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I have trouble with the archiving of this page. If you know how this is supposed to work these days, I'd appreciate a review of my setup, and fixes as necessary. Thanks! Daniel Mietchen (talk) 13:53, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
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Wikidata Eleventh Birthday - India Datathon edit
Greetings Daniel Mietchen!
As part of Wikidata's 11th birthday celebration a 11 days long datathon is planned from October 26, 2023 00:00 to November 5, 2023, 23:59 (both times Indian Standard Time) to improve the India related data in Wikidata. The data-thon aims to enhance Wikidata items by incorporating labels and descriptions in your native language, along with the addition of references, qualifiers, and statements. Additionally, it encourages the utilization of India-related properties within these items, ultimately contributing to the improvement of structured data in Wikidata.
Please have a look at the event page and and join the datathon by adding your name in the participant's section at here.
You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.
Regards,
Wikidata weekly summary #608 edit
- Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"
- Discussions
- Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
- Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.
- Events
- Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: Rock-forming minerals
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
- Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
- Videos
- Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
- Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
- Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
- No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
- Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
- Notebooks
- Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
- Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
- The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
- Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
- State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
- An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
- Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff =
- Job opening: Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, Twitch numeric channel ID, RPCS3 Wiki ID, Black Games Archive ID, Citra compatibility database ID, DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, IGN wiki article ID, AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, RPGFan game ID, Arcade Hub ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Laws of Malaysia URL (Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia)
- production manager (manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget)
- External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
- Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
- Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
- Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2023 Newsletter edit
Dear Wikimedians for Sustainable Development,
As we bid farewell to 2023, we reflect on a year that has been an uneven year for our user group. While the journey has been marked by some truly inspiring events, most of our efforts have been largely uncoordinated and the user group hasn't been the support it could have been. Yet, there's a glimmer of hope and a world of potential for 2024.
Highlights of 2023:
- Newsletters Galore
- We kicked off the year with zeal, sharing updates and inspiration through four newsletters. The number of things happening in the movement is astounding, but we need to rethink the format of the newsletter going into the next year.
- Growing Strong
- The Wikimedians for Sustainable Development family welcomed 33 new members in 2023. Your passion and dedication continue to inspire us, and we look forward to nurturing this community spirit in the year ahead.
- Wikimania Talks
- Our voices echoed far and wide at Wikimania, where several members of our community took the virtual stage to share insights and ideas about everything from Wikipedians-in-Residence's to open data. Your contributions showcased our commitment to sustainable development on a global scale.
- Content Creation Magic
- Throughout the year, our extended community demonstrated incredible dedication to expanding the knowledge base on Wikipedia. Countless hours were spent creating and curating content that aligns with our mission, contributing to a more sustainable digital ecosystem.
- Campaigning hard
- We saw a large variety of campaigns, from writing challenges to editathons. The willingness to experiment with new formats and partners, as well as learning from past efforts, shows great promise for the future.
Acknowledging Challenges:
While we celebrate these achievements, we acknowledge that 2023 presented its fair share of challenges. A lack of global coordination reminded us that the road to sustainable development is not always linear. However, it is precisely these challenges that fuel our determination to work together more cohesively in the coming year and proof that the user group is needed.
Hopeful Anticipation for 2024:
As we turn the page to 2024, let's carry forward the lessons learned and the successes celebrated. We are optimistic that, with renewed energy and a collective commitment, we will overcome obstacles and create an even more impactful and connected Wikimedians for Sustainable Development community.
Here's to a year of collaboration, growth, and making a lasting impact on the world through our shared passion for sustainability. Together, we can turn challenges into opportunities and pave the way for a brighter future.
Wishing you all a joyous holiday season and a Happy New Year!
Warm regards, User:Ainali, User:Daniel Mietchen
PS. We have started writing our yearly report, please add your activities to it.
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Wikidata weekly summary #609 edit
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
- Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.
- Events
- Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 2023 (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.
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
- Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.
- Tool of the week
- WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Schnittberichte.com title ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, GamesMeter game ID, GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, Indie DB company ID, NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, AFJV directory ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Nonprofit Status (Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to {{P|1454}}. {{P|1628}} to [https://schema.org/nonprofitStatus nonprofitStatus] from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries.)
- International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ({{Q|2976602}} for {{Q|163740}} created by the {{Q|193727}} and adapted by the {{Q|1065}}.)
- creative director (person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result)
- television judge ()
- External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
- Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
- Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #137 is out: Introducing our first new type: Lists edit
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we introduce our newest and much requested type of function, list. Also, we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on January 8, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:37, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #610 edit
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
- New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.
- Upcoming:
- The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 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.
- Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
- Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
- Papers
- Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
- Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
- LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
- Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
- Videos
- Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
- This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
- Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.
Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).
Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL (URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website)
- (Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
- plate(s) (plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
- Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, The Criterion Collection spine number
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Water bottle volume (Volume of the water bottle)
- Is it metric? (To check if it's a metric.)
- Anti-Cheat software used (anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
- Newest database report: children of unborn parents
- Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
- Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'
Development
- IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
- Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
- Wikibase REST API:
- We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
- We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
How paper are added? edit
Hello, sorry for the naive questions. I see you added many papers to wikidata, I guess in an automatic way. How is it done? For example, I can't find this: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.251802 Wiso (talk) 12:03, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Wiso: There are multiple ways to do this. A convenient way for automation is via WikidataIntegrator. If you just want to bring in single papers, you can try things like https://scholia.toolforge.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.251802. For this particular paper, both methods failed, so I ended up using SourceMD instead. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 16:40, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- thank you very much Wiso (talk) 23:32, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #138 is out: The Joy of Collaboration; Introducing the Function of the Week: reverse string edit
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we present you an essay from Denny and we introduce a new section of the newsletter, dedicated to the "function of the week". Also, we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
We also wanted to note that we are in the process of moving the Updates from Meta to Wikifunctions. We'll keep you updated about it.
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:27, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #611 edit
Discussions
- New request for comments: Community request for the development team to access inverse properties on client wikis. (Summary: We currently cannot access inverse property values on Wikipedia. This can be a data management issue on Wikipedia as we must always ask ourself if we must introduce an inverse property for cases where we need them. So I think it’s useful to gather the usecases community would want and draft a request for an API to the devteam to do that.)
- Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 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.
- Past
- Provenance Loves Wiki (PLW24), Jan 12th - 14th, research and data on the origin of artworks and cultural heritage and how Wikibase and Wikidata can support this.
- WikiLovesWomen #SheSaid campaign wrapped up the 2023 campaign by visiting Kinshasha and Kisangani, where local Wikimedians improved quotes from women on FR Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Building Connected Libraries in Nigeria: --> Reflections from the Wikibase Journey on collaboration and resouce sharing between Nigerian Libraries.
- Wikidata and ChatGPT integration failure --> read about Finn Årup Nielsen's attempts to integrate LLM's with Wikidata.
- QLever: a new way to query OpenStreetMap --> Discussion of the new opportunities offered by QLever to query OpenStreetMap and to run federated queries with Wikidata
- Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work --> The three-year Wikidata for authority control project, a collaboration between Wikimedia Sverige and Swedish museums, concluded in December 2023. It equipped museum staff with tools and skills to integrate their authority databases with Wikidata, resulting in added identifiers, SPARQL query proficiency, and enhanced knowledge sharing within the GLAM sector.
- Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg --> The GLAM-BW project, under "GLAM goes OpenData," connects major collections in Baden-Württemberg, focusing on the württembergische Kunstkammer. With over 3,000 objects, the project integrates information on collectors, histories, and objects into a knowledge graph for semantic searches, contributing to the broader realm of linked open data, akin to Wikidata.
- Swiss GLAM Programme --> Wikimedia CH imported the Museum of Natural History of Neuchâtel's urchin fossil casts to Wikimedia Commons, connecting structured data on Wikidata. The project involved data cleaning, adding missing elements, and file imports via OpenRefine, highlighting seamless integration between Wikidata and Commons.
- Papers
- Reflections on the PCC Wikidata Pilot at UCLA Library: --> Undertaking the PCC Learning Objectives. Discusses the 14-month Pilot programme for cooperative cataloguing of UCLA Library and Museum Collections. By E. Zhang, P. Biswas & I. Dagher.
- Few-Shot Event Classification in Images using Knowledge Graphs for Prompting --> How can Wikidata and Wikipedia help Vision-Language Models improve their classification of images. Tahmasebzadeh et al., 2024.
- Videos
- SMWCon 2023: Semantics, Wikis, and AI --> Day 1, Keynote by Prof. Markus Krötzsch who explores origins and principles of semantic wikis and key challenges that lie ahead in managing knowledge.
- GLAM on Tour 2023 im Museum Barberini (German) --> find out what Museums have got to do with Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. More Info Here.
- Interactive notebooks: GLAM : Geolocated and Labelled Articles Map - explore Featured and Good Wikipedia articles through a map, powered by Wikidata.
Tool of the week
- Brian M Sperlongano released US boundary QA checker, a quality assurance tool for finding issues with boundary data in the United States by using Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and US Census Bureau data.
- The Surrounding Ocean (available at vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean) - is a tool that allows you to browse lexicographical data. You can use the tool to explore words and their meanings, translations, and synonyms. The tool is currently under development, and the developer, Danny, would appreciate feedback to fix any issues with the tool. More info: Wikidata:The Surrounding Ocean.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OS-Wikidata Map Framework List of tools and maps which combines OSM and Wikidata.
- Call for Projects and Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2024 and Outreachy Round 28 is OPEN!
- Got an idea for a project to reclaim the public nature of the internet? With Wikidata? NLNet has a new fund you could apply to.
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes: none
- Newest External identifiers: Walk Score ID, HistoriaGames game ID, Deutsche Bahn station number, Legends Tour player ID, Moscow Cultural Heritage ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, Cathopedia article ID, TouchArcade game ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, Biota of New Zealand ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Consortium of Lichen Herbaria taxon ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, SERNEC taxon ID, TORCH taxon ID, Penstemon Database ID, Digicarmel ID, Retskrivningsordbogen ID, MAMCS artwork ID, Sofascore player ID, Mod.io game ID, Sina Chinese Basketball player ID, turismo.marche.it place ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- describes (Data objects that are described by this entity (e.g. an encyclopedia or topic-related book; intended for input of several data objects.))
- memory type (specifies the type of working memory of this data object)
- filial church (church which acts as the less important temple of a parish)
- TOPO id (unique code to identify topographical features of France (department, city, thoroughfare...))
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Bluesky handle, Merkur author ID, Bavarian school ID, Rugby Database ID, Playstation Store Concept ID, ArchDaily Architecture Office ID, Il Nuovo De Mauro ID, Bluesky DID
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Decolonise Wiki --> intends to focus on decolonising text, depictions and media within all relevant Wikipedia articles.
- WikiProject Highlights: Ontology Cleaning Task Force: A group of people have started a task force to discuss problems with the Wikidata ontology and how to clean them up. Anyone interested in participating is welcome. The task force maintains Wikidata:WikiProject Ontology/Cleaning Task Force as a record of its activities. You can add yourself to the participants list there and find out how to join group meetings or otherwise participate in the group. (Got something noteworthy happening in your WikiProject? Share it in the upcoming issue!)
- Newest database reports: Lexicographical data/Reports/Empty lexemes - Lexemes with no statements, no forms and no senses. (Do you see Lexemes from your language in the list that you can fix?)
- Showcase Items: January 15, 2018 (Q45919591) - Monday in January 2018
- Showcase Lexemes: در جنگ حلوا بخش نمیکنند (L1081423) - Persian with a meaning similar to "all's fair in love and war"
Development
- IP masking: We are working on adjusting Wikibase to handle the upcoming introduction of IP masking, which will give editors who are not logged in a temporary account name instead of using their IP to attribute edits to (phab:T351968)
- Lexicographical data: We are changing how empty Senses and Forms are represented in the dumps (phab:T305660)
- mul language code: We are doing user testing for the current implementation to see if it is understandable for people.
- Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on migrating it to the Codex design system.
- REST API:
- We improved the handling of lower-case statement IDs (phab:T354262)
- We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Pigs
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #139 is out: Refreshing the Function page; Function of the Week: ROT13 edit
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we announce a redesign and rewrite of the Function page and we present our first "function of the week". Also, we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:05, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Q58613002 and Q91529780 edit
Hello. Like a Fish out of Water: Managing Chronic Pain in the Urban Safety Net (Q58613002) and Like a Fish out of Water: Managing Chronic Pain in the Urban Safety Net (Q91529780) appear to be the same item (a scholarly article), but there is some discrepancy in dates and page numbers. If they are equivalent, please merge. Thanks, -Animalparty (talk) 16:52, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, -Animalparty — done. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:49, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2024 Newsletter edit
- User group news
- We have submitted our 2023 annual report.
- Upcoming meeting: on 9 February, we'll have a call about roles and responsibilities in the user group. This is an attempt to make more opportunities to engage more of the user groups members in its activities. If you want to help out in some way, but don't know how, this is a meeting for you to get help creating that opportunity. If you know how you would like to help, but don't know how to get started, this is also the meeting for you.
- Other news
- New Wikiproject for Climate Change on Basque Wikipedia: Wikiproiektu Klima Aldaketa
- Climate Justice, Digital Rights and Indigenous Voices international Wikimedia event in Huaraz, Peru 2024: Engagement Survey (closes 2 Feb)
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Open Data Day 2024 - Datathon edit
Dear Daniel Mietchen,
We are excited to announce the launch of a week-long data-a-thon from 2024 Mar 2-8th on Wikidata as part of International Open Data Day celebrations this year. This event aims to enrich Wikidata items related to water resources in India.
We invite you to join us in this collaborative effort to enhance Wikidata's repository of knowledge, focusing on dams, reservoirs, rivers, and river basins in India. Explore the details on the event page and add your name to the participant's section here to get involved.
You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.
Regards,
Gnoeee
- Thanks, Gnoeee! I'll see what I can do to contribute. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:30, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2024 Newsletter edit
- User group news
- On 9 February, we had a user group meeting on roles and responsibilities (minutes)
- Upcoming user group meeting 17 March
- Other news
- Wiki Loves Earth: Reminder that if you want to organize a local competition, it is time to get started. (SDG 15 and 14)
- Wiki for Human Rights: Reminder that if you would like to organize a local event, there is support available. (SDG 10)
- Study: Using Wikipedia Pageview Data to Investigate Public Interest in Climate Change at a Global Scale (SDG 13)
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Nam Keun Kim edit
Hi Daniel,
I suspect that some the publications of Nam Keun Kim (Q39847503) could be Jeongyong Lee (Q92017447)'s in fact.--Tadarrius Bean (talk) 16:27, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Tadarrius Bean: Thanks for noticing the issue and letting me know about it. I fixed the relevant Wikidata statements — see here for details. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:36, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
item label errors edit
@Daniel Mietchen: Are these item label errors avoidable? --Tagishsimon (talk) 05:59, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- A family of c-cyclic graphs with a Θ(|V|2log|V|) Kirchhoff index (Q124984799)
- Conditions of Parallelism of ∗-Ricci Tensor of Three Dimensional Real Hypersurfaces in Non-flat Complex Space Forms (Q124984828)
- Book Review: Hagi Šein, Digiajastu teleraamat: Digiajastu televisioon Eestis 2000–2020 [Television book of the digital era: Television of digital era in Estonia in 2000–2020], Tallinn: 2021, ISBN 978-9916-4-0728-8, 688 pp. (Q124984709)
- @Tagishsimon: Thanks for checking. I currently don't have a way of avoiding these tag issues and usually fix them afterwards. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 21:00, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Invitation to participate in the WQT UI requirements elicitation online workshop edit
Dear Daniel_Mietchen,
I hope you are doing well,
We are a group of researchers from King’s College London working on developing WQT (Wikidata Quality Toolkit), which will support a diverse set of editors in curating and validating Wikidata content. We are inviting you to participate in an online workshop aimed at understanding the requirements for designing effective and easy-to-use user interfaces (UI) for three tools within WQT that can support the daily activities of Wikidata editors: recommending items to edit based on their personal preferences, finding items that need better references, and generating entity schemas automatically for better item quality.
The main activity during this workshop will be UI mockup sketching. To facilitate this, we encourage you to attend the workshop using a tablet or laptop with PowerPoint installed or any other drawing tools you prefer. This will allow for a more interactive and productive session as we delve into the UI mockup sketching activities.
Participation is completely voluntary. You should only take part if you want to and choosing not to take part will not disadvantage you in any way. However, your cooperation will be valuable for the WQT design. Please note that all data and responses collected during the workshop will be used solely for the purpose of improving the WQT and understanding editor requirements. We will analyze the results in an anonymized form, ensuring your privacy is protected. Personal information will be kept confidential and will be deleted once it has served its purpose in this research.
The online workshop, which will be held on April 5th, should take no more than 3 hours.
If you agree to participate in this workshop, please either contact me at kholoud.alghamdi@kcl.ac.uk or use this form to register your interest https://forms.office.com/e/9mrE8rXZVg Then, I will contact you with all the instructions for the workshop.
For more information about my project, please read this page: https://king-s-knowledge-graph-lab.github.io/WikidataQualityToolkit/
If you have further questions or require more information, don't hesitate to contact me at the email address mentioned above.
Thank you for considering taking part in this project.
Regards Kholoudsaa (talk) 02:54, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Kholoudsaa: Thanks. Done. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 10:56, 22 March 2024 (UTC)