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About IMDb on James Bond[edit]

There are two Item called James Bond, the first is James Bond (Q844), this item is about «series about a fictional British spy», the second is James Bond (Q2009573), this item is about the character. IMDb id ch0000007 is about the character not about the series. --ValterVB (talk) 15:30, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@ValterVB: Thanks. So why didn't you delete the IMDb identifier entirely? --Jobu0101 (talk) 16:20, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Because my hope was that if is visible "novalue" none add a value :) --ValterVB (talk) 16:33, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Primary Sources Tool[edit]

Moin Moin Jobu0101, da du ja auch viel in Filmartikel, Oscars und dazugehörigen Personen unterwegs bist, dachte ich mir, man sollte dir mal das Tool vorstellen, falls du es nocht nicht kennst. Wikidata:Primary sources tool. Du kannst dieses in den Helferlein aktivieren und kommst dann in allen Artikel die Freebase-Übernahme-Daten angezeigt, die man dann bestätigen oder ablehnen kann. (Achtung: mächtiges Tool). Bei Fragen fragen --Crazy1880 (talk) 14:00, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dankeschön. Schaue ich mir bei Gelegenheit mal an. --Jobu0101 (talk) 15:14, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

IMDb[edit]

I reverted this edit by you, because it breaks the links to IMDb. Wikidata can't currently handle multiple formatter URL's and picks the first. Your version made it impossible to link to titles (those would result in error code 404). When it's possible to use multiple formatter URL's depending on the situation the new situation can be used. Mbch331 (talk) 20:56, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Mbch331: Okay. My plan was to introduce for each IMDb id type an own URL formatter. But then I realized that it doesn't even work with those two formatters. Are there plans to update the software? --Jobu0101 (talk) 21:22, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have no idea. That's something you could better ask here. Mbch331 (talk) 21:24, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Removing P585 from P1411 claim[edit]

You removed a point in time (P585) qualifier claim from a nominated for (P1411) claim on The Sand Pebbles (Q916287). Why? P585 is a required claim (see Property talk:P1411). Mbch331 (talk) 08:21, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Because it was wrong. The nomination was not in 1966. It was in 1967. I'll add the point in time with presicion date later to all those movies. --Jobu0101 (talk) 10:43, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. If the year is wrong, it shouldn't stay indeed. Mbch331 (talk) 15:37, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, there are very many errors of the type concerning the Academy Awards because the ceremony for the Oscars of year n is almost always in year n+1. So people only read it's Oscars of year n and enter as point in time year n. --Jobu0101 (talk) 15:40, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Drag refs[edit]

It works! [1] Queryzo (talk) 09:11, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Danke. --Jobu0101 (talk) 09:14, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ich denke, was wir nun tun sollten, ist eine zweite Wartungsliste anlegen, mit allen Items, die nicht belegt sind. Und dann ziehen wir in den Kampf! Queryzo (talk) 09:16, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Im nächsten Schritt dann das Modul umstellen, dass nur noch referenzierte Daten ausgelesen werden. Queryzo (talk) 09:21, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Geht echt ab das Teil! Queryzo (talk) 15:50, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Queryzo: Das holst du aus deutschen Infoboxes? --Jobu0101 (talk) 15:53, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Jep! Queryzo (talk) 16:08, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Dann geh mal Januar bis April durch, falls du Bock hast. Da habe ich alles aus der IMDb geholt, was ein Wikidata-Objekt mit IMDb-ID hat. Das heißt, du könntest uns so die Leute ohne IMDb-ID aufzeigen. --Jobu0101 (talk) 16:13, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Man kann zwar leicht was einkippen, der manuelle Abgleich ist aber sehr mühsam. Cool wäre, wenn diejenigen Links aufleuchten würden, die noch nicht im Objekt verlinkt sind. @Magnus Manske: Wäre das möglich? Queryzo (talk) 16:20, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Möglich ja, aber etwas aufwändiger, und "teuer" (alle links des Artikels nehmen, redirects folgen, Wikidata-Items dafür finden, die dann im aktuellen Item suchen, und nicht-verlinkte in der Vorschau makrieren), würde alles etwas langsamer machen. Vielleicht fällt mir ja noch was ein... --Magnus Manske (talk) 16:26, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fundstellen[edit]

Der SourcererBot nutzt IMDb ID (P345) statt reference URL (P854), siehe [1], was nun? Queryzo (talk) 10:44, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Da sollte man ihn mal drauf aufmerksam machen. Dafür ist P345 nicht gedacht. --Jobu0101 (talk) 18:03, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Magnus Manske: Wie siehts aus? Sollen wir fortan auch IMDb ID (P345) statt reference URL (P854) verwenden? Queryzo (talk) 09:34, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Wieso? Das widerspricht doch den Regeln. --Jobu0101 (talk) 09:44, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you![edit]

Thank you for all your work around the Oscars. --LydiaPintscher (talk) 18:17, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@LydiaPintscher: You're welcome. If you want to support me you can do that by supporting my in work property proposal. I need that property to properly enter the nominations and awards of Academy Award for Best Original Song (Q112243) in Wikidata. --Jobu0101 (talk) 19:24, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Done :) --LydiaPintscher (talk) 19:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much! --Jobu0101 (talk) 19:56, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Here it is: in work (P2553)
--- Jura 21:09, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That was fast and unexpected (since LydiaPintscher's support). Thank you very much! --Jobu0101 (talk) 21:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

IMDb identifier (P345)[edit]

Hi thank you for your comments. There's a lot of identifiers used in Wikidata. I always but the whole link to avoid errors. bots come after to put the right format. --Helmoony (talk) 23:30, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Helmoony: Are you sure there is such a bot for IMDb ID (P345)? I work a lot with this property and haven't come across such a bot by now. --Jobu0101 (talk) 23:36, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't check specifically for IMDb, anyway I'm gonna right directly the identifier for it to avoid problems. --Helmoony (talk) 04:36, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

IMDb top 250[edit]

Hi! Currently just a thought... Maybe we could/should add film's place in IMDb top 250? I probably(!) could write a script for updating ranking, if we agree, that IMDb top 250 is worth of inclusion. --Edgars2007 (talk) 17:42, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I thought already about it and I developed already a program which logs the Top 250 and could simply extend it to enter thte data into Wikidata. The reason why I did not propose to add such a property is that the Top 250 change too qickly. For example, only today the Top 250 changed nine times. So I guess that's too much. But we could think about keeping track of the Top 250 like once a month for a predefined point in time. What do you think about that? --Jobu0101 (talk) 20:50, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
So much? Didn't know that. Of course, I'm not proposing updating list every day. I also was thinking about something like once a month. I'm currently only a newbie, so setting it automatically is only in my learning to-do-list, but updating it when I remember to do that or somebody says me to update it of course is doable. But sure, we can also keep track of Top 250 somewhere else from items (if that is what you proposed). --Edgars2007 (talk) 21:04, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

String in P973 suchen[edit]

Guten Morgen Jobu, ich wollte gern mit WDQuery einfach einen String in described at URL (P973) suchen, kriege es aber wieder mal nicht hin. Kannst du mir helfen? Queryzo (talk) 10:19, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Queryzo: Klar. Geht es um einen exakten Match und du möchtest die entsprechenden Items bekommen? Was ist denn dein String? --Jobu0101 (talk) 13:26, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Zum Beispiel soll "filmlexikon" oder "filmportal" enthalten sein. Queryzo (talk) 13:28, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hast du zum Test mal ein solches Item? --Jobu0101 (talk) 13:30, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The Goat Horn (Q5960612). Queryzo (talk) 13:32, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So viele solche Items gibt es gar nicht (derzeit nur 17): QUERY. --Jobu0101 (talk) 13:51, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Danke! Geht nur darum, die Links in externe IDs umzuwandeln (was ich eben erledigt habe). Wenn die OFDb-ID als Property genehmigt wird, geht es denen auch an den Kragen: [2] Queryzo (talk) 14:06, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

fehlendes deutsches Label[edit]

Hallo Jobu, hier wieder mal eine SPARQL-Anfrage. Ich hätte gern alle Filme mit Ldi F-ID, OFDb-ID oder Filmportal-ID ohne deutschen Titel. Queryzo (talk) 17:02, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hier ist die Abfrage für das Filmportal: [3]. Für die anderen Eigenschaften einfach in der Abfrage die entsprechend andere Property eintragen. --Jobu0101 (talk) 10:04, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Danke, sind ja doch einige! Queryzo (talk) 16:49, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Wie ich dich kenne, nicht mehr lange ;). --Jobu0101 (talk) 17:38, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Farbfilme[edit]

Könntest du diesen SPARQL so erweitern, dass nur Filme mit P577 ab 1930 gefunden werden? Queryzo (talk) 09:01, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Auf welche Abfrage nimmst du Bezug? --Jobu0101 (talk) 09:47, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Siehe "other sources" Queryzo (talk) 10:33, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Aus #Wikidata weekly summary #171? --Jobu0101 (talk) 10:38, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, der Query fehlt.  Support Im Grunde geht es grundsätzlich um eine Abfrage, gib mir alle Filme vor 1935. Queryzo (talk) 10:57, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hier sind sie: [4]. --Jobu0101 (talk) 11:03, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Formatierung time in SPARQL[edit]

Kriegt man hier noch eine Datums-Formatierung hin, so wie hier? Vielleicht findest du ja auch den Grund, warum Episode 18, Staffel 2 fehlt, das ist diese hier: Everybody Says Don't (Q929399) Queryzo (talk) 15:05, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mit der Formatierung kenne ich mich leider nicht aus, aber Episode 2#18 sollte durch deine Edits hier bei der nächsten Aktualisierung auftauchen. --Jobu0101 (talk) 15:16, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Magnus Manske: Klärst du uns auf, wie man mit dem ListeriaBot eine Datums-Formatierung hinzaubert? Queryzo (talk) 23:27, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unused property[edit]

This is a kind reminder that the following property was created more than six months ago: in work (P2553). As of today, this property is used on less than five items. As the proposer of this property you probably want to change the unfortunate situation by adding a few statements to items. --Pasleim (talk) 19:18, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's true. One year ago I worked hard on the Academy awards and in the end help was promised to me in order to finish in time for the awards in particular with the Academy Award for Best Original Song (Q112243) where the property is needed intensely. I created subpages (see [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]) for the people who wanted to help in order to organise what still had to be done. But when I was done with the organisation people didn't want to help anymore. Quite sad, but then I also gave up. But I think I would continue if I got some help. --Jobu0101 (talk) 21:39, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Berlinale-Premieren[edit]

Bei solchen Filmen bitte aufpassen, zwischen 9.2. und 19.2. ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit hoch, dass es sich um Berlinale-Filme handelt. Am 31.1. wird das Programm veröffentlicht. Queryzo (talk) 13:03, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notability[edit]

siehe Wikidata:Notability, ein Objekt muss mindestens

  1. ein Sitelink haben (im Zweifel nicht)
  2. an sich relevant sein (Relevanz ergibt sich nicht über die IMDb)
  3. strukturelle Anforderungen (verstehe ich nicht ganz)

@MovieFex: zur Info. Queryzo (talk) 08:43, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Zu Punkt 3: Dabei geht es darum, dass man das Item nicht zu "leer" lässt, sondern genügend Statements einträgt, um das, was das Item darstellt, eindeutig zu identifizieren. Wenn ich einfach nur "Label" und P31 eintrage, ist oft nicht klar, was wirklich gemeint ist. --Jobu0101 (talk) 09:35, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Das kann aber nicht wirklich ein Relevanzkriterium sein. Das hieße ja, man könnte Relevanz allein dadurch schaffen, dass ein Objekt mit entsprechenden Statements versorgt wird. Auch Identifier erzeugen nicht per se Relevanz, ich erwähnte ja die gelöschten Objekte mit IMDb-ID. Queryzo (talk) 17:29, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Folge einer Fernsehserie in den Kinostarts[edit]

Hello Jobu, gerade hast du Payback (Q2680204) bei den Kinostarts 2005 hinzugefügt. Kannst du was an deinen Parametern schrauben oder muss irgendwas anderes gesetzt werden? -- MovieFex (talk) 16:11, 26 March 2018 (UTC) P.S.: Bei Cineplex habe ich im Laufe der letzten zwei Wochen einige Daten nachgetragen.[reply]

@MovieFex: Vielen Dank für den Hinweis. Das Problem müsste mit den nächsten Updates nun behoben sein. Ich habe die Abfrage entsprechend angepasst. --Jobu0101 (talk) 09:28, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Film wurde wieder entfernt, aber nun wurde Rabbit-Proof Fence (Q1142799) nicht übernommen. Auf deinen Hinweis hin checke ich jetzt auch immer die Ranks, hier finde ich jedoch nichts warum der nicht erkannt wird. -- MovieFex (talk) 13:37, 1 April 2018 (UTC) | God is Dead (Q51137135) auch nicht ... -- MovieFex (talk) 13:47, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Zu den Obengenannten kommt noch In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Q6012534) hinzu, Hyena Road (Q20751325) wurde nicht entfernt. Stand letztes Update vom 1. April 2018, ab 18:18 Uhr. -- MovieFex (talk) 18:16, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Das sind alles Probleme von Kinostartseiten, in denen User:Jesi zuletzt editiert? Dann sollten die mit dem nächsten Update behoben sein. Siehe auch hier. Frohe Ostern wünsche ich im Übrigen auch dir, MovieFex! Danke für deine treue Mitarbeit. --Jobu0101 (talk) 18:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Die Editierungen von Jesi haben damit nichts zu tun, da die Daten neu eingetragen bzw. die Objekte von mir brandneu erstellt wurden. Fröhöliche Ostern wünsch ich dir auch. -- MovieFex (talk) 21:09, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Ich glaube jetzt weiß ich was du meinst. Ich dachte es geht um die Artikel die editiert wurden. Du hast dich wohl auf die komplette Kinostartseite bezogen, d.h. ein Edit bei 2003 legt die Seite lahm. Deshalb wurden 2001, 2003, 2007 und 2016 nicht mehr upgedated. Komisch ist aber, dass 2012 davon nicht betroffen war, obwohl hier auch editiert wurde. Bei 2007 habe ich die restlichen BKLs in Wikidata aufgelöst. Die Einträge in den Objekten waren falsch. Mal schauen, was das neue Update bringt. -- MovieFex (talk) 07:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ja, es wurde nicht alles lahm gelegt, weil ich mich um ein paar Seiten vorher kümmerte. Aber dann wurde es mir zu viel und ich verschob den Rest auf ein anderes Mal ;-) --Jobu0101 (talk) 07:36, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@MovieFex: Kannst du mal Edits verlinken, in denen du BKLs in Wikidata auflöstest? --Jobu0101 (talk) 07:37, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Klaro: Gridiron Gang (Q1536600) | Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig (Q18415223) | Shooting Dogs (Q693319) | Invincible (Q1070160) | Martian Child (Q786559) – Alles Verlinkungen auf Wikimedia-Begriffsklärungsseiten.
Bei den anderen Jahren hat's schon funktioniert, das wurde bereits erfasst. -- MovieFex (talk) 07:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Danke. Jetzt müsste alles wieder stimmen, oder? --Jobu0101 (talk) 08:33, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, ohne Ping bekomme ich nichts mit. Jetzt stimmt alles wieder, außer ... ähem ... da war noch was ... ;) -- MovieFex (talk) 17:27, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@MovieFex: Ähm, was war denn da? ;-) --Jobu0101 (talk) 22:34, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Kleiner Tipp: Es fängt mit "C" an und hört mit "ineplex" auf . . . -- MovieFex (talk) 22:30, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@MovieFex: Vielen Dank für den Tipp. Hatte ich echt total verdrängt ;-). Darfst mich gerne erinnern, wenn dort fünf Tage nichts passiert. --Jobu0101 (talk) 07:31, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Dieses Osterei war wohl einfach zu gut versteckt. ;) -- MovieFex (talk) 07:38, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, eigentlich ist das ziemlich offensichtlich. ;-) --Jobu0101 (talk) 08:26, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kinostarts[edit]

Hello Jobu, die Kinostarts habe ich soweit bis einschließlich 2007 durch (Kat:Literaturverfilmung). Gruß -- MovieFex (talk) 17:11, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kinostart nicht erkannt[edit]

Hello Jobu, Night Rush (Q43527855) wird bei den Kinostarts nicht erkannt, der Rang bei Veröffentlichung ist normal und Film ist es auch. Was stimmt diesmal nicht? -- MovieFex (talk) 16:56, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @MovieFex: Vielen Dank für deinen Hinweis. Diesmal lag es nicht an dem Auftritt von Night Rush (Q43527855) in Wikidata, sondern an dem manuellen Edit von Färber, der dafür gesorgt hat, dass die Kinostarts 2009 erst einmal außen vor gelassen wurden. Jetzt sollte es wieder laufen. --Jobu0101 (talk) 07:20, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Jobu, hier hat auch wieder einer editiert. Gruß -- MovieFex (talk) 12:13, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Danke für den Hinweis. Sollte behoben sein. --Jobu0101 (talk) 14:54, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Die Geister die ich rief[edit]

Hello Jobu, man könnte den Eindruck gewinnen, dass du nur noch selten die von dir initierten/angelegten Seiten pflegst. Modul:Wikidata2Lemma ist seit Tagen nicht upgedated worden, dem entsprechend sind auch deine Updates zu den Kinostarts nicht aktuell. Bei Benutzer:Jobu0101/Lemmata für zukünftige Artikel – Zuordnungswünsche sind seit langer Zeit 6 Links gebläut. Wie blau müssen die noch werden? de:Benutzer:Jobu0101/Test scheint auch nicht mehr nötig zu sein und de:Benutzer:Jobu0101/Cineplex2Wikidata sowie de:Portal:Film/Kinostarts ist seit längerem outdated.-- MovieFex (talk) 13:08, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Jobu, man kann den Eindruck gewinnen, ... dass das oben geschriebene sich nicht sehr freundlich anhört. Und das ist verständlich, war aber wirklich nicht unfreundlich gemeint. Da ist man voll in der Materie und muss feststellen, dass die einem zur Verfügung stehenden Daten alt sind und dadurch der Arbeitseifer gebremst wird. Eigentlich wollte ich nur auf ein paar Baustellen aufmerksam machen, zugegeben, nicht sehr diplomatisch. Nimm mir's nicht krumm, Holzfäller sind eben manchmal etwas ungehobelt. ;-) -- MovieFex (talk) 18:00, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hey MovieFex! Kein Ding. Danke für den Hinweis. Bei den Zuordnungen habe ich übrigens nur fünf blaue Links gefunden. --Jobu0101 (talk) 18:59, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ich meinte die Oscar-Zuordnungen (gaaaanz unten), da wo - blau dransteht. ;-)--MovieFex (talk) 19:04, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Das Update der Mitarbeiter-Liste hast du vergessen, da kämpft sich einer langsam nach oben ... -- MovieFex (talk) 19:36, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ich habe es nicht vergessen, sondern mehrfach versucht, upzudaten. Doch meine Software bekommt bei den vielen Anfragen, die dafür vonnöten sind, immer einen 503-Error. --Jobu0101 (talk) 20:42, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@MovieFex: Übrigens: Der Abschnitt bei Zuordnungs-Wünsche ist wohl falsch verstanden worden. Da ging es mir mal darum, Wikidata-IDs aufzulisten, die in der Liste oben noch nicht auftauchten, damit sich Leute Gedanken machen, welches Lemma man hierfür verwenden sollte und damit diese Leute das Lemma dann in der Liste oben drüber eintragen und unten drunter weglöschen. Daher habe ich da selten reingeguckt, was mit Wikidata-IDs da unten tatsächlich passierte. --Jobu0101 (talk) 06:15, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cineplex[edit]

Du hast wohl die Französischen Filme entdeckt. ;-) Bei Cineplex ist noch eine BKL drin: de:Die andere Seite des Mondes. Grüße -- MovieFex (talk) 15:34, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kinostarts 1997 ist wahrscheinlich wieder blockiert. -- MovieFex (talk) 08:52, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Leider nicht nur die. Auch 2002, 2012, 2007, 2000 und 1996. :( --Jobu0101 (talk) 08:55, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Das war wegen der Verschiebung. -- MovieFex (talk) 09:07, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Eine neue BKL: Come as You Are (Q719937). -- MovieFex (talk) 15:54, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ein kleines Update wär' auch wieder fällig. Na wie schaut's aus? --MovieFex (talk) 17:29, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

17 Jahre vergessen![edit]

Cooles Update, aber 17 Jahre fehlen. Der Josef hat die Geburt Christi mit einer Handcam aufgezeichnet, was später als Doku auf ECF (Erstes Christliches Fernsehen) ausgestrahlt wurde, das wird aber nicht berücksichtigt! Erst im Jahr 18 ist der erste Eintrag, als die bestandene Führerscheinprüfung als besonderes Medienereignis in Antique TV live übertragen wurde. ;) -- MovieFex (talk) 19:20, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Danke für den Hinweis :-). Habe das mal korrigiert. --Jobu0101 (talk) 11:16, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ich habs auch noch ergänzt, in der IMDb gibt es dazu noch keinen Eintrag. Was anderes, reichts denn zu 1995 noch nicht? Laut de:Portal:Film/Kinostarts sind es (waren es) 114 Items, ich habe noch einige Daten rausgesucht, aber du weisst ja, ohne Liste ... -- MovieFex (talk) 20:02, 8 September 2018 (UTC) PS: Die Kinostarts wurden manipuliert. Beim letzten Update sind mir Ungereimtheiten aufgefallen. Daraufhin konnte der Manipulator überführt werden und ich habe den Vandalismus zurückgesetzt -> Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard#Block_of_IP_73.108.140.237. -- MovieFex (talk) 20:26, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Schon wieder ... -- MovieFex (talk) 05:09, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Danke. Wird mir kein weiteres Mal mehr passieren. --Jobu0101 (talk) 08:33, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@MovieFex: Schau her, hier habe ich rechtzeitig aufgepasst: [10]. --Jobu0101 (talk) 15:54, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Das war sehr geschickt, und ich habe gleich noch Cineplex ergänzt. Vielleicht kommen noch 10.000 zusammen, vorausgesetzt du bekommst die technischen Probleme in den Griff. PS: Gibt's bei der Anlage von Kinostarts 1995 auch technische Probleme? -- MovieFex (talk) 20:51, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update[edit]

Bitte Kinostarts updaten. -- MovieFex (talk) 21:37, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Und das neue 1995 nicht vergessen. ;) (+24) -- MovieFex (talk) 22:30, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@MovieFex: Habe ich gemacht. Würdest du mich in Zukunft für Kinostartgeschichten auf meiner Diskussionsseite hier oder direkt hier anschreiben? --Jobu0101 (talk) 12:32, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Das habe ich des öfteren gemacht, ohne dass eine Reaktion von dir gekommen wäre. So gesehen ist es egal. -- MovieFex (talk) 19:37, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ich werde wieder aktiver sein und auf meienr Benutzer-Diskussion in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia antworte ich doch immer, auch wenn es manchmal etwas dauert. --Jobu0101 (talk) 00:38, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Das hab ich anders wahrgenommen. Hier ist deine letze Antwort (8. Apr. 2018 (CEST)) interessant. Deshalb hab ich Reaktion geschrieben. -- MovieFex (talk) 21:28, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Um dieses Thema möchte ich mich auch noch kümmern. Habe heute erst mal wieder Cineplex2Wikidata zum Laufen gebracht. Habe ich dein Anliegen in meiner Antwort vom 08.04.2018 richtig zusammengefasst? Dann bestätige da bitte noch mal kurz. Danke! --Jobu0101 (talk) 22:57, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2018-12-19 – Update Kinostarts[edit]

Hello Jobu, die Kinostarts könnten wieder auf den neuesten Stand gebracht werden. -- MovieFex (talk) 21:24, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Bin gerade dabei. Aber würdest du demnächst Anfragen, die die dewiki betreffen, mir dort auf meine Diskussionsseite schreiben? --Jobu0101 (talk) 21:56, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019-02-16[edit]

Hi MovieFex, kannst du mir dies demnächst auf meine Disk in dewiki schreiben? Danke :). --Jobu0101 (talk) 20:47, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019-03-22 – Deutsche Kinogeschichte[edit]

Aufarbeitung deutscher Kinogeschichte! -- MovieFex (talk) 16:09, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

QID per Wikidata-API & Identifier auslesen[edit]

Hallo Jobu, weißt du wie ich über die Wikidata-API ein bestimmtes Item ermitteln kann, das z.B. eine bestimmte IMDb- oder Filmportal-ID enthält? Lg Queryzo (talk) 06:35, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo Queryzo. Ich würde das über eine SPARQL-Abfrage machen (für die gibt es nämlich auch eine API):
SELECT ?item WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P345 "tt0110912"
}
Try it!
--Jobu0101 (talk) 12:47, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Update Kinostarts[edit]

Hello Jobu, ich bin gerade dabei, die Kinostarts nachzuarbeiten, ausnahmsweise kannst du mit den Updates noch etwas warten, sonst machst du dir die doppelte Arbeit. Leider hat es Ghuron nicht geschafft, seine Fantasie-Sub-Genres alle wieder rückgängig zu machen, 1993 / 1994 und 1995 habe ich durch (hast du auch schon upgedated, allerdings ohne die neuen eingetragenen Lemmas bei 1995, vielleicht gehst du da nochmal drüber).

Dann ist ein Vandale zurückgekehrt - siehe hier. Der hat einen Spass daran, die Daten zu manipilieren, hoffentlich nicht mehr für lange. Darum warten. Ich werde das wieder korrigieren und geb Bescheid. Gruß -- MovieFex (talk) 09:56, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, danke für die Info. --Jobu0101 (talk) 10:04, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Die Veröffentlichungsdaten stimmen wieder und es sind noch ein paar Filme quer durch hinzugekommen (auch bei Cineplex). Mit den Genres wird es noch etwas dauern, bis ich diese alle nachgearbeitet habe. Normalerweise müsste so ein User gesperrt werden. Diese hirnlose Aktion, nur um ein Script auszuprobieren was hinten und vorne nur Scheisse ist, wird mich noch einige Stunden kosten. -- MovieFex (talk) 22:40, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Gibt es keine Möglichkeit, von Administratoren einfach alle Edits dieses Benutzers eines gewissen Zeitraums zurücksetzen zu lassen? --Jobu0101 (talk) 05:15, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ich hab keine Ahnung, aber das wird auch schwer zu bewerkstelligen sein, da hie und da schon zurückgesetzt wurde, wie in diesem Fall. Ich bin seine Beträge nochmal durchgegangen und da war schon alles erledigt, die letzten von einem Admin nachdem ich den request gestellt habe. Jedenfalls ist jetzt mal wieder für 6 Monate Ruhe, ganz abgeklemmt haben sie ihn nicht.
Die Genres werde ich so nach und nach wieder herstellen. Da musst du also nicht warten, Hauptsache die Veröffentlichungsdaten stimmen wieder. Wäre gut, wenn du nun ein Totalupdate machst (Kinostarts + KS ohne Artikel + Cineplex). -- MovieFex (talk) 09:36, 21 April 2019 (UTC) PS: Hast du gesehen, bei 1993 sind wir jetzt auch bei über 180 Filmen. ;) Wie weit ist es bei Cineplex noch, bis die 10K-Marke erreicht wird?[reply]
Habe nun gut geupdatet. Es sind noch 358 Filme zur 10000-Marke. --Jobu0101 (talk) 20:38, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Bei nochmaligem Durchlesen sehe ich, dass ich was verwechselt habe. Du hast wohl die Edits der Genres gemeint. Dazu kannst du die Diskussion auf meiner Benutzerseite lesen, wenn es dich interessiert. Der Ghuron ist kein absichtlicher Vandale, nur seine Idee und die Umsetzung war Mist. Er hat auch ursprünglich selbst viel wieder zurückgesetzt, dann aber später wieder eingefügt. Ob das ein Fehler in seinem Script war im Bestreben das wieder auszubügeln oder nicht, keine Ahnung. Ich geh mal davon aus, dass er es gut gemeint hat. Ist ja auch sonst ein umgänglicher Kerl. Aber da zeigt sich wieder das Problem der Scriptschreiber: ohne Ahnung nur mit einer Idee gehts halt nicht. Und dann ist der Schaden schon angerichtet und nur schwer und zeitaufwändig wieder zu reparieren. Ich arbeite nach wie vor ohne jegliche Hilfsmittel und prüfe jeden Eintrag einzeln. Aber gegen die Masse der Edits der Scripter ist das ein Kampf gegen Windmühlen. Und dann kommt wieder jemand mit einer neuen Idee und setzt das auch gleich um. Woanders würde das nicht gehen und in jeder Wiki würden sie gesperrt werden. Hier ist aber der Tummelplatz der Möchtegernprogrammierer, die ohne was befürchten zu müssen alles reinrotzen, was ihnen in den Sinn kommt. Und räumst du den einen Unsinn wieder auf, kannst du Gift drauf nehmen, dass irgendwann wieder einer auf die gleiche Idee kommt, und das Spielchen geht von vorne los. Das ist auch der Grund warum ich vehement gegen die Einbindung von WD in die dewiki bin. Wenn hier weltweit jeder machen kann was er will und es keine einheitlichen Standards gibt braucht man darüber erst gar nicht nachzudenken. -- MovieFex (talk) 18:59, 22 April 2019 (UTC) PS: Hast du das eigentlich schonmal gesehen?[reply]

BRD[edit]

Hallo Jobu, ich hatte es hier mit einem Geschichtsprofessor zu tun, bald gibts mglw. ein paar Kinostarts weniger. -- MovieFex (talk) 07:28, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MovieFex! Danke für die Info. Woher weißt du, dass Neo-Jay ein Geschichtsprofessor ist? --Jobu0101 (talk) 11:13, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wer sich auf so astreine Quellen wie die IMDb stützt, MUSS einfach Geschichtsprofessor sein ... Jetzt wird ein neues Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte geschrieben, die deutsche Geschichte hat sich gefälligst an die Benennung bei Wikidata zu halten, verflixt noch eins. -- MovieFex (talk) 13:31, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Englisches Label[edit]

Hallo Jobu, du hast hier das deutsche Label auch als englisches Label eingetragen. Nicht nur, dass es nicht gestimmt hat, grundsätzlich sind solche Ergänzungen nicht gut. Das passiert leider viel zu oft: da wird der deutsche Titel auch als englischer Titel gesetzt oder der englische als deutscher, obwohl kein Artikel dazu besteht. Wenn jetzt der Artikel angelegt ist, wird meist auch nur der Link zur wiki gesetzt und das Label nicht angepasst. Und das bleibt dann stehen bis zum Sanktnimmerleinstag. Wenn es kein englisches Label gibt, sollte es auch nicht dort eingetragen werden, nur damit in der Vorschau ein Label angezeigt wird und nicht nur die Wikidata-ID. Ich kenn den Grund schon, warum das gemacht wird, aber das ist falsch. Da muss ein Fallback bei Wikidata eingebaut werden, damit das so funktioniert wie bei den Listen. Aber so ein falscher Eintrag ist schlecht. ;) -- MovieFex (talk) 08:05, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sean Porter[edit]

Moin Jobu0101, warum hast du den Eintrag entfernt? Beide Artikel behandeln die gleiche Person. Ich habe die Einträge wieder zusammengelegt. LG, --NiTenIchiRyu (talk) 06:11, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In den beiden war über different from (P1889) explizit ausgesprochen, dass es verschiedene Personen sind. Dem habe ich geglaubt. Lag ich damit falsch? --Jobu0101 (talk) 06:19, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ich sehe gerade, dass MovieFex das hier hinzugefügt hatte. Ich verstehe nicht, warum er das gemacht hat.
  • en:Sean Porter (cinematographer) ist ein US-amerikanischer Kameramann, gebürtig in Tacoma, u.a. mitwirkend an Filmen wie Eden, Green Room und Green Book.
  • de:Sean Porter (Kameramann) ist ein US-amerikanischer Kameramann, gebürtig in Tacoma, u.a. mitwirkend an Filmen wie Eden, Green Room und Green Book.
@MovieFex: Kannst du Licht ins Dunkel bringen?
Unabhängig davon habe ich die different from (P1889) entfernt und beide Objekte zusammengelegt, da ganz offensichtlich die gleiche Person beschrieben wird. LG, --NiTenIchiRyu (talk) 08:14, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@NiTenIchiRyu: Darum war "verschieden von" drin, damit eben nicht gemerged wird. Der eine ist Kameramann und der andere eben nicht. In dem von mir angelegten Datenobjekt war sowohl die offizielle Website als auch der Artikel zu Variety verlinkt. Das sollte eigentlich eindeutig sein. Worauf gründest du die Idee, dass es sich um die selbe Person handelt? -- MovieFex (talk) 13:59, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@MovieFex:: Okay, ich sehe nun, dass es noch einen weiteren Filmschaffenden mit diesem Namen gibt (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6935576/). Das Problem ist, dass der zweite Eintrag vor meinem Edit beide Personen vermischt hat, unter anderem linkte er auf den en-Artikel zum Kameramann.
Ich versuche das zu korrigieren.
LG, --NiTenIchiRyu (talk) 18:42, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sollte gefixt sein. Sorry für den Mixup! --NiTenIchiRyu (talk) 19:00, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lemmata für zukünftige Artikel wird nicht ordentlich angezeigt,[edit]

und wenn Copy+Paste nicht immer einwandfrei funktiniert kann es sein, dass eine WD-ID nicht richtig eingetragen wird. Ich kopiere irgendeinen Eintrag, der "einzeilig" ist (wg. Doppelklick und markieren) und dann wird eingesetzt bzw. überschrieben. Da ich jetzt auch nach der Kontrolle nicht sehen kann, ob die ID auch mit dem Label übereinstimmt, passiert das ab und an. -- MovieFex (talk) 00:12, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Langsam[edit]

Ich hab dir einen Ping geschickt. Da sind natürlich auch die Kinostarts betroffen und alle anderen Seiten, die das Wikidataobjekt eingebunden haben. Mich kostet es schon genug Zeit, falsche Eintragungen und Vandalismus in den Filmobjekten zu korrigieren, aber langsam vergeht mir die Lust hierzu. Jedesmal muss ich mich mit irgendjemand rumärgern, der das Rad neu erfinden will. Ohne Unterstützung mach ich das nicht mehr lange. Guten Rutsch. -- MovieFex (talk) 16:29, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ja, habe deinen Ping bekommen und auch direkt gewusst, warum du mich anpingst (bzw. was das für Auswirkungen hat). Wünsche dir auch einen guten Rutsch ins nächste Jahr! --Jobu0101 (talk) 16:44, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Zur Info. -- MovieFex (talk) 21:19, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Danke für deinen Support, meiner endet hier. -- MovieFex (talk) 00:51, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@MovieFex: Reg dich doch nicht so sehr über solche Kleinigkeiten auf. Ich finde es auch schöner, wenn da nur Vereinigte Staaten ohne Amerika steht; dieser Begriff ist für mich eindeutig mit den USA konnotiert. Jedoch gibt es auch andere vereinigte Staaten, siehe dazu de:Vereinigte Staaten (Begriffsklärung). Von daher kann ich auch gut verstehen, wenn es andere genau haben möchten und das Label lieber länger hätten. Damit kann ich auch leben, auch wenn ich das andere präferiere. Lass uns lieber an den eigentlichen Dingen arbeiten. --Jobu0101 (talk) 07:58, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@MovieFex: Sachen gibt's: [11]. --Jobu0101 (talk) 08:44, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Verwaltungsgliederung Deutschland[edit]

Tolle Arbeit, die du da bisher geleistet hast. Da ich schon ziemlich viel in Bayern historisch gemacht habe die Frage, wo ich dir eventuell helfen kann. Werde als erstes auch mal Einwohnerzahlen von 2019 nachtragen. Es macht mir mehr Spaß, mit jemanden zusammenzuarbeiten als alleine daran zu arbeiten. LG --Balû (talk) 18:50, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lieber Balû, vielen Dank für dein Hilfeangebot. Ich komme demnächst sehr gerne darauf zurück. Es gibt noch viel zu tun! Die Einwohnerzahlen deutscher Gemeinden würde ich allerdings gerne selbst abschließen, um sicherzustellen, dass alles nach demselben System läuft (zum Beispiel hast du in deinen bisherigen Edits den Rank nicht angepasst). Ich sollte auch bald mit dieser Arbeit fertig sein. Hast du eigentlich schon User:Jobu0101/Verwaltungsaufbau Deutschlands gesehen? Da werde ich bald über Arbeiten, mit denen man mir helfen kann, informieren. Gerne können wir dann auch an einer Sache gemeinsam arbeiten. --Jobu0101 (talk) 20:39, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, dann lass ich das erst mal. Setze nun fort, was ich schon mal begonnen habe und ergänze bei allen Landkreisen die angrenzenden Landkreise. Bayern und Sachsen ist schon komplett. --Balû (talk) 11:18, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Balû: Das mit den Landkreisen ist super. Gibt es irgendwo offizielle Zahlen, so dass man das Projekt am Ende auf Vollständigkeit überprüfen kann? Eine Sache, die dann auch noch ansteht, ist, jeder der 10795 Gemeinden Deutschlands abzüglich der 107 kreisfreien Gemeinden, die ich bereits auch schon als solche markiert habe, den passenden Landkreis direkt zuzuordnen. Für viele Gemeinden ist das schon getan. Bei einigen der Gemeinden, bei denen das noch nicht getan ist, liegt in dem jeweiligen Bundesland eine feinere Gliederung vor, so dass Gemeinden zu anderen Einheiten zusammengefasst werden und diese dann in die Landkreise einsortiert werden. Dennoch befürworte ich es, jeder Gemeinde zusätzlich direkt ihren Landkreis zuzuordnen. So bekommt kann man leichter und schnellere Abfragen bauen, die jeder Gemeinde den passenden Landkreis zuordnet und so Landkreise nach Einwohnern sortieren und so weiter. --Jobu0101 (talk) 11:26, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Offizielle Zahlen zu den Grenzen gibt es wohl nicht. Ich mache das in reiner Handarbeit. Natürlich könnten da Fehler unterlaufen, aber ich habe zu dieser Thematik bisher keinerlei Quellen gefunden. Ich hätte gedacht, die Zuordnung Gemeinde - Landkreis wäre längst vollständig. Hast du eine Query dazu? --Balû (talk) 11:33, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
achja, und wegen der Symmetrie fallen Fehler schnell auf, wenn man die LKs nach und nach durchgeht. --Balû (talk) 11:36, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Balû: Habe auf meiner Arbeitsseite ganz unten einen neuen Abschnitt eingefügt. Da ist nun die passende Query zur Zuordnung der Gemeinden in Landkreise. In den Wikipedia-Artikeln der Landkreise steht immer in der Tabelle rechts die Anzahl der Gemeinden des Landkreises. Die kann man mit den Ergebnissen der Abfrage vergleichen und sieht schnell, dass in einigen Landkreisen Gemeinden fehlen. --Jobu0101 (talk) 11:43, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Balû: Welche Quelle benutzt du, wenn du die angrenzenden Landkreise einträgst? Eine Deutschlandkarte mit allen Landkreisen? --Jobu0101 (talk) 13:24, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ja, diese Karte: [12] und bei unklaren Grenzen schau ich mir das ganz genau an, z.B. bei openstreetmap.org. Thüringen ist fertig, Baden-Württemberg nun auch fast. --Balû (talk) 13:27, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Balû: Richtig toll! Danke für diese Arbeit. Du weißt, dass es auch zählt, wenn zwei Landkreise nur einen Punkt gemeinsame Grenze haben? Das habe ich neulich mal geklärt. --Jobu0101 (talk) 14:35, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
So, bin durch. Schwierig ist es etwas bei den Stadtstaaten - was entspricht da dem Landkreis? Eigentlich nichts. Ich hab mal immer direkt den Stadtstaat angegeben. --Balû (talk) 07:03, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Balû: Tolle Arbeit! Hast du meine Abfrage dazu auch entdeckt? --Jobu0101 (talk) 07:39, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nein - aber jetzt - super zum nochmal darüberschauen. --18:56, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

@Balû: Ich habe dir auf die Nachbarschaftsfrage mal in User talk:Jobu0101/Verwaltungsaufbau Deutschlands geantwortet. Lass uns lieber dort über diese Themen sprechen. --Jobu0101 (talk) 13:47, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Botbetrieb unter Hauptaccount und maxlag-Parameter[edit]

Hallo Jobu0101, Du scheinst mit Botcode unter Deinem Hauptaccount zu arbeiten.

  • Ich möchte zum Einen darauf hinweisen, dass für derlei Prozesse separate Bot-Accounts genutzt werden sollten. Es gibt Administratoren, die für den Botbetrieb mit Hauptaccount Sperren verhängen, jedenfalls sofern das in größerem Maße passiert. Ich selbst sperre in einem solchen Falle nicht, aber ich denke Du solltest Dir über diesen Umstand bewusst sein.
  • Außerdem scheint Dein Code den maxlag-Parameter nicht zu berücksichtigen, und das ist ein akutes Problem. Wikidata:Bots gilt für dein aktuelles Vorhaben sinngemäß auch, wenn Du keinen separaten Botaccount einsetzt. Wir haben hier seit einigen Monaten recht häufig Engpässe bei den Serverkapazitäten, und das Respektieren des maxlag-Parameters durch automatisierte Batches (Bots im Speziellen) sorgt dafür, dass die knappen Resourcen nicht überstrapaziert werden.
    Kannst Du Deinen Bot umgehend so umbauen, dass der maxlag-Parameter berücksichtigt wird, und der Botbetrieb pausiert wird, sofern der maxlag-Parameter größer als 5 ist?

Bei Fragen stehe ich gern zur Verfügung. Viele Grüße! —MisterSynergy (talk) 21:38, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo MisterSynergy, vielen Dank für die Hinweise. In den letzten Monaten hatte ich schlechte Erfahrungen mit QuickStatements gemacht, die hatten ständig Aussetzer (wahrscheinlich wegen der von dir angesprochenen Engpässe bei den Serverkapazitäten). Daher habe ich mich um eine eigene Lösung bemüht. Es geht mir gerade darum, die Einwohnerzahlen deutscher Gemeinden auf einen gemeinsamen aktuellen Stand zu bringen. Es stehen nur noch 7,7% aus. Die würde ich nun gerne in sehr restriktiver Geschwindigkeit, in der die Arbeit auch von Hand zu erledigen ist, einpflegen, um auf die Engpässe bei den Serverkapazitäten Rücksicht zu nehmen. --Jobu0101 (talk) 07:08, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ich denke, solange Du unter 10 Edits pro Minute bleibst, fällt das nicht weiter auf und Du kannst erstmal weitermachen. Du kannst dann auch mittelfristig eine saubere Lösung anstreben. —MisterSynergy (talk) 08:39, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Vielen Dank. Ja, ich bleibe zur Zeit unter zehn Edits pro Minute. Trage die Einwohnerzahlen in manuellem Tempo ein. QuickStatements wären eine saubere Lösung, oder? --Jobu0101 (talk) 08:56, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nominierung und Auszeichnung[edit]

Hallo Jobu, warum hast du bei Titanic (Q44578) nochmal z.B. nominiert für die beste Regie eingetragen, wenn er diesen Preis doch gewonnen hat? Meinst du er könnte gewinnen, wenn er nicht nominiert wurde? Der Eintrag ist redundant und gehört eigentlich entfernt, wie die anderen auch, wo gewonnen wurde. -- MovieFex (talk) 10:02, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ich glaube, das haben wir damals durchgehend bei allen Oscar-Nominierungen so gemacht und zwar aus gutem Grund: Zunächst sei bemerkt, dass Wikidata durch und durch mit Redundanzen befüllt und das auch so gewollt ist. Auch bei den Oscars ganz ohne die Nominierungsredundanz: Man möchte beispielsweise den Regiesieg sowohl beim Film als auch beim Regisseur hinterlegen. Interessiert man sich für alle Nominierungen, ist es umständlich, wenn man daran denken muss, dass gewonnene Nominierungen nicht als Nominierungen eingetragen werden. --Jobu0101 (talk) 10:20, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Wer ist "Wir" und was ist die Grundlage dafür? Und die Argumentation für diese doppelte Nennung verstehe ich auch nicht. Der Regisseur kann doch bei Film und Regie eingetragen werden üvber den Qualifier. -- MovieFex (talk) 12:27, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Es wäre nett, wenn du das noch erklären würdest. Die Datenobjekte werden mit jedem Mist vollgepflastert und jetzt wird diese von dir eingeführte Praxis auch noch als Referenz angeführt. -- MovieFex (talk) 11:26, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Die Hauptarbeit und -gestaltung in der Oscargeschichte habe damals ich übernommen. In manchen Diskussionen habe ich vorher andere um Rat gefragt, wie bestimmtes am besten zu implementieren ist und habe dann daraus ein Konzept entwickelt und das über den Jahreswechsel 2015/2016 weitgehend durchgezogen (mit dem Ziel zu den Oscars 2016 mit dem Projekt fertig zu sein) und mit wenigen Ausnahmen alle Nominierungen und Auszeichnungen eingetragen. Nur mit den Oscars mit der Kategorie de:Oscar/Bester Song bin ich nicht so richtig warm geworden (meine ich mich zu erinnern). Damals ist man sogar im Product Management von Wikidata auf mich und meine Arbeit aufmerksam geworden und Teile meiner Arbeit haben es in die FAZ geschafft.
Die Wikidata-Praxis, einige Redundanzen zu haben, stammt übrigens nicht von mir. Das zieht sich durch ganz Wikidata. Es gibt inzwischen auch haufenweise Bots, die darauf achten, alles synchron zu halten. So gibt es einige Property-Paare, die gerade auf solche Redundanzen ausgelegt sind. Zum Beispiel capital (P36) und capital of (P1376). --Jobu0101 (talk) 07:28, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Verwaltungsaufbau Deutschlands insbesondere Einwohnerzahlen und Flächen[edit]

Hallo, ich habe deine Seite zum User:Jobu0101/Verwaltungsaufbau Deutschlands entdeckt und mich gefreut, dass der Verwaltungsaufbau Deutschlands schon richtig in Wikidata eingetragen ist und auch, dass ich es selbst mit den SPARQL-Abfragen überprüfen kann. Vielen Dank auch fürs eintragen der aktuellen Einwohnerzahlen. Du schreibst, der 31. Dezember 2019 wäre ein schönerer Stichtag als der 30. September. Inzwischen gibt es unter [13] Zahlen für diesen Stichtag. Wie hast du die Zahlen im März importiert, hast du dafür ein Skript geschrieben? Ich habe das Wikidata:WikiProject Gazetteer angelegt um die Daten über Einwohner und Flächen von möglichst vielen Ländern zu pflegen und längerfristig aktuell zu halten (und hoffe, dass die Zahlen aus Wikidata in den verschieden Wikipedien verwendet werden).--Pyfisch (talk) 10:24, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ja, ich bin daran interessiert, die neuen Zahlen einzupflegen. In dem Zusammenhang möchte ich gerne noch eine andere Arbeit erledigen nämlich die folgende: Die Zahlen vom 30.09.2019 waren auf meiner Quelle mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit fast alle falsch angegeben (es waren wohl die Zahlen vom 31.12.2018). Daher würde ich, wenn ich die knapp 11.000 Gemeinden Deutschlands eh noch einmal durchgehe, meiner vorherigen Eintragung den Rang "deprecated" geben. Aber das wollte ich eben erst dann machen, wenn neuere Zahlen da sind, was nun der Fall zu sein scheint. --Jobu0101 (talk) 12:18, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Das ist ja Mist, dass die Zahlen einen falschen Stand angegeben hatten. Ich schlage vor in Wikidata nur die aktuellen Bevölkerungszahlen zu speichern. Die Bevölkerungsentwicklung speichert man in mw:Help:Tabular Data und verweist mit tabular population (P4179) darauf. So können Artikel, die nur eine aktuelle Bevölkerungszahl brauchen sie in Wikidata nachschauen. Die andere große Anwendung, Tabellen und Grafiken zur Bevölkerungsentwicklung, benutzt die Daten aus der Tabelle. Die derzeitige Handvoll Zahlen, aus unterschiedlichen Quellen, zum Teil ohne Zeitpunkt und Bestimmungsmethode kann man meiner Meinung nach nicht sinnvoll verwenden. Würde man die gleichen Daten, die in der Populationstabelle gespeichert werden im Datenobjekt ablegen wird es extrem unübersichtlich, spätestens wenn man noch nach Geschlecht und Alter aufschlüsseln möchte, was in der Tabelle leicht möglich ist. (Quelle für deutsche Kommunen: Regionaldatenbank, Werte ab mindestens 1995) Ich würde die anderen Zahlen entfernen, dafür braucht es aber Konsens. Bei Zahlen mit falschem Datum würde ich daher das Datum korrigieren und sie auf Rang "normal" belassen. (Zusätzlich zur aktuellen Bevölkerungszahl kann man noch das Ergebnis der letzten Volkszählung und eventuelle historische Zahlen (aus dem Mittelalter bis 18 Jhdt. ca.), mit Quellen, in Wikidata speichern.) --Pyfisch (talk) 17:03, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Stop adding German titles as English titles![edit]

Would you please istop adding German titles as English titles for Tatort episodes! These episodes are not broadcasted in English countries, they don't have an English title and if they would, they were in English and not in German! --11:15, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

I'm not adding German titles as English titles (this would be property title (P1476)) but I'm adding labels. Each item should optimally have a label in all languages independent of being broadcasted in all languages. --Jobu0101 (talk) 11:21, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
These episodes do not have English titles nor labels. If so you would have to add the German title in every language. What would be the use of adding the same German title as "labels" in dozens or hundreds of languages? --92.213.11.38 11:32, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Call for participation in a task-based online experiment[edit]

Dear Jobu0101,

I hope you are doing good,

I am Kholoud, a researcher at King's College London, and I work on a project as part of my PhD research, in which I have developed a personalised recommender system that suggests Wikidata items for the editors based on their past edits. I am collaborating on this project with Elena Simperl and Miaojing Shi.

I am inviting you to a task-based study that will ask you to provide your judgments about the relevance of the items suggested by our system based on your previous edits. Participation is completely voluntary, and your cooperation will enable us to evaluate the accuracy of the recommender system in suggesting relevant items to you. We will analyse the results anonymised, and they will be published to a research venue.

The study will start in late January 2022 or early February 2022, and it should take no more than 30 minutes.

If you agree to participate in this study, please either contact me at kholoud.alghamdi@kcl.ac.uk or use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSees9WzFXR0Vl3mHLkZCaByeFHRrBy51kBca53euq9nt3XWog/viewform?usp=sf_link I will contact you with the link to start the study.

For more information about the study, please read this post: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Kholoudsaa In case you have further questions or require more information, don't hesitate to contact me through my mentioned email.

Thank you for considering taking part in this research.

Regards

Kholoudsaa (talk) 19:36, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #523[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733, phab:T30535).
    • REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031, phab:T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667).

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Wikidata weekly summary #524[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
      • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Ongoing
    • Past
  • Tool of the week
    • ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
  • Development
    • Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214)
    • Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869)
    • REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667)

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Wikidata weekly summary #425[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
      • Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T307869)
      • Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T290733)
      • Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T298146)
    • REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to an Item

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Wikidata weekly summary #426[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • William Avery Bot 7. Task/s: Merge multiple references on the same claim citing Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.
  • Tool of the week
    • IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Template Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record, Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (phab:T307869)
    • REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (phab:T306667)
    • Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (phab:T309445)
    • Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.

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Wikidata weekly summary #522[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g. [14] should have a wiki commons link to [15] since they both refer to [16].
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data:
      • We have finished most of the development on the new Special:NewLexeme page. You can try it at https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewLexemeAlpha. We will make this available on Wikidata for testing with real-world data on July 14th.
      • We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (phab:T307869)
    • REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
    • We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (phab:T303317)
    • We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)

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Wikidata weekly summary #528[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team 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 LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on Sched at Agenda
      • 7/30 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata @ COSCUP 2022
      • 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked data. July 11th through July 15th, 2022
    • Ongoing
    • Past:
  • Development
    • Data Quality Days!
    • Making plans for improving EntitySchemas and integrate them more into editing and maintenance workflows
    • Implemented word-level diffs of labels, descriptions, aliases and sitelinks (phab:T303317)
    • Continuing the investigation about labels not being shown after some merges (phab:T309445)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Continuing work on making it easier to pick the right language for a new Lexeme (phab:T298140)
      • Fixing a bug where `[object Object]` was shown in the gramatical feature field (phab:T239208)
      • Fixing a number of places where labels for redirected Items were not shown even though the redirect target had labels (phab:T305032)
    • REST API:
      • Finished the first version of the API route for creating statements on an Item (excluding autosummaries so far)
      • Started work on the API route for removing a statement from an Item

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Wikidata weekly summary #529[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team 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 Wikidata Working Hour July 18, 2022: Working with diverse children's book metadata. The second Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover reconciliation in OpenRefine, so we can identify which authors from our spreadsheet of children's book metadata already exist and/or need to be created in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. Event page
      • Assessing the Quality of Sources in Wikidata Across Languages - Wikimedia Research Showcase, Wednesday, July 20, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC
      • Mark your calendars for the Wikimania Hackathon! The free, online, public event will take place from 16- 22 UTC August 12 and 12-17 UTC August 13, and include a final showcase on August 14.
    • Ongoing
    • Past
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data:
    • REST API: Continued working on the API route to replace or remove a statement of an Item
    • We are making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in a lot more places; notably, this includes the wbsearchentities API. (phab:T312223)
    • Mismatch Finder: We are discussing options for how to improve its handling of dates, specifically calendar model and precision.
    • EntitySchemas: We are trying to figure out how to best technically go about implementing some of the most-needed features for version 2.

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Wikidata weekly summary #530[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team 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.
      • [Small wiki toolkits] [Upcoming bots & scripts workshop. "How to maintain bots" is coming up on Friday, July 29th, 16:00 UTC
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call July 26, 2022: Clair Kronk, Crystal Clements, and Alex Jung will be providing an update to Wikidata/gender discussions from the February 8 call with a focus on pronouns. Clair will introduce us to LGBTdb, a Wikibase instance created for and by LGBTQIA+ people from which we draw insight in Wikidata-related discussions. We also hope to discuss current pain points and share action items for future collaboration. Input from community members who are familiar with lexicographical data would be greatly appreciated. Agenda
      • Wikimedia Indonesia Wikidata meetup. 1300 WIB, July 30, 2022.
    • Ongoing:
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #51, Plants
  • Tool of the week
    • User:Magnus Manske/referee.js - is a userscript that automatically checks external IDs and URLs of a Wikidata item as potential references, and adds them with a single click.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: We went over all the feedback we received for teh testing of the new Special:NewLexeme page and started addressing it and fixing the uncovered issues. One issue already fixed is a bug that prevented it from working on mobile view. (phab:T313116)
    • Mismatch Finder: investigated how we can make it work for mismatches in qualifiers instead of the main statement (phab:T313467)
    • REST API: Continued working on making it possible to replace and remove a statement of an Item
    • We enabled the profile parameter to the wbsearchentities API on Test Wikidata (phab:T307869)
    • We continued making Wikibase resolve redirects when showing Item labels and descriptions in more places (phab:T312223)

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Wikidata weekly summary #531[edit]

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #532[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Wikimania 2022, August 11 to 14, online event. The Hackathon will take place August 12-14. On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call August 9, 2022: Pieter Vander Vennet on MapComplete, a thematic OpenStreetMap viewer and editor which uses species, language, and image data from Wikidata. Agenda.
      • The Wikimania Hackathon starts next Friday, August 16-22! There are still lots of spots in the schedule to add your Wikidata related sessions or project ideas (anyone can present a session)
    • Ongoing
      • Wikimedia Indonesia's Wikidata edit-a-thon (datathon) for the 77th anniversary of the Indnesian Independence Day started on 5th August and will be held until 12th August. Participants are instructed to edit items containing the statement country of origin (P495): Indonesia (Q252).
      • Toolhub is a catalog of 1500+ tools used every day in a wide variety of workflows across many Wiki projects. We are currently improving the search functionality and need your input – whether you are already familiar with Toolhub or not. Please take 5-10 minutes to leave feedback.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #53, Sheep
    • Past
      • First online meet-up fully organized by volunteers of the Indonesian Wikidata Community has been held on 30th July where we edited items on Indonesian ethnic groups.
  • Tool of the week
    • Wiki tools - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Continuing to address feedback from the testing (e.g. phab:T312292, phab:T313113, phab:T313466)
      • We have pushed back replacing Special:NewLexeme with the new Special:NewLexemeAlpha a bit to address more of the testing feedback.
    • Continuing to tackle allowing sitelinks to redirects under some circumstances (phab:T278962)
    • REST API:
      • Finishing up the endpoints for removing and replacing statements and adding authentication and authorization to them
      • Looking into feedback from first testing

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Wikidata weekly summary #533[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship:
      • Estopedist1 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2022 12:36 UTC)
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour August 15, 2022: Fourth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be covering manually creating publisher items: showing how to create items, add statements to items, add references, and use gadgets. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
    • Ongoing:
  • Tool of the week
    • KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files.
  • Development
    • Took part in Wikimania and the Wikimania hackathon
    • Continuing work on making it possible to add sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)
    • Lexicographical data: continuing to address the feedback from testing
    • REST API:

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Wikidata weekly summary #534[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • List of created Wikidata items - a tool which combines Xtools pages created API with Wikidata API to get the list of items created by a user with their label.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: continuing to address feedback from testing. We are almost done now.
    • REST API: continued investigating the use of PATCH and JSON Patch and worked on a proof-of-concept
    • Birthday planning and prepping is in full swing

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Wikidata weekly summary #535[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • REST API: working on the ability to change existing statements on an Item (phab:T306934)
    • Lexicographical data: Finishing up the remaining pieces of the new Special:NewLexeme page based on the testing feedback (subtickets of phab:T307866)

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Wikidata weekly summary #536[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • MsynBot 9. Task/s: manage existing GND ID (P227) identifier claims
      • DL2204bot. Task/s: Add ExternalID values, edit/create items, add/edit lexemes, senses, forms
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Wikidata's 10th birthday is coming up soon: you can contribute to the celebration video, prepare an event or a birthday present.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 6, 2022: Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will talk about the Digital Public Library's Wikimedia program, an effort to provide national leadership around access and discoverability of digital collections by leveraging Wikipedia and its sister projects. 2 years ago, DPLA launched a digital asset pipeline to enable participating institutions in the DPLA network to share their collections with Wikimedia Commons. DPLA is continuing to innovate by taking advantage of Wikidata entities and Structured Data on Commons to continually synchronize data and improve discoverability. We'll discuss issues around large datasets, aggregation, reconciliation, and other challenges DPLA has faced. Agenda
      • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 7th, 2022 Date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2022. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST / 19:00 GST
    • Ongoing:
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • We are continuing to work on the PATCH endpoint to make it possible to edit existing statements (phab:T306934)
      • We started the security review process for one of the libraries we are using. Until that is finished this part of the REST API can unfortunately not be tested on beta Wikidata. (phab:T316523)
      • For anything but the PATCH endpoint, you can follow along development on beta Wikidata and see the latest docs. More details at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
    • Lexicographical data: Continued addressing remaining issues found during testing (phab:T314064, phab:T312633, phab:T312652)
    • Continuing work on supporting sitelinks to redirects under some special conditions (phab:T278962)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #537[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
      • Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
    • Ongoing:
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City
  • Tool of the week
    • View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.
  • Development
    • REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (phab:T306934)
    • Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (phab:T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (phab:T307866)
    • Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (phab:T278962)
    • Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership

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Wikidata weekly summary #538[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • بوٹ دا عثمان
        • Task/s:
          • Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
          • Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).
  • Tool of the week
    • WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished the endpoint for editing statements (phab:T306934)
      • Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
      • Making small modifications to the response format for statements (phab:T317866)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (phab:T312853)
      • Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (phab:T313599)
      • Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (phab:T317863)
    • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
    • Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (phab:T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
    • Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (phab:T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
    • Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (phab:T306932)

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Wikidata weekly summary #539[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🧵 Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • JhsBot 6
        • Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.
  • 🎊 Events
    • Upcoming
      • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
    • Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (phab:T300770)
    • Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (phab:T317863)
    • REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #540[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🎊 Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
        • October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
        • Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
      • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
      • [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
      • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
      • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
      • Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
    • Ongoing
      • Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development


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Wikidata weekly summary #541[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
    • The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
      • Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
    • REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
    • Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
    • Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
    • Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!

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Wikidata weekly summary #542[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
      • Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
    • Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
    • The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
    • Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
    • Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
    • Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
    • Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
    • Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

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Wikidata weekly summary #543[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata passed another milestone on October 19.

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Wikidata weekly summary #544[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.
  • ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #545[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🎊 Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
      • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
      • Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
      • Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
      • Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
      • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
    • Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
    • Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
    • Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
    • REST API:
      • Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
      • Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #546[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🎊 Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
      • Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
      • Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
    • Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
      • Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
      • Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459)
    • Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511)
    • New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093, phab:T317682)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #547[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
      • Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
      • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
    • Ongoing:
  • Development
    • REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310)
      • Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687)
      • Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (phab:T315161)
    • Mismatch Finder:
      • Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511)
      • Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #548[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
      • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
      • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
    • Past:
      • Wikibase live session (November 2022) log
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished the adjusted statement data structure (phab:T321459)
      • Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (phab:T321483)
      • Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (phab:T322734)
      • Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (phab:T322746)
    • Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
    • Mismatch Finder:
      • Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (phab:T313468)
      • Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (phab:T288511)
    • Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #549[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and playing with some tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. This will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work together. Event page
      • Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC, on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come with your favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
      • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023 page.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles
  • Tool of the week
    • How many edits does Wikidata get per second? listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.
  • Development
    • Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (phab:T320490)
    • Made the Property namespace a content namespace (phab:T321282)
    • Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (phab:T315161)
    • Mismatch Finder:
      • Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (phab:T323680)
      • Made the layout more compact (phab:T323678)
      • Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table was a link instead of just the Item ID (phab:T323823)
      • Improved the text on a button (phab:T323682)
      • Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision (phab:T288511)
      • Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more sense (phab:T323819)
    • Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL interface languages (phab:T321441)
    • Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (phab:T324148)
    • Query Service:
    • mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on mobile that is currently blocking it (phab:T323098)
    • REST API:

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #550[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • REST API:
    • Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (phab:T275251)
    • Query Service:
      • Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (phab:T324218)
      • Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (phab:T296135)
      • Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (phab:T302057)
      • Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (phab:T288939)
    • Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (phab:T316936)

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Wikidata weekly summary #551[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. More information: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Participate
      • digital@IANLS: online Wikidata workshop for Neo-Latinists in February 2023
      • Call for Papers on Linked Open Data on Journal BiD: Deadline: Sun, 04/09/2023. Some of the ideas and issues to be included in this issue: Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs, Information services based on linked open data and knowledge graphs, Artificial intelligence and linked open data, Textual corpora and linked open data, Textual corpora and knowledge graphs, Application of bots in linked open data, Application of bots in knowledge graphs, Linked open data and diversity of genres, Graphs of knowledge and diversity of genres, FAIR and linked open data, FAIR and knowledge graphs, Ontologies and linked open data, Ontologies and knowledge graphs, Application of ontologies in information services.
    • Ongoing:
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata Atlas is a system allows the user to search for different types of entities (with geo-coordinates) on Wikidata and visualize them on a world map. (Feedback is very welcome to help evaluate and improve the tool.)
    • Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas
  • Development
    • REST API: We are getting ready for a release in January and would really love more people to test the current state on beta. You can find details for testing at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
    • Vector 2022 search: We have worked on making the new search in the Vector 2022 skin work for Wikidata. You can now test it on test.wikidata.org and soon on Wikidata.
    • Query Service:
      • Removed the SVG download options for result views where SVG downloads are not supported, such as Map (phab:T311594)
      • Fixed the indentation of autocompletion suggestions (phab:T291695)
      • Fixed downloading query results in the Query Builder (phab:T323451)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Working on showing the Lexeme lemmas when you look at a Lexeme’s history (phab:T312660)
      • Fixing a keyboard navigation issue in the lookups on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
    • mul language code:
      • Continuing to investigate how to implement language fallbacks on mobile termbox (phab:T323098)
      • Investigating how to disallow `mul` descriptions (phab:T313027)
    • Improving and harmonizing the footers in the Query Builder (phab:T324356) and Mismatch Finder (phab:T324366)
    • Preparing for showing constraint violations to visitors who aren’t logged in (phab:T272132)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #552[edit]

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the newsletter in 2023. Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team 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
  • 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.

Wikidata weekly summary #553[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th 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 Lexemes Challenge #74, Urology
  • Tool of the week
    • OWL Map - a tool to help in linking Wikidata items with the matching object on OpenStreetMap.
  • Development
    • The development team took a break during the winter holidays and as a result, no development occurred.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #554[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Bean49Bot 2. Task/s: Adding statements to plwikisource items with no statements.
      • RPI2026F1Bot 4. Task/s: Reconstruct npm dependencies.
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 10, 2023: Egon Willighagen will be introducing us to SARS-CoV-2 queries, a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda
      • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—January 11, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
      • The full version of View it! Tool is out! The new user script uses structured data to display related media in any Wikimedia content pages—including Wikidata items—in an on-wiki image panel or gallery view. Please join the public launch and demo of the full version of this new tool on Thursday, January 12th, 5:00 UTC via Zoom (Meeting ID: 160 454 5329) to learn more and discuss forthcoming editing features.
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th 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.
      • About 2 months left to register for the first digital@IANLS workshop: Learn the basics of Wikidata and how to use it in your Neo-Latin research. Event is online, free, and open to all. More info on event and registration.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #75, Tools
  • Tool of the week
    • Web Hub allows users to navigate between origin and destination on the web using information from Wikidata, primarily on Wikimedia sites.
  • Development
    • REST API: Preparing the first release to test.wikidata.org on January 17th and to Wikidata on January 24th
    • Entity Schemas: Continuing to investigate and prototype technical approaches for version 2
    • Mismatch Finder: Working on giving mismatch providers access to the reviews of the mismatches they uploaded (phab:T304794)
    • Investigated how to best do language switching for the Query Builder and Mismatch Finder. So far they only support it by specifying the language via a URL parameter and not yet via the UI (phab:T324653)
    • Query Service:
      • Lexeme IDs now have tooltips so you can see the Lemma in the SPARQL code, similar as for Items and Properties (phab:T255245)
      • Fixed a bug where the y-axis label on a graph were misaligned and hard to read (phab:T325808)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Statements linking to a Sense now also show the language of the Lexeme to make it easier to see for example which language a translation statement refers to (phab:T207392)
      • Fixed a bug in the language dropdown on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
      • The Lemma of a Lexeme is now shown in the title of the revision history of the Lexeme as well (phab:T312660)
    • Vector 2022 theme: worked on making the search on Wikidata work in this new theme. You can test it on test.wikidata.org now and next week on Wikidata. (phab:T316093)
    • mul language code:
      • Continued investigation around how to handle language fallbacks on mobile, which is a blocker for adding this language code (phab:T323098)
      • Preventing the addition of descriptions for mul (phab:T313027)
    • Constraint violations: Working on also showing them to non-logged in users (phab:T272132)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #555[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Vector 2020 skin: the search that works properly with Wikidata has been deployed
    • Entity Schemas: Making progress on the proof of concept that will help us figure out the technical way forward
    • REST API: getting ready to deploy the first version to test.wikidata.org on February 17th
    • Lexicographical data: When linking to a Sense in a statement the language of the Lexeme for that Sense is now also shown. This makes it easier to understand translation statements for example (phab:T207392)
    • Constraints: Constraint violations are now also shown to logged out users (phab:T272132)
    • Fixing a regression where Wikipedia and co are no longer notified about a disconnected sitelink when the Item that contains the sitelink is deleted (phab:T326082)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #556[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Past
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 24, 2023: We will be discussing plans for 2023, and requesting feedback and ideas for future programming. Based on a previous recommendation to host a discussion on advocacy for Wikidata within libraries, we will introduce and provide time to complete a short survey to foster conversation in a future Group Call. Please come ready to share your thoughts Agenda
      • Introductions to Wikidata, online meetings organized by Wikimedia Australia on January 25, 26 and 31
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: The new API is now available for testing on Test.Wikidata
    • Ontology issues: We finalized and published the survey to better understand which types of ontology issues are most problematic for reusers of our data.
    • Wikipedia and co: Fixing a regression where there is no entry in recent changes and watchlist when an Item is deleted that was connected to an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #557[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • A citation hunt program was organized for secondary school students at IIS School in Dubai as part of the 74th Republic Day celebration of India. 16 students participated, with different mother tongues and from different states of India living as expatriates in Dubai. The goal was to increase references for Wikidata statements based on research. The students were introduced to the importance of protecting India's history on the internet, and were taught how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. They were given a special event page on Wikidata with instructions and a list of Wikidata items to add citations to, and they searched for references in their textbooks and search engines to add to the Wikidata items.More details are given here.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour January 30, 2023: The #1Lib1Ref campaign is afoot, so we will be working on adding references to Wikidata statements. We'll have some data for you to work with, but you're welcome to bring your own. We'll be mainly working with adding webpages as sources, but if you want to get experience using books or articles as sources, we recommend bringing some to the session to use as references for Wikidata items you have identified. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
  • Tool of the week
    • theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: The first version of the new API is released on Wikidata now \o/ We'd love to hear your feedback on what to improve next in the API.
    • Property Suggester: We updated the data for the Property Suggester so suggestions for new statements to add to an Item should be more in line with current Property usage on other similar Items again.
    • Fixed an issue with Item deletions not showing up on Wikipedia and co if they affect an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
    • Vector 2022: Made it possible to add a new sitelink on Wikipedia and co in the new Vector 2022 language selector (phab:T310259)
    • Lua: Working on two new Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #558[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Let's Quiz is a game that generates random quizzes to test your knowledge & learn something new every day.
    • User:Nikki/AddTermboxLanguage.js - makes it easier to add/edit labels to an item in a language other than the ones shown by default.
  • Development
    • REST API: adding a new GET /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions endpoint (phab:T327881)
    • Lua: added two Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378) that make it easier to get this data on Wikipedia and co
    • Lexicographical data: added documentation for the WikibaseLexeme JSON structure (phab:T201489)
    • Action API: fixed a bug that prevented the wblistentityusage API module from being used as a generator (phab:T254334)
    • Dates: working together with Matěj Suchánek to fix date parsing issues in Czech (phab:T221097)
    • Constraints: working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand why a constraint violation is happening and how to fix it (phab:T219037)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #559[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • CJMbot (CJMbot lets users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside this file is then validated and processed. New items wil be created based on the data in the CSV file and existing items wil updated by adding statements and references).
      • RPI2026F1Bot 5 Task/s: Import dependency and version data from PyPi
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikibase Working Hour February 13, 2023. The February Working Hour will feature a presentation by Steve Baskauf on using VanderBot with Wikibase: The Wikibase API provides a mechanism for programmatic control of uploads, and its behavior is consistent across instances (Wikidata, Structured Data in Commons, and those that are established privately). In this session, Steve will discuss basic interactions with the API and demonstrate using the VanderBot Python application to rapidly upload tabular data to a wikibase.cloud instance. After performing a mass deletion, Steve will conclude by describing how he's used the Wikibase API to facilitate addition of structured data to Commons. Registration link
      • Strategically Using Production Photos to Increase Your Online Discoverability, February 22 and 24, 2023. This two-part workshop presented by CAPACOA will explain how to upload performing arts production photos to Wikimedia Commons and how to document credits in Wikidata.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #80, Work
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata Graph Builder released a major update, introducing new layouts and visualization ideas. You can read the full changelog here.
    • The new Service Level Objective for the Wikidata Query Service has been implemented: the current aim is to maintain a 95% uptime based on a 90 day rolling window. You can read the full announcement here.
    • Observablehq.com recently introduced a system of tags. Anyone authoring a notebook using data from Wikidata can add the #Wikidata tag: https://observablehq.com/tag/wikidata?filter=recent.
    • a.gup.pe provides group features for Mastodon. @wikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata in general. @querywikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata queries. Anyone can join those groups simply by following them in Mastodon. Anyone can share a message with all members of those groups by mentioning them in a publication in Mastodon or any other application of the Fediverse.
    • The hashtag #Wikidata can be used to tag all publications related to Wikidata in Mastodon. Anyone can find recent publications using this tag using the search feature: https://wikis.world/tags/Wikidata.
    • @wikidata@wikis.world is the official Mastodon account of the Wikidata project.
    • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata. The voting phase is open until February 24th.
  • Development
    • [Significant change] Heads-up: Upcoming fixes for date parsing - Thank you Matej for moving this forward!
    • REST API:
      • Went over the feedback on the first release and deciding on the next routes to add
      • Added a new endpoint for getting descriptions (phab:T327881)
      • Worked on throwing exceptions when something goes wrong (validation failed, Item not found, etc.) instead of returning an error response object (phab:T327527)
    • Entity Schemas: Finished the technical exploration that will unblock the next steps for actual development
    • Query Service: Changed URLs with URL-encoded characters to be shown un-encoded for better line-breaks and readability (phab:T327514)
      • Query Builder:
      • Adding support for a few additional datatypes (phab:T328528)
      • Adding a basic language selector to make it easier to switch the language of the page (phab:T328764)
    • Constraint checks: Working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand how to fix a violation on a statement (phab:T219037)
    • Search: Exploring design options for how to make it easier to search for entities other than Items (phab:T327507)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #560[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
      • Gabrabot (Bulk upload Maltese lexeme data to wikidata from Gabra.)
      • MsynBot 12 (import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 21, 2023: Jim Hahn and John Mark Ockerbloom will be presenting on Penn Libraries' Linked Data Vision. They will discuss their framework for activities and goals around linked data, which includes both existing standards and new functionality. Additionally, they will share successes and areas where progress has not yet been made. The presentation will cover projects with Wikidata tie-ins, such as the Digital Scriptorium Wikibase project and the Deep Backfile copyright information project. The presenters also plan to have ample time for conversation with those interested in using linked data to bring new functionality to their libraries. Agenda
      • Wikidata and Wikibase - SEMIC workshop 2 physical hands-on workshop in Brussels on the 23rd of February (Register here)
      • If you are interested in organizing or joining the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events, you can apply for funds by March 20 via the Rapid Grants maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation.
      • Call for papers for the 10th Wiki Workshop in 2023 is out. Submit your 2-page abstracts by March 23.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #81, Eye
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished work on endpoints for getting labels and descriptions (phab:T325647, phab:T327881)
      • Started work on makign it possible to get statements from an Item based on the Property ID instead of just the statement ID (phab:T309021)
    • Entity Schemas: finalized technical investigation and making plan for the next steps
    • Working on more validation for valid URIs for units, globes and calendar models (phab:T102840)
    • Query Builder:
      • Adding support for additional data types (phab:T328528)
      • Adding a language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
    • Constraint: Putting finishing touches on showing the constraint clarification messages in the constraint violation popup (phab:T219037)

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.


Einwohner[edit]

Hallo, du fügst die Bevölkerung deutscher Gemeinden hinzu. In Sachsen haben wir Daten für Oktober 2022, du änderst Bevorzugter Rang in Normal Rang und setzen ältere Daten auf Bevorzugter Rang. Wir nehmen jedoch die neuesten Daten für die tschechische Wikipedia. Bitte, mach es nicht. Grüße Gumideck (talk) 17:32, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Gumideck: Ich habe mir jetzt beispielshaft mal Rodewisch (Q46900) genauer angeguckt (falls das ein schlechtes Beispiel ist, nenne mir ein besseres). Dort fällt auf, dass der Bevölkerungseintrag vom 31.10.2022, den du gerne präferiert hättest, gar nicht vollständig ist. Eine Flagge signalisiert, dass etwas fehlt, es ist die Erhebungsmethode. Daten ohne Erhebungsmethode sind weniger wert. Darüber hinaus fehlt die Aufteilung von männlich und weiblich, die ich gerade deutschlandweit miteinarbeite. Das Stichdatum 31.10.2022, ist ein unübliches. Zum 31.12. hingegen findet man deutschlandweit zu jeder Gemeinde und jedem Jahr Daten (für die Daten vom 31.12.2022 müssen wir allerdings noch etwas warten). Daher spreche ich mich dafür aus, aktuell deutschlandweit die Daten vom 31.12.2021 zu präferieren und sobald die Daten vom 31.12.2022 deutschlandweit verfügbar sind (das könnte noch eine Weile dauern), diese zu präferieren. Damit haben wir eine deutschlandweite Vergleichbarkeit der Daten. Listet man sich alle Gemeinden nach Einwohnern sortiert auf, möchte man ja nicht, dass die Daten mancher Gemeidnen vom 31.10.2022 kommen, während bei anderen der 31.12.2021 zu Rate gezogen wird. --Jobu0101 (talk) 18:13, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Jobu0101 Das verstehe ich, aber es fehlen nur die Daten Statistische Fortschreibung. Also werde ich es hinzufügen. Männer und Frauen werden nicht von Wikidata nach Wikipedia kopiert. Ich sehe wirklich keinen Grund, alte Daten zu übernehmen, die ich seit fünf Jahren regelmäßig aktualisiere. Gumideck (talk) 18:25, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Viele Gründe, es in Wikidata so einzutragen, habe ich dir gerade genannt. Wikidata ist kein Sklave von Wikipedia. Aus Wikidata-Sicht ist mein Vorgehen sinnvoll. --Jobu0101 (talk) 18:42, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Der Hauptgrund für Wikidata sind die aktuellsten Informationen. Gumideck (talk) 20:15, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Gumideck: Sorry, ich habe mich jetzt eine längere Zeit nicht gemeldet, würde nun aber gerne weiter machen. Es fehlen noch circa 3000 deutsche Gemeinden, dann habe ich für alle deutschen Gemeinden die Einwohnerdaten vom 31.12.2021 eingetragen. Wollen wir in unserem Streitpunkt eine dritte Meinung einholen? Ich denke, wir beide werden so nicht einig. --Jobu0101 (talk) 08:38, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hallo, es ist mir jetzt egal. Im Mai gibt es Daten für Sachsen zum 31. Dezember 2022 und ich werde die Daten wie jedes Jahr aktualisieren (mit höchster Priorität). Gumideck (talk) 07:43, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Vielen Dank für das Eintragen, wobei ich es nicht auf höchste Prio setzen würde. Da kannst du ja noch mal Rücksprache mit der Community halten. Dann mache ich nun mal weiter, auch mit Sachsen. --Jobu0101 (talk) 14:35, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #561[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Closed requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
      • MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Videos
      • LIVE Wikidata editing #106 - YouTube
      • CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1 - YouTube
      • TWed Talk (21 Feb 2023): Sola Shirai on "Working with Wikidata" - YouTube
  • Tool of the week
    • AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (phab:T309021)
      • We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (phab:T329606)
    • Query Builder:
    • Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (phab:T219037)
    • We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (phab:T102840)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #562[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (phab:T309021)
      • We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T327882)
      • We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (phab:T330252)
    • Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
    • Query Builder:
      • We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T328764)
      • We have added support for the datatypes for Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207)
    • Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just Items (phab:T321543)

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #563[edit]

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

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #564[edit]

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

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #565[edit]

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

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #566[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
    • Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (phab:T321543)
    • REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #567[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
      • BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.)
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.
  • Development

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #568[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 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.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda.
    • Ongoing
  • Tool of the week
    • Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (phab:T332139)
    • QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (phab:T328764)
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (phab:T323813)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #569[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour April 24, 2023: Would you like to know how to join and use Telegram? Two regular Wikidata Telegram users will provide an introduction to Telegram and its available Wikidata channels. They will discuss how they use it, how it can provide help with Wikidata work, and how it can facilitate connections with other Wikidata users Event page
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #89, Ear
    • Past
  • Tool of the week
    • User:Nikki/colour icons.css - is a Userscript to add colour to the editing icons. It uses green for add/save, yellow for edit, red for remove, orange for cancel and blue for help.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • REST API: We continued work on making it possible to create or replace a label, or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)
    • EntitySchemas: We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas. It is now available on beta in a very bare-bones version but not ready for wider testing yet. (phab:T332139)
    • Ontology issues: We are evaluating the results of the survey we ran earlier this year.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #570[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
      • BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
      • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • WeChangEd is an ERC-funded research project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io.
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
    • Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like phab:T335578 and phab:T335581.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #571[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)
  • Tool of the week

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #572[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
    • Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
    • mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #573[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • We continue working on modify data of labels of an Item in the Wikibase REST API. (phab:T332739)
    • We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas.
    • We are continuing to prepare various special pages for the mul language code.
    • We fixed a bug on Wikipedia and co where the "add interlanguage link dialog threw an error (phab:T337081)
    • We attended the Wikimedia hackathon.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #578[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries. Agenda
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata. Full announcement and access to the toolkit
    • The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see https://replag.toolforge.org/ & Phab T337446. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases.
  • Development
    • Ontology issues: We are finishing the evaluation of the survey about which types of ontology issues are hindering reuse of Wikidata's data the most.
    • Otherwise mostly a slow week because of the Wikimedia hackathon.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #579[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands - Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.Event page
    • Registration has opened for the workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.
  • Tool of the week
    • IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (phab:T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (phab:T337720)
    • Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (phab:334682)
    • Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (phab:T335857)
    • EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #580[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
    • Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers
  • Tool of the week
    • narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #581[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention)
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata.
      • We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers.
    • EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback.
    • mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T329655, phab:T316767)
    • Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (phab:T327510)


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Wikidata weekly summary #582[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (phab:T338383)
    • EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
    • Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
    • mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T339103, phab:T329655, phab:T329655)
    • Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (phab:T327510)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #583[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: koavf 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 8 July 2023 13:16 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Wolverène Welcome onboard \o/
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: UrbanBot (Task: UrbanBot's task is to mass-add English descriptions to items that don't have one)
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The third iteration of the WikiWomenCamp will be hosted in New Delhi, India, from the 20th to the 22nd of October 2023.

Scholarship applications are now open.

  • Tool of the week
    • m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a Userscript that adds an arrow next to the main label (page title) which upon double click (a tap and a confirmation on touch devices) automatically makes the label's first letter lowercase for the current interface language. If there was already a matching alias it gets removed.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The WikidataCon 2023 call for proposals is running until July 31st. If you have questions or need advice before sending a program proposal, join the program team during one of the office hour sessions (online or in Taiwan, in Chinese or in English). More information
    • Scholia has a new aspect dedicated to profiling WikiProjects, e.g. toolforge:scholia/wikiproject/Q56241615 for WikiProject Invasion biology. Using it revealed inconsistencies across WikiProjects in terms of which properties they use (and how) to associate a page with a WikiProject, as discussed here.
    • Introducing Wikibase World. The Wikibase registry has moved. Add an entry for your Wikibase if it's accessible over the open internet.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We finished the GetProperty endpoint with fields filter and Conditional headers (phab:T338141, phab:T338138)
      • We started working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356), phab:T338383)
    • Ontology issue survey: We put together an overview of solutions for the various types of issues and will share them this week.
    • mul language code: We are continuing to work through the language fallback issues that were uncovered.


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Wikidata weekly summary #584[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: koavf 3 Welcome onboard \o/
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates (Task/s: Using information from Crossref: 1 - Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata 2 - Fix publication dates where they are erroneous)
  • Tool of the week
    • Duplicity is a tool on Toolforge that helps find articles on Wikipedia that do not have a Wikidata Item, and match them to an existing Item, or create a new one. (example for English Wikipedia)
    • HasProperty.js displays presence/absence of specific properties (configurable) after the Statements heading. Clicking a property name will jump to that properties section. For absent property, clicking property name will jump to the end of the page.
  • Development
    • Ontology issues: We published the overview of solutions and are looking for input on them now.
    • mul language code: We continued work on it focusing on showing it in the right place in the desktop termbox (phab:T316767)
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the endpoints for reading statement data of Properties (both a single statement, and a list of all of a Property’s statement) (phab:T339356, phab:T338383)
    • Vector 2022 skin: We continued work on improving the search display (phab:T327510)
    • WMF Governance wiki is now connected to Wikidata so can be linked to in the sitelink section under multilingual sites (phab:T321967)

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Wikidata weekly summary #584[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (RfP scheduled to end after 21 July 2023 05:02 UTC)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Peuc bot 3 (Task: One-time import of a database of Québec written literary works)
      • MajavahBot (Task: Import version and metadata information for Python libraries from PyPI)
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata Recent Changes API (simple front-end to the actual API) lets you query Wikidata edits by either properties, or labels/aliases/descriptions/sitelinks. You can retrieve any changes, or specify added/changed/removed. Current lag to Wikidata: 1 seconds. (blog)
  • Development
    • Vector 2022 skin: We finished working on removing the strange bolding pattern of the Search Results on Wikidata. Should be rolled out in the next train (phab:T327510)
    • EntitySchemas: We are working on showing the Label of EntitySchema in Statements and Special pages (phab:T339924)
    • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
    • mul: We trying out changing how placeholders in Wikibase termboxes work: They’ll soon start falling back across the fallback chain of the language until they hit mul (phab:T340832)

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Wikidata weekly summary #585[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Yahya (RfP scheduled to end after 26 July 2023 17:46 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Tomodachi94 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Missed the initial office hour sessions for preparing a WikidataCon 2023 submission? Join the next sessions on 20th, 22nd, and 26th and bring all your questions. Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023#Office hours (available in both Mandarin and English)
      • Live Wikidata editing in Italian, July 25 at 9:00 PM CEST on YouTube
    • Ongoing
      • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #102, Money (Challenge started on 2023-07-24 12:01:19)
  • Tool of the week
    • Images near items - helps to find Wikimedia Commons images near Wikidata items without image. It can load a category tree of Commons images with coodrinates, and then find Wikidata items of a certain P31 with coordinates but without images. Then, it will try to find nearby (<50 meters) pairs. (example link for UK red phone booths)
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We expanded the new datatype that is in testing. When a statement links to an EntitySchema it will now show its label when available (phab:T338613). We are also working on showing them by their label in recent changes and similar places (phab:T214885).
    • mul language code: we are working on improving the termbox to integrate this new language code better (phab:T340644)
    • Mismatch Finder: We are working on adding a language selector to it so you can switch the language of the tool (phab:T328149)
    • Wikibase REST API: We completed two new endpoint for the Wikibase REST API:
      • Retrieve all statements from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements
      • Retrieve a single statement from a Property - /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id}
      • You can also retrieve a single statement from a Property from the existing /statements/{statement_id} endpoint

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #587[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
        • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements (phab:T339356) (new route)
        • GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (phab:T338383) (new route)
        • GET /statements/{statement_id} (now supports statements on Properties)
      • We started work on a new route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)
    • EntitySchemas:
      • We worked on improving the termbox (the table of labels, descriptions and aliases) on EntitySchema pages to bring it more in line with the one on Items and Properties
      • We made sure that EntitySchemas are shown by their label instead of ID when available in Recent Changes and similar lists (phab:T339924)
    • Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (phab:T328149)
    • mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (phab:T340832, phab:T338330)

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Wikidata weekly summary #588[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • WikiShootMe expanded to make it possible to find the Items close to pictures you took so you can upload and add them to them (source)
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Template:Synia is a new template which makes it easy to create links to Synia from Wikidata. Template:Synia+ guesses the relevant configuration pages for each entity depending on the values of P31 and P106.
    • Wikifunctions, Wikidata's newest sibling project, had a soft launch. Welcome to the Wikimedia wikiverse, functioneers!
    • The ORES service will be decommissioned and replaced by Lift Wing. If you have a tool that relies on ORES scores to judge edits or the quality of an Item please read the migration announcement. We are collecting affected community tools in phab:T343419.
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas:
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on the route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)

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Wikidata weekly summary #589[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 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 first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
    • Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (phab:T339363, phab:T340006)
    • EntitySchemas:
      • We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
      • We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
    • IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (phab:T328454)

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #590[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)
  • Tool of the week
    • Psychiq, a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We investigated ways to help you search for EntitySchemas by their Labels, Aliases and Descriptions (phab:T341969)
    • Mismatch Finder: We have added the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
    • Improved language fallback: We are testing to clearly show the fallback Label in the placeholders for empty Labels (phab:T338330, phab:T340832)

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Wikidata weekly summary #591[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)
  • Events
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #107, Teeth (Challenge started on 2023-08-28 12:01:31)
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 28, 2023. We will cover adding the articles from our bibliography of diverse LIS resources that we created in our last session to Wikidata! We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. To get a sneak preview of what we will be doing, you can learn more about the Wikidata & Zotero link here: Wikidata:Zotero. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata
    • Videos
      • Keynote about Wikidata for the Chinese Confernence on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Computing 2023, by Denny Vrandečić - YouTube
      • How to fill an Infobox on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Wikipedia For Beginners - YouTube
      • The impact of Wikidata-powered inboxes on minority and low-resourced language Wikipedias in Africa (Wikimania 2023) - YouTube
      • How to create item in Wikidata about a village (in Malayalam) - YouTube
      • Add Wikidata link to an OpenStreetMap relation (in Guarani) - YouTube
      • WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata - YouTube
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikitrivia is a web-based game that challenges your knowledge of historical events, people, and places. The game is a combination of Sudoku and Scrabble, and all the data used in the game is sourced from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The objective of the game is to place the cards on the timeline in the correct order.
  • Development
    • We started looking at ways to make the Mismatch Finder more powerful and capture more mismatches.
    • We updated bootstrap-table library on Wikidata Query Service (phab:T328281)
    • We fixed Lexeme header overlaps page toolbar in Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
    • We fixed lookup component scrollbar problem (phab:T325822)
    • We added telnet as a valid protocol for URL data types (phab:T344417)
    • We added language fallback support for EntitySchemas on Special pages (phab:T338798)

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Ränge[edit]

Hallo Jobu0101, bei Veröffentlichungsdaten gibt es keine Ränge, wie du hier eingetragen hast. Jedes Datum ist gleichrangig und Wikidata ist nur eine Datensammlung, auf die jeder zugreifen kann. Was machst du, wenn jemand das schwedische Veröffentlichungsdatum aufwertet, nur damit ihm die Darstellung in der se-wiki genehm ist? Hat es alles schon gegeben und gerade ist ein Norweger unterwegs, der zwar die Daten aus Wikidata mit einer Vorlage übernimmt, dann aber so lange rumpfriemelt bis ihm das Ergebnis gefällt. Das geht nicht, du musst schon deine Software anpassen und nicht Wikidata manipulieren. Zudem ist dieses Objekt jetzt aus den Kinostarts rausgeflogen (vorher 274, jetzt 273). Gruß -- 2001:4090:A246:8185:10C6:F7AC:4CCD:2179 19:38, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Zum Teil gebe ich dir recht, zum Teil widerspreche ich dir. Es gibt in Wikidata das System mit den Rängen, weil eben nicht jedes Datum gleichrangig ist. In bestimmten Kontexten ist ein Datum das kanonische und andere zwar auch richtig, aber eben nicht kanonisch. In solchen Situationen darf dem kanonischen Datum "Preferred rank" gegeben werden, um es als solches hervorzuheben. Bei den Tatortfolgen ist das der Fall. Von über 1000 Folgen haben es drei ins Kino geschafft und bei diesen drei hat man neben der Erstausstrahlung als wichtiges Datum nun auch noch die Veröffentlichung im Kino. Für eine Tatortfolge ist aber die Erstausstrahlung im Fernsehen das kanonische Datum, weil das jeder Tatortfolge zugeordnet werden kann. In diesem Fall ist der "Preferred rank" also gut begründet. Nur, damit eine Abfrage das "richtige" Ergebnis liefert, sollte natürlich nicht an den Rängen rumgepfuscht werden. Da hast du vollkommen recht! --Jobu0101 (talk) 20:22, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Deine Erfindung des "kanonischen" Tatort-Datums gibt es wenn, dann nur in der deutschen Wiki. Das ist für Wikidata aber ohne Belang und für jede andere Wiki auch, die ebenfalls auf die Daten zugreifen und sie verwenden kann und ein Recht darauf hat, nicht benachteiligt zu werden, weil hier jemand aus der Deutschen Wiki bestimmen will. Das musst du softwareseitig lösen. Wikidata ist unabhängig und neutral und nicht der Lakai oder im Besitz einer anderen Wiki. Der obengenannte Schwede hat bei jedem Film mit schwedischer Beteiligung das schwedische Release auf bevorzugt gesetzt, egal wo der Film zuerst lief oder ob noch andere Länder an der Produktion beteiligt waren. Wieder andere sehen die Erstveröffentlichung als "kanonisch" an und setzen das auf bevorzugt. Bei Wikidata gibts das aber nicht, dass sich jeder raussuchen kann wie es ihm passt oder weil seine Programmierkenntnisse schlecht sind an Wikidata rumpfuscht. Das Programm muss an Wikidata angepasst werden, nicht umgekehrt. Ich habe bei einigen dann direkt den Programmierer angesprochen und der hat das Problem gelöst, und zwar in der Vorlage der Home-Wiki. So eine Rumpfriemelei hier hast du doch nicht nötig. -- 2001:4090:A246:8185:10C6:F7AC:4CCD:2179 20:43, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Glaub mir, das hat nicht mit meinen Programmierkünsten zu tun :). Kannst dich gerne auf User:Jobu0101/API#SPARQL davon überzeugen, dass ich sehr wohl mit verschiedenen Rängen umgehen kann. Im Tatortfall ist es aber einfach richtig, dass die Erstausstrahlung das kanonische Datum ist. Das hat auch überhaupt nichts mit dewiki zu tun, sondern damit, dass die Tatortreihe eine Fernsehserie ist und jede Folge genau ein Erstausstrahlungsdatum im Rahmen dieser Serie hat. Manche Folgen haben noch zusätzliche Veröffentlichungsdaten, wie das Beispiel von dir, aber das ist eben von Folge zu Folge verschieden und damit nicht einheitlich. So rücken diese weitere Daten, die nicht dem gemeinsamen Muster folgen, einen Rang weiter nach hinten. Hier wird nicht irgendein Land oder so bevorzugt. --Jobu0101 (talk) 06:16, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ich glaube dir schon, dass du das programmieren kannst, nur gibt es beim Veröffentlichungsdatum trotzdem keine Ränge. Das wurde auch schonmal diskutiert, ich finde das nur nicht mehr. Wikidata ist nicht deutsch, sondern international. Das wird von dir mit einer deutschen "Regel" missachtet. Das ist nur für die de-wiki und hat damit mit Wikidata nichts zu tun. Wenn, dann bring eine Regel von Wikidata, in der das genau so beschrieben ist. Außerdem wird der Film jetzt nicht mehr bei den Kinostarts gelistet. -- 2001:4090:A246:816D:11B3:FA3C:41FE:1CF4 21:02, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Mal vorneweg: Magst du dich nicht einloggen und zu erkennen geben, wenn du mit mir schreibst? Du wirst doch wohl einen Account besitzen. Nun zum Thema: Wieso glaubst du, dass das irgendetwas mit dewiki zu tun hätte? Das habe ich ja schon in meiner letzten Antwort begründet bestritten. Übrigens sehr lustig, dass du das Nichterscheinen in den Kinostarts als Argument anführst. Denn damit führst du dein eigenes Argument ad absurdum. Ich zitiere: Das Programm muss an Wikidata angepasst werden, nicht umgekehrt! --Jobu0101 (talk) 22:50, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #592[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: FlyingAce (RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 UTC)
    • New request for comments: Must 'Serious' WikiData sources be selective? (The disagreement regards the interpretation of WD:N rule number two, which states an item is acceptable if: "It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity that can be described using serious and publicly available references.")
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We added language fallbacks to the statements linking to EntitySchemas (phab:T338797)
    • We fixed the issue with overlapping Lexeme headers in the Minerva skin (phab:T318981)
    • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on PATCHing for statements on Properties (phab:T342238)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #593[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Peppercat is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information
  • Development
    • Machine learning: We are migrating some tools that currently use ORES to the new Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work around the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements
    • Query Builder: We fixed some issues in the Query Builder language selector (phab:T344231)
    • We’re making the warning for anonymous editors more useful by letting them return to the page they came from after logging in (phab:T330550); we’re also working on showing those warnings in the first place in WikibaseLexeme (phab:T343979)
    • Wikibase REST API: We are working on the ability to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and get the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #594[edit]

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 2023-09-18.

  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements.More information on the event page
  • Tool of the week
    • LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.
  • Development
    • We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page.
    • Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in (phab:T330550)
    • We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths (phab:T344231)
    • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property (phab:T342976) and getting the labels of a Property (phab:T342977)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #595[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • WikidataCon 2023, the conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, is taking place on October 28-29, online all around the world and onsite in Taipei. You can now register for the conference.
      • WikiIndaba 2023 Microgrants available for community events!
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 29. This event is part of a series where you can gain hands-on experience with Wikidata by working on a diverse library and information science (LIS) dataset. In this fourth session, we'll introduce the Wikimedia PAWS environment for data gathering and processing in your Wikidata projects. We'll focus on web scraping for article data using Python and the Beautiful Soup package for parsing. You'll learn about data models for making your data accessible to both machines and humans. This session will be recorded and shared on the event page. Event page.
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)
  • Tool of the week
    • User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js is a script that can be used to search an identifier on an external site. It provides a button to search for an identifier as soon as you type it in the property input field. For example, if you type “ORCID”, an icon with a lens will appear, and when you click it, a new tab will open with the ORCID site looking for the name of the researcher. You can then copy the URL and paste it to Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Lexemes: We are fixing an issue that made edit links and styles disappear (phab:T344362)
    • Mismatch Finder:
    • We are continuing to migrate tools from ORES to Lift Wing (phab:T343731)
    • We've added Wikifunktions as a new wiki for sitelinks (phab:T342857)
    • Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get labels, descriptions and aliases from a Property as well as modify the description of an Item

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #596[edit]

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

Ongoing

    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

This Week

    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. Agenda
  • Tool of the week
    • Swiss Archives is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - Michael Gasser (X post)
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property.
      • We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item.
    • You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions (phab:T342857)
    • We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions and where code changes are needed
    • Lexicographical data:
      • We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer (phab:T322683)
      • If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses (phab:T343979)
    • We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon (phab:T286239)
    • Mismatch Finder:
      • Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results (phab:T335864)
      • We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)
      • The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled (phab:T343344)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #597[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 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.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 13, 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 fifth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually adding authors and publishers from our bibliography into Wikidata. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
      • Wikidata's 11th birthday is around the corner, on October 29th! Discover how you can prepare and present a gift to the community and organize a local birthday celebration.
      • New round open HDI course on Knowledge Graphs. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Sign up enrol here.
      • Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. An online event dedicated to our data modelling challenges. You can already submit a session or ideas.
    • Ongoing:
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #112, Dogs (Challenge started on 2023-10-09 12:01:19)
  • Tool of the week
    • https://aletheiafact.org <- is a new fact-checking website using Wikidata for people/concept identification. The website allows users to contribute to fact-checking claims made by public figures, such as politicians, celebrities, and influencers.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We worked on the new routes for PATCHing Property and Item aliases as well as PUTing Property labels and descriptions (phab:T342982, phab:T337371, phab:T337371, phab:T348150)
    • We are continuing to work on fixing an issue with Lexeme pages missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
    • We’re adding some missing license notes to some javascript UI interfaces (phab:343998, phab:T343999)
    • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on supporting mismatches for data that is stored in qualifiers (phab:T313467)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #598[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property (phab:T342982, phab:T337371)
      • Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property (phab:T342979)
      • Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property (phab:T348150)
    • Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts (phab:T344362)
    • Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers (phab:T313467)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #599[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Hjart (RfP scheduled to end after 26 October 2023 11:20 UTC)
  • Events
    • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour, Q4 2023
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #114: Cars (Challenge started on 2023-10-23 12:01:27)
    • Upcoming:
      • How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world < organised by WikiEdu, happening today, Oct. 23.
      • Edit-A-Thon for LGBTQ+ History Month < Binghamton University Library, New York, Oct. 25th. Help make visible the important contributions of queer figures.
      • Bridging Art Archive to the Wikidata Ecosystem < a guest lecture from Joyce Chen at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship '23, Oct. 27, via Zoom.
      • Wikidata Birthday Edit-A-Thon (Albanian) < Albanian language Wikimedians celebrate Wikidata's Birthday with a 2-day event (Oct. 28 - 29, 2023) near the "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Elbasan.
      • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 23, 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 sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover batch creating items using OpenRefine.This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the Event page
      • 4th Wikidata Workshop as part of the International Semantic Web Conference. 7th Nov., Athens, Greece.
  • Tool of the week
    • User:Magnus Manske/annas archive.js is a userscript that automatically links to Anna's Archive from Wikidata items for books and research articles, for title, DOI, ISBN, etc. so that people can easily get access to them.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • There is a new update relative to the Wikidata Query Service scaling of the backend, that explains how the team will experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs.
    • Mismatch Finder tool improvements: In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement.
  • Development
    • We are preparing for WikidataCon and the Data Modelling Days.
    • We are looking more into where Wikibase needs to be adapted to the upcoming IP Masking changes.
    • We added a notification about the license to all edits to labels, descriptions and aliases that was missing still (phab:T343998) The same for Lexemes is coming next (phab:T343999)

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.

Welcome to the 600th Wikidata Weekly Summary![edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Welcome to the 600th Weekly Summary!

Lydia initiated the weekly newsletter at the start of the Wikidata project, before it even went live, to keep the community in the loop about the developments, the new projects and tools. Léa carried on the newsletter in 2016 and then it was my turn in 2020. The newsletter has been going strong for eleven years, with its content powered by the community, and delivered every week without fail. Thank you to everyone who helped fill in the different sections of the Weekly Summary thus far ❤️ --Mohammed

Today it is time to celebrate Wikidata’s 11th birthday. Let’s take a look back at the past year and what’s coming.
Wikidata’s world - map of Wikidata Items with a geocoordinate

There are now over 12.200 amazing people who are actively editing on Wikidata - 3000 of them even making more than 100 edits a month ♥️ Thank you! Without you Wikidata wouldn’t be what it is today. Thank you for helping give more people more access to more knowledge every single day. This year also marks the year we can welcome a new sister to the Wikimedia projects: Wikifunctions is live, letting us all geek out on functions in anticipation of Abstract Wikipedia. Another big milestone was Wikibase Cloud coming out of private beta. Now you can more easily run your own Wikibase and collect and maintain data that doesn’t fit into Wikidata. 2023 was also the year when the efforts of Wikidata editors were recognized across the Wikimedia movement with the awarding of the Wikimedian of the Year award to Taufik Rosman and the Wikimedia Laureate award to Siobhan Leachman. Over the coming year I want us to find ways how we can bring more people, who are already editing a bit here and there, closer to the community and help them find their place in our community. If you are one of them and have not found your place yet, check out a WikiProject related to your interests. Wikidata has something for everyone 😉

Wikidata now has over 106 Million Items and nearly 1.2 Million Lexemes. We are closing in on 2 Billion edits, making about 20 Million edits per month. All this content is used to create useful, quirky, educational or just fun applications that wouldn’t be possible without Wikidata and all the work you put into it. Check out Notable People for example. Over the coming year we want to make that even easier by building better APIs, lessening the strain on the Query Service, doing more outreach to developers as well as making our data more usable by ironing out ontology issues. In addition there will be increased focus on improving how the other Wikimedia projects integrate Wikidata. With the opening up of Wikibase Cloud we will hopefully also see many new Wikibases pop up that cover more specialized data or be used as playgrounds to prepare data for Wikidata. I am looking forward to a growing Wikibase Ecosystem and excited about more Linked Open Data becoming available to the world, with Wikidata being an entryway to it all.

And last but not least: if you want to learn a bit more about the history and backstory of Wikidata, then you might like Wikidata: The Making Of by Denny, Markus and me.

Lydia for the development team
  • Documentation of the sessions is currently ongoing with the slides getting uploaded on Wikimedia Commons here. The Livestream and replay of the conference per day are already available on YouTube. The individual sections are here.
  • List of presents gathered by the community for Wikidata's eleventh birthday
    • Luthor is a multi-lingual tool for adding usage examples to lexemes on Wikidata, from sentences found on Wikisource in the same language. (by Asaf Bartov)
    • সংকলক একটি সরঞ্জাম যেটা দিয়ে উইকিসংকলনের লেখাগুলির উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেম অনুসারে সে লেখাগুলিকে উন্নত ভাবে অনুসন্ধান করা যায়। - Sangkalak is a tool with which Wikisource works can be searched more readily, using the Wikidata items for those works. (present from Mahir256) (by মাহির২৫৬-এর উপহার)
    • File:Wikidata 11th Birthday Card.jpg (by Almaddy2022)
    • Quonter Vandal - is a tool powered by AI to help identify vandalism to Wikidata. For more details and to leave comments see Wikidata:Quonter_Vandal. Developed by BrokenSegue (talk)
    • Creating new Lexemes? For a lot more languages you now no longer need to provide a spelling variant when creating a new Lexeme, making it even easier to contribute data about words in your language. (present from the development team)
    • The Mismatch Finder, the tool to help review mismatches between Wikidata and other data sources now also has support for mismatches on qualifiers. This allows it to be useful also for issues that are in the data in qualifiers. (present from the development team)
    • inteGraality service pack update from d:User:Jean-Frédéric
    • Wikidata Lexeme Forms experimental Wikifunctions support (details TBA) --Lucas Werkmeister (talk)
    • The projects WiseWoman briefly presented of students editing obscure corners of Wikidata are on her Wikidata user page.
    • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit (by Houcemeddine Turki):
      • MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
      • MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to remove a description in a given language from an Item, modify the label of an Item and add aliases to an Item (phab:T342986, phab:T342980, phab:T335842)
    • Lexicographical data: We switched the Property that is used to pre-select the spelling variant on the Special:NewLexeme page from P218 (ISO 639-1 code) to P305 (IETF language tag) to make use of the latter’s larger coverage. (phab:T348923)
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on addressing the feedback from the testing of the new datatype in the test system.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #601[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • AramBot (Task: adding site links, especially from ckbwiki and kuwiki pages to Wikidata).
  • Tool of the week
    • subclass of, new Observable tool to test which item is a subclass of another.
    • Newest WikiProjects: Source Reliability "is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources".
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We have implemented the endpoints for PATCH /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T337371), PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/aliases (phab:T342982) and PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/labels (phab:T342980)
      • We started working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (phab:T342986)
    • Language codes:
      • We made Special:NewLexeme more likely to guess the spelling variant for you by changing the Property we use to get the language code. Now you will see the spelling variant input pop up less often. (phab:T349652)
      • We started work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (phab:T341409)
    • Query Service UI: We’ve fixed a small issue in the Query Service UI that was introduced when updating CSS variables. Content of selected cells in the query result should be readable again. (phab:T350153)
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #602[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: S8321414 (RfP scheduled to end after 13 November 2023 14:50 UTC)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • DiFoolBot 2 (Task: import VIAF ID based on Union List of Artist Names ID)
      • KizuleBot (Task: Adding sitelinks to Serbian Wikipedia for maintenance categories (see contributions of account) based on items for English Wikipedia's ones)
      • KormiSKbot (Task: Linking newly created pages on SKWiki to the appropriate Wikidata items.)
  • Tool of the week
    • OpenFlights.org is now getting some of its airline data from Wikidata. It is a free open-source tool that allows you to log, map, calculate, and share your flights and trips.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (phab:T342986)
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.
    • Language codes: We continued work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (phab:T341409)

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #603[edit]

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


Wikidata weekly summary #604[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Harvest Templates - is a tool that helps transfer data from Wikimedia projects to Wikidata.
    • User:MichaelSchoenitzer/Updown - is a userscript used for faster navigation. If there are a lot of values for one property it will add arrows that allow you to jump to the first/last value.
  • Development
    • We are preparing for the Data Modelling Days happening later this week
    • Language codes:
    • EntitySchemas: We are experimenting with how to work around some technical blockers for the new datatype
    • Wikibase REST API: We've been working on the ability to remove an Item's label in a specific language and modify the descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981, phab:T342981)

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.

[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #605[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • ZotWb < export records in a Zotero group library to a custom Wikibase, prepare datasets to send to OpenRefine, feed OpenRefine reconciliaton results back to the Wikibase. Wikidata is envolved in the entity reconciliation.
      Here's a short explanation and demo video
      Tool is written and provided by David Lindermann with support from WMF Rapid Grant.

Feel free to suggest next week's Showcase Item and Lexeme!

  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We finished the endpoint for removing an Item's label in a specific language (phab:T335841) and the endpoint for modifying descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981)
      • We are working on the endpoint for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
    • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on moving the tool over to the new design system Codex
    • We adjusted the styling for the values of monolingual text statements to make the language easier to distinguish from the value (phab:T280774)
    • mul language code: We made some final adjustments to get it ready for testing.
    • Lexemes: We are adding a license note for anon users when editing a Lexeme’s lemma, a Form or Sense (phab:T343999)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #606[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: LccnBot (Task: Adds P244 to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.)
    • New request for comments: Duplicate References Data Model and UI < During Data Modelling Days '23, 2 proposals emerged trying to answer the question of how to handle duplicate References on Wikidata Items.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 12, 2023: Several members of the Chinese Culture and Heritage Wikidata group will provide an overview of the group's Wikidata projects as well as the challenges they have encountered. Agenda
    • Data-SHS Bordeaux Week: Processing and Analyzing Quantitative Data in Human and Social Sciences 2023. Dec. 11 - 15, Bordeaux, FR.
  • Tool of the week
    • QLever SPARQl Engine < If you attended Data Modeling Days '23, you may have seen an extraordinary Session given by Hannah Bast and Johannes Kalmbach showcasing the power and advantages of the QLever engine. QLever can handle queries that cause the WDQS to timeout or allowing Federated queries and Geospatial!

(QLEver has already featured in Tool of the Week but we wanted to showcase it again after experiencing it at DMD '23)

  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued work on the routes for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
    • Monolingual text values can now use many more languages than before. We’re still working on doing the same for Lexemes. (phab:T341409)


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.

Anything to add? Please share! :)


Wikidata weekly summary #607[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Other discussions: How to handle concepts of trans people on Wikidata? Should {privacy at wikidata.org} be redirected to {privacy at wikimedia.org} or should it be monitored by Wikidata volunteers? Join the discussion!
  • Events
    • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour December 18th, 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 ninth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL and Scholia to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #121: Pottery
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Blogs: #LD42023. Part I: The Future of Wikidata + Libraries (A Workshop) - This blog series explores how libraries engage with Wikidata and Linked Data in the face of AI challenges. Led by Silvia Gutiérrez and Giovanna Fontenelle from the Wikimedia Foundation, the series summarizes insights from a collaborative session at the 2023 LD4 Conference, using Design Thinking strategies to connect the Library-Wikidata community with WMF, focusing on Wikidata, Wikibase, and Structured Data on Commons (SDC) in libraries. By Silvia Gutiérrez & Giovanna Fontenelle
    • Papers
      • Wikipedia gender gap: a scoping review - This review analyzes Wikipedia's gender gap from 2007 to 2022, revealing a slight majority of female authors, addressing key themes, and exploring strategies to mitigate the gap, providing valuable insights into the research landscape in this domain. By Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Juan-José Boté-Vericad and Julia Minguillón.
      • Ten years of Wikidata: A bibliometric study - This research delves into scholarly publications about Wikidata from its inception in 2012 to late 2022, revealing 945 relevant papers, primarily from conferences. The analysis highlights a concentration of experts and contributors from the Global North, as well as governmental institutions as predominant funders. The study calls for enhanced networking and outreach to promote diversity and inclusion within the Wikidata research community. Emphasizing computer science perspectives, the research focuses on methods for developing and utilizing open knowledge graphs, notably Wikidata, with a narrower but significant interest in application-oriented studies in digital humanities, biology, and healthcare. (Turki, et al)
    • Videos
      • Duplicating Everywhere All at Once | Cebuano Wikipedia - Five years ago, Lsjbot's Wikipedia articles caused duplicate Wikidata items, notably impacting geographic places on Cebuano Wikipedia. This video by User:Canley at Wikimania 2023 delves into the history, visualizes the issue, and suggests cleanup strategies for Wikidata and Wikipedia, emphasizing Aotearoa New Zealand and parts of Australia, with implications for the global challenge of bot-created duplicates.
      • Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research with Alicia Fagerving - Alicia Fagerving, Wikimedia Sverige, introduces the project "Useful Authorities for Data-Driven Collection Research" and Wikidata. The project, spanning 2021-2023, links vocabularies from the databases of Nationalmuseum and Statens historiska museer to Wikidata, exploring it as a platform for semantic interoperability among cultural heritage institutions and providing tools and visualizations for similar projects.
      • 2023: OSM-Wikidata Map Framework. Combining OpenStreetMap and Wikidata allows to leverage the strengths of the two projects to create richer maps. This talk explores how OSM-Wikidata Map Framework simplifies this process. By Daniele Santini
    • Press: Adriano Rutz wins the Swiss National Open Research Data (ORD) Prize for “The LOTUS Initiative” project. LOTUS explores new ways of promoting the re-use of data in the fields of biology and chemistry and thus of sharing knowledge in natural products research. More coverage
    • Notebooks
    • Documentation: User:Mahir256 statred Lexemes documentation pages about Lemmata and Lexeme languages. Your contributions are welcome.
  • Tools of the week
    • Drama Corpora Project (DraCor) is a digital database of plays, primarily from Europe. It collects and organizes texts of plays in a way that allows researchers and others to extract and analyze information from those texts. This could include details about the characters, the dialogue, the stage directions, and more. The data is being pulled from Wikidata.
    • Magnus Manske added a new game to the Wikidata game to identify duplicate Items for researchers.
    • Mike Peel set up a new Distributed Game to add links to Wikiquote to Wikidata.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We finished adding the endpoints for adding aliases in a given language for a Property (phab:T343721) and removing a Property's label in a given language (phab:T342983)
      • We started working on the endpoint for removing a Property's description in a given language (phab:T342985)
      • We are fixing an issue with incorrect handling of lowercase statement IDs in edit requests (phab:T352644)
    • Special:PrefixIndex now shows label/lemma for Properties and Lexemes (phab:T343115)
    • Language codes: We changed where Wikidata is getting its languages from for Lexemes and Monolingual text statements and thereby resolved many tasks requesting another language being added to them (phab:T341409)

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #608[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 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
    • Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:
  1. 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.)
  2. 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.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Blogs
    • 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.
  • 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.
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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Wikidata weekly summary #609[edit]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 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.
  • Development
    • The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

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Wikidata weekly summary #610[edit]

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

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.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

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.

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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.

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Wikidata weekly summary #611[edit]

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

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.)

Events

  • 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

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

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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)

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Wikidata weekly summary #612[edit]

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

Discussions

  • New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (phab:T353807, phab:T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (phab:T354730)
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (phab:T344039)
    • We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344685)
    • We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (phab:T352644)
  • mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

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Wikidata weekly summary #613[edit]

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

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: ROBERTSHST requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed.
  • New request for comments: Frettiebot block? - Bovlb has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the Frettiebot Discussion page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • A job opening for a Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
  • The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this survey on Lamapoll. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you!

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Development

  • [Breaking Change] We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps
  • Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) (phab:T355697)
  • mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing.
  • IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore.
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one (phab:T342987)
    • We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks (phab:T355293)


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Wikidata weekly summary #614[edit]

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

Discussions

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 6, 2024: Wikimedia user Dnshitobu will discuss Wikidata for Education, the Dagbani NLP project, and the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group/sister communities. In the last part of the meeting, Dnshitobu will lead a discussion of your ideas for Wikidata Affinity Group activities in 2024 using Jamboard. Agenda
  • Kick-Off Panel Discussion: Black Histories Wikipedia & Wikidata Edit-a-thon February 6, 17:00 - 18:00 CET. Toronto Metropolitan University. Edit-A-Thon's are also being hosted on Feb. 8th 16:00 CET and Feb. 15th 18:00 CET.
  • Wikidata 101 is a clinic, part of the #LoveDataWeek hosted at Toronto Metropolitan University; February 13th 11:00 - 12:30 EST in LIB 387 - Library Collaboratory building.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • A Query and UI for exploring works of Venezuelan authors, artists, scientists and creators in the Public Domain.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We are finishing the endpoint for adding/replacing a sitelink on an Item for a given wiki (phab:T342987) and have finished the ones for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685)
    • We have documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
    • We fixed the bug where sitelink data was not including badges even when available (phab:T355293)
  • IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase so we don't show IP addresses for non-logged-in users.
  • mul: We finished the user testing and will now work on the remaining blockers for the first release.

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Wikidata weekly summary #615[edit]

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

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • MediaWiki:Gadget-dataDrainer.js - this userscript allows you to delete the data of an item. You can choose what you want to delete: labels and/or descriptions and/or aliases and or sitelinks.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A project page for the experiment has also been published.
  • WMDE is currently conducting a research on Knowledge Equity in Linked Open Data. The goal is to try to better understand how the use of Wikidata, Wikibase Suite, and Wikibase Cloud both support knowledge equity and create barriers to knowledge equity when people are contributing historically and structurally marginalized knowledge and perspectives. If you are interested in participating in this project, please fill out this survey!

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Development

  • The new mul language code is now ready for beta testing. You can find out more at Help talk:Default values for labels and aliases.
  • The graph split testing for the Wikidata Query Service has started. Please find more details in the "Other Noteworthy Stuff" section above.
  • IP Masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP Masking feature, so that IP addresses for non-logged-in users are no longer published.
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished the route for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (phab:T344039, phab:T344685) and we continue work on the one for adding/ replacing and modifying a sitelink on an Item (phab:T342987, phab:T342988)
    • We now handle of case sensitive statement IDs in GET, PUT, PATCH and DELETE requests as HTTP redirect (phab:T354261)
    • We documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (phab:T355659)
    • We fixed the bug where sitelink data did not include badges (phab:T355293)

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Wikidata weekly summary #617[edit]

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

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: WT2O_2 - (RfP deadline: February 22, 2024 17:46 UTC)
  • Other: Project chat: PI Bot is an interesting conversation about the function of PI Bot in creating Stub articles and evolves into discussing ways of matching articles, categories and templates in sibling projects with their Wikidata items. Contribute to the discussion or even better, use one of the many tools posted and get linking!

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 20, 2024: In honor of Valentine's Day month, we are bringing back the popular program from last February: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, even if you’re just beginning to think about it, or just what you like to edit when you have time. This is a great way to share your ideas, solicit community input and ask questions about resources or tools. This will be an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so. You can share your screen if you like, but there’s no need for slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
  • Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM) at ACL 2024. Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE
  • Wiki Workshop 2024 ― Research Track Papers - Call for contributions. Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js - this userscript changes the appearance of Recent Changes, Watchlist, Contributions, History pages, and Related Changes. It also adds filter options.
  • Wikidata Topic Curator (a rewrite of ItemSubjector into a webapp) help wikimedians add relevant topics to items. Based on a given topic QID it fetches articles matching the label, aliases or a custom user-provided term of that QID that is currently missing the main subject property.
  • Author Disambiguator - is a tool for editing the authors of works recorded in Wikidata, e.g. for finding Wikidata Items for the authors (P50 instead of 'author name string').

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Development

  • IP Masking: We added redirect-related parameters to most Wikibase API modules (phab:T357024; an announcement is in the works)
  • We migrated Termbox SSR from Node 16 to 18 (phab:T355685)
  • We made the (legacy) termbox remember its expanded/collapsed state for anonymous visitors and temporary users (phab:T351976)
  • We deployed and backported several security fixes to Wikibase release branches (phab:T345064, phab:T356764)

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Wikidata weekly summary #618[edit]

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


  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Mike Peel (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC))
    • Closed request for adminship: Madamebiblio requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful.
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Mfchris84-Bot - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine Syntopia Alpina (Q112206291), then continuing by adding swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to version/edition items.
      • BorkedBot_12 - Task: Update number of viewers/listeners (P5436) with the qualifier YouTube channel ID (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers.
      • LocodeBot - Task: Match UN/LOCODE (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations.
  • Tool of the week
    • WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata!
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff

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  • Development
    • IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to no longer show IPs for non-logged in users.
    • Wikibase REST API: We are almost done with the routes for adding/editing/removing a sitelink.
    • Entity Schemas: We prototyped another approach to making it possible to link to Entity Schemas in statements.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #619[edit]

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 2024-03-11. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Zafer - (RfP scheduled to end after 12 March 2024 20:03 (UTC))
  • Closed request for adminship: Mike Peel 2 - Adminship re-granted, welcome back Mike!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Mfchris84-Bot 1 - Task: Add swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to instance of (P31) version, edition or translation (Q3331189) based on checking ISBN-13 (P212) or ISBN-10 (P957).
    • NinoBot - Task: Semi-automatically create version, edition or translation (Q3331189) entries for Spanish Wikisource Index pages from Commons files.
    • Emijrpbot 10 - Task: Create a written work (Q47461344) and version, edition or translation (Q3331189) item for works and editions in the National Library of Spain datos.bne.es project.

Events

  • Upcoming
    • Queer Data Days - Wikidata Gender Diversity Project Event, a pair of virtual events welcoming a range of speakers investigating queer approaches to data and technology. Sign up for March 15 or March 16, 15:00 (CET).
    • Wikimedia Indonesia/Bulan Wiki Perempuan 2024 WM Indonesia Women's Wiki Month 2024 (Indonesian) - join classes on learning to edit Wikidata and address gender biases in Wikidata, Wikipedia and sibling projects. Program and register for Wikidata classes / datathon schedule
    • Wikidata Leveling Up Days, an online event and a collection of resources to welcome new people to Wikidata. The online event takes place on April 5-7 and 12-14 with presentations, workshops and discussions. The program is open to contributions. Learn more about the project at the website WiGeDi.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

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Development

  • IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase to the upcoming IP masking changes in MediaWiki
  • Mismatch Finder: Already reviewed mismatches are now ignored when mismatches are reuploaded (T329631)
  • Query Builder: Selecting the user interface language became easier in Query Builder (T353728) and Query Service (T353729)

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Wikidata weekly Summary #620[edit]

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 2024-03-18.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 20 March 2024 17:37 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Zafer Adminship granted, welcome Zafer!
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • PagesBot - Task: Adds no. of pages statements based on page(s) on items of type: scholarly article. Then adds a reference with based on heuristic equal to inferred from page(s).
      • Wicci'o'Bot - Task: Import identifiers of new properties created for TheTVDB (Q15616250), nientepopcorn (Q123434360) (and more properties I plan to request to be added shortly) inherent in the film and TV industry, using IMDb ID (P345) as source.
    • Closed request for comments: Duplicate Refs, Data Model and UI - (RfC closed 15 March 2024 18:57 UTC). The Community showed support for the proposal to change data model and UI for duplicated references. A Phabricator ticket has been opened: T360224
  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 19, 2024: Please join us on March 19 for a community discussion about how GLAM professionals can incorporate Wikidata/linked data into their work week. Bring your success stories about institutional buy-in and how you’ve communicated the value of linked data to managers and colleagues. We hope to share some strategies that you can take back and use in your own workplace. This will be a followup of sorts to our call last May, and you can review some of what we talked about then, plus slides from our survey here: Notes from May 30, 2023 Meeting on Advocacy for Wikidata & Linked Data in Libraries.Agenda
    • Wiki Workshop 2024 - Announcing a new track and a Call for Proposals - Submit your contributions by April 29, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
    • WikiCon Aotearoa - Auckland 2024 - The New Zealand WikiCon has a couple of events introducing and workshopping Wikidata:
      • Saturday 23 March 2024, 11:15 NZT - Intro to Wikidata / 13:00 NZT - Beginner's OpenRefine Workshop
      • Sunday 24 March 2024, 11:00 NZT - Presentation: Breathing life into the Women's Archive through Wikidata

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Wikidata weekly Summary #621[edit]

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 2024-03-25.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 - Adminship request successful, congratulations KonstantinaG07 3!
  • Events
    • 2024 Women's Wiki Month Datathon (Indonesian) Between 24 - 26 March 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting a competitive Data-thon with Prizes available for editing and enriching Wikidata items on the topic of Women's Health. Full details on the project page.
    • Wikidata and FactGrid - Knowledge Graphs of data query entry (French) - a workshop taking place 26 March, 13:30 - 16:30 (GMT+1), hosted by Datalab MSHB Rennes and moderated by Jean-Baptiste Pressac.
    • Levelling Up Days 2024 is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata, upgrade their editing skills and find out about useful tools and apps. Join us for a series of videos and discussions regarding Wikidata and its uses in and outside of the Wikimedia projects.
  • Tool of the week
    • Members of European Parliament by pac02. Explore visualisations of MEP's in the European Parliament. Country of origin, gender, political alignment and other properties from Wikidata can be explored.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikimedia Deutschland published a Call for Software Contributions! Application deadline is April 21th, 23:59 (GMT+1).
    • Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023 - We encourage you to nominate and vote for research papers published in 2023 that focused on or benefited the Wikimedia projects (we're not biased but hope you vote for Wikidata-based Papers). Please submit your nominations by April 18, 2024.
    • In preparation for the Research Track of the 11th Wiki Workshop, there is now a Call for Contributions for the event scheduled virtually on June 20, 2024 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). The Wiki Workshop aims to bring together researchers who study all aspects of the Wikimedia Projects. We hope Wikidata and Wikibase are well represented! Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

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  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We worked on the ability to create Items via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
      • We worked on making it possible to modify the data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
    • EntitySchemas: We are getting back to making architecture improvements to enable the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
    • IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP masking changes.
    • Query Service: We added the ability to stop a query in the UI in order to not have to wait for a broken query to finish or run into a time-out. You can find the stop button below the run button in the query UI now.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #622[edit]

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 2024-03-11. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: MONA.artpublic.bot (Task: The bot's function is to add information about artists specializing in public artwork in Québec, Canada. The bot will initially only add that an artist's genre of work is public art for a set of known public artists in Québec compiled by MONA Montréal from open data sets.)

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 2, 2024: Come join us for fun data modeling discussions! We'll create breakout rooms in Zoom for people to discuss 4 examples of cultural heritage items to contribute to Wikidata. Each group will choose categories, brainstorm properties for basic and enhanced description, and discuss challenges. Then we'll have some quality time at the end to compare notes and discuss our processes! Agenda
    • Wikidata Leveling Up Days, everything you need to know about Wikidata: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 April. The event is taking place online and the videos are already available on the program page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: Galerij der Groten op Wikidata (Dutch) - Wikimedia NL hosted an Edit-A-Thon on the Baroeg project, the task was to document and archive on Wikidata all of the bands that have played at the live music venue, the idea born from a stack of band flyers and posters hung in the bathroom(!) Join the next one Sunday April 14th.
  • Papers: Understanding Wikidata - Wikidata is extremely valuable as a data source to supplement, validate and extend existing knowledge bases and applications. To effectively utilize Wikidata in a Semantic Web application, one must understand its design, terminology and correspondence with ontological concepts (especially RDF and OWL). This paper attempts to explain and position this information. (by AWesterinen)
  • Videos
  • Notebooks: Gender differences in the number of sitelinks among members of the European Parliament, a statistical analysis based on Wikidata about the number of sitelinks by gender.

Tool of the week

  • Wikidatalite : Search, browse, and navigate Wikidata items with a mobile-friendly, simplified user interface.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Development

  • mul language code: We are continuing the work on fixing remaining issues for the next stage of releasing it (phab:T356200)
  • REST API:
  • EntitySchemas: We continued work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T359419)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #623[edit]

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 2024-04-08. Translations are available.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Anti-Pattern Analyzer is a static website capable of checking the existence of 'anti-pattern 1' (AP1) occurrences given an entity from Wikidata. It can also check if a new statement would introduce new violations.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Only 13 more days to go! The deadline to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions is coming closer and closer. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • REST API:
    • We continued the work on the endpoint for creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
    • We continued the work on the endpoint for modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (]]phab:T347394]])
  • EntitySchemas: Work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements is continuing.
  • mul language code: We are fixing remaining issues uncovered during testing. (phab:T355059, phab:T356200, phab:T135871, phab:T356201)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #622[edit]

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 2024-04-15.
Translations are available.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AzBot - Task: adding a space in over 7k malformed Dutch descriptions per this request.
    • DifoolBot 3 - Task: fill in empty English/French/German labels and basic statements for persons with VIAF ID (P214) and a VIAF authority source GND ID (P227), IdRef ID (P269), Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268) or Library of Congress authority ID (P244)

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Join the Wikidata Open Online Course starting April 22, 2024! 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. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
  • Only 6 more days to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • mul langauge code: We are finishing the polishing for the first proper release coming soon.
  • EntitySchema: We are continuing the work on the new datatype that will make it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
  • REST API:
    • We continued work on creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
    • We continued work on modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #624[edit]

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 2024-04-22.
Translations are available.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • OpeninfoBot - Task: Importing financial data (assets, equity, revenue, EBIT, net profit) from openinfo.uz to entries on public Uzbek companies in Wikidata.
    • IntegrationBot - Task: retrieve information from Wikidata and contribute data back

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন), a tool listing words/phrases in different language catalogs and allowing users to match the entries in those catalogs to existing Wikidata lexemes or to create new lexemes based on those entries.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • It's not too late to join the Wikidata Open Online Course, open from April 22 to May 31! 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. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
  • There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A new proposal for the split has also been published, feedback will be open until May 15th 2024.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • mul language code: We are continuing the roll-out. It is now available on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org.
  • REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the following:
    • Create an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
    • Modify data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
  • Leveling Up Days: We are wrapping up the event.

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

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