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Wikidata weekly summary #488
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: BrokenSegue. Welcome onboard \o/


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-10-04, Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Stephanie Sapienza and Emily Frazier on Unlocking the airwaves, a digital archive project that compiles early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). Agenda with call link, October 5.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French, by Vigneron, October 5 at 18:00 CEST
 * Ongoing:
 * New Wikidata Lexemes Challenge! Help to improve lexicographical data on Wikidata. This week's theme: Seasons.
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live session logs (September 2021)
 * LD4 - video presentation start 05:00 Keepin 'N Sync... with wikidata ... and ORCID...and GBIF - slides by David Shorthouse
 * The Magnus list that was mentioned at 27:00 (please update list)
 * Ticket created related to problem mentioned with WD objects getting deleted - T291659
 * 2021-09-30, Talk "COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard" at Seminar Pekanan IR-NLP &mdash; slides in English, video in Indonesian (source)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * What can querying Wikidata do for me?
 * https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/01/synchronising-wikidata-and-wikipedia-an-outreachy-project/
 * Papers: Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: The case of Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Introduction to Wikidata for beginners Part. 1 (in Portuguese) - YouTube
 * How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube
 * How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * ItemSubjector is Python console tool that helps add main subject (P921) to groups of items in a semi-automatic way.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
 * You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
 * Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL, number of evacuated, template populates category, number of tries marked, madhhab
 * External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru person ID, Kallías ID, Convict Records of Australia ID, Croatian Language Portal identifier, Issuu ID, Flipboard ID, Umění pro město ID, BBC Food ID, Baijiahao ID, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts institution ID, Inventory of Heritage Artefacts object ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Zenodo communities ID, XXI Secolo ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Postimees topic ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID, original description, Bowers acronym, mul label property, stylized name
 * External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS), IRIS Sapienza author ID, AFNIL publisher ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, TMOK ID, Kastra ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID, Österreichischer Fußball-Bund ID, MYmovies-Personenkennung, IGI Global Dictionary ID, L'Unificazione ID, EMBO member ID


 * Query examples:
 * Women born in Nigeria with an article in Basque for Listeria (Source)
 * Still life paintings by women (Source)
 * Map of cemeteries in New Zealand (Source)
 * Right Livelihood Award laureates (Source)
 * Chelsea FC players, with English Wikipedia article, Commons image, etc (Source)
 * Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks: P22 (father) (works again)


 * Development
 * Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (T291377)
 * Continuing work on the Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
 * Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (T289473)
 * Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.

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.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:36, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * 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!

Wikidata weekly summary #489
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
 * Wikidata/Wikibase office hour, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 20th October 2021 (18:00 Berlin time), on the Wikidata Telegram channel.
 * Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 at 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CEST. Etherpad, Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #57 - YouTube, Facebook, October 16 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #83, October 17
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #11, Perception and Senses


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikidata in African Language Communities
 * Media art on Wikipedia wants to make collections and metadata more accessible (in Dutch)
 * Papers
 * Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021, Slides
 * Videos
 * Introduction to Wikidata for beginners. Part 2 (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Introduction to Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Scripts and gadgets in Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Coupling Wikipedia Categories with Wikidata Statements for Better Semantics - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Neguess is a Wikidata entity guessing game with negative clues. (demo video)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon Community Awards
 * You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
 * Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
 * Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!
 * The WMF Search team will begin data transfer for the new Streaming Updater today (11 Oct 2021).


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: dissertation program, date of probate
 * External identifiers: Densho Encyclopedia ID, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) identifier, DWDS lemma ID, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID, Database of Czech Amateur Theater person ID, WDG lemma ID, The World Factbook country ID, AFNIL publisher ID, RICS company code, Greek Castles ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, Product and Service Code, SAM ID, IRIS Sapienza author ID, museum-digital place ID, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID, PDDikti ID, VI.BE platform ID, Owler company ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: registration number, present in non-fictional work, NIK (Nomor Induk Kependudukan), reports to, excitation energy, merger, split-off, choreography for
 * External identifiers: AllSides ID, Apple maps id, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, NLI archive ID, CANTIC ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Australian Reptile Online Database ID, Chi era Costui - Plaque ID, Research Data Australia ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, Trove work ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, Apple Music track ID


 * Query examples:
 * Share of women for each Nobel prize (source)
 * Nobel Prize statistics on number of recipients for award wrt. gender (interactive plot) (source)
 * Share of women among Nobel prize winners by decade
 * Notable books on linked data, semantic technologies, and semantic knowledge graphs (source)
 * Benelux railway stations connected from Brussels-South railway station (Q800587) (source)
 * Date of opening and closing of railway stations in Denmark (Source)
 * Map or Talaiotic archeological culture sites located in the Menorca island in Spain (source)
 * Location of all the meteorological stations in Navarre (source)
 * Photos of participants in the Pandora Papers (source)
 * Diameter, size and mass of balls (source)
 * French departments with their shape
 * Longest rivers located in France and which did not gave their name to a department (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fheight%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fimage%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FheightStatement%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Ftype%20.%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Ftype%20%7B%20wd%3AQ1779653%20wd%3AQ179700%20wd%3AQ1051606%20wd%3AQ29168169%20wd%3AQ3476533%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ21745157%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5816%20wd%3AQ56556915%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2048%20%3FheightStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20%3FheightStatement%20pq%3AP518%20wd%3AQ179700%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3FheightStatement%20pq%3AP518%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25i%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25i%20.%0A%20%20%3FheightStatement%20psv%3AP2048%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseHeight%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitHeight%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11573%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%20%3FbaseHeight%20%2a%20%3FunitHeight%20AS%20%3Fheight%20%29%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Fheight%20%3E%3D%2030%20%29%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP921%20%3Fsubject%20%7D%0A%20%20%23SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fheight%29%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FitemLabel%0A%20 Statues measuring more than 30 m in height (excluding the pedestal)] (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are now working on letting reviewers indicate if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
 * Fixed a bug where it was possible for two Properties to have the same label in a given language by undoing/reverting an edit (T289473)
 * Fixed a confusing error message that was being shown when trying to save geoshape / tabular data that doesn’t exist (T285758)
 * Removing some unnecessary entity link formatting in edit summaries and special pages to improve performance (T292203)
 * Fixing an issue with invalid dates that the API accepts but should not (T289417)
 * Migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists.

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.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:36, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #490
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments
 * Frequency of YouTube follower count data
 * Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated?


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Scottish Accused Witches Project with Ewan McAndrew and Emma Carroll (University of Edinburgh)., Oct 19th.
 * WikiProject Govdirectory Collab Hour, October 22
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook, October 23 at 18:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84, October 24
 * IT Festival Without Borders from 21 to 23 October 2021 in Rovereto - There will be a Wikidata for SPARQL queries workshop for high school and university students.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #12, Health professions
 * #12MonthsofOSM, mapping historical features


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Introduction to Observablehq.com for Wikidata users in French (Introduction à Observable pour les utilisateurs de Wikidata)
 * Learning to edit Wikidata is challenging; we aim to make it easier with this interactive course
 * Manuscripts on Wikidata: the state of the art? by Martin Poulter
 * Digital scholarship in archives: A data case study
 * Papers
 * Accepted papers for the Wikidata Workshop at ISWC have been published: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2021/
 * Detecting Cross-Language Plagiarism using Open Knowledge Graphs
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Scripts and gadgets (in French) - YouTube
 * Import RDF data from Wikidata (part 11) - YouTube
 * New introductory working hour on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Building Wikidata - Queries with Wikidata Query Service (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Building Wikidata - Databases and Open Refine (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * How to retrieve the list of works by Canadian authors available on Wikisource? (in French) - YouTube
 * Other:
 * Research project: How can museums improve the usability of collection APIs?


 * Tool of the week
 * Snowman is a static site generator for SPARQL backend (source)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Submissions for day 2 and 3 of WikidataCon are still open. You can submit sessions about a variety of topics until October 20
 * Sina Ahmadi has released a SPARQL query generator for lexicographical data
 * Wikidata reached the 10000th numbered property, with the creation of P10000 Research Vocabularies Australia. (There are currently 9285 pages in the Property namespace.)
 * Wikidata now has over 600,000 Lexemes!
 * Learn Wikidata is an online interactive course created by the Vanderbilt University thanks to a WikiCite grant and available in English, Spanish and Chinese. More information here.
 * The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: catalogue raisonné, predicate for, has thematic relation, illustrative content, ITU radio emission designation, isotopically modified form of, stylized name, record number, excitation energy
 * External identifiers: WDG lemma ID, The World Factbook country ID, AFNIL publisher ID, RICS company code, Greek Castles ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, Product and Service Code, SAM ID, IRIS Sapienza author ID, museum-digital place ID, Det Norske Akademis Ordbok ID, PDDikti ID, VI.BE platform ID, Owler company ID, Ordbog over det danske sprog ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Kalliope-Verbund ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, United Nations Treaty Collection object ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID (Web version), RAWG game ID, TMOK ID, Vokrug sveta article, copyright registration, Eneström Number, NRK TV ID, NLI Archive (bibliographic) ID, L'Unificazione ID, IGI Global Dictionary ID, Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID, CANTIC ID, EMBO member ID, NDL earlier law ID, AbandonSocios ID, Bat Sheva Archive ID, Literature.com book ID, Literature.com ebook ID, CantoDict word ID, CantoDict character ID, MYmovies person ID, Chi era Costui plaque ID, Bowers acronym, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Austrian Football Association player ID, Dewan Negara ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: merger, split-off, choreography for, classification, compartmentalisation, or information category for this document, Hotel rating, NatureScot Sitelink ID, pole positions, podium finishes, StopGame ID, fastest laps, Amends, heading, Conway polyhedron notation
 * External identifiers: Australian Reptile Online Database ID, Research Data Australia ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub resource ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, Trove work ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, Apple Music track ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Nynorskordboka-ID, Birdata ID, IRIS Superior Graduate Schools IDs, Australian Trade Mark Number, Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, FFCAM ID, TVSA ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID, NSW Parliament Member ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID, KPU Calon 2019, Monaco Nature Encyclopedia ID, Refuges.info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, Norgeshistorie ID, AHPRA registration number, PubCRIS product number, Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, SNSF person ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of written works authored by recent Nobel laureate Joshua Angrist (via d:Template:Item documentation on d:Talk:Q921499)
 * Books by Canadian authors with a Wikisource page (Source)
 * Repetitive taxon names (Source)
 * Count of sitelinks of museums/tourist attractions in the US (Source)
 * Map of French communes that are >30 characters long (Source)
 * Lexemes in Swedish that are missing in Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (Q1935308) (Source)
 * Attendance at the Bargoin, Roger-Quilliot and Henri-Lecoq museums per year (Source)
 * Present and past members of Czech Chamber of Deputies who are relatives (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on the review part of the system. We are working on letting reviewers submit their decision if the mismatch is on Wikidata, the other database, both or neither.
 * In the previous week we migrated all Wikimedia wikis to use the new change dispatching system. This system is responsible for notifying the other wikis about edits made on Wikidata that affect their articles so the article is refreshed and edits are added to recent changes and watchlists. This week we monitored the new system and investigated and fixed a few issues that came up.

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.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:50, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #491
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * WikidataCon is happening this week! Don’t forget to register if you want to attend!
 * ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (register on meetup)
 * WikidataCon Bioblitz (During WikidataCon)
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #13, Death
 * Past:
 * Wikidata+Wikibase office hour log (2021-10-20)
 * Wikiarabia Algeria 2021: Wikibase Presentation - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai and Georgina Burnett
 * Talk at Wikidata Workshop 2021 - Mathematics In Wikidata
 * LibreOffice Conference 2021 - Enhancing a spellcheck dictionary by Wikidata Lexemes
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #58 - YouTube, Facebook
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network: Wikipedia podcast section #152 - Wikidata + Wikipedia: fact templates (in Swedish)
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #84


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The Buggregator
 * AutoDesc Reloaded by Magnus Manske
 * Awesome Wikidata notebooks
 * Close to the Edge - Graph Databases through 1970s Prog Rock
 * Videos
 * How to upload Australian Faunal Directory IDs to Wikidata using OpenRefine. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
 * PhysWikiQuiz - a Physics Formula Question Generation and Test Engine using Wikidata in Education - YouTube
 * Timelapse of churches in the Americas (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
 * UseAsRef 2.0 - adding references using external IDs and other statements on Wikidata - YouTube
 * Addressing the gender gap - Wikidata and SPARQL queries (in French) - YouTube
 * Understanding Wikidata: a free and open knowledge base (in French) - YouTube
 * WikidataTutorial: Learn how to edit / create items on Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
 * Linked Data and Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
 * The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: stylized name, record number, excitation energy
 * External identifiers: Bat Sheva Archive ID, Literature.com book ID, Literature.com ebook ID, CantoDict word ID, CantoDict character ID, MYmovies person ID, Chi era Costui plaque ID, Bowers acronym, Turkish Cinema Archive Database person ID, Research Vocabularies Australia ID, Austrian Football Association player ID, Dewan Negara ID, Arachne.org.au ID, Dewan Rakyat ID, Remontees-mecaniques.net ID, AllSides ID, Birdata ID, Geographical Names Board of NSW geoname ID, IRIS GSSI author ID, IRIS IUSS author ID, SISSA Digital Library author ID, NSW Parliament member ID, SNSF person ID, FFCAM ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Conway polyhedron notation, Nombre de voies routières, Museu da Pessoa Story, Official forum, Properties for legislation, Stack Exchange user ID
 * External identifiers: Toolhub ID, Spotify user ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, ORIAS number, Meetup group id, UAE ID, Tennis Abstract player ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, SoccerPunter player ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, pfl.uz player ID, ua-football.com player ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Snob.ru author ID, TASS Encyclopedia ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, DFIH financier ID, DFIH business ID, Chuvash Encyclopedia ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, IndexCat ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Penza Encyclopedia ID, SEKO-ID, Musées Nationaux Récupération ID, Women in the Legislature ID, Dissernet person ID, Dissernet institution ID, Dissernet journal ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Vokrug.tv show ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of mosques (Source)
 * Documents from the Boyer collection by decades, subjects most represented (Source)
 * Pronouns of people in different languages (Source)
 * Twitter accounts of libraries in Switzerland (Source)
 * Images of cell types in Wikidata (Source)
 * Map of the place of death of people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
 * Graph of NFDI consortia with their fields of work, the map of (co-)applicants, (Source)
 * Places where people in South-America work who published on Wikidata (Source)
 * Rail link between Narvik and Singapore (Source)


 * Development
 * The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
 * Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
 * Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
 * Preparing for WikidataCon.

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.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:31, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #492
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: handling of data objects for pages in the project namespace


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Sam Oyeyele will join us to discuss the AfroCine project. doc, Nov. 2nd.
 * Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—November 3rd, 2021. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 09:00-10:00 PDT / 12:00-13:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #14, COP26
 * Past:
 * WikidataCon 2021 happened \o/
 * Documentation of the sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (linked from each session's Etherpad).
 * Wikidatapink pony session (a meetup where participants shared wishes and feature requests about Wikidata to the development team)
 * List of birthday presents
 * WikidataComplete gadget by Dhairya3124
 * Wikidata Subgraph Analysis by Aisha Khatun
 * UseAsRef 2.0 by Epìdosis
 * KGTK project by Pedro Szekely
 * Wikidata Map (series of updates of the all-coordinates-on-wikidata, made available at Wikidata map) by Addshore
 * Special episode of Wikipediapodden with an interview with Denny about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions by Ainali
 * Lua access for Lexemes on beta by LydiaPintscher
 * Editathon documentation page by bunch of lovely glam professionals
 * Learn wikidata course by Clifford Anderson and co
 * Wikxhibit by Tarfah Alrashed
 * Integraality updates by Jean-Frédéric
 * iNaturalist BioBlitz by Pigsonthewing


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog post
 * Challenge A to Z 2021 (in French)
 * Papers
 * Complex Portal 2022: new curation frontiers about the <> Wikidata connection
 * (fr) Les libellés francophones genrés dans Wikidata (notebook Observablehq)
 * Videos
 * Working hour on preferences and common.js Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Semantic web tutorial # 3 | What is Wikidata? (in French) - YouTube
 * SPARQL queries around Boyer collection of the Clermont Auvergne Métropole heritage library (in French) - YouTube
 * New Item creation (in Japanese) - YouTube
 * Research projects
 * Creating and evolving knowledge graphs at scale for explainable AI


 * Tool of the week
 * Cemeteries.wiki by Yamen is a project to display Dataviz and statistics about cemeteries all over the world. (2021-11-01)
 * ... and remember you can propose a new tool or gadget!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Graph Consultant to help migrate the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store. Apply here!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: term in higher taxon, official forum
 * External identifiers: NatureScot Sitelink ID, Refuges.info ID, Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID, George Eastman Museum people ID, Parliament of Australia MP ID, UAE University Libraries ID, Dizionario di Medicina ID, Museu da Pessoa person ID, Indigenous Corporation Number, Toolhub ID, Research Data Australia ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: date of recording, Candidate position, MTBdata
 * External identifiers: Vokrug.tv person ID, Standing Waters Database ID, State Duma person ID, Federation Council person ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, FRACS profile ID, NER portfolio ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, SEEK company ID, Levels.fyi company ID, romaq.org ID, NWT Species ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Québec Enterprise Number, Douyin User ID, ACE Repertory publisher ID, ACE Repertory writer ID, Indonesian Hospital ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of French bridges and tunnels carrying an high-speed railway line
 * List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in French (ie using the generic as male form) (source)
 * List of Wikidata item's labels which are same as male form and different from female form in English (ie using the generic as male form)(source)
 * consorts of Selim III (source)
 * Coordinates of the birthplaces of people with family name Autrique (Source)
 * Coordinates of battles (Source)
 * Geographical distribution of votive boats historic monuments in France (Source)
 * Relationship among accepted NFDI consortia (Source)
 * Newest database reports: top missing property by number of identifiers: spouse (P26)


 * Development
 * WikidataCon! \o/
 * Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
 * Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
 * Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
 * Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.

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.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:37, 1 November 2021 (UTC)