Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • OpeninfoBot - Task: Importing financial data (assets, equity, revenue, EBIT, net profit) from openinfo.uz to entries on public Uzbek companies in Wikidata.
  • IntegrationBot - Task: retrieve information from Wikidata and contribute data back

Events

• It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of theCoolest Tool Award! To nominate,follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled atWikimania 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:Wikimedia begins mapping of Anambra MDAs, streets, markets on Wikidata - The Wikimedia Anambra Network and the Anambra State ICT Agency are collaborating on a project to map ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs), streets, and markets in Anambra State on Wikidata.
• Papers
  • Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata
  • Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata +AI audio abstract

Tool of the week

• Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন), a tool listing words/phrases in different language catalogs and allowing users to match the entries in those catalogs to existing Wikidata lexemes or to create new lexemes based on those entries.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• It's not too late to join the Wikidata Open Online Course, open from April 22 to May 31! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here:Wikidata:Open Online Course
• There isa new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. Anew proposal for the split has also been published, feedback will be open until May 15th 2024.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• General datatypes:
  • Imagehash difference hash (hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical)
  • image of construction (image showing the building/object/work under construction)
  • derived from base unit (the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from)
  • International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations)
  • RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
  • ‎API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
  • leaf morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
  • ‎creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions)
  • beneficial owner (natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation)
  • official server list URL (website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software)
  • EBITDA (accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted)
  • date popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception)
  • number of accepted contributions (number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference)
  • electoral symbol (symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots)
  • authorised capital (maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders)
  • number of submissions (number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference)
  • follows spelling pattern (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
• Newest External identifiers:‎ECF rating code,CalPhotos taxon ID,TMDB season ID,TMDB episode ID,ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID,SteamGridDB ID,Amazon Luna game ID,‎Triton Poker player ID,Traineras rower ID,StatMuse Premier League player ID,AllSkaters person ID,DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID,IsThereAnyDeal ID,Algerian National Library ID,Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID,Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID,Brazilian Football Confederation player ID,BeSoccer player ID,A New Nation Votes ID,istina.msu.ru person ID,KupiGolos game ID,Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID,Oxford Reference overview ID,Theatrical Index company ID,Touhou Wiki ID,Traineras club ID,Traineras competition ID,Slovenian organization number,Featherbase ID,TUESPWiki ID,Theatrical Index theatre ID,Supreme Court of Canada case number,SNS Info Saúde,OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID,National Library of Uruguay authority ID,museum-digital tag ID,museum-digital person ID,government.ru person ID,arch2.iofe.center person ID,Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID,China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID,BFO class ID,identifiant Sculpturo,Michigan Historical Marker ID,Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID,droitne.ch author ID,Statbunker player ID,ffspb.org player ID,beachsoccer.com team ID,‎WildTangent Games ID,HCERES organisation ID,az.lib.ru author ID,Hanslick Online person ID,ID of member of the Chambre des députés,Algerian National Statistics Office ID,mosff.ru staff ID,PeerTube channel address,WDF player ID,‎The Spriters Resource game ID,‎Cemu Wiki article ID,‎Génération Nintendo game ID,British Comedy Guide person ID,The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID,Zillow zpid,Aragonario ID (6th version),The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID,Algerian trademark number ID,Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID,‎Delisted Games ID,Algerian commune ID,The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID,The Islamic World: Past and Present ID,The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID,pressball.by football manager ID,Duden sense ID,GovTrack person ID,PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID,Kritikanstvo game ID,Kritikanstvo publication ID,Kritikanstvo critic ID,myabandonware.com game ID,FürthWiki article ID,IAFD film UUID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • WEM facility code ()
  • Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''representation type''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
  • is fake of (the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for)
  • image decay (image decay suffered by an old photograph)
  • risk group (risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual)
  • tartan image (image of the item's tartan)
  • tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
  • hasFeldpostNumber (Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars.)
  • total deposits (total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution)
  • Total loans (total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution)
  • source of transfer & destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender])
  • type of deterioration (to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc.)
  • rythme narratif (video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions)
  • event role (item that describes a role in an event class)
  • Patent Abstract (Abstract of the patent)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:TMDB award IDs,Algerian National Assembly ID,CPV profile ID,SPV profile ID,The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID,YList ID,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID,Brill ID,Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID,case number (mainland China),English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID,Rugby Romania ID,Scottish Register of Tartans ID,A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID,NICE Paintings ID,AccessAble venue ID,The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ID,Asociation Espanola de Amigos de los Castillos ID,Pitchbook Company Profile,Cbonds Company Profile,Sonic Retro article ID,New Oxford American Dictionary ID,Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID,identifiant Encyklopedia Medyków Powstania Warszawskiego,Algerian district ID,The Spriters Resource platform ID,The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam ID,The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics ID,PEGI game ID,Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person id,The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture ID,Flora Croatica Database taxon ID,Algerian province ID,more kaino.kotus.fi identifiers,World Encyclopedia ID,Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID,Gentoo Guru ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • World map of subway maps
  • View of the associative network of artists to societies (source)
  • Top album languages found on Wikidata right nowsource
• NewestWikiProjects:
  • WikiProject NZThesisProject Wikidata library training Christchurch 2024 - The aim is to organize an event to show participants how adding New Zealand collections to Wikidata can be useful, and to train participants to improve Wikidata Items so that tools such as Scholia, which builds academic profiles, will be demonstrated.
  • WikiProject Islam - Aims to collaborate on Islam-related topics
  • WikiProject Algerian History - The goal of this project is to ensure the completeness of the history of Algeria (Q473761) during its historic period to modern time in Wikidata.
• WikiProject Highlights:WikiProject India/General Elections 2024 task force - is an initiative to create and up-to-date information related to general election (Q1076105) in India (Q668).
• Newestdatabase reports:Merge candidates based on same sitelink name
• Showcase Items:Bertus Aafjes (Q353003) - Dutch poet and writer (1914–1993)
• Showcase Lexemes:dismesso (L1200000) - "discontinued/disused" in Italian

Development

• mul language code: We are continuing the roll-out. It is now available onhttps://test.wikidata.org andhttps://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org.
• REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the following:
  • Create an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
  • Modify data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
• EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
• Leveling Up Days: We are wrapping up the event.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge: Other objects and tools
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Events

• Nubuke Wikidata Workshop - Sat. 27 April 1100 - 1400 GMT at the Nubuke Foundation, Lome Close Accra, Ghana.
• There's still time for nominating your favorite tool in theCoolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners unveiled at Wikimania 2024
• Coordinate Me 2024 - an international Wikidata competition around content with geodata. The competition starts on 1 May 2024 and ends on 31 May 2024.
• Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is just around the corner, taking place in Tallinn, Estonia from 02 - 06 May. We hope there will be lots of Wikidata hacking projects worked on.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Diff Blog: Museums around the world, according to Wikidata - Wikimedia's own blog, Diff, has this interesting graphic showing museums around the world. To explore further, check theWikidata Query.
• Papers
  • Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata - This paper documents the experiences mapping PanglaoDB's free text cell types and genes i Wikidata to improve reusability and fairness. By Tiago Lubiana & João Vitor F. Cavalcante.
  • Exploring Wikidata for Social Science Research (Portugese) - Highlights the relevance of open resources such as Wikidata for the Social Sciences, providing access to information that facilitates research in the social, economic and cultural areas. By Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado.
  • Integrating Wikidata with Data Sleuthing Techniques For Enhanced Knowledge Discovery of Hidden Figures - this is a training resource to find and enrich Items on Natural History collector's.
• Videos
  • The Data Mine: Wikimedia Content Quality 2024 - a short video on how to find mismatched data between Wikidata on other data sources.
  • MWCon Spring 2024 (Day 3) - This session of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference explores the different extensions you can use with Wikibase. See the rest of theprogram here
  • Getting Started with OpenRefine - Introducing OpenRefine, importing data, filtering and faceting and bulk editing, as well as how to connect to other data sources for reconciling your data. By Margaret Heller & Diana Rusch.
  • A Decade of Scholarly Research on Open Knowledge Graphs - Houcemeddine Turki host this presentation of the LREC-COLING 2024's findings. You canread the full paper here.
  • Beyond Wikidata: building a universal knowledge graph with MediaWiki and Wikibase - James Hare explores Wikibase as a focused alternative to creating a knowledge graph around a specific theme or project.

Tool of the week

• Antvaset's Wikidata Ontology explorer - explore Wikidata's Ontology in this top-down tree explorer. By Anton Vasetenkov.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland closed their Call for Software Contributions! Discover theproject proposals submitted and shareyour feedback.
• Release of Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.7WMDE .18 - minor security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.7
• OpenRefine 3.8.0 was released

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newestproperties:
  • General datatypes:
    • RTE substation ID (identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France)
    • ‎API formatter URL (URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data)
    • leaf morphology (characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves)
    • ‎creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions)
    • beneficial owner (natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation)
    • official server list URL (website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software)
    • EBITDA (accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted)
    • date popularized (point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception)
    • number of accepted contributions (number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference)
    • electoral symbol (symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots)
    • authorised capital (maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders)
    • number of submissions (number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference)
    • follows spelling pattern (spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form)
    • risk group (risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual)
    • timetable/schedule URL (link to the timetable or the schedule (in PDF, HTML, image format) for the given service or the event schedule. The current timetable/schedule should have preferred rank.)
    • deterioration (to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc.)
  • External identifiers:Oxford Reference overview ID,Theatrical Index company ID,Touhou Wiki ID,Traineras club ID,Traineras competition ID,Slovenian organization number,Featherbase ID,TUESPWiki ID,Theatrical Index theatre ID,Supreme Court of Canada case number,SNS Info Saúde,OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID,National Library of Uruguay authority ID,museum-digital tag ID,museum-digital person ID,government.ru person ID,arch2.iofe.center person ID,Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID,China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID,BFO class ID,identifiant Sculpturo,Michigan Historical Marker ID,Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID,droitne.ch author ID,Statbunker player ID,ffspb.org player ID,beachsoccer.com team ID,‎WildTangent Games ID,HCERES organisation ID,az.lib.ru author ID,Hanslick Online person ID,ID of member of the Chambre des députés,Algerian National Statistics Office ID,mosff.ru staff ID,PeerTube channel address,WDF player ID,‎The Spriters Resource game ID,‎Cemu Wiki article ID,‎Génération Nintendo game ID,British Comedy Guide person ID,The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID,Zillow zpid,Aragonario ID (6th version),The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID,Algerian trademark number ID,Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID,‎Delisted Games ID,Algerian commune ID,The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID,The Islamic World: Past and Present ID,The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID,pressball.by football manager ID,Duden sense ID,GovTrack person ID,PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID,Kritikanstvo game ID,Kritikanstvo publication ID,Kritikanstvo critic ID,myabandonware.com game ID,FürthWiki article ID,IAFD film UUID,A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID,Rugby Romania ID,Scottish Register of Tartans ID,Asociation Espanola de Amigos de los Castillos ID,NICE Paintings ID,Sonic Retro article ID,Algerian district ID,English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID,The Spriters Resource platform ID,Encyklopedia Medyków Powstania Warszawskiego ID,Cerist.dz CCDZ ID,Flora Croatica Database taxon ID,Quadrinhopédia artist ID,SPV profile ID,CPV profile ID,Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID,The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ID,Hindawi Foundation book ID,The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID,Pennsylvania State Senate ID,Vanhan kirjasuomen sanakirja ID,Suomi–ruotsi-suursanakirja ID,‎FilmVandaag ID
• Newproperty proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • WEM facility code ()
    • Type of representation (Property to indicate the '''representation type''' as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image).)
    • is fake of (the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for)
    • tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
    • hasFeldpostNumber (Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars.)
    • total deposits (total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution)
    • Total loans (total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution)
    • source of transfer & destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender])
    • rythme narratif (video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions)
    • event role (item that describes a role in an event class)
    • Patent Abstract (Abstract of the patent)
    • category for this time deaths (category item for people who died in this time)
    • category for this time births (category item for people who born in this time)
    • is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
    • founder of (Organization, religion, or place that was founded or co-founded by subject. Inverse of P112.)
    • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
    • identifiant Inventaire du patrimoine immobilier culturel ()
  • External identifiers:TMDB award IDs,Algerian National Assembly ID,YList ID,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID,Brill ID,Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID,case number (mainland China),AccessAble venue ID,Pitchbook Company Profile,Cbonds Company Profile,New Oxford American Dictionary ID,The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam ID,The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics ID,PEGI game ID,Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person id,The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture ID,Algerian province ID,World Encyclopedia ID,Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID,Gentoo Guru ID,Oxford University Press ID,FilmVandaag ID,FBW-Kennung,Duden node ID,Cambridge University Press ID,Taylor & Francis book ID,AbeBooks book ID,COBISS ID,Dhliz person ID,LGD Block Code,Edinburgh University Press ID,BD Gest' work ID,Gentoo Wiki ID,Barnes & Noble ID,Vanguard Books ID,Douban Personage ID,De Gruyter ID,Thriftbooks ID,eBay item,numéro d'établissement d'une ICPE,Columbia University Press ID,Kōmako id
• Deleted properties:

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Two or more statements on a certain property - generates a list of all elements where there are two or more statements on a certain property (without deprecated statements).
  • Explore data about Tabakalera participants - find biographical information of film director's that have participate din the San Sebastian Film Festival Tabalakera cultural centre.
  • Mothers on Wikidata - explore the mother and child relationships of Wikidata items.
  • Presidents of French Universities - curious about which individuals have presided at French Universities and Higher education institutions? This query explores that!
• Showcase Items:Jerzy Spława-Neyman - A polish Statistician, the first to introduce a confidence interval to statistical hypothesis testing.
• Showcase Lexemes:Pfeil (DE) - Arrow, part of theWeekly Lexeme Challenge.

Development

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

Weekly 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 aShowcase item.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Browse9ja Bot - Task: Automated data retrieval focusing on Nigerian / African-based information, integrating a chatbot, NLP API, knowledge graph, and machine learning model.
  • DhlizBot - Task: add Dhliz ID (P12696) for persons/films/TV series that exist in Dhliz (Q125594802) database.
  • AmeisenBot 2 - Task: Working on bot requests at WD:RBOT usingQuickStatements.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure, byBluerasberry. "The split will create a WikiCite graph separate from the main Wikidata graph. The main Wikidata graph will retain content of broader interest, including items for authors, journals, publishers, and anything with a page in a Wikimedia project."
  • Learnings from AI and Heritage inclusive Metadata requires more than erasing stereotyping terms - this article explores the presence of contentious terms in Wikidata labels.
  • Reconciling Shira: Wikibase Cloud and OpenRefine - as part of the Shira project to document and digitise Penn University's Jewish music collections, the author gives a step-by-step process on installing OpenRefine for Wikibase Cloud instances.
• Papers
  • Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo,Storia della collaborazione tra Wikidata e le biblioteche della Rete URBE nel controllo di autorità. Abstract: "The contribution draws a history of the presence of the identifiers of the authority records of theURBE network libraries in Wikidata, and of the collaboration that has evolved since 2020 between the Wikidata community and the cataloguers of the URBE network libraries, relating to the harmonisation of these authority records with Wikidata and the improvement of the quality of the respective data. The first part of the contribution traces the main stages of collaboration in chronological order, while the second part of the contribution presents the main areas in which the collaboration materialises (or can materialise) in the daily authority work carried out by cataloguers in theme-based groupings".
  • Using Open Data to Automatically Generate Localized Analogies. Numerical analogies that translate unfamiliar measurements into familiar reference objects (e.g., “275k sq miles is roughly as large as Texas”). By "Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake M. Hofman"
• Videos
  • ¿Cómo contribuir masivamente a Wikidata con OpenRefine? (Spanish) - As part of the Coordinate Me Campaign, this is a review of the OpenRefine tool for contributing large sets of data to Wikidata.
  • Patrimoine spolié : le projet ProvEnhance (French) - A seminae on the looted heritage project on the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. At timestamp: 55:02 onwards, Wikibase is discussed as a platform to host the Looted Heritage and Provenance research project.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata GenderStats measures gender bias at the user level by computing stats on created items.
• Created items : a list of items created by a user with labels. This not new but this has been repaired.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland job opening:Project Manager Machine Learning, Wikidata. Application deadline: Apply until 26.05.2024

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • population by native language (native language population of a place)
  • tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
  • Newest External identifiers:‎FilmVandaag ID,FBW ID,Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID,Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID,PitchBook profile ID,New Oxford American Dictionary ID,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID,‎Gentoo Wiki article ID,Dhliz ID,RAG ID,‎The Sounds Resource game ID,The Lost Media Wiki page ID,Cbonds company profile,Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID,Kōmako author ID,urban area census code,The Law Dictionary entry,CDC Stacks ID,Authority file of the Iraqi Authors,Gentoo GURU package ID,TheLegacy game ID,Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID,Grand Theft Wiki ID,Folkets lexikon ID,Pushkin Museum artist ID,Virtual Russian Museum artist ID,LGD Block Code,Australian Oxford Dictionary ID,ICPE establishment ID,case number (mainland China),Lille norske leksikon ID,WiiG.de developer ID,WiiG.de publisher ID,The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID,Azerbaijani National Assembly ID,Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID,‎GOG product ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
  • located in the Islamic territorial entity (the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity.)
  • address of addressee (address of the address e.g. on a postcard)
  • TheaterEncyclopedie ID (An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie)
  • relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (relation to the SDGs)
  • taxon synonym of (taxon item (considered a preferred name according to a given reference) of which this taxon name is a synonym - the new property will be the inverse property of {{P|1420}})
• New External identifier property proposals to review:last appearance,Perlego ID,Bokkilden ID,Wardah Books ID,Palula dictionary ID,NLR editions,glubinka.by,Transfermarkt competition ID,Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID,Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID,The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID,Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID,The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID,Yandex.Music track ID,Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID,promodj album ID,The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID,The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID,Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID,person ID in MNAHA,New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID,Archnet authority ID,Nintendo Life game ID,Push Square game ID,Pure Xbox game ID,Global Egyptian Museum ID,TheLegacy company ID,Historic Synagogues of Europe ID,IAFD actor UUID,Database of Hungarian archaeology ID,The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID,Zoraptera Species File taxon ID,Dermaptera Species File taxon ID,Plecoptera Species File taxon ID,Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID,Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID,Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID,vehicle keeper marking / VKM,Oxford Dictionary of English ID,Embioptera Species File taxon ID,Isoptera Species File taxon ID,Aphid Species File taxon ID,Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID,LGD Subdistrict Code,PLC (Primary Location Code),Sinhala Cinema Database ID,LGD District Code,LGD Village Code,LGD State or UT Code,Slovenski etymološki slovar ID,Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik,Bundes-Klinik-Atlas Hospital ID,Jedipedia.net ID,JJM Habitation id,McDonald's US product,Justapedia,Atarimuseum ID,PNG School Code

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • A map with locations of Pablo Picasso works - (source)
  • Descendants of King Antso III (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:
  • MELA on Palestine - The Wiki project page for the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) work group on Palestine.
  • India Aviation - A usergroup focused on airports in India
• Newestdatabase reports:Complex constraint violations (list of Properties)
• Showcase Items:12 Angry Men (Q2345) - 1957 drama film by Sidney Lumet
• Showcase Lexemes:panneband (L1223420) - means "headband" in Nynorsk

Development

• We have completed the preparation work to migrate the Query Builder's front end from Wikit to Codex (phab:T360096)
• We also continued work on the EntitySchema data type and refining the CI flow for EntitySchemas (phab:T362000)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge:
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:ELMCIPBot - Task: Import records fromELMCIP Knowledge Base (Q113705072) as part of the Wikidata WikiProjectDigital Narratives
• New request for oversight:KonstantinaG07 - RfP scheduled to end 8 June 2024 16:09 (UTC)

Events

• Next Linked Data for LibrariesLD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 28, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 28 May, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on the LCCN Wikidata Bot with Mary Campany, Steven Folsom, and Matt Miller.2024-05-28: Wikidata Affinity Group Call Agenda
• Coordinate Me 2024 (Spanish): An international Wikidata competition around geolocation content, from towns, hospitals, public art and natural monuments to improve or create Wikidata elements with a coordinate location (P625) in focus countries. Contest ends 31 May 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Using Wikidata (and Mapbox) to make a UNESCO World Heritage Sites map Stefan Bohacek documents a follow and code along project to make a map displaying UNESCO World Heritage sites on a Mapbox, fuelled by Wikidata.
  • Libraries using Wikidata: 11 examples - following on from the previouspost, this Diff blog highlights 11 projects where Libraries and Librarians are using Wikidata in their projects.
  • Use SPARQL to query for movies, then watch them Bob DuCharme inspired byWikiFlix demonstrates how SPARQL queries can be used to find YouTube-hosted media content entered in Wikidata to curate your next Watchlist.
  • Enhancing KG's with LLM's: A novel approach to keyword extraction and synonym merging. This blog post shows an example of using a Wikidata subgraph with AI to discover new connections and relationships.
• Papers
  • RQSS: Referencing Quality Scoring System for Wikidata - The authors show how RQSS framework can be applied to Wikidata subsets to qualify Reference Quality. By S. Beghaeiraveri, A.Gray & F. McNeill.
  • Automatisierte semantische Anreicherung von historischen Texten: Erkennung und Verknüpfung von Entitäten mit Wikidata und Wikipedia (German) - The paper discusses using AI and Wikipedia and Wikidata as Knowledge Graphs to identify, classify and link entities from the Berlin State Library.
  • ParaNames 1.0: Creating an Entity Name Corpus for 400+ Languages Using Wikidata - ParaNames is a multilingual parallel name resource consisting of 140 million names spanning over 400 languages. Names are provided for 16.8 million entities, and each entity is mapped from a complex type hierarchy to a standard type (PER/LOC/ORG). Using Wikidata as a source, the authors created the largest resource of this type to date.
• Videos
  • FOSSGIS 2024 Das Zusammenspiel von Wikidata, Wikipedia und OpenStreetMap (German) - A presentation of ​​what tags are present in OpenStreetMap that connects to Wikidata and Wikipedia.
  • IWD Inspire Inclusion Campaign English Wikidata Training - Rhoda James gives an introduction to Wikidata, its principles and common misconceptions and how to begin editing.

Tool of the week

• Wikipedia:WE-Framework: WE-Framework is a tool developed by Sergey Vladimirov that allows editing related Wikidata elements in an article without having to go to Wikidata. When you save your Wikidata edit, it will reference the utility in the edit summary.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for amachine learning project manager to make it easier to use Wikidata's data in machine learning settings.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • category for births in this time period (category item for people who born in this time period)
  • category for deaths in this time period (category item for people who died in this time period)
  • representation type (property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items)
  • source of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity)
  • destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process)
  • LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID (ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it)
  • population by native language (native language population of a place)
  • tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
• Newest External identifiers:‎FilmVandaag ID,FBW ID,Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID,Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID,PitchBook profile ID,New Oxford American Dictionary ID,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID,‎Gentoo Wiki article ID,Dhliz ID,RAG ID,‎The Sounds Resource game ID,The Lost Media Wiki page ID,Cbonds company profile,Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID,Kōmako author ID,urban area census code,The Law Dictionary entry,CDC Stacks ID,Authority file of the Iraqi Authors,Gentoo GURU package ID,TheLegacy game ID,Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID,Grand Theft Wiki ID,Folkets lexikon ID,Pushkin Museum artist ID,Virtual Russian Museum artist ID,LGD Block Code,Australian Oxford Dictionary ID,ICPE establishment ID,case number (mainland China),Lille norske leksikon ID,WiiG.de developer ID,WiiG.de publisher ID,The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID,Azerbaijani National Assembly ID,Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID,‎GOG product ID,Archnet authority ID,Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID,Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID,Archaeological investigations in Hungary ID,Global Egyptian Museum ID,Historic Synagogues of Europe ID,TheLegacy company ID,Nintendo Life game ID,Push Square game ID,Pure Xbox game ID,Palula dictionary ID,Oxford Dictionary of English entry ID,Slovenian Etymological Dictionary ID,‎Jedipedia.net ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
  • located in the Islamic territorial entity (the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity.)
  • address of addressee (address of the address e.g. on a postcard)
  • TheaterEncyclopedie ID (An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie)
  • relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
  • taxon synonym of (taxon item (considered a preferred name according to a given reference) of which this taxon name is a synonym - the new property will be the inverse property of {{P|1420}})
  • Competitor (Competitors in game shows)
  • basionym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a basionym (original name, for botanical and similar items) - inverse property of {{P|566}})
  • land acknowledgement ()
  • protonym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a protonym (original name, for zoological taxa) - inverse property of {{P|1403}})
  • replaced synonym of (taxon item which replaced this taxon name (now only a synonym) - inverse property of {{P|694}})
  • student count by gender (I think there should be a way to document the number of students at a university by their gender, as data for student counts (at least if they come from GENESIS Online - german universities) contain that data divided in male and female students. I think it would make more sense to implement that as a qualifier for {{P|2196}} than implementing it as a new property as that wouldn't make old data obsolete, but also it could interfere with tools that retrieve that data automated and are then confused by having multiple counts at the same time.)
  • has semantic role (item that describes a role in an event class)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Perlego ID,Bokkilden ID,Wardah Books ID,NLR editions,glubinka.by,Transfermarkt competition ID,Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID,Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID,The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID,The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID,Yandex.Music track ID,promodj album ID,The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID,The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID,Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID,person ID in MNAHA,New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID,IAFD actor UUID,The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID,Zoraptera Species File taxon ID,Dermaptera Species File taxon ID,Plecoptera Species File taxon ID,Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID,Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID,Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID,vehicle keeper marking / VKM,Embioptera Species File taxon ID,Isoptera Species File taxon ID,Aphid Species File taxon ID,Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID,LGD Subdistrict Code,PLC (Primary Location Code),Sinhala Cinema Database ID,LGD District Code,LGD Village Code,LGD State or UT Code,Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik,Bundes-Klinik-Atlas Hospital ID,JJM Habitation id,McDonald's US product,Justapedia,Atarimuseum ID,PNG School Code,Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku ID,Garner's Modern American Usage ID,Meurgorf historical dictionary,SNARC ID,milog.co.il entry ID,Green's Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Reference) ID,F.C. Copenhagen player id,Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player id,Milldatabase ID,A Dictionary of Biology ID,Chinese Basketball Association ID,WHO Country Database ID,Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number (LLPIN) in India

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Birthplace of French Heads of State
  • Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube
• NewestWikiProjects:Wikidata:WikiProject Solarpunk - aims to collects Wikidata Items (focus list) and supports theSolarpunk Movement.
• Newestdatabase reports:Items without Labels - explore Wikidata Items that are missing a Label. This list is handy for finding abandoned, incomplete or vandalised Items.
• Showcase Items:Hessischer Rundfunk (Q23565) - German public broadcaster
• Showcase Lexemes:L1221007 - Nynorsk noun, translates to "a spy ring"

Development

• EntitySchemas: We continued work on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas in statements. We focused on the input so it shows the label of the EntitySchema when entering the ID. Search by label and aliases will follow. (phab:T362004)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We looked into how to improve error messages.
  • We wrapped up the route for modifying the data of a Property. (phab:T347394
  • We are nearing the finish line for the route for creating a new Item. (phab:T342990)
  • We are continuing work on the route for modifying an Item. (phab:T342993)
• Developer advocacy: We are collecting content for a new landing page for developers who want to build applications with Wikidata's data.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge:
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

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Discussions

• Open request for adminship:The Squirrel Conspiracy - RfP scheduled to end after 9 June 2024 06:47 (UTC).
• New requests for permissions/Bot:TongcyBot - Task: Linking the Chinese and English Wiktionary, specifically in categories using Template:auto cat, and pages in the Template, Module, Appendix, Reconstruction, and Rhymes namespaces.
• Open request for permissions/Bot:IliasChoumaniBot - Task: Automatic updating of data from JSON files on German scientists.
• Closed request for comments:IP Masking Engagement - The RfC was closed due to inactivity. Discussions are still welcomed on Meta.

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<translate>Events

• Wikidata workshop at the university of Catania, Sicily, Italy, on June 14th.
• Lexicodays 2024, June 28-30, online event dedicated to Lexicographical Data on Wikidata with a focus on languages of Indonesia. Proposals for the program open until June 20th.

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<translate> Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Deploying Wikidatalite into Toolforge - This article explains the deployment process of Wikidatalite into the Toolforge platform. This tool is now available atwdlite.toolforge.org.
  • (fr)Wikidata and the missing data : discussion in French about missing data in Wikidata
  • (fr)Sous-classe ou instance de ? Comprenons nous l'ontologie de Wikidata ?, discussion in French about "Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata"
• Papers
  • Taxonomies and Ontologies in Wikipedia and Wikidata: In-Depth Examination of Knowledge Organization Systems. This paper explores the Knowledge Organisation System (KOS) of Wikipedia, Wikidata and gender-related biases contained within. By M. Centelles & N.Ferran-Ferrer.
• Videos
  • BHL Day 2024 | Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements - talk by Siobhan about her biodiversity work.
  • Contributing to Wikidata - African Library Activism Month - Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi provides a tutorial on the characreristics of Wikidata and how Librarians can contribute.
  • Learning Clinic: Wiktionary & Lexemes on Wikidata - this clinic co-hosted by Taufik Rosman and Sadik Shahadu of Wikimedia User Groups Malaysia and Dagbani respectively.
  • ¿Cómo convertir la edición de Wikidata en un juego? (Spanish) -User:Piracalamina andUser:Jmmuguerza show in this Wikitools how to create a API to add your own themed game to The Distributed Game.
• Miscellaneous
  • Wiquizz a quiz generator based on Wikidata and Query.wikidata.org

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<translate> Tool of the week

• WikiTwister - RoloWiki: Replace the interwiki links of a Wikipedia article with a pop-up card full of useful Wikidata, & Wikidata Quick Dip: Browse the Wikidata properties used by the pages in a category.

</translate><translate> Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata Infobox is nowused by over 5 million Commons categories.
• Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets is a new page where you can propose to turn CSS and JS scripts into gadgets, so that the can be activated from Preferences instead of through user common.css and common.js pages.
• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for aHead of Product Strategy and aSenior Software Engineer.

</translate><translate> Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newestproperties:
  • General datatypes:
    • LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID (ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it)
    • population by native language (native language population of a place)
    • tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
    • taxon synonym of (''(without English description)'')
    • replaced synonym of (taxon item which replaced this taxon name (now only a synonym) - inverse property of replaced synonym (for nom. nov.) (P694))
    • protonym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a protonym (original name, for zoological taxa) - inverse property of original combination)
    • basionym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a basionym (original name, for botanical and similar items) - inverse property of basionym (P566))
  • External identifiers:Dhliz ID,RAG ID,‎The Sounds Resource game ID,The Lost Media Wiki page ID,Cbonds company profile,Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID,Kōmako author ID,urban area census code,The Law Dictionary entry,CDC Stacks ID,Authority file of the Iraqi Authors,Gentoo GURU package ID,TheLegacy game ID,Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID,Grand Theft Wiki ID,Folkets lexikon ID,Pushkin Museum artist ID,Virtual Russian Museum artist ID,LGD Block Code,Australian Oxford Dictionary ID,ICPE establishment ID,WIPO Lex ID,Lille norske leksikon ID,WiiG.de developer ID,WiiG.de publisher ID,The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID,Azerbaijani National Assembly ID,Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID,‎GOG product ID,Archnet authority ID,Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID,Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID,Archaeological investigations in Hungary ID,Global Egyptian Museum ID,Historic Synagogues of Europe ID,TheLegacy company ID,Nintendo Life game ID,Push Square game ID,Pure Xbox game ID,Palula dictionary ID,Oxford Dictionary of English entry ID,Slovenian Etymological Dictionary ID,‎Jedipedia.net ID,Bundes-Klinik-Atlas hospital ID,Atarimuseum ID,Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID,LGD Village Code,LGD District Code,LGD State or UT Code,LGD Subdistrict Code,SNARC ID,Dermaptera Species File taxon ID,Embioptera Species File taxon ID,Isoptera Species File taxon ID,Zoraptera Species File taxon ID,Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur PID,Garner's Modern American Usage ID,Artcena ID,Islamic Art and Architecture ID,Transfermarkt competition ID,Sinhala Cinema artist ID,Sinhala Cinema film ID,Meurgorf identifier,milog.co.il entry ID,Aphid Species File taxon ID,Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID,Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID,Plecoptera Species File taxon ID,Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID,‎Milldatabase ID,New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID,A Dictionary of Biology ID,Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID,IAFD actor UUID,F.C. Copenhagen player id,Norwegian prisoner of war camp ID,Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID,Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik person ID,Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik work ID,Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku ID,PLC (primary location code)
• Newproperty proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
    • is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
    • located in the Islamic territorial entity (the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity.)
    • address of addressee (address of the address e.g. on a postcard)
    • TheaterEncyclopedie ID (An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie)
    • relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
    • student count by gender (I think there should be a way to document the number of students at a university by their gender, as data for student counts (at least if they come from GENESIS Online - german universities) contain that data divided in male and female students. I think it would make more sense to implement that as a qualifier for {{P|2196}} than implementing it as a new property as that wouldn't make old data obsolete, but also it could interfere with tools that retrieve that data automated and are then confused by having multiple counts at the same time.)
    • has semantic role (item that describes a role in an event class)
    • model for (2) (what the subject is a conceptual or scientific model/theory for)
    • Dynasty (A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a monarchy or imperial system but sometimes also appearing in republics. A dynasty can be used to describe the time period in which a person lived, an event happened, a work was created, or a place existed.)
    • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
    • antonomasia (epithet or phrase that takes the place of a proper name)
    • screen size (Size of a display screen as measured along the diagonal)
  • External identifiers:NLR editions,glubinka.by,Cerist journal ID,Soldatregisteret ID,Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID,Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID,The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID,The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID,promodj album ID,The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID,The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID,person ID in MNAHA,vehicle keeper marking / VKM,JJM Habitation id,Justapedia,PNG School Code,Green's Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Reference) ID,Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player id,Chinese Basketball Association ID,WHO Country Database ID,Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number (LLPIN) in India,A Dictionary of Zoology ID,SALDO sense ID,Flown From The Nest person id,Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID,Téarma ID,IMAIOS entity ID,Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID,A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID,Seret film ID,Pocket Oxford American Thesaurus ID,Oxford Paperback Thesaurus ID,Orthoptera Species File taxon ID,CAMRA Experience pub ID,Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID,Paleobiology Database ID for this journal article,Naturalis Repository ID,Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID,He Pātaka Kupu ID,Oqaasersiorfik ID,Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID,poblesdecatalunya.cat identifier,广播电视播出机构许可证编号,Vikidia ID,This Is Basketball player ID
• Deleted properties:

You can comment onall open property proposals!</translate><translate> Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Mountains with a height over 7000m - display on a map. Adjust the P:elevation above sea level to widen or narrow the search.
  • Find Items that share an Identifier - this query has identified a possible duplicate by matching P5696 - Indian Railways Station Code.
  • Who has worked with this Celebrity? - this query looks for co-stars, colleagues and co-actors of Seth Rogen. Adjust this value for other celebrities or professionals.
• Schema examples:Tamkang University location - building and location entities associated with Tamkang University, Taiwan.
• NewestWikiProjects:Timna Valley - a community project on theTimna Valley archaelogical site.
• Newestdatabase reports:Gadget usage statistics - find out which gadgets are used the most and perhaps find something new.
• Showcase Items:Ferdinand Magellan - 15th Century Portugese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Globe (despite his death in the Philippines).
• Showcase Lexemes:Be - The english copular verb that helps express all of existence.

</translate><translate> Development

• EntitySchemas:The new EntitySchema data type is ready for testing on Test Wikidata
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We finished the route for modifying the data of an Item (phab:T342993)
  • We finished the route for modifying the data of a Property (phab:T347394)
  • We continued working on the route for creating an Item (phab:T342990)
• We fixed an issue where IDs were shown for badges and after editing a statement. The fix will be rolled out this week. (phab:T366236)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.</translate><translate> Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge:Gambling
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

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Discussions

• Open request for adminship:Kadı - RfP scheduled to end after 14 June 2024 17:51 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship:The Squirrel Conspiracy - Closed as successful. Welcome back Squirrel!
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • MDanielsBot 2 Task(s) - Replace translations of descriptions and labels.
  • TapuriaBot Task(s) - interwiki
  • Skybristol bot Task(s) - Flesh out mapping of DOI provider orgs to WD orgs, syncing DOI prefix values.
  • EpidòseosBot Task(s) - improve incomplete references toGND forsex / gender; add new references containingGND ID forsex / gender when the property has no references containingstated in.

Events

• Next Linked Data for LibrariesLD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 11, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 with Ismael Olea.Link to agenda.
• Celtic Knot Wikimedia Conference, September 25-27, 2024 in Waterford City, Ireland. This conference usually hosts Wikidata-related sessions. You can now propose your contributions to the program until July 14th, and apply for a scholarship until June 30th (full announcement and links)
• WikiIndaba conference 2024, 4 - 6 October 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This conference typically hosts Wikidata-related sessions. Program submissions 05 - 30 June 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • 100,000 video games on Wikidata - Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games has just passed a major milestone: 100,000 video game (Q7889) items on Wikidata.
• Videos
  • (es)How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata? - This is a Spanish-speaking Wikitools workshop exploring Paulina (see: Tool of the Week), a search interface powered by Wikidata for finding and exploring author's and whether their works are in the public domain.
• Notebooks
  • Radio France meets Wikidata 😘: Extracting IDs from radio France and matching them with Wikidata using P10780 property
  • Wikidata's analytics for Radio France's podcasts

Tool of the week

• Paulina: Data for the Public Domain - Explore the cultural heritage of humanity. Search Paulina by author and discover if they have freely accessible works in the Public Domain.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Propose to transform an existing CSS or Javascript script (i.e. scripts that you can enable in your common.css and common.js pages) into a gadget:Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
• Newest External identifiers:Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID,Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new),Flown From the Nest person ID,Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID,A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID,A Dictionary of Zoology ID,A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID,Seret film ID,Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number,Paleobiology database reference ID,PNG School Code,Téarma ID,IMAIOS entity ID,Naturalis Repository ID,Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID,Vikidia ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not))
  • ecosystem type (type of ecosystem that the item represents)
  • Burgenwelt (Burgenwelt; castles)
  • 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| de = <!-- Die Bauzeit bezieht sich auf die Zeit, die benötigt wurde, um ein Gebäude zu errichten, was manchmal länger, gerade früher, als ein Jahr brauchte --><!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }})
  • Nom dans la langue locale ()
  • YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID,Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID,Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID,MODI ID,código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha,AllGame style ID,MoFo ID,DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID,DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID,Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID,FC Metz player id,Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English ID,itch.io numeric ID,produsent-ID hos Nasjonalmuseet,Phasmida Species File taxon ID,Psocodea Species File taxon ID,Cockroach Species File taxon ID,Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID,filmas.lv film ID,filmas.lv studio ID,filmas.lv person ID,Cineuropa international sales agent ID,Cineuropa production company ID,Cineuropa distributor ID,Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID,Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID,Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID,Elonet company ID,Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Average height of people named Joe
  • Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID
  • Timeline of inception of Ghanaian universities
• NewestWikiProjects:
  • Honoris Causa France - aims to coordinate the actions carried out in terms of reporting the attributions of honorary doctorate (Q11415564) by French universities.
  • HolyWells - aims to organize Items around Holy Wells.
  • OghamStones - aims to organise Items around Ogham Stones
  • Western Michigan University Libraries - used to gather Wikidata work being done at Western Michigan University Libraries.
  • Visibilizando el dominio público colombiano - to help the unique, permanent and visible identification, worldwide, of Colombian authors in the public domain, within the framework of Colombian legislation.
• Newestdatabase reports:Connectivity between Wikimedia projects
• Showcase Items:Pomona College (Q7227384) - private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States
• Showcase Lexemes:bustadmarknad (L1122204) - "housing market" in Nynorsk

Development

• The UnpatrolledEdits gadget now shows a notice when there are older and multiple unpatrolled edits, previously it only showed the notice when the most recent edit was unpatrolled. Please help translate the messageshere.
• Query Service: We are fixing a bug where no examples are shown in the example dialog (phab:T366871)
• EntitySchemas: We have enabled the new datatype for testing on test.wikidata.org and are preparing the rollout to Wikidata (phab:T365686)
• Item UI: We fixed an issue where labels were not shown for badges or after making an edit (phab:T366236)
• Wikibase REST API: We have continued the work on the route for modifying the data of an Item (phab:T342993)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge:
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Mdann52 bot - Task(s): Updatingcallsign,frequency andFCC ID of US Radio Station items from FCC database.
  • M2Ys4U-Bot - Task(s): Import data about candidates standing for election in the2024 United Kingdom general election.

Events

• Looking ahead
  • Lexico Days 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 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 - 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 - Tara Calishain of Calishat blog.
  • (de)20 Years of WMDE - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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? - 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 - 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) - 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

• Anew Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines thefinal set of rules for the WDQS graph split.
• Programming Languages ranked by Sitelinks in Wikidata

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newestproperties:
  • General datatypes:
    • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
  • External identifiers:Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID,Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new),Flown From the Nest person ID,Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID,A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID,A Dictionary of Zoology ID,A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID,Seret film ID,Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number,Paleobiology database reference ID,PNG School Code,Téarma ID,IMAIOS entity ID,Naturalis Repository ID,English-Spanish Dictionary ID,Vikidia ID,thisisbasketball.be player ID,poblesdecatalunya.cat ID,Oqaasersiorfik ID,MNAHA person ID,Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID,Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID,Tropicos person ID,He Pātaka Kupu ID,vehicle keeper marking (VKM),‎AllGame style ID,FC Metz player ID,MoFo ID,‎itch.io numeric ID,filmas.lv film ID,‎filmas.lv person ID,‎filmas.lv studio ID,Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new),Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new),Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new),Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new),Spanish-English Dictionary ID,Norwegian National Museum producer ID,‎Burgenwelt ID,Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID,Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID,Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID,danskfodbold.com player ID
• Newproperty proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not))
    • ecosystem type (type of ecosystem that the item represents)
    • 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 ()
    • YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
    • coin edge (Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering.)
    • 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,Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID,Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID,MODI ID,código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha,DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID,DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID,Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID,Cineuropa international sales agent ID,Cineuropa production company ID,Cineuropa distributor ID,Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID,Elonet company ID,Numista issuer ID,Douban Personage ID,Canadian Great War Project person ID,stiga.trefik.cz,PMC journal ID,European Education Thesaurus ID,Brezhoneg21 ID,Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID,Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID,Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID
• Deleted properties:

You can comment onall open property proposals!Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Tool Registry for Digital Humanities
  • Operas ordered by First Performance
  • Performing Arts Productions with a Composer property
• NewestWikiProjects:
  • Assoc. Football - Euro 2024 - for best practices onUEFA Euro 2024 items.
  • Bulgarian Elections - for describing data related to elections in Bulgaria.
  • ARS3D - statements and properties for an African Red Slip ware 3D artifact data model.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • (de)Theorie und Praxis in Wikidata -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.
• Newestdatabase reports: Badge Stats - 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:Mordor - A desolate volcanic plain of nauseous gases and shadows. J.R.R Tolkien's blighted land is this week's showcase.
• Showcase Lexemes:вода - 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)
  • 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)
• We changed the datatype of two Properties to external ID as requested (phab:T367174)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge:Gambling
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Events

• Past: The200th online Wikidata meetup in Swedish was held.
• Upcoming:Lexicodays, online event dedicated to Lexemes on Wikidata, will take place on June 28-30. It takes place across time zone and both in English and Indonesian. Check the program and find the access links on the event page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:20th Century Press Archives – history in newspaper clippings, made accessible by ZBW and Wikimedia. The blog discusses how ZBW and Wikimedia collaborated to digitize and make accessible the 20th Century Press Archives, integrating its metadata into Wikidata items and providing fresh access to 3.8 million digitized pages from raw microfilm1.
• Notebooks:Dashboard of European Parliament

Tool of the week

• Wikidata in Prometheus - Prometheus is a non-commercial image archive for art and cultural studies. It hosts images from a variety of image and media databases and now works can be connected with Wikidata.
• NewMix'n'match feature: For lists of (full or auto) matches where both the MnM entry and the Wikidata Item have coordinates, it now shows the distance between them in the description. (source)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning a brief survey to understand the various ways people contribute to the project and identify user contribution patterns. A request has been made for a CentralNotice banner to deploy the survey to a broad audience. Your feedback, comments, and questions on this request are welcome:m:CentralNotice/Request/Wikidata Community Survey 2024
• The second iteration of theWikidata:Open Online Course will begin from July 1 until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
  • music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
• Newest External identifiers:Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID,Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new),Flown From the Nest person ID,Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID,A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID,A Dictionary of Zoology ID,A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID,Seret film ID,Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number,Paleobiology database reference ID,PNG School Code,Téarma ID,IMAIOS entity ID,Naturalis Repository ID,English-Spanish Dictionary ID,Vikidia ID,thisisbasketball.be player ID,poblesdecatalunya.cat ID,Oqaasersiorfik ID,MNAHA person ID,Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID,Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID,Tropicos person ID,He Pātaka Kupu ID,vehicle keeper marking (VKM),‎AllGame style ID,FC Metz player ID,MoFo ID,‎itch.io numeric ID,filmas.lv film ID,‎filmas.lv person ID,‎filmas.lv studio ID,Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new),Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new),Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new),Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new),Spanish-English Dictionary ID,Norwegian National Museum producer ID,‎Burgenwelt ID,Irish-English Dictionary ID,Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID,Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID,danskfodbold.com player ID,DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID,DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID,‎Canadian Great War Project person ID,English-Irish Dictionary ID,PMC journal ID,Census ID,Douban personage ID,AviBase person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Nom dans la langue locale ()
  • YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
  • coin edge (Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering.)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID,Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID,código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha,Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID,Cineuropa international sales agent ID,Cineuropa production company ID,Cineuropa distributor ID,Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID,Elonet company ID,Numista issuer ID,stiga.trefik.cz,European Education Thesaurus ID,Brezhoneg21 ID,Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID,Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID,Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID,Devri ID,OpenCitations Meta Identifier,IGN franchise ID,Plex person key,Overcast episode ID,OBJ ID,NooSFere publisher ID,Metamath statement label,Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID,Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID,UNIBO professor ID,Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID,Il Nuovo DOP ID,FEI horse ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Number of solar eclipses per decades
  • Longest gap between original film and remake (without any intermediate remakes) (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:
  • Multilingualism - organizes work around achieving 100% Wikidata multilingualism for every language with MediaWiki internationalization support. It is initiated, developed & supported by Wikimedia Language Diversity community volunteers.
  • NAVISone
• Newestdatabase reports:Identical labels and descriptions
• Showcase Items:Kofi Annan (Q1254) - 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
• Showcase Lexemes:ʒirilana (L719353) - Dagbanli proverb that translates to "liar"

Development

• [Breaking Change Announcement]Upcoming Changes to Wikibase: EntitySchema data type
• EntitySchemas: We prepared for the release of the new data type to link to EntitySchemas in statements on July 2nd.
• Mul language code: We picked up the remaining issues before enabling it by default on Wikidata
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We completed the route to modify the data of an Item (phab:T342993)
  • We continued improving and reworking errors (phab:T366172,phab:T366175)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge:
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:Cameroon
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
  • Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
• New request for comments:Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.

Events

• Past: TheLexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are herec:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
• Upcoming:
  • The nextWikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in theWikidata 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.
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
  • Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe.Register here!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Querying for audio on Wikidata - This blog post discusses using SPARQL queries on Wikidata to find audio recordings, focusing on musical compositions and their associated genres.
  • Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: Why Wikimedia is an antidote to disinformation - The blog post highlights how Wikidata, as a central storage repository, plays a crucial role in countering disinformation by providing reliable, structured data for Wikimedia projects and beyond.
  • Diff Blog: Imagining a Wikidata future for librarians together - the sixth and final blog post from the LD42023 conference. Silvia Gutiérrez (WMF) and Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF) document the results of the collaborative session on building a bridge between the Library-Wikidata community and WMF.
  • Census IDs are Now Wikidata External Identifiers
  • Library Knowledge as Linked Data: A Wikidata Approach: Contributing to a shared data commons. David Erlandson describes the experiences of using Wikidata for the pilot Program for Cooperative Cataloging to "accelerate the movement towards ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level".
• Papers
  • Mapping the Past: Geographically Linking an Early 20th Century Swedish Encyclopedia with Wikidata - This paper describes the extraction of location entries from a prominent Swedish encyclopedia and sheds light on selection and representation of geographic information in the Nordisk Familjebok. By A. Ahlin, A. Myrne & P. Nugues.
  • Papers from the just-ended Wiki Workshop 2024
    • Do LOD Conventions Impede the Representation of Diversity? The Case of Disabled Actors in DBpedia and Wikidata?
    • SPARQL for LIS Analytics: Exploring Gender Representation amongst PCC Wikidata Pilot Participant
    • Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph-Linguistic Fusion
    • Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Entity Schema Generator Demonstration (tool demonstration)
• Videos
  • Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Enable Equitable and Validated Generative AI - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan Fraine andLydia Pintscher show how Wikidata can be used to provide well-cited information and how semantic search can augment generative AI inference. Presented at the Open Source GenAI & ML Summit.
  • Wikidata Editing LIVE at Lexico Days 2024 -User:Abbe98 andUser:JanAinali are back for another session of live-editing, focused on lexicographical data, during the Lexico Days 2024 event that took place this last weekend, June 28 - June 30.
  • Get more out of Wikidata with Resonator - Rachel Hendrick and Gary Price of LibTech Tools walk through Resonator and point out the best ways to use it. Resonator is available onToolForge.
  • Knowledge Integrity: Reliability- Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph Linguistic Fusion -Diego (WMF) and Mykola Trokhmovych showcase their work on building a model to help Wikidata editors identify edits that require patrolling, as part of the [Wiki Workshop 2024.
  • Inclusion of Communities: Using Wikibase to Leverage Community Sourced Data Initiatives - Erin Yunes talks about their work in using Wikibase Cloud as part of the Compel project (COmputer Music Preservation Electronic Library).
  • (es)¿Cómo fortalecer el dominio público con Wikidata? - This Wikitools Workshop hosted by Jorge Gemetto is onPaulina, a tool for exploring and accessing public domain information on authors and their works.

Tool of the week

• Automatic Structuring of text for Wikidata -User:BrokenSegue introduces their new tool.
• User:Zvpunry/CreateNewItem - This is a User script to easily add a new Item while editing a Statement and noticing that the desired Item is missing.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The second iteration of theWikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
  • music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
  • coin edge (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
• Newest External identifiers:Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID,Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new),Flown From the Nest person ID,Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID,A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID,A Dictionary of Zoology ID,A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID,Seret film ID,Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number,Paleobiology database reference ID,PNG School Code,Téarma ID,IMAIOS entity ID,Naturalis Repository ID,English-Spanish Dictionary ID,Vikidia article ID,thisisbasketball.be player ID,poblesdecatalunya.cat ID,Oqaasersiorfik ID,MNAHA person ID,Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID,Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID,Tropicos person ID,He Pātaka Kupu ID,vehicle keeper marking (VKM),‎AllGame style ID,FC Metz player ID,MoFo ID,‎itch.io numeric ID,filmas.lv film ID,‎filmas.lv person ID,‎filmas.lv studio ID,Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new),Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new),Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new),Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new),Spanish-English Dictionary ID,Norwegian National Museum producer ID,‎Burgenwelt ID,Irish-English Dictionary ID,Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID,Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID,danskfodbold.com player ID,DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID,DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID,‎Canadian Great War Project person ID,English-Irish Dictionary ID,PMC journal ID,Census ID,Douban personage ID,Avibase person ID,Brezhoneg21 ID,European Education Thesaurus ID,‎Cineuropa distributor ID,‎Cineuropa production company ID,OpenCitations Meta ID,IGN franchise ID,Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID,Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID,Devri ID,Cambridge University Press ID,Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID,Personnel Records of the First World War ID,Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID,NooSFere publisher ID,Plex person key,BHMPI OBJ ID,Index Fungorum person ID,stiga.trefik.cz player ID,UNIBO professor ID,Cineuropa international sales agent ID,Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
  • KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
  • Tüik mahalle id (Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID,Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID,Elonet company ID,Numista issuer ID,Overcast episode ID,Metamath statement label,Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID,Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID,Il Nuovo DOP ID,FEI horse ID,Google Play author ID,identifiant d'une personne sur Archelec,Standard Ebooks ID,Lojas com História ID,RGALI person ID,RGALI organization ID,Hebrew Academy term ID,milononline.net entry ID,KANAL identifier,LAGL author ID,Alle Burgen,FC Krasnodar player id,Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID,Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID,Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID,Manhom Arabic Profile ID,GOArt databas,ArchWiki article,Star Wars.com,identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb)

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Number of people who are both politicians and musicians by political spectrum (source)
  • Lexeme coverage of Indonesian languages
  • UK MPs and their office start/end years (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:Inuktitut - This is the space to organize work to assure that the sum of all knowledge and the supporting infrastructure for necessary services are available in Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inuktitut).
• Newestdatabase reports:Merge candidates based on same pattern
• Showcase Items:Montblanc (Q761735) - town in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia
• Showcase Lexemes:gbuɣi (L725113) - Dagbanli verb, translates to "vomiting" and "sprouting"

Development

• EntitySchemas:
  • We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
  • We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
• mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911,phab:T366239)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge:
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:Argentina
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Events

• Upcoming:
  • The nextWikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in theWikidata 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.
  • Registration for Wikimania 2024 is open! In-person participants: please register until 26 July, 11:59 p.m., UTC. Virtual participants can register anytime. If you received a scholarship from the Wikimedia Foundation, you will receive an email with a registration code and instructions.

Tool of the week

• User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such asE10). When you click "Check", checks whether each statement and property conforms to the schema. It then displays a summary at the top of the Item for each property indicating whether they conform or not. It also adds a badge to each statement and each property on the page indicating whether they conform or not.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata teams' development goals for the third quarter of 2024 have been updated:Wikidata:Development plan

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
  • coin edge (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
• Newest External identifiers:Naturalis Repository ID,English-Spanish Dictionary ID,Vikidia article ID,thisisbasketball.be player ID,poblesdecatalunya.cat ID,Oqaasersiorfik ID,MNAHA person ID,Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID,Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID,Tropicos person ID,He Pātaka Kupu ID,vehicle keeper marking (VKM),‎AllGame style ID,FC Metz player ID,MoFo ID,‎itch.io numeric ID,filmas.lv film ID,‎filmas.lv person ID,‎filmas.lv studio ID,Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new),Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new),Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new),Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new),Spanish-English Dictionary ID,Norwegian National Museum producer ID,‎Burgenwelt ID,Irish-English Dictionary ID,Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID,Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID,danskfodbold.com player ID,DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID,DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID,‎Canadian Great War Project person ID,English-Irish Dictionary ID,PMC journal ID,Census ID,Douban personage ID,Avibase person ID,Brezhoneg21 ID,European Education Thesaurus ID,‎Cineuropa distributor ID,‎Cineuropa production company ID,OpenCitations Meta ID,IGN franchise ID,Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID,Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID,Devri ID,Cambridge University Press ID,Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID,Personnel Records of the First World War ID,Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID,NooSFere publisher ID,Plex person key,BHMPI OBJ ID,Index Fungorum person ID,stiga.trefik.cz player ID,UNIBO professor ID,Cineuropa international sales agent ID,Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID,Il Nuovo DOP ID,RGALI person ID,RGALI organization ID,Archelec person ID,Lojas com História ID,milononline.net entry ID,Hebrew Academy term ID,LAGL author ID,KANAL ID,Google Play author ID,‎Overcast episode ID,ArchWiki article,Valencian Library ID,‎Star Wars.com ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
  • KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
  • Tüik mahalle id (Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database)
  • myfixguide.com (Photos about how to disassemble hardware)
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • Imperial University of Dorpat student ID (matriculation number of a student of the Imperial University of Dorpat)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly. Example: Hazel K. Bell (Q70226489))
  • WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID,Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID,Elonet company ID,Numista issuer ID,Metamath statement label,Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID,Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID,FEI horse ID,Standard Ebooks ID,Alle Burgen,FC Krasnodar player id,Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID,Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID,Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID,Manhom Arabic Profile ID,GOArt databas,identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb),identifikátor osoby ve Filmové databázi (FDb),ScienceDirect journal ID,Iraqnla Book ID,islamway authority ID,Hermitage Museum artist ID,Coptic Dictionary Online ID,autoritateak.eus,Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID,Thinkwiki article

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Cumulative experience of UK MPs on election day (since 1922) (source)
  • Location of GLAMs with open access policies
  • Images of biologists by height
• Newestdatabase reports:User:Pasleim/commonsmerge - Merge candidates based on same commons category
• Showcase Items:Ferdinand Magellan (Q1496) - Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
• Showcase Lexemes:bergkant (L1083157) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "the top edge of a mountain"

Development

• EntitySchemas: The new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements has been released.
• mul language code: We are preparing the release.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Participate inthis week's Lexeme challenge:
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:Armenia
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:SpinachBot - Task/s: AI agent-enabled question answering through the creation and execution of complex SPARQL queries on Wikidata. Users tag the bog with wikidata-related questions, and it tries to come up with an answer by iteratively creating SPARQL queries.

Events

• Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log:Telegram office hour 2024-07-10

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • An Intelligent System: What I learned through taking an introductory Wikidata course - The author, Anne-Christine Hoff, dispels misconceptions about Wikidata. She highlights that it is a relational communication system, not solely bot-driven, and allows users worldwide to add localized data in multiple languages, creating a self-structuring repository of information
  • Merge and diff - blog post by Magnus about adding new properties (taxon data speficially, NCBI, GBIF, and iINaturalist) to the AC2WD tool. If you have the user script installed on Wikidata (see tool below), AC2WD will automatically show up on relevant taxon items.
  • Documenting Women Artists Through Wikidata - this project reveals how works by women artists can be given greater public visibility.
  • Dagbani Lexemes (how-to-workshop in Dagbanli) - increase the vocabulary and standardize existing entries.
• Papers:Automatic Generation of Hindi Wikipedia Pages" based on information from Wikidata
• Videos
  • Online workshop Upskilling in Wikidata for maximum impact IBC 2024 - Recording of the virtual Wikidata workshop given on the 9th of July 2024. An onboarding and introductory event in anticipation of a full in-person workshop to be held at the International Botanical Congress 2024 in Madrid on the 21st of July 2024
  • Connecting University Art Collections Wikidata Demo
• Notebooks
  • Collection of notebooks about the Tour de France
  • Computing Jaccard similarity index between Wikidata items based on properties used in statements.

Tool of the week

• Relationships between two Wikidata items a new tool hosted on Observable which looks at all statements involving a pair of Wikidata items.
• User:Magnus Manske/ac2wd.js - This script adds an "AC2WD" link in the tools sidebar. When you click on it, it uses theAC2WD tool to check the item for certain Authority Control IDs (eg VIAF). It then checks these AC datasets for statements (and more AC IDs). It will then add any new information it found as new statements, or add more references to existing statements where possible. A green checkmark will be appended to the link if data was added (reload the page to see), otherwise a "—" if no new data was available.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• OpenRefine 3.8.2 was released
• Awesome Wikidata: Shape Expressions (Entity Schemas) - Tools for creating, editing, and generating entity schemas

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
  • coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com (photos about how to disassemble hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
• Newest External identifiers:Irish-English Dictionary ID,Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID,Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID,danskfodbold.com player ID,DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID,DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID,‎Canadian Great War Project person ID,English-Irish Dictionary ID,PMC journal ID,Census ID,Douban personage ID,Avibase person ID,Brezhoneg21 ID,European Education Thesaurus ID,‎Cineuropa distributor ID,‎Cineuropa production company ID,OpenCitations Meta ID,IGN franchise ID,Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID,Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID,Devri ID,Cambridge University Press ID,Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID,Personnel Records of the First World War ID,Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID,NooSFere publisher ID,Plex person key,BHMPI OBJ ID,Index Fungorum person ID,stiga.trefik.cz player ID,UNIBO professor ID,Cineuropa international sales agent ID,Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID,Il Nuovo DOP ID,RGALI person ID,RGALI organization ID,Archelec person ID,Lojas com História ID,milononline.net entry ID,Hebrew Academy term ID,LAGL author ID,KANAL ID,Google Play author ID,‎Overcast episode ID,ArchWiki article,Valencian Library ID,‎Star Wars.com ID,ScienceDirect journal ID,Filmová databáze film ID,Filmová databáze person ID,FC Krasnodar player ID,Iraqnla book ID,All castles,Italian-English Dictionary ID,islamway authority ID,Metamath statement ID,Imperial University of Dorpat student ID,Coptic Dictionary Online ID,English-Italian Dictionary ID,autoritateak.eus ID,Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
  • KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot)
  • WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID,FEI horse ID,Standard Ebooks ID,Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID,Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID,Manhom Arabic Profile ID,Hermitage Museum artist ID,Thinkwiki article,Wiley Online Library journal ID,identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes,Nintendo Life company ID,SideReel series ID,SideReel series URL slug,Helveticat ID,africanmusiclibrary.org artist id,Museums in Russia ID,Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID,ARABTERM entry ID,The New Mithraeum ID,Frauen im Widerstand ID,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID,Taylor & Francis journal ID,JTA Sightseeing Database ID,Emerald Group Publishing journal ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Arabic periodicals known to Wikidata (source)
  • X account of politicians
  • Characters whose actors died recently
• NewestWikiProjects:Human Cells - dedicated to improve our coverage of information about these fundamental entities that compose organisms. The project focuses mainly on two kinds of cell classes: species-agnostic classes, such asneutrophil (Q188417), and human-specific classes, such ashuman neutrophil (Q101405102).
• Newestdatabase reports:Descriptions containing Q-Id
• Showcase Items:Lucy (Q13365715): female given name
• Showcase Lexemes:Nachbar (L230775): "someone nearby" in German

Development

• Wikibase REST API: Continuing to improve error handling and error messages.
• EntitySchemas: Fixed issues that popped up after release (phab:T369149,phab:T369155,phab:T368010)
• Query Service graph split: Adapting constraints that make use of the Query Service to be able to deal with 2 endpoints (phab:T369079)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:Albania
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • DannyS712 bot - Task/s: I want to get approval for a bot with translation admin rights that will automatically mark pages for translations if and only if the latest version is identical to the version that is already in the translation system, i.e. only pages with no "net" changes in the pending edits.
  • DerIchBot - Task/s: Adding data about schools provided by the German and Austrian governments to wikidata.
  • DifoolBot 5 - Task/s: Change reference URLs into the related ID property and merge references with the same ID property.
  • AroundTheBot - Task/s: Automated import of Albanian nouns with IPA from Wiktionary, with the long-term goal of using this data to do pronunciation-based comparison/word evolution between languages.

Events

• Past: Wikimedia Indonesia hostedthe 2024 Data Visualization Competition from June 5 to 18. The event featured data visualizations (posters and graphics) and short essays using data from Wikidata. Visitthe competition page (in Indonesian) to view the winning entries.
• Upcoming: Wikidata's 12th birthday decentralized events will take place in October and November 2024. Feel free to browsethe documentation pages to learn how to organize an event in your area, get funding, and get in touch with other organizers.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers:
  • Representación de datos abiertos con Wikidata Query Service (Q126917814). This paper details the Wikidata Query Service, for the creation of data visualizations. All visualization options available in the WQS are explored, accompanied by example queries that introduce the implementation of these visualizations. By Ángel Obregón-Sierra and Silvia Cecilia Anselmi.
  • Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models - with CUBE, a benchmark built out of Wikidata, to evaluate cultural awareness and cultural diversity of text-to-image models (Kannen et al, 2024)
• Videos:OpenRefine import into Wikidata of data from the BnF catalog: books by Marguerite Van de Wiele (in French)

Tool of the week

• Paulina, a new tool for exploring public domain works.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WMF Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) invites interested volunteers to apply. As part of the movement strategy recommendation for "Coordinating Across Stakeholders," the PTAC will bring technical contributors and the Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
• Newest External identifiers:English-Irish Dictionary ID,PMC journal ID,Census ID,Douban personage ID,Avibase person ID,Brezhoneg21 ID,European Education Thesaurus ID,‎Cineuropa distributor ID,‎Cineuropa production company ID,OpenCitations Meta ID,IGN franchise ID,Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID,Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID,Devri ID,Cambridge University Press ID,Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID,Personnel Records of the First World War ID,Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID,NooSFere publisher ID,Plex person key,BHMPI OBJ ID,Index Fungorum person ID,stiga.trefik.cz player ID,UNIBO professor ID,Cineuropa international sales agent ID,Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID,Il Nuovo DOP ID,RGALI person ID,RGALI organization ID,Archelec person ID,Lojas com História ID,milononline.net entry ID,Hebrew Academy term ID,LAGL author ID,KANAL ID,Google Play author ID,‎Overcast episode ID,ArchWiki article,Valencian Library ID,‎Star Wars.com ID,ScienceDirect journal ID,Filmová databáze film ID,Filmová databáze person ID,FC Krasnodar player ID,Iraqnla book ID,Alle Burgen ID,Italian-English Dictionary ID,islamway authority ID,Metamath statement ID,Imperial University of Dorpat student ID,Coptic Dictionary Online ID,English-Italian Dictionary ID,autoritateak.eus ID,Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID,Nintendo Life company ID,Wiley Online Library journal ID,Museums in Russia ID,Helveticat ID,ARABTERM entry ID,Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID,Women in Resistance ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  • object of action & object class of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
  • Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
  • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  • Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID,Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID,Manhom Arabic Profile ID,WorldCyclingStats ID,Thinkwiki article,identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes,SideReel series ID,SideReel series URL slug,africanmusiclibrary.org artist id,The New Mithraeum ID,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID,Taylor & Francis journal ID,JTA Sightseeing Database ID,Emerald Group Publishing journal ID,Finnish Ministers database ID (new),Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID,Tretyakov Gallery artist ID,State Historical Museum of Russia person ID,U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID,Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID,French Bathing water ID,Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID,mandumah ID,Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID,Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • UEFA teams and the number of players on the team (source)
  • Species of birds and their sounds (source)
  • Archaeological sites and remains in Malaysia with National Heritage status (source)
  • Map of Filming Locations, excludes countries (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:
  • Reference Verification - a research and development project aimed at helping Wikidata editors check the quality of external references based on various types of AI/ML models.
  • NZWomenPhotographers - aims to improve information about New Zealand women photographers, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
• Newestdatabase reports:Items with P569=P570 - Items with instance of (P31) --> human (Q5) and the same year in date of birth (P569) and date of death (P570) (2024-07-22)
• Showcase Items:Crawford (Q20731004) - family name
• Showcase Lexemes:water (L3302) - (S1) common liquid substance (S2) chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen (H₂O) (S3) a body of water, usually a river, a lake, or an ocean

Development

• mul: We fixed the last blocker for the limited MUL rollout to Wikidata on July 29th (phab:T362917)
• EntitySchemas:
  • We fixed a misplaced background color in EntitySchema (phab:T369283)
  • haswbstatement searches now work for EntitySchema statements (phab:T369495)
  • We’re investigating how to make EntitySchemas searchable by label (phab:T362005)
• Query Service: preparation for the graph split is continuing by the Search Platform Team. We started looking into adapting the constraints checks for it (phab:T369079)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • GergesBot 2 - Task/s: Edit label when order is added in ar:ويكيبيديا:طلبات نقل عبر البوت (Transfer requests by Bot).
  • UmisBot - Task/s: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Wikidata Days Bologna 2024, Italian language conference dedicated to Wikidata for libraries and research, taking place in the frame ofWikidata’s 12th birthday, on November 8-9 in Bologna, Italy.
  • Wikimania starts on August 7. Here is a list of sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata:2024:Program/Wikidata. If something is missing, feel free to add to it, including any Wikidata meetups you may be hosting.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • "Sharing the world’s paintings on Wikidata" By Martin Poulter for theCultural Content Substack
  • WikiEdu: What I learned taking an introductory Wikidata Course - Anne-Christine Hoff, associate professor of English at Jarvis Christian University, describes her experiences and learnings from taking an intro to Wikidata course, provided by the WikiEdu.org, a project of the Wiki Education Foundation.
  • Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs - This study investigates the behaviours, communication patterns and interactions of the core small Wikidata community that are responsible for 80% of its content, in order to future contribution and participation. By E. Koutsiana et al.
  • A Wikidata-Based Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources - This paper presents KIF, a Wikidata-based framework for virtually integrating heterogeneous knowledge sources and discuss how it was used to solve a real integration problem in the domain of chemistry (involving Wikidata, PubChem, and IBM CIRCA). By G. Lima et al.
• Press release:Arricchimento dei dati di authority di SBN attraverso il confronto e lo scambio con Wikidata (in Italian):ICCU, the institute coordinating the biggest Italian OPAC (theOPAC SBN, involving more than 7 thousands libraries), has just finished enriching about 16200 nearly empty authority records with data taken from the respective Wikidata items (Wikidata items link to SBN authority records throughP396); this announcement describes in detail the enrichment work, which started in June 2023; for more information (and bibliography) about the collaboration between ICCU and Wikidata, seed:Wikidata:Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche/SBN (in Italian)
• Videos
  • Intro to Wikidata - This intro to Wikidata was provided for participants of the International Linguistics Olympiad 2024, held in Brasília. Presented by Artur Corrêa Souza and Éder Porto, organised by Wiki Movimento Brasil.
  • Mining and Modeling Text using Wikibase - the University of Trier is building a knowledge graph on French Enlightenment novels 1751 - 1800 with the use of Wikibase.

Tool of the week

• User:Nikki/ShowIDs.js - This user script adds entity IDs in brackets after links.
• Common values, yet another Observable notebook. This one looks at common values between two Wikidata item pages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• KDE Itinerary, KDE's travel assistant app,gets more Wikidata integration.
• The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback to evaluate "default values for all languages" (mul) in the Termbox. Please share your thoughts on this 5-10 minute anonymous survey:https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Wikidata-default-values-feedback
• TheWikidata (integrations) for Wikimedia projects team have released a progress report on their ongoing research project, investigating the "State of Wikidata usage on other wikis". Available on theResearch page, alternatively onCommons.
• The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page:Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • coin edge image (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
  • ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
  • EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
  • object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
  • object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
• Newest External identifiers:Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID,Personnel Records of the First World War ID,Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID,NooSFere publisher ID,Plex person key,BHMPI OBJ ID,Index Fungorum person ID,stiga.trefik.cz player ID,UNIBO professor ID,Cineuropa international sales agent ID,Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID,Il Nuovo DOP ID,RGALI person ID,RGALI organization ID,Archelec person ID,Lojas com História ID,milononline.net entry ID,Hebrew Academy term ID,LAGL author ID,KANAL ID,Google Play author ID,‎Overcast episode ID,ArchWiki article,Valencian Library ID,‎Star Wars.com ID,ScienceDirect journal ID,Filmová databáze film ID,Filmová databáze person ID,FC Krasnodar player ID,Iraqnla book ID,Alle Burgen ID,Italian-English Dictionary ID,islamway authority ID,Metamath statement ID,Imperial University of Dorpat student ID,Coptic Dictionary Online ID,English-Italian Dictionary ID,autoritateak.eus ID,Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID,Nintendo Life company ID,Wiley Online Library journal ID,Museums in Russia ID,Helveticat ID,ARABTERM entry ID,Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID,Women in Resistance ID,French-English Dictionary ID,German-English Dictionary ID,Emerald Group Publishing journal ID,Taylor & Francis journal ID,JTA Sightseeing Database ID,WorldCyclingStats ID,The New Mithraeum ID,Finnish Ministers database ID (new),State Historical Museum of Russia person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  • Public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
  • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  • Kunstnerforbundet kunstner ID (Identifier for an artist member of Kunstnerforbundet in norway)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Manhom Arabic Profile ID,Thinkwiki article,identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes,SideReel series ID,SideReel series URL slug,africanmusiclibrary.org artist id,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID,Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID,Tretyakov Gallery artist ID,U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID,Encyclopaedia of Islam (french edition) ID,French Bathing water ID,Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID,mandumah ID,Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID,Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID,Political Dictionary entry,United Nations Digital Library ID,identifiant FranceTerme,Yediot Books book ID,FDC ID,365scores player ID,xdaforums,GamingOnLinux Database ID,Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Where were people who went to space born?
  • Red Cross and Red Crescent societies
  • Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID
• NewestWikiProjects:
  • Military Equipment in Policing - Project to connect police equipment defined as military equipment to capabilities, uses, manufacturers, descriptions, etc.
  • Quran - to collaborate on Quran-related topics and organise Quran Wikidatans; help others and get help whenever needed to improve Quran-related items (and properties); create Quran-specific tools' libraries, queries, and resources;
  • Sufism - collaborate on Sufism-related topics
• Newestdatabase reports:Hindustani nouns without gender in a language
• Showcase Items:Fugger (Q37018433) - family name
• Showcase Lexemes:ikkje-vald (L3483) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "non-violence"

Development

• IP masking: The feature was rolled out to test wikis and we fixed a few issues uncovered by this.
• EntitySchemas: We are working to make it possible to search for the EntitySchema by its label and aliases when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema (phab:T362005)
• Integration in other Wikimedia projects: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link from the tools section of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
• REST API:
  • We changed the data-type field to data_type in JSON responses (phab:T368130)
  • We are continuing the work on improving error handling and messages

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Numberguy6Bot - Task: Add links to Wiktionary categories in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian.
  • UmisBot - Task: This bot will add string representations of units of measurement to units of measurement Wikidata pages.
  • ZLBot - Task: request SPARQLs for RAG.

Events

• Next Linked Data for LibrariesLD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call 6 August, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 6 August, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a Busy Summer Fun Wikidata Editing Hour, an hour of uninterrupted Wikidata editing time to work on your own Wikidata projects.Agenda.
• Wikimania is August 7-10. Here is a curated a list of Wikimania sessions focused around Wikidata, or have *some* connection to Wikidata:2024:Program/Wikidata. Please add to the list if something is missing.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:Olympics medalists, not by country, but by NUTS region, By Giorgio Comai
• Papers
  • Discovering life's directed metabolic (sub)paths to interpret human biochemical markers using the DSMN tool
  • SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions - The SPINACH dataset, derived from Wikidata's "Request a Query" forum, offers a more complex and challenging KBQA dataset with 320 question-SPARQL pairs, designed to test the capabilities of KBQA systems in navigating large and incomplete knowledge base schemas.
• Videos
  • Using Wikidata to navigate the web (Wikimania Katowice) - Tool demo: Entity Explosion
  • Use Wikidata and Lexeme to understand Minnan - COSCUP 2024 (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters)

Tool of the week

• Forage - a user script that provides an additional editing interface that makes editing easier, by showing the expected properties for a page (based on its "instance of" values), and providing simple inputs to let users add values for any such property. To install Forage, just add the following line to the common.js subpage under your user page on Wikidata, i.e. wikidata.org/wiki/User:Your username here/common.js:importScript('User:Techwizzie/forage.js');

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikibase REST API, introduced last year on Wikidata, is progressing towards version 1, aiming for a comprehensive release by the end of 2024. We're seeking community feedback to enhance the current API and plan future developments. Please share your thoughts on this page:Feedback on the Wikibase REST API (July/August 2024).
• Abdulai Yorli Iddrisu (WMDE) has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of September 2024. Welcome Yorli!
• Wikidata now has a shiny new landing page for developers:Wikidata:For developers

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
  • Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
  • myfixguide.com Category ID (photos about how to repair hardware)
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
  • object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
  • object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
  • public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
• Newest External identifiers:Google Play author ID,‎Overcast episode ID,ArchWiki article,Valencian Library ID,‎Star Wars.com ID,ScienceDirect journal ID,Filmová databáze film ID,Filmová databáze person ID,FC Krasnodar player ID,Iraqnla book ID,Alle Burgen ID,Italian-English Dictionary ID,islamway authority ID,Metamath statement ID,Imperial University of Dorpat student ID,Coptic Dictionary Online ID,English-Italian Dictionary ID,autoritateak.eus ID,Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID,Nintendo Life company ID,Wiley Online Library journal ID,Museums in Russia ID,Helveticat ID,ARABTERM entry ID,Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID,Women in Resistance ID,French-English Dictionary ID,German-English Dictionary ID,Emerald Group Publishing journal ID,Taylor & Francis journal ID,JTA Sightseeing Database ID,WorldCyclingStats ID,The New Mithraeum ID,Finnish Ministers database ID (new),State Historical Museum of Russia person ID,mandumah ID,Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID,Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID,FDC ID,French bathing water ID,Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID,Political Dictionary ID,United Nations Digital Library ID,U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID,365scores player ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  • Military Grid Reference System ID (geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth)
  • has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
  • growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
  • lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
  • APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Thinkwiki article,SideReel series ID,SideReel series URL slug,africanmusiclibrary.org artist id,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID,Glosbe Old High German Lexeme ID,Tretyakov Gallery artist ID,Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID,identifiant FranceTerme,Yediot Books book ID,365scores player ID,xdaforums,GamingOnLinux Database ID,Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID,TIPLOC code,IDU play ID,FolkWiki ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Image gallery of the most notable sculptures (source)
  • Authors that cite your article(s),Authors that you cite (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:Sculptures by collection: an Integraality dashboard for WikiProject Sculpture
• Newestdatabase reports:Dagbani Lexemes that wrongly include the grammatical gender property P5185
• Showcase Items:Chinua Achebe (Q155845) - Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
• Showcase Lexemes:Stuorra Dorskavuotna (L636928) - fjord in Hammerfest, Norway (Northern Sami proper noun)

Development

• mul language code: The new language code has been rolled out in a limited way. We are looking through feedback now.
• mul release: The full release of the "mul" language code feature to Wikidata, originally scheduled for August 12, may be delayed as we have uncovered a few issues during testing that could potentially block the scheduled release.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:Bermuda
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Events

• Wikimania 2024 took place in Katowice, Poland. You can watch replays of the sessionson YouTube. Additionally, recordings of individual sessions are linked to each itemon the Eventyay schedule.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Scholarly discussions through they eyes of CiTO (and Wikidata) - The post emphasizes how Wikidata can serve as a central hub for linking various scholarly resources, enabling better data interoperability and discoverability.
• Papers
  • Talking Wikidata: Communication patterns and their impact on community engagement in collaborative knowledge graphs - a study of Wikidata's collaboration patterns reveals that a small group of highly engaged members drives most contributions, and improving discussions and engagement strategies could enhance long-term participation in the community.
• Videos
  • FOSS4GE 2024 | Bridging Worlds: Integration of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Discover the synergy between Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, two monumental open data repositories. This talk unveils innovative web-based tools facilitating the linking of these platforms, enhancing the richness and accuracy of geospatial data.
  • Setting up a Wikibase reconciliation service - Wikibase Working Hours by OlafJanssen
• Notebooks:List of countries by continent in Wikidata

Tool of the week

• New Q5 - is a form that quickly sets up a Wikidata Item for an individual by generating a QuickStatement with the basic parameters such as name and age.
• User:Nikki/SDCInfo.js - is a Userscript that shows some Wikimedia Commons statements onpronunciation audio statements on Lexeme forms.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
  • object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions occurs)
  • object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
  • public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
  • relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
• Newest External identifiers:Nintendo Life company ID,Wiley Online Library journal ID,Museums in Russia ID,Helveticat ID,ARABTERM entry ID,Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID,Women in Resistance ID,French-English Dictionary ID,German-English Dictionary ID,Emerald Group Publishing journal ID,Taylor & Francis journal ID,JTA Sightseeing Database ID,WorldCyclingStats ID,The New Mithraeum ID,Finnish Ministers database ID (new),State Historical Museum of Russia person ID,mandumah ID,Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID,Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID,FoodData Central ID,French bathing water ID,Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID,Political Dictionary ID,United Nations Digital Library ID,U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID,365scores football player ID,African Music Library artist ID,Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID,GamingOnLinux Database ID,TIPLOC code,JJM Habitation ID,IDU play ID,‎IDU original ID,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  • has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
  • growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
  • lifespan (duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan)
  • APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
  • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of {{Q|P12571}} used to describe the exponent of the unit)
  • Javanese registers (suggest the relationship between similar Javanese lexemes, between its various registers (social variants), mainly {{Q|12500634}} register (plain Javanese), {{Q|12492493}} register (high/polite Javanese), and {{Q|13091955}} register (middle Javanese))
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Tretyakov Gallery artist ID,Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID,identifiant FranceTerme,Yediot Books book ID,xdaforums,FolkWiki ID,365scores basketball player ID,The House of Graphs ID,SIMBAD catalog properties (used more than 1 million times),All Musicals lyrics ID,365scores football team ID,365scores basketball team ID,Illinois Center for the Book Author ID,Ôlyrix Person ID,Ідентифікатор відеогри Gamekombo,Slekt og Data grave ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Wikidata's "instance of" and its associated properties, according to "properties for this type" (P1963)
  • Example query to show why papers cite each other (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:Redundancy - The primary aim of WikiProject Redundancy is to reduce the amount of Wikidata's data—without reducing the amount of information in Wikidata!—for the well-being of Wikidata, its community, and its downstream users.
• Newestdatabase reports:Items with instance of (P31) human (Q5) and date of birth (P569) > date of death (P570)
• Showcase Items:Cambridge (Q350): city in Cambridgeshire, England
• Showcase Lexemes:kpanjɔɣu (L651052) - A Dagbani noun described in English as hampers, baskets, or similar containers made from woven materials like reeds, grasses, or wicker, traditionally used for carrying or storing clothing.

Development

• Not much happened this past week because the team was attending Wikimania.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Wüstenspringmaus (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2024 11:07 (UTC))
  • Mohammed Qays (RfP scheduled to end after 19 August 2024 19:11 (UTC))
• New requests for permissions/Bot:Bot5958 1b - Task: InferIdentigilo ĉe Metacritic(P1712) of TV series, seasons, and episodes from vertically adjacent levels.

Events

• (Save The Date)
  • Wikidata Days Bologna - November 8 - 9, 2024. Dario Nobili Library (CNR). A conference dedicated to the Italian-speaking Wikidata community, with a focus on libraries and research.
• Ongoing
  • Like Soccer? Did you know theUganda Wiki Soccerthon 2024 is still running and aims to create over 300 Wikidata items on Ugandan clubs, players, coaches, leagues, associations and leagues related to Ugandan soccer.
• In case you missed it...
  • Catch up on all the Wikimania 2024 sessions with theseYouTube replays. Or check theEventyay schedule for recordings of individual sessions linked to each item.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • (Tech News) Unveiling discrepancies: First experiences with finding mismatches on Wikidata and how you can too - A team of five Purdue University students partnered with Wikimedia Deutschland for the Purdue Data Mine to find mismatches for the Wikidata Mismatch Finder.
  • (Tech News) Wikidata power contributor: an interview with user Bodhisattwa - WMDE's Alan Ang talks with long-time editor and pillar of the Bangla Wiki community, Bodhisattwa.
  • (de)Whether toolbox, workshop or hardware store: open, community-curated tool Registries with Wikidata - I. Trilling, T. Grallert and J. Schmitz discuss the tool-directory created “Kompetenzwerkstatt Digital Humanities” (KDH) at the UB and the “Methods Innovation Lab” of the NFDI4Memory and presented at the Chair of Digital History.

• Papers
  • Discovering Relationships Among Properties in Wikidata Knowledge Graph - Authors Emetis Niazmand and Maria-Esther Vidal use class-based relationship discovery to study and explore distribution and frequency of predicates across six domains. Pp 388–394 of Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery.
• Videos
  • (pt)Wikidata Lab XLII: OpenRefine Éder Porto and Luca Belo host a workshop covering the newest features for loading media and Structured Data (SDC) on Commons, as well as metadata on Wikidata through OpenRefine.
  • (es)Use of records on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Mikel Zubimendi shows how to populate Wikipedia articles with Infoboxes populated by data hosted on Wikidata.
  • Engaging with language diversity via the Wikipedia ecosystem @ PGO24 -User:Daniel Mietchen at the Polyglot Gathering hosts a workshop with numerous examples of how the Wiki ecosystem hosts and represents linguistic content.
• Notebooks
  • Medals count by continent Combining data from the International Olympic Committee and Wikidata, this notebook computes medals count by continent.
  • Winners of the Tour de France Femmes The Tour de France Femmes 2024 just ended on Sunday 18th of August. The cycling stage race explorer notebook shows all stage winners of the Tour de France Femmes.
• Visualisation of location of Japanese Lighthouses The TU Delft Library queries Wikidata to map the location of Japanese lighthouses designed by Richard Henry Brunton or Léonce Verny.
• Tools
  • (fr)WikidataESR: Tenter d’y voir clair dans l’ESR : exploring French higher education and research institutional landscape with the help of Wikidata. French higher education and research landscape is highly complex. Wikidata can help to better understand the landscape.

Tool of the week

• Anvesha is a drill-down browser for any Wikibase installation (incl. Wikidata). A prominent example of it in use is theWikidata Walkabout.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata: For Developers - We have a shiny new portal for developers wanting to build applications using Wikidata's data. Visit it for inspiration with showcase examples, resources, information and support.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newestproperties:
  • General datatypes:
    • object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions applies)
    • object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
    • public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
    • relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
  • External identifiers:ARABTERM entry ID,Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID,Women in Resistance ID,French-English Dictionary ID,German-English Dictionary ID,Emerald Group Publishing journal ID,Taylor & Francis journal ID,JTA Sightseeing Database ID,WorldCyclingStats ID,The New Mithraeum ID,Finnish Ministers database ID (new),State Historical Museum of Russia person ID,mandumah ID,Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID,Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID,FoodData Central ID,French bathing water ID,Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID,Political Dictionary ID,United Nations Digital Library ID,U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID,365scores football player ID,African Music Library artist ID,Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID,GamingOnLinux Database ID,TIPLOC code,JJM Habitation ID,IDU play ID,‎IDU original ID,Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID,The House of Graphs ID
• Newproperty proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
    • schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
    • has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
    • growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
    • APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
    • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of {{Q|P12571}} used to describe the exponent of the unit)
    • Javanese registers (suggest the relationship between similar Javanese lexemes, between its various registers (social variants), mainly {{Q|12500634}} register (plain Javanese), {{Q|12492493}} register (high/polite Javanese), and {{Q|13091955}} register (middle Javanese))
    • objects of action have role (role that objects of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use {{P|12913}} instead.))
    • ConLang Code Registry code (3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
    • dénomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
  • External identifiers:Tretyakov Gallery artist ID,Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID,identifiant FranceTerme,Yediot Books book ID,xdaforums,FolkWiki ID,365scores basketball player ID,SIMBAD catalog properties (used more than 1 million times),All Musicals lyrics ID,365scores football team ID,365scores basketball team ID,Illinois Center for the Book Author ID,Ôlyrix Person ID,Ідентифікатор відеогри Gamekombo,Slekt og Data grave ID,iasj article ID,MobyGames critic ID,Grand Comics Database feature ID,Operabook Person ID,Retromags game ID,Retromags magazine ID,speedrun.com series ID,Madain Project ID,GameFAQs genre ID,Altar of Gaming game ID,Altar of Gaming company ID,Polygon game ID,Altar of Gaming franchise ID,Altar of Gaming character ID,Altar of Gaming person ID,FOLDOC ID,WE.League player ID,WE.League manager ID,Nomes e Voces ID,cnkgraph person ID,cnkgraph poem ID,cnkgraph book ID,Identifiant d'un auteur sur Ciel d'oc

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Of the official mottos of U.S. states, there are more in Latin than in English
  • Instance/sub-classes of(115870510) that have 3 or more non-English Wikipedia site-links
• NewestWikiProjects:Disambiguation
• Newestdatabase reports:Wanted footballers
• Showcase Items:(319)

Development

• QuickStatements Community Consultation, until August 31st
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to improve error messages and handling.
• Wikipedia and co: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
• Wikidata Query Service graph split: The WMF Search Platform team is setting up the servers for the split graphs. We hope to have them ready for use soon. We also prepared the constraints checks for this.

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

Weekly 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 aShowcase item.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Gwanki - RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2024 05:54 (UTC)
  • Putnik 2 - RfP scheduled to end after 27 August 2024 23:17 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins:Mohammed Qays andWüstenspringmaus!
• New requests for permissions/Bot:Leaderbot - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (seePhab:T370842)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:Bot5958 1b - RfP successful!
• New request for comments:
  • Citations from Wikidata from Author:Palu
  • Audio Transcription (P9533) from Author:Yug.P9533 is described astranscription of the word/text being spoken in this file. Does this exclude other communications modalities?

Events

• "The Future of Wikidata Events" report by Wikimedia Deutschland isnow available on Wikimedia Commons. This report provides valuable insights into the current state and future possibilities of Wikidata events. We encourage everyone to read the report and share their thoughts to help shape the future of our community events:Wikidata talk:Events#"The Future of Wikidata Events" Report Now Available on Wikimedia Commons.
• Wikidata's 12th Birthday is fast approaching. Do you need financial support to organize a birthday event? Here is some useful information about how to get funding:Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Funding. The deadline to apply is September 1st.
• WikiLibCon25 The Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 takes place in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 - 17 January 2025 - Call forScholarships (ends 31 August0 andProposals (ends 15 September) are open. WikiLibCon25 brings together Wikimedians, Wikibrarians, information professionals, library workers and mission-aligned partners from around the globe to create a vivid community and promote cooperative projects in the Library & Wikimedia sphere.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers
  • What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata?: Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
  • Diversity and bias in DBpedia and Wikidata as a challenge for text-analysis tools by B. Berendt et al. This paper explores how data sources can impact content analysis of their tool Diversity Searcher for analysing diversity in news media texts.
• Videos
  • (sw)Wikipedia vs Wikidata - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized.
  • Wikimania Coolest Tool Award! 2024 - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout.
  • Qichwabase: Building Knowledge Graphs for Under-Resourced Languages Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages.
• Slides:Giving metabolites (and lipids) a chemical and biological context with open science. This talk discusses the role of open science in providing chemical and biological context for metabolites and lipids, highlighting open-source cheminformatics, open standards, and open data to facilitate linking knowledge across databases and publications, as well as describing chemical interactions in biological pathway databases. By Egon Willighagen.
• Notebooks
  • Olympic medals by group of countries 🥇🥈🥉: Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries
  • Unequal distribution of medals from the Summer Olympics

Tool of the week

• Wikidata distributed/#game=94 - Help adding missing information related to artists on BNU's catalog (Select the option that fits best).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit (YouTube link). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
• Newest External identifiers:Illinois Center for the Book author ID,Slekt og Data grave ID,‎FolkWiki ID,iasj article ID,365scores football team ID,speedrun.com series ID,All Musicals lyrics ID,MobyGames critic ID,Polygon game ID,Madain Project ID,365scores basketball player ID,FOLDOC ID,GameFAQs genre ID,Retromags game ID,Nomes e Voces ID,Altar of Gaming company ID,Altar of Gaming franchise ID,Altar of Gaming game ID,Altar of Gaming person ID,Ciel d'oc ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:ACUM IDs,DOS Game Modding Wiki article,Mapcarta,Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID,WikiYeshiva article ID,Denkmalnummer des Archivs der Stadt Linz,GameSpot genre ID,VideoGameGeek genre ID,Identifiant Say Who,VIRIN,Tabletopia game ID,Board Game Arena ID,CNES identifier,BoardGaming.com game ID,Finnish Company Number

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Of the 15424 existing subway stations on Earth, 5726 of them are inPeople's Republic of China (Q148)
  • Map of tripoints known to Wikidata (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Sweden/Banks - All Swedish banks still in operation
  • Antiquity/Mythology - This WikiProject deals with everything connected toGreek mythology with an outlook on the traditional tales and divinities which came before and/or inspired it, likeAncient Egyptian mythology,Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian,Akkadian andBabylonian) andHittite mythology, as well as those of adjacent cultures and those influenced by the Greeks, most notablyRoman mythology).
• NewestWikiProjects:Aotearoa Asian Artists - This project aims to improve the data available about Aotearoa Asian Artists - Asian diaspora artists from, living in, and connected toAotearoa New Zealand.
• Newestdatabase reports:Terminator: Articles with no interwikis in a given Wikipedia - Wikidata Items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language.
• Showcase Items:Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania

Development

• Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• Project chat:Wikidata:Project chat#Mass-import policy - A new mass-import policy has been proposed, focusing on improving the quality of existing items rather than importing new ones, with a suggested limit of 100 new items before requiring community approval.

Events

• Next Linked Data for LibrariesLD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page:Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/First Project Series
• (id) Registration is open for theWikimedia Indonesia Research Grant 2024 program. Open until 30 September 2024. This program opens funding opportunities for research on topics related to Wikidata, Wikipedia, or other Wiki projects, and Linked Open Data.
• Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 4, 2024. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (de)Wikibase4Research - Easily manage, share and visualize knowledge data, tailored for academic purposes, WB4R simplifies the installation and use of MedaWiki software. By Kolja Bailly.
• Papers
  • KGPrune: a Web Application to Extract Subgraphs of Interest from Wikidata with Analogical Pruning (see also Videos) - this web application when given seed entities of interest and properties to traverse, extracts neighboring subgraphs from Wikidata. By Pierre Monnin.
  • Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing - A fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning. By Hanna Abi Akl.
  • Transforming higher education: a decade of integrating Wikipedia and Wikidata for literacy enhancement and social impact - Demonstrating the role of Wikipedia and Wikidata in fostering knowledge creation, digital and data literacies and critical thinking, in Open Edcuational resources. By S.E. Sigalov, A. Cohen & R. Nachmias.
• Videos
  • (es)Connect biodiversity to Wikimedia projects via iNaturalist? - Tiago Lubiana presents the inat2wiki platform (https://inat2wiki.toolforge.org/), designed to connect biodiversity observations to Commons and subsequently, to Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • (es)Lecture on Knowledge Graphs & Workshop on Querying Data - Sebastián Ferrada presents this lecture at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2023 including a SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service workshop.
  • Wiki4Education Technical Training - session 2 of the Wiki4Education training series held across 17 - 24 Aug 2024 in Uganda.
  • Introducing KGPrune - a web application to extract subgraphs of interest from Wikidata with analogical pruning by Pierre Monnin.
  • (ar)Intro to Wikidata at the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, hosted by Houcemeddine Turki
  • (ar)2: Wikidata for Wikipedians - this session of Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 shows the benefits of using Wikidata in Wikipedia.
• Notebooks:Drawing the network of Adventures of Tintin

Tool of the week

• Display Wikidata Info on sister projects byUser:Yair rand. This user-script will add the articles corresponding Wikidata item Label, Q-ID, Description and Short Desc. neatly under the article title. If no Wikidata item is linked, option to CreateNewItem page on Wikidata is provided.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 29 is open! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by September 18, 2024.
• QuickStatements Community Consultation. Wiki Movimento Brazil as part of theSoftware Collaboration for Wikidata are conducting interviews to build upon the QuickStatements tool. If you're interested in helping refine the tool then get in touch with them.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
  • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
• Newest External identifiers:Illinois Center for the Book author ID,Slekt og Data grave ID,‎FolkWiki ID,iasj article ID,365scores football team ID,speedrun.com series ID,All Musicals lyrics ID,MobyGames critic ID,Polygon game ID,Madain Project ID,365scores basketball player ID,FOLDOC ID,GameFAQs genre ID,Retromags game ID,Nomes e Voces ID,Altar of Gaming company ID,Altar of Gaming franchise ID,Altar of Gaming game ID,Altar of Gaming person ID,Ciel d'oc ID,VideoGameGeek genre ID,GameSpot genre ID,FranceTerme identifier,DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID,monument ID in the archive of Linz
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
  • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram)
  • agent of action & agent class of action & agents of action have role (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
  • Handwriting example (Sample image of the person's handwriting.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:ACUM IDs,Mapcarta,Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID,WikiYeshiva article ID,Identifiant Say Who,VIRIN,Tabletopia game ID,Board Game Arena ID,CNES identifier,BoardGaming.com game ID,Finnish Company Number,case id (mainland China),Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes,Trakt episode ID,The Indian Express Topic ID,NWIS site ID,Hindustan Times Topic ID,Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID,Biblioteka Nauki IDs,TV Maze character ID,identifiant Prosocour d'une personne,Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID,culture.ru organization ID,365scores basketball team ID,identifiant Encyclopédie des femmes tunisiennes

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Ŝablono:LangSwitch
  • What Wikidata album languages grew the most this week? (source)
• Newestdatabase reports:Sitelinks to Wiktionary - List of Items with links to Wiktionary main space.
• Showcase Items:Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410): type of wiki page usually in main namespace (article namespace, ns=0) containing links to articles with similar names, and very little details only, use with P31 "instance of" (2024-09-02)
• Showcase Lexemes:থোড়া (L345714): Bengali verb thôṛa in English imply something that is “chopped” or “minced”

Development

• Wikidata Query Service:
  • The WMF Search Platform team is putting the finishing touches on the new Query Service servers that contain the two parts of the split graph.
  • We are analyzing which percentage of current queries are better served by other systems like the REST API or search.
• Wikimedia projects integration:
  • We have worked on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the toolbox section of the sidebar of an article. It has been rolled out to the first wikis: ukwiki, hewiki, fawiki (phab:T66315)
  • We are working on decreasing the amount of irrelevant changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co by correcting the tracking behaviour of the Lua function mw.wikibase.entity:getSitelink() (phab:T295356)
• Wikibase REST API: We continued improving errors and error messages.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:Ghana
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:أمين - RfP scheduled to end 9 September 2024 11:18 (UTC).

Events

• Next: (pt)Auditive Health Project – Workshop Wikipedia and Wikidata 10 September - Expand and contribute to articles and items on Audiology, this event will be held in 3 participating Universities in Brazil.Register on Etherpad.
• Upcoming: Theprogram for the Celtic Knot Conference 2024 is now available to view! Whether you're interested in language preservation, digital tools for minority languages, or simply connecting with like-minded individuals, there's something for everyone. The conference will take place in Waterford City from September 25-27, 2024

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • (de)TIB Blog:The TIB project WikiRemembrance - The aim of the project was to develop a handout on digital culture of remembrance in a collaborative and participatory process. The project will be ending soon and you canregister for the closing event (9 Oct 2024).
  • Correcting outdated facts in Wikidata - Anj Simmons takes us through an example of finding an outdated or inaccurate fact and correcting it with supporting references.
  • Adding citations between existing articles in Wikidata - About a command line tool written in Groovy to enrich Wikidata with citations between journal articles and other research output with DOIs
• Videos
  • Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Empowering Wikidata editors and content. Albert Meroño introduces a suite of tools to assist editors by recommending items to edit, detect poorly-supported item references and generating EntitySchemas to find items missing information.
  • (ar)Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Session 3: SPARQL Query - Houcemeddine Turki introduces how to forumlate and build SPARQL queries in the Wikidata Query Service.

Tool of the week

• User:Teester/CheckShex.js - a Userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", it uses pyshexy to validate the entity against the schema and displays whether the entity passes or fails.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• 🔥 Big changes are coming to the #WikidataQueryService. If you query for scholarly articles, please take a look atthis announcement!
• Is Shakespeare in German something for you? A digital version of the Schlegel/Tieck edition (Aufbau-Verlag 1975) was released with Wikidata connections. (source)

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
  • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
  • game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
  • Handwriting exaple (Sample image of the person's handwriting.)
• Newest External identifiers:Illinois Center for the Book author ID,Slekt og Data grave ID,‎FolkWiki ID,iasj article ID,365scores football team ID,speedrun.com series ID,All Musicals lyrics ID,MobyGames critic ID,Polygon game ID,Madain Project ID,365scores basketball player ID,FOLDOC ID,GameFAQs genre ID,Retromags game ID,Nomes e Voces ID,Altar of Gaming company ID,Altar of Gaming franchise ID,Altar of Gaming game ID,Altar of Gaming person ID,Ciel d'oc ID,VideoGameGeek genre ID,GameSpot genre ID,FranceTerme identifier,DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID,monument ID in the archive of Linz,‎Altar of Gaming character ID,WikiYeshiva article ID,Yediot Books book ID,Mapcarta ID,VIRIN,cnkgraph person ID,Tabletopia game ID,cnkgraph book ID,cnkgraph poem ID,Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID,‎CNES ID,‎Tretyakov Gallery artist ID,‎TV Maze character ID,Say Who ID,‎Finnish Business ID,Prosocour person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram)
  • agent of action & agent class of action & agents of action have role (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • magazine capacity (magazine capacity or clip size of this firearm or weapon (real or fictional))
  • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:ACUM IDs,Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID,Board Game Arena ID,BoardGaming.com game ID,case id (mainland China),Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes,Trakt episode ID,The Indian Express Topic ID,NWIS site ID,Hindustan Times Topic ID,Biblioteka Nauki IDs,Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID,culture.ru organization ID,identifiant Encyclopédie des femmes tunisiennes,LMFDB knowl ID,Athletics New Zealand athlete ID,MinDat Feature ID,BoardGameGeek game mechanic ID,Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV),Ontobee id,newgrounds.com game ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Emergency number by country size
  • Countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites
  • People with songs named after them
• Newestdatabase reports:Lexicographical data/Ideas of queries/list of sense properties
• Showcase Items:atheism (Q7066) - absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
• Showcase Lexemes:𒆠𒅅𒂵𒉘 (L1347328) - Sumerian verb, means 'to love'

Development

• (BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT) Wikidata Query Service graph split available in production; scholarly entity queries require migration by March 2025
• We ported many WikibaseLexeme browser tests from WebdriverIO to Cypress (phab:T355934)
• We’re working on improving the MUL support in the mobile termbox (phab:T373088)
• We’re updating the “label in language” constraint for MUL (phab:T370293)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country:Canada
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:Framabot 5 - Task: update a typography error in the French description of homonym pages, seen on1.
• New request for comments:Additional rights for bureaucrats - The proposal suggests allowing Wikidata bureaucrats to remove admin rights, which they currently cannot do, to streamline processes, reduce reliance on stewards, and align with practices of other wikis.
• Proposal:Mul labels - proposal of massive addition - The proposal suggests massively adding "mul" labels to Wikidata items for given and family names, using a bot to streamline the process and reduce redundant labels.

Events

• Next Linked Data for LibrariesLD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 17 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page:Session 2 (September 17) - Working session using Mix‘n’Match to add Wikidata items
• Wikidata Day 2024 (Seattle) - Agenda: Wikidata Twelfth Birthday, Training and Edit-a-thon. When: Saturday, October 26, from 12:30–4:30pm PDT

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Looking for Aotearoa's next roving Wikipedian, a Wikidata Te Papa research expeditions publication & the Wikidata WikiProject IBC follow-up workshop - The Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large worked with multiple institutions in 2024, contributing to Wikidata by improving museum exhibition models, creating articles, and collaborating on various projects, including biological field trips and entomology, while also engaging with the local Christchurch editing community.
  • Wikimedians-in-residence assigned to add lexicographical data of 5 endangered languages of West Bengal - The West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, in collaboration with Jadavpur University, has appointed five linguistics students as Wikimedians-in-residence to add lexicographical data for five endangered languages of West Bengal to Wikidata, contributing to their preservation and digital accessibility.
  • Cooperation between National Library and Wikimedia CR was presented at Wikimania 2024 - Wikimedia Czech Republic presented their long-standing collaboration with the National Library at Wikimania 2024, highlighting joint educational and community initiatives, along with additional sessions on media education and successful campaigns during the event.
  • Vacancy Wikimedian in Residence for Wikipedia on Aruba - Aruba on Wikipedia project - Wikimedia Nederland is seeking a Wikimedian in Residence for the "Wikipedia on Aruba" project, which aims to make Aruban and Dutch Caribbean culture and heritage accessible on Wikimedia platforms, with applications open until 16 September 2024.
• Presentations:The knowledge graph of Wikidata in the context of the Human Cell Atlas - presentation byTiago Lubiana (Q90076935) around their PhD defense
• Essay:User:ASarabadani (WMF)/Growth of databases of Wikidata

Tool of the week

• User:Lagewi/references.js - "Sometimes, the data on Wikidata does not answer all your questions. Some types of information are difficult to encode in statements, or simply has not been encoded on Wikidata yet. In such cases, it might be useful to go through the references attached to claims of the entity, for additional information. To simplify this process, this user script lists all unique references based onstated in (P248) andreference URL (P854). The references are listed in a collapsible list below the table of labels and descriptions, collapsed by default to not be obtrusive." To enable it, include the following line in yourcommon.js:mw.loader.load('//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lagewi/references.js&oldid=2039248554&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
  • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
  • game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
  • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
  • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
  • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
  • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
  • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • Newest External identifiers:Illinois Center for the Book author ID,Slekt og Data grave ID,‎FolkWiki ID,iasj article ID,365scores football team ID,speedrun.com series ID,All Musicals lyrics ID,MobyGames critic ID,Polygon game ID,Madain Project ID,365scores basketball player ID,FOLDOC ID,GameFAQs genre ID,Retromags game ID,Nomes e Voces ID,Altar of Gaming company ID,Altar of Gaming franchise ID,Altar of Gaming game ID,Altar of Gaming person ID,Ciel d'oc ID,VideoGameGeek genre ID,GameSpot genre ID,FranceTerme identifier,DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID,monument ID in the archive of Linz,‎Altar of Gaming character ID,WikiYeshiva article ID,Yediot Books book ID,Mapcarta ID,VIRIN,cnkgraph person ID,Tabletopia game ID,cnkgraph book ID,cnkgraph poem ID,Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID,‎CNES ID,‎Tretyakov Gallery artist ID,‎TV Maze character ID,Say Who ID,‎Finnish Business ID,Prosocour person ID,Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID,Athletics New Zealand athlete ID,Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID,‎LMFDB knowl ID,ACUM performer ID,ACUM creator/publisher ID,ACUM Work ID,ACUM album ID,culture.ru organization ID,‎Hindustan Times topic ID,Newgrounds submission ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • magazine capacity (magazine capacity or clip size of this firearm or weapon (real or fictional))
  • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • publication type of scholarly article (Publication type of scholarly article)
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this item)
  • Political foundation (The property allows a link between a political party (usually) and its related political foundation, as is common in Germany, in the Netherlands or at the European level. The reverse property ("political party" or "political party affiliation", still different from P102 which is for individual membership) would be useful too.)
  • Medietilsynets filmdatabase ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review:Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID,Board Game Arena ID,BoardGaming.com game ID,case id (mainland China),Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes,Trakt episode ID,The Indian Express Topic ID,NWIS site ID,Biblioteka Nauki IDs,MinDat Feature ID,BoardGameGeek game mechanic ID,Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV),Ontobee id,typeset.io journal ID,LWW journal ID,BioMed Central journal ID,Storia della civiltà europea ID,NooSFere editorial collection ID,e-LIS ID,Dictionnaire des guérilleros et résistants antifranquistes ID,Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID,pomniky.npmk.cz ID,FightTime fighters ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Map ofKarens /Johns per million according to Wikidata
  • People with a connection to Dresden who have an anniversary today (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:
  • Wikibooks pages - The goal is to add Wikidata items for every Wikibooks page.
  • Couchdb - This project has the purpose to investigate how having Wikidata on CouchDb could work.
  • Temporärhaus - This project is intended to document the activities in thetemporaerhaus (Q27945856) with reference to Wikidata.
• WikiProject Highlights:Ontology/Cleaning Task Force/Changes - Significant actual and proposed changes to the Wikidata ontology that have come out of the cleaning task force efforts.
• Newestdatabase reports:Wikidata Statements that use a retracted article as reference
• Showcase Items:Among Us (Q96417649) - 2018 video game developed by InnerSloth
• Showcase Lexemes:ਕਰਨ (L45436) - Punjabi verb "to do"

Development

• The development team attended the annual WMDE Software Department retreat, so there wasn't much development activity this week.

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

<translate>Discussions</translate><translate>* Closed request for adminship:Andrei Stroe - Success! WelcomeUser:Andrei Stroe as Wikidata's latest Admin.

• New requests for permissions/Bot:QichwaBot - Task(s): Creating wikidata lexemes for the Quechua languages.
• Closed request for comments:Do we want automatic inverse statement creation and if so, how should they happen? - Closed due to lack of comments for longer than five years. Despite multiple suggestions, there is no clear consensus to move forward.</translate>

<translate>Events</translate><translate>*Wikidata's 12th birthday is coming up on October 29th. Have a look at the birthday parties and more planned around the world.

• Next Linked Data for LibrariesLD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 1 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 1 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from theIRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills.Event page.</translate>

<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate><translate>* Papers

• • A Systematic Review of Wikidata in GLAM Institutions: a Labs Approach - Presents a systematic review of Wikidata use in GLAM institutions within the context of the work of the International GLAM Labs Community (glamlabs.io). The results summarise academic literature on Wikidata projects. By G. Candela et al.
  • (es)Wikidata course in Spanish: Data for collaborative knowledge - Throughout October, the WikiLearn platform is hosting a course on Wikidata aimed especially at Latin Americans.Enroll here.
  • Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing - SHADOW is a fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning, its performance is measured on a knowledge base construction task using Wikidata triple completion. By Hanna Abi Akl.
  • Using Wikidata for Managing Cultural Heritage Information - The present study uses model wikidata elements as a basis and explores its dynamic formation into a cultural heritage information management tool within a museum. By D. Kyriaki-Manessi and S. Vazaiou.
  • Enriching Archival Linked Data Descriptions with Information from Wikidata and DBpedia - This paper investigates the potential to use information in archival records in a larger context for ArchOnto and aims to leverage classes and properties sourced from repositories deemed informal due to their crowd-sourcing nature. By I. Koch et al.
  • A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords - This paper utilizes primary data sources of OBO ontologies and MeSH keywords classified using SPARQL queries for RDF knowledge graphs, to contribute to the robustness and accuracy of collaborative biomedical knowledge graphs. By H. Turki et al.
• Videos
  • Serbian Novels on Wikidata: Project wikiELTeC & Tesla Part of Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 in İstanbul, this session presented by Filip Maljković charts progress on contributing Serbian literature to Wikidata.
• Dataviz
  • Find your most famous neighbour, a world map of notable people based on Wikipedia and Wikidata.</translate>

<translate>Tool of the week</translate><translate>*Three new Userscripts for Wikidata -User:Lagewi has written 3 scripts to simplify reading references, explore property-value pairs in use for a statement or attaching a full bibliography to the end of the item page.</translate>

<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate><translate>*OpenSactions:Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories - UsingPETScan, generates a list of profiles of politically exposed persons by querying specific categories on Wikidata and extracting the entities.</translate>

<translate>Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review</translate>

• <translate>Newestproperties:</translate>
  • <translate>General datatypes: </translate>
    • game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
    • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
    • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
    • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
    • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
    • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • <translate>External identifiers: </translate>‎Altar of Gaming character ID,WikiYeshiva article ID,Yediot Books book ID,Mapcarta ID,VIRIN,cnkgraph person ID,Tabletopia game ID,cnkgraph book ID,cnkgraph poem ID,Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID,‎CNES ID,‎Tretyakov Gallery artist ID,‎TV Maze character ID,Say Who ID,‎Finnish Business ID,Prosocour person ID,Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID,Athletics New Zealand athlete ID,Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID,‎LMFDB knowl ID,ACUM performer ID,ACUM creator/publisher ID,ACUM Work ID,ACUM album ID,culture.ru organization ID,‎Hindustan Times topic ID,Newgrounds submission ID,Storia della civiltà europea ID,Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID,Linked Open Vocabularies ID,‎Ontobee ID,‎typeset.io journal ID,NooSFere editorial collection ID,pomniky.npmk.cz ID,‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID,e-LIS publication ID,GameReactor company ID

<translate>* Newproperty proposals to review:</translate><translate>** General datatypes: </translate>

• • • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
    • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
    • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
    • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
    • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
    • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
    • magazine capacity (In (real or fictional) devices like a firearm, weapon, or engineered thing, this is the default capacity or size of a devices' magazine, clip, or other container typically used to hold ammunition, bolts, cartridges, tools, etc. which pushes those items as needed usually through a spring-based mechanism into a receiver for further use by the device)
    • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
    • publication type of scholarly article (Publication type of scholarly article)
    • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this item)
    • Medietilsynets filmdatabase (identifier for a film in the Norwegian Medietilsynets database)
    • Western Australian Biographical Index (Card ID from the Western Australian Biographical Index, a set of handwritten index cards compiled in the 1970s.)
    • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
    • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
    • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)

<translate>** External identifiers:</translate>case id (mainland China),NWIS site ID,Biblioteka Nauki IDs,LWW journal ID,BioMed Central journal ID,Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID,FightTime fighters ID,Korean Basketball League ID,Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet,Chinese Basketball Association ID2,Koha Kütüphane ID,MyWaifuList character ID,FantLab artist ID,Münzkabinett,Latgales dati person ID,identifiant inventaire Grand Est,RedBA Granada authority ID,MetalTabs.com musician ID,HA! ID,Identifiant Radio France d'une émission,Identifiant France Télévisions d'une émission,beniabbandonati ID,DDB person ID,European Parliament document ID,Hlídač státu subject ID,Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense ID,Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom person ID,Cihai encyclopedia entry ID,Cihai dictionary entry ID,Duocet Wiki of Plants ID

<translate>You can comment onall open property proposals!</translate>

<translate>Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Network of European Union Independent Fiscal Institutions
  • Opera singers who are sopranos with an article on English Wikipedia
• NewestWikiProjects:
• Newestdatabase reports:Popular_items_without_claims
• Showcase Lexemes:هُئَڻُ L1126190 Sindhi verb (to be)</translate>

<translate>Development

• Search: Thehaswbstatement search magic word has been improved by the Search Platform Team. Previously it was limited in which Properties were indexed for it. Going forward haswbstatement:P123 will work for all Properties, regardless of their datatype. This will allow you to filter search results for Items that have a statement with a specific Property. (Searching for a specific complete statement with haswbstatement:P123=xxx will still only work for specific datatypes.) For this to work all Items have to be reindexed and this will take up to 1 month.
• Design system migration: We have migrated the Special:NewLexeme page from Wikit to Codex and are working on finishing the migration for the Query Builder.
• EntitySchemas: We finished the investigation about how to support search for EntitySchemas by label or alias when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement. (phab:T362005)
• Wikibase REST API: We worked on integrating language fallbacks into the API (phab:T371605)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.</translate>

<translate>Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!</translate>

<translate>Events</translate><translate>* Upcoming:

• • Wikidata Day 2024 at the Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus, New York - To celebrate Wikidata's 12th Birthday, a mini-conference with beginner workshops, lightning talks and keynote speeches will be held. October 26, 11am - 5pm EDT (UTC-4). More info, registration and full address on thisWikipedia event page.
  • The Wikidata Days 2024 in Bologna, Italy will take place on November 8th and 9th. Itsprogram revolves around Wikidata for libraries and academia, and features a wide range of Wikidata-enthusiastic librarians and researchers from Italy.Registration is open until October 31st.
  • The nextWikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in theWikidata 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.
  • Scholia hackathon on Oct 18-20, aimed at addressing changes related to the Wikidata graph split
  • Intangible Cultural Heritage on Wikidata - Hosted by Wikimedia Community Malta (WCM), November 8, 2024 18:00 - 19:00 CEST, Malta Fairs and Conference Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali, Malta
  • Edit-A-Thon: 50 States of Comics - Ohio, take part in this virtual event held October 10, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC-5).</translate>

<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate><translate>* Blogs

• • Wikidata is a giant crosswalk file dbreunig.com describes how with a little DuckDB and Ruby and data from Wikidata, you can produce a cross-walk file of geographic entities.
• Videos
  • (ru)Wikidata Reconciliation Service - This video shows how to add QID's to a large number of person-entities, add descriptions and search by full name and years of life.Wikidata reconciliation for OR (Script:Github:Podbrushkin)
  • (fr)Data recovery on Wikidata for the DataViz project - PhilippGam presents the various methods to extract and sort data from Wikidata and use the wikidataMultiSearch tool.
  • Bridging the Digital Scriptorium Data Model and Wikidata to Expand Reuse of Manuscript Metadata Rose McCandless gives this lighning talk at the LD4 2024 Conference.
• Notebooks
  • Continental and country diversity of Wikipedia art</translate>

<translate>Tool of the week</translate>

• (fr)wikidata MultiSearch - search for a list of elements in Wikidata. A GPLv3 licenced tool built by Philippe Gambette allows you to search for a list of words in Wikidata and retrieve some associated Wikidata properties.

<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate>

• Are you building applications or services with Wikidata's data?We'd love to hear from you to help us figure out the future of accessing Wikidata's data.

• Wikidata: Event Organizers - If you are organizing or thinking about planning a Wikidata event, this new page listing the additional User rights the user-role 'event organizer' has will be a valuable resource. Including the process for applying for permission rights.

<translate>Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review</translate>

<translate>* Newestproperties:

• • General datatypes:</translate>
    • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
    • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
    • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
    • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
    • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
    • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
    • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
    • publication type of scholarly work (Publication type of scholarly work)
    • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
    • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)

<translate>** External identifiers:</translate>‎Finnish Business ID,Prosocour person ID,Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID,Athletics New Zealand athlete ID,Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID,‎LMFDB knowl ID,ACUM performer ID,ACUM creator/publisher ID,ACUM Work ID,ACUM album ID,culture.ru organization ID,‎Hindustan Times topic ID,Newgrounds submission ID,Storia della civiltà europea ID,Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID,Linked Open Vocabularies ID,‎Ontobee ID,‎typeset.io journal ID,NooSFere editorial collection ID,pomniky.npmk.cz ID,‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID,e-LIS publication ID,GameReactor company ID,Latgales dati person ID,‎FantLab artist ID,RedBA Granada authority ID,‎NWIS site ID,MetalTabs.com band ID,Koha Kütüphane ID,HA! artwork ID,France television program ID,Radio France program ID,Grand Est inventory ID,Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID,Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID,‎Münzkabinett ID,MyWaifuList character ID,‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID,‎European Parliament document ID,‎Western Australian Biographical Index,beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID,beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID,Biblioteka Nauki article ID,Biblioteka Nauki journal ID,Biblioteka Nauki book ID,Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID,PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID,DDB person ID<translate>* Newproperty proposals to review:

• • General datatypes:</translate>
    • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
    • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
    • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
    • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
    • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
    • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
    • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
    • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
    • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
    • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
    • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)

<translate>** External identifiers:</translate>case id (mainland China),BioMed Central journal ID,FightTime fighters ID,Korean Basketball League ID,Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet,Chinese Basketball Association ID2,KISTI institute ID,Hlídač státu subject ID,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID,Cihai encyclopedia entry ID,Cihai dictionary entry ID,Duocet Wiki of Plants ID,Dwelly entry ID,Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID,A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID,vardnica.aizpute.lv ID,Identifiant CIRDOC d'un auteur ou d'une autrice,Identifiant CIRDOC d'un document,Department of Defense Identification Code,Identifiant d'un document audiovisuel dans le catalogue de l'Inathèque,LWW journal ID,BAHRA ID,World Historical Gazetteer place ID,Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID,AniSearch person ID,identifiant Babelio d'un sujet,Identifiant d'une personne sur Madelen,ITTF PTT ID,Push Square series ID,VG247 series ID,dtf.ru person ID

<translate>You can comment onall open property proposals!</translate>

<translate>Did you know?

• Query examples:</translate>
  • Winners of the Guillaume Apollinaire Prize (1941-2023)
  • Libraries in Argentina (on Wikidata)

<translate>* NewestWikiProjects:

• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Lingnan University Library: Wikidata Pilot Project - Creating and improving entries for Lingnan University academic staff, as well as generating entries for the Library's digital collections and Lingnan theses and dissertations.
  • French Literary Prizes - Aims to coordinate the development of a database on French literary prizes (list of prizes, jury members, list of winners)
  • Cycling: 2025 Races - documenting the the planned Cycling races for 2025.
• Newestdatabase reports:Abuse filter effectiveness - This DB report compiles a variety of statistics on combating vandalism.</translate>

<translate>Development

• Data access:
  • We have publisheda survey to better understand the future needs of application developers who want to work with Wikidata's data. Please take part if you are developing applications or services using data from Wikidata.
  • We are analyzing query logs to better understand which queries could be moved to other services in the future.
• Design system: We continued migrating the Query Builder and Special:NewLexeme from Wikit to Codex</translate>

<translate>You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look atthe tasks needing a volunteer.</translate>

<translate>Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!</translate>

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for LibrariesLD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 15 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 15 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter).https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729008000 Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA databasehttps://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page:[1]
  • The nextWikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in theWikidata 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.
  • Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday: We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to:
    • create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc.
    • add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here:Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Small data, slow data − a SNAIL approach to Wikidata: discusses the value of small, carefully curated datasets in the era of big data. It emphasizes the importance of taking a methodical, "snail-paced" approach to data collection and analysis, which can lead to more meaningful and accurate insights. The blogpost also highlights how this approach can complement the broader trends of big data, ensuring that detailed, high-quality data is not overlooked.
• Papers
  • "WoolNet: Finding and Visualising Paths in Knowledge Graphs" given two or more entities requested by a user, the system finds and visualises paths that connect these entities, forming a topical subgraph of Wikidata (Torres Gutiérrez and Hogan)
• Videos
  • Introductory workshop to Wikidata within the framework of the Latin America Contest in Wikidata 2024 (in Italian)
  • GeoPython 2024: Bridging Worlds: Python-Powered Integration of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap: This talk explores Python-powered tools that integrate Wikidata with OpenStreetMap, allowing users to link entries between the two platforms to enhance geospatial data accuracy while navigating legal and ethical challenges of cross-platform data sharing.
  • LD4 2024 Conference: Wikidata and Open Data: Enhancing the Hausa Community's Digital Presence
  • Dynamic Mapping using Collaborative Knowledge Graphs: Real-Time SKOS Mapping from Wikidata: This presentation introduces a workflow using SPARQL queries to dynamically map live Wikidata data to SKOS concepts, featuring a Python tool that converts CSV outputs into RDF triples for integration into linked data environments and knowledge graphs, emphasizing real-time data retrieval and interoperability.
  • How to add location coordinates to Wikidata Items (in Dagbanli)
  • Clean-up of problematic Dagbani lexemes:Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Documentation/Languages/dag#Maintenance_tasks (in Dagbanli)
  • How to link Wikidata Items to Wikipedia Articles
  • Best Practices to editing Dagbani Lexemes on Wikidata
• Podcasts
  • Could making Wikidata 'human' readable lead to better AI?:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Portfolio Lead Product Manager at Wikidata Deutschland, discussed a new project aimed at making Wikidata more 'human' readable for Large Language Models (LLMs), which could improve AI reliability by giving these models access to high-quality, human-curated data from Wikidata.
• Notebooks
  • Citizenship concentration in Nobel laureates
  • Continental and country diversity in Wikipedia articles

Tool of the week

• Elemwala (এলেমওয়ালা) (https://elemwala.toolforge.org): is a proof-of-concept interface that allows you to input abstract content and get natural language text in a given output language. There may well be errors with particular inputs, and the text may not be quite as natural as you might expect, but that's where your improvements to your language's lexemes, other Wikidata items, and the tool'ssourcecode come in!
• mlscores: Tool for calculating multilinguality score of Wikidata items (including properties). E.g. forWikidata (Q2013), the scores are -en: 99.66%,fr: 89.49%,es: 84.07%,pt: 68.47%. Forinstance of (P31), the scores are -en: 99.86%,fr: 87.12%,es: 80.83%,pt: 61.37%.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Launch ofWikiProject Deprecate P642: The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the propertyof (P642). Currently,of (P642) is labeled as "being deprecated", meaning its use is still allowed, but discouraged. From a peak of around 900,000 uses, the property now has around 700,000 uses (see statushere). Our goal is to reduce that as much as possible in a systematic way, while ensuring that appropriate properties exist to replace all valid uses ofof (P642). The latter is key to officially deprecating the property. Beforeremoving the property, we want to get as close to zero uses as possible.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newestproperties:
  • General datatypes:
    • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
    • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
    • publication type of scholarly work (Publication type of scholarly work)
    • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
    • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
  • External identifiers:Newgrounds submission ID,Storia della civiltà europea ID,Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID,Linked Open Vocabularies ID,‎Ontobee ID,‎typeset.io journal ID,NooSFere editorial collection ID,pomniky.npmk.cz ID,‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID,e-LIS publication ID,GameReactor company ID,Latgales dati person ID,‎FantLab artist ID,RedBA Granada authority ID,‎NWIS site ID,MetalTabs.com band ID,Koha Kütüphane ID,HA! artwork ID,France television program ID,Radio France program ID,Grand Est inventory ID,Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID,Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID,‎Münzkabinett ID,MyWaifuList character ID,‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID,‎European Parliament document ID,‎Western Australian Biographical Index,beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID,beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID,Biblioteka Nauki article ID,Biblioteka Nauki journal ID,Biblioteka Nauki book ID,Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID,PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID,DDB person ID,CIRDOC publication ID,CIRDOC author ID
• Newproperty proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
    • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
    • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
    • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
    • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
    • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
    • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
    • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
    • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
    • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
    • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
    • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
    • FAO fungal entity ID (identifier from FAO ontology for fungal gross anatomy)
    • TEES ID (Dictionary of Turkish literature works)
    • bais (Indicates a specific form of bias present in a media source, organization, or document, such as false balance, slant, or omission, affecting the representation of information.)
    • TDK lexeme ID (Dictionary created by the [[Q1569712|Turkish Language Association]])
    • Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID (Online Turkish encyclopedia created by [[Q6062914]] and [[Q19610584]])
    • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
    • Stated in unreliable source (used in the references field to refer to the database that is considered a unreliable source in which the claim is made)
  • External identifiers:case id (mainland China),BioMed Central journal ID,FightTime fighters ID,Korean Basketball League ID,Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet,Chinese Basketball Association ID2,Hlídač státu subject ID,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID,Cihai encyclopedia entry ID,Cihai dictionary entry ID,Duocet Wiki of Plants ID,Dwelly entry ID,Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID,A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID,vardnica.aizpute.lv ID,Department of Defense Identification Code,Identifiant d'un document audiovisuel dans le catalogue de l'Inathèque,LWW journal ID,BAHRA ID,World Historical Gazetteer place ID,Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID,AniSearch person ID,identifiant Babelio d'un sujet,Identifiant d'une personne sur Madelen,ITTF PTT ID,Push Square series ID,VG247 series ID,dtf.ru person ID,Identifiant Libération d’un sujet,NLI Newspaper Collection ID,Enciclopedia bresciana ID,obastan.com dictionary IDs,Israel Railways Corporation Ltd station number,Spirit of Metal band ID,Rate Your Music track ID,Legaseriea.it player ID,Identifiant Actu.fr d’un sujet,Identifiant TF1 info d’un sujet,Identifiant RTL d’un sujet,Identifiant France Info d’un sujet,graphclasses.org ID,identifiant L’Équipe d'une équipe de basketball,identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur,eHLFL ID,Journalistikon.de-ID,NRW-Archivportal-ID,Taiwan Railways station number,DVIDS unit ID,Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Amount of population in cities in Israel over the last 45 years (where this information is entered) (source)
  • Real numbers with their approximate value
  • Youngest people (born or died in Dresden) (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:
  • PatternsKilkenny - Patterns were devotional days on the day of the patron saint of a parish or area or at least an annually occurring day when the people of the locality held their personal devotions in a certain pattern (hence the name), i.e. "doing the rounds" around trees or other landmarks at the sacred site. This project tries to collate the records and memories of these patterns for County Kilkenny.
  • Deprecate P642 - The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the propertyof (P642).
  • AIDS Walks - This project aims to collaborate with Wiki editors across the globe to highlight AIDS Walks anywhere in the world.
  • Temples in Roman Britain - The aim of the Wikiproject Temples in Roman Britain is to record and catalog sacred spaces in the Roman province Britannia between 43 to 409 CE. By sacred spaces, we include (for the moment) only built structures such as temples, sanctuaries and shrines.
  • LinkedReindeersAlta - Wikidata Entry:WikiProject LinkedReindeersAlta (Q130442625) supported by theResearch Squirrel Engineers Network (Q73901970).Commons Category:Category:Rock Art of Alta
  • Nihongo - The goal of this project is to capture the Japanese LanguageJapanese (Q5287) in its entirety on Wikidata. We aim to give advice and establish standards for representing Japanese words aslexemes.
• WikiProject Highlights:Cycling/2025 teams
• Newestdatabase reports:User:Ivan A. Krestinin/Vandalized Commons links
• Showcase Items:Queen of Katwe (Q20921603) - 2016 film directed by Mira Nair
• Showcase Lexemes:kuiri (L311934) - "cook" in Esperanto

Development

• EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to find an EntitySchema by its label or aliases when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement (phab:T375641)
• Design system: We are continuing the work on migrating the Query Builder from Wikit to Codex
• REST API: We finished the work on language fallback support in the REST API (phab:T371605)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:Addshore (RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2024 18:03 UTC)
• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • CarbonBot - (1) Add default mul labels to given and family names when the item has an existing default label with a mul language (2) Remove duplicated aliases matching the items mul label, when the item has a native label in with a mul language. As mul has not been fully adopted, a limited of aliases would be modified each day to ensure existing workflows are not disrupted. It is expected that these tasks will apply to roughly 800,000 given and family names.
  • So9qBot 10 - Addfirst line (P1922) with the first line of the paper to all scientific papers which has a full text link or where the abstract is available.

Events

• Upcoming: We are getting ready forWikidata:Twelfth Birthday on the 29th October. We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to (1) create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc. (2) add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here:Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Schedule
• Past:
  • Wikidata + Wikibase office hour log (16 October 2024)
  • Scholia hackathon (18-20 October) exploring technical options for handling the Wikidata graph split

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Why and How I developed Wikidata Multilinguality Calculator - mlscores? - a Wikidata multilingual calculator to facilitate data queries in multiple languages, enhancing accessibility and usability for non-English speakers.
• Papers
  • Catalogação em dados conectados abertos: uma experiência de biblioteca universitária com a Wikidata
  • Disjointness Violations in Wikidata
  • A large collection of bioinformatics question-query pairs over federated knowledge graphs: methodology and applications
• Notebooks:Who are the most frequent guests of the show Real Time with Bill Maher?
• Videos
  • Wikidata Lexicographical Data | Lucas Werkmeister - Introduction to Wikidata Lexicographical Data to Dagbani Wikimedians]
  • Why is Wikidata important for Wikipedia in Spanish (in Spanish) - "In this workshop we will learn about the value that Wikidata can bring us when working on eswiki articles. We will learn how knowledge is shared between platforms, and how it can save a lot of work for both the Spanish Wikipedia community and other people working on an article on another Wikipedia."
  • Empowering Lexicographical Data Contributions on Wikidata with Lexica - "In this session, participants will explore the fascinating world of lexicographical data on Wikidata and learn how to contribute meaningfully using Lexica, a tool designed for easy micro-edits to Lexemes from mobile devices. We will start with a brief introduction to lexicographical data and importance of linking Lexemes to Items. Next, we’ll dive into Lexica, showcasing its key features and providing a step-by-step guide on linking Lexemes to Items on Wikidata. This hands-on workshop is open to both experienced contributors and newcomers, empowering everyone with the knowledge and skills to make impactful contributions to Wikidata’s lexicographical data. By the end of the session, participants will be ready to use Lexica to enrich language data on Wikidata."
  • Wikidata ontology, controlled vocabularies and Wikidata Graph Builder - This video talks about the Wikidata ontology, how to connect controlled vocabularies to Wikidata, and how to use the Wikidata Graph Builder
  • How to use Wikidata for GLAM institutions... - WMCEEM 2024 Istanbul - How to use Wikidata for GLAM institutions: Case Study for museums in Türkiye and person data
  • Hidden Histories: Illuminating LGBTQ+ archives at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada using Wikidata - "The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives has been strategically working to increase the discoverability, visibility, and access to collections related to marginalized communities in Southern Nevada. In the first stage of this grant-funded Wiki project, over 60 archival collections and 80 oral histories, including related people, businesses, and events associated with the Las Vegas LGBTQ+ community, have been contributed to Wikidata. In this presentation, the author continues this work by introducing UNLV's Special Collections Wiki project, "LGBTQ Hidden Histories." The presentation will discuss ongoing efforts to create, expand, and enrich linked data about the Nevada LGBTQ+ community, address challenges faced during entity extraction using archival materials, and conclude with a linked data visualization exercise using Wikiframe-VG (Wikiframe Visual Graph)."
  • Africa Wiki Women Wikidata Birthday First Session
  • Africa Wiki Women Wikidata session on creating SPARQL Queries

Tool of the week

• User:Ainali/PreViewStats.js - is a Userscript that gives a quick glance at the pageviews in the header (and links to the full views). If you install it on your global.js on meta, it works on all projects).
• Wikidata:ProVe - (Automated PROvenance VErification of Knowledge Graphs against Textual Sources) - is a tool for helping editors improve the references of Wikidata Items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Deepesha Burse joins WMDE as Developer Advocate for Wikibase Suite
• Wikibase Suite: Patch releases as the first round of patch releases for all Wikibase Suite products, including all WBS Images as well as WBS Deploy
• The CampaignEvents extension is now live on Wikidata! This means that if you are an event organizer, you can use several new tools to help manage your events more easily. By getting the Event Organizer right, you can:
  • Use simple on-wiki registration for your events.
  • Integrate Outreach Dashboard with your event registration page. (see demo)
  • Communicate more easily with your registered participants. (see demo)
  • Make your events more visible to other editors through theSpecial:AllEvents page.
  • Find potential participants for your next events. (see demo), and much more!
  • With this extension, you can also see all global events (past, present, and future) on the Special:AllEvents page, but only events using the event registration feature will appear there. If you are an organizer and want to use these new tools, follow the instructions on theWikidata:Event_Organizers page to request the Event Organizer right.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
  • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • publication type of scholarly work (type of this scholarly work (e.g. “systematic review”, “proceedings”, etc.))
  • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
  • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
• Newest External identifiers:pomniky.npmk.cz ID,‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID,e-LIS publication ID,GameReactor company ID,Latgales dati person ID,‎FantLab artist ID,RedBA Granada authority ID,‎NWIS site ID,MetalTabs.com band ID,Koha Kütüphane ID,HA! artwork ID,France television program ID,Radio France program ID,Grand Est inventory ID,Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID,Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID,‎Münzkabinett ID,MyWaifuList character ID,‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID,‎European Parliament document ID,‎Western Australian Biographical Index,beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID,beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID,Biblioteka Nauki article ID,Biblioteka Nauki journal ID,Biblioteka Nauki book ID,Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID,PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID,DDB person ID,CIRDOC publication ID,CIRDOC author ID,BAHRA ID,‎AniSearch person ID,Dwelly entry ID,Rate Your Music track ID,Spirit of Metal band ID,Madelen person ID,Babelio subject ID,Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID,World Historical Gazetteer place ID,VG247 series ID,ITTF PTT ID,Lega Serie A player ID,Push Square series ID,LWW journal ID,Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID,Enciclopedia bresciana ID,A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID,Inathèque document ID,TEES ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • FAO fungal entity ID (identifier from FAO ontology for fungal gross anatomy)
  • bais (Indicates a specific form of bias present in a media source, organization, or document, such as false balance, slant, or omission, affecting the representation of information.)
  • TDK lexeme ID (Dictionary created by the [[Q1569712|Turkish Language Association]])
  • Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID (Online Turkish encyclopedia created by [[Q6062914]] and [[Q19610584]])
  • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
  • Stated in unreliable source (used in the references field to refer to the database that is considered a unreliable source in which the claim is made)
  • Google Plus code (Identifier for a location as seen on Google Maps)
  • reversal of (reversal of, inversion of)
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement ()
• New External identifier property proposals to review:case id (mainland China),BioMed Central journal ID,FightTime fighters ID,Korean Basketball League ID,Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet,Chinese Basketball Association ID2,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID,Cihai encyclopedia entry ID,Cihai dictionary entry ID,Duocet Wiki of Plants ID,vardnica.aizpute.lv ID,Department of Defense Identification Code,dtf.ru person ID,Identifiant Libération d’un sujet,NLI Newspaper Collection ID,obastan.com dictionary IDs,Israel Railways Corporation Ltd station number,Identifiant Actu.fr d’un sujet,Identifiant TF1 info d’un sujet,Identifiant RTL d’un sujet,Identifiant France Info d’un sujet,graphclasses.org ID,identifiant L’Équipe d'une équipe de basketball,identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur,eHLFL ID,Journalistikon.de-ID,NRW-Archivportal-ID,Taiwan Railways station number,DVIDS unit ID,Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID,Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Work of Art,DDB institution ID,Steam tag ID,SWERIK Party ID,Songkick area ID,Damehåndbolddatabasen ID,KISTI institute ID,Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet,AELC author ID,Spirit of Metal IDs,Yandex Maps place ID,Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID,VK track ID,Enciclopedia medica ID,GERS ID,European Legislation Identifier,Danbooru tag,Digital LIMC ID,Health Facility Registry ID,GamersGlobal genre

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Copyright duration by Country (source)
  • The Mississippi River and its tributaries (source)
  • List of countries sorted by life expectancy
• NewestWikiProjects:Dominio Público en América Latina - The Public Domain in Latin America Wikiproject aims to improve the data available in Wikidata on authors and works of authorship in Latin America, with emphasis on copyright status to identify whether or not authors and their works are in the public domain.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • India/Reservoirs
  • Every politician/Egypt
• Newestdatabase reports:Most used properties
• Showcase Items:Moana (Q18647981): 2016 American computer animated film (2024-10-21)
• Showcase Lexemes:rehbraun (L863492): German adjective, means "light brown with a slight reddish tinge"

Development

• Vector 2020: We’re working on improving Wikibase’s dark mode support somewhat (phab:T369385)
• We polished the automatic undo/redo messages to make them more useful (phab:T194402)
• Design system: We’re close to finishing migrating Special:NewLexeme to the Codex design system
• EntitySchemas: We’re working on searching EntitySchema values by label and alias (phab:T375641)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship:Addshore (successful) - Welcome back, Adam!
• New request for comments:Discussion about remove notability for ceb-Wiki

Events

• Wikidata's 12th Birthday is almost here! Let’s celebrate together and make it unforgettable! 🎂 Join in for events happening across the globe in October & November -- there's something for everyone! Here’s how you can be part of the fun.
  • Find a local event and connect with fellow Wikidata enthusiasts!
  • Give a birthday gift to the community -- whether it's a cool new tool or something fun!
  • Join our big online celebration on October 29th -- don’t miss out!Wikidata:Twelfth_Birthday
  • Join the special WikidataQuery-party tomorrow and win some branded Wikidata socks! 🎉
• The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is taking a break from our new project series format this coming Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter) to celebrate Hallowe'en! We'll be celebrating Spooky Season with a WitchyData Working Hour! Following on Christa Strickler's recent project series, we will continue building proficiency with the Mix'n'match tool, but with a ghoulish twist. Join the fall fun by updating yourZoom background or even coming in costume. BYOC (bring your own candy). Event page:Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Wikidata Working Hours/2024-October-29 Wikidata Working Hour

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs:Wikidata celebrates 12. Birthday – These are the coolest queries from 112 million entries (in German) - "Wikidata, the world's largest free knowledge base, celebrates the 12th of October. Birthday. The open data graph for structured knowledge collects facts about numerous terms (items). Meanwhile, Wikidata includes an impressive 112 million items – and many more facts! On the occasion of Wikidata's birthday, we put the collected knowledge to the test and present the most exciting 12 queries that were created from it."
• Videos
  • 2024 Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2024 (in Chinese)
  • Wikidata Day NYC 2024 @ Pratt
  • Mapping the Accused Witches of Scotland in place and time
  • What is Wikibase and what is it used for? (in Spanish)
  • Introduction to Wikidata - Wikidata Days 2024 (First day) (in Spanish)
  • Is there a system to capture data in Wikidata automatically? (in Spanish)

Tool of the week

• Lexica – A mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels. This tool is developed by the WMDE Wikidata Software Collaboration team in Indonesia. Try Lexica through this link:https://lexica-tool.toolforge.org/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• TheGlobal Open Initiative Foundation is building an open-source web app for Supreme Court cases in Ghana. We are looking for volunteers in the following roles: Frontend Developers, Backend Developers, Wikidata/SPARQL Experts, UI/UX Designers, Quality Assurance (QA) Testers, and Legal Professionals. Join us by sendind your resume and a brief description of your expertise to globalopeninitiativeLa ŝablono {{Respondo al}} bezonas almenaŭ unu uzantnomon kiel parametron.gmail.com

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
  • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
  • publication type of scholarly work (type of this scholarly work (e.g. “systematic review”, “proceedings”, etc.))
  • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
  • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)
• Newest External identifiers:GameReactor company ID,Latgales dati person ID,‎FantLab artist ID,RedBA Granada authority ID,‎NWIS site ID,MetalTabs.com band ID,Koha Kütüphane ID,HA! artwork ID,France television program ID,Radio France program ID,Grand Est inventory ID,Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID,Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID,‎Münzkabinett ID,MyWaifuList character ID,‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID,‎European Parliament document ID,‎Western Australian Biographical Index,beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID,beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID,Biblioteka Nauki article ID,Biblioteka Nauki journal ID,Biblioteka Nauki book ID,Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID,PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID,DDB person (GND) ID,CIRDOC publication ID,CIRDOC author ID,BAHRA ID,‎AniSearch person ID,Dwelly entry ID,Rate Your Music track ID,Spirit of Metal band ID,Madelen person ID,Babelio subject ID,Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID,World Historical Gazetteer place ID,VG247 series ID,ITTF PTT ID,Lega Serie A player ID,Push Square series ID,LWW journal ID,Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID,Enciclopedia bresciana ID,A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID,Inathèque document ID,TEES ID,DVIDS unit ID,Korean Basketball League player ID,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID,‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID,Cihai encyclopedia entry ID,‎eHLFL ID,Songkick area ID,DDB institution ID,Enciclopedia medica ID,Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID,Steam tag ID,L'Équipe basketball team ID,AELC author ID,TF1 info topic ID,RTL topic ID,Actu.fr topic ID,FAO fungal entity ID,France Info topic ID,KISTI institute ID,Israel Railways station number,Digital LIMC ID,TDK lexeme ID,Yandex Maps organization ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
  • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:case id (mainland China),BioMed Central journal ID,Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet,Cihai dictionary entry ID,Duocet Wiki of Plants ID,vardnica.aizpute.lv ID,Department of Defense Identification Code,dtf.ru person ID,Identifiant Libération d’un sujet,NLI Newspaper Collection ID,obastan.com dictionary IDs,graphclasses.org ID,identifiant L'Équipe d'un basketteur,Journalistikon.de-ID,NRW-Archivportal-ID,Taiwan Railways station number,Taiwan Professional Basketball League ID,Damehåndbolddatabasen ID,Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet,Spirit of Metal IDs,Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID,VK track ID,GERS ID,European Legislation Identifier,Danbooru tag,Health Facility Registry ID,GamersGlobal genre,Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID,PublicationsList author ID,Alexander Keiller Museum ID,Archivportal-D-ID,Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative,FID performing arts agent GND ID,Бессмертный полк ID,ITV News topic ID,FightTime fighters ID,Timenote.info Person ID,Thai railway station identifier,Dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Languages with more than one writing system
  • Map of all the libraries in the world present on Wikidata
• NewestWikiProjects:Psychology - This project aims to improve items related topsychology (Q9418).
• Showcase Items:Loomio (Q15975673): decision-making software to assist groups with collaborative decision-making processes
• Showcase Lexemes:کھاوَݨ / ਖਾਵਣ (L680110) mean to "eat" in in Urdu

Development

• Vector 2022: We are continuing to make Wikidata Items pages work in dark-mode (phab:T369385)
• EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We discussed what will constitute breaking changes for the API (phab:T357775)
  • We are working on the endpoint for creating Properties (phab:T342992)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:Andrebot 2 - Task(s): Will check Romanian local election information on MongoDB against current relevant Items, where differences occur, will create new Items, link them and update associated information.
• Closed request for permissions/Bot:CarbonBot - Withdrawn by proposer.
• New request for comments:
  • Use of (P2389) as a qualifier - Shouldorganization directed by the office or position (P2389) be allowed as a qualifier?
  • Rename Peakfinder ID (P3770) - The Peakfinder website content moved to cdnrockiesdatabases.ca, the associated Property (P3770) has been relabeled tocrdb peak ID.
  • Importing WP & WMC categories into Wikidata - Project chat discussion on importing Wikipedia Category information to Wikidata items.

Events

• Wikidata 12th Birthday happened. Special thanks to all the community members who prepared a present for Wikidata's birthday. New tools, updates, games, sparkly animations and of course plenty of maps!Here's the list of presents, with all the links to try them. You can also watch thedemo of all the birthday presents in video.
• Ongoing:The Africa Wiki Women-Wikidata Birthday Contest ends tomorrow, 05.11.2024. If you're participating, now's your last chance to earn some points by addingP106 to items on African women.
• Upcoming
  • AScholia hackathon will take place on Nov 15-16 online — seeIts documentation page for details.
  • Mois de l'histoire LGBTQ+ (LGBTQ+ History month): A month-long edit-a-thon from November 1 to 30 for documenting, improving and translating articles on LGBTQ+ topics on Wikidata and French Wikimedia projects.
  • Check out the call for papers for the "Wikidata and Research" Conference! It will be held at the University of Florence in Italy on June 5-6, 2025. You can submit your papers by December 9, 2024:Wikidata and research/Call

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Is Wikibase Right for Your Project?
  • DHwiki:a new DARIAH EU-working group focusing on building bridges between different sectors - this working group acts as a bridge between GLAM institutions, DH researchers and Wikimedians.
  • Using AI to add to Wikidata - Magnus Manske discusses the challenge of integrating Wikimedia Commons artworks into Wikidata.
• Papers
  • Disjointness Violations in Wikidata Finds 51 pairs of classes on Wikidata that should be disjoint (e.g. "natural object" vs. "artificial object") but aren't, with over 10 million violations, caused by a small number of "culprits" (source)
  • Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models (source)
• Videos
  • LIVE Wikidata editing #116 at the 12th #WikidataBirthday -User:Ainali andUser:Abbe98 do some live editing (in english) on items related to Wikidata and the sister projects in celebration of Wikidata's 12th birthday.
  • Women Do News at Wikidata Day - This lightning talk from journalist Molly Stark Dean introduces the Women Do News project to increase visibility of women journalists and expand and enrich Wikipedia articles about them. The project could greatly benefit from Wikidata items being created and/or expanded.
  • Knowledge Graphs Pt.2 - Enhancing Knowledge Graphs with LLM Keywords - Valentin Buchner and Hans Mehlin describe their collaborative project between Nobel Prize Outreach (NPO) and EQT Motherbrain utilising Nobel Prize laureate’s biographies and Nobel Prize lectures.
  • (en)Introduction to Wikidata|Dagbani WM UG -User:Dnshitobu presents an introductory course to Wikidata, with many Ghanaian examples.
  • (cz)Wikidata in practice: document and library record structure and examples of data searches using WDQS - Morning lecture organised by the National Library of the Czech Republic, Wikimedia CR and the Prague organization SKIP.
  • Introduction to Wikidata and linking it to OSM - This short introduction is presented byUser:Ranjithsiji on the benefits to OpenStreetMap when connecting it to Wikidata.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata One Click Info is a multilingual extension that enables you to search for any item or word that you come across while reading or browsing online. It's an extension that makes Wikidata's data easy to retrieve and access. Install onChrome browser orFirefox browser. Ashort video about the usage of the extension.
• CAT🐈: most frequent properties a simple Observable tool which shows the most frequent properties for a set of Items.
• Are you able to learn languages with Wikidata content? In Ordia there is the "Guess Image from Pronunciation" game you can use to learn a few words from various languages.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A small project on benchmarking query engine performance on useful Wikidata queries is asking for queries from the Wikidata user community to potentially be part of the benchmark. If you are a user of any Wikidata SPARQL service please send queries that you find useful toPeter F. Patel-Schneider. Say what you used the query for and whether you would like to be noted as the source of the query. Queries that take considerable time or time out are especially welcome, particularly if the query caused you to switch from the official Wikidata Query Service to some other service. More information about the project is available inWikidata:Scaling_Wikidata/Benchmarking.

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: none
• External identifiers:DDB person (GND) ID,CIRDOC publication ID,CIRDOC author ID,BAHRA ID,‎AniSearch person ID,Dwelly entry ID,Rate Your Music track ID,Spirit of Metal band ID,Madelen person ID,Babelio subject ID,Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID,World Historical Gazetteer place ID,VG247 series ID,ITTF PTT ID,Lega Serie A player ID,Push Square series ID,LWW journal ID,Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID,Enciclopedia bresciana ID,A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID,Inathèque document ID,TEES ID,DVIDS unit ID,Korean Basketball League player ID,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID,‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID,Cihai encyclopedia entry ID,‎eHLFL ID,Songkick area ID,DDB institution ID,Enciclopedia medica ID,Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID,Steam tag ID,L'Équipe basketball team ID,AELC author ID,TF1 info topic ID,RTL topic ID,Actu.fr topic ID,FAO fungal entity ID,France Info topic ID,KISTI institute ID,Israel Railways station number,Digital LIMC ID,TDK lexeme ID,Yandex Maps organization ID,FightTime fighters ID,Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID,Cihai dictionary entry ID,Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID,L'Équipe basketball player ID,Damehåndbolddatabasen ID,Journalistikon.de ID,graphclasses.org ID,Taiwan Professional Basketball League player ID,PublicationsList author ID,Monument Counter ID,Spirit of Metal album ID,Spirit of Metal style ID,Spirit of Metal artist ID,Spirit of Metal label ID,Spirit of Metal place ID,Libération topic ID,Azerbaijani Explanatory Dictionary ID,Azerbaijani Dialect Dictionary ID,Azerbaijani Phraseology Dictionary ID,Lezgian Explanatory Dictionary ID,VK Music track ID,Taiwan Railways (TR) station number,GamersGlobal genre,Archivportal NRW ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
    • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
  • Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • TOPO id (unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...))
  • ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
  • romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
  • GND-BEACON-URL (URL of a website's BEACON file)
• New External identifier property proposals to review:case id (mainland China),BioMed Central journal ID,Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet,Duocet Wiki of Plants ID,vardnica.aizpute.lv ID,Department of Defense Identification Code,dtf.ru person ID,NLI Newspaper Collection ID,Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet,GERS ID,European Legislation Identifier,Danbooru tag,Health Facility Registry ID,Alexander Keiller Museum ID,Archivportal-D-ID,Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative,FID performing arts agent GND ID,Бессмертный полк ID,ITV News topic ID,Timenote.info Person ID,Thai railway station identifier,Dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID,Resistance in Belgium ID,Comprehensive Information System on Korean Historical Figures ID,SNCF station trigram,The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID,DBIS ID,ISFDB editorial collection ID,Game Jolt username,ANID Researcher Portal ID,Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID,Identifiant Mediapart d'un blogueur,WikiBaseball ID,Kultboy editor ID,TMDB network ID,identifiant Centre d'études Picasso,ILEC World Lake Database ID,Indo-European Lexicon ID,SGES monument ID,Ranker ID,Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID,Presisov večjezični slovar ID,Usito,Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID,FVDP Vietnamese dictionary ID

You can comment onall open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Individual animals counted per species,list of these individual animals
  • Chronology of deaths of mathematicians, with their theorems (source)
• NewestWikiProjects:AveburyPapers - The Avebury Papers is a collaborative UKRI-funded research project between University of York; University of Bristol; the National Trust; English Heritage; and Historic England. As part of this project, the team are doing several tasks which are generating data, some of which will be shared via Wikidata, in an effort to link parts of the Avebury collection with other collections.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • India/Schools - focused on school in India
  • 2025 video games - dedicated to the world of video games in 2025
• Newestdatabase reports:Count of lexemes without senses
• Showcase Items:2024 United States presidential election (Q101110072) - 60th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
• Showcase Lexemes:Katze (L352) - "domesticated feline animal" in German

Development

• Mobile statement editing: We are making progress on the technical investigation for how to make it easier to edit statements on mobile. A lot more work to be done after that though.
• We fixed the sidebar link to the main page in many languages (phab:T184386)
• Codex: We are continuing with the migration of the Query Builder to Codex, the new design system. The migration of Special:NewLexeme is almost finished.
• Query Service: We have updated the list of languages for the language selector in the UI (phab:T358572)
• Vector 2022: We are continuing to adress issues of the Item UI in dark mode (phab:T369385)
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We are moving from v0 to v1.
  • We have finished the work on the new endpoint for creating Properties.
• Action API: We’re improving the way the wbformatvalue API handles invalid options (phab:T323778)

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

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listedabove.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexemeabove.
• Summarize yourWikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Helptranslate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Helpwrite the next summary!

Events

• Upcoming
  • Scholia Hackathon on November 15-16 (online)
  • Black Teacher Archive Wikidata Edit-a-thon - 19 November 2024, 9am - 12pm, Address: Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA. Improve information about individual educators and their relationships with Colored Teachers Associations, HBCUs, the Divine Nine, religious institutions, and political organizations like the NAACP and Urban League.
  • (German)Seminar: Using wikibase as an integration platform for morphosyntactic and semantic annotations of Akkadian texts - 19.11.2024, 16:00 - 18:00 CET (UTC+1), held at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin)
  • Wikidata in dance workshop - 3 December 2024, 1pm EST (UTC+5). A step-by-step workshop for members of the Canadian Dance Assembly. A free, expert-led series on how open data can benefit dance companies and artists.
  • Save the date: Wikimedia Hackathon to be held in Istanbul, Turkey on May 2 - 4, 2025
  • Apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2025 Scholarships open: 7th November-8th December 2024

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Bridging language gaps: How Wikidata promotes languages on the Internet (in German) about theSoftware Collaboration Project for Wikidata
  • Swiss server helps optimise Wikidata in the field of medicine - Wikimedia CH supporting Houcemeddine Turki in leveraging AI to transform Wikidata into a comprehensive, reliable biomedical resource, to bridge healthcare information gaps, especially in the Global South.
  • The story of African award winning scientists using Wikifunctions
• Videos
  • Wikidata's 12th birthday presents demos
  • (es)Open data for journalistic investigation: The cases of Wikidata and Poderopedia - This session held by Monica Ventura and Carla Toro discusses how open-data allow transparent analysis and evidence-based storytelling, enabling journalists to explore and verify complex information connections.
  • (it)AuthorityBox & Alphabetica - The use of Wikidata's data in the Alphabetica portal and in theSBN AuthorityBox gadget that can be activated via Code Injector in theSBN OPAC.
  • Semantic Wikibase - Kolja Bailly presents this session during the MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference Fall 2024 (Day 3).
  • (zh-TW)Wikidata lexeme editing demonstration - Wikidata Taiwan provide a demonstration to lexeme editing.
  • (es)OpenRefine - Wikidata Days 2024 - Conducted by Omar Vega from Wikimedia Peru, learn how to create a project with a list, clean and collate data, create a Wikidata schema and upload using QuickStatements.
  • (es)Merging duplicate Items in Wikidata
  • Introduction to Wikidata for Beginners in the Mabia communities

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Edits Heatmap: Real-time map that visualizes recent changes in Wikidata with geospatial markers showing the location of updated Items.
• Western world versus the rest of the world: a tool computing the distribution of mentioned entities in Wikipedia articles between Western world and the rest of the world.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Starting ca. today (Ŝablono:ISOdate), tools or bots which use thewiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected.
• Job vacancyProduct Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikibase Suite allows institutions to create and host their own linked knowledge base with maximum customizability, this role will be responsible for the vision and strategy of this exciting product!

Newestproperties andproperty proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes: none
• External identifiers:BAHRA ID,‎AniSearch person ID,Dwelly entry ID,Rate Your Music track ID,Spirit of Metal band ID,Madelen person ID,Babelio subject ID,Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID,World Historical Gazetteer place ID,VG247 series ID,ITTF PTT ID,Lega Serie A player ID,Push Square series ID,LWW journal ID,Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID,Enciclopedia bresciana ID,A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID,Inathèque document ID,TEES ID,DVIDS unit ID,Korean Basketball League player ID,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID,Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID,‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID,Cihai encyclopedia entry ID,‎eHLFL ID,Songkick area ID,DDB institution ID,Enciclopedia medica ID,Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID,Steam tag ID,L'Équipe basketball team ID,AELC author ID,TF1 info topic ID,RTL topic ID,Actu.fr topic ID,FAO fungal entity ID,France Info topic ID,KISTI institute ID,Israel Railways station number,Digital LIMC ID,TDK lexeme ID,Yandex Maps organization ID,FightTime fighters ID,Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID,Cihai dictionary entry ID,Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID,L'Équipe basketball player ID,Damehåndbolddatabasen ID,Journalistikon.de ID,graphclasses.org ID,Taiwan Professional Basketball League player ID,PublicationsList author ID,Monument Counter ID,Spirit of Metal album ID,Spirit of Metal style ID,Spirit of Metal artist ID,Spirit of Metal label ID,Spirit of Metal place ID,Libération topic ID,Azerbaijani Explanatory Dictionary ID,Azerbaijani Dialect Dictionary ID,Azerbaijani Phraseology Dictionary ID,Lezgian Explanatory Dictionary ID,VK Music track ID,Taiwan Railways (TR) station number,GamersGlobal genre,Archivportal NRW ID,Department of Defense Identification Code,Health Facility Registry ID,BioMed Central journal ID,Immortal Regiment ID,dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID,Eurotopics ID,TMDB network ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
  • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
  • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
  • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
  • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
  • beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
  • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
  • most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
  • rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
  • prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
  • operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
  • effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
  • Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
  • Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
  • TOPO id (unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...))
  • ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
  • romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
  • GND-BEACON-URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file)
  • Railway station linear reference (line & milestone) (Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure.A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.)
  • Data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
  • Use data collection instrument (Tool used by/in the subject to facilitate the collection of qualitative or quantitative data)
  • Data collection method (scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject)
  • World Snooker Tour tournament ID (Identifier for a tournament on the main website of World Snooker Tour (official site))
• New External identifier property proposals to review:case id (mainland China),Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet,Duocet Wiki of Plants ID,vardnica.aizpute.lv ID,dtf.ru person ID,NLI Newspaper Collection ID,Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet,GERS ID,European Legislation Identifier,Danbooru tag,Alexander Keiller Museum ID,Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative,ITV News topic ID,Timenote.info Person ID,Thai railway station identifier,Resistance in Belgium ID,Comprehensive Information System on Korean Historical Figures ID,SNCF station trigram,The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID,DBIS ID,ISFDB editorial collection ID,Game Jolt username,ANID Researcher Portal ID,Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID,Identifiant Mediapart d'un blogueur,WikiBaseball ID,Kultboy editor ID,identifiant Centre d'études Picasso,ILEC World Lake Database ID,Indo-European Lexicon ID,SGES monument ID,Ranker ID,Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID,Presisov večjezični slovar ID,Usito,Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID,FVDP Vietnamese dictionary ID,FNAC author ID,CAMRA Experience pub ID 2,Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID,Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID,Everand author ID,Phish.net Venue ID,El Moudjahid tag ID,bruker-ID i Store norske leksikon,teams.by national team ID,Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID,Measuring points uuid,DEX '09 entry ID,Marktstammdatenregisternummer (Einheit),Paramount+ video ID,Gerbang Kata ID,World Women's Snooker player ID,Chinese Basketball Association player ID,NBA G League player ID,Basketballnavi.DB player ID,Football Kit Archive ID