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• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
    • WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
    • Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Normalizing company names (and more) with SPARQL and Wikidata by Bob DuCharme
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    • Presentation of Generic Unified List Processor by Magnus Manske
    • How linked data can help with anonymization by Sri Kalidindi
  • Notebooks
    • Collecting a dataset of 481,437 SPARQL queries from Wikidata. See the csv file and the parquet file.

• Tool of the week
  • Declarator.org is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets (mentioned by OpenSanctions)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new), University of Barcelona authority ID, Kinoglaz film ID, MobyGames game ID, MobyGames company ID, MobyGames group ID, Feminae record ID, Alexandria UniSG person ID, OpenStreetMap node ID, literatura.lv ID
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      • ISCED Attainment (ISCED attainment is the UNESCO main classification of educational level, it is used to map each level to the global classification used by UNESCO. This is useful because the same local level can mean different things in different countries. It identifies the specific levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) Attainment model. Has two sub qualifiers - code and label.)
      • first performance by (performer or performing group for the first performance of a work)
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali ID, Boomplay album ID, Ticino Scienza ID, AML ID, Arabic Ontology form ID, NHF club ID, L'Histoire par l'image ID, Sinta affiliation ID
  • Query examples:
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    • Number of books written in Basque grouped by the birth place of their authors (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Emoji

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
  • Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (phab:T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
  • Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17:56, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I see you're doing a quickstatements run for gender of humans citing to VIAF. Where in VIAF does it list gender?

Sorry, to clarify. VIAF is an aggregate of data from other sources. So I think you should be cited to the original authority ID and not VIAF.

Hi, there is a collapsed "About" block in VIAF. Also I import from multiple datasources - this one goes after IdRef. The next one will be BNF, I suppose. So I don't think that VIAF is bad on its own - and gender is actually stated on VIAF pages, which makes the reference valid (technically). If you think that some of my edits require additional references (i. e. VIAF+BNF), I can add them, but for now I'm trying not to overreference statements (otherwise I just have no capabilities to import data).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:25, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

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

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • In this week's update by the Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions team, they are asking where the right place to store and maintain Abstract Wikipedia should be. All of the options involve Wikidata to some extent, some more, some less. If the content of Abstract Wikipedia is hosted on Wikidata, that would lead to an increased scope for the Wikidata community (and likely more contributors joining). But that is a decision the Wikidata community needs to be involved in as well. (Also, if you are interested, the Abstract Wikipedia updates might be worth to follow.)
  • Papers
    • Investigating the potential of the semantic web for education: Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform
  • Videos
  • Notebooks
    • Country diversity of external links domain names in Wikipedia in French an analysis of all domain names in Wikipedia in French by country associated to the website.

• Tool of the week
  • User:BrokenSegue/shorten.js makes statements boxes for a particular property scrollable if it is too tall.

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  • A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the WDQS current state and summarizes the suggestions with the most impact we’re exploring now, with a few in-progress.

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  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: STS program ID, Electronic library encyclopedia.com.ua, Deutsche Synchronkartei person ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, Syoboi Calendar series ID, Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID, Moscow University Herbarium ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, IRIS UNICAMPUS author ID, IRIS UNIECAMPUS author ID, IRISanRaf author ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, NTV program ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, Wise Music Classical work ID, IATE ID, Jewish English Lexicon ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Rate Your Music work ID, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID, Epson Tour player ID, Digital Bhashakosha page number, PlaymakerStats.com competition ID, Electrodoc person ID, Archivarta ID, CassiOpeA author ID, IRIS UNIROMA2 author ID, IRIS UNIROMA3 author ID, Sjøhistorie ship ID, electrocd artist ID, köztérkép ID, ForPost person ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Ivi title ID, Ivi person ID, Saint Petersburg Conservatory person ID, Hungarian National Namespace organisation ID (new)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • system requirements (system requirements for video game or software)
    • External identifiers: Brazzers ID, Universo del corpo ID, Zeneszöveg.hu international artist ID, Tekstowo.pl artist ID, Tekściory artist ID, Merchbar electronic dance music artist ID, BSDB player ID, The Athletic team ID, The Athletic player ID, GSAFD ID, Feminae ID, IFTTT service ID, stock keeping unit, Federiciana ID, LIBRA Unine ID
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    • Highest TV seasons numbers (source)

• Development
  • EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
  • Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (phab:T214002)
  • Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
  • REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (phab:T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:54, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing this one too, it now runs every day. Can you remind me of how a person needs to be marked as a supercentenarian. See Q12734691, I added event=alleged_supercentenarians, but I don't think that triggers your search. Do they need to be marked as instance_of=alleged_supercentenarians?

Hi, this is mentioned on top of Wikidata:Database reports/unmarked supercentenarians - subject has role (P2868) = supercentenarian (Q1200828) or alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708).

It is important to mention, that there were at least 2 users - @User:1Veertje (example edits) and @User:Azertus (example edits) who migrated "event" to "subject has role". And while I understand the idea, it was implemented very poorly - they both removed all qualifiers (including sourcing circumstances (P1480)) and references :/

So yes, Azertus and 1Veertje, could you please response here about the dates and types of edits you performed, I can try to build a script to analyze & restore lost data.

Oops. I should have read that, thanks!

It's too long ago, I don't remember. If I were to move a claim like that today I would use the moveClaims gadget

Ah, I have an idea for script:

For each item that has role = centenarian or supercentenarian or "alleged <...>" or "oldest human"

fetch types of edits from history

if it is a removal of statement with property "event" by any user, then fetch the state before removal, and aggregate all removed qualifiers and sources into patch for current statement and apply it.

Sounds reasonable for me, I'll try to do on weekends.

I think we should mark all the entries as alleged supercentenarians, then if more evidence is found, they can be switched to "supercentenarians". Most are people from before we had birth records. I use the report to look for typos where people type "1900" instead of "1800" and add in an extra 100 years of life. I also use it to look for vandalism, where an IP will change the birth or death date for giggles.

Obviously, I don't remember exactly. I think I tried to keep existing qualifiers/info, but apologies if that wasn't the case. In my archives, I found a set of QS dated 2021-06-21, and on 2021-11-11 I recorded the following queries in my notes:

     - hopeful centenarians https://query.wikidata.org/#%23title%3A%20Hopeful%20centenarians%0A%23%20Description%3A%20Calculated%20age%20of%20crrently%20living%20%28no%20death%20date%29%20centenarians.%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FpropLabel%20%3Fage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%3Fpred%20wd%3AQ2944360.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fborn.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdied.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%28%222021-06-25%22%5E%5Exsd%3Adate%20-%20%3Fborn%29%20%2F%20365%20AS%20%3Fage%29%0A%20%20%23FILTER%20%28%3Fage%20%3C%20100%29%0A%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fpred.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fage

     - young centenarians https://query.wikidata.org/#%23title%3A%20Young%20centenarians%0A%23%20Description%3A%20Humans%20linked%20to%20centenarians%2C%20with%20a%20calculated%20age%20less%20than%20100%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FpropLabel%20%3Fage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%3Fpred%20wd%3AQ2944360.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fborn.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdied.%0A%20%20BIND%20%28%28%3Fdied%20-%20%3Fborn%29%20%2F%20365%20AS%20%3Fage%29%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fage%20%3C%20100%29%0A%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fpred.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fage

Hope that helps.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:20, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

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

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
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    • bitbotje (Task/s: Property MovieMeter film ID (P1970) has a suggested constraint that the item should have a Dutch ('nl') label. The MovieMeter website has suitable labels and provides an API for structured data access. I have a script that reads the relevant section in Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P1970 and for each listed item does an API call to moviemeter.nl and adds a label.)
  • New request for comments:
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• Events
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• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
    • The Biodiversity Heritage Library is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
    • Named Entity Recognition for Placenames in Welsh Language Texts
    • The messy data sources behind “Mapping diversity
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    • WIKIMOVE Episode #9 - Abstract Wikipedia. The guests are Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić.

• Tool of the week
  • Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
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  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: University of Barcelona authority ID, IRIS private universities (2) IDs, Deutsche Synchronkartei Person-ID, IRIS Lazio IDs, Napster album ID, AIBA ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID, Epson Tour player ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, Litres author ID, Artist Directory ID
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    • What profession do women in Basque Wikipedia biographies have? (source)
    • World map according to shared borders (source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 10, 2023) (source)

• Development
  • Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764)
  • EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
  • REST API:
    • We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (phab:T330252)
    • We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:08, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi Lockal, Thank you for your re-revert. I don't quite understand what happened when I checked yesterday. Must have been some cache somewhere as many months ago Stephen was 108147 and Eodon was 108148.

I did some research on Rodovid and I found this diff : https://en.rodovid.org/wk?title=Person%3A108148&diff=466531&oldid=327836

Looking at the history of the user Dn Gov I see he has changed the content of several other persons, possibly impacting the value we already had in Wikidata. That's quite confusing.

Yes, and it was followed by a sequence of moves.

And yes, Rodovid indeed suffers from cached pages (but I used raw XML, so I was not affected), interwiki conflicts and lack of centralization - people are trying to synchronize https://en.rodovid.org/history/Person:108148 + https://br.rodovid.org/history/Den:108148 + https://de.rodovid.org/history/Person:108148 + https://fr.rodovid.org/history/Personne:108148 + https://pt.rodovid.org/history/Pessoa:108148 - and each version can contain different data...

Well, let's hope it doesn't occur too often.

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