User talk:Oronsay/Archive 23

ITN recognition for Babette Smith

 * Thank you. That was my first time. I'll keep my eye out for articles that might qualify. --Oronsay (talk) 00:57, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #496
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Project chat: Wikidata phase 1 regression (interwikis no longer visible in new layout used by some Wikipedias and its impact on minority languages)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Working with Siegfried, Wikidata, and Wikibase. December 2, 2021 4:00 pm CET
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Jan Ainali on WikiProject Govdirectory, a tool and associated Wikiproject for building a user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence. Agenda with call link, November 30.
 * Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour. Thurs. 16 December 2021, 11AM-12PM Eastern, (time zone converter). "We will continue work developing our WBStack sandbox which seeks to explore how Wikibase could help track the usage of alternate labels for terms in vocabularies like LCSH"
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #64 - YouTube, Facebook, December 4 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #89, December 5 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #18, Horse
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live session log, month of November 2021
 * Introduction to Wikibase (part 1), ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup (replay)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Blog post on how Wikimedia Sweden has worked with two museums to open up their data and make it available on Wikidata (in Swedish)
 * Indigenous knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Video tutorial for Wikidata Scraping, data processing and import (Open Refine) (in Czech) - YouTube
 * (Wikidata intro) how it acts as one of the levers for the discoverability of cultural content in dance (in French) - YouTube
 * Archive and register of sound art / sound artists with Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Reconciliation server demonstration against Wikidata - YouTube
 * Wikidata: A Magic Portal for Siegfried and Roy - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer to join the Wikidata team.
 * Are you doing research around Wikidata? There is a new fund to support research work around the Wikimedia projects that you can apply to.
 * New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: death rate, image with color chart
 * External identifiers: Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID, Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID, Dissernet institution ID, DHAC ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, AHPRA registration number, FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, Oùvoir.ça film ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Corruption Perceptions Index, surrounds the enclave, Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista
 * External identifiers: identifiant base Enluminures, The World of Shakespeare ID, oKino.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, oKino.ua actor ID, Natural History Museum (London) person ID, svpressa.ru ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of items without any statements (last week: more than 1,300,000)
 * Number of items without any statements by sitelinks (sample: 1757 items link to nlwiki, but have no statements).
 * Taxa named after women (by place of birth) (Source)
 * List of articles on Blaise Pascal in all Wikipedias, sorted by decreasing article size (Source)
 * Texts on French Wikisource by people born in Puy-de-Dôme (Source)
 * List of countries by the highest elevation point (Source)
 * Number of distinct (UK parliament) seats returning someone who chose to sit elsewhere each year, 1830-1910 (Source)
 * List of services that support the OpenRefine Reconciliation service (Source)
 * Things depicted in art works in the Khalili Collections (Source)
 * Images of Wikidata's items linked to UBERON ids (Source)
 * Population density of administrative subdivisions exceeding 100,000 km² and 100 inhabitants / km² (Source)
 * List of government agencies in Scotland (Source)
 * Which day of the week people died on in the Mauthausen concentration camp (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
 * Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (T294465)
 * Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (T232557)
 * More research and discussion on mul language code (T285156)
 * Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)

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) 14:55, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Badge and barnstar for you!

 * Thanks for this recognition. I appreciate the work you've been doing for this competition. It will be interesting to see how we all go this month!--Oronsay (talk) 01:22, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the kind words. Look forward to finding out how Oceania turns out! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:50, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #497
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #90, December 12 at 13.00 UTC
 * Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, December 7 at 18:00 CET


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in the English Wikipedia
 * Bringing together journalists, the public, and Wikidata to understand our world
 * Gender diversity in Wikipedia articles: evidence from some selected academic disciplines in Wikipedia in French
 * Reflection on filling a new Wikidata item by Addshore
 * Papers
 * "Knowledge Based Multilingual Language Model" Using the Wikidata to build the language models that not only memorize the factual knowledge but also learn useful logical patterns. (Liu et al, 2021)
 * Videos
 * Summary of Transbordados, the pre-WikidataCon conference organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese)


 * Tool of the week
 * Weaviate big graph (source) is a vectorised search engine which returns similar items in Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
 * Wikibase Installation Survey
 * Wikibase Software Updating Survey
 * The new Wikimedia Research Fund is live now. It can fund research projects related to Wikidata.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: specific impulse by weight
 * External identifiers: FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID, Databáze her ID, 7 Days person ID, OùVoir.Ça ID, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub ID, SensCritique work ID, Snob.ru author ID, IRIS POLIBA author ID, Re.Public@Polimi author ID, PORTO@Iris author ID, IRIS UNIVPM author ID, Sceneweb organization ID, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, allplayers.in.ua player ID, Apple Music track ID, AbeBooks ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Harvard Art Museums ID, GISAID identifier, Nextstrain identifier, homophone lexeme, Numista, Numista coin ID, lieu de disparition
 * External identifiers: Lib.ru author ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Institute of the History of Ukraine scientist ID, centrasia.org person ID, Music of Armenia ID, Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia ID, Lingua Libre ID, Express Gazeta person ID, bards.ru person ID, PGM author ID, Deutsches Zeitungsportal ID, Index of Middle English Verse ID, ICCROM authority ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, ThENC@ thesis ID, Baidu Baike LemmaID, Indonesian College Code, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Museum of the Great Patriotic War encyclopedia ID, iTunes genre, CYT, Folketinget actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Ruskino actor ID, Pandora album ID, Pandora track ID, Swiss National Library ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, Athens Academy authority ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of laureates of the women's Ballon d'or (source)
 * List of people born in Cook Islands (source)
 * Wordcloud articles without statements of MyLang Wikipedia (switch to "Table" view to list, at left border of screen)
 * Artworks picturing snow (source)
 * Graph of football players who died per year (source)
 * Things depicted in art works of the Khalili Collections (source)
 * People represented on the painting "Le Sacre de Napoléon" from 1804 by Jacques-Louis David (source)
 * German cities whose names are also verbs (using Lexemes) (source)
 * Railway stations in the Baltics (source, see the full thread for more queries)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: Continued polishing for the first version. Improving the texts and adding loading state. Incorporating feedback from testing.
 * Continued migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (T294465)
 * Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (T232557)
 * Finished work on small tool to show Items recently edited by several accounts to surface current events.

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) 14:49, 6 December 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!

West Coast Task Force 2

 * Thanks for the update. As usual it prompted me to visit WikiSource, this time to proof a few pages of Rambles. I am happy to live without the sandflies!--Oronsay (talk) 03:26, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2021
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Wikidata weekly summary #498
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Enriching Claim Reviews - Sharing Experience From Factchecking (schema.org/ Full Fact)
 * Most liked Wikidata tweets (addshore)
 * Updates on the Wikidata map in 2021 (addshore)
 * Papers
 * Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1
 * "ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - paper, tool


 * Tool of the week
 * Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article using Wikidata's API and SPARQL
 * embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more!


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Blazegraph failure playbook now available
 * Initial version of Lua access to Lexemes to be deployed on Bengali and Basque Wiktionaries
 * When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” (documentation)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: IMA Mineral Symbol, protective marking, recording date
 * External identifiers: Natural History Museum (London) person ID, Indonesian Hospital ID, Music of Armenia ID, New Index of Middle English Verse ID, World of Shakespeare ID, AllHomes research location ID, Australian Trade Mark Number, Harvard Art Museums ID, BookDepository publisher ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, German Newspaper Portal ID, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID, Dissernet journal ID, Dissernet person ID, centrasia.org person ID, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, Pandora track ID, Nintendo64EVER ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: alphabetical index, International Standard Content Number ISCN, Number of likes, homophone form, Roovet Sound
 * External identifiers: National Library of Ireland ID, Famitsu game ID, JSTOR artwork ID, NYPL Copyright Entries, Kinomania.ru film ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), Irish Times Profile ID, All About Birds ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, f6s id, IRIS Marche IDs, Viber group ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, AAGM Artwork ID, Muz-TV ID, MTV Russia ID


 * Query examples:
 * French departments with more population than all their neighbour departements (source)
 * Map of places names after horses (source)
 * Latvian citizens by occupation (source)
 * Map of the mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Cities


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.
 * Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. (T294637, T294159)
 * Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (T296202)

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) 15:19, 13 December 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 #499
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments:
 * Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories
 * Other:
 * SPARQL query service (SDC) mandatory authentication considered harmful


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th December 2021 (17:00 Berlin time). This month we will have a guest presentation by the team at The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute. They will present how they are using Linked Open Data (LOD) in their projects with the help of Wikibase. All are welcome!
 * Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour: January 13th at 17:00 UTC. Open discussion, bring your favorite Phabricator task.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #21, Celebration
 * Past:
 * EduWiki Live on the theme of Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization. (replay)
 * Wikidata workshop (in Italian) (replay)
 * Semantic Web in Libraries: SWIB21 (replay)
 * From string to thing: Wikidata based query expansion
 * Representing the Luxembourg Shared Authority File based on CIDOC-CRM in Wikibase


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikidata user and project talk page connection graph
 * Images from Wellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views on Wikipedia
 * Integrating the PM20 companies archive: part 3 of the data donation to Wikidata
 * Parliamentary debates are made more transparent and accessible with Wikidata
 * A parliamentary document says more than a thousand words (in Swedish)
 * The Longest Serving MP in Sweden
 *  "With artificial intelligence, common sense is uncommon. "To help overcome this challenge, researchers use several sources of commonplace knowledge like Wikidata to obtain a “reasoned” AI response." 
 * Papers
 * A botanical demonstration of the potential of linking data using unique identifiers for people
 * Survey on English Entity Linking on Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Tutorial for Wikidata Mix'n'Match tool for database pairing (in Czech) - YouTube
 * SPARQL queries on Wikidata - basic level (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Presentation about the Wikidata community (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Advanced Course (in German) by OpenGLAM Switzerland - YouTube
 * Introduction
 * Concept of Linked Open Data
 * SPARQL-Queries
 * Automatic data import
 * Querying Wikidata: Museums, Volcanoes (in French) - YouTube
 * Wikidata Fundamentals (in French) by CAPACOA - YouTube
 * Triplets, licenses
 * Item, references and qualifiers, history tab
 * Creation of a user account. Creation of a new items
 * Wikidata Workshop: The basics by CAPACOA - YouTube
 * Wikimedia Foundation licenses, item, semantic triples
 * User creation
 * Searching and editing an item
 * Vector Search through Wikidata with Weaviate - YouTube
 * Creating items on Wikidata using OpenRefine (without sound — subtitles only) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * NoclaimsBot adds the first statements on items without claims based on templates used on the linked Wikipedia article.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The 500th Wikidata weekly summary is 2 issues away. We are putting together interesting things related to the number 500 to include in that issue. Do you know any Wikidata facts or queries or anything cool related to 500? Please add them to Wikidata:Status updates/Next#Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
 * Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), currently in beta, will soon be in production with a planned General Availability date of 1 Feb 2022. See the Upcoming General Availability release discussion page for more details.
 * Seth started an essay to summarize the multiple data-related projects going on between Wikimedia Projects at the moment: User:Lectrician1/The grand mess of data on Wikimedia.
 * When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” by using “!Sxx” instead of “Sxx” syntax to start a new reference group.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is running a survey to evaluate Wikibase Installation and Updating experience for users. Please answer a few questions so we can continue to identify areas of improvement for users. Survey links
 * Wikibase Installation Survey
 * Wikibase Software Updating Survey
 * Open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata/Wikibase teams
 * Engineering Director
 * Full-Stack Developer


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: iTunes genre
 * External identifiers: Pandora album ID, Indonesian College Code, Institute of History of Ukraine ID, Academy of Athens authority ID, ThENC@ ID, CDAEM person ID, Famitsu game ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, Levels.fyi company ID, U-PAD author ID, CAMPUS author ID, Original Esperanto Literature author ID, iTunes genre ID, Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Category for work of subject, Honorary citizens category of entity, Kanobu numeric ID, cadastral district, official shop URL, website, documented files
 * External identifiers: street number in Austria, EU Whoiswho ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Österreichische Schulkennzahl, iCSO ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, Lur Encyclopedia ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, KSH code (historical), Encyclopedia of Krasnoyarsk Krai ID, WikiStrinda ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Film.ru film ID, Film.ru actor ID, Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID


 * Query examples:
 * Shijian (SJ 实践) experimental satellites (source)
 * Age of living Hawthorn FC players (source)
 * People died on their 50th birthday (Source)
 * Relationship between London School of Economics doctoral advisors and students (source)
 * Map of twinned towns (or partners) of municipalities of Puy-de-Dôme (source)
 * Map of the places named in reference the horse (source)
 * Map of bridges in Kaliningrad (source)
 * Latvian citizens by occupation (source)
 * Wikidata items which are the most linked by lexemes using the property “item for this sense” (source)
 * Actors in Christmas movies: by frequency, with film titles and sample film item (source)
 * Filming locations of Christmas movies, with film titles and sample film item (source)
 * Recent Christmas movies lacking filming location (source)


 * Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :)

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, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Season's greetings and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! RV (talk) 02:47, 25 December 2021 (UTC)