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== Wikidata weekly summary #658 ==
== Invitation to participate in a research ==

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''' Discussions ''' ''' Discussions '''
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Is a selfmade chatbot to answer factual questions as part of a final research project for educational purposes.
* Closed request for adminship: ] (successful) - Welcome back, Adam!
* Closed request for permissions/Bot: ] - ''Withdrawn by submitter''
* New request for comments: ]

''' Events '''
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* Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 17 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET () Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series to help us prepare relevant materials for you. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. ]
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''' ] '''
* 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! ]
** Join the special Wikidata 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 () 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 your or even coming in costume. BYOC (bring your own candy). Event page: ]
''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Papers
* Blogs: (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."
** ], December 12, 2024, '']''
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** Baptiste de Coulon, "Les don­nées liées, Wikidata et les archi­ves : une oppor­tu­nité de contri­bu­tion aux com­muns numé­riques". In: ], n°271, 2024-2, p.37-56 (free access online after 3 years).
* Videos
* Videos: - Wikimedia Deutschland's ] and Philippe Saadé talk about ].
** (in Chinese)
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''' Tool of the week ''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* - checks if SPARQL query results conform to a provided schema by validating data and highlighting potential errors, such as missing properties, invalid values, or too many values, with the option to refine the schema if issues arise. (A major update to the current ShEx validator that is expected to get integrated into the existing validator soon)
* ] – 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/
* : looking at references for a set of Wikidata items


''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
*
* The ] 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 globalopeninitiative{{@}}gmail.com
* The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) is launching the Entity Management Cooperative (EMCO) program in 2025, aiming to unify entity management across the semantic web, including registries like Wikidata. .
* The Biodiversity Heritage Library Working Group has set up ]<nowiki/>o coordinate contributions across projects, including Wikidata


''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' ''' Newest ] and ] to review '''
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* Newest General datatypes: * Newest General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>(qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value</nowiki>) ** ] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>type of this scholarly work (e.g. “systematic review”, “proceedings”, etc.)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of non-profit organisations</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Gʻafur Rahimov</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>difficulty of word by the level of JLPT</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Classification of a beer based on its style</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Notable software forks of this software</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Digital memorial for women killed by violence</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>A database containing data on European media.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>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.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>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)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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''' Did you know? ''' ''' Did you know? '''
* Query examples: * Query examples:
** ** (select decade on the right side)
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* Newest ]: ] - This project aims to improve items related to ].
* WikiProject Highlights:
* ]: ]: decision-making software to assist groups with collaborative decision-making processes
** ]
* ]: ] mean to "eat" in in Urdu
** ] - a compilation of information on the subject of Taroko culture, including statistics and records of activities.
* Newest ]:
* ]: ] - 2016 film directed by James Bobin where now 22-year-old Alice comes across a magical looking glass that takes her back to Wonderland.
* ]: ] - Persian noun, translates to "hydro-seismometer"


''' Development ''' ''' Development '''
* Wikibase REST API: We prototyped search support for the REST API and would like ].
* Vector 2022: We are continuing to make Wikidata Items pages work in dark-mode (])
* Property Suggestions: We updated the underlying data so you should have more up-to-date suggestions again when making new statements.
* 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
* EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by their label and aliases when linking to them in a statement.
* Wikibase REST API:
* Query Service: We are investigating if we can do something about the issue where not all edgeLabels are shown on a graph visualisation (]) and if there are any alternatives to the library used for the graph builder in the Query Service (])
** We discussed what will constitute breaking changes for the API (])
** We are working on the endpoint for creating Properties (]) * Under the hood: We are optimizing the server setup for the term store to accommodate its growth (])


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* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ]. * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ].
* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country:
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences. * Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! * Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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== WikiCup 2024 November newsletter ==

The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AirshipJungleman29}}, who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|BeanieFan11}}, who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}} scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Sammi Brie}} with 879 points, {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Hey man im josh}} with 533 points, {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|BennyOnTheLoose}} with 432 points, {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Arconning}} with 244 points, and {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AryKun}} with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Misplaced Pages has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

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*{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}} wins the featured article prize for 3 FAs in round 4, and 7 FAs overall.
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*{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Hey man im josh}} wins the featured content reviewer prize for 110 FA/FL reviews overall.
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Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to ''']'''; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2025 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

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== Wikidata weekly summary #652 ==


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''' Discussions ''' ''' Discussions '''
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - 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: ] - Withdrawn by proposer.
* New request for comments: * New request for comments:
** ] - Should ] be allowed as a qualifier? ** ] - Should scope of league or ] include forms and aspects?
** ]
** ] - The Peakfinder website content moved to cdnrockiesdatabases.ca, the associated Property (]) has been relabeled to ''crdb peak ID''.
** ] - Project chat discussion on importing Misplaced Pages Category information to Wikidata items.


''' ] ''' ''' Events '''
* Ongoing: - ] continues his initiative, "Wikidata Cleanup," to coordinate community efforts in addressing the problem of items missing basic properties during the last ten days of 2024, when many users have extra time due to holidays. The aim is to improve data quality by focusing on ensuring all items have essential properties like "instance of" (P31) or "subclass of" (P279), adding relevant country and location data, and maintaining consistency within item series.
* 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! ]. You can also watch the ].
* ]: ] - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program ] until January 12th.
* Ongoing: ] ends tomorrow, 05.11.2024. If you're participating, now's your last chance to earn some points by adding ] to items on African women.
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** A ] hackathon will take place on Nov 15-16 online &mdash; see ] for details.
** ]: 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: ]


''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs * Blogs
** , by Tara Calishain. "This time I'm playing with a way to browse YouTube channels while using Wikidata as context. And you can try it too, because it doesn't need any API keys!"
**
** , by Magnus Manske
** - this working group acts as a bridge between GLAM institutions, DH researchers and Wikimedians.
* Papers:
** - Magnus Manske discusses the challenge of integrating Wikimedia Commons artworks into Wikidata.
* Videos: (Spanish)
* Papers
** 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" ()
** Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models ()
* Videos
** - ] and ] do some live editing (in english) on items related to Wikidata and the sister projects in celebration of Wikidata's 12th birthday.
** - This lightning talk from journalist Molly Stark Dean introduces the Women Do News project to increase visibility of women journalists and expand and enrich Misplaced Pages articles about them. The project could greatly benefit from Wikidata items being created and/or expanded.
** - 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) - ] presents an introductory course to Wikidata, with many Ghanaian examples.
** (cz) - Morning lecture organised by the National Library of the Czech Republic, Wikimedia CR and the Prague organization SKIP.
** - This short introduction is presented by ] on the benefits to OpenStreetMap when connecting it to Wikidata.


''' Tool of the week ''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* is an Ordia game. Given the start part of a word, use the spacebar to move the word and hit the next part of the word. Only hyphenations described with the Unicode hyphenation character work.
* ] 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 on or . A about the usage of the extension.
* Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL)
* 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 "" game you can use to learn a few words from various languages.


''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
* ]: Wikibase Suite's contributing guide has been published. This guide aims to help anyone who wants to contribute and make sure they are equipped with all the relevant information to do so.
* 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 to . 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 in ].


''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' ''' Newest ] and ] to review '''

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* Newest General datatypes: none * Newest General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
* External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this organization</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>difficulty of word by the level of JLPT</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>classification of a beer based on its style</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Notable software forks of this software</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>A database containing data on European media.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>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.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>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)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>URL of a website's BEACON file</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* Newest ]: ] - 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.
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** ] - focused on school in India * WikiProject Highlights: ]
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* ]: ] - 60th quadrennial U.S. presidential election * ]: ] - American global aerospace and defense corporation
* ]: ] - "domesticated feline animal" in German * ]: ] - Christmas greeting in Danish


''' Development ''' ''' Development '''
* With the winter holidays upon us, the development team is taking a break, and there will be no deployments for Wikidata during this time.
* 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 (])
* 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 (])
* Vector 2022: We are continuing to adress issues of the Item UI in dark mode (])
* 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 (])


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* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
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Wikidata weekly summary #658

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #657

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: PWSBot - Task(s): Is a selfmade chatbot to answer factual questions as part of a final research project for educational purposes.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: CarbonBot - Withdrawn by submitter

Events Upcoming events:

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 17 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (Time zone converter) Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series Etherpad to help us prepare relevant materials for you. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page
  • 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - register now

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Tabular Online Validator - checks if SPARQL query results conform to a provided schema by validating data and highlighting potential errors, such as missing properties, invalid values, or too many values, with the option to refine the schema if issues arise. (A major update to the current ShEx validator that is expected to get integrated into the existing validator soon)
  • CAT🐈: Overview if references: looking at references for a set of Wikidata items

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We prototyped search support for the REST API and would like your feedback on it.
  • Property Suggestions: We updated the underlying data so you should have more up-to-date suggestions again when making new statements.
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by their label and aliases when linking to them in a statement.
  • Query Service: We are investigating if we can do something about the issue where not all edgeLabels are shown on a graph visualisation (phab:T381857) and if there are any alternatives to the library used for the graph builder in the Query Service (phab:T381764)
  • Under the hood: We are optimizing the server setup for the term store to accommodate its growth (phab:T351802)

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

Weekly Tasks

· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:56, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #659

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #658

Discussions

Events

  • Ongoing: Wikidata Cleanup 2024 - Romaine continues his initiative, "Wikidata Cleanup," to coordinate community efforts in addressing the problem of items missing basic properties during the last ten days of 2024, when many users have extra time due to holidays. The aim is to improve data quality by focusing on ensuring all items have essential properties like "instance of" (P31) or "subclass of" (P279), adding relevant country and location data, and maintaining consistency within item series.
  • Upcoming events: Data Reuse Days - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program on the talk page until January 12th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Flying Dehyphenator is an Ordia game. Given the start part of a word, use the spacebar to move the word and hit the next part of the word. Only hyphenations described with the Unicode hyphenation character work.
  • Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? Wiki Year In Review has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikibase/Suite-Contributing-Guide: Wikibase Suite's contributing guide has been published. This guide aims to help anyone who wants to contribute and make sure they are equipped with all the relevant information to do so.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • With the winter holidays upon us, the development team is taking a break, and there will be no deployments for Wikidata during this time.

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

Weekly Tasks

· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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