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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 2024-08-26. Please help ].''</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 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?


''' ] ''' ''' 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.
* "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: ].
* ]: ] - 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'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 ''' ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Papers * 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!"
** : Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
** , by Magnus Manske
** 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.
* Papers:
* Videos
** (sw) - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized. * Videos: (Spanish)
** - 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 ''' ''' 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.
* - Help adding missing information related to artists on BNU's catalog (Select the option that fits best).
* 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.
* 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 '''
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* Newest General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>value of a currency or type of currency</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>person(s) who devised and developed this game</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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You can comment on ]!

''' Did you know? '''
* Query examples:
** ]
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* WikiProject Highlights:
** ] - All Swedish banks still in operation
** ] - 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.
* ]: ] - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania

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

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* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your language!
* ] across Wikimedia projects.
* Help ]
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== WikiCup 2024 August newsletter ==

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}} with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 ]s, 2 ], 7 ], and 13 ] nominations;
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''' Discussions '''
* Project chat: ] - A new mass-import policy has been proposed, focusing on improving the quality of existing items rather than importing new ones, with a suggested limit of 100 new items before requiring community approval.

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

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs: (de) - Easily manage, share and visualize knowledge data, tailored for academic purposes, WB4R simplifies the installation and use of MedaWiki software. By Kolja Bailly.
* Papers
** (see also Videos) - this web application when given seed entities of interest and properties to traverse, extracts neighboring subgraphs from Wikidata. By Pierre Monnin.
** - A fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning. By Hanna Abi Akl.
** - Demonstrating the role of Misplaced Pages and Wikidata in fostering knowledge creation, digital and data literacies and critical thinking, in Open Edcuational resources. By S.E. Sigalov, A. Cohen & R. Nachmias.
* Videos
** (es) - Tiago Lubiana presents the inat2wiki platform (https://inat2wiki.toolforge.org/), designed to connect biodiversity observations to Commons and subsequently, to Misplaced Pages and Wikidata.
** (es) - Sebastián Ferrada presents this lecture at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2023 including a SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service workshop.
** - session 2 of the Wiki4Education training series held across 17 - 24 Aug 2024 in Uganda.
** - a web application to extract subgraphs of interest from Wikidata with analogical pruning by Pierre Monnin.
** (ar) at the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, hosted by Houcemeddine Turki
** (ar) - this session of Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 shows the benefits of using Wikidata in Misplaced Pages.
* Notebooks:

''' Tool of the week '''
* by ]. This user-script will add the articles corresponding Wikidata item Label, Q-ID, Description and Short Desc. neatly under the article title. If no Wikidata item is linked, option to CreateNewItem page on Wikidata is provided.

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
* The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by September 18, 2024.
* . Wiki Movimento Brazil as part of the ] are conducting interviews to build upon the QuickStatements tool. If you're interested in helping refine the tool then get in touch with them.


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

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* 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>a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<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>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>phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>particular item that initiates this action or class of actions</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Sample image of the person's handwriting.</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* ]: ]: Bengali verb thôṛa in English imply something that is “chopped” or “minced”
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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


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* Wikimedia projects integration:
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** We are working on decreasing the amount of irrelevant changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Misplaced Pages and co by correcting the tracking behaviour of the Lua function mw.wikibase.entity:getSitelink() (])
* Wikibase REST API: We continued improving errors and error messages.


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* Govdirectory weekly focus country: ] * 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 #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

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