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 2024-02-26. Translations are available.
Discussions
Open request for adminship: Madamebiblio (RfP scheduled to end after 3 March 2024 04:25 UTC)
New requests for permissions/Bot:
BorkedBot 11 - Task: BorkedBot 11 will scan Twitch API for FollowerCount metrics for influencers that are entered in Wikidata and if necessary, update P8687 (social media followers).
GergesBot - Task:Change entries Sitelinks and title
Closed request for permissions/Bot: HubaishanBot - Bot permission request withdrawn by author (21.02.2024)
50 States of Comics: a Wikidata Edit-a-thon, 22 - 23 Feb 2024. Join this virtual editathon and contribute to comic book and art published in Illinois, with an emphasis on BIPOC characters, heroes, villains and their creators.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
Wikidata & AI, Together Again - Blog post exploring how the recently launched LangChain offers support for interfacing Wikidata with Large Language Models (LLMs). By Daniel Erenrich.
An Intro to Querying - Part 5 of the Library Carpentry introduction to Wikidata. Brush up on your SPARQL and see many examples of how to use the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS).
Wikidata Literary Influencers - On the coverage of influences between writers on Wikidata. This project explores the quality, content and completeness of information about the literary influences of writers who are represented on Wikidata, by Paul Mathews.
Wikimedia & Wikidata: Collaboration and authority data - Session 6 of SunoikisisDC's 'Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage'. Part 1 is a high-level introduction to Wikidata and Part 2 examines its use in representing LOD for ancient sites such as Dura Europos for the International Digital Archive of Dura Europos (IDEA).
Enriching data on dance - part 1, part 2 (French) - The 'Regroupement québécois de la danse' show how Wikidata can be used to enrich metadata about culturally significant dances in an abstract way.
Part 3: Create a Wikidata Schema (French) - Wiki Wake Up Afrique training on OpenRefine. This workshop shows how to prepare a CSV file and process it into Wikidata entities and statements. Hosted by Houcemeddine Turki.
CAT🐈 is an analysis toolkit for items corresponding to a simple claim. For items corresponding to a claim, it provides a set of statistics and dataviz.
Updates to a fork of TFT (Tester for Triplestore from BorderCloud) can be used to evaluate the conformance of various graph databases to the RDF SPARQL 1.1 specification. The repository has been updated to execute the latest W3C RDF SPARQL 1.1 tests. A complete description of the code base and test modifications, as well as information on how to run the tests is available on WikiTech. This can be used to test alternative stores to WDQS's Blazegraph.
Do you need to understand constraint violations in Wikidata? Currently, violation information is not available in the RDF Dumps. A Jupyter notebook has been created to scrape the mandatory constraint violations page and construct RDF triples from the data. The notebook to do this is in GitHub. This tool makes it easier to understand the "noisiness" of the item data, and enable bots or knowledge-graph code to selectively delete triples (such as properties with erroneous values), or to insert triples (for example, adding inverse relationships where they are missing).
Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding/replacing a sitelink on an Item for a given wiki (phab:T342987) and modifying an Item's sitelinks (phab:T342988)
IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase to the upcoming IP masking changes in MediaWiki
mul language code: We finished the testing and we made a plan for what remaining issues to resolve before release
