Wikidata:Status updates/2023 11 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-11-20.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Congratulations to our new Admin! S8321414 - (See the closed request)
• New requests for permissions/Bot: KormiSKbot - (Task: Linking newly created pages on Slovak Wikipedia to the appropriate Wikidata items)

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Data Modelling Days, from November 30th to December 2nd: 3 days of online events to address data modelling challenges, discuss how to improve the way we structure data together, and discover the point of view of external reusers. Feel free to have a look at the program (under construction) and to sign up as a participant.
  • Wikidata Lab XXXIX: Structuring the Wikimedia Ecosystem presented by Wiki Movimento Brasil. November 21 at 2:00 PM CEST. The presentation will be held in English by the wikimedian Mike Peel.
  • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour November 20th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles.During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
  • Wikibase for art and cultural data (German) - #9 of kuwiki tips & tools, taking place Thursday, 23 November 2023, 19-20.30
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #118: Diseases (Challenge started on 2023-11-20 12:01:41)
• Past:
  • ItWikiCon '23 (Italian) was hosted in Bari, Italy between the 17th - 19th November. Check the Programme for details on sessions and check for recordings or slidedecks of presentations.
  • GLAM Wiki 2023 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. There were several Wikidata-related sessions some of which are linked in the Videos section.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • New study shows how authors’ personal circumstances influence the depiction of nature in their works
• Papers
  • Can you trust Wikidata? - is a paper exploring Wikidata's veracity and trustability for providing values to Knowledge Graphs. Written by V. Santos et al.
• Videos
  • Wikidata for Cultural Heritage, available in Spanish, Portugese, English
  • Find-A-Grave of Swedish politicians in Magnus Sälgö's exploration of Wikidata, OpenRefine, SPARQL and Svenskagravar (Swedish).
  • Wikidata Live Editing #111 with the Wikipedia Weekly Network, hosted by Ainali and Abbe98
  • Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships presented by Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda. Get essential Wikidata-editing skills for Listeria, OpenRefine, run queries and structured data on Commons.
  • How to upload collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine (in Portuguese). Training on uploading collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine.
  • Cohort 2 Graduation: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course. The session includes exciting testimonials from participants and goodwill messages.
  • Enhancing Factuality in Large Language Models with Wikidata's 12B Facts. This HackerNews video discusses a paper that explores the use of Wikidata, which contains over 12 billion facts, to improve the factuality of large language models (LLMs)
  • Back to basics and #SPARQL #Wikidata (in French). Using Wikidata SPARQL query by VIGNERON
  • Wikidata for cultural heritage (ES) - GLAM Wiki Conference
• Presentations: "Wikidata Lexemes: Introduction to the Possibilities" - workshop on at WikiConference North America, by User:Mahir256
• Notebooks:
  • The End of an Era - A study on the major deaths that have occurred in our generation and the people that were left behind. (1997-2012)
  • Relationship Between Senators and Political Parties - A sample network graph that depicts the political parties of Senators.
  • Family Network of Female Horse - A sample network graph that depicts the relationships of female horses.
  • Poets and the Monarchs they were appointed by
  • Metro stations of The Metropolitan line (Q19891) of the London Underground Metro System - A sample network graph that depicts the stops and adjacent stops of metro stations of the London Underground's Metropolitan line.

Tool of the week

• User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia - a tool that computes the number of articles created by gender has been repaired after some months of unavailability. It relies on xtools and P21 property.
• Luthor - tool for finding usage examples from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are now open until December 18th!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Fondazione Fiera ID, EIDR party ID, ‎Gaming Wiki Network article ID, ‎Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) heritage ID, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) institution ID, Playdate community wiki ID, Danacode (short), Danacode (long), archINFORM ID (awards), shukach.com ID, BNE periodical SID, Moviepilot.de person ID, FilmAffinity person ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, BioGRID ID, la Repubblica TV series ID, CECC Political Prisoner ID, One Earth ecoregion ID, ‎Spectrum Computing ID, IDVT, BISAC Subject Heading
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Papers with Code URL (URL for subject in Papers with Code system)
    • PAEnflowered taxon URL (URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website)
    • BioCyc ID (Pathway/Genome Databases) ()
  • External identifiers: Star Citizen Tools Wiki ID, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame ID, Shanghai Library organization ID, Shanghai Library era ID, Shanghai Library surname ID, Paradox wikis article ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID, Rare Species Guide ID, TLA thesaurus ID, Minnesota Plant List ID, ELMCIP person ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID, SWERIK Person ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID, Go Botany taxon ID, Team Wales ID, Unified Saudi Occupational Classification, Pinakes work ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID, ELMCIP organization ID, Japan Search ID
• Query examples:
  • Articles on English Wikipedia tagged 'Water pollution' with no equivalent article in Spanish (source)
  • Highest point (in meters) per counties in Finland (source)
  • Week 46, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source) "Basque are back on top for the second time this month"
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Manuscripts - This WikiProject coordinates efforts on Wikidata to gather and curate structured data on manuscripts.
  • WikiProject Grove Hall Black Women Lead - aims to shed light on the lives and stories of Black women leaders who have shaped Boston’s history from the colonial era to the present day.
• Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/projectmerge/enwiki-svwiki - 3875 merge candidates in English Wikipedia and Swedish Wikipedia based on same sitelink name.
• Showcase Items: University of Konstanz (Q835440) - University in Konstanz, Germany (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)
• Showcase Lexemes: rød - Danish word for red with features in many compounds and derivations (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)

Development

• We are taking steps towards making many more languages available in Lexemes and monolingual text statement values. (phab:T341409)
• Nikki fixed a bug where the CSS class for a statement rank wasn't updated after a rank change (phab:T209138)
• We are continuing the work on improving EntitySchemas by making it possible to link to them in statements.
• We are migrating several tools from the Wikit design system to the Codex design system to be able to deprecate Wikit in the future.

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!