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Wikidata weekly summary #494
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Create massive changes in one property for spesific categories/properties?


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Bug Triage Hour on API issues. Monday 15th November at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time, see other time zones) (Etherpad)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Éder Porto will be discussing adding journal articles to Wikidata Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project/Chapter 17. doc, Nov. 16th.
 * Open Source Publishing Tools in Wikidata, 16 November 2021. Part of the Open Publishing Fest.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #62 - YouTube, Facebook, November 20 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #87, November 21 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #16, Books
 * Past
 * Introduction to Wikidata: GWMAB con IAML Italia replay (in Italian)
 * WikiData4Education_Aligning the sum of all knowledge with school curricula, WikiIndaba (replay)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikidata and open infrastructure: a request for participation
 * Own metadata for own blog posts - science communication and bibliographies with open data and Wikidata
 * How we're tracking elections in symbiosis with Wikidata
 * Recent updates and improvements to Wikidata Query Service
 * How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow
 * The trouble with triples
 * Getting the WDQS Updater to production: a tale of production readiness for Flink on Kubernetes at WMF
 * Videos
 * Fuzheado and T Cells to demonstrate how to discover, track and work with sets of Wikidata - YouTube
 * Wikidata Introduction course (in German) - 1, 2, 3, 4
 * Wikidata in Educational Institutions / Academic research at Wikimedia Polska / Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
 * Podcasts
 * Siobhan Leachman - Wikimedia Editor and Citizen Scientist


 * Tool of the week
 * Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
 * New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
 * What kind of articles have you created? an Observable notebook which use Wikidata API to get the value of P31 for the list of articles created by a user.
 * OpenRefine is hiring a part-time Project director (paid position).
 * Hewell public beta app: is a virtual tour guide that automatically finds interesting things around you whether you're in a new city or your hometown.
 * Full Fact is using the MediaWiki Action API in their workflow to help add some Wikidata identifiers to their mark-up.
 * Magnus replaced some live SPARQL queries in Mix’n’match with a database cache. Main page now loads faster.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Nederlandse Voornamenbank ID, Standing Waters Database ID, Vokrug.tv person ID, Atlas Project of Roman Aqueducts ID, IRIS UNIURB author ID, IRIS Verona author ID, IRIS UNISA author ID, IRIS UNIMI author ID, IRIS UNIBO author ID, Philosophica ID, Castforward ID, Baidu Scholar journal ID, Academy of Russian Television person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Tabakalera ID, mathematical symbol, included as part, specific impulse by weight, Newgrounds username
 * External identifiers: 7 Days person ID, DBLP event ID, Osmose Agency person ID, Author ID from the Modern Discussion website, IRIS Umbria IDs, biografiA ID, Global Geoparks Network ID (new), identifiant Numelyo


 * Query examples:
 * List of properties which have instances or subclass of humans as possible value with male and female form in French (source)
 * Different people with same label / birthday / occupation in a specified year
 * Narrative locations of the book Itinerary from Paris to Mont-d'Or (Source)
 * Maps of tombs of unknown soldiers (Source)
 * Most common first names (> 5) among people with a Wikidata item and born in Auvergne (Source)
 * Student-Teacher relationship based on entries in 'Das Geistige Berlin' (1897) (Source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#select%20%3Fdec%20%28%28%3Fcount%2F%3Ftotal%29%2a100%20as%20%3Fpercent%29%20%3FcauseLabel%20%20where%20%0A%7B%20%0A%20%20%7B%20select%20%28str%28%3Fdecade%29%20as%20%3Fdec%29%20%28count%28distinct%20%3Fps%29%20as%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fcause%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps%20.%20%3Fps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fterm%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fpend%20.%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps2%20.%20%3Fps2%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fps2%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fpend%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%23%20not%20new%20term%20starting%20same%20day%20-%20ie%20left%20Parliament%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20%3Fcause%20.%20%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ741182%20%7D%20%23%20not%20dissolution%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ7649223%20%7D%20%23%20not%20suspension%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35855188%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ36345696%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ30580660%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ52084147%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35867887%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20bind%28year%28%3Fpend%29%20as%20%3Fyear%29%20.%20filter%28%3Fyear%20%3E%3D%201870%29%20.%20bind%28%28floor%28%3Fyear%2F10%29%2a10%29%20as%20%3Fdecade%29%20.%0A%7D%20group%20by%20%3Fcause%20%3Fdecade%20%7D%20%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20select%20%28str%28%3Fdecade%29%20as%20%3Fdec%29%20%28count%28distinct%20%3Fps%29%20as%20%3Ftotal%29%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps%20.%20%3Fps%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fterm%20wdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ16707842%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fpend%20.%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fmp%20p%3AP39%20%3Fps2%20.%20%3Fps2%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fps2%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fpend%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%23%20not%20new%20term%20starting%20same%20day%20-%20ie%20left%20Parliament%0A%20%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20%3Fcause%20.%20%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ741182%20%7D%20%23%20not%20dissolution%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ7649223%20%7D%20%23%20not%20suspension%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35855188%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ36345696%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ30580660%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ52084147%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Fps%20pq%3AP1534%20wd%3AQ35867887%20%7D%20%23%20tofix%0A%20%20bind%28year%28%3Fpend%29%20as%20%3Fyear%29%20.%20filter%28%3Fyear%20%3E%3D%201870%29%20.%20bind%28%28floor%28%3Fyear%2F10%29%2a10%29%20as%20%3Fdecade%29%20.%0A%7D%20group%20by%20%3Fdecade%20%7D%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23defaultView%3ABarChart Relative frequency of reasons MPs' terms end, since 1870] (Source)
 * Newest database reports: recently ended TV series


 * Development
 * The language codes  (Aghem, T288335) and   (Massa, T293884) are now supported.
 * Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
 * Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
 * Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (T232557)
 * Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (T295560)

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) 14:35, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #495
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments:
 * Requests for comment/How to avoid to use male form as a generic form in property labels in French ?


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 25th November 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
 * Editing Scottish government agencies at CTC24 – Open In Practice, November 27-28
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #63 - YouTube, Facebook, November 27 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #88, November 28 at 13.00 UTC
 * ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup - Introduction to Wikibase (November 23rd 2021 13:00 Berlin time) (register on meetup)
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #17, Bread
 * Past
 * Bug Triage Hour on API issues (log)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Using Wikidata to promote epistemic equity
 * How Penn's Librarians are Using Linked Data to Make the Web Better
 * Videos
 * How to use the Wikidata query service without having experience with the SPARQL language (Wikidata Query Builder) (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Bringing Linked Data into Libraries via Wikidata - YouTube
 * Presenting the project for integrating data from the Ricordi Archive into Wikimedia projects (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Bio-Ontologies - YouTube
 * ENDORSE Follow up event: Wikibase and the EU Knowledge Graph as a use case - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Full-Stack Developer and Partner Relationships Manager to join the Wikidata/Wikibase 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.
 * This post about the question of the week is showing how questions can be answered over Wikidata. Also it gives some insights on how Google and Siri are using Wikidata.
 * A new openly accessible book on knowledge graphs has been published by prominent researchers in the field.
 * The latest version of WordNet released now links to Wikidata for many entries
 * [Feedback Requested] Introducing a dedicated section on Wikidata Item pages for classifying properties
 * New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: train melody
 * External identifiers: SEKO ID, NWT Species ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, SEEK company ID, Tabakalera ID, IRIS UNIPG author ID, EXQUIRITE author ID, State Duma person ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases chemical ID, CREPČ institution ID, CREPČ person ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, Australian Charities and Not‑for‑profits Register Charity ID, CJFD journal ID, Offshore leaks database ID, Osmose Agency person ID, biografiA ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Rehearses at, image with color chart, Wallet Address, dpi, project of, outcome, introduced by, IMA Symbol, Ghana Place Names URL, CSS code, Deity, number of teachers
 * External identifiers: Newgrounds username, identifiant Numelyo, Genie artist ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie media ID, Naver VIBE track ID, Naver VIBE video ID, Bugs! track ID, Bugs! music video ID, Melon music video ID, Rutube channel ID, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID, Nintendo64EVER ID, N64-Database ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, Web Encyclopedia of Kyiv ID, Database of Czech librarians ID, Coub channel ID, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID, identifiant OùVoir.Ça, kino-teatr.ru film ID 2, CH district ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, identifiant Initiale, AbeBooks ID, Sceneweb organization ID, SensCritique work ID, Library of Congress providers ID, Irkipedia ID, Delovaya Stolitsa ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, NT Place Names Register ID, Place Names of New Brunswick ID, IRIS polytechnic universities IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Numbers from 0 to 20 sorted alphabetically thanks to lexicographical data (source)
 * Given names of French fictional characters, as chosen by French / non-French authors (Source)
 * Map of members of the International Society of Biocuration (historical and current; affiliation and education institutions) (Source)
 * UK MPs and their reason for *finally* leaving office (Source)
 * Number of new UK MPs at each general election since 1870 (new = never served before) (Source)
 * Crewe Alexandra players from Crewe (Source)
 * Chronological timeline of people buried in Cimetière des Carmes (Source)
 * Stops in the travel routes of Wilhelm Müller on his way from Leipzig to Bad Schandau in 1820/21 (Source)


 * Development
 * Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (T232557)
 * Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
 * The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (T275251)
 * Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (T294465)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:00, 22 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)

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!

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.

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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 #499
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 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!

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Wikidata weekly summary #500
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 * Welcome to the 500th Weekly Summary!
 * Item #500 is Citrus ×limon; Property #500 is exclave of; and Lexeme #500 is "കുടുംബം" - Malayalam for “family”.
 * “Roughly” 500 people were participants at WikidataCon 2021
 * Q207742 is about the natural number 500
 * Q560388 disambiguates "500" for Wikipedias in 14 languages.
 * The Roman numeral for 500 is "D"
 * Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 500
 * Wikidata was 500 days old on Friday 14 March 2014. It will be 500 weeks old on Tuesday 31 May 2022


 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end after 27 December 2021 15:57 UTC)


 * 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.
 * Coolest Tools Awards on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #22, New Year
 * Past:
 * Wikidata. Lecture - master class in Russian is 16:07 GMT on Sunday 26th December 2021 (19:07 Moscow time) in Minsk Hackerspace. For those who are not familiar and want to know what it is.
 * WikidataCon 2021 (replay on YouTube)
 * Wikidata talks:
 * Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smiths. Inst.
 * A Wikidata university course? Lessons learned from featuring Wikidata in an elective course at TAU.
 * Linking Indian Local Self Government's Structured Data with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Finding new pathways of collaborating for a sustainable Wikidata software development
 * How can we reimagine Wikidata from the margins? Conversation with Maryana Iskander
 * Wikidata at Texas A&M University Libraries: Enhancing Discovery for Dissertations
 * Wiki API Connector - Simplifying ETL workflows from open APIs to Wikidata/Commons
 * IG WIKIDATA HUB - The Journey towards building a WIKIDATA community in Nigeria
 * Integration of Wikidata 4OpenGLAM into data and information science curricula
 * Description from Wikidata on sister projects and concerns about vandalism
 * Knowledge Quality In Wikidata: Vandalism Insights and Data Collaborations
 * Shared Citations - A proposed citation management database for Wikimedia
 * Analyzing, visualizing and improving Wikidata using the Wolfram Language
 * Challenges and Lessons from a Pilot Project: Christian Hymns in Wikidata
 * Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world
 * Wikidata supporting open student research projects in plant chemistry
 * A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org
 * Linking the Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) database to Wikidata
 * Global templates: Towards a New Age of Cross-wiki Data Collaboration
 * From QRPedia to AudioQRPedia : how to improve QRPedia using Wikidata
 * Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments presentations and discussion
 * From Google Scholar to Wikidata: The RIDC NeuroMat Experience
 * Assessing the quality of sources in Wikidata across languages
 * IFLA Wikidata Working Group: Updates from the library field
 * A process to roundtrip Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine
 * Arrange river data in Taiwan by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Look both ways: integrating Wikidata and OpenStreetMap
 * Wikidata in the Classroom: Updates from North America
 * Learning Wikidata in 8 Weeks as a Smithsonian Intern
 * Wikidata-based Narratives for Research and Education
 * Measuring Political Elite Networks with Wikidata
 * Sorting out industry classifications in Wikidata
 * Systematic Review Automation driven by Wikidata
 * The Lindy Effect in Wikidata User Retention
 * Non-binary Gender Identities in Wikidata
 * Measuring and monitoring data quality
 * Wikidata & Education: A Global Panel
 * Integrating Wikidata into education
 * Integrating Wikidata into education
 * Wikidata in Australia showcase
 * Wikidata and R: a perfect pair
 * Writing schemas for Wikidata
 * Overview of ontology issues
 * Wikidata and OCCRP
 * Wikibase talks:
 * Open meeting of the Wikibase Stakeholder Group and interactive roadmapping session
 * How can Wikimedia Deutschland enable an ecosystem of developers around Wikibase?
 * Wikibase as an infrastructure for Knowledge Graphs: The EU Knowledge Graph
 * "A Wikibase for what?" - diverse users at the edge of the graph
 * Wikibase lightning talks: data upload and extensions session
 * How to open Authority Control system - The GND & Wikibase
 * Wikibase Community User Group meeting and track roundup
 * Pre-launch Announcement and Preview of Wikibase.Cloud
 * Wikibase as RDM infrastructure within NFDI4Culture
 * Wikibase lightning talks: inspiration session
 * Wikibase for Citations on Wikipedia


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Why you need to understand Wikidata, no matter what field you’re in
 * Papers
 * Improving the Question Answering Quality using Answer Candidate Filtering based on Natural-Language Features
 * Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter
 * Videos
 * SPARQL queries on Wikidata - advanced level (in Italian) - YouTube
 * How to link items to Dagbani Wikipedia articles using databox by Dnshitobu - YouTube
 * Alias names in Wikidata - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * WDQS State of the Union, Dec 2021 now available.
 * If you are using the Modern Vector skin on Wikidata then search might break for you near the end of January for a few days. To fix it you can temporarily switch back to the Vector skin. A proper fix is being worked on in T275251.
 * 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: type host, CSS code
 * External identifiers: Rutube channel ID, Nasha Versia ID, Irkipedia ID, Babesdirectory ID, Numelyo ID, ua-football.com player ID, soccerpunter.com player ID, pfl.uz player ID, PGM author ID, Irish Times profile ID, politika-crimea.ru person ID, Kinomania.ru actor ID, Kinomania.ru film ID, bards.ru person ID, kinobaza.com.ua actor ID, kinobaza.com.ua film ID, Zürich Herbaria collector ID, N64-Database ID, Channel One Russia show ID, Kanobu ID, Lambic.Info ID, Smotrim.ru film ID, CH district ID, Digital Index of Middle English Verse ID, Genie album ID, Genie song ID, Genie artist ID, Austrian school ID, DFIH business ID, Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India, Ruskino actor ID, Ruskino film ID, Joconde use ID, JSTOR artwork ID, Dicionario da Real Academia Galega ID, Bloomsbury Fashion Central ID, MTBdata ID, All About Birds ID, Homosaurus ID (V3), GISAID identifier, oKino.ua actor ID, Library of Congress providers ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: documented files, start and end time in video, is an individual of a taxon, facilitates flow of, LKI ID, service hosted by, service hosted at, everyeye.it ID
 * External identifiers: Artland artist ID, Artland gallery ID, ILAB ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Artland fair ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, Regroupement Québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, CNSflora ID, Rusactors actor ID, Rusactors film ID, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, artchive person ID, nzs.si player ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, NLC Bibliography ID, PKULaw CLI Code, LGBT Info Wiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * Places that appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopaedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopaedia and the Store Norske Leksikon, (ordered by country) (source)
 * Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
 * UK parties since 1935 that have only ever been represented by a single MP (source)
 * Brazilians with most Wikipedia pages across languages (source)


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

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 #501
<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
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 4 at 19:00 CEST
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #23, Residence
 * Past:
 * Wikibase live session (December 2021) - log


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * How to get Wikidata claims from Wikipedia sitelinks using Wikidata API ?
 * Videos
 * Working hour - Wikidata SPARQL querries (in Italian) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
 * Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
 * Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of triples, URL for freedom of information requests, official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy
 * External identifiers: Norgeshistorie ID, Numista mint ID, Austrian Street ID, F6S ID, EU Whoiswho ID, DFIH financier ID, Express Gazeta ID, All-Science Journal Classification Codes, Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi ID, Numista coin ID, Comparably company ID, Folketinget actor ID, Coub channel ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Index of Middle English Verse ID, Stack Exchange user ID, Listen Notes podcast ID, Casefile ID, ILAB ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, Slovak Theatre Virtual Database ID, CNSflora ID, Baseball Prospectus ID, UNESCO ICH ID, Artland artist ID, Genie media ID, Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: cantilever sign, yield rate, Stalin Memo ID, Name in Swedish government, reference image
 * External identifiers: FID ID, Labyrinth database ID, doollee.com playwright ID, doollee.com play ID, doollee.com literary agent ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, people.su person ID, Biographe.ru ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, ICPSR Subject Thesaurus ID, Hermitage Museum ID, ICPSR Personal Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Organization Names Authority List ID, ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, Tretyakov Gallery ID, Maritimt Magasin skips ID, ARCHER ID, Pipe Organ Database ID, Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016


 * Query examples:
 * Map of New Zealand suburbs (source)
 * Graph of influences in the Age of Enlightenment (source)
 * Family names shared by astronauts (along with how often they occur in Wikidata) (source)
 * Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures) (source)
 * People awarded by the French Legion of Honour on Dec 31, 2021 (source)
 * Average height of people named Joe (Source)
 * Indian writers who died in 1961 (Source)


 * Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, no development has happened for Wikidata in the last two weeks.

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 #502
<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
 * Closed request for adminship: Ameisenigel, welcome!
 * New request for comments: Automated Manipulation and Calculation


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group.
 * Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on January 13th at 18:00 Central Europe Time (17:00 UTC/GMT), in this Jitsi room. This edition will be an open discussion without a specific theme: you can bring 1-2 Phabricator tickets that you really care about, and we will look at them together and see how we can add relevant information and triage them.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Review Wikimedia Foundation’s Linked Open Data Strategy 2021 and community discussion. Agenda, January 11th. |convert to local time!
 * Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours. Date: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 12 at 19:00 CEST (exceptionally on Wednesday)
 * The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC. This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools! Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #66 - YouTube, Facebook, January 15 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #92, January 16 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #24, Antonyms
 * Creating, maintaining and updating Shape Expressions as EntitySchemas in the Wikimedia ecosystem. International SWAT4HCLS Conference. 10 - 13 Jan 2022. Register!


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * An introduction to Observable for Wikidata users
 * 10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlier
 * Videos
 * Introduction to the interwiki links between Wikidata and Wikipedia (in French) - YouTube
 * Exploring Wikipedia infobox from Wikidata (in French) - YouTube
 * WIkimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021
 * Implementing Wikidata in Educational Institutions — CEE Challenges and Opportunities - YouTube
 * Add your country to the Wikidata Govdirectory - YouTube
 * Wikidata automatization and integration with web resources - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Celtic Knot Conference (dedicated to underserved languages on the Wikimedia project, with a strong focus on Wikidata and lexicographical data) will take place online in 2022. You can help the organizers with giving input on topics you'd like to see at the conference. Feel free to fill in the survey before January 17.
 * The page Wikidata:WikiProject Duplicates/Wikipedia mergers has been created, in order to facilitate users when they find duplicate articles in a Wikipedia whose language is unfamiliar to them:
 * if you want to declare that you are available for merging duplicate articles in one or more given Wikipedias, please add your name to this page
 * if you want to find some user able to merge articles in a certain Wikipedia, you can see if there are already available users for that Wikipedia and contact them directly
 * New open positions at Wikimedia Deutschland (Wikidata/Wikibase teams)
 * Product Manager Wikibase Suite
 * Working student in International Software Collaboration
 * Post WikidataCon 2021
 * Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 presenting the key tools and lessons learned from the organizing team
 * Results of the WikidataCon 2021 participants survey
 * Video recordings of the WikidataCon 2021 are currently being uploaded


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: official shop URL, facilitates flow of, next level in hierarchy, is an individual of taxon, reference image, associated cadastral district
 * External identifiers: Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) ID, Archivio Storico dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari person ID, National Library of Ireland ID, Viber group ID, WikiStrinda ID, Volgograd Oblast address register, NER portfolio ID, Der Spiegel topic ID, LocalWiki ID, Initiale ID, Joconde representation ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmovamista.cz film ID, Arthive person ID, Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, NatureServe Explorer ID, NT Place Names Register ID, MedlinePlus drug identifier, MedlinePlus supplement identifier, eurasian-defence.ru person ID, everyeye.it ID, Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: TV3 programme ID, Chief/Naa/Traditional ruler, results in quality, official jobs URL, relative, director of publication, Business valuation, 議案番号
 * External identifiers: Washington Native Plant Society Plant Directory ID, TVFPlay series ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2016, New York Flora Atlas ID, UKÄ standard classification of Swedish science topics 2011, NLC FL Sys. No., Senators of Spain (1834-1923), Finnish real property ID, TV3 video ID, OpenAlex ID, IRIS Sardinia IDs, CineCartaz, identifiant Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel, Numista type number, Indeed company ID, DFG Science Classification, SPLC group ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Wörterbuch der Präpositionen ID, archive-ouverte Unige ID, Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali work ID, rus.team person ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID


 * Query examples:
 * Authors without field of work but with topic-tagged publications
 * Compound first names starting with "John" (and the number of uses on Wikidata) (Source)
 * Presidents of Brazil with the most awards (Source)
 * Locations of parishes across Scotland (Source)
 * Map of where Roman Catholic Popes were born (Source)
 * Birth place of people who are described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Great Russian Encyclopedia, the Great Catalan Encyclopedia and the Store Norske Leksikon (Source)
 * Various kinds of New Year's celebrations in the world (Source)
 * World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade (source) select decade on the right side
 * Non-English labels for a set of objects, with the names of the languages (source)


 * Development
 * Getting the Wikidata:Mismatch Finder ready for release. Focusing on adding statistics.
 * Fixed an issue where statement editing was broken in some older browser (T298001)
 * Made it so that grammatical features on a Form of a Lexeme can be ordered consistently across all Lexemes (T232557)
 * Working on an issue where changes from Wikidata don't get sent to the other wikis for the initial adding of the sitelink to an Item (T233520)

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.


 * Looking back at 2021
 * Developments rolled out in 2021:
 * New updater for the Wikidata Query Service to help it keep up with the large number of edits on Wikidata
 * Query Builder to make it easier for people to create SPARQL queries without having to know SPARQL
 * Item Quality Evaluator to make it easy to find the highest and lowest quality Items in a topic area
 * Constraints Violations Checker is a small command-line tool that gives constraint violation statistics for a set of Items to make it easier to find the Items that need more work
 * Curious Facts finds anomalies in the data in Wikidata and offers them up for review and amusement
 * Wikidata Map to see the distribution of Wikidata's Items across the world and the connections between them
 * Current Events to make it easy to see what's currently a hot topic in the world and being edited a lot on Wikidata
 * New entities in 2021:
 * Items Q104595000 (approx.) to Q110342868
 * Properties P9003 to P10223
 * Lexemes L400170 (approx.) to L625164


 * 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 #503
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: MSGJ (RfP scheduled to end after 20 January 2022 17:45 UTC)


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, January 19th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team present what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
 * SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 18 at 19:00 CEST
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #67 - YouTube, Facebook, January 22 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #93, January 23 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #25, Volcano
 * #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
 * Past:
 * Bug Triage Hour (log). The next session will be announced here in the Wikidata Weekly Summary and on the Wikidata mailing-list.
 * Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award 2021 (replay on YouTube)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Tour de France's stage winners an Observable notebook to explore Tour de France's data using SPARQL and Observable's Plot library.
 * Wikidata, Open Infrastructures, Recognition & Rewards
 * Equal Street Names Wiesbaden
 * Videos
 * Using Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to mport a book into Wikisource -YouTube
 * Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org - What can we learn from the designs and how to use the API's to extract information - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wiki History Game is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened.
 * GraphQL demo for WikiCite is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Do you have an idea you want to explore & want to investigate it using Wikidata? Apply for a WMAU fellowship grant.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: reference image, associated cadastral district, admission yield rate
 * External identifiers: Triple J Unearthed artist ID, Parque de la Memoria ID, Bokselskap.no ID, Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID, oKino.ua film ID, AMPAS collections item ID, Pipe Organ Database organ ID, UNICA IRIS author ID, IRIS UNISS author ID, AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Business valuation, 議案番号, podcast image url, list of TV show episode, XJustiz registration court ID, LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community
 * External identifiers: Bergen byleksikon ID, CNGAL Entry ID, Amazon podcast ID, Podchaser numeric ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Football Federation of Armenia ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, Habr company ID, Douban book Works ID, German Lobbyregister-ID, Google Arts & Culture entity ID2, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, IRIS national research institutes IDs


 * Query examples:
 * Things that turned 20 years old today (source)
 * Irish artists and their relationships (source)
 * Eating or drinking establishments near you (1.5 radius) (source)
 * Most common day for UK by-elections since 1880 (source)


 * Development
 * Fixed an issue where making changes with sitelinks were not fully dispatched to the clients (T233520)
 * Mismatch Finder: Improved the texts in the tool to be more understandable after testing
 * Mismatch Finder: added a way to get statistics about all the reviews that have been done in the tool and what is still awaiting review
 * Special:NewLexeme: kicked off the development work to improve the page in order to make it more understandable

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 #504
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: MSGJ (Successful). Welcome onboard \o/


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 27th January 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Editing with OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, January 25 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Pascal Martinolli speaking on tabletop role-playing game citations practices and Wikidata, January 25th.
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #68 - YouTube, Facebook, January 29 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #94, January 30 at 13.00 UTC
 * Online workshop in French about Breton lexicographical data, by Envlh and Vigneron, January 30 at 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * On Tuesday, February 22, the OpenRefine team hosts a community meetup to present current and future work on Structured Data on Commons support in OpenRefine.
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #26, Bees
 * #1Lib1Ref campaign runs runs from January 15th to February 5th. Contribute by creating Wikidata items for texts and authors on Wikisource.
 * Past:
 * Wikidata/Wikibase office hour (2022-01-19)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * The CIA lost track of who runs the UK, so I picked up the slack featured on Hacker News
 * Solving Wordle, Sutom, and al. with SPARQL queries on Wikidata
 * Wikitrivia is a web game that challenges your knowledge of historical dates
 * Wikitrivia, the viral game that tests how much you know about history (in Spanish)
 * 100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History
 * Papers
 * Wikidata: a new perspective towards universal bibliographic control
 * Wikidata for Digital Preservationists: New DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note now available on general release
 * Videos
 * [WORKSHOP] Wikidata and libraries: tools for information managers (in Spanish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata Lexemes forms:
 * Now supports the Odia language
 * Substantially expanded template for Spanish verbs
 * How many triples are added when certain edits are made? ... User:Mahir256/Triples


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: admission yield rate, Corruption Perceptions Index, category for honorary citizens of entity, podcast image url
 * External identifiers: AMS Glossary of Meteorology ID, EtymWb lemma ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts album ID, ARCHER ID, Senators of Spain (1834-1923) ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Kinofilms.ua film ID, Kinofilms.ua actor ID, kino-teatr.ru film ID, Hermitage Museum work ID, Engineer's Line Reference, Archive ouverte UNIGE ID, Union of Bulgarian Composers ID, AsianWiki ID, ENEA-IRIS Open Archive author ID, METRICA author ID, Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry ID, TVFPlay series ID, Orthodoxie.com topic ID, Slangopedia ID, OpenAlex ID, iCSO ID, Indeed company ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: LinkedIn showcase ID, religious community, subpopulation 3, type of register, identifier in a register, phrase in hiero markup
 * External identifiers: Vesti.ru dossier ID, Catalogue of Life ID 2, XJustiz registration court ID, Wikisimpsons ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Millattashlar ID, Transphoto city ID, Grand Duchy of Lithuania Encyclopedia ID, Archivio Biografico Comunale (Palermo) ID, Sceneweb artist ID, Index to Organism Names ID, Leopoldina member web site ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, LastDodo-area-id, SberZvuk ID, North Data company ID, Gardens Navigator ID, SAHRA heritage objects ID, ezeri.lv ID, SAHA player ID, norsk fangeregister fangeleir ID, Mnemosine ID, World Economic Forum ID, Apple Podcasts podcast episode ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of tramways in France
 * Map of categories for honorary citizens (source)
 * Map of the Medieval universities and its founding date (source)
 * Camps/subcamps within a 20km radius of your location (source)
 * Taxa found at Fazenda Tamanduá (Sertão of Paraíba - Brazil) (source)
 * Birthplace of Rabbis (source)
 * Italian parliamentarians and ministers aged between 50 and 80 (source)
 * Female Irish scientists in Wikidata without a Wikipedia article (source)
 * Places in the Hautes-Alpes that are the subject of an article on Wikipedia in at least 10 languages (source)


 * Development
 * Enabling usage tracking specifically for statements on Waray, Armenian and Cebuano Wikipedias (T296383, T296382, T296384)
 * Implementing basic version of mul language code and deploying it to Test Wikidata (T297393)
 * Preparing an event centered on reusing Wikidata's data
 * Mismatch Finder: Been in touch with people who can potentially provide the first mismatches to load into the new tool for the launch. Finalized the statistics part.

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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