Wikidata:Status updates/2023 11 13

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-11-13.

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.)

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 14, 2023: We will hear from Diego Saez-Trumper on Wikidata Revert Risk and Annotool. Agenda
  • Latin America in Wikidata Challenge (Spanish) < Nov. 14 - Dec. 14. Play the game and help highlight the region hosting the GLAM Wiki conference! (Prizes available).
  • Edit-a-thon "Women in sciences" < 17 Nov. 12:00 - 18 Nov. 03:00 (UTC). A live edit-a-thon to improve the quality and variety of articles of women who have won the prestigious L'Oréal-UNESCO National Award "For Women in Science". (Prizes available).
  • Language community meetings: A new initiative by WMF language team to organize quarterly gatherings to encourage collaboration among individuals and communities interested in language-related technical topics. First meeting: Friday, November 17, 2023, 16:00 to 17:00 (UTC)
  • Glam Wiki Program - 16 - 18 November, Montevideo, Uruguay. Want to attend in person? - Register here. Wikidata Related Sessions:
    • Wikidata For Cultural Heritage
    • WADE: Add artwork depiction information on Wikidata
    • Workshopping Metadata Interoperability for Small Museums
    • Wikisource and Wikidata: when two cool kids play together!
    • Using Wikidata integration on the Wikimedia projects to enhance GLAM-WIKI content sharing
    • Wikidata + Education + Heritage
• Ongoing:
  • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #117: School (Challenge started on 2023-11-13 12:01:25). Did you participate in last week's Challenge #116 : Storm?
  • Knowledge Graphs - Foundations and Applications course by Prof. Dr. Harald Sack. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Enrol here if you have not done so yet.
• Past: WikiWitch: mapping witches from Switzerland and elsewhere Nov. 4th

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Investigating the “formatter URI for RDF resource” (P1921) property and its uses in the Wikidata infrastructure <-- It discusses how this property enables unique identification of resources, its usage in federated queries, and its role in the Wikidata Query Service.
  • Switzerland Witch hunt: over 2,000 victims, but no monument (Italian) WikiWitches project is using Wikidata to track execution sites of persecuted persons. Read about the project here.
  • Open Access Week and Wikidata; Opening Culture and Heritage training (Colombia GLAM report) <-- details the Open Access Week and Wikidata event in Colombia, which included discussions on the use of Wikidata for academic journals and the use of Wikidata for open science.
  • Wikipedia for all of Sweden; Museums and Wikidata – why and how?; Photo memories from Stockholm and Rome; Negotiating Knowledge on Wikipedia (Sweden GLAM report) <-- discusses the “Wikipedia for all of Sweden” project, which includes the use of Wikidata for authority control in museums.
  • Wikiwitches: giving back a soul to the victims of the witch-hunt <-- The Wikiwitches project, initiated by the association Les sans pagEs in collaboration with Wikimedia CH, aims to map the victims of witch-hunts on Wikidata.
  • GSOC ‘23: Automating Area Management in MusicBrainz <-- Prathamesh, in their Google Summer of Code project, developed a data pipeline to automate the synchronization of area metadata between MusicBrainz and Wikidata.
• Papers
  • Wikidata for authority control: sharing museum knowledge with the world <-- The project “Usable Authorities for Data-driven Cultural Heritage Research” aims to link museum authority data to Wikidata, enhancing the visibility, accessibility, and relevance of information across different museum collections, and encouraging cultural heritage institutions in Sweden to contribute to and utilize the Wikimedia platforms.
  • The 4th Wikidata Workshop for the scientific Wikidata community happened on 07 November 2023. You can find a full list of presented papers here
• Videos
  • Connecting Entomological Collectors ECN2023 <-- A presentation for the Entomological Collections Network 2023 conference by Siobhan Leachman, this presentation explains how Wikidata can be used to create an identifier for entomological collectors, empowering the collation & linking of biographical data as well as the ability to link to other databases & catalogs relating to those collectors.
  • Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda <-- The Learning Series offers practical guidance on using Wikidata for Wiki Loves campaigns, with hands-on experience and follow-up mentoring.
  • Wikidata projects in Wikimedia Spain <-- part of the online sessions organized by Wikimedia España to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Wikidata. In this session, Ángel Obregón, a member of Wikimedia España, presents some of the projects driven by Wikidata by the members of WMES.
• Notebooks:
  • Subclass of... <-- Wikidata's ontology is complex. This tool aims at finding if an item is a subclass of another one.
  • The Wednesday Index <-- A longitudinal analysis of gender diversity in Wikipedia articles.

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.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.5 – minor changes (security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.5)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • stated in source according to (to be used together with P248 if the statement is taken from an aggregator rather than directly from the source)
  • External identifiers: HBL topic ID, Art Platform Japan ID, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID, Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego author ID, Aves de Chile ID, cagb manuscript ID, Italian Paralympic Committee ID, ‎old-games.org ID, Carte d'autore online ID, Indiana Plant Atlas ID, Linked Open Data Comune Firenze ID, Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas ID, Il Sole 24 Ore movie ID, Il Sole 24 Ore person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • Official wiki URL (URL to the official wiki for the item)
    • maternal mortality ratio (number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births)
  • External identifiers: Gaming Wiki Network article ID, Playdate community wiki ID, BNE periodical SID, vesti.kz team ID, EIDR parties (Entertainment Identity Registry), Art Gallery of Ontario object ID, GeoLOD ID, Spectrum Computing, Museo Nacional de Arte artist ID, Catalogo Nazionale Dati ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of every recorded battle the past 4,500 years (source)
  • Map of locations of witch memorials and sites of interest in Scotland (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject IDEA - This Wikiproject serves as a working group and process documentation archive for the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA), a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and in development at Bard College and Yale University.
  • WikiProject Interwiki - The goal of this project is linking Wikidata items with wiki articles outside of the Wikimedia ecosystem. Niche wikis frequently offer more in-depth content compared to general online dictionary articles, although their quality can vary significantly.
  • WikiProject SrpKor - The main aim of this project is building Wikidata entities for the novels from SrpKor: Corpus of the contemporary Serbian language.
  • WikiProject Manors - Collecting data about manor house (Q879050) as part of manor (Q2066754) or manor estate (Q2116450) as part of the Research Centre for manors in the baltic sea region (Q117756751).
  • WikiProject Echinodermata - A repository for information pertaining to the NSF Grant Echinoderm Project.

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.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!