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==A barnstar for you==
== ''This Month in GLAM'': September 2024 ==
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* ]: Wikimedian in Residence at Elbasan’s Ethnographic Museum in Albania
* ]: GLAM and communities
* ]: Artbank's edit-a-thon for gender equity in Australian visual arts
* ]: Project 'Belgian distilleries as Linked Open Data' completed
* ]: Photowalks for Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 at five corners of Brazil
* ]: 4th edition of the Label Culture Libre
* ]: Digitization at the Museum of Santal Culture, Federation Hall Society Library and Cultural Heritage and Literature in Meghalaya
* ]: Report on the Wikidata WikiProject International Botanical 2024, Conference report for SPNHC-TDWG 2024 and the upcoming New Zealand species edit-a-thon
* ]: What's up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland
* ]: Wiki Takes Rural Archaeology
* ]: Swiss GLAM Programme
* ]: Wiki content in interfaith education
* ]: Banned books and more
* ]: BHL-Wiki Working Group September monthly highlights
* ]: Global GLAM calls from November: short survey, and register!
* ]: October's GLAM events

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:Thank you kindly, @]. As a matter of fact, I am talking about WiR statistics and Humaniki later today in Adelaide. Also, when the time comes, I will start reporting them as 19.99x, instead of rounding to two decimals, as they move towards 20%.
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== Wikidata weekly summary #649 == == Wikidata weekly summary #655 ==


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] ]
<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 in the<br>week leading up to 2024-10-14. Missed the previous one? See issue ]''</div> <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 in the<br>week leading up to 2024-11-26. Missed the previous one? See issue ]''</div>
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''' Discussions '''
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there.
* Closed request for comments: ] - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights.


''' ] ''' ''' ] '''
* Upcoming: * Upcoming
**
** Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session 15 October, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 15 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729008000 Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/ using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page:
** Save the date: the ], an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already ].
** The next ] will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in the . ''The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents 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.''
** Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 3 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (). Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024, at our regular time of 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET. ]
** ]: We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to:
** ] This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024
*** create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc.
*** add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: ]


''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs * Blogs
** ]
** : discusses the value of small, carefully curated datasets in the era of big data. It emphasizes the importance of taking a methodical, "snail-paced" approach to data collection and analysis, which can lead to more meaningful and accurate insights. The blogpost also highlights how this approach can complement the broader trends of big data, ensuring that detailed, high-quality data is not overlooked.
** ]
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** : Bringing Wild West performers to Wikidata. Author Jason Sharp documents their experience adding legendary showman Buffalo Bill to Wikidata.
** The ] has enrolled a Wikimedian-in-Residence with a focus on Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
* Papers * Papers
** - examines how integrating Wikidata into libraries enhances resource discoverability, fosters interoperability, and empowers users within a global knowledge network. By Okuonghae, O. (2024).
** "" given two or more entities requested by a user, the system finds and visualises paths that connect these entities, forming a topical subgraph of Wikidata (Torres Gutiérrez and Hogan)
** - approaches to representing weaker logical status (WLS) information in Wikidata, finding limited usage, variations and ambiguities between datasets, and proposes improvements for clarity and accuracy. By Di Pasquale et al.(2024)
* Books: : contains many references to the use of Wikidata in cataloguing
* Videos * Videos
** (Portuguese) - Part of the “Introduction to digital platforms for research” sessions for the Centro Luís Krus of NOVA FCSH. Practical exercises for data reconciliation from the Portuguese Early Music Database using the OpenRefine tool.
** (in Italian)
** : This talk explores Python-powered tools that integrate Wikidata with OpenStreetMap, allowing users to link entries between the two platforms to enhance geospatial data accuracy while navigating legal and ethical challenges of cross-platform data sharing. ** - Cuneyt Tyler presents 'Semantic Space', a project using Dbpedia and Wikidata to enhance the user experience browsing articles on the web.
** - Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata make great bedfellows. Margaret Donald shows how to create Commons categories, create structured data and link categories to Wikidata.
**
** : building community through a named entity Wikibase. Experiences of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives setting up the WikiNames Wikibase instance and breaking down knowledge silos
** : This presentation introduces a workflow using SPARQL queries to dynamically map live Wikidata data to SKOS concepts, featuring a Python tool that converts CSV outputs into RDF triples for integration into linked data environments and knowledge graphs, emphasizing real-time data retrieval and interoperability.
* Podcast series: including "Episode 5 -- Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with ]"
** (in Dagbanli)
* Other
** : ] (in Dagbanli)
** ]
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** ], presentation by ] at ], Lyon, November 23, 2024.
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* Podcasts
** : ], Portfolio Lead Product Manager at Wikidata Deutschland, discussed a new project aimed at making Wikidata more 'human' readable for Large Language Models (LLMs), which could improve AI reliability by giving these models access to high-quality, human-curated data from Wikidata.
* Notebooks
**
**


''' Tool of the week ''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts.
* '''Elemwala (এলেমওয়ালা)''' (): is a proof-of-concept interface that allows you to input abstract content and get natural language text in a given output language. There may well be errors with particular inputs, and the text may not be quite as natural as you might expect, but that's where your improvements to your language's lexemes, other Wikidata items, and the tool's come in!
* is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export ()
* : Tool for calculating multilinguality score of Wikidata items (including properties). E.g. for ], the scores are - ''en'': 99.66%, ''fr'': 89.49%, ''es'': 84.07%, ''pt'': 68.47%. For ], the scores are - ''en'': 99.86%, ''fr'': 87.12%, ''es'': 80.83%, ''pt'': 61.37%.
* is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. ()

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
*
* Launch of ]: The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property ]. Currently, ] is labeled as "being deprecated", meaning its use is still allowed, but discouraged. From a peak of around 900,000 uses, the property now has around 700,000 uses (see status ). Our goal is to reduce that as much as possible in a systematic way, while ensuring that appropriate properties exist to replace all valid uses of ]. The latter is key to officially deprecating the property. Before ''removing'' the property, we want to get as close to zero uses as possible.


''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' ''' Newest ] and ] to review '''

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* Newest ]: * Newest General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits</nowiki>)
** General datatypes:
***] (<nowiki>(qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
***] (<nowiki>phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Publication type of scholarly work</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New ] to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>preliminary work for this finished work</nowiki>)
** General datatypes:
***] (<nowiki>Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}}</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.)</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}}</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC)</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>number of non-binary people inhabiting the place</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>difficulty of word by the level of JLPT</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
***] (<nowiki>Classification of a beer based on its style</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Notable software forks of this software</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Digital memorial for women killed by violence</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.)</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>identifier from FAO ontology for fungal gross anatomy</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Dictionary of Turkish literature works</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Indicates a specific form of bias present in a media source, organization, or document, such as false balance, slant, or omission, affecting the representation of information.</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Dictionary created by the ]</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Online Turkish encyclopedia created by ] and ]</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>A database containing data on European media.</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>used in the references field to refer to the database that is considered a unreliable source in which the claim is made</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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''' Did you know? ''' ''' Did you know? '''
* Query examples: * Query examples:
** ] ()
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** (])
* Newest ]: * Newest ]:
** ] - WikiProject for the coordination of data ingests and Misplaced Pages workshops related to the official bibliography of the ], operated by ] (Switzerland)
** ] - Patterns were devotional days on the day of the patron saint of a parish or area or at least an annually occurring day when the people of the locality held their personal devotions in a certain pattern (hence the name), i.e. "doing the rounds" around trees or other landmarks at the sacred site. This project tries to collate the records and memories of these patterns for County Kilkenny.
** ] - The goal of this project is to prepare for deprecation, and eventual removal, of the property ]. ** ] - collects information related to the Ami culture, including statistics and activity records.
** ] - This project aims to collaborate with Wiki editors across the globe to highlight AIDS Walks anywhere in the world. ** ] - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc...) relating to Rwanda ]
* Newest ]: ]
** ] - The aim of the Wikiproject Temples in Roman Britain is to record and catalog sacred spaces in the Roman province Britannia between 43 to 409 CE. By sacred spaces, we include (for the moment) only built structures such as temples, sanctuaries and shrines.
* ]: ] - cave with cave paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina
** ] - Wikidata Entry: ] supported by the ]. ]
* ]: ] - Polish adjective that can mean "impudent" or "brazen" in English
** ] - The goal of this project is to capture the Japanese Language ] in its entirety on Wikidata. We aim to give advice and establish standards for representing Japanese words as ].
* WikiProject Highlights: ]
* Newest ]: ]
* ]: ] - 2016 film directed by Mira Nair
* ]: ] - "cook" in Esperanto


''' Development ''' ''' Development '''
* Wikidata Query Service: The ] have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "]" into the scholarly article graph.
* EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to find an EntitySchema by its label or aliases when linking to an EntitySchema in a statement (])
* Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (])
* Design system: We are continuing the work on migrating the Query Builder from Wikit to Codex
* EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label and aliases when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema.(])
* REST API: We finished the work on language fallback support in the REST API (])
* Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. (], ])
* Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (] but first need to improve the underlying scripts (])
* Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (])
* Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table.


]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at . ]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .
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* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ]. * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ].
* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country: ]
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences. * Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! * Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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== Link classifier - getting it to work ? == == Women in Red December 2024 ==
Kia ora,
I have tried repeatedly to get the link classifier gadget to work, but with no success. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Could you please have a look at the file: ]. Can you see anything wrong ? What else can I try ? I see that I don't have a page ]. Does that matter ? What does it do anyway ?. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, ] (]) 21:46, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
:Oops, looks like it is now working. I think that whatever I tried previously for bypassing the cache didn't work, but cntl-F5 seems to have fixed it. It is working now. Sorry to trouble you.] (]) 21:50, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
::No problems. I'm pleased it's working for you now. ] (]) 23:35, 18 October 2024 (UTC)


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== Wikidata weekly summary #650 ==
'''Announcements from other communities'''
* ] have a monthly virtual edit-a-thon and the next session is 2 December at 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. CST. For Zoom meeting details, contact ] or ]. ] members are welcome to join the Zoom Meeting

'''Tip of the month:'''
* ''Think of rewarding contributors, especially newcomers, with a ].''

'''Other ways to participate:'''
* ]. You can always ].
* ].
* ] and add any general ideas on developing the project.
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] ]
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''' Discussions ''' '''Discussions'''
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Creating and updating Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian and Coptic lexemes and ancient Egyptian text artifact items. It is also to maintain links to the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae project via approved properties.
* Open request for adminship: ] (RfP scheduled to end after 23 October 2024 18:03 UTC)
* New request for comments: ] - ] would like feedback on determining a data model and schema for Wikidata items that are an instance of ] - See ] for more info.
* New requests for permissions/Bot:
* Closed request for comments: ] - Despite a spirited discussion with many comments both in favour and opposition, no consensus was reached.
** ] - (1) Add default mul labels to given and family names when the item has an existing default label with a mul language (2) Remove duplicated aliases matching the items mul label, when the item has a native label in with a mul language. As mul has not been fully adopted, a limited of aliases would be modified each day to ensure existing workflows are not disrupted. It is expected that these tasks will apply to roughly 800,000 given and family names.
** ] - Add ] with the first line of the paper to all scientific papers which has a full text link or where the abstract is available.


''' ] ''' ''']'''
* Upcoming:
* Upcoming: We are getting ready for ] on the 29th October. We already have 30 events scheduled on the list 😍. As a reminder, when your event is ready, don't forget to (1) create a wikipage with more information about the event, participants list, etc. (2) add your event to the global calendar and the map, following the instructions here: ]
** Wikimedia Deutschland is providing a total of 15 participation scholarships for Wikimania 2025 (7 individual and 4 tandem scholarships). Further information is available on ]. An overview of all questions in the application form is ]. . Closes 8 December 2024.
* Past:
** . The time is 17:00 CET
** Wikidata + Wikibase office hour log (])
** Tomorrow / 3rd December 2024: Linked Data for Libraries ] Group session @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC / 6pm CET. If you would like to attend, please fill out the to ensure all necessary materials are provided for you.
** ] (18-20 October) exploring technical options for handling the Wikidata graph split
** Deadline for the ] scholarship application is December 30, 2024. We encourage you to make Wikidata-related submissions (the deadline for submission is March 22, 2025.


''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' '''Press, articles, blog posts, videos'''
* Research
** ]: A new research report is available. Explores what trace Wikidata data is measurable on other Wiki pages and proposes initial metrics for measuring Wikidata statement usage on Wikimedia content pages. Also suggests methods to improve data analysis and collection. PDF is available on ]
* Blogs * Blogs
** - Wikidata celebrated its 12th birthday in October and November 2024, with a series of global events and activities aimed at commemorating the platform's contributions to the open knowledge movement, engaging its community of volunteers, and highlighting the significant role Wikidata plays in the digital landscape. By Dan Shick
** - a Wikidata multilingual calculator to facilitate data queries in multiple languages, enhancing accessibility and usability for non-English speakers.
* Papers * Papers
** - This paper explores how libraries can leverage Wikidata to enhance resource discoverability, foster interoperability, and integrate into the global knowledge ecosystem. By Omorodion Okuonghae (2024).
**
** - Enhancing Wikidata’s biomedical knowledge by integrating OBO ontologies and PubMed’s MeSH keywords, addressing gaps, improving classification accuracy, and verifying relations for stronger interoperability and accuracy. By Chebil et al. (2024).
**
** analyzes class order violations in Wikidata's ontology using SPARQL, evaluates fixes, and offers solutions through improved tools or community involvement. By P. Patel-Schneider and E. Doğan.
**
* Notebooks:
* Videos * Videos
** - Introduction to Wikidata Lexicographical Data to Dagbani Wikimedians] ** - The Tyap Wikimedia User Group produced this tutorial on editing as part of the Wikidata 12th Birthday celebrations for the Wikidata @12 Data-a-thon.
** - Covers Linked Data basics, its potential with OSM, and popular methods for linking, extracting, combining, and querying data from both sources. Jump to ()
** (in Spanish) - "In this workshop we will learn about the value that Wikidata can bring us when working on eswiki articles. We will learn how knowledge is shared between platforms, and how it can save a lot of work for both the Spanish Misplaced Pages community and other people working on an article on another Misplaced Pages."
** (正體字, CN Trad.) - An introduction and overview to Wikidata and some associated tools such as ORES and LiftWing.
** - "In this session, participants will explore the fascinating world of lexicographical data on Wikidata and learn how to contribute meaningfully using Lexica, a tool designed for easy micro-edits to Lexemes from mobile devices. We will start with a brief introduction to lexicographical data and importance of linking Lexemes to Items. Next, we’ll dive into Lexica, showcasing its key features and providing a step-by-step guide on linking Lexemes to Items on Wikidata. This hands-on workshop is open to both experienced contributors and newcomers, empowering everyone with the knowledge and skills to make impactful contributions to Wikidata’s lexicographical data. By the end of the session, participants will be ready to use Lexica to enrich language data on Wikidata."
** - This video talks about the Wikidata ontology, how to connect controlled vocabularies to Wikidata, and how to use the Wikidata Graph Builder ** (正體字, CN Trad.) - This session was given as part of the COSCUP '24 conference on the OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Agenda Track.
** - How to use Wikidata for GLAM institutions: Case Study for museums in Türkiye and person data ** - LORiS: This tool can help you understand complex SPARQL queries by converting them to natural language.
** - At the 7th ISRITI 2024 conference, Jaycent Ongris shows how RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) has been used in a natural-language question-answer platform to directly query Wikidata.
** - "The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives has been strategically working to increase the discoverability, visibility, and access to collections related to marginalized communities in Southern Nevada. In the first stage of this grant-funded Wiki project, over 60 archival collections and 80 oral histories, including related people, businesses, and events associated with the Las Vegas LGBTQ+ community, have been contributed to Wikidata. In this presentation, the author continues this work by introducing UNLV's Special Collections Wiki project, "LGBTQ Hidden Histories." The presentation will discuss ongoing efforts to create, expand, and enrich linked data about the Nevada LGBTQ+ community, address challenges faced during entity extraction using archival materials, and conclude with a linked data visualization exercise using Wikiframe-VG (Wikiframe Visual Graph)."
** - Denny Vrandečić gives this keynote session at the SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference.
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** - Alexandros Kosiaris of the Wikimedia Foundation explains changes made to make Misplaced Pages more stable and prevent outages, including how it calls and fetches data from Wikidata. Session given at SREcon24.
**


''' Tool of the week ''' '''Tool of the week'''
* - Generate natural-language descriptions of SPARQL queries via LLM's.
* ] - is a Userscript that gives a quick glance at the pageviews in the header (and links to the full views). If you install it on your global.js on meta, it works on all projects).
* ] - (Automated PROvenance VErification of Knowledge Graphs against Textual Sources) - is a tool for helping editors improve the references of Wikidata Items.


''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' '''Other Noteworthy Stuff'''
* ]: Google released the WordGraph dataset as a belated present for Wikidata’s 12th birthday. The dataset contains 968,153 forms in 39 languages.
*
* : Wikimedia Deutschland has an open and exciting vacancy for a Product Manager of Wikibase Suite.
* as the first round of patch releases for all Wikibase Suite products, including all WBS Images as well as WBS Deploy
* Tools or bots which use the ] (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (]). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected. (This was previously announced ] but didn’t actually take place yet.)
* The CampaignEvents extension is now live on Wikidata! This means that if you are an event organizer, you can use several new tools to help manage your events more easily. By getting the Event Organizer right, you can:
** Use simple on-wiki registration for your events.
** Integrate Outreach Dashboard with your event registration page. (])
** Communicate more easily with your registered participants. (])
** Make your events more visible to other editors through the ].
** Find potential participants for your next events. (]), and much more!
** With this extension, you can also see all global events (past, present, and future) on the Special:AllEvents page, but only events using the event registration feature will appear there. If you are an organizer and want to use these new tools, follow the instructions on the ] to request the Event Organizer right.


''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' '''Newest ] and ] to review'''


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* Newest General datatypes: * Newest ]:
** General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>(qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>type of this scholarly work (e.g. “systematic review”, “proceedings”, etc.)</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: * New ] to review:
** General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>preliminary work for this finished work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}}</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}}</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>difficulty of word by the level of JLPT</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>number of third-gender people inhabiting the place</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Classification of a beer based on its style</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Notable software forks of this software</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Digital memorial for women killed by violence</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.)</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>identifier from FAO ontology for fungal gross anatomy</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Indicates a specific form of bias present in a media source, organization, or document, such as false balance, slant, or omission, affecting the representation of information.</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>analogous to {{P|4329}} for tracking cat:s populated by extensions of MediaWiki, linking to extension causing the population</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Dictionary created by the ]</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>7-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Online Turkish encyclopedia created by ] and ]</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>4-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>A database containing data on European media.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>used in the references field to refer to the database that is considered a unreliable source in which the claim is made</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for a location as seen on Google Maps</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>reversal of, inversion of</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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You can comment on ]! You can comment on ]!


''' Did you know? ''' '''Did you know?'''
* Query examples: * Query examples:
** () **
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** ()
** **
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* Newest ]: ] - The Public Domain in Latin America Wikiproject aims to improve the data available in Wikidata on authors and works of authorship in Latin America, with emphasis on copyright status to identify whether or not authors and their works are in the public domain.
* Newest ]:
* WikiProject Highlights:
** ] - documenting, archiving and creating items from collections from the UvA/AUAS Library in Amsterdam, beginning with the works of ].
** ]
** ] - A hub for Ghanaian activities and entities, including regional languages: Dagbanli, Twi and Dagari.
** ]
** ]: For collecting information related to Thao cultural themes, including statistics and activity records.
* Newest ]: ]
* Newest ]: ]
* ]: ]: 2016 American computer animated film (2024-10-21)
* ]: ]: German adjective, means "light brown with a slight reddish tinge" * ]: ]: Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
* ]: ] - A Tamil lemma for dense forest, impassable jungle and a pigeon dove.

''' Development ''' '''Development'''
* EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema.
* Vector 2020: We’re working on improving Wikibase’s dark mode support somewhat (])
* PropertySuggester: We have updated the script that generates the suggestions and will update the suggestions next.
* We polished the automatic undo/redo messages to make them more useful (])
* Lexicographical data: We fixed a visual issue with search results on the Codex-based Special:NewLexeme (])
* Design system: We’re close to finishing migrating Special:NewLexeme to the Codex design system
* EntitySchemas: We’re working on searching EntitySchema values by label and alias (]) * Vector 2022: We are working on designs to fix the remaining issues with the skin on Wikidata.
* Wikibase REST API: We are finishing the prototype for supporting search in the API.


]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at . ]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .
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* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ]. * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ].
* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country: ]
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences. * Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! * Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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* Help ] * Help ]
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== A barnstar for you! ==

{| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;"
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Special Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Hello Oronsay, I came across your work on the ] project, and I must say, it's truly impressive. Please keep up the great work! If there's any way I can contribute to this project, do let me know. ] (]) 15:24, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
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:Thank you for this Barnstar, @], and your kind words. It is special to receive recognition for what I do for WiR. Happy editing! ] (]) 07:34, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

== oops ==

oops, dont fix template errors on the talk page unless subst, it needs a couple of updates any ]] 07:01, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

:Sorry, I did make changes to the biomechanicist editors Talk pages when I realised that I'd welcomed them all as !1day! I should have thought more about it beforehand, and perhaps undone my Twinkle add and then redone it. They seem ok though. Let me know if I need to fix anything. ] (]) 07:31, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
== Nomination of ] for deletion ==
<div class="afd-notice">
<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0;">]</div>A discussion is taking place as to whether the article ] is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to ] or whether it should be ].

The article will be discussed at ''']''' until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.<!-- Template:Afd notice --></div> ] (]) 13:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

== Pages about women ==

Hi. I just discovered you after your edit to the page I wrote on ]. I think it's really cool that you focus on writing articles about women.

I just wrote another article about a woman since the prior article about her was deleted six years ago, allegedly due to not being notable. I put almost 30 sources on the new article to establish her notability. I'd be interested in any feedback you have about the article: ].

Kind regards,
] (]) 02:52, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

== Could you please help me avoid deletion of this woman's article? ==

Could I please get your help? Someone has nominated the article ] for deletion, claiming that Nadauld is not notable. It was the same person who did it 8 years ago. I'd appreciate if you could support keeping it. See the talk page on that article for my arguments why she's notable, or peruse the article's 25+ references yourself. Personally, I believe the person who proposed deletion deserves a trout for claiming that she's not notable, given the contents of those sources. ] (]) 16:42, 6 December 2024 (UTC)


== Wikidata weekly summary #651 == == Wikidata weekly summary #657 ==


<div class="plainlinks mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <div class="plainlinks mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr">


] ]
<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 in the<br>week leading up to 2024-10-28. Missed the previous one? See issue ]''</div> <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 in the <br>week leading up to 2024-12-09. Missed the previous one? See issue ]''</div>
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''' Discussions ''' ''' Discussions '''
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Append a human's lifespan to descriptions when they can be authoritatively sourced.
* Closed request for adminship: ] (successful) - Welcome back, Adam!
* Closed request for comments: ] - Closed with no consensus. The discussion is ongoing on the Property ] talk page.
* New request for comments: ]

''' Events '''
* Past: ], the Catalan-language and culture focused thematic Wikimedia Organization organized the ] project to celebrate Wikidata's 12th anniversary, from November 10 - 30. This included a Wikidata introduction workshop to equip participants with the editing skills to tackle the project's main aim. This was presented as a game to delete duplicate info on Wikidata and ] infoboxes, in three areas: protected buildings, officers' positions and data related to sports teams players. At the end of the event, ~200 Wikidata-fed infoboxes and Wikidata items were improved and many Misplaced Pages editors edited Wikidata for the first time!
* ]:
** (Deutsch) - Tue. 10 December, 3pm - 7pm (UTC+1). This presentation explores Wikidata as a key platform for LOD, explains its Semantic Web foundation, introduces FactGrid (a Wikidata-based platform for historical research). Highlights potential of both platforms using examples and encourages discussion for legal historical research. .
** '''Today''' (09.12.2024) is the last chance to submit an Abstract for the ] conference (5 - 6 June 2025). If you are interested in participating, please review the ] before submitting .


''' ] '''
* Wikidata's 12th Birthday is almost here! Let’s celebrate together and make it unforgettable! 🎂 Join in for events happening across the globe in October & November -- there's something for everyone! Here’s how you can be part of the fun.
** Find a local event and connect with fellow Wikidata enthusiasts!
** Give a birthday gift to the community -- whether it's a cool new tool or something fun!
** Join our big online celebration on October 29th -- don’t miss out! ]
** Join the special Wikidata and win some branded Wikidata socks! 🎉
* The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is taking a break from our new project series format this coming Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST () to celebrate Hallowe'en! We'll be celebrating Spooky Season with a WitchyData Working Hour! Following on Christa Strickler's recent project series, we will continue building proficiency with the Mix'n'match tool, but with a ghoulish twist. Join the fall fun by updating your or even coming in costume. BYOC (bring your own candy). Event page: ]
''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs
* Blogs: (in German) - "Wikidata, the world's largest free knowledge base, celebrates the 12th of October. Birthday. The open data graph for structured knowledge collects facts about numerous terms (items). Meanwhile, Wikidata includes an impressive 112 million items – and many more facts! On the occasion of Wikidata's birthday, we put the collected knowledge to the test and present the most exciting 12 queries that were created from it."
** , featuring Wikibase talks including one by Christos Varvantakis and Jon Amar from Wikimedia Deutschland.
**
**
**
** for Wikidata's 12th Birthday. Read about SKAP's (Shared Knowledge Asia Pacific) efforts to add 10 years worth of financial data of local Government assets to Wikidata during a Datathon.
* Papers
** - introduces a semi-automated workflow for extracting and digitally storing geographically relevant information, including spatial relations and contextual details, from place names in the Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes. By Matthew Ong (2024).
* Videos * Videos
** - Kolja Bailly presents ways in which the Wikibase4Research tool by the TIB Open Science Lab supports researchers in dealing with Mediawiki software for knowledge bases such as Wikibase and facilitates better and FAIR Research Data Management. Includes a live demonstration and beginner-friendly instructions.
** (in Chinese)
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** (in Spanish)
** (in Spanish)
** (in Spanish)


''' Tool of the week ''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* computing simple metrics (number of labels, number of descriptions, number of sitelinks, number of statements) for item matching a simple claim.
* ] – A mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels. This tool is developed by the WMDE Wikidata Software Collaboration team in Indonesia. Try Lexica through this link: https://lexica-tool.toolforge.org/


''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
* New template listing properties that link to images.
* The ] Foundation is building an open-source web app for Supreme Court cases in Ghana. We are looking for volunteers in the following roles: Frontend Developers, Backend Developers, Wikidata/SPARQL Experts, UI/UX Designers, Quality Assurance (QA) Testers, and Legal Professionals. Join us by sendind your resume and a brief description of your expertise to globalopeninitiative{{@}}gmail.com
* ] invites you to get involved in helping spread awareness and knowledge of Wikidata, potentially help organise a Wikidata Learning Clinic. Are you interested in participating? Please sign-up on this .


''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' ''' Newest ] and ] to review '''

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* Newest General datatypes: * Newest ]:
** General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>(qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>type of this scholarly work (e.g. “systematic review”, “proceedings”, etc.)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: * New ] to review:
** General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>acknowledgement of indigenous or native people whose ancestors lived at a location</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>) ***] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>difficulty of word by the level of JLPT</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Classification of a beer based on its style</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Notable software forks of this software</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Digital memorial for women killed by violence</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>A database containing data on European media.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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''' Did you know? ''' ''' Did you know? '''
* Query examples: * Query examples:
**
**
** **
**
* Newest ]: ] - This project aims to improve items related to ].
* Newest ]:
* ]: ]: decision-making software to assist groups with collaborative decision-making processes
** Nonprofit Organisations in ], ] and ].
* ]: ] mean to "eat" in in Urdu
* WikiProject Highlights:
** ] - since its creation a couple of weeks ago, it has expanded greatly with new sections for ], ] and ].
* Newest ]: ] - A list of bots and their edits, operating without a Bot flag.
* ]: ]: A German public service television channel broadcasting for more than 70 years.
* ]: ] the ] word for December, directly translates from "totally black", rather appropriate for the cold, dark last month of the year.


''' Development ''' ''' Development '''
*]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .
* Vector 2022: We are continuing to make Wikidata Items pages work in dark-mode (])
* EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema
* Wikibase REST API:
** We discussed what will constitute breaking changes for the API (])
** We are working on the endpoint for creating Properties (])

]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .


''' Weekly Tasks ''' ''' Weekly Tasks '''
* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ]. * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ].
* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country: ]
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences. * Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! * Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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== Australian cricket team in England in 1890 ==


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I don't know what your game is, but ] did not play some postponed Third Test at Manchester from 18-20 September 1890. Test match status is reserved to specific matches. The match mentioned was not a Test match. It was between 'An England XI' and the Australians. The fact that ], a ], captained the side speaks volumes. This match was not a Test match. ] (]) 20:18, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
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''' Discussions ''' ''' Discussions '''
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Will check Romanian local election information on MongoDB against current relevant Items, where differences occur, will create new Items, link them and update associated information. * New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Is a selfmade chatbot to answer factual questions as part of a final research project for educational purposes.
* Closed request for permissions/Bot: ] - Withdrawn by proposer. * Closed request for permissions/Bot: ] - ''Withdrawn by submitter''
* New request for comments:
** ] - Should ] be allowed as a qualifier?
** ] - The Peakfinder website content moved to cdnrockiesdatabases.ca, the associated Property (]) has been relabeled to ''crdb peak ID''.
** ] - Project chat discussion on importing Misplaced Pages Category information to Wikidata items.


''' ] ''' ''' Events '''
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* Wikidata 12th Birthday happened. Special thanks to all the community members who prepared a present for Wikidata's birthday. New tools, updates, games, sparkly animations and of course plenty of maps! ]. You can also watch the ].
* Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 17 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET () Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series to help us prepare relevant materials for you. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. ]
* Ongoing: ] ends tomorrow, 05.11.2024. If you're participating, now's your last chance to earn some points by adding ] to items on African women.
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* Upcoming
** A ] hackathon will take place on Nov 15-16 online &mdash; see ] for details.
** ]: A month-long edit-a-thon from November 1 to 30 for documenting, improving and translating articles on LGBTQ+ topics on Wikidata and French Wikimedia projects.
** Check out the call for papers for the "Wikidata and Research" Conference! It will be held at the University of Florence in Italy on June 5-6, 2025. You can submit your papers by December 9, 2024: ]


''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs
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** - this working group acts as a bridge between GLAM institutions, DH researchers and Wikimedians.
** - Magnus Manske discusses the challenge of integrating Wikimedia Commons artworks into Wikidata.
* Papers * Papers
** ], December 12, 2024, '']''
** Finds 51 pairs of classes on Wikidata that should be disjoint (e.g. "natural object" vs. "artificial object") but aren't, with over 10 million violations, caused by a small number of "culprits" ()
** Baptiste de Coulon, "Les don­nées liées, Wikidata et les archi­ves : une oppor­tu­nité de contri­bu­tion aux com­muns numé­riques". In: ], n°271, 2024-2, p.37-56 (free access online after 3 years).
** Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models ()
* Videos: - Wikimedia Deutschland's ] and Philippe Saadé talk about ].
* Videos
** - ] and ] do some live editing (in english) on items related to Wikidata and the sister projects in celebration of Wikidata's 12th birthday.
** - This lightning talk from journalist Molly Stark Dean introduces the Women Do News project to increase visibility of women journalists and expand and enrich Misplaced Pages articles about them. The project could greatly benefit from Wikidata items being created and/or expanded.
** - Valentin Buchner and Hans Mehlin describe their collaborative project between Nobel Prize Outreach (NPO) and EQT Motherbrain utilising Nobel Prize laureate’s biographies and Nobel Prize lectures.
** (en) - ] presents an introductory course to Wikidata, with many Ghanaian examples.
** (cz) - Morning lecture organised by the National Library of the Czech Republic, Wikimedia CR and the Prague organization SKIP.
** - This short introduction is presented by ] on the benefits to OpenStreetMap when connecting it to Wikidata.


''' Tool of the week ''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* - checks if SPARQL query results conform to a provided schema by validating data and highlighting potential errors, such as missing properties, invalid values, or too many values, with the option to refine the schema if issues arise. (A major update to the current ShEx validator that is expected to get integrated into the existing validator soon)
* ] is a multilingual extension that enables you to search for any item or word that you come across while reading or browsing online. It's an extension that makes Wikidata's data easy to retrieve and access. Install on or . A about the usage of the extension.
* a simple Observable tool which shows the most frequent properties for a set of Items. * : looking at references for a set of Wikidata items
* Are you able to learn languages with Wikidata content? In Ordia there is the "" game you can use to learn a few words from various languages.


''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
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* A small project on benchmarking query engine performance on useful Wikidata queries is asking for queries from the Wikidata user community to potentially be part of the benchmark. If you are a user of any Wikidata SPARQL service please send queries that you find useful to . Say what you used the query for and whether you would like to be noted as the source of the query. Queries that take considerable time or time out are especially welcome, particularly if the query caused you to switch from the official Wikidata Query Service to some other service. More information about the project is available in ].
* The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) is launching the Entity Management Cooperative (EMCO) program in 2025, aiming to unify entity management across the semantic web, including registries like Wikidata. .
* The Biodiversity Heritage Library Working Group has set up ]<nowiki/>o coordinate contributions across projects, including Wikidata


''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' ''' Newest ] and ] to review '''

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** ] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
* External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of non-profit organisations</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Gʻafur Rahimov</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>difficulty of word by the level of JLPT</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>classification of a beer based on its style</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Notable software forks of this software</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>A database containing data on European media.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>URL of a website's BEACON file</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* Newest ]: ] - The Avebury Papers is a collaborative UKRI-funded research project between University of York; University of Bristol; the National Trust; English Heritage; and Historic England. As part of this project, the team are doing several tasks which are generating data, some of which will be shared via Wikidata, in an effort to link parts of the Avebury collection with other collections.
* WikiProject Highlights: * WikiProject Highlights:
** ] - focused on school in India ** ]
** ] - dedicated to the world of video games in 2025 ** ] - a compilation of information on the subject of Taroko culture, including statistics and records of activities.
* Newest ]: ] * Newest ]:
* ]: ] - 60th quadrennial U.S. presidential election * ]: ] - 2016 film directed by James Bobin where now 22-year-old Alice comes across a magical looking glass that takes her back to Wonderland.
* ]: ] - "domesticated feline animal" in German * ]: ] - Persian noun, translates to "hydro-seismometer"


''' Development ''' ''' Development '''
* Wikibase REST API: We prototyped search support for the REST API and would like ].
* Mobile statement editing: We are making progress on the technical investigation for how to make it easier to edit statements on mobile. A lot more work to be done after that though.
* Property Suggestions: We updated the underlying data so you should have more up-to-date suggestions again when making new statements.
* We fixed the sidebar link to the main page in many languages (])
* EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by their label and aliases when linking to them in a statement.
* Codex: We are continuing with the migration of the Query Builder to Codex, the new design system. The migration of Special:NewLexeme is almost finished.
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== Draft:DiJones_Real_Estate ==


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I am wondering if you can help me understand the deletion process? I have tried to submit this article again with much better news references (The Australian, Sydney Morning Hearld, Daily Telegraph) as well as industry websites like domain.com.au. I think that the article is important because it recognises the pioneering work of Di Jones (the person) and the company is effectively the legacy that Australians can see. I think it is importent for people who are encountering the company/brand to know about the history. I had no problem at all with my similar work on LJ Hooker, the man and the company when I worked on those articles. I don't want to specifically raise the issue of misogyny but it appears that the article has been rejected out of hand by UK editor ] who simply says "Real estate companies aren't notable' and rejects the article on the basis that the citations aren't good enough. I think that I have incorporated the requirements of ] Can you please suggest what I need to do before re-submitting the article? ] (]) 01:57, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
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::The article is using the references for the women for the a company article and that doesn't cut it. Private real estate companies are not notable unless very well know or about long enough that they they have significance beyond there own existance, but that is not shown here. Your using this women, her notabilty to push this private company which is unacceptable referencing. It fails ]. Also notability is not inherited so why are doing that. Lastly it reads like an promotional advert failing ] and it not acceptable either. Misplaced Pages is not an advertising platform. That article is a mess. '''<span style="text-shadow:7px 7px 8px black; font-family:Papyrus">]<sup>]</sup></span>''' 07:50, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
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Hello {{u|Oronsay}}, hope you are well. Given your active participation on ] and ], I'd be grateful for your review of ] to ]'s BLP. While she is a former model, much of her current work as a CEO and business executive is undocumented in her article. I work for Aman and have ] so I can't make these changes without Wiki approval. If you think my suggestions are valid, I can take the time to implement. Thank you in advance for your feedback, ] (]) 15:51, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
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== ''This Month in GLAM'': October 2024 ==


Hi Oronsay -- Thanks for all you do on women's bios -- just a quick note on this one, should the short description for someone from ] be summarised as "Irish"? -- it's part of the UK, not the Republic of Ireland. In similar cases with England/Scotland/Wales I tend to go with British in the capsule wherever I feel it is justified, but in this case the subject clearly identifies as Northern Irish. Cheers, ] <small>(])</small> 06:57, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
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:@]: Thanks for your query. I take your point and have amended to Northern Irish in the short description and on Wikidata. Her Talk page is also now created, including the Northern Irish project, but please add the relevant WiR event there. ] (]) 17:35, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
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::Thanks -- I tend not to bother with the talk page until I've finished the article -- still plodding through all the heaps of reviews. Cheers, ] <small>(])</small> 17:38, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
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== Wikidata weekly summary #659 ==
* ]: Wiki Loves Monuments in Albania and Kosovo, 2024
* ]: Amazon holotypes: how the species were discovered
* ]: FIMS Graduate Library Wiki Club Lunch & Learn
* ]: ¿Por qué y para qué usar Wikidata en Colombia? / Why and for what purpose should Wikidata be used in Colombia?
* ]: Empowering Italian GLAMs
* ]: Edit-a-thon at the City Museum of Mitrovica
* ]: Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia
* ]: Highlights from the Third Wiki Loves Fashion Campaign in the Netherlands
* ]: Auckland Museum Wikimedian in Residence, Te Maori edit-a-thons & NZ Species edit-a-thons
* ]: WIKIMEDIA MKD's successful GLAM programme!
* ]: What's up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland
* ]: General Archive of the Palace
* ]: Memory of the World baseline
* ]: October meetups
* ]: BHL-Wiki Working Group October monthly highlights
* ]: European encounters
* ]: Baseline report
* ]: Wikidata's 12th birthday celebration
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<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 in the<br>week leading up to 2024-11-11. Missed the previous one? See issue ]''</div> <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 in the<br>week leading up to 2024-12-23. Missed the previous one? See issue ]''</div>
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''' Discussions '''
''' ] '''
* New request for comments:
* Upcoming
** ] - Should scope of league or ] include forms and aspects?
** ] on November 15-16 (online)
** ]
** - 19 November 2024, 9am - 12pm, Address: Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA. Improve information about individual educators and their relationships with Colored Teachers Associations, HBCUs, the Divine Nine, religious institutions, and political organizations like the NAACP and Urban League.

** (German) - 19.11.2024, 16:00 - 18:00 CET (UTC+1), held at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin)
''' Events '''
** - 3 December 2024, 1pm EST (UTC+5). A step-by-step workshop for members of the Canadian Dance Assembly. A free, expert-led series on how open data can benefit dance companies and artists.
* Ongoing: - ] continues his initiative, "Wikidata Cleanup," to coordinate community efforts in addressing the problem of items missing basic properties during the last ten days of 2024, when many users have extra time due to holidays. The aim is to improve data quality by focusing on ensuring all items have essential properties like "instance of" (P31) or "subclass of" (P279), adding relevant country and location data, and maintaining consistency within item series.
**
* ]: ] - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program ] until January 12th.
** Scholarships open: 7th November-8th December 2024


''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs * Blogs
** , by Tara Calishain. "This time I'm playing with a way to browse YouTube channels while using Wikidata as context. And you can try it too, because it doesn't need any API keys!"
** (in German) about the
** , by Magnus Manske
** - Wikimedia CH supporting Houcemeddine Turki in leveraging AI to transform Wikidata into a comprehensive, reliable biomedical resource, to bridge healthcare information gaps, especially in the Global South.
* Papers:
**
* Videos: (Spanish)
* Videos
**
** (es) - This session held by Monica Ventura and Carla Toro discusses how open-data allow transparent analysis and evidence-based storytelling, enabling journalists to explore and verify complex information connections.
** (it) - The use of Wikidata's data in the Alphabetica portal and in the ] gadget that can be activated via Code Injector in the .
** - Kolja Bailly presents this session during the MediaWiki Users & Developers Conference Fall 2024 (Day 3).
** (zh-TW) - Wikidata Taiwan provide a demonstration to lexeme editing.
** (es) - Conducted by Omar Vega from Wikimedia Peru, learn how to create a project with a list, clean and collate data, create a Wikidata schema and upload using QuickStatements.
** (es)
**


''' Tool of the week ''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* is an Ordia game. Given the start part of a word, use the spacebar to move the word and hit the next part of the word. Only hyphenations described with the Unicode hyphenation character work.
* : Real-time map that visualizes recent changes in Wikidata with geospatial markers showing the location of updated Items.
* Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL)
* : a tool computing the distribution of mentioned entities in Misplaced Pages articles between Western world and the rest of the world.


''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
* ]: Wikibase Suite's contributing guide has been published. This guide aims to help anyone who wants to contribute and make sure they are equipped with all the relevant information to do so.
* Starting ca. today ({{date|2024-11-11}}), tools or bots which use the ] (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (]). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected.
* Job vacancy : Wikibase Suite allows institutions to create and host their own linked knowledge base with maximum customizability, this role will be responsible for the vision and strategy of this exciting product!


''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' ''' Newest ] and ] to review '''

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* Newest General datatypes: none * Newest General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
* External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this organization</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>difficulty of word by the level of JLPT</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>classification of a beer based on its style</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Notable software forks of this software</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>URL of an online service's BEACON file</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure.
A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Tool used by/in the subject to facilitate the collection of qualitative or quantitative data</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for a tournament on the main website of World Snooker Tour (official site)</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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''' Did you know? ''' ''' Did you know? '''
* Query examples: * Query examples:
** (in this case Danish since 01.11.2024) **
** ()
** - try changing the wd: Wikidata item to another country, city, or even a building or natural location.
** ()
* Newest ]:
** (])
** ] - public artworks and memorials in Suriname
* WikiProject Highlights: ]
** ] - A WikiProject for work underway at the ] to connect HDF data with Wikidata.
**
** ] - Aims to coordinate the development of a database on French literary prizes (prize list, jury members, list of winners). In 2008, Bertrand Labes listed more than 1,500 French-speaking literary prizes. To date, Wikidata has 709, including 24 including the list of winners and awarded works.
* Newest ]: (using Toolforge tool 'Orthohin') * Newest ]: () (replace 2x the "nl" into the language code of your language)
* ]: ] - Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669) * ]: ] - American global aerospace and defense corporation
* ]: ] - 'life' in Punjabi * ]: ] - Christmas greeting in Danish


''' Development ''' ''' Development '''
* With the winter holidays upon us, the development team is taking a break, and there will be no deployments for Wikidata during this time.
* Lua: We changed the Wikibase function ''getAllStatements'' logic to behave as ''getBestStatements''. When invoked, it was returning mutable direct-values, now it will return a copy of those values (which are immutable). (])
* Wikibase REST API:
**
** We've finished the work on the create Property endpoint so it is now possible to create Properties via the REST API.
* Configuration: We removed 'mainpage' from $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for Wikidata as requested so translations of the main page are available (])
* mul language code: We moved it to the top of the termbox so labels and aliases in mul are visible first (])
* Revision table size: We are investigating the current state of the revision table of Wikidata's database and what the next steps should be to address its issues.


]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at . ]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .
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* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ]. * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ].
* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country:
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences. * Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! * Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
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== Wikidata weekly summary #654 == == Weekly Summary #660 ==


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''' Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary! '''


A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year! 🎉 Each of your contributions, whether big or small, has made a difference and has helped us create a vibrant and informative resource for the Wikidata community. 🙏 Let's continue building and sharing knowledge together in the coming year! 🙌✨
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* Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 19 November, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 19 November, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET () Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Visit the ]
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* ] Registration is open until mid-April 2025 (unless event reahes capacity earlier). Hackathon takes place in Istanbul May 2 - 5, 2025.


'''Discussions'''
''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Open request for oversight: ] (RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)
* Blogs

** GLAM October Newsletter
'''Press, articles, blog posts, videos'''
*** (Spanish + En) ] - exploring uses of Wikidata in the Colombian context.
*** ]
*** ]
** - Ray Berger shares their presentation for the Open Library celebration.
** - Mark Reuter uses Wikidata to create a map of Hip Hop artists birthplaces.
* Papers * Papers
** by Jansová, L., Maixnerová, L., & Š´tastná, P. (2024). ''"The paper outlines the collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic and Wikimedia since 2006, focusing on linking authority records with Misplaced Pages articles and training librarians and users. By 2023, the National Library provided most of its databases under a CC0 license, launched a "Wikimedians in Residence" program, and collaborated on projects involving linked data and using authority records in Wikidata. This partnership has enhanced their cooperation for mutual benefit, identifying key factors for their successful long-term collaboration."''
** - Examines the impact of academic libraries shifting collections from physical to digital medium storage, and how Wikidata is used to analyse this. By Clarkson et al.,2024.
** by Melis, B., Fioravanti, M., Paolini, C., & Metilli, D. (2024). ''"The paper traces the evolution of gender representation in Wikidata, showing how the community has moved from a binary interpretation of gender to a more inclusive model for trans and non-binary identities. The Wikidata Gender Diversity project (WiGeDi) timeline highlights the significant changes influenced by external historical events and the community's increased understanding of gender complexity."''
** - How Wikidata schema are being used to help the ] archaelogical archive By Thornton et al., 2024.
* Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool (, ) by Saeed Habishan. "The Wikibase-CLI enables command-based interaction with Wikidata using shell scripts and JavaScript. The tool runs on NodeJS and enables automatic reading and editing of Wikidata."
** - to automate addition of scholarly data. By extracting metadata from unstructured sources and adding over 6,000 entities, it demonstrates a scalable method to enhance Wikidata as a scholarly resource. By Mihindukulasooriya et al., 2024.
** Presents a tool and method for adding scholarly articles and related entities, like co-authors and conference proceedings, to Wikidata using DBLP data, promoting the enhancement of Wikidata’s scholarly coverage. By Nandana Mihindukulasooriya.
* Slides
** (Italian) all the slides of the presentations held during ] are available in ] (the links have also been added to the ])
* Videos
** (Italian) all the videos of the presentations held during ] in the main room are available in ] (the links have also been added to the ])
** from the Dagaare Wikimedia Community.
** (Spanish) Omar Vegu of the Wikimedia Perú community will be showing how QS can be used to mass-edit Wikidata.
** (Spanish) - What to do if you find more than one Wikidata item of the same, exact thing? This guide will show you what to do.
** - if you are interested in organising a Wikidata edit-a-thon (on any subject), this presentation shows the steps needed.
** - an example of using Wikidata to enrich and expand an item for biographies.
** - an example of how structured data can be used to preserve cultural history.
**


''' Tool of the week ''' '''Tool of the week'''
* - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Misplaced Pages, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.
* - This tool is for adding scholarly articles to Wikidata utilizing data from DBLP. It also provides article authors with a tool to enhance Wikidata with associated entities, such as missing co-authors or conference proceeding entities. &

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
*

''' Newest ] and ] to review '''


'''Newest ] and ] to review'''
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* Newest General datatypes: none * Newest General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this organization</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* Newest General datatype property proposals to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>difficulty of word by the level of JLPT</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>classification of a beer based on its style</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Notable software forks of this software</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted''</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Amount of money donated to a person or organization</nowiki>)
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**] (<nowiki>ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>URL of an online service's BEACON file</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure.
A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Tool used by/in the subject to facilitate the collection of qualitative or quantitative data</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for a tournament on the main website of World Snooker Tour (official site)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>preliminary work for this finished work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>a scientific or technical illustration of this subject</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.)</nowiki>)
* External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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''' Did you know? ''' '''Did you know?'''
* Query examples: * Query examples:
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* Newest ]: * Newest ]: ] - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organisational, etc...) relating to ]
* WikiProject Highlights:
** ] - coordination of data ingests and workshops related to the ], operated by the Swiss National Library.
** ] - creation of Items for motifs described in Thompson's motif index completed
** ] - assists with the planning, conduct, analysis and communication of a user survey for Scholia.
** ] - concerns itself with improving data from nonprofit organizations in Austria
** ] - Wikidata list for the Biography WikiProject.
* Newest ]: ] - find items missing a description in a chosen language. * Newest ]: ]
* ]: ] * ]: ] - late 14th-century quadrangular castle in East Yorkshire, England, UK
* ]: ] This Lexeme is 'teem'ing with forms (Bokmål). * ]: ] - in Punjabi (pa) and "لیٹݨ" in Punjabi Shahmukhi (pnb) transliterate to "Leṭaṇ," which means "to lie down" or "to rest" in English.


''' Development ''' '''Development'''
* Most of the development team staff are still taking a break, so no development happened.
* ]
* Wikibase REST API: We are looking into how to do search in the REST API.
* Special:NewLexeme: We merged the full migration from the Wikit to the Codex design system.
* EntitySchemas: We are polishing the patches to make it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label when linking to an EntitySchema in a new statement.
* Wikidata support is now available to ] and ]


]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at . ]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .


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* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ]. * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ].
* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country: ]
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences. * Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! * Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
* ] across Wikimedia projects. * ] across Wikimedia projects.
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== Wikidata weekly summary #661 ==
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:Thank you kindly, @]. As a matter of fact, I am talking about WiR statistics and Humaniki later today in Adelaide. Also, when the time comes, I will start reporting them as 19.99x, instead of rounding to two decimals, as they move towards 20%.

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''' Discussions ''' ''' Discussions '''
* New request for comments: ] - Following from a property discussion on ], this RfC aims to find consensus on how to apply constraints that exclude items of historical periods in German history.
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there.
* Closed request for comments: ] - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights.


''' ] ''' ''' ] '''
* This Portuguese-language workshop takes place Thursday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00, Room 208, 206 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
* Upcoming
* Please submit your proposals for the ] online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the ] and here's some ideas to inspire you: presentations/demos of tools using Wikidata's data (10mins Lightning Talk presentations), discussions and presentations connecting Wikidata editors with reusers and/or explanations and demos on how to use a specific part of the technical infrastructure to reuse Wikidata's data (APIs, dumps, etc.).
**
* . The Search Platform Team holds monthly meetings to discuss anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
** Save the date: the ], an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already ].
* The next ] will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the . The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents 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.
** Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 3 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (). Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024, at our regular time of 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET. ]
* . Submission deadline: March 9, 2025 (23:59 AoE)
** ] This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024


''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs: (fr) , blog post by ''Le Deuxième Texte'' including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
* Blogs
* Websites :, website by 'Students at the Maastricht Science Programme', includes data visualizations of the prevalence and current treatments of dementia across the world. It utilises data extracted as SPARQL Endpoints from Wikidata.
** ]
** ]
**
** : Bringing Wild West performers to Wikidata. Author Jason Sharp documents their experience adding legendary showman Buffalo Bill to Wikidata.
** The ] has enrolled a Wikimedian-in-Residence with a focus on Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
* Papers * Papers
** - This paper proposes an ontology-driven approach to KG construction using LLMs where competency questions guide ontology creation and relation extraction, leveraging Wikidata for semantic consistency. A scalable pipeline minimizes human effort while producing high-quality, interpretable KGs interoperable with Wikidata for knowledge base expansion. By Xiaohan Feng, Xixin Wu & Helen Meng (2024).
** - examines how integrating Wikidata into libraries enhances resource discoverability, fosters interoperability, and empowers users within a global knowledge network. By Okuonghae, O. (2024).
** - Proposes a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model that integrates external knowledge from Wikidata to address complex open-domain questions by combining image, question, and knowledge modalities. Evaluated on the VQAv2 dataset, the model outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches, demonstrating improved reasoning and accuracy (Koshti et al., 2024).
** - approaches to representing weaker logical status (WLS) information in Wikidata, finding limited usage, variations and ambiguities between datasets, and proposes improvements for clarity and accuracy. By Di Pasquale et al.(2024)
* Videos: (arabic) - Sparql SERVICE clause gives access to additional data such as labels via wikibase:label, interaction with MediaWiki APIs using wikibase:mwapi, and integration of data from subgraphs (such as the main graph and the scholarly articles graph). Integration of data from external SPARQL endpoints such as DBpedia.
* Books: : contains many references to the use of Wikidata in cataloguing
* Videos
** (Portuguese) - Part of the “Introduction to digital platforms for research” sessions for the Centro Luís Krus of NOVA FCSH. Practical exercises for data reconciliation from the Portuguese Early Music Database using the OpenRefine tool.
** - Cuneyt Tyler presents 'Semantic Space', a project using Dbpedia and Wikidata to enhance the user experience browsing articles on the web.
** - Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata make great bedfellows. Margaret Donald shows how to create Commons categories, create structured data and link categories to Wikidata.
** : building community through a named entity Wikibase. Experiences of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives setting up the WikiNames Wikibase instance and breaking down knowledge silos
* Podcast series: including "Episode 5 -- Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with ]"
* Other
** ]
** ], presentation by ] at ], Lyon, November 23, 2024.


''' Tool of the week ''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* - is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that creates web links for matching inner HTML text based on a regex format of Q\d+ which is the format of a Wikidata Entity ID. ()
* is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts.

* is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export ()
* is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. ()
''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
* - The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) located in Hannover has a research position open for someone interested in the deployment, administration and maintenance of open source knowledge management software such as Mediawiki, Wikibase and OpenRefine as part of the NFDI4Culture partnership within the OSL.
*
* January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. ] has shared ] to assist in making these films discoverable via ], by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!


''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' '''Newest ] and ] to review'''
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* Newest General datatypes: * Newest General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this organization</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>preliminary work for this finished work</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of non-binary people inhabiting the place</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted''</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>Amount of money donated to a person or organization</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>formal styles of address used for members of the clergy</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>User ID on a2b2.org</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* Newest ]: * Newest ]: ] aims to list French-language awards and to ensure the mention of a source associated with each award.
* Newest ]: ]
** ] - WikiProject for the coordination of data ingests and Misplaced Pages workshops related to the official bibliography of the ], operated by ] (Switzerland)
* ]: ] - sled dog race
** ] - collects information related to the Ami culture, including statistics and activity records.
* ]: ] - Norwegian irregular verb "to pull", "to drag", or "to draw"
** ] - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc...) relating to Rwanda ]
* Newest ]: ]
* ]: ] - cave with cave paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina
* ]: ] - Polish adjective that can mean "impudent" or "brazen" in English


''' Development ''' ''' Development '''
* The development team is just settling back in after the holidays, so there haven’t been any significant updates yet.
* Wikidata Query Service: The ] have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "]" into the scholarly article graph.
* Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (])
* EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label and aliases when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema.(])
* Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. (], ])
* Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (] but first need to improve the underlying scripts (])
* Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (])
* Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table.


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* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country: ] * Govdirectory weekly focus country:
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences. * Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! * Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
* ] across Wikimedia projects. * ] across Wikimedia projects.
* Help ] * Help ]
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== Women in Red December 2024 == == Books & Bytes Issue 66 ==


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'''Discussions''' ''' Events '''
* ]:
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Creating and updating Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian and Coptic lexemes and ancient Egyptian text artifact items. It is also to maintain links to the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae project via approved properties.
** The next ] will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the . The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents 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.
* New request for comments: ] - ] would like feedback on determining a data model and schema for Wikidata items that are an instance of ] - See ] for more info.
** organised by Wikimedia Botswana UG for Wikidata enthusiasts of all levels. Starts 18 Jan 10:00am CAT (UTC+2), registration required.
* Closed request for comments: ] - Despite a spirited discussion with many comments both in favour and opposition, no consensus was reached.


''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
''']'''
* Upcoming:
** Wikimedia Deutschland is providing a total of 15 participation scholarships for Wikimania 2025 (7 individual and 4 tandem scholarships). Further information is available on ]. An overview of all questions in the application form is ]. . Closes 8 December 2024.
** . The time is 17:00 CET
** Tomorrow / 3rd December 2024: Linked Data for Libraries ] Group session @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC / 6pm CET. If you would like to attend, please fill out the to ensure all necessary materials are provided for you.
** Deadline for the ] scholarship application is December 30, 2024. We encourage you to make Wikidata-related submissions (the deadline for submission is March 22, 2025.

'''Press, articles, blog posts, videos'''
* Research
** ]: A new research report is available. Explores what trace Wikidata data is measurable on other Wiki pages and proposes initial metrics for measuring Wikidata statement usage on Wikimedia content pages. Also suggests methods to improve data analysis and collection. PDF is available on ]
* Blogs * Blogs
**]
** - Wikidata celebrated its 12th birthday in October and November 2024, with a series of global events and activities aimed at commemorating the platform's contributions to the open knowledge movement, engaging its community of volunteers, and highlighting the significant role Wikidata plays in the digital landscape. By Dan Shick
** ] - The newly published Wikidata module for the Hidden Figures CURE teaches undergraduates to use Wikidata for uncovering and highlighting the contributions of hidden figures in natural history, such as women, people of color, and Indigenous peoples.
* Papers
** ] - Efforts to improve the representation of UNESCO's Memory of the World (MOW) international register on Wikidata include new articles, enhanced data quality, and training on creating structured data. Key contributions involve updating Misplaced Pages and Wikidata entries, addressing data inconsistencies, and expanding the visibility of MOW inscriptions across languages.
** - This paper explores how libraries can leverage Wikidata to enhance resource discoverability, foster interoperability, and integrate into the global knowledge ecosystem. By Omorodion Okuonghae (2024).
** ] - Introduces the ] for your browser. A project funded by the Arcadia grant through Wikimedia Deutschland and fiscally sponsored by the Dagbani Wikimedians user group.
** - Enhancing Wikidata’s biomedical knowledge by integrating OBO ontologies and PubMed’s MeSH keywords, addressing gaps, improving classification accuracy, and verifying relations for stronger interoperability and accuracy. By Chebil et al. (2024).
** (in Catalan). The article discusses how Wikidata is being used to enhance the visibility of public domain works by integrating copyright information and making it easily accessible.
** analyzes class order violations in Wikidata's ontology using SPARQL, evaluates fixes, and offers solutions through improved tools or community involvement. By P. Patel-Schneider and E. Doğan.
* Videos * Videos
** - The Tyap Wikimedia User Group produced this tutorial on editing as part of the Wikidata 12th Birthday celebrations for the Wikidata @12 Data-a-thon. **
**
** - Covers Linked Data basics, its potential with OSM, and popular methods for linking, extracting, combining, and querying data from both sources. Jump to ()
* Presentations: ''Wikibase e Wikidata per lo studio dell'epigrafia greca'' (in Italian, i.e. Wikibase and Wikidata for the study of Greek epigraphy), presentation at SAEG (Advanced Seminar of Greek Epigraphy) IX in Rome, 10 January 2025, by ], ], ] - ]
** (正體字, CN Trad.) - An introduction and overview to Wikidata and some associated tools such as ORES and LiftWing.
** (正體字, CN Trad.) - This session was given as part of the COSCUP '24 conference on the OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Agenda Track.
** - LORiS: This tool can help you understand complex SPARQL queries by converting them to natural language.
** - At the 7th ISRITI 2024 conference, Jaycent Ongris shows how RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) has been used in a natural-language question-answer platform to directly query Wikidata.
** - Denny Vrandečić gives this keynote session at the SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference.
** - Alexandros Kosiaris of the Wikimedia Foundation explains changes made to make Misplaced Pages more stable and prevent outages, including how it calls and fetches data from Wikidata. Session given at SREcon24.


'''Tool of the week''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* - is a roguelike game with Items generated from Wikidata that lets you crawl through the Dungeon of Knowledge in a classic ASCII interface. () ()
* - Generate natural-language descriptions of SPARQL queries via LLM's.


'''Other Noteworthy Stuff''' ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
* ] has joined the (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of June 2025. Welcome Zita!
* ]: Google released the WordGraph dataset as a belated present for Wikidata’s 12th birthday. The dataset contains 968,153 forms in 39 languages.
* (cf. ] and ]) underwent a relevant change of interface on January 10; the way of visualizing clusters in JSON format has changed in comparison with and e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/102333412/viaf.json doesn't work anymore; this broke most or all Wikidata gadgets using VIAF data; in the absence of official communications from OCLC, developers are trying to understand if the new VIAF interface is stable before changing their gadgets accordingly
* : Wikimedia Deutschland has an open and exciting vacancy for a Product Manager of Wikibase Suite.
* Tools or bots which use the ] (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (]). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected. (This was previously announced ] but didn’t actually take place yet.)


'''Newest ] and ] to review''' '''Newest ] and ] to review'''

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* Newest ]: * Newest General datatypes:
**] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
** General datatypes:
***] (<nowiki>picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
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**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this organization</nowiki>)
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* New ] to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
** General datatypes:
***] (<nowiki>preliminary work for this finished work</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>number of shading units in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>number of third-gender people inhabiting the place</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted''</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Amount of money donated to a person or organization</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki></nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki></nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>formal styles of address used for members of the clergy</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki></nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>User ID on a2b2.org</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>analogous to {{P|4329}} for tracking cat:s populated by extensions of MediaWiki, linking to extension causing the population</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>headword languge of dictionary</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>7-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Height of the entrance above ground level for boarding public transport vehicles.</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>4-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>the location code of the location item. Should be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site)</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of render output units in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* Newest ]: ] aims to standardize and enhance Misplaced Pages's coverage of writing systems and related subjects.
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* Newest ]: ]
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* ]: ] - 1642 painting by Rembrandt
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* ]: ] - Rusian noun (dopólnenie) that can mean "addition", "supplement" or an "an object"
** ] - documenting, archiving and creating items from collections from the UvA/AUAS Library in Amsterdam, beginning with the works of ].

** ] - A hub for Ghanaian activities and entities, including regional languages: Dagbanli, Twi and Dagari.
''' Development '''
** ]: For collecting information related to Thao cultural themes, including statistics and activity records.
* Wikidata Query Service UI: We fixed a long-standing issue with missing edge labels in graph visualisations (])
* Newest ]: ]
* Wikibase REST API: We implemented a ] you can try out.
* ]: ]: Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
* EntitySchemas: We’re working on language fallback for the heading on EntitySchema pages (])
* ]: ] - A Tamil lemma for dense forest, impassable jungle and a pigeon dove.
* Language codes: We cleaned up language codes in WikibaseLexeme after moving some of them to CLDR (])
'''Development'''
* EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema.
* PropertySuggester: We have updated the script that generates the suggestions and will update the suggestions next.
* Lexicographical data: We fixed a visual issue with search results on the Codex-based Special:NewLexeme (])
* Vector 2022: We are working on designs to fix the remaining issues with the skin on Wikidata.
* Wikibase REST API: We are finishing the prototype for supporting search in the API.


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* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country: ] * Govdirectory weekly focus country: ]
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences. * Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! * Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
* ] across Wikimedia projects. * ] across Wikimedia projects.
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<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div style="column-count:2;"> {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2025-01-15}} </div><!--Volume 21, Issue 1--> <div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * ''']''' * ] * ] * ] (]) 07:55, 15 January 2025 (UTC) <!-- Sent via script (]) --></div></div>
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:Thank you for this Barnstar, @], and your kind words. It is special to receive recognition for what I do for WiR. Happy editing! ] (]) 07:34, 4 December 2024 (UTC)


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oops, dont fix template errors on the talk page unless subst, it needs a couple of updates any ]] 07:01, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
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''' Discussions '''
:Sorry, I did make changes to the biomechanicist editors Talk pages when I realised that I'd welcomed them all as !1day! I should have thought more about it beforehand, and perhaps undone my Twinkle add and then redone it. They seem ok though. Let me know if I need to fix anything. ] (]) 07:31, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
* Open request for adminship: ] - RfP scheduled to end after 26 January 2025 09:17 (UTC).
== Nomination of ] for deletion ==
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<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0;">]</div>A discussion is taking place as to whether the article ] is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to ] or whether it should be ].


''' Events '''
The article will be discussed at ''']''' until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
* ]:
** : 12 February 1300 - 1500 MST (UTC+7) is an onsite event at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a theme to add or expand items on Black and African-American comics creators.
** ] is from February 18 to 27, 2025! This is an online event focusing on how people and organizations use Wikidata's data to build interesting applications and tools. Don't forget to register so we can know you are coming.
* Past: Missed the Q1 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: ]


''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.<!-- Template:Afd notice --></div> ] (]) 13:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
* Blogs: : The blog post discusses cleaning up outdated Misplaced Pages links to improve article accuracy and navigation, while highlighting the importance of integrating Wikidata for better data management.
* Papers
** : it compares the practices of gender-registration of person-type entities in LCNAF and ISNI with the use of P21 in Wikidata. By Ray Berger
** : this paper seeks to establish a taxonomy of user information needs to help establish a roadmap of future research for finding synergies between LLM's, Search engines and Knowledge graphs. By Hogan et al., (2025)
* Videos
**
** - As part of ''Art History Loves Wiki 25'', Laurel Zuckerman will show how Wikidata SPARQL queries can aid provenance researchers and historians find, identify and track looted art.
** : Ormat Murat Yilmaz will speak on how Wikidata and OSM play a role in coordinating relief efforts by providing a collaborative platform for providing data about affected areas. Part of WM CEE meeting 2024 Istanbul.
** : Presented by Filip Maljkovič on the progress and process of adding Serbian literature into Wikidata, using OCR methods to map pages and assign Properties.
** (german): Johan Hoelderle discusses how nonprofits can benefit from the largest free knowledge base and show what potential open data offers for non-profit projects.
** : WMDE's ] delivers a speech on how GLAM institutions can help prevent the spread of dis- and misinformation whether hallucinatory AI or malicious, part of the Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025.


''' Tool of the week '''
== Pages about women ==
* - This tool can show you candidate matches of Wikidata Items to files on Commons and Flickr. ()


''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
Hi. I just discovered you after your edit to the page I wrote on ]. I think it's really cool that you focus on writing articles about women.
*
* : Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a PM to lead Wikibase Suite, empowering institutions like GLAMs and research groups to build customizable linked knowledge bases and contribute to the world’s largest open data graph.


'''Newest ] and ] to review'''
I just wrote another article about a woman since the prior article about her was deleted six years ago, allegedly due to not being notable. I put almost 30 sources on the new article to establish her notability. I'd be interested in any feedback you have about the article: ].
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**] (<nowiki>jurisdiction specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>height of the entrance above ground level for boarding vehicles</nowiki>)
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of shading units in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Amount of money donated to a person or organization</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>formal styles of address used for members of the clergy</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>User ID on a2b2.org</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>headword languge of dictionary</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>the location code of the location item. Should be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of render output units in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Wikidata property on this item providing a link to a bibliography about the subject that is a good starting point.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>''(no English description proposed yet)''</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>days of the week in which a TV or radio program is broadcasted</nowiki>)
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== Could you please help me avoid deletion of this woman's article? ==
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* Newest ]: ] aims to describe current and former IIT faculty members. The following property schema is based on a similar schema found at ]
* WikiProject Highlights: ] - keep track of historic collections as part of the provenance of paintings
* Newest ]:
* ]: ] - second largest asteroid of the main asteroid belt
* ]: ] - Tamil noun that can mean "priest", "teacher" or "preceptor"


''' Development '''
Could I please get your help? Someone has nominated the article ] for deletion, claiming that Nadauld is not notable. It was the same person who did it 8 years ago. I'd appreciate if you could support keeping it. See the talk page on that article for my arguments why she's notable, or peruse the article's 25+ references yourself. Personally, I believe the person who proposed deletion deserves a trout for claiming that she's not notable, given the contents of those sources. ] (]) 16:42, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
* mul language code:
* Constraint violations:
** We’re making good progress on checking format constraints more efficiently and with fewer errors (])
** We’re working on making distinct-values constraint checks works with the split Query Service (])
* EntitySchemas: We’re working on making the heading on EntitySchema pages apply language fallback (])
* Search: We’ve started working on the new search UI component which will let you search for additional entity types from the main search bar and not just Items anymore (])
* Wikibase REST API: We're working on adding search to the API (])

]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .

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* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ].
* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country: ]
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
* ] across Wikimedia projects.
* Help ]

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
    • Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
  • New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.

Events

  • Past: The Lexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents 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.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
    • Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe. Register here!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

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Development

  • EntitySchemas:
    • We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
    • We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
  • mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911, phab:T366239)

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· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) ·

A barnstar for you

The Women in Red Barnstar
For keeping an eagle eye on Humaniki and regularly updating key statistics on the main Women in Red page.--Ipigott (talk) 13:50, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
Thank you kindly, @Ipigott. As a matter of fact, I am talking about WiR statistics and Humaniki later today in Adelaide. Also, when the time comes, I will start reporting them as 19.99x, instead of rounding to two decimals, as they move towards 20%.

Wikidata weekly summary #655

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #654

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: 333Bot - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there.
  • Closed request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights.

Events

  • Upcoming
    • 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - registration is now open
    • Save the date: the Data Reuse Days 2025, an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already propose sessions for the program.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 3 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series Etherpad to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024, at our regular time of 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET. Event page
    • Wikimania 2025 Scholarships are now open! This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Guess Image from Pronunciation is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts.
  • ABECTO is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export (Tweet)
  • Wikidata Infernal is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. (blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikidata Query Service: The graph split rules have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "publication type of scholarly work" into the scholarly article graph.
  • Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (phab:T378627)
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label and aliases when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema.(phab:T375641)
  • Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. (phab:T371196, phab:T371752)
  • Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (phab:T377986 but first need to improve the underlying scripts (phab:T376604)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (phab:T379608)
  • Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table.

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· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:42, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red December 2024

Women in Red | December 2024, Vol 10, Issue 12, Nos 293, 294, 324, 325


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Wikidata weekly summary #656

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #655

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Wikimedia Deutschland is providing a total of 15 participation scholarships for Wikimania 2025 (7 individual and 4 tandem scholarships). Further information is available on this page. An overview of all questions in the application form is here. Apply here. Closes 8 December 2024.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 4, 2024. The time is 17:00 CET
    • Tomorrow / 3rd December 2024: Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC / 6pm CET. If you would like to attend, please fill out the Etherpad form to ensure all necessary materials are provided for you.
    • Deadline for the Central Asian WikiCon 2025 scholarship application is December 30, 2024. We encourage you to make Wikidata-related submissions (the deadline for submission is March 22, 2025.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • LoRiS - Generate natural-language descriptions of SPARQL queries via LLM's.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikidata:WordGraph: Google released the WordGraph dataset as a belated present for Wikidata’s 12th birthday. The dataset contains 968,153 forms in 39 languages.
  • Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikimedia Deutschland has an open and exciting vacancy for a Product Manager of Wikibase Suite. Apply!
  • Tools or bots which use the wiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected. (This was previously announced 2024-11-11 but didn’t actually take place yet.)

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  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema.
  • PropertySuggester: We have updated the script that generates the suggestions and will update the suggestions next.
  • Lexicographical data: We fixed a visual issue with search results on the Codex-based Special:NewLexeme (phab:T370057)
  • Vector 2022: We are working on designs to fix the remaining issues with the skin on Wikidata.
  • Wikibase REST API: We are finishing the prototype for supporting search in the API.

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· Previous issue · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar
Hello Oronsay, I came across your work on the Women in Red project, and I must say, it's truly impressive. Please keep up the great work! If there's any way I can contribute to this project, do let me know. Baqi:) (talk) 15:24, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for this Barnstar, @Jannatulbaqi, and your kind words. It is special to receive recognition for what I do for WiR. Happy editing! Oronsay (talk) 07:34, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

oops

oops, dont fix template errors on the talk page unless subst, it needs a couple of updates any Gnangarra 07:01, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I did make changes to the biomechanicist editors Talk pages when I realised that I'd welcomed them all as !1day! I should have thought more about it beforehand, and perhaps undone my Twinkle add and then redone it. They seem ok though. Let me know if I need to fix anything. Oronsay (talk) 07:31, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Barbara Nowak for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Barbara Nowak is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Barbara Nowak until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

SolxrgashiUnited (talk) 13:16, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Pages about women

Hi. I just discovered you after your edit to the page I wrote on Emily Belle Freeman. I think it's really cool that you focus on writing articles about women.

I just wrote another article about a woman since the prior article about her was deleted six years ago, allegedly due to not being notable. I put almost 30 sources on the new article to establish her notability. I'd be interested in any feedback you have about the article: Margaret D. Nadauld.

Kind regards, Davemc0 (talk) 02:52, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Could you please help me avoid deletion of this woman's article?

Could I please get your help? Someone has nominated the article Margaret D. Nadauld for deletion, claiming that Nadauld is not notable. It was the same person who did it 8 years ago. I'd appreciate if you could support keeping it. See the talk page on that article for my arguments why she's notable, or peruse the article's 25+ references yourself. Personally, I believe the person who proposed deletion deserves a trout for claiming that she's not notable, given the contents of those sources. Davemc0 (talk) 16:42, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #657

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #656

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: KlaraBot - Task(s): Append a human's lifespan to descriptions when they can be authoritatively sourced.
  • Closed request for comments: Audio transcription (P9533) - Closed with no consensus. The discussion is ongoing on the Property P5933 talk page.

Events

  • Past: Amical Wikimedia, the Catalan-language and culture focused thematic Wikimedia Organization organized the Celebrem Wikidata (Let's celebrate Wikidata) project to celebrate Wikidata's 12th anniversary, from November 10 - 30. This included a Wikidata introduction workshop to equip participants with the editing skills to tackle the project's main aim. This was presented as a game to delete duplicate info on Wikidata and Catalan Viquipèdia infoboxes, in three areas: protected buildings, officers' positions and data related to sports teams players. At the end of the event, ~200 Wikidata-fed infoboxes and Wikidata items were improved and many Misplaced Pages editors edited Wikidata for the first time!
  • Upcoming events:
    • (Deutsch)Wikidata for Legal Historians - Tue. 10 December, 3pm - 7pm (UTC+1). This presentation explores Wikidata as a key platform for LOD, explains its Semantic Web foundation, introduces FactGrid (a Wikidata-based platform for historical research). Highlights potential of both platforms using examples and encourages discussion for legal historical research. Register here.
    • Today (09.12.2024) is the last chance to submit an Abstract for the Wikidata and Research conference (5 - 6 June 2025). If you are interested in participating, please review the submission acceptance format before submitting here.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • CAT🐈: Metrics computing simple metrics (number of labels, number of descriptions, number of sitelinks, number of statements) for item matching a simple claim.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Template:Image properties New template listing properties that link to images.
  • Let's Connect invites you to get involved in helping spread awareness and knowledge of Wikidata, potentially help organise a Wikidata Learning Clinic. Are you interested in participating? Please sign-up on this registration form.

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· Previous issue · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:19, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2024

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Wikidata weekly summary #658

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #657

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: PWSBot - Task(s): Is a selfmade chatbot to answer factual questions as part of a final research project for educational purposes.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: CarbonBot - Withdrawn by submitter

Events Upcoming events:

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 17 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (Time zone converter) Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series Etherpad to help us prepare relevant materials for you. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page
  • 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - register now

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Tabular Online Validator - checks if SPARQL query results conform to a provided schema by validating data and highlighting potential errors, such as missing properties, invalid values, or too many values, with the option to refine the schema if issues arise. (A major update to the current ShEx validator that is expected to get integrated into the existing validator soon)
  • CAT🐈: Overview if references: looking at references for a set of Wikidata items

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We prototyped search support for the REST API and would like your feedback on it.
  • Property Suggestions: We updated the underlying data so you should have more up-to-date suggestions again when making new statements.
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by their label and aliases when linking to them in a statement.
  • Query Service: We are investigating if we can do something about the issue where not all edgeLabels are shown on a graph visualisation (phab:T381857) and if there are any alternatives to the library used for the graph builder in the Query Service (phab:T381764)
  • Under the hood: We are optimizing the server setup for the term store to accommodate its growth (phab:T351802)

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· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:57, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

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Kristina Romanova, article expansion

Hello Oronsay, hope you are well. Given your active participation on Wiki Project Women and Wiki Project Women in Business, I'd be grateful for your review of my suggested expansions/additions to Kristina Romanova's BLP. While she is a former model, much of her current work as a CEO and business executive is undocumented in her article. I work for Aman and have declared my affiliation so I can't make these changes without Wiki approval. If you think my suggestions are valid, I can take the time to implement. Thank you in advance for your feedback, Astraea2024 (talk) 15:51, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Short description on Annilese Miskimmon

Hi Oronsay -- Thanks for all you do on women's bios -- just a quick note on this one, should the short description for someone from Northern Ireland be summarised as "Irish"? -- it's part of the UK, not the Republic of Ireland. In similar cases with England/Scotland/Wales I tend to go with British in the capsule wherever I feel it is justified, but in this case the subject clearly identifies as Northern Irish. Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 06:57, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

@Espresso Addict: Thanks for your query. I take your point and have amended to Northern Irish in the short description and on Wikidata. Her Talk page is also now created, including the Northern Irish project, but please add the relevant WiR event there. Oronsay (talk) 17:35, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks -- I tend not to bother with the talk page until I've finished the article -- still plodding through all the heaps of reviews. Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 17:38, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #659

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #658

Discussions

Events

  • Ongoing: Wikidata Cleanup 2024 - Romaine continues his initiative, "Wikidata Cleanup," to coordinate community efforts in addressing the problem of items missing basic properties during the last ten days of 2024, when many users have extra time due to holidays. The aim is to improve data quality by focusing on ensuring all items have essential properties like "instance of" (P31) or "subclass of" (P279), adding relevant country and location data, and maintaining consistency within item series.
  • Upcoming events: Data Reuse Days - online event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February 2025. You can submit a proposal for the program on the talk page until January 12th.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Flying Dehyphenator is an Ordia game. Given the start part of a word, use the spacebar to move the word and hit the next part of the word. Only hyphenations described with the Unicode hyphenation character work.
  • Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? Wiki Year In Review has it for you! (use www.wikidata.org for the project URL)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Wikibase/Suite-Contributing-Guide: Wikibase Suite's contributing guide has been published. This guide aims to help anyone who wants to contribute and make sure they are equipped with all the relevant information to do so.

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Development

  • With the winter holidays upon us, the development team is taking a break, and there will be no deployments for Wikidata during this time.

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· Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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Women in Red January 2025

Women in Red | January 2025, Vol 11, Issue 1, Nos 324, 326, 327, 328, 329


Online events:

Announcements from other communities

Tip of the month:

  • Celebrate WiR's 20% achievement by adding {{User:ForsythiaJo/20%Userbox}} to your user page.

Other ways to participate:

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Weekly Summary #660

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week leading up to 2024-12-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #659

Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year! 🎉 Each of your contributions, whether big or small, has made a difference and has helped us create a vibrant and informative resource for the Wikidata community. 🙏 Let's continue building and sharing knowledge together in the coming year! 🙌✨

Discussions

  • Open request for oversight: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Papers
    • Library Data in Wikimedia Projects: Case Study from the Czech Republic by Jansová, L., Maixnerová, L., & Š´tastná, P. (2024). "The paper outlines the collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic and Wikimedia since 2006, focusing on linking authority records with Misplaced Pages articles and training librarians and users. By 2023, the National Library provided most of its databases under a CC0 license, launched a "Wikimedians in Residence" program, and collaborated on projects involving linked data and using authority records in Wikidata. This partnership has enhanced their cooperation for mutual benefit, identifying key factors for their successful long-term collaboration."
    • How have you modelled my gender? Reconstructing the history of gender representation in Wikidata by Melis, B., Fioravanti, M., Paolini, C., & Metilli, D. (2024). "The paper traces the evolution of gender representation in Wikidata, showing how the community has moved from a binary interpretation of gender to a more inclusive model for trans and non-binary identities. The Wikidata Gender Diversity project (WiGeDi) timeline highlights the significant changes influenced by external historical events and the community's increased understanding of gender complexity."
  • Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool (part 1, part 2) by Saeed Habishan. "The Wikibase-CLI enables command-based interaction with Wikidata using shell scripts and JavaScript. The tool runs on NodeJS and enables automatic reading and editing of Wikidata."

Tool of the week

  • WikiORA - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Misplaced Pages, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.

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Development

  • Most of the development team staff are still taking a break, so no development happened.

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· Read the full report · Previous issue · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:11, 30 December 2024 (UTC) ·

Wikidata weekly summary #661

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #660

Discussions

Upcoming events

  • Workshop: Lexicography and linguistic sustainability - Mirandese documentation using Wikidata This Portuguese-language workshop takes place Thursday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00, Room 208, 206 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
  • Please submit your proposals for the Data Reuse Days online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the talk page and here's some ideas to inspire you: presentations/demos of tools using Wikidata's data (10mins Lightning Talk presentations), discussions and presentations connecting Wikidata editors with reusers and/or explanations and demos on how to use a specific part of the technical infrastructure to reuse Wikidata's data (APIs, dumps, etc.).
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team --January 8, 2025. The Search Platform Team holds monthly meetings to discuss anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents 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.
  • Wiki Workshop 2025 Announcement and Call for Papers. Submission deadline: March 9, 2025 (23:59 AoE)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: (fr) female authors with male pseudonyms, blog post by Le Deuxième Texte including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
  • Websites :Global Dementia and Risk Factors, website by 'Students at the Maastricht Science Programme', includes data visualizations of the prevalence and current treatments of dementia across the world. It utilises data extracted as SPARQL Endpoints from Wikidata.
  • Papers
    • Ontology-grounded Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction by LLM under Wikidata schema - This paper proposes an ontology-driven approach to KG construction using LLMs where competency questions guide ontology creation and relation extraction, leveraging Wikidata for semantic consistency. A scalable pipeline minimizes human effort while producing high-quality, interpretable KGs interoperable with Wikidata for knowledge base expansion. By Xiaohan Feng, Xixin Wu & Helen Meng (2024).
    • Knowledge Incorporated Image Question Answering Using Wikidata Repository - Proposes a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model that integrates external knowledge from Wikidata to address complex open-domain questions by combining image, question, and knowledge modalities. Evaluated on the VQAv2 dataset, the model outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches, demonstrating improved reasoning and accuracy (Koshti et al., 2024).
  • Videos: (arabic) Part 6: SPARQL Demo Session: connecting external services - Sparql SERVICE clause gives access to additional data such as labels via wikibase:label, interaction with MediaWiki APIs using wikibase:mwapi, and integration of data from subgraphs (such as the main graph and the scholarly articles graph). Integration of data from external SPARQL endpoints such as DBpedia.

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Entity Linker - is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that creates web links for matching inner HTML text based on a regex format of Q\d+ which is the format of a Wikidata Entity ID. (email)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Vacancy: Research Software Engineer / Wikibase-Expert - The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) located in Hannover has a research position open for someone interested in the deployment, administration and maintenance of open source knowledge management software such as Mediawiki, Wikibase and OpenRefine as part of the NFDI4Culture partnership within the OSL.
  • January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. Sandra has shared helpful notes to assist in making these films discoverable via WikiFlix, by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!

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Development

  • The development team is just settling back in after the holidays, so there haven’t been any significant updates yet.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 66

The Misplaced Pages Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 66, November – December 2024

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This Month in GLAM: December 2024

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Wikidata weekly summary #662

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-13. Missed the previous one? See issue #661

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents 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.
    • Join the Wikidata Training Event 2025 organised by Wikimedia Botswana UG for Wikidata enthusiasts of all levels. Starts 18 Jan 10:00am CAT (UTC+2), registration required.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Dungeon Of Knowledge - is a roguelike game with Items generated from Wikidata that lets you crawl through the Dungeon of Knowledge in a classic ASCII interface. (toot) (blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Zita Ursula Zage has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of June 2025. Welcome Zita!
  • VIAF (cf. Q54919 and P214) underwent a relevant change of interface on January 10; the way of visualizing clusters in JSON format has changed in comparison with present OCLC documentation and e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/102333412/viaf.json doesn't work anymore; this broke most or all Wikidata gadgets using VIAF data; in the absence of official communications from OCLC, developers are trying to understand if the new VIAF interface is stable before changing their gadgets accordingly

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Development

  • Wikidata Query Service UI: We fixed a long-standing issue with missing edge labels in graph visualisations (phab:T317702)
  • Wikibase REST API: We implemented a proof of concept for a search endpoint you can try out.
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on language fallback for the heading on EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
  • Language codes: We cleaned up language codes in WikibaseLexeme after moving some of them to CLDR (phab:T352922)

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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

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Wikidata weekly summary #663

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #662

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Xezbeth - RfP scheduled to end after 26 January 2025 09:17 (UTC).

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Edit-A-Thon for Black History Month: 12 February 1300 - 1500 MST (UTC+7) is an onsite event at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a theme to add or expand items on Black and African-American comics creators.
    • Data Reuse Days 2025 is from February 18 to 27, 2025! This is an online event focusing on how people and organizations use Wikidata's data to build interesting applications and tools. Don't forget to register so we can know you are coming.
  • Past: Missed the Q1 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-01-15 (Q1 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Did you know?

Development

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