* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata
over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before
2024-06-17.*
*Discussions*
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Mdann52 bot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Mdann52_bot>
- Task(s): Updating callsign
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2317>, frequency
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2144> and FCC ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1400> of US Radio Station
items from FCC database.
- M2Ys4U-Bot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/M2Ys4U-Bot>
- Task(s): Import data about candidates standing for election in the 2024
United Kingdom general election
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78851988>.
*Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>*
- Looking ahead
- Lexico Days 2024
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Lexicodays_2024> is
coming up. June 28 - 30, there will be a packed programme of
presentations,
discussions and workshops on Lexicographical data. This is an
online event.
- Wikidata Workshop for Botanists
<https://ibcmadrid2024.com/index.php?seccion=scientificArea&subSeccion=detailSubProgramme&id=620&idSub=3>
at the XX Intl. Botanical Congress, July 21 - 27, 2024, Madrid, Spain.
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Blogs
- Diff Blog: Why Wikimedia (and Wikidata) is an antidote to
disinformation
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/06/10/stories-from-the-anti-disinformation-repository-why-wikimedia-is-an-antidote-to-disinformation/>
- Wiki Movimento Brasil discuss how Wikidata has equipped researchers,
activists and the public the ability to safeguard truths about
human rights
abuses during the civic-military Brazilian dictatorship between
1964 - 1985.
- Making location based timelines with Wikipedia, Wikidata and mojeek
<https://www.calishat.com/2024/06/10/making-location-based-timelines-with-wikipedia-wikidata-and-mojeek/>
- Tara Calishain of Calishat blog.
- (de) 20 Years of WMDE
<https://www.wikimedia.de/20jahre/meilensteine/> - scroll down the
timeline and see what Wikimedia Deutschland has done in its 20 years of
existence!
- Papers
- Linking Named Entities in Diderot's Encyclopédie to Wikidata
<https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03221> - This paper describes the
annotation of more than 10,300 of the Encyclopédie entries with Wikidata
identifiers enabling them to be connect to the graph of
structured data. By
Piere Nugues.
- Towards a linking between WordNet and Wikidata
<https://aclanthology.org/2021.gwc-1.29/> - The authors propose
linking the 2 described reosurces through hapax legomenon and natural
language processing techniques to create new connections and uses. By J.
McCrae & D. Cillessen.
- Videos
- WikiWednesday Webinar – Increasing Education & Outreach through
Wikidata & the Wiki-Commons
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZB_5QiRjE8> - Victoria Stasiuk and
Navino Evans of the Digital Literacy for GLAM show how museums and
galleries have opened up their collections through Wikidata and
Commons and
increase education, outreach and volunteer engagement strategies.
- What is Wikidata? How to use Wikidata?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbaDmB4gAVo> - Asaf Bartov hosts
this informative session on Wikidata at the Wikimania Singapore 2023. If
you're attending Wikimania 2024, this session will prepare you for other
Wikidata-related sessions.
- Creating a Lexeme Database from Scratch
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPVgrFhkZYc> - The runup to
Wikimania Katowice has begun. Refresh yourself for upcoming sessions with
this Wikidata basics workshop hosted by Leon Liesener.
*Tool of the week*
- Gestapo.Terror.Places (in Lower Saxony 1933-1945)
<https://service.tib.eu/ogt/map> - This app displays on a map of lower
Saxony areas of interest or significance of the terror-related crimes of
the Gestapo during WWII.
*Other Noteworthy Stuff*
- A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/June_2024_scaling_update>.
It outlines the final set of rules for the WDQS graph split
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_graph_split/Rules>
.
- Programming Languages ranked by Sitelinks in Wikidata
<https://programminglanguages.info/sitelinks-ranking/>
*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:
- showrunner <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12795>
(person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a
television
show)
- External identifiers:Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12784>, Orthoptera Species
File taxon ID (new)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12785>, Flown
From the Nest person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12786>, Online Swahili -
English Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12787>,
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12788>, A Dictionary of
Zoology ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12789>, A
Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12790>, Seret film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12791>, Limited Liability
Partnership Identification Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12792>, Paleobiology
database reference ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12793>,
PNG School Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12794>, Téarma
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12796>, IMAIOS entity ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12797>, Naturalis Repository
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12798>, English-Spanish
Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12799>, Vikidia
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12800>, thisisbasketball.be
player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12801>,
poblesdecatalunya.cat
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12802>, Oqaasersiorfik ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12803>, MNAHA person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12804>, Greenlandic-English
Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12805>, Te Aka
Māori Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12806>, Tropicos
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12807>, He Pātaka
Kupu ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12808>, vehicle
keeper marking (VKM)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12809>, AllGame
style ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12810>, FC Metz
player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12811>, MoFo ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12812>, itch.io numeric ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12813>, filmas.lv film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12814>, filmas.lv person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12815>, filmas.lv studio ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12816>, Cockroach Species
File taxon ID (new)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12817>, Lygaeoidea
Species File taxon ID (new)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12818>, Phasmida Species
File taxon ID (new)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12819>, Psocodea
Species File taxon ID (new)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12820>, Spanish-English
Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12821>, Norwegian
National Museum producer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12822>, Burgenwelt ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12823>, Pocket Oxford Irish
Dictionary: Irish-English ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12824>, Tesoro della Lingua
Italiana delle Origini ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12825>, Tommaseo-Bellini
Online ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12826>,
danskfodbold.com
player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P12827>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes:
- Music mood
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Music_mood>
(qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording
(musical or not))
- ecosystem type
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ecosystem_type>
(type of ecosystem that the item represents)
- construction time
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/construction_time>
(Construction time refers to the time which was needed to
build a certain
building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially
in former
times)
- Nom dans la langue locale
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nom_dans_la_langue_locale>
()
- YAMAP mountain ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/YAMAP_mountain_ID>
(YAMAP mountain ID)
- coin edge
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/coin_edge>
(Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a
combination of both.
They can also include lettering.)
- ozone depletion potential
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ozone_depletion_potential>
(relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
- External identifiers: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary:
English-French ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pocket_Oxford-Hachette_French_Dictionary:_English-French_ID>,
Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pocket_Oxford_Irish_Dictionary:_English-Irish_ID>,
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Fowler%E2%80%99s_Concise_Dictionary_of_Modern_English_Usage_ID>,
MODI ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MODI_ID>,
código
del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/c%C3%B3digo_del_Inventario_del_Patrimonio_Cultural_de_Castilla-La_Mancha>,
DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DAKA_Greenlandic-Danish_Dictionary_ID>,
DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DAKA_Danish-Greenlandic_Dictionary_ID>,
Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Farhang-i_fars%C4%AB_ba_rus%C4%AB_ID>,
Cineuropa international sales agent ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cineuropa_international_sales_agent_ID>,
Cineuropa production company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cineuropa_production_company_ID>,
Cineuropa distributor ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cineuropa_distributor_ID>,
Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Biodiversity_Information_System_for_Europe_ID>,
Elonet company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Elonet_company_ID>,
Numista issuer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Numista_issuer_ID>,
Douban Personage ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Douban_Personage_ID>,
Canadian Great War Project person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Canadian_Great_War_Project_person_ID>,
stiga.trefik.cz
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/stiga.trefik.cz>,
PMC journal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PMC_journal_ID>,
European Education Thesaurus ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/European_Education_Thesaurus_ID>,
Brezhoneg21 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Brezhoneg21_ID>,
Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives
Canada) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Personnel_Records_of_the_First_World_War_(Library_and_Archives_Canada)_ID>,
Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Canadian_Virtual_War_Memorial_ID>,
Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Federal_Reserve_Subject_Taxonomy_ID>
- 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:
- Tool Registry for Digital Humanities <https://w.wiki/A5pW>
- Operas ordered by First Performance <https://w.wiki/AQna>
- Performing Arts Productions with a Composer property
<https://w.wiki/AQo2>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
- Assoc. Football - Euro 2024
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Association_football/Euro_2024>
- for best practices on UEFA Euro 2024
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15098367> items.
- Bulgarian Elections
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Bulgaria/Elections>
- for describing data related to elections in Bulgaria.
- ARS3D <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_ARS3D> -
statements and properties for an African Red Slip ware 3D artifact data
model.
- WikiProject Highlights:
- (de)Theorie und Praxis in Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Forum#Theorie_und_Praxis_in_Wikidata>
- User:Matthiasb <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Matthiasb> uses
examples of Highway intersection classification on Wikidata of
locations in
and around Berlin to highlight inconsistencies between the data model and
legal classification. By highlighting a considerable number of
differences
in a relatively small geographic area, these comments provide further
context on an earlier discussion within the German Wikipedia community on
integrating Wikidata further into Wikipedia articles.
- Newest database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: Badge Stats
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Badge_statistics> - How are
badges being applied in Wikidata, which items have the most Good or
Featured Articles? Savvy editors can use this to enrich said articles in
their own Wiki.
- Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>:
Mordor <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202886> - A desolate volcanic
plain of nauseous gases and shadows. J.R.R Tolkien's blighted land is this
week's showcase.
- Showcase Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes>: вода
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L189> - A Russian word for a
clear, vitality-giving liquid, of course it's Water.
*Development*
- EntitySchemas: We are preparing for the rollout of the new datatype to
link to EntitySchemas in statements.
- Wikibase REST API:
- We are continuing the work on the route for modifying an Item (
phab:T342993 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342993>)
- We are working on improving errors and error messages in the API
- Query Service UI: We fixed a bug. The example dialog was empty and not
showing any examples (phab:T366871
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366871>)
- We changed the datatype of two Properties to external ID as requested (
phab:T367174 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367174>)
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>.
*Weekly Tasks*
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review>
.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?>
.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php>: Gambling
<https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php>
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?>
in one or two sentences.
- 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>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
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· Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)> · 17:45, 17
June 2024 (UTC)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2024_06_17#c-Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE)-20240617174500>*
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