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''' Discussions ''' | |||
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there. | |||
* Closed request for comments: ] - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights. | |||
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* Upcoming | |||
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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 ''' | |||
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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 | |||
** - examines how integrating Wikidata into libraries enhances resource discoverability, fosters interoperability, and empowers users within a global knowledge network. By Okuonghae, O. (2024). | |||
** - 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) | |||
* 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 | |||
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** ], presentation by ] at ], Lyon, November 23, 2024. | |||
''' Tool of the week ''' | |||
* 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. | |||
* 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 ''' | |||
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''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' | |||
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* Newest General datatypes: | |||
**] (<nowiki>picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<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: | |||
**] (<nowiki>preliminary work for this finished work</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<nowiki>an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.</nowiki>) | |||
**] (<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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* Newest ]: | |||
** ] - WikiProject for the coordination of data ingests and Misplaced Pages workshops related to the official bibliography of the ], operated by ] (Switzerland) | |||
** ] - collects information related to the Ami culture, including statistics and activity records. | |||
** ] - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc...) relating to Rwanda ] | |||
* Newest ]: ] | |||
* ]: ] - cave with cave paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina | |||
* ]: ] - Polish adjective that can mean "impudent" or "brazen" in English | |||
''' Development ''' | |||
* 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. | |||
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Wikidata weekly summary #634
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
- Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
- New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.
- Past: The Lexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
- Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe. Register here!
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Querying for audio on Wikidata - This blog post discusses using SPARQL queries on Wikidata to find audio recordings, focusing on musical compositions and their associated genres.
- Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: Why Wikimedia is an antidote to disinformation - The blog post highlights how Wikidata, as a central storage repository, plays a crucial role in countering disinformation by providing reliable, structured data for Wikimedia projects and beyond.
- Diff Blog: Imagining a Wikidata future for librarians together - the sixth and final blog post from the LD42023 conference. Silvia Gutiérrez (WMF) and Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF) document the results of the collaborative session on building a bridge between the Library-Wikidata community and WMF.
- Census IDs are Now Wikidata External Identifiers
- Library Knowledge as Linked Data: A Wikidata Approach: Contributing to a shared data commons. David Erlandson describes the experiences of using Wikidata for the pilot Program for Cooperative Cataloging to "accelerate the movement towards ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level".
- Papers
- Mapping the Past: Geographically Linking an Early 20th Century Swedish Encyclopedia with Wikidata - This paper describes the extraction of location entries from a prominent Swedish encyclopedia and sheds light on selection and representation of geographic information in the Nordisk Familjebok. By A. Ahlin, A. Myrne & P. Nugues.
- Papers from the just-ended Wiki Workshop 2024
- Do LOD Conventions Impede the Representation of Diversity? The Case of Disabled Actors in DBpedia and Wikidata?
- SPARQL for LIS Analytics: Exploring Gender Representation amongst PCC Wikidata Pilot Participant
- Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph-Linguistic Fusion
- Wikidata Quality Toolkit: Entity Schema Generator Demonstration (tool demonstration)
- Videos
- Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Enable Equitable and Validated Generative AI - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan Fraine and Lydia Pintscher show how Wikidata can be used to provide well-cited information and how semantic search can augment generative AI inference. Presented at the Open Source GenAI & ML Summit.
- Wikidata Editing LIVE at Lexico Days 2024 - User:Abbe98 and User:JanAinali are back for another session of live-editing, focused on lexicographical data, during the Lexico Days 2024 event that took place this last weekend, June 28 - June 30.
- Get more out of Wikidata with Resonator - Rachel Hendrick and Gary Price of LibTech Tools walk through Resonator and point out the best ways to use it. Resonator is available on ToolForge.
- Knowledge Integrity: Reliability- Wikidata Vandalism Detection with Graph Linguistic Fusion - Diego (WMF) and Mykola Trokhmovych showcase their work on building a model to help Wikidata editors identify edits that require patrolling, as part of the [Wiki Workshop 2024.
- Inclusion of Communities: Using Wikibase to Leverage Community Sourced Data Initiatives - Erin Yunes talks about their work in using Wikibase Cloud as part of the Compel project (COmputer Music Preservation Electronic Library).
- (es) ¿Cómo fortalecer el dominio público con Wikidata? - This Wikitools Workshop hosted by Jorge Gemetto is on Paulina, a tool for exploring and accessing public domain information on authors and their works.
Tool of the week
- Automatic Structuring of text for Wikidata - User:BrokenSegue introduces their new tool.
- User:Zvpunry/CreateNewItem - This is a User script to easily add a new Item while editing a Statement and noticing that the desired Item is missing.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
- music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
- coin edge (image or images that show the edge of a coin)
- ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
- Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia article ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, filmas.lv person ID, filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, Burgenwelt ID, Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, Avibase person ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Cineuropa production company ID, OpenCitations Meta ID, IGN franchise ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Farhang-i forsī ba rusī ID, Devri ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Personnel Records of the First World War ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Plex person key, BHMPI OBJ ID, Index Fungorum person ID, stiga.trefik.cz player ID, UNIBO professor ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- number of local branches (number of branches of this organization at the lowest (local) level)
- KANAL inventory ID (inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL)
- Tüik mahalle id (Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Overcast episode ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, FEI horse ID, Google Play author ID, identifiant d'une personne sur Archelec, Standard Ebooks ID, Lojas com História ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, milononline.net entry ID, KANAL identifier, LAGL author ID, Alle Burgen, FC Krasnodar player id, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, GOArt databas, ArchWiki article, Star Wars.com, identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb)
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Inuktitut - This is the space to organize work to assure that the sum of all knowledge and the supporting infrastructure for necessary services are available in Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inuktitut).
- Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same pattern
- Showcase Items: Montblanc (Q761735) - town in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia
- Showcase Lexemes: gbuɣi (L725113) - Dagbanli verb, translates to "vomiting" and "sprouting"
Development
- EntitySchemas:
- We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
- We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
- mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
- Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911, phab:T366239)
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.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Argentina
- 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!
Cheshunt Lock and other notes
- Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer https://www.eternalwall.org.uk/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fm77
- Another Gorka source
- http://www.leeandstort.co.uk/Cheshunt_Lock.htm
- Dictionary of Kongo
- Faith hope and charity
- Colour list
- Queen's Hospital, Croydon see Fay Allen , Queen's Hospital (disambiguation)
- Chirurgeon
- Arnold Birkman ditto, insignia foxes shaking hands, ditto (heirs of, 1555, dubious) Also Collen = Cologne (Koln). booke-for-all-the-grefes-and-diseases-of-the-bodye/oclc/14317345 qv, ,
- COvid vit D (dubious?)
- RAC cites Pettigrew.
- Regulation, rent-seeking, and the Glorious Revolution in the English Atlantic economy
- A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester (iss 1-3?) Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Demy-Octavo (corrigenda P 214): bound in with Rutland Words 1891 Kegan Paul, Trubner & Co (Paternoster House, Charing Cross)
- Odiham Hundred
- County Magazine re twelfth cake, and Pompeii/Hereculaneum?
- Oppression in 19th century Britain
- Winter 1966]
- 420
- Coastal eutrophication & plastic density
- NHS funding
- Bennet and Kerr books
- Dr Johnsons's Dictionary
- Captivity of Mrs Rowlandson
- Sari Bear see also A Duty Clear Before Us : North Beach and the Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula 25 April-20 December 1999., ,
- Cat and Bagpipean soc. see also Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue infra, See also: A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
- Study of circs of TMWWBQ
- Catamaran
- F. Grose Classical Dic., catamaran, chuffy
- Ubuntu bash multi-terminal history
- Author's alliance fair use guidance
- Language speeds (sieve)
- Pesticide Properties Data Base (Glyphosate)
- Mandy Rice-Davies Seven Magnificent Gladiators
- Warlike Operations Area Committee
- Laser Activated Remote Phosphor (LARP)
- PASC
- There seems to be confusion between Spiraea arguta and Spiraea prunifolia, only the former I think is correctly dubbed "bridal wreath".
- Meadowsweet <- Meadow sweet Meadow-sweet
- Find out whether dry-point (de: Griffelglossen) includes/is metalpoint. DNC drypoint. Ans. Blackwell Ency.c Ag-Sax England, entry Glosses cited therein - 'with a stylus' 'scratched'
- Investigate Bald's Leechbook and Lacnunga.
- Wynde Monah 1845 see alsoBailey
- John Eversely https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58673/supplement/4/data.pdf https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-princess-royal-shakes-hands-with-mr-john-eversley-news-photo/834710966 https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2008/04/23/enterprising-individuals-get-queens-award https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business/2211450.best-uk-business-recognised-awards/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Award+recognises+John%27s+contribution%3B+in+association+with+RBS.-a0178074996
- https://www.europeana.eu/en
- Broken symmetry https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/04/13/clinical-trial-should-probably-wont-close-book-ivermectin-16244
- Sort order, name https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Sarah_Ann_Brock_Putnam&diff=prev&oldid=880695609
- Barret M82 an 11/12 round mag was made need a better ref if possible. perhaps or
- Hilary English
- https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-sanctions-family-syria-asma-assad-end-war
- probably WISEA J100115.86+555344.3 move to WISEA 1001+5553 (needs refs)
- 'Top 400' political scientists (US, Phd granting institutions only, tenure or tenure track, by citation count)
Add a Fact survey and thank you
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17:13, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
"BO⅂ICE" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect BO⅂ICE has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 November 20 § BO⅂ICE until a consensus is reached. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:50, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
Sockpuppetry allegations
I am not Teapotsofdoom. I have restored the pages in question to before you improperly struck my edits. I even fixed November 19 for you, but if you want to go back and strike Teapots's edits from November 20, be my guest, but I'm not going to take the time extricating mine from the other. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 14:00, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- while i won't opine much on the ip being or not being a sock, i don't think saying that the ip saying they're not a sock is proof that they are is the best argument you could come up with. maybe "overly similar behavior" or "spi tools" would work a little better
- and for the record, i don't think referring to rich as an idiot is the best of comebacks either cogsan (nag me) (stalk me) 14:30, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- Nothing of the IPs was deleted, only struck, except where I removed a whole RfD and the IP was the only !vote. Therefore when the IP restored all Teapot's content, saying "restore; I am not a sock" this seemed an admission to being Teapots. Their re-revert comment is much clearer. It's good that they understand my take of their original edit summary, but only they know what they originally meant. If they are not a sock, then all is good, although they do seem to share behavioural traits with Teapots. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:57, 21 November 2024 (UTC).
- yeah, that's a little better cogsan (nag me) (stalk me) 16:03, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- Nothing of the IPs was deleted, only struck, except where I removed a whole RfD and the IP was the only !vote. Therefore when the IP restored all Teapot's content, saying "restore; I am not a sock" this seemed an admission to being Teapots. Their re-revert comment is much clearer. It's good that they understand my take of their original edit summary, but only they know what they originally meant. If they are not a sock, then all is good, although they do seem to share behavioural traits with Teapots. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:57, 21 November 2024 (UTC).
- on a semi-related note, wouldn't just deleting the discussions from rfd cause technical issues, with the funny rfd boxes still in the redirects? not that i'm much of an expert in the area of technical closure, but i'm pretty sure closing them as speedy keep without much prejudice to renomination would have caused way less trouble cogsan (nag me) (stalk me) 16:08, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- I think I fixed the redirects. Also Teapots didn't notify the creators, so there's that. Anyway what you say makes sense, I just didn't have (and don't have) time at the moment to spend on this, I already spent more than I should. (Your triple : was confusing!) All the best: Rich Farmbrough 16:44, 21 November 2024 (UTC).
New message to Rich Farmbrough
Regarding your {{Vertical text RTL}}
template, would you mind moving it to something like {{Vertical text RTL columns}}
? I feel {{Vtext-css3}}
may be a more natural fit at the base name. Remsense ‥ 论 07:16, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
- You should be able to move it yourself, which I don't object to. I wonder if there is, or should be, a naming convention for css templates though. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 11:25, 25 November 2024 (UTC).
Tech News: 2024-48
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
- The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such
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for bold andCtrl
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for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. - Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.
Updates for technical contributors
- The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing
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+,
and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion". - Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April.
- The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities.
Meetings and events
- A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Misplaced Pages, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.
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Wikidata weekly summary #655
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in theweek leading up to 2024-11-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #654
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: 333Bot - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there.
- Closed request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights.
- Upcoming
- 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - registration is now open
- Save the date: the Data Reuse Days 2025, an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already propose sessions for the program.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group 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 (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. 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. Event page
- Wikimania 2025 Scholarships are now open! This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Why and for what purpose should Wikidata be used in Colombia?
- Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia
- Wikidata and the 2024 Open Library Community Celebration
- Where the data may roam: Bringing Wild West performers to Wikidata. Author Jason Sharp documents their experience adding legendary showman Buffalo Bill to Wikidata.
- Advancing BHL’s Data for a Sustainable Future: Meet Tiago, Our New Wikimedian-in-Residence The BHL-Wiki Working Group has enrolled a Wikimedian-in-Residence with a focus on Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
- Papers
- Beyond the Library Catalogue: Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata - examines how integrating Wikidata into libraries enhances resource discoverability, fosters interoperability, and empowers users within a global knowledge network. By Okuonghae, O. (2024).
- On assessing weaker logical status claims in Wikidata cultural heritage records - 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)
- Books: Tiziana Possemato, Entity modeling: la terza generazione della catalogazione: contains many references to the use of Wikidata in cataloguing
- Videos
- (Portuguese)Wikidata & OpenRefine - 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.
- NODES 2024: Using Dbpedia and Wikidata Knowledge Graphs With Neo4j - Cuneyt Tyler presents 'Semantic Space', a project using Dbpedia and Wikidata to enhance the user experience browsing articles on the web.
- Uploading Images From Public Sites - Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata make great bedfellows. Margaret Donald shows how to create Commons categories, create structured data and link categories to Wikidata.
- WCNA: LOFESQ Lots of Farmers Empty Silos Quicker: 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: Decolonizing structured data: a new season of Whose Voices? including "Episode 5 -- Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)"
- Other
- SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"
- De Wikidata à Wikibase : Pour une meilleure compréhension de vos données, presentation by John Samuel at Le campus du libre 2024 (Q131312243), Lyon, November 23, 2024.
Tool of the week
- Guess Image from Pronunciation 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.
- ABECTO 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 (Tweet)
- Wikidata Infernal 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. (blog)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- picture of this person doing their job (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
- ISCC (ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing)
- Newest External identifiers: Kultboy editor ID, WikiBaseball ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, ANID Researcher Portal ID, TOPO ID, DBIS Resource ID, ITV News topic ID, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, El Moudjahid tag ID, SGES monument ID, DEX ’09 entry ID, Electronic Language International Festival person ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Paramount+ video ID, Le Club Mediapart blogger ID, Phish.net venue ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work)
- OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services)
- Open Library Collection (Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics)
- scientific illustration (an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.)
- thesis submitted for (academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
- meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.))
- UMC rating (Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC))
- Non-binary population (number of non-binary people inhabiting the place)
- role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work)
- bequest income (The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier, Gallimard author ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID, Zvuk album ID, Chtyvo author ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai IDs, EU Corporate body code, SBOID, Waymark code, Radio Algeria tag ID, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier, ThePWHL.com player ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Aargauer Bibliografie - WikiProject for the coordination of data ingests and Misplaced Pages workshops related to the official bibliography of the Aargau Cantonal Library, operated by Bibliothek und Archiv Aargau (Switzerland)
- WikiProject Taiwan/Amis - collects information related to the Ami culture, including statistics and activity records.
- Rwanda - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc...) relating to Rwanda Rwanda (Q1037)
- Newest database reports: A list of Items with a sitelink to English Misplaced Pages but without any Statements
- Showcase Items: Cueva de las Manos (Q223385) - cave with cave paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Showcase Lexemes: bezczelny (L2781) - Polish adjective that can mean "impudent" or "brazen" in English
Development
- Wikidata Query Service: The graph split rules have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "publication type of scholarly work" into the scholarly article graph.
- Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (phab:T378627)
- 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.(phab:T375641)
- Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. (phab:T371196, phab:T371752)
- Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (phab:T377986 but first need to improve the underlying scripts (phab:T376604)
- Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (phab:T379608)
- Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table.
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: Ghana
- 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!