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Wikidata weekly summary #635[edit]
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 2024-07-08. Please help Translate.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-08. Please help Translate.
- 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.
- Registration for Wikimania 2024 is open! In-person participants: please register until 26 July, 11:59 p.m., UTC. Virtual participants can register anytime. If you received a scholarship from the Wikimedia Foundation, you will receive an email with a registration code and instructions.
Tool of the week
- User:Teester/EntityShape.js - a userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", checks whether each statement and property conforms to the schema. It then displays a summary at the top of the Item for each property indicating whether they conform or not. It also adds a badge to each statement and each property on the page indicating whether they conform or not.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata teams' development goals for the third quarter of 2024 have been updated: Wikidata:Development plan
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- 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)
- EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
- Newest External identifiers: 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, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, Star Wars.com 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)
- myfixguide.com (Photos about how to disassemble hardware)
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot)
- Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
- Imperial University of Dorpat student ID (matriculation number of a student of the Imperial University of Dorpat)
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly. Example: Hazel K. Bell (Q70226489))
- WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
- 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, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, FEI horse ID, Standard Ebooks 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, identifikátor filmu ve Filmové databázi (FDb), identifikátor osoby ve Filmové databázi (FDb), ScienceDirect journal ID, Iraqnla Book ID, islamway authority ID, Hermitage Museum artist ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, autoritateak.eus, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist ID, Thinkwiki article
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/commonsmerge - Merge candidates based on same commons category
- Showcase Items: Ferdinand Magellan (Q1496) - Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
- Showcase Lexemes: bergkant (L1083157) - Nynorsk noun, translates to "the top edge of a mountain"
Development
- EntitySchemas: The new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements has been released.
- mul language code: We are preparing the release.
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: Armenia
- 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!
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Wikidata weekly summary #536[edit]
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 2024-07-15. Please help Translate.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-15. Please help Translate.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: SpinachBot - Task/s: AI agent-enabled question answering through the creation and execution of complex SPARQL queries on Wikidata. Users tag the bog with wikidata-related questions, and it tries to come up with an answer by iteratively creating SPARQL queries.
- Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-07-10
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- An Intelligent System: What I learned through taking an introductory Wikidata course - The author, Anne-Christine Hoff, dispels misconceptions about Wikidata. She highlights that it is a relational communication system, not solely bot-driven, and allows users worldwide to add localized data in multiple languages, creating a self-structuring repository of information
- Merge and diff - blog post by Magnus about adding new properties (taxon data speficially, NCBI, GBIF, and iINaturalist) to the AC2WD tool. If you have the user script installed on Wikidata (see tool below), AC2WD will automatically show up on relevant taxon items.
- Documenting Women Artists Through Wikidata - this project reveals how works by women artists can be given greater public visibility.
- Dagbani Lexemes (how-to-workshop in Dagbanli) - increase the vocabulary and standardize existing entries.
- Papers: Automatic Generation of Hindi Wikipedia Pages" based on information from Wikidata
- Videos
- Online workshop Upskilling in Wikidata for maximum impact IBC 2024 - Recording of the virtual Wikidata workshop given on the 9th of July 2024. An onboarding and introductory event in anticipation of a full in-person workshop to be held at the International Botanical Congress 2024 in Madrid on the 21st of July 2024
- Connecting University Art Collections Wikidata Demo
- Notebooks
Tool of the week
- Relationships between two Wikidata items a new tool hosted on Observable which looks at all statements involving a pair of Wikidata items.
- User:Magnus Manske/ac2wd.js - This script adds an "AC2WD" link in the tools sidebar. When you click on it, it uses the AC2WD tool to check the item for certain Authority Control IDs (eg VIAF). It then checks these AC datasets for statements (and more AC IDs). It will then add any new information it found as new statements, or add more references to existing statements where possible. A green checkmark will be appended to the link if data was added (reload the page to see), otherwise a "—" if no new data was available.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine 3.8.2 was released
- Awesome Wikidata: Shape Expressions (Entity Schemas) - Tools for creating, editing, and generating entity schemas
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
- coin edge image (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)
- EntitySchema for class (schema that members of a class should conform to)
- writing technique (technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support)
- last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
- Tüik mahalle ID (identifier of neighborhoods (mahalle) in Turkey in TÜİK (Turkish Statistical Institute) database)
- Sandbox-EntitySchema (Sandbox property for value of type "EntitySchema")
- myfixguide.com (photos about how to disassemble hardware)
- indexer (entity responsible for compiling an index of a book, database, website or other forms of media publications in the form of a methodical arrangement of records designed to enable users to locate information quickly)
- Newest External identifiers: 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, Il Nuovo DOP ID, RGALI person ID, RGALI organization ID, Archelec person ID, Lojas com História ID, milononline.net entry ID, Hebrew Academy term ID, LAGL author ID, KANAL ID, Google Play author ID, Overcast episode ID, ArchWiki article, Valencian Library ID, Star Wars.com ID, ScienceDirect journal ID, Filmová databáze film ID, Filmová databáze person ID, FC Krasnodar player ID, Iraqnla book ID, All castles, Italian-English Dictionary ID, islamway authority ID, Metamath statement ID, Imperial University of Dorpat student ID, Coptic Dictionary Online ID, English-Italian Dictionary ID, autoritateak.eus ID, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts artist 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)
- date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or casted their ballot)
- WorldCyclingStats ID (identifier on the website WorldCyclingStats (www.worldcyclingstats.com))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, FEI horse ID, Standard Ebooks ID, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: German-English ID, Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English ID, Manhom Arabic Profile ID, Hermitage Museum artist ID, Thinkwiki article, Wiley Online Library journal ID, identifier of the educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes, Nintendo Life company ID, SideReel series ID, SideReel series URL slug, Helveticat ID, africanmusiclibrary.org artist id, Museums in Russia ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, ARABTERM entry ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Frauen im Widerstand ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Human Cells - dedicated to improve our coverage of information about these fundamental entities that compose organisms. The project focuses mainly on two kinds of cell classes: species-agnostic classes, such as neutrophil (Q188417), and human-specific classes, such as human neutrophil (Q101405102).
- Newest database reports: Descriptions containing Q-Id
- Showcase Items: Lucy (Q13365715): female given name
- Showcase Lexemes: Nachbar (L230775): "someone nearby" in German
Development
- Wikibase REST API: Continuing to improve error handling and error messages.
- EntitySchemas: Fixed issues that popped up after release (phab:T369149, phab:T369155, phab:T368010)
- Query Service graph split: Adapting constraints that make use of the Query Service to be able to deal with 2 endpoints (phab:T369079)
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: Albania
- 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!