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== Wikidata weekly summary #641 == == 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 over the last week.<br>This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-19.''</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 ''' ''' Discussions '''
* Open request for adminship: * New request for comments:
** ] - Should scope of league or ] include forms and aspects?
** ] (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2024 11:07 (UTC))
** ]
** ] (RfP scheduled to end after 19 August 2024 19:11 (UTC))
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task: Infer {{P|P1712}} of TV series, seasons, and episodes from vertically adjacent levels.


''' ] ''' ''' 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.
* (Save The Date)
* ]: ] - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program ] until January 12th.
** 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 the ] 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 these . Or check the for recordings of individual sessions linked to each item.


''' 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!"
** - A team of five Purdue University students partnered with Wikimedia Deutschland for the Purdue Data Mine to find mismatches for the Wikidata Mismatch Finder.
** , by Magnus Manske
** - WMDE's Alan Ang talks with long-time editor and pillar of the Bangla Wiki community, Bodhisattwa.
* Papers:
** (de) - 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.
* Videos: (Spanish)

* Papers
** - 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) 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) - Mikel Zubimendi shows how to populate Misplaced Pages articles with Infoboxes populated by data hosted on Wikidata.
** - ] at the Polyglot Gathering hosts a workshop with numerous examples of how the Wiki ecosystem hosts and represents linguistic content.
* Notebooks
** Combining data from the International Olympic Committee and Wikidata, this notebook computes medals count by continent.
** 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.
* The TU Delft Library queries Wikidata to map the location of Japanese lighthouses designed by Richard Henry Brunton or Léonce Verny.
* Tools
** (fr) : 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 ''' ''' 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 drill-down browser for any Wikibase installation (incl. Wikidata). A prominent example of it in use is the .
* Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL)


''' 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.
* ] - 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.


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

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* Newest ]:
** General datatypes:
***] (<nowiki>specific object to which an action or class of actions applies</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>amount of public funding an organisation receives</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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*New ] to review:
** General datatypes:
***] (<nowiki>vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>taste that a food or drink has</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>item that describes a role in an event/action class</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>growth rate of something over time</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>a qualifier of {{Q|P12571}} used to describe the exponent of the unit</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>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)</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>role that objects of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use {{P|12913}} instead.)</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>value of a currency or type of currency</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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You can comment on ]!

''' Did you know? '''
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** of {{Q|115870510}} that have 3 or more non-English Misplaced Pages site-links
* Newest ]: ]
* Newest ]: ]
* ]: {{Q|319}}

''' Development '''
* , until August 31st
* Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to improve error messages and handling.
* Misplaced Pages and co: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the sidebar (])
* 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.

]. 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 above.
* Comment on property proposals: ]
* ]!
* Contribute to a ].
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
* ] across Wikimedia projects.
* Help ]
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== Wikidata weekly summary #641 ==

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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 over the last week.<br> This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-26. Please help ].''</div>
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''' Discussions '''
* Open request for adminship:
** ] - RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2024 05:54 (UTC)
** ] - RfP scheduled to end after 27 August 2024 23:17 (UTC)
* Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins: ] and ]!
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (see ])
* Closed request for permissions/Bot: ] - RfP successful!
* New request for comments:
** ] from Author: ]
** ] from Author: ]. ] is described as ''transcription of the word/text being spoken in this file''. Does this exclude other communications modalities?

''' ] '''
* "The Future of Wikidata Events" report by Wikimedia Deutschland is ]. 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'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: ]. The deadline to apply is September 1st.
* ] The Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 takes place in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 - 17 January 2025 - Call for ] and ] 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
** : Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
** 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) - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized.
** - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout.
** Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages.
* Slides: . 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
** : Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries
**

''' Tool of the week '''
* - 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 (). 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!
''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' ''' Newest ] and ] to review '''
<!-- NEW PROPERTIES DO NOT REMOVE --> <!-- NEW PROPERTIES DO NOT REMOVE -->
* Newest General datatypes: * Newest General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>value of a currency or type of currency</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<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: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
<!-- END NEW PROPERTIES --> <!-- END NEW PROPERTIES -->
<!-- NEW PROPOSALS DO NOT REMOVE --> <!-- NEW PROPOSALS DO NOT REMOVE -->
* New General datatypes property proposals to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034</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>person(s) who devised and developed this game</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<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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* Query examples: * Query examples:
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** () ** ()
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* WikiProject Highlights:
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** ] - All Swedish banks still in operation
* WikiProject Highlights: ]
** ] - This WikiProject deals with everything connected to ] with an outlook on the traditional tales and divinities which came before and/or inspired it, like ], ] (], ] and ]) and ], as well as those of adjacent cultures and those influenced by the Greeks, most notably ]).
**
* Newest ]: ] - This project aims to improve the data available about Aotearoa Asian Artists - Asian diaspora artists from, living in, and connected to ].
* Newest ]: - Wikidata Items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language. * Newest ]: () (replace 2x the "nl" into the language code of your language)
* ]: ] - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania * ]: ] - 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.
* Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.


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* 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 language! * Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
* ] across Wikimedia projects. * ] across Wikimedia projects.
* Help ] * Help ]
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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

  • 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)

The Signpost: 24 December 2024

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:59, 24 December 2024 (UTC)