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== Wikidata weekly summary #658 ==
== ''This Month in GLAM'': October 2024 ==


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''' Discussions '''
* ]: Wiki Loves Monuments in Albania and Kosovo, 2024
* 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.
* ]: Amazon holotypes: how the species were discovered
* Closed request for permissions/Bot: ] - ''Withdrawn by submitter''
* ]: FIMS Graduate Library Wiki Club Lunch & Learn
* ]: ¿Por qué y para qué usar Wikidata en Colombia? / Why and for what purpose should Wikidata be used in Colombia?
* ]: Empowering Italian GLAMs
* ]: Edit-a-thon at the City Museum of Mitrovica
* ]: Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia
* ]: Highlights from the Third Wiki Loves Fashion Campaign in the Netherlands
* ]: Auckland Museum Wikimedian in Residence, Te Maori edit-a-thons & NZ Species edit-a-thons
* ]: WIKIMEDIA MKD's successful GLAM programme!
* ]: What's up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland
* ]: General Archive of the Palace
* ]: Memory of the World baseline
* ]: October meetups
* ]: BHL-Wiki Working Group October monthly highlights
* ]: European encounters
* ]: Baseline report
* ]: Wikidata's 12th birthday celebration
* ]: November's GLAM events


''' Events '''
]:
* 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. ]
*

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Papers
** ], December 12, 2024, '']''
** 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: - Wikimedia Deutschland's ] and Philippe Saadé talk about ].

''' 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)
* : looking at references for a set of Wikidata items

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
*
* 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 '''
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* Newest General datatypes:
** ] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<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>country specific tax status of non-profit organisations</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Gʻafur Rahimov</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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You can comment on ]!

''' Did you know? '''
* Query examples:
** (select decade on the right side)
**
**
* WikiProject Highlights:
** ]
** ] - 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 '''
* Wikibase REST API: We prototyped search support for the REST API and would like ].
* 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 (]) and if there are any alternatives to the library used for the graph builder in the Query Service (])
* Under the hood: We are optimizing the server setup for the term store to accommodate its growth (])

]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .

''' Weekly Tasks '''
* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ].
* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country:
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
* ] across Wikimedia projects.
* Help ]
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== Wikidata weekly summary #653 == == Wikidata weekly summary #659 ==


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] ]
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'' Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the<br>week leading up to 2024-11-11. Missed the previous one? See issue ]''</div> <div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'' Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the<br>week leading up to 2024-12-23. Missed the previous one? See issue ]''</div>
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''' Discussions '''
''' ] '''
* New request for comments:
* Upcoming
** ] - Should scope of league or ] include forms and aspects?
** ] on November 15-16 (online)
** ]
** - 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) - 19.11.2024, 16:00 - 18:00 CET (UTC+1), held at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin)
''' Events '''
** - 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.
* 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.
**
* ]: ] - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program ] until January 12th.
** Scholarships open: 7th November-8th December 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!"
** (in German) about the
** , by Magnus Manske
** - 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.
* Papers:
**
* Videos: (Spanish)
* Videos
**
** (es) - 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) - The use of Wikidata's data in the Alphabetica portal and in the ] gadget that can be activated via Code Injector in the .
** - Kolja Bailly presents this session during the MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference Fall 2024 (Day 3).
** (zh-TW) - Wikidata Taiwan provide a demonstration to lexeme editing.
** (es) - 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)
**


''' 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.
* : Real-time map that visualizes recent changes in Wikidata with geospatial markers showing the location of updated Items.
* Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL)
* : a tool computing the distribution of mentioned entities in Misplaced Pages articles between Western world and the rest of the world.


''' 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.
* Starting ca. today ({{date|2024-11-11}}), tools or bots which use the ] (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (]). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected.
* Job vacancy : 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!


''' 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>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 an online service's BEACON file</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>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.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Tool used by/in the subject to facilitate the collection of qualitative or quantitative data</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for a tournament on the main website of World Snooker Tour (official site)</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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''' Did you know? ''' ''' Did you know? '''
* Query examples: * Query examples:
** (in this case Danish since 01.11.2024) **
** ()
** - try changing the wd: Wikidata item to another country, city, or even a building or natural location.
** ()
* Newest ]:
** (])
** ] - public artworks and memorials in Suriname
* WikiProject Highlights: ]
** ] - A WikiProject for work underway at the ] to connect HDF data with Wikidata.
**
** ] - Aims to coordinate the development of a database on French literary prizes (prize list, jury members, list of winners). In 2008, Bertrand Labes listed more than 1,500 French-speaking literary prizes. To date, Wikidata has 709, including 24 including the list of winners and awarded works.
* Newest ]: (using Toolforge tool 'Orthohin') * Newest ]: () (replace 2x the "nl" into the language code of your language)
* ]: ] - Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669) * ]: ] - American global aerospace and defense corporation
* ]: ] - 'life' in Punjabi * ]: ] - 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.
* Lua: We changed the Wikibase function ''getAllStatements'' logic to behave as ''getBestStatements''. When invoked, it was returning mutable direct-values, now it will return a copy of those values (which are immutable). (])
* Wikibase REST API:
**
** We've finished the work on the create Property endpoint so it is now possible to create Properties via the REST API.
* Configuration: We removed 'mainpage' from $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for Wikidata as requested so translations of the main page are available (])
* mul language code: We moved it to the top of the termbox so labels and aliases in mul are visible first (])
* Revision table size: We are investigating the current state of the revision table of Wikidata's database and what the next steps should be to address its issues.


]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at . ]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .
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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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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)

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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

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