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== Wikidata weekly summary #655 ==

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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.

''' ] '''
* Upcoming
**
** 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 '''
* Blogs
** ]
** ]
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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
** ]
** ], 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 '''
*

''' 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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You can comment on ]!

''' Did you know? '''
* Query examples:
** ] ()
** ()

* 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.

]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .

''' Weekly Tasks '''
* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ].
* 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 ]
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Wikidata weekly summary #656

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #655

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Wikimedia Deutschland is providing a total of 15 participation scholarships for Wikimania 2025 (7 individual and 4 tandem scholarships). Further information is available on this page. An overview of all questions in the application form is here. Apply here. Closes 8 December 2024.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 4, 2024. The time is 17:00 CET
    • Tomorrow / 3rd December 2024: Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC / 6pm CET. If you would like to attend, please fill out the Etherpad form to ensure all necessary materials are provided for you.
    • Deadline for the Central Asian WikiCon 2025 scholarship application is December 30, 2024. We encourage you to make Wikidata-related submissions (the deadline for submission is March 22, 2025.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • LoRiS - Generate natural-language descriptions of SPARQL queries via LLM's.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikidata:WordGraph: Google released the WordGraph dataset as a belated present for Wikidata’s 12th birthday. The dataset contains 968,153 forms in 39 languages.
  • Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikimedia Deutschland has an open and exciting vacancy for a Product Manager of Wikibase Suite. Apply!
  • Tools or bots which use the wiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected. (This was previously announced 2024-11-11 but didn’t actually take place yet.)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema.
  • PropertySuggester: We have updated the script that generates the suggestions and will update the suggestions next.
  • Lexicographical data: We fixed a visual issue with search results on the Codex-based Special:NewLexeme (phab:T370057)
  • Vector 2022: We are working on designs to fix the remaining issues with the skin on Wikidata.
  • Wikibase REST API: We are finishing the prototype for supporting search in the API.

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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