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** - Examines the impact of academic libraries shifting collections from physical to digital medium storage, and how Wikidata is used to analyse this. By Clarkson et al.,2024.
** - How Wikidata schema are being used to help the ] archaelogical archive By Thornton et al., 2024.
** - to automate addition of scholarly data. By extracting metadata from unstructured sources and adding over 6,000 entities, it demonstrates a scalable method to enhance Wikidata as a scholarly resource. By Mihindukulasooriya et al., 2024.
** Presents a tool and method for adding scholarly articles and related entities, like co-authors and conference proceedings, to Wikidata using DBLP data, promoting the enhancement of Wikidata’s scholarly coverage. By Nandana Mihindukulasooriya.
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** (Spanish) Omar Vegu of the Wikimedia Perú community will be showing how QS can be used to mass-edit Wikidata.
** (Spanish) - What to do if you find more than one Wikidata item of the same, exact thing? This guide will show you what to do.
** - if you are interested in organising a Wikidata edit-a-thon (on any subject), this presentation shows the steps needed.
** - an example of using Wikidata to enrich and expand an item for biographies.
** - an example of how structured data can be used to preserve cultural history.
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**] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>difficulty of word by the level of JLPT</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>classification of a beer based on its style</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Notable software forks of this software</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>URL of an online service's BEACON file</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure.
A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Tool used by/in the subject to facilitate the collection of qualitative or quantitative data</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for a tournament on the main website of World Snooker Tour (official site)</nowiki>)
**] (<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>a scientific or technical illustration of this subject</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>)
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Wikidata weekly summary #655

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #654

Discussions

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Events

  • 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

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

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

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

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