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Wikidata weekly summary #522
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project Agenda
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #110, June 5 at 12.00 UTC


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The evolution of a Wikidata SPARQL query for taxon names, by Tiago Lubiana
 * Papers
 * The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research (Q112143478)
 * Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles in The Signpost. The article using Wikidata's SPARQL queries to measure gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.
 * Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles? in The Signpost (February 2022)
 * Videos
 * Replay of the livestream "Even more fun with Lexemes" by Mahir256


 * Tool of the week
 * Template Item documentation is now automatically displayed in the header of each item's talk page via MediaWiki:Talkpageheader.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Want to know more about Abstract Wikipedia & Wikifunctions? You can now subscribe to the weekly newsletter and get a friendly reminder every time a new issue is published!
 * Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: candidate position
 * External identifiers: Lithuanian company code, Afisha.ru movie ID, art is next artist ID, Gun Violence Archive ID, HeHaCham HaYomi ID, CPNI ID, Collection Hermann Göring DB ID, Radio France person ID, ANR project ID, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Umanity horse ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: number of versions, voting age (reproposed), code dans la Classification centrale des produits, identificador WikiBurgos, orchestrator
 * External identifiers: HaBama person id, Odnoklassniki album ID, WorldCat Entities ID, BRUZZ topic ID, BRUZZ place ID, CBC Gem ID, MAYA site company id, Anime Characters Database tag ID, Plex GUID, Esports Earnings game ID, Esports Earnings player ID, Liquipedia ID, Scottish Highland Bridges ID, Museum of Gothenburg object ID, Ozon person identifier


 * Query examples:
 * List of candidates for the next French legislative elections (source)
 * Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Élisabeth or Elisabeth in Wikidata (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABarChart%0A%23Percentage%20of%20films%20passing%20the%20Bechdel%20test%20by%20genre.%20Including%20films%20that%20pass%20dubiously%2C%20rarely%20or%20contentiously%0A%23Some%20items%20have%20more%20than%20one%20test%20result%20%28e.g.%20in%20contentious%20cases%29%0A%23To%20pass%20the%20Bechdel%20test%20a%20film%20must%20fulfill%20all%20of%20three%20criteria%3A%201%29%20feature%20two%20women%202%29%20who%20talk%20to%20each%20other%203%29%20about%20something%20else%20than%20a%20man%0ASELECT%20%3FgenreLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%2F%20%3Fitem_count%20AS%20%3Fshare%29%20%28xsd%3Astring%28%3Fitem_count%29%20AS%20%3Fnumber_of_films_with_test_data%29%20%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%3Fitem%20%3Fbechdel_result%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fgenre%20%7Bwd%3AQ1762165%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21802675%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ40831%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ5937792%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21010853%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ132311%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ1196408%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ16575965%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ842256%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ6585139%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ19765983%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ24925%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ182015%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ111956902%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ21590660%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fst%20ps%3AP5021%20wd%3AQ4165246%3B%20pq%3AP9259%20%3Fbechdel_result.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP5021%20%3Fst%3B%20wdt%3AP136%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20%3Fgenre%3B%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%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%0A%7D%20AS%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AWITH%20%7B%0ASELECT%20%3Fgenre%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fitem_count%29%20WHERE%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%7D%20AS%20%25item_count_by_genre%0AWHERE%20%7B%0AINCLUDE%20%25bechdel_by_genre%0AINCLUDE%20%25item_count_by_genre%0AFILTER%28%3Fbechdel_result%20IN%20%28wd%3AQ105773168%29%29%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FgenreLabel%20%3Fitem_count%0A Percentage of films passing the Bechdel test by genre] / 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percentage of films passing the reverse Bechdel test by genre]
 * Timeline of the start of pride parades from 1970 (source)
 * Top 100 genes with most genetic associations on Wikidata (source)
 * Biennales that aren’t biennial (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (T307087), all statements of an item (T305988), a single statement for a specific item (T307088))
 * Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (T307915, decision)
 * Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (T306008)

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.

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This Month in Education: May 2022
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 Volume 11 • Issue 5 • May 2022

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 * Wiki Hackathon in Kwara State
 * Introduction of the Wikimedia Fan Club to Kwara State University Malete
 * Education in Kosovo
 * Bringing the Wikiprojects to the Island of Catanduanes
 * Tyap Wikipedia Goes Live
 * Spring 1Lib1Ref edition in Poland
 * Tyap Editors Host Maiden Wiktionary In-person Training Workshop
 * Wikibooks project in teaching
 * Africa Eduwiki Network Hosted Conversation about Wikimedian in Education with Nebojša Ratković
 * My Journey In The Wiki-Space By Thomas Baah

This Month in Education: May 2022
This Month in Education

 Volume 11 • Issue 5 • May 2022

Contents • Headlines • Subscribe

In This Issue 

About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony 02:53, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Wiki Hackathon in Kwara State
 * Introduction of the Wikimedia Fan Club to Kwara State University Malete
 * Education in Kosovo
 * Bringing the Wikiprojects to the Island of Catanduanes
 * Tyap Wikipedia Goes Live
 * Spring 1Lib1Ref edition in Poland
 * Tyap Editors Host Maiden Wiktionary In-person Training Workshop
 * Wikibooks project in teaching
 * Africa Eduwiki Network Hosted Conversation about Wikimedian in Education with Nebojša Ratković
 * My Journey In The Wiki-Space By Thomas Baah

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Hold the date. Meetup/NYC Wiknic in Crotona Park, Sunday June 26.

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Wikidata weekly summary #523
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * June 6th and 8th: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
 * June 9th (Thursday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine e Structured Data on Commons
 * July 8-10: Data Quality Days, online event focusing on data quality processes on Wikidata. You can submit sessions or discussion topics until June 19th.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Travailler avec les épigraphes littéraires dans Wikidata
 * Were more plant genera really named for nymphs than women who actually lived?
 * Papers
 * "SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models": Infusing structured knowledge from Wikidata into language models improves performance (Moiseev et al, 2022)
 * Videos
 * Live Wikidata editing #82 by Ainali and Abbe98


 * Tool of the week
 * Article's wikilinks inspector takes all entities linked in a Wikipedia article and compute insights about those entities using Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The May 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out!
 * There will be a new online community meeting for the Wikidata Query Service backend update on Monday June 20, 2022 at 19:00 UTC (link to the meeting).
 * Several students are working on Wikidata-related tasks as part of the Outreachy program and the Google Summer of Code. Welcome to Feliciss and PangolinMexico, working on Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata, and LennardHofmann, working on rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua. Feel free to greet them and follow their work on Phabricator!
 * A new Mix'n'match page to query entries across catalogs, by various properties (born/died, gender, location, external IDs, etc.)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: date of incorporation, in operation on service, coordination number
 * External identifiers: ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, JBIS horse ID, FactGrid property ID, Lithuania Minor Encyclopedia ID, PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Macaulay Library taxon ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies government ID, Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary group ID, Midi libre journalist ID, Heiligen.net ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: COR lemma-id, niveau 1, embargoed until, electric charge capacity, COR form ID, level 1, феноритмотип, type of artefact(s)
 * External identifiers: Russia.travel object ID, AdoroCinema series ID, FirstCycling (riderID), snookerscores.net player ID, OVO-code, CEU author ID, Chaoxing Journal ID, Springer Nature Person ID, Springer Nature Article ID, Springer Nature Journal ID, MUI Icon, UK Beetles ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * Query examples:
 * Which are the most popular natural products based on the number of statements on their corresponding QID? (from the Telegram Wikidata group)
 * Occupation of people named Elizabeth, Elisabeth or Élisabeth (source)


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (T290733, T30535).
 * REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (T307031, T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (T306667).

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.

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note re some ideas
I have some ideas on ways to develop greater resources for community involvement in developing and editing wikipedia. I would like to discuss with you at some point if possible. I am also located in NYC. is there some way to mention a few ideas to you, and to discuss with you? please feel free to let me know any communication method or platform that you might prefer. i appreciate your help. please ping me if you reply. thanks! --Sm8900 (talk) 20:43, 9 June 2022 (UTC)


 * @Sm8900 thanks for your ping. What sort of ideas do you have in mind? FULBERT (talk) 15:19, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

thanks so much for your reply. ok, here are my ideas, in brief. I can elaborate on any of these any time.

1) I am Lead Coordinator at WP:HIST. I have a few ideas I've been working on in specific areas of history, including contemporary history, plus political history plus navboxes.

2) as part of contemporary history, I created Contemprary Hist Task Force. I created a new type of article, 2020s in political history; this is designed to foster an encyclopedic, consolidated, and concerted approach to chronicling current history. we already have articles for every individual noteworthy event, as they occur, this "2020s in __" article is designed to encourage an encyclopedic approach, by providing one central chronicle, to complement the many articles on individual events.

3) ok, here is where we get into some ideas for fostering greater collaborative and community effort. I have already joined several Zoom calls for the local NYC Meetup. they have been energizing and outstanding.

4) my ideas, or one of them, is to create and foster greater editor communication, similar to the NYC Meetup page, editing efforts, and zoom calls, but centered around topical areas, rather than around geographical areas.

5) so as part of that, I was thinking to create a Task Force within WikiProject History, but then invite editors from the multiple highly active Wikiprojects for topical areas, and then use their input to create some combined community effort, to combine, compile, and to foster various community ideas in regards to ideas for editing and approaching topics relating to history at Wikipedia. the best examples of active History wikiprojects are absolutely WP:MILHIST and WP:WIR, but there are many other fanatstic active wikiprojects as well.

I would like to simply communicate with at least one other community member on a regular basis, to hash out these ideas, and to make them truly workable and beneficial to the community as a whole. when I saw your user page, you seemed like a highly beneficial and helpful person to approach. I was encouraged by your high public efforts and public profile. I noted your use of your real name, your public role, and the fact that you are located here in NYC. I could really use your help, feedback, and constructive/blunt feedback or criticism, any time needed.

6) ok, another idea. how about a wikimedia meetup chapter for the USA. we already have existing chapters for entire countries, for many countries, except the United States. I think we could use one for the USA. I don't picture building this myself, but rather by working out these ideas in tandem with other editors. and also, by building on the great fantastic work of existing local chapters, such as NYC and DC, who are truly exemplary, as well as other local groups.

ok what do you think of these? one initial step that I envision is that perhaps you could help me to build the first initial working group or task force which would be intended as some sort of common workspace for editors from multiple wikiprojects that are history-related. I would like to get the ideas, input, and blunt feedback of a highly active editor like yourself, who is aware both of the importance of core editing efforts, as well the importance of larger structures for our communities. I anticipate a few ways that could work with you and a few other editors like yourself, either on a wide basis, a narrow basis, or anything that fits your current schedule. what do you think? I would welcome any comments that you may have. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 17:26, 12 June 2022 (UTC)


 * , I am back from some travel and trying to catch up with things now. Do you have any of these ideas on a Meta page or the like, for on-Wiki discussion? --- FULBERT (talk) 13:15, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
 * well, yes, I have a few places. one place that I have been suggesting at least a few of these ideas is at the forums hosted by Discourse at the website for "forums movement strategy." you can join me there if you wish. I have not posted all my ideas there, but I can post more, if I know I have some colleagues there to discuss it with. thanks! Sm8900 (talk) 13:33, 22 June 2022 (UTC)