports: Report on the Biodiversity Information Standards Conference
2023 (TDWG2023) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10/TDWG2023>
by Ambrosia10 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10>
Tool of the week
- Map Kerala (https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/) uses
Wikidata to distinguish Panchayats of Kerala at a glance based on three
distinct identifier codes (LGD code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6425>, LSG code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8573>, SEC code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11817>).
- User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js> <-- This
script displays a symbol after external identifiers which contain
checksums, to indicate whether the checksum in the identifier is correct.
Currently only supporting a small number of Identifiers.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes:
- WHO Aware Classification
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12081> (antibiotic
classification according to the World Health Organization)
- self-identified name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12089> (name by which a
group of humans refers to itself (endonym))
- non-self-identified name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12090> (name used to
identify a group of humans as opposed to their self-determination)
- External identifiers: FaroeSoccer referee ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12067>, Matilda paper ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12068>, Sessionize speaker ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12069>, Minerals.net mineral
and gemstone ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12070>, MUSE
book ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12071>, Game Jolt ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12072>, Société de
l'histoire du protestantisme français ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12073>, ProductReview ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12074>, Acclaimed Music
album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12075>, Nordic
Women in Film-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12076>, SlackBuilds
package <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12077>, Metacritic
numeric game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12078>,
Metacritic
publication ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12079>,
Metacritic
company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12080>, StopGame
series ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12082>, Steam
Workshop mod ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12083>,
California
State Park ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12084>, Find
my School ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12085>, WikiKids
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12086>, SBL player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12087>, Open Library
publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12088>, DBpia
article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12091>, Gematsu
company ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12092>, Valve
Developer Community article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12093>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes:
- parent form of an active substance
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/parent_form_of_an_active_substance>
(parent form of a chemical entity used as an active substance
in the form
of a salt)
- FAO WIEWS Institution ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/FAO_WIEWS_Institution_ID>
()
- External identifiers: numéro de licence d'un joueur de la FFTT
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/num%C3%A9ro_de_licence_d%27un_joueur_de_la_FFTT>,
Rahlfs Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rahlfs_Number>,
Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Minnesota_State_Parks_and_Recreation_Areas_ID>,
Minnesota State Forests ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Minnesota_State_Forests_ID>,
Kinobox ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinobox_ID>,
GNU Savannah project
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GNU_Savannah_project>,
Indie DB company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Indie_DB_company_ID>,
Mod DB company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mod_DB_company_ID>,
Catenae Catalogue
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Catenae_Catalogue>,
GameBrew ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GameBrew_ID>,
JLPGA player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JLPGA_player_ID>
- Query examples:
- List of lighthouses in France <https://w.wiki/7oTi> (source
<https://twitter.com/LeuLeudo/status/1709086802454163943>)
- Which academic journals publish the most International Space
Station Research? <https://w.wiki/7bV8> (graph) (source
<https://twitter.com/astro_meganne/status/1707709600886120696>)
- Tamil Lexemes missing Item for this sense statements
<https://w.wiki/7o3d> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#missing_item_for_this_sense_in_Tamil_lexemes>
)
- People with no country of citizenship having Norwegian names
<https://w.wiki/7ofi> (source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#People_with_no_country_of_citizenship_having_Norweigian_names>
)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
- WikiProject Catalan creators
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Catalan_creators>
- a project for documenting creators born or active in the
Catalan speaking
territories
- WikiProject BeyondNotability
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_BeyondNotability>
- a project for improving content on Wikidata women's work in
archaeology,
history and heritage in the UK circa 1870-1950
- WikiProject Manuscripts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Manuscripts/Header>
Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property
(phab:T342982 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342982>,
phab:T337371 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337371>)
- Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given
language on a Property (phab:T342979
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342979>)
- Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given
language on a Property (phab:T348150
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348150>)
- Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages
where missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344362>)
- Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report
mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313467>)
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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