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Wikidata weekly summary #584
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
 * MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI)


 * Events
 * Upcoming: The 4th Wikidata Workshop. (Extended deadline)! Papers are due on Thursday, 27 July 2023
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #101, Archives (Challenge started on 2023-07-17 12:01:18
 * Past: Wikidata and Wikibase Q3 office hour session log: Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2023-07-12


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Issue 01: Who Builds The Internet?
 * Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema? in The Signpost, July 17, 2023
 * The humble guide to building an asset library
 * Papers
 * OpenFact: Factuality Enhanced Open Knowledge Extraction
 * "Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata completion using Wikipedia" (browser extension to import information from Wikipedia, assisted by a DistilBERT-based ML model to predict Wikidata statements for instance and subclass)
 * A universal literary canon based on multilingual encyclopedic data: proposal for a measurement method of literary works using quantitative data obtained from Wikidata and Wikipedia
 * Videos
 * Live Q & A with Denny Vrandečić - on Wikidata, Abstract Wikipedia and GenAi - YouTube
 * Constructing ethnic language links to open data? Status of Sediq usage on Wikidata (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * LD4 conference (YouTube)
 * Linked data via Vivaldi: A musical journey from Wikidata to the library catalog
 * Wikidata Sprint in UNLV Special Collections Highlighting LGBTQ+ Las Vegas
 * Linking Us Together: Applications of Wikidata in Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
 * WikiframeVG: A SPARQL Template-based Wikiframe for Wikidata Graph Exploration
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata
 * How do you model my gender? Studying gender representation in the Wikidata knowledge base


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * autosuggest value ( qualifier for P1963 that suggests which values should be autosuggested to the user that uses the property for items that are instances of the subject )
 * External identifiers: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID, ComingSoon.it TV series ID, ComingSoon.it TV program ID, ‎parliament.bg MP ID, Archivio digitale Fondo Edifici di Culto ID, Flashpoint database ID, Choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr organization ID, Gameswelt ID, Vélo'v station ID, Lithuanian protected object ID, Saugoma.lt area ID, Saugoma.lt object ID, Alienor.org ID, Musées Occitanie ID, Trésors de Nice ID, Image Duplicator ID, CNR ExploRA author ID, ECLI court code, Romanian river code, ‎German University Collections person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * verdict ( decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury )
 * Founder of
 * underlying structure ( an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost )
 * timetable
 * Canadian Archival Information Network authority record
 * External identifiers: BDFutbol manager ID 2, GSA player ID, DigiListan artist ID, FSHF player ID, WWGR player ID, Threads username, ProQuest publication ID, Lift Up profile ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, FantLab translator ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, Acclaimed Music album ID, Hugging Face user or organization ID, Friedländer ID, IMDb keyword


 * Query examples:
 * List of data journals at Wikidata (source)
 * Week 28, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Antiquity (aims to gather all contributors working in an aspect or another of Antiquity)
 * WikiProject Lodging (aims at creating, improving, and organizing Wikidata items related to lodging, such as hotels, motels, inns, guest houses and lodging-related topics)


 * Development
 * Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (T327510)
 * EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (T339924)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (T328149)
 * mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (T340832)

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) 13:54, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #585
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours (available in both Mandarin and English)
 * Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
 * Ongoing
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Abstract Wikipedia gains new support from The Rockefeller Foundation
 * Wikibase and reconciliation, by Adshore
 * Wikidata: why we contribute to the robot epistemology
 * Papers
 * Ten quick tips for editing Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Wikidata data set of the Sediq language (in Chinese) - YouTube
 * How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - YouTube
 * WikiConference India 2023 - Linking Wikidata with Wikivoyage - YouTube
 * WikiConference India 2023 — Structured Data in Wikidata and Commons - YouTube
 * Dataviz
 * Wikicommunes (See also the thread on Mastodon)


 * Tool of the week
 * Images near items - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link for UK red phone booths)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Update on the collaboration between Wikimedia Deutschland, Igbo Wikimedia Usergroup and Wikimedia Indonesia to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * median household income ( median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country )
 * login URL ( URL of a webpage used to log into a service )
 * registration page URL ( URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service )
 * External identifiers: GamersGlobal series ID, Threads username, Dutch word ID, BSRussia.com team ID, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia author ID, World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID, Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Top scorer ( This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: ; ; (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ). )
 * External identifiers: BDFutbol referee ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, identifiant d'un défunt sur le site Dans nos cœurs, IbsenStage ID, TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID


 * Query examples:
 * Bubble graph of the first letter of the word for "one" for languages where Wikidata has a Lexeme (source)
 * Searches for trying to replace broken Art UK external IDs (source)
 * People linked in the English Wikipedia page "List of current United States governors" (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Henrik Ibsen is a project for users interested in the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Q36661).
 * WikiProject Getty Library Wikidata Pilot - is a WikiProject in the Getty Library at the Getty Research Institute (part of the J. Paul Getty Trust) to create and enhance Wikidata items related to information in materials from the library’s Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection of African American Visual Culture.


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (T214885).
 * mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (T340644)
 * Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (T328149)
 * Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
 * Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
 * Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
 * You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint

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) 15:42, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #587
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Welcome to our new admin Yahya! (see the closed request)


 * Events
 * The deadline for submitting your proposals for WikidataCon 2023 is July 31st (23:59) anywhere in the world. Submit your proposals at https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * An analysis of discussions in collaborative knowledge engineering through the lens of Wikidata, Elisavet Koutsiana et. al.


 * Tool of the week
 * osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * median household income ( median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country )
 * login URL ( URL of a webpage used to log into a service )
 * registration page URL ( URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service )
 * shortcode ( string of text replaced by an emoji or other character on a platform (e.g. :heart_eyes:) )
 * verdict ( decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury )
 * External identifiers: Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, Spotlight PIN ID, myjewishitaly.it ID, Minerba One Data Indonesia ID, Wikibase World ID, Open Yearbook org id, ProQuest publication ID, Friedländer ID, FIGC player ID, hitparade.ch song ID, Theapolis theatre ID, IbsenStage ID, IMDb keyword


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Top scorer ( This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: ; ; (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ). )
 * Project partner ( property to list the partners of a project or an event, when different from the organizing body. )
 * External identifiers: TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID, BHL item ID, GamerProfiles Game ID, identifiant Pouët d'un groupe de démo, identifiant Pouët d'une démo, identifiant Pouët d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Kastelenlexicon ID, SEVIS school ID, Xiaohongshu User ID, Musée d'Arts de Nantes ID


 * Query examples:
 * List of people in the NZThesisProject with no assigned gender (source)
 * Cultural institutions having a Mastodon handle (source)
 * Maps of places in Rennes with an article on French Wikipedia, color-coded by number of pages on the Wikimedia Projects (source)


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
 * GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements (T339356) (new route)
 * GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (T338383) (new route)
 * GET /statements/{statement_id} (now supports statements on Properties)
 * We started work on a new route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (T340006)
 * EntitySchemas:
 * We worked on improving the termbox (the table of labels, descriptions and aliases) on EntitySchema pages to bring it more in line with the one on Items and Properties
 * We made sure that EntitySchemas are shown by their label instead of ID when available in Recent Changes and similar lists (T339924)
 * Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (T328149)
 * mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (T340832, T338330)

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) 14:44, 31 July 2023 (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 #588
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Upcoming: Submit your proposal for GLAM Wiki Conference 2023. Deadline has been extended to August 20, 23:59 anywhere in the world.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog: Creating Interactive Map Visualizations of Settlements with Wikidata and Python
 * Videos: Wiki Workshop 2023 recording YouTube playlist


 * Tool of the week
 * WikiShootMe expanded to make it possible to find the Items close to pictures you took so you can upload and add them to them (source)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Template:Synia is a new template which makes it easy to create links to Synia from Wikidata. Template:Synia+ guesses the relevant configuration pages for each entity depending on the values of P31 and P106.
 * Wikifunctions, Wikidata's newest sibling project, had a soft launch. Welcome to the Wikimedia wikiverse, functioneers!
 * The ORES service will be decommissioned and replaced by Lift Wing. If you have a tool that relies on ORES scores to judge edits or the quality of an Item please read the migration announcement. We are collecting affected community tools in T343419.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: National Union of Composers of Ukraine person ID, Encyclopaedia Islamica ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Virksomme ord ID, ‎Swetrails route ID, European Bridge League ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, IMVDb artist numeric ID, Team France athlete ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * disinherited ( someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of Property proposal/heir or beneficiary )
 * conference schedule ( Conference schedule in Pentabarf XML format )
 * state of transmission
 * External identifiers: Works Diamond Catalogue ID, Editions Diamond Catalogue ID, NFSA ID, Identifiant Médiathèque Numérique CVS, DCB Number, wadoku id, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Mémoire déposé sur DUMAS, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, BG EGN, Google Scholar Organization ID, fiba.basketball player ID


 * Deleted properties:
 * Query example: Entry dates and discovery dates of the objects of the museum of Brittany (source)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas:
 * We continued the work on giving them the same termbox as Items and Properties (T324235)
 * We finished the work on showing the labels for EntitySchemas in Recent changes, All Pages, Watchlist and edit summaries (T339924, T339921, T339925, T343231)
 * We added missing messages related to IP editing and license notes (T343333, T343118)
 * Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on the route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (T340006)

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) 13:05, 7 August 2023 (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 #589
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * MangadexBot (Task: add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID)
 * WingUCTBOT (Task: Batch Upload of Niger-Congo B Lexemes, including Senses and Forms)
 * New request for comments: Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks (Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range )


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
 * Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe
 * Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux
 * The Power of Shared Value Partnership: CIS-A2K & ACPR- GLAM Project
 * Blog planets: blogging about Debian, GNOME, Wikimedia, FSFE, and many more
 * Papers
 * Semantification of CEUR-WS with Wikidata as a target Knowledge Graph
 * The World Literature Knowledge Graph
 * Building a French Revolution Narrative from Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Adding Wikidata To Openstreetmap
 * Recording mass paths on Wikimedia and Wikidata
 * FOSS4G 2023 - Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Edward Betts
 * SPARQLE session - Sport, rugby and units - Nicolas VIGNERON
 * Virtual Inauguration: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course for Cohort 2
 * Live Wikidata editing (in Italian)
 * KGC 2023 Masterclass: Wikibase and Question-Answering by The QA Company's CEO, Dennis Diefenbach
 * Notebooks
 * SEmantic Graphs (SEG) - Cautiously nudging RDF towards more expressivity (paper)
 * Movie settings and population (What is the relation between how big a city is and how many movies are set in that city?)
 * Wikidata study day
 * SPARQL Queries for Cross-referencing and Data Cleanup
 * Presentations: Chemistry in Wikidata visualized with Scholia, Egon Willighagen et al.


 * Tool of the week
 * Everything is connected - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections.
 * WMF is moving from ORES to Lift Wing, an open-source machine learning infrastructure. Your input is vital to train the model for more accurate bad edits detection on Wikidata. Join us in enhancing edits detection by using the Annotation tool: https://annotool.toolforge.org/


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Danny Benjafield and Ifeatu Nnaobi are joining the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland
 * wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Tolkien Gateway ID, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, FSHF player ID, Mandarin-Cantonese Comparative Study ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara place ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, GSAFD ID, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Nantes Museum of Arts ID, Mythoskop ID, Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Steam Deck compatibility rating ( official rating used to determine which games, as a result of the review process, are compatible with Steam Deck and which are not )
 * name version for other gender ( use for when names that are not given name or surnames are gendered (since those two have their own properties), would also be helpful for many noble titles and honorifics as well as affixes )
 * Curator of ( has curated a collection or (art) exhibition )
 * Philippine middle name
 * External identifiers: Rumble channel, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web), archINFORM Awards ID, RCS number, NFDI4Culture ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Steam curator ID, Футзал.рус player ID, alyga.lt player ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Höhlenkataster ID (Österreich), Sitios ID, FNAC ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of places located in Rennes with an article on the French Wikipedia (and colored according to the number of pages in all Wikimedia projects)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapon types, and primary colors (source)
 * Number of albums in Wikidata by year of release (source)
 * Objects in Dresden with significant event (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Svenska Grillplatser (WikiProject Swedish Grill Places) - The idea is to see what Wikidata and OSM can contribute when it comes to barbecue sites and connections to municipalities, grillplatser.nu, naturkartan.
 * WikiProject Nollywood - This is a WikiProject for adding and enhancing items in Wikidata for Nollywood (Nigerian films) held as VHS at the Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. These films were primarily produced and collected from 1990-2000. Items will be added with information from the catalog record (MARC).


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (T339363, T340006)
 * EntitySchemas:
 * We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
 * We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (T343333, T343118)
 * IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (T328454)

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) 11:27, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #590
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 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)


 * Events
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #106, Sleep
 * Past:
 * Wikimania happened over the weekend. You can find a playlist of the events on YouTube here
 * Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #105, Wikimania Singapore


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Celebrating the 2023 Wikimedian of the Year Winners. Congratulations Tofeiku and Siobhan Leachman for your dedication to Wikidata \o/
 * Videos
 * Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap (relation (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Promoting GLAM Institution in Indonesia through OSM-Wikidata Mapping - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Psychiq, a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * appears before phonological feature ( this lexeme form appears only when another lexeme form with this phonological feature comes after it )
 * appears after phonological feature ( this lexeme form appears only when it comes after another lexeme form with this phonological feature )
 * appears before lexeme form ( this lexeme form appears only when this other specific lexeme form comes after it )
 * appears after lexeme form ( this lexeme form appears only when it comes after this other specific lexeme form )
 * Gottstein code ( code representing a variant of the cuneiform sign according to the Gottstein system )
 * tournament type ( significance or status of a sports competition for a league, tour, association, etc. )
 * External identifiers: Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, UMLS Semantic Network ID, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, Moroccan geographic code (2015), BHL item ID, TVING ID, Google Scholar organization ID, Rumble channel, GSA player ID, Roku Channel Store ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Antenna Structure Registration Number, Korean Tour player ID, Kastelenlexicon ID, NFDI4Culture ID, Pouët group ID, Pouët group member ID, Pouët demo ID, Steam curator ID, Podbay ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, Diamond Catalogue work ID, Diamond Catalogue edition ID, Frankfurt University Library Digital Collection ID, Nurnet ID, DUMAS thesis ID, Syok podcast ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * patron deity
 * WHO Aware Classification ( The World Health Organization currently classifies 258 antibiotics into "Access", "Watch", and "Reserve" based partly on the risk of resistance developing as a result of such use and critical nature of the antibiotic in question. )
 * nombre de niveaux ( number of levels in a video game or number of stages in a particular sport )
 * URL du plan du jeu vidéo ( URL of the video game detailed map in subject provided by the site CPC-Power )
 * Positioning ( A list of all the satellite navigation system (ex. GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, NavIC etc. ) a mobile device, or a smartphone supports. List of all the Satellite Navigation System. )
 * place on the route ( object, station, facility, city, natural formation or other place on a road, track, route, line, watercourse, utility line or other linear route )
 * simule ( the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real )
 * External identifiers: ANPI person ID (2), J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, ID ve Slovníku české literatury po roce 1945, Vazhaju Word ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, Visiongame.cz game ID, Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges Numeric ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Anikore anime ID, wiki.gg wiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * Count of items with an article on fr.wikivoyage.org by country (source)
 * Count of items with an article on fr.wikiquote.org by instance of (source)
 * Count of items that have X amount of statements. A simple showcase of Blazegraph optimizations.
 * Week 33, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We investigated ways to help you search for EntitySchemas by their Labels, Aliases and Descriptions (T341969)
 * Mismatch Finder: We have added the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (T328149)
 * Improved language fallback: We are testing to clearly show the fallback Label in the placeholders for empty Labels (T338330, T340832)

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #591
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)


 * Events
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, Teeth (Challenge started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31)
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata
 * Videos
 * Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
 * How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For Beginners - YouTube
 * The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - YouTube
 * How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) - YouTube
 * Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) - YouTube
 * WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikitrivia is a web-based game that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places. The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Biyanto Rebin is joining the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland for 2.5 months as an intern. Welcome!
 * Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! Project submission deadline - September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC.
 * Postdoctoral researcher (position) in NLP, Digital Humanities, and Semantic Web (0.8 FTE), University of Groningen


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * has heir or beneficiary ( people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title )
 * External identifiers: Austrian Cave Register ID, ‎research.com ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, wiki.gg article ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, ‎Visiongame.cz game ID, ‎Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, wiki.gg wiki ID, Audio+ show ID, Cent cols ID, Lift Up profile ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Dictionary of Czech literature after 1945 ID, ‎Biographical Directory of Federal Judges numeric ID, GamerProfiles game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * simule ( the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real )
 * sexe ou genre du protagoniste ( regarding the work in question, For human: male, female, non-binary, intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender. For animal: male organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass of (P279) )
 * unofficial name ( name which is widely or rarely used, but not official (for nicknames use P1449, for pseudonymes P742) )
 * External identifiers: VocalEyes Heritage Access 2022, WikiChip article ID, identifiant Demozoo d'une démo, identifiant Demozoo d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Czech geological location ID, Moviefone person ID, Moviefone movie ID, Les Petits M'O ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Minerals.net mineral ID, Minerals.net gemstone ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of birthplaces of German women writers (source)
 * Week 34, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Where were people who went to space born? (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Research expeditions - documents the activities of an international working group on Research expeditions.

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.
 * Development
 * We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful and capture more mismatches.
 * We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service (T328281)
 * We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin (T318981)
 * We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (T325822)
 * We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (T344417)
 * We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages (T338798)


 * 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #592
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: FlyingAce (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC)
 * New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.")


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 6, 2023. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
 * Registration for 2nd edition of Wikidata MOOC is scheduled for Saturday September 23. [[https://actualitte.com/article/113238/ressources/wikimedia-2e-edition-du-mooc-wikidata. Link (in French)
 * Wikidata Days 2023, 28-30* Sept. '23 | 10h00-18h00 | Auditorium and Training Room. Registration (in Portuguess)
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #108, Roof (Challenge started on 2023-09-04 12:01:27)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikipedia Will Survive A.I. (including comments from Selena Deckelmann (WMF) and User:Jsamwrites)
 * Wikidata query service Blazegraph JNL file on Cloudflare R2 and Internet Archive
 * Improving equity on Wikipedia using Wikidata
 * Papers
 * Wikidata Research Articles Dataset
 * Handling Wikidata Qualifiers in Reasoning
 * Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives
 * SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26 Billion RDF Triples
 * Videos
 * #SPARQL #Wikidata: first name, occupation and Academy, by VIGNERON - YouTube (in French)
 * Newsletters
 * Wikidata and the epistemology of robots in RAW ((in French)
 * Explore Wikidata differently with Synia in RAW (in French)


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js - is a userscript that adds a button to add a reference which immediately suggests reference URL (P854).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opening: Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d). For our Team Wikidata, based in Berlin, we are looking for a permanent Software Engineer (m/f/d), full-time or part-time (min. 32h/week), as soon as possible.
 * Wikidata's eleventh birthday is around the corner! One of our traditions is to prepare birthday presents to the community. Now is a great time to start preparing yours!
 * Developer account signup from Wikitech removed. Now directing new users towards https://idm.wikimedia.org instead.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * has heir or beneficiary ( people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title )
 * towing capacity ( the maximum sustainable force with which this vehicle can pull or push another object. Alternatively for road- or track-vehicles, the maximum weight of an object on wheels that this vehicle can reliably and safely pull given usual slopes )
 * learning outcome ( specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program )
 * tribe ( recognised membership in a society, mainly denoted by shared cultural heritage; for ethnicity use P172 )
 * External identifiers: ANPI person ID, Anikore anime ID, Substack profile ID, Artmajeur artist ID, FantLab translator ID, ‎wadoku ID, identifier in a register in Germany, Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * when used with property ( when used with property )
 * Wikimedia Commons campaign ( name of a Wikimedia Commons campaign )
 * near ( for geo-objects which are located near some other geo-object )
 * External identifiers: animecons.com event id, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, BioGRID Publication, iNaturalist user ID, MyShows, NHK News topic ID, Museoitalia ID, DBpia author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Old Greek personalities with entries in Prosopographia attica (source)
 * Largest heist by damage (source)


 * Development
 * EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (T338797)
 * We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (T318981)
 * Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (T342238)

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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #593
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">
 * Events
 * First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop (wikibase-lex). September 13, 14:00 to 18:00, at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna.
 * German-speaking Wikipedia community meets in Linz (in German). September 29 - October 1, 2023.
 * OpenRefine for beginners (in German). October 25-26, 2023.
 * The second Mini Hackathon at Wikimedia Nederland, for experienced Wikimedians, will take place on Saturday, November 4. There is room for 30 participants; you can apply here.


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Starting fresh: the Wikibase REST API
 * Press
 * Pamitouch Foundation pilots TTAG Goes Digital initiative at Accra College of Education. The Open Foundation West Africa provided an introduction to Wikipedia and its sister tools. The teacher trainees were guided on topics such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and Wikiversity.
 * Papers
 * Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years - Daria Tisch and Emma Ischinsky
 * Wikidata as Semantic Infrastructure: Knowledge Representation, Data Labor, and Truth in a More-Than-Technical Project - Heather Ford and Andrew Iliadis
 * KGConv, a Conversational Corpus grounded in Wikidata - Quentin Brabant, Gwenole Lecorve, Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, and Claire Gardent
 * Videos
 * Interoperability among the digital repository Tainacan and the information networks Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons: A case study of FILE ARCHIVE - Paula Perissinotto & Dalton Martins
 * Link data from local index to Wikidata - Josef Moravec, Moravian Library in Brno
 * Improving knowledge dissemination with Wikidata: potentialities of structured data in hearing health - Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos


 * Tool of the week
 * Peppercat is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Open call: train-the-trainer course for candidate OpenRefine-Wikimedia trainers, with a focus on (structured data on) Wikimedia Commons. More info and application form here. Application deadline is September 15.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * state of transmission ( state of transmission of a work (as a concept, not as a physical item; for that, use P5816) )
 * describes actor of ( predicate sense whose actor (an agent or a cause—basically the instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense )
 * describes undergoer of ( predicate sense whose undergoer (a patient, a theme, or a recipient—basically a non-instigator of an action) is denoted by this sense )
 * External identifiers: Demozoo demo ID, Demozoo group member ID, ‎animecons.com event ID, Museo Italia ID, Dans nos cœurs ID, WWGR player ID, futzal.rus player ID, iNaturalist user ID, alyga.lt player ID, UETK ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, SEVIS school ID, WikiChip article ID, Mageia package ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Red List of South African Plants conservation status ( conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the South African National Biodiversity Institute )
 * Educational level ( school level in which the subject of the item is taught )
 * FragDenStaat tag ( tag in FragDenStaat.de )
 * Plate ( the plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made )
 * External identifiers: Fansly ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, BookBrainz series ID, BookBrainz edition ID, ManyVids ID, LoverFans ID, IGI Global affiliate ID, Aparat channel ID, Pandit Project work ID, RKDexcerpts


 * Query examples:
 * Territories claimed by irredentism
 * Map of tram stop all over the world (source)
 * Map of public archives in Germany (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Patagonian Archaeology - The project works on the creation and improvement of items on Patagonian Archaeology in Wikidata (archeology of the argentine patagonian coast).
 * WikiProject Archive of National Debt Redemption Movement - The purpose of this project is to promote the use of records related to the National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동) by integrating data from the National Debt Repayment Movement digital archive into Wikidata.


 * Development
 * Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (T343731)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements
 * Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (T344231)
 * We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (T330550); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (T343979)
 * Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (T342976) and get the labels of a Property (T342977)

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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 * 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 #594
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-18.


 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, FlyingAce! (see the closed request)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 4 (Task: Import commune of France contact data from french official directory, french official directory
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: JoRobot 8 (Task: Removing good list badge from articles in the Catalan Wikipedia)


 * Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Paper: Documenting Biodiversity in Underrepresented Languages using Crowdsourcing - Mohammed Kamal-Deen Dnshitobu Fuseini, Agnes Ajuma Abah, Andra Waagmeester
 * Press: Statement by Alliance F5 on the German Government's data strategy (in German)
 * Videos
 * List of free software in le socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL/the interministerial base of free software) recommended by the French Government in Wikidata - Nicolas Vigneron
 * Georeferencing using OSM and Wikidata - Oficina Wiki Apoia
 * Members of Riksdag (Sweden's parlement) - Magnus Sälgö
 * Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments with Content Partnerships Hub - Wikimedia Sweden
 * From self-documentation to federated querying using Wikibase: a new topology to Media Art Archiving? - Raphael Tsz Kin Chau


 * Tool of the week
 * LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can now browse all the Wikibase instances hosted on Wikibase.Cloud: https://www.wikibase.cloud/discovery
 * Wikibase resources, a collection of resources, overviews, links and knowlegde related to Wikibase, collected and curated by KB, national library of the Netherlands


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: RBC person ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Médiathèque Numérique CVS ID, MyShows show ID, NHK News topic ID, ‎Sitios ID, Xiaohongshu user ID, Fansly ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * chronological designation (as a typical instance, the stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
 * Flora of New Jersey Project atlas URL (URL for a plant species in the Flora of New Jersey Project atlas)
 * External identifiers: British Pathé ID, ProductReview ID, BISAC Subject Heading, EDItEUR Thema id, ONIX Subject Scheme id, MiMoText ID, ADVN ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, Diktyon, Codeberg username, RAWG tag ID, National Library of Albania ID, DfE Group UID, AARoads Wiki article ID, Armasanicana person ID, FloraVeg.EU species ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID


 * Query examples:
 * Google Scholar Organization IDs to Wikidata (source)
 * Power stations of this world (source)
 * Usage state of the nuclear power plant (source)


 * Development
 * We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page.
 * Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in (T330550)
 * We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (T344231)
 * Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property (T342976) and getting the labels of a Property (T342977)

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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 * 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 #595
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: AytekUstundag-RoyalMapperBot (Task: Add missing historical figures from royalmapper database)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * WikidataCon 2023, the conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, is taking place on October 28-29, online all around the world and onsite in Taipei. You can now register for the conference.
 * WikiIndaba 2023 Microgrants available for community events!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 29. This event is part of a series where you can gain hands-on experience with Wikidata by working on a diverse library and information science (LIS) dataset. In this fourth session, we'll introduce the Wikimedia PAWS environment for data gathering and processing in your Wikidata projects. We'll focus on web scraping for article data using Python and the Beautiful Soup package for parsing. You'll learn about data models for making your data accessible to both machines and humans. This session will be recorded and shared on the event page. Event page.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)


 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Mass-importing games from Steam into Wikidata by User:Nicereddy
 * Papers
 * Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet (A Wikimedia Projects White Paper from the Biodiversity Heritage Library). Jacqueline J. Dearborn
 * "Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives" Numerical perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar numbers. (Cao et al, 2023)
 * Response to Marcin Roszkowski 2023: Modelling doctoral dissertations in Wikidata knowledge graph: Selected issues. Tamsin L. Braisher
 * Press
 * They call it the Barassi Line, defining our footy codes - how fitting that seems today - The Barassi Line has been a focus of my research and has recently been plotted and visualised by Brett Tweedie as part of his Wikidata fellowship.
 * Videos
 * The mess with Wikidata death location and the instance of a location - salgo60
 * Developing a linked data workflow using Wikidata - Will Kent
 * Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia - Kai Labusch
 * From EAD to MARC to Wikidata and back again - Crystal Yragui, Adam Schiff
 * Adventures in Korean Wikidata - Margaret Donald
 * Getting started on Wikidata - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
 * Wiki(su)data #2: Wikidata live editing in Italian - Wikidata in italiano
 * Wikibase as an institutional repository authority file - Michael Lindsey


 *  Tool of the week 
 * User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js is a script that can be used to search an identifier on an external site. It provides a button to search for an identifier as soon as you type it in the property input field. For example, if you type “ORCID”, an icon with a lens will appear, and when you click it, a new tab will open with the ORCID site looking for the name of the researcher. You can then copy the URL and paste it to Wikidata.


 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Want to play a game? Wikidata:Games has some Wikidata-related ones for you.
 * Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Project submission deadline.
 * Citation.js Toolforge is a service to export citations from Wikidata items in various formats (BibTeX, RIS) and various citations formats (Vancouver, APA, etc)
 * As a next step in the deprecation process of ORES the WMF Machine Learning team will switch the backend of ores.wikimedia.org to ores-legacy so users that have not yet migrated to Lift Wing will be transparently migrated. This change is planned to take place on Monday 25th of September.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech (d/f/m)


 *  Did you know? 


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * type of musical notation ( system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition )
 * ‎chronological designation ( stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: source cited in support of a particular statement may not be the same as the publication date or volume )
 * External identifiers: J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, Diktyon ID, RAWG tag ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Demo ( video game or software that this trial version is based on )
 * ETCS level ( ETCS level of implementation )
 * adoption variant ( variant of this loanword with the same origin )
 * Temaportalen ID
 * External identifiers: Metacritic game ID, BAN ID, handlingar.se ID, identifiant Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, South African NPO number


 * Query examples:
 * Subclass of blogger (source)
 * List of taxon name as first having been described by Dennis P. Gordon (source)
 * Gallery of wood cuts made before 1600, including file description and the link to the Wikimedia Commons file (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 38, 2023) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Chopin Thematic Catalog Concordance - an effort by members of the Music Library Association (MLA) Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) to create and enhance Wikidata items for Frédéric Chopin's musical works.
 * WikiProject Museum AI projects - aims to map AI projects (including events, datasets) from museums into Wikidata and create a data model for it.


 *  Development 
 * Lexemes: We are fixing an issue that made edit links and styles disappear (T344362)
 * Mismatch Finder:
 * We made improvements to the store part of the tool (T335864) and fixed small issues (T344336,, T343344)
 * We worked on making it possible to upload mismatches on qualifiers (T313467)
 * We are continuing to migrate tools from ORES to Lift Wing (T343731)
 * We've added Wikifunktions as a new wiki for sitelinks (T342857)
 * Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get labels, descriptions and aliases from a Property as well as modify the description of an Item

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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 *  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!
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Wikidata weekly summary #596
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end after 8 October 2023 12:01 (UTC))
 * New request for comments: MotoGP riders' links (Update the broken links of MotoGP racer ID (P3928))

Ongoing This Week
 * Events
 * November 7, 2023, Hannover, Germany - WikiRemembrance: researching and remembering National Socialism - Wikipedia and Wikidata's role in documenting memorial sites.
 * January 12 - 14, 2024, Berlin, Germany (and online) - CFP: Provenance Loves Wiki - A workshop on art history, art science and provenance research in Wikidata/Wikipedia & Wikibase
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. Agenda


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The State of Wikimedia Research 2022 - 2023
 * Papers
 * Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Wikidata Case Study - Zhang et al, 2023
 * Chain-of-Verification reduces hallucination in Large Language Models across a variety of tasks, including list-based questions from Wikidata - Dhuliawala et al, 2023
 * Videos
 * Intro about WikiPathways< showing bits of Wikidata and Scholia
 * Wikidata for Better Health (in French) - Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Sciences SFAX < closing session of "Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning"
 * Notebooks
 * Implementing a parser for a sample Wiki article
 * Artist selection (in French)


 * Tool of the week
 * Swiss Archives is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - Michael Gasser (X post)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WikidataCon 2023: first version of the program is out - find out more about the format, registration and scheduled program.
 * The Search Platform / Query Service Team monthly Open Meeting is coming up. Got any Wikidata Query Service questions? Feel free to join!
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is still looking for an Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * demo of ( video game or software that this trial version is based on )
 * External identifiers: ‎Codeberg username, ADVN ID, ‎MiMoText ID, BookBrainz series ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, ‎National Library of Albania ID, AARoads Wiki article ID, BAN ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * self-identified name ( the name used by an ethnic group to refer to itself )
 * non-self-identified name ( name used to identify an ethnic group against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts )
 * exception to constraint (lexeme) ( lexeme that is an exception to the constraint, qualifier to define a property constraint in combination with P2302 )
 * External identifiers: Metacritic numeric game ID, DBIL ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Gematsu game ID, Matilda paper ID, Basketball Bundesliga Teams UUID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, Pinakes IDs, WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID


 * Query examples:
 * Most frequent birth places for PTBNP authors (source)
 * University's museum in France (source)
 * 52,153 French words which have both masculine and feminine forms (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject African Literary Metadata - a project dedicated to create and improve Wikidata's coverage of African informal literatures.
 * WikiProject GLAM-BW - a project to connect major collections held by museums in Baden-Württemberg by uploading information on collectors, former collection locations, collecting histories, and objects


 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property.
 * We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item.
 * You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions (T342857)
 * We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions and where code changes are needed
 * Lexicographical data:
 * We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer (T322683)
 * If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses (T343979)
 * We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon (T286239)
 * Mismatch Finder:
 * Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results (T335864)
 * We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers (T313467)
 * The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled (T343344)

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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 * 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!