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== Wikidata weekly summary #645 == == 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 2024-09-16. Please help ]. Missed the previous one?<br> 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 ''' ''' Discussions '''
* New request for comments:
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task: update a typography error in the French description of homonym pages, seen on .
** ] - Should scope of league or ] include forms and aspects?
* New request for comments: ] - The proposal suggests allowing Wikidata bureaucrats to remove admin rights, which they currently cannot do, to streamline processes, reduce reliance on stewards, and align with practices of other wikis.
** ]
* Proposal: ] - The proposal suggests massively adding "mul" labels to Wikidata items for given and family names, using a bot to streamline the process and reduce redundant labels.


''' ] ''' ''' 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.
* Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session 17 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 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: ]
* ]: ] - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program ] until January 12th.
* ] - Agenda: Wikidata Twelfth Birthday, Training and Edit-a-thon. When: Saturday, October 26, from 12:30–4:30pm PDT


''' 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!"
** ] - The Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large worked with multiple institutions in 2024, contributing to Wikidata by improving museum exhibition models, creating articles, and collaborating on various projects, including biological field trips and entomology, while also engaging with the local Christchurch editing community.
** , by Magnus Manske
** ] - The West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, in collaboration with Jadavpur University, has appointed five linguistics students as Wikimedians-in-residence to add lexicographical data for five endangered languages of West Bengal to Wikidata, contributing to their preservation and digital accessibility.
* Papers:
** ] - Wikimedia Czech Republic presented their long-standing collaboration with the National Library at Wikimania 2024, highlighting joint educational and community initiatives, along with additional sessions on media education and successful campaigns during the event.
* Videos: (Spanish)
** ] - Wikimedia Nederland is seeking a Wikimedian in Residence for the "Misplaced Pages on Aruba" project, which aims to make Aruban and Dutch Caribbean culture and heritage accessible on Wikimedia platforms, with applications open until 16 September 2024.
* Presentations: - presentation by ] around their PhD defense
* Essay: ]


''' 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.
* ] - "Sometimes, the data on Wikidata does not answer all your questions. Some types of information are difficult to encode in statements, or simply has not been encoded on Wikidata yet. In such cases, it might be useful to go through the references attached to claims of the entity, for additional information. To simplify this process, this user script lists all unique references based on ] and ]. The references are listed in a collapsible list below the table of labels and descriptions, collapsed by default to not be obtrusive." To enable it, include the following line in your ]: <code>mw.loader.load('//www.wikidata.org/search/?title=User:Lagewi/references.js&oldid=2039248554&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');</code>
* 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 ''' ''' 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>a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>person(s) who devised and developed this game</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>sample image of the person's handwriting</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. )</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this organization</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>particular item that initiates this action or class of actions</nowiki>)
** Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
<!-- END NEW PROPERTIES --> <!-- END NEW PROPERTIES -->
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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>phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>magazine capacity or clip size of this firearm or weapon (real or fictional)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}}</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}}</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Publication type of scholarly article</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>(qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this item</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>The property allows a link between a political party (usually) and its related political foundation, as is common in Germany, in the Netherlands or at the European level. The reverse property ("political party" or "political party affiliation", still different from P102 which is for individual membership) would be useful too.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* Query examples: * Query examples:
** Map of / per million according to Wikidata **
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* Newest ]:
** (])
** ] - The goal is to add Wikidata items for every Wikibooks page.
* WikiProject Highlights: ]
** ] - This project has the purpose to investigate how having Wikidata on CouchDb could work.
**
** ] - This project is intended to document the activities in the ] with reference to Wikidata.
* Newest ]: () (replace 2x the "nl" into the language code of your language)
* WikiProject Highlights: ] - Significant actual and proposed changes to the Wikidata ontology that have come out of the cleaning task force efforts.
* Newest ]: * ]: ] - American global aerospace and defense corporation
* ]: ] - 2018 video game developed by InnerSloth * ]: ] - Christmas greeting in Danish
* ]: ] - Punjabi verb "to do"


''' Development ''' ''' Development '''
* The development team attended the annual WMDE Software Department retreat, so there wasn't much development activity this week. * With the winter holidays upon us, the development team is taking a break, and there will be no deployments for Wikidata during this time.


]. 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:
* 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

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