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Wikidata weekly summary #595

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: AytekUstundag-RoyalMapperBot (Task: Add missing historical figures from royalmapper database)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • WikidataCon 2023, the conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, is taking place on October 28-29, online all around the world and onsite in Taipei. You can now register for the conference.
    • WikiIndaba 2023 Microgrants available for community events!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 29. This event is part of a series where you can gain hands-on experience with Wikidata by working on a diverse library and information science (LIS) dataset. In this fourth session, we'll introduce the Wikimedia PAWS environment for data gathering and processing in your Wikidata projects. We'll focus on web scraping for article data using Python and the Beautiful Soup package for parsing. You'll learn about data models for making your data accessible to both machines and humans. This session will be recorded and shared on the event page. Event page.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Mass-importing games from Steam into Wikidata by User:Nicereddy
  • Papers
    • Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet (A Wikimedia Projects White Paper from the Biodiversity Heritage Library). Jacqueline J. Dearborn
    • "Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives" Numerical perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar numbers. (Cao et al, 2023)
    • Response to Marcin Roszkowski 2023: Modelling doctoral dissertations in Wikidata knowledge graph: Selected issues. Tamsin L. Braisher
  • Press
    • They call it the Barassi Line, defining our footy codes - how fitting that seems today - The Barassi Line has been a focus of my research and has recently been plotted and visualised by Brett Tweedie as part of his Wikidata fellowship.
  • Videos
    • The mess with Wikidata death location and the instance of a location - salgo60
    • Developing a linked data workflow using Wikidata - Will Kent
    • Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia - Kai Labusch
    • From EAD to MARC to Wikidata and back again - Crystal Yragui, Adam Schiff
    • Adventures in Korean Wikidata - Margaret Donald
    • Getting started on Wikidata - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
    • Wiki(su)data #2: Wikidata live editing in Italian - Wikidata in italiano
    • Wikibase as an institutional repository authority file - Michael Lindsey

• Tool of the week
  • User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js is a script that can be used to search an identifier on an external site. It provides a button to search for an identifier as soon as you type it in the property input field. For example, if you type “ORCID”, an icon with a lens will appear, and when you click it, a new tab will open with the ORCID site looking for the name of the researcher. You can then copy the URL and paste it to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Want to play a game? Wikidata:Games has some Wikidata-related ones for you.
  • Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Project submission deadline.
  • Citation.js Toolforge is a service to export citations from Wikidata items in various formats (BibTeX, RIS) and various citations formats (Vancouver, APA, etc)
  • As a next step in the deprecation process of ORES the WMF Machine Learning team will switch the backend of ores.wikimedia.org to ores-legacy so users that have not yet migrated to Lift Wing will be transparently migrated. This change is planned to take place on Monday 25th of September.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech (d/f/m)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
      • ‎chronological designation (stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: source cited in support of a particular statement may not be the same as the publication date or volume)
    • External identifiers: J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, Diktyon ID, RAWG tag ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Demo (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
      • ETCS level (ETCS level of implementation)
      • adoption variant (variant of this loanword with the same origin)
      • Temaportalen ID ()
    • External identifiers: Metacritic game ID, BAN ID, handlingar.se ID, identifiant Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, South African NPO number
  • Query examples:
    • Subclass of blogger (source)
    • List of taxon name as first having been described by Dennis P. Gordon (source)
    • Gallery of wood cuts made before 1600, including file description and the link to the Wikimedia Commons file (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 38, 2023) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Chopin Thematic Catalog Concordance - an effort by members of the Music Library Association (MLA) Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) to create and enhance Wikidata items for Frédéric Chopin's musical works.
    • WikiProject Museum AI projects - aims to map AI projects (including events, datasets) from museums into Wikidata and create a data model for it.

• Development
  • Lexemes: We are fixing an issue that made edit links and styles disappear (phab:T344362)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • We made improvements to the store part of the tool (phab:T335864) and fixed small issues (phab:T344336,, phab:T343344)
    • We worked on making it possible to upload mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
  • We are continuing to migrate tools from ORES to Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
  • We've added Wikifunktions as a new wiki for sitelinks (phab:T342857)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get labels, descriptions and aliases from a Property as well as modify the description of an Item

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:57, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 October 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published

• In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors

• Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"

• Featured content: By your logic,

• Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS

• Poetry: "The Sight"

• Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam

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Уведомление о переводе: WikiWomenCamp 2023

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Крайний срок для перевода этой страницы — 2023-10-19.

It is an information page about the upcoming WikiWomenCamp.

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Уведомление о переводе: Wikimedia Foundation Legal department/Committee appointments/Announcement/Short

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:Hello everyone,

Today I ask for your help translating 105 words.

Although the message seeks an English speaker, we hope to reach a wider audience through translations.

Thank you for your time and ongoing translation efforts.

Xeno (WMF) 16:58, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Мы были бы очень признательны за вашу помощь. Такие переводчики, как вы, помогают сделать сайт «Meta» подлинно многоязычным сообществом.

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Wikidata weekly summary #596

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end after 8 October 2023 12:01 (UTC))
  • New request for comments: MotoGP riders' links (Update the broken links of MotoGP racer ID (P3928))

• Events
  • November 7, 2023, Hannover, Germany - WikiRemembrance: researching and remembering National Socialism - Wikipedia and Wikidata's role in documenting memorial sites.
  • January 12 - 14, 2024, Berlin, Germany (and online) - CFP: Provenance Loves Wiki - A workshop on art history, art science and provenance research in Wikidata/Wikipedia & Wikibase

Ongoing

• • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

This Week

• • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The State of Wikimedia Research 2022 - 2023
  • Papers
    • Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Wikidata Case Study - Zhang et al, 2023
    • Chain-of-Verification reduces hallucination in Large Language Models across a variety of tasks, including list-based questions from Wikidata - Dhuliawala et al, 2023
  • Videos
    • Intro about WikiPathways< showing bits of Wikidata and Scholia
    • Wikidata for Better Health (in French) - Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Sciences SFAX < closing session of "Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning"
  • Notebooks
    • Implementing a parser for a sample Wiki article
    • Artist selection (in French)

• Tool of the week
  • Swiss Archives is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - Michael Gasser (X post)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WikidataCon 2023: first version of the program is out - find out more about the format, registration and scheduled program.
  • The Search Platform / Query Service Team monthly Open Meeting is coming up. Got any Wikidata Query Service questions? Feel free to join!
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is still looking for an Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • demo of (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
    • External identifiers: ‎Codeberg username, ADVN ID, ‎MiMoText ID, BookBrainz series ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, ‎National Library of Albania ID, AARoads Wiki article ID, BAN ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • self-identified name (the name used by an ethnic group to refer to itself)
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify an ethnic group against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts)
      • exception to constraint (lexeme) (lexeme that is an exception to the constraint, qualifier to define a property constraint in combination with P2302)
    • External identifiers: Metacritic numeric game ID, DBIL ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Gematsu game ID, Matilda paper ID, Basketball Bundesliga Teams UUID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, Pinakes IDs, WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most frequent birth places for PTBNP authors (source)
    • University's museum in France (source)
    • 52,153 French words which have both masculine and feminine forms (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject African Literary Metadata - a project dedicated to create and improve Wikidata's coverage of African informal literatures.
    • WikiProject GLAM-BW - a project to connect major collections held by museums in Baden-Württemberg by uploading information on collectors, former collection locations, collecting histories, and objects

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property.
    • We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item.
  • You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions (phab:T342857)
  • We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions and where code changes are needed
  • Lexicographical data:
    • We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer (phab:T322683)
    • If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses (phab:T343979)
  • We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon (phab:T286239)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results (phab:T335864)
    • We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
    • The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled (phab:T343344)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:08, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #597

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Saroj! (see the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Tildebot (Task: Upload about 16,000 AARoads Wiki article ID statements based on reconciliation in OpenRefine)
    • GamerProfilesBot (Task: Regularly update existing video games with the GamerProfiles game ID sourced from GamerProfiles.com)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. 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.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 13, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The fifth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually adding authors and publishers from our bibliography into Wikidata. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
    • Wikidata's 11th birthday is around the corner, on October 29th! Discover how you can prepare and present a gift to the community and organize a local birthday celebration.
    • New round open HDI course on Knowledge Graphs. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Sign up enrol here.
    • Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. An online event dedicated to our data modelling challenges. You can already submit a session or ideas.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #112, Dogs (Challenge started on 2023-10-09 12:01:19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Connecting They Work For You to Wikidata by Chris Hanretty
    • Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate by Prosperosity & Giantflightlessbirds
    • These are the top 10 most famous musicians of all time, according to MIT, by Hannah Murdock
    • COVID-19 Wikipedia pageview spikes, 2019-2022 < Wikipedia pageviews spikes using Wikidata as a source for determining page titles for topics across languages. By Addshore
  • Papers
    • Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization by Jonathan Gabel Christiansen, Mathias Lykke Gammelgaard, and Anders Søgaard
  • Press
    • Is AI lying to us? These researchers built an LLM lie detector of sorts to find out - Tiernan Ray, ZDNET ("Step one is to come up with a list of over 20,000 questions and known answers, drawn from sources such as Wikidata, for which the large language model, in this case, OpenAI's GPT-3.5, can be reliably expected to provide the correct answer.")
  • Videos
    • Graphic Possibilities 50 States of Comics Wikidata Tutorial < discusses data modeling, notability, cultural importance of Comic books and how to add them to Wikidata. By Kate Topham
    • Linking cultural heritage data in practice < discusses interlinking diverse museum data between Sweden’s National Museum and National Historical Museums and Wikidata.
    • Data Scraping, Gathering & Annotation (in Ukrainian VO, English text) < lecture on data gathering, Wikidata, SPARQL and structured data from Ukrainian Catholic University
    • Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) < adding a link in Wikidata between work and the edition, and beyond.
    • Proposal and creation of properties (in French) by VIGNERON < Exploring the property creation process on Wikidata.
    • Wikidata: first pragmatic approach - Ismael Olea - OpenSouthCode 2023 < an introduction to Wikidata - the objective of this talk is for the public to leave amazed and addicted to Wikidata.

• Tool of the week
  • https://aletheiafact.org <- is a new fact-checking website using Wikidata for people/concept identification. The website allows users to contribute to fact-checking claims made by public figures, such as politicians, celebrities, and influencers.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: BAN ID, Metacritic game ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, ‎Gematsu game ID, Encyclociné ID, DBIL ID, Pinakes country ID, Pinakes city ID, Pinakes institution ID, Pinakes fonds ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux object ID, Aparat channel ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • self-identified name (the name by which a group of humans refers to itself)
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts)
      • fonds ()
    • External identifiers: WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID, SBL player ID, identificador Qué series ver, Steam Workshop file ID, Find my School ID, Fichier des ecclésiastiques ID, Walmart product ID, Open Library publisher ID, kihondōshi handbook ID, OzBargain tag, OzBargain brand, ELSST Thesaurus ID, Gematsu company ID, Valve Developer Community article ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, Illinois State Parks ID, Flixy.dk emne ID
  • Query examples:
    • Accused witches in Scotland accused of shapeshifting(source)
    • Argentinian national team football players that participating in 3 matches or bellow (source)
    • List of people who are in Art Looting Investigation Unit red flag list (source)
    • Main Subject bubble chart of Articles in Journals with AJOL ID, published in Ghana, about diseases (source: @espejolento)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We worked on the new routes for PATCHing Property and Item aliases as well as PUTing Property labels and descriptions (phab:T342982, phab:T337371, phab:T337371, phab:T348150)
  • We are continuing to work on fixing an issue with Lexeme pages missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
  • We’re adding some missing license notes to some javascript UI interfaces (phab:343998, phab:T343999)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on supporting mismatches for data that is stored in qualifiers (phab:T313467)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 16:33, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 7 • September 2023

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In This Issue

• Inauguration of the Kent Wiki Club at the Wikimania 2023 Conference
• Letter Magic: Supercharging Your WikiEducation Programs
• Réseau @pprendre (Learning Network) : The Initiative for Educational Change in Francophone West Africa
• WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique closes its 5th edition with 13 winning schools
• WikiConecta: connecting Brazilian university professors and Wikimedia
• Wikimedia Germany launches interactive event series Open Source AI in Education

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This Month in GLAM: September 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue IX, September 2023 Headlines Argentina report: Disseminating open culture Brazil report: Amazonia on Wiki Colombia report: Wikidata and the editing of Ibero-American scientific journals France report: Celebrating Rugby Herstory and History in Toulouse; Les Lorraines sans pages India report: Wikimedia Commons Contest connects Pune citizens with the rivers Mula & Mutha Italy report: 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large Poland report: GLAM-Wiki educational activities Portugal report: With multiple events, September was a busy month for Wikimedia Portugal Sweden report: Wikipedia in education; Continuation at Swedish folk high schools; Wikipedians at the Bookfair UK report: A new WIR and a very old book USA report: Wikimedia New York City Election 2023; San Diego/September 2023; Climate Change and Food Safety Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine and Wikimedia Commons: train the trainer course participants and two surveys Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: European photo contest finalists, Local Contexts Wikiproject at GLAMhack WMF GLAM report: Wikisource Loves Manuscripts, ICOM outreach, Flickr Foundation partnership, OpenRefine adoption, new sources in The Wikipedia Library, Image Description Month events, and the GLAM Wiki Conference Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Уведомление о переводе: Wikimedia Foundation elections/2024/Announcement/Rules package review - short

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Wikidata weekly summary #598

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries 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
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. 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! You can also check the program, prepare a present for the Wikidata birthday, and join or organize a satellite event with your local community.
    • Wikidata Day NYC '23 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 has a session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov., taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.
    • Wikidata Days: WM-Peru (in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata, OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL.
    • Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course 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". October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple (Challenge started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41)
  • Past Week:
    • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs has ended. Did you contribute?
    • Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata by Vogel & Binnig.
  • Press: 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 (in French), by Nicolas VIGNERON.
    • Drag'n'Drop Gadget <-- 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 (in French) <-- a comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their Wikidata-items.
    • Introduction & Overview of Wikidata (in Spanish), by Ismail Olea.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali and 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 (in French)
    • What's 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) by 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, LSG code, SEC code).
  • 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:
    • General datatypes:
      • ‎WHO Aware Classification (antibiotic classification according to the World Health Organization)
      • ‎self-identified name (name by which a group of humans refers to itself (endonym))
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans as opposed to their self-determination)
    • External identifiers: FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID, Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID, MUSE book ID, ‎Game Jolt ID, Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français ID, ‎ProductReview ID, ‎Acclaimed Music album ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, SlackBuilds package, Metacritic numeric game ID, Metacritic publication ID, Metacritic company ID, StopGame series ID, Steam Workshop mod ID, California State Park ID, ‎Find my School ID, WikiKids ID, SBL player ID, Open Library publisher ID, DBpia article ID, ‎Gematsu company ID, ‎Valve Developer Community article ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • 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 ()
    • External identifiers: numéro de licence d'un joueur de la FFTT, Rahlfs Number, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Kinobox ID, GNU Savannah project, Indie DB company ID, Mod DB company ID, Catenae Catalogue, GameBrew ID, JLPGA player ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of lighthouses in France (source)
    • Which academic journals publish the most International Space Station Research? (graph) (source)
    • Tamil Lexemes missing Item for this sense statements (source)
    • People with no country of citizenship having Norwegian names (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Catalan creators - a project for documenting creators born or active in the Catalan speaking territories
    • 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

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property (phab:T342982, phab:T337371)
    • Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property (phab:T342979)
    • Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property (phab:T348150)
  • Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
  • Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) 17:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?

• In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing

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• Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it

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Wikidata weekly summary #599

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Hjart (RfP scheduled to end after 26 October 2023 11:20 UTC)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour, Q4 2023
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #114: Cars (Challenge started on 2023-10-23 12:01:27)
  • Upcoming:
    • How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world < organised by WikiEdu, happening today, Oct. 23.
    • Edit-A-Thon for LGBTQ+ History Month < Binghamton University Library, New York, Oct. 25th. Help make visible the important contributions of queer figures.
    • Bridging Art Archive to the Wikidata Ecosystem < a guest lecture from Joyce Chen at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship '23, Oct. 27, via Zoom.
    • Wikidata Birthday Edit-A-Thon (Albanian) < Albanian language Wikimedians celebrate Wikidata's Birthday with a 2-day event (Oct. 28 - 29, 2023) near the "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Elbasan.
    • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 23, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover batch creating items using OpenRefine.This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the Event page
    • 4th Wikidata Workshop as part of the International Semantic Web Conference. 7th Nov., Athens, Greece.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Final Report of the Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning Project funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund.
  • Videos
    • Let's Connect Learning Clinic #2: Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments < Learn how to run SPARQL queries, create Listeria lists, and structure data on commons for Wiki Loves Monuments and other WikiLoves campaigns, provided by Wikimedia Sweden. Missed Clinic #1? Find it here.
    • Live Editing #110 < Develop your SPARQL query-building skills in this follow-along session.
    • Tutorial on Wikidata for or WikiConnect course (in Portuguese) <-- Explaining the Wiki Movimento Brasil's WikiConecta Wikidata course. The course entails Understanding what Wikidata is and its operating logic, Learning the basics of editing and recovering data, and Understanding why and how to use Wikidata with your students.
    • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit:
      • MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
      • MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.

• Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/annas archive.js is a userscript that automatically links to Anna's Archive from Wikidata items for books and research articles, for title, DOI, ISBN, etc. so that people can easily get access to them.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is a new update relative to the Wikidata Query Service scaling of the backend, that explains how the team will experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs.
  • Mismatch Finder tool improvements: In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • ‎fonds (archival fonds (part of a collection) which an item belongs to)
      • parent form of an active substance (parent form of a chemical entity (e.g. a salt) used as an active substance in pharmaceutical products)
      • ‎Red List of South African Plants conservation status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the South African National Biodiversity Institute)
      • Parpulov group (class of similar manuscripts with Catenae as assigned by Georgi Parpulov)
    • External identifiers: ‎DfE group UID, Kinobox film ID, Kinobox person ID, FloraVeg.EU taxon ID, DBpia author ID, ‎Mod DB company ID, ‎GameBrew ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, ‎RKDexcerpts ID, ELSST Thesaurus ID (Version 4 - 2023), JLPSA player ID, ‎Catenae Catalogue ID, ‎IGI Global author ID, ‎Pandit Project work ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID, Flora of New Jersey Project atlas ID, ‎GNU Savannah project ID, ‎Rahlfs number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • used by practitioners of (item used by a practitioner of another item)
      • Plant Illustrations taxon ID (URL for a taxon on the Plant Illustrations website)
      • Art Platform Japan ID (identifier in {{Q|123139107}} (Japanese & English))
    • External identifiers: IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code, Flickr Photo ID, North Rhine-Westphalian school ID, identifiant d'un membre de l'Académie de Stanislas, Bantumen Powerlist 100, identifiant Repairs, Legends Tour ID, Radio Paradise song ID, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID, Cycling Archives race ID, Gale ACID, ID osoby Medvik, HBL topic ID, National Humanities Center Fellow ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of recipients of the Nazi Germany Iron Cross
    • Burial place of Swedish Prime Ministers
    • List of cathedrals around the world with its height (source)
    • Population of Check villages with rivers flowing through them (source)
    • Ships with multiple operators that do not have multiple official names (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects
    • WikiProject Photography in Finland - a project for photography in Finland, including photographers, studios and other related items
    • WikiProject Celtic Music - a project for collecting Celtic tunes

• Development
  • We are preparing for WikidataCon and the Data Modelling Days.
  • We are looking more into where Wikibase needs to be adapted to the upcoming IP Masking changes.
  • We added a notification about the license to all edits to labels, descriptions and aliases that was missing still (phab:T343998) The same for Lexemes is coming next (phab:T343999)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:07, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

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