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== Wikidata weekly summary #659 ==
== ''The Signpost'': 26 September 2024 ==


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== Wikidata Weekly Summary #647 ==

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<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'' <translate> Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the<br>week leading up to 2024-09-30. Please help ]. Missed the previous one?<br> See issue ]</translate>''</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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'''<translate>Discussions</translate>''' ''' Discussions '''
* New request for comments:
<translate>* Closed request for adminship: ] - Success! Welcome ] as Wikidata's latest Admin.
** ] - Should scope of league or ] include forms and aspects?
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Creating wikidata lexemes for the Quechua languages.
** ]
* Closed request for comments: ] - Closed due to lack of comments for longer than five years. Despite multiple suggestions, there is no clear consensus to move forward.</translate>


''' Events '''
'''<translate>]</translate>'''
* 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.
<translate>* ] is coming up on October 29th. Have a look at the birthday parties and more planned around the world.
* ]: ] - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program ] until January 12th.
* Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session 1 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 1 October, 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 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. ].</translate>


'''<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate>''' ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs
<translate>* Papers
** , 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!"
** - Presents a systematic review of Wikidata use in GLAM institutions within the context of the work of the International GLAM Labs Community (glamlabs.io). The results summarise academic literature on Wikidata projects. By G. Candela et al.
** , by Magnus Manske
** (es) - Throughout October, the WikiLearn platform is hosting a course on Wikidata aimed especially at Latin Americans. .
* Papers:
** - SHADOW is a fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning, its performance is measured on a knowledge base construction task using Wikidata triple completion. By Hanna Abi Akl.
* Videos: (Spanish)
** - The present study uses model wikidata elements as a basis and explores its dynamic formation into a cultural heritage information management tool within a museum. By D. Kyriaki-Manessi and S. Vazaiou.
** - This paper investigates the potential to use information in archival records in a larger context for ArchOnto and aims to leverage classes and properties sourced from repositories deemed informal due to their crowd-sourcing nature. By I. Koch et al.
** - This paper utilizes primary data sources of OBO ontologies and MeSH keywords classified using SPARQL queries for RDF knowledge graphs, to contribute to the robustness and accuracy of collaborative biomedical knowledge graphs. By H. Turki et al.
* Videos
** Part of Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 in İstanbul, this session presented by Filip Maljković charts progress on contributing Serbian literature to Wikidata.
* Dataviz
** , a world map of notable people based on Misplaced Pages and Wikidata.</translate>


'''<translate>Tool of the week</translate>''' ''' 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.
<translate>* - ] has written 3 scripts to simplify reading references, explore property-value pairs in use for a statement or attaching a full bibliography to the end of the item page.</translate>
* Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL)


'''<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate>''' ''' 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.
<translate>* - Using , generates a list of profiles of politically exposed persons by querying specific categories on Wikidata and extracting the entities.</translate>

'''<translate>Newest ] and ] to review</translate>'''


''' Newest ] and ] to review '''
<!-- NEW PROPERTIES DO NOT REMOVE --> <!-- NEW PROPERTIES DO NOT REMOVE -->
* Newest General datatypes:
* <translate>Newest ]:</translate>
**] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
** <translate>General datatypes: </translate>
***] (<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>)
** <translate>External identifiers: </translate>], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
<!-- END NEW PROPERTIES --> <!-- END NEW PROPERTIES -->
<!-- NEW PROPOSALS DO NOT REMOVE --> <!-- NEW PROPOSALS DO NOT REMOVE -->
<translate>* New ] to review:</translate> * 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>)
<translate>** General datatypes: </translate>
***] (<nowiki>Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</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>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>In (real or fictional) devices like a firearm, weapon, or engineered thing, this is the default capacity or size of a devices' magazine, clip, or other container typically used to hold ammunition, bolts, cartridges, tools, etc. which pushes those items as needed usually through a spring-based mechanism into a receiver for further use by the device</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>identifier for a film in the Norwegian Medietilsynets database</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Card ID from the Western Australian Biographical Index, a set of handwritten index cards compiled in the 1970s.</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>difficulty of word by the level of JLPT</nowiki>)
<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
<!-- END NEW PROPOSALS --> <!-- END NEW PROPOSALS -->


<translate>You can comment on ]!</translate> You can comment on ]!


'''<translate>Did you know?''' ''' Did you know? '''
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* Newest ]:
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* WikiProject Highlights: ]
* ]: ] Sindhi verb (to be)</translate>
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* Newest ]: () (replace 2x the "nl" into the language code of your language)
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* ]: ] - Christmas greeting in Danish


'''<translate>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.
* Search: The ] has been improved by the Search Platform Team. Previously it was limited in which Properties were indexed for it. Going forward haswbstatement:P123 will work for all Properties, regardless of their datatype. This will allow you to filter search results for Items that have a statement with a specific Property. (Searching for a specific complete statement with haswbstatement:P123=xxx will still only work for specific datatypes.) For this to work all Items have to be reindexed and this will take up to 1 month.
* Design system migration: We have migrated the Special:NewLexeme page from Wikit to Codex and are working on finishing the migration for the Query Builder.
* EntitySchemas: We finished the investigation about how to support search for EntitySchemas by label or alias when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement. (])
* Wikibase REST API: We worked on integrating language fallbacks into the API (])


]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .</translate> ]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .


<translate>'''Weekly Tasks''' ''' Weekly Tasks '''
* 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!
* ] across Wikimedia projects. * ] across Wikimedia projects.
* Help ]</translate> * Help ]
<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'''] · ] · ] · ] · ] (]) 19:03, 30 September 2024 (UTC)'''
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== ''The Signpost'': 24 December 2024 ==

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== Weekly Summary #660 ==

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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 2024-12-30. Missed the previous one? See issue ]''</div>
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''' Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary! '''

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year! 🎉 Each of your contributions, whether big or small, has made a difference and has helped us create a vibrant and informative resource for the Wikidata community. 🙏 Let's continue building and sharing knowledge together in the coming year! 🙌✨

'''Discussions'''
* Open request for oversight: ] (RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)

'''Press, articles, blog posts, videos'''
* Papers
** by Jansová, L., Maixnerová, L., & Š´tastná, P. (2024). ''"The paper outlines the collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic and Wikimedia since 2006, focusing on linking authority records with Misplaced Pages articles and training librarians and users. By 2023, the National Library provided most of its databases under a CC0 license, launched a "Wikimedians in Residence" program, and collaborated on projects involving linked data and using authority records in Wikidata. This partnership has enhanced their cooperation for mutual benefit, identifying key factors for their successful long-term collaboration."''
** by Melis, B., Fioravanti, M., Paolini, C., & Metilli, D. (2024). ''"The paper traces the evolution of gender representation in Wikidata, showing how the community has moved from a binary interpretation of gender to a more inclusive model for trans and non-binary identities. The Wikidata Gender Diversity project (WiGeDi) timeline highlights the significant changes influenced by external historical events and the community's increased understanding of gender complexity."''
* Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool (, ) by Saeed Habishan. "The Wikibase-CLI enables command-based interaction with Wikidata using shell scripts and JavaScript. The tool runs on NodeJS and enables automatic reading and editing of Wikidata."

'''Tool of the week'''
* - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Misplaced Pages, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.

'''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: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
<!-- END NEW PROPERTIES -->
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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 which 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>)
**] (<nowiki>Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted''</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Amount of money donated to a person or organization</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
<!-- END NEW PROPOSALS -->

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* Newest ]: ] - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organisational, etc...) relating to ]
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'''Development'''
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* 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 ]</div>
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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)

Weekly Summary #660

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #659

Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year! 🎉 Each of your contributions, whether big or small, has made a difference and has helped us create a vibrant and informative resource for the Wikidata community. 🙏 Let's continue building and sharing knowledge together in the coming year! 🙌✨

Discussions

  • Open request for oversight: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Papers
    • Library Data in Wikimedia Projects: Case Study from the Czech Republic by Jansová, L., Maixnerová, L., & Š´tastná, P. (2024). "The paper outlines the collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic and Wikimedia since 2006, focusing on linking authority records with Misplaced Pages articles and training librarians and users. By 2023, the National Library provided most of its databases under a CC0 license, launched a "Wikimedians in Residence" program, and collaborated on projects involving linked data and using authority records in Wikidata. This partnership has enhanced their cooperation for mutual benefit, identifying key factors for their successful long-term collaboration."
    • How have you modelled my gender? Reconstructing the history of gender representation in Wikidata by Melis, B., Fioravanti, M., Paolini, C., & Metilli, D. (2024). "The paper traces the evolution of gender representation in Wikidata, showing how the community has moved from a binary interpretation of gender to a more inclusive model for trans and non-binary identities. The Wikidata Gender Diversity project (WiGeDi) timeline highlights the significant changes influenced by external historical events and the community's increased understanding of gender complexity."
  • Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool (part 1, part 2) by Saeed Habishan. "The Wikibase-CLI enables command-based interaction with Wikidata using shell scripts and JavaScript. The tool runs on NodeJS and enables automatic reading and editing of Wikidata."

Tool of the week

  • WikiORA - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Misplaced Pages, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.

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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2025 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page.

For the 2025 WikiCup, we've implemented several changes to the scoring system. The highest-ranking contestants will now receive tournament points at the end of each round, and final rankings are decided by the number of tournament points each contestant has. If you're busy and can't sign up in January, don't worry: Signups are now open throughout the year. To make things fairer for latecomers, the lowest-scoring contestants will no longer be eliminated at the end of each round.

The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:13, 1 January 2025 (UTC)