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== Wikidata weekly summary # |
== Wikidata weekly summary #658 == | ||
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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- |
<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 2024-12-16. Missed the previous one? See issue ]''</div> | ||
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''' Discussions ''' | ''' Discussions ''' | ||
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): |
* 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* Closed request for permissions/Bot: ] - ''Withdrawn by submitter'' | |||
* Closed request for comments: ] - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights. | |||
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''' Events ''' | ||
]: | |||
* Upcoming | |||
* 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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** Save the date: the ], an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already ]. | |||
** Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 3 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 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 to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024, at our regular time of 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET. ] | |||
** ] This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024 | |||
''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' | ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' | ||
* Blogs | |||
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** : Bringing Wild West performers to Wikidata. Author Jason Sharp documents their experience adding legendary showman Buffalo Bill to Wikidata. | |||
** The ] has enrolled a Wikimedian-in-Residence with a focus on Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons. | |||
* Papers | * Papers | ||
** ], December 12, 2024, '']'' | |||
** - examines how integrating Wikidata into libraries enhances resource discoverability, fosters interoperability, and empowers users within a global knowledge network. By Okuonghae, O. (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). | |||
** - approaches to representing weaker logical status (WLS) information in Wikidata, finding limited usage, variations and ambiguities between datasets, and proposes improvements for clarity and accuracy. By Di Pasquale et al.(2024) | |||
* Videos: - Wikimedia Deutschland's ] and Philippe Saadé talk about ]. | |||
* Books: : contains many references to the use of Wikidata in cataloguing | |||
* Videos | |||
** (Portuguese) - Part of the “Introduction to digital platforms for research” sessions for the Centro Luís Krus of NOVA FCSH. Practical exercises for data reconciliation from the Portuguese Early Music Database using the OpenRefine tool. | |||
** - Cuneyt Tyler presents 'Semantic Space', a project using Dbpedia and Wikidata to enhance the user experience browsing articles on the web. | |||
** - Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata make great bedfellows. Margaret Donald shows how to create Commons categories, create structured data and link categories to Wikidata. | |||
** : building community through a named entity Wikibase. Experiences of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives setting up the WikiNames Wikibase instance and breaking down knowledge silos | |||
* Podcast series: including "Episode 5 -- Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with ]" | |||
* Other | |||
** ] | |||
** ], presentation by ] at ], Lyon, November 23, 2024. | |||
''' 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) | |||
* is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts. | |||
* : looking at references for a set of Wikidata items | |||
* is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export () | |||
* is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. () | |||
''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' | ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' | ||
* | |||
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* 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> |
** ] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>) | ||
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ] | |||
**] (<nowiki>ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing</nowiki>) | |||
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] | |||
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: | * 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> |
**] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of non-profit organisations</nowiki>) | ||
**] (<nowiki> |
**] (<nowiki>Gʻafur Rahimov</nowiki>) | ||
**] (<nowiki> |
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>) | ||
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] | |||
**] (<nowiki>academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.)</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC)</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>number of non-binary people inhabiting the place</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.</nowiki>) | |||
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] | |||
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** ] - 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 ''' | |||
* Newest ]: | |||
* Wikibase REST API: We prototyped search support for the REST API and would like ]. | |||
** ] - WikiProject for the coordination of data ingests and Misplaced Pages workshops related to the official bibliography of the ], operated by ] (Switzerland) | |||
* Property Suggestions: We updated the underlying data so you should have more up-to-date suggestions again when making new statements. | |||
** ] - collects information related to the Ami culture, including statistics and activity records. | |||
* 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. | |||
** ] - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc...) relating to Rwanda ] | |||
* 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 (]) | |||
* Newest ]: ] | |||
* Under the hood: We are optimizing the server setup for the term store to accommodate its growth (]) | |||
* ]: ] - cave with cave paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina | |||
* ]: ] - Polish adjective that can mean "impudent" or "brazen" in English | |||
]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at . | |||
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* 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. | |||
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''' Discussions ''' | |||
* New request for comments: | |||
** ] - Should scope of league or ] include forms and aspects? | |||
** ] | |||
''' 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. | |||
* ]: ] - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program ] until January 12th. | |||
''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' | |||
* 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 | |||
* Papers: | |||
* Videos: (Spanish) | |||
''' 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. | |||
* Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL) | |||
''' 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. | |||
''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' | |||
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* Newest General datatypes: | |||
**] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<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: | |||
**] (<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 organisations like non-profits</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki></nowiki>) | |||
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] | |||
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* WikiProject Highlights: ] | |||
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* Newest ]: () (replace 2x the "nl" into the language code of your language) | |||
* ]: ] - American global aerospace and defense corporation | |||
* ]: ] - 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. | |||
* Wikidata Query Service: The ] have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "]" into the scholarly article graph. | |||
* Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (]) | |||
* EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label and aliases when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema.(]) | |||
* Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. (], ]) | |||
* Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (] but first need to improve the underlying scripts (]) | |||
* Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (]) | |||
* Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table. | |||
]. 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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* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. | * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. | ||
* Govdirectory weekly focus country: |
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* 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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- Voluntary RfAs after resignation
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Wikidata weekly summary #658
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek 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
- Papers
- Are Misplaced Pages articles representative of Western or world knowledge?, December 12, 2024, The Signpost
- Baptiste de Coulon, "Les données liées, Wikidata et les archives : une opportunité de contribution aux communs numériques". In: La Gazette des archives, n°271, 2024-2, p.37-56 (free access online after 3 years).
- Videos: AWS re:Invent 2024 - Wikimedia Deutschland's Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) and Philippe Saadé talk about d:Wikidata:Embedding Project.
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
- Now Hiring: OpenRefine Developer & Contributor Engagement
- 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. Volunteers, including those with prior experience in PCC’s ISNI or Wikidata pilots, are invited to join the Early Adopters Phase by January 17, 2025.
- The Biodiversity Heritage Library Working Group has set up a page on Meta to coordinate contributions across projects, including Wikidata
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- bequest income (the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe)
- Newest External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID, PUG authority ID, Three Decks class ID, Vidas author ID, Usito ID, ZSL authority ID, Collectie Nederland ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- About box (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))
- nonprofit tax status (country specific tax status of non-profit organisations)
- Рахимов, Гафур Рахимович (Gʻafur Rahimov)
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Three Decks conflict ID, Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), JudaicaLink person ID, Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Norsk oversettterleksikon ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, Kamus Pelajar Edisi Kedua ID, Berlinische Galerie object ID, Singapore Unique Entity Number, Lyricfind artist ID, HonestGamers game ID, identifiant MACM d'un artisite, Syrian Memory person ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Paris Match ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, DOSBox Wiki, Identifiant Cimetières de France
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Chemistry/Elements
- Taiwan/Truku - a compilation of information on the subject of Taroko culture, including statistics and records of activities.
- Newest database reports: Dagbani Lexemes with Glosses which are the same as the Lemma
- Showcase Items: Alice Through the Looking Glass (Q17485699) - 2016 film directed by James Bobin where now 22-year-old Alice comes across a magical looking glass that takes her back to Wonderland.
- Showcase Lexemes: آبلرزهیاب (L744998) - Persian noun, translates to "hydro-seismometer"
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
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #659
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2024-12-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #658
Discussions
- New request for comments:
- P518 scope - Should scope of league or competition (P118) include forms and aspects?
- Trying to get a consensus on English label for Q30 -- "United States of America" vs "United States"
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
- Blogs
- Exploring YouTube Channels Via Wikidata, 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!"
- Wikidata Items "described at URL" domain ranked list, by Magnus Manske
- Papers: Finding Female Film Editors in Wikidata: How to Query and Visualize Filmographic Records
- Videos: How to link a Misplaced Pages article to Wikidata (Spanish)
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
- Newest General datatypes:
- bequest income (the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe)
- taxon known by this common name (taxon item of which this common name refers)
- homonymous taxon (taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
- role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work)
- meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this organization)
- Newest External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID, PUG authority ID, Three Decks class ID, Vidas author ID, Usito ID, ZSL authority ID, Collectie Nederland ID, Hachette author ID, CamerounWeb person ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, OpenSSF Practices ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Centre d'Etudes Picasso ID, CUATM statistical code, CUATM unique identification code, JudaicaLink person (GND) ID, teams.by national team ID, Eyrolles author ID, Mémoire des avocats ID, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary ID, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, WHL player ID, Indo-European Lexicon ID, Battle.net game ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- About box (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))
- nonprofit tax status (country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type)
- World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- number of shading units (Number of shading units in a graphics card.)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Three Decks conflict ID, Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Norsk oversettterleksikon ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, Kamus Pelajar Edisi Kedua ID, Berlinische Galerie object ID, Singapore Unique Entity Number, Lyricfind artist ID, HonestGamers game ID, identifiant MACM d'un artisite, Syrian Memory person ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Paris Match ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, DOSBox Wiki, Identifiant Cimetières de France, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, Kyiv Independent Topic, Lutris company ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Play:Right genre ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Russian Football National League player ID, Gaia ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Wellcome Collection concept ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- WikiProject Highlights: Nonprofit Organizations/Japan
- Newest database reports: Items with a sitelink to Dutch Misplaced Pages and have no P31 and/or P279 (source) (replace 2x the "nl" into the language code of your language)
- Showcase Items: Boeing (Q66) - American global aerospace and defense corporation
- Showcase Lexemes: julehilsen - Christmas greeting in Danish
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
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 24 December 2024
- From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?
- Recent research: "Misplaced Pages editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
- Traffic report: Was a long and dark December