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Deadlines

Whats the point in having weekly deadlines on friday, when it's never met? Realism' pls. Poul G (talk) 20:59, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

We have no deadline. We try to get it out on Saturday. But given that it is basically just John Lewis and me we don't always manage to get it out on Saturday. The only way to improve that is to help us get the information together in time. Anyone can do that :) --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 11:16, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Help plan a new software feature for easy subscription to newsletters

We are developing a MediaWiki extension that will enable users to subscribe to community newsletters much more easily. We are very excited to hear your feedback on the features we have planned. Feel free to share your thoughts here. - Tinaj1234 (talk) 12:38, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Translation ?

Hi, I put the french translation on the "/fr" subpage Wikidata:Status updates/2015 10 24/fr. Don't know how to do this best. ATM the Wikidata WikiProject subscribes to the status update and I translate it there in french. I see that the Visual Editor Newsletter is translated : https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-October/001277.html Maybe we could do something like that here ... author  TomT0m / talk page 10:59, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

I am fine with having it translated if someone is going to put in the work for marking it up and everything. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 13:31, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Specify a column width

Hi, I'd like to suggest adding a minimum column width to the newsletter, so that it displays nicely in any window size, especially if there are images included. This would prevent problems such as mw:File:Flowbug.png in flow pages and http://i.imgur.com/UpwpJz3.png in wikitext pages.

The code is -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px; (change the numbers as desired) - see a demonstration at this sandbox diff, and I boldly tweaked the archive to show where the code goes.

HTH. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:57, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 13:32, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Blog updates

I am a subscriber to the talkpage delivery of the status update, but at least as my own personal preference, I was wondering if this could be published as a blog? I subscribe to the Wikimedia blog planet and would find these updates much more convenient to read via a blog format than on my talkpage. This is effectively what the Content Translation team does with - https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/ I realise that is yet another step in the workflow, but perhaps I'm not the only one who would prefer it delivered that way. Would that be possible please? Wittylama (talk) 11:01, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

I wanted to automatically set up publishing of what we have to Planet Wikimedia but failed. It has been done for tech news previously without the need to have a separate blog. It just took what is on-wiki. If someone can help make this happen that'd be awesome. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 11:16, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

New date?

The previous statusupdates were given out on Saturday. Is Monday the new day to release the newsletter? Q.Zanden questions? 23:04, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Long time ago it was on Fridays :) --Papuass (talk) 08:41, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Yeah, as I always publish it on Mondays now, I just changed the date so that's the real date :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 11:47, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Templates

Please, do not use templates (e.g. {{Channel}}) inside report. This report is distributed to many various wikis and some templates may not exist and some might be different . JAn Dudík (talk) 16:41, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

You're right, thanks for the reminder. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 10:43, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

h1 sections

Seems like something went wrong with this week's status update.

Instead of sections of the newsletter having this format, where sections are lists of elements: 

* '''Discussions'''
** Open request for adminship: [[d:Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator#Zolo_2|Zolo]]
** New request for comments: [[d:Wikidata:Request for comment/Proposed client side disambiguation page|Proposed client side disambiguation page]]

they have this other format, where sections are h1 elements inside an h2 section (the whole newsletter): 

= Discussions =
* Open request for adminship: [[d:Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator#Zolo_2|Zolo]]
* New request for comments: [[d:Wikidata:Request for comment/Proposed client side disambiguation page|Proposed client side disambiguation page]]

This causes formatting errors and should be fixed/reverted. Sabbut (talk) 11:09, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

+1, this effectively breaks the TOCs at every talk page… --MGChecker (talk) 14:46, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I made a mistake, I apologize for this. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 14:55, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Unsuccessful RFPs

@Pasleim: Was it necessary to add the unsuccessful RFA to this newsletter? It seems awfully embarrassing to have the candidate's failure spread across Wikimedia. --Rschen7754 05:34, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Adding a link to an open discussion in one newsletter but then not adding the outcome of this discussion in a later newsletter is in my opinion withholding of information. Also other users added unsuccessful RFA to the newsletter [1]. --Pasleim (talk) 13:09, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
It's not withholding information, it's being sensitive to those who have failed a permissions request - and just because others are doing it doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do. --Rschen7754 05:11, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Newest properties auto-updating fixed

[2] broke the auto-updating because Legobot could not figure out where to add in the new properties. I've changed it to use hidden comment markers instead, so as long as no one touches those, it should continue to work. 2601:646:8301:E297:158F:7316:3901:28DF 18:20, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016

We should add to the next weekly summary that we need help here. --Jobu0101 (talk) 00:03, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

You can always just add things yourself. No need to ask here :) I'll add this one now. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 13:19, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. --Jobu0101 (talk) 14:42, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

vCard

I've restored the note about mapping the vCard ontology. I don't believe that we've ever documented such a mapping in this newsletter, and this is a good case study to encourage others to i) map other ontologies and ii) improve this mapping. @Lydia Pintscher (WMDE): Are you OK with this? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:24, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Given that this week is a bit thin anyway yeah. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 21:06, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Papers

When a new paper is added, I think it would be worth creating an item for it as well. Maybe we should even link the item instead of the URL instead. I don't think we have included Q27038095 + a few others yet.
--- Jura 10:26, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

This is harmful; the purpose of this newsletter is to inform Wikidata volunteers and to encourage others to contribute; not to provide liked data to bots. Per the edit summary, @Lydia Pintscher (WMDE):. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:25, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Hey :) I agree that it is quite confusing for people not intimately familiar with Wikidata. Our interface etc are just not good enough there yet. If you really want to include it how about adding something like "(also covered at Q1234)"? --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 11:06, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
I wonder if anybody not familiar with Wikidata is reading the weekly update. At least for these, it should be sufficiently "user friendly". The problem with providing urls is that they are not stable. Besides, the item provides additional information. Obviously, we could link the discussion of the papers in the forum instead.
--- Jura 11:10, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
As said earlier, I suggest we let the URL because it's the quickest way to access the content. But editors can definitely create items for the papers and add the Qid besides the URL.
If you see a paper or another information that could be useful in the newsletter, don't hesitate to add it, it's a collaborative work :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:18, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Not sure what to say to people who see Wikidata items as "not user friendly" and "harmful". Makes one wonder if we are really on the same page.
--- Jura 08:24, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
My concern is that people who want to access the content can do it in only one click. If there is only the item, one will need to click on it, then find the link to the complete content, then click again to access. We know that if the process is not immediate, we loose attention from the readers. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:42, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
The problem is that these papers are frequently hosted at various places and it might not even be clear which one we should actually link to. I think it's an occasion to showcase Wikidata's capability as a database for references. Obviously, you might want to do that on an internal WMDE wiki instead.
--- Jura 08:53, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata items are user friendly for people who want to see the data Wikidata stores. In this case, people will want to see the content of the articles, not their metadata. To extend your metaphor, is you who is on the wrong page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:38, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Monthly Tasks

I've boldly shuffled around, and partially rewritten, the Monthly Tasks section. I was primarily trying to get the developer-focused task away from the top, and thus make the list a bit more enticing for the diversity of readers. I also added a direct link to the Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested and open tasks page, which could always use more attention. HTH. :-) Quiddity (talk) 20:14, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 10:12, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): Hi, the latest "clean for the next one" edit, reverted all the tweaks to the "Monthly tasks" section. Just a note, so that you can copy the newer version, to wherever you store the empty skeleton. :-) Quiddity (talk) 17:44, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
@Quiddity: Indeed! Thanks for the notice :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 09:17, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Headings

The copy of the last newsletter left at my en.Wikipedia talk page had the wrong level of headings (fixed here. Please can we avoid a recurrence? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:42, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

My bad, I'm sorry for this inconvenience. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 09:02, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Becoming Wikidatian research paper

This paper is now complete: Wikidatians are Born: Paths to Full Participation in a Collaborative Structured Knowledge Base. It may be worth including in a weekly status update. Runner1928 (talk) 16:39, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I added it! Next time, feel free to add it directly, the weekly summary is open for contributions :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 09:19, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Dev

Why there are mentioned (thanked) only some Dev contributor(s) in the corresponding paragraph? There should be mentioned either all of them or none. --XXN, 13:54, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Hello, usually we don't mention namely the employees who work in the development team. However, when a volunteer creates a new feature or fixes a bug, we mention his name to show support and appreciation. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 22:11, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Christmas

Are we still planning on publishing an edition next week, as Monday is Christmas Day? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:54, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Sorry I totally missed this. Published one day later. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 15:50, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Userscripts

Do you have a policy about userscripts? A few times there have been userscripts in the newsletter, but not often. -- MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 13:07, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

No policy, no. If they are useful for other people and worth advertising then it is ok to add them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 15:50, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Newest properties

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE), Lydia Pintscher (WMDE): use at your discretion :) 

# List of all properties newer than the number in line 13,
# split up between external identifiers and all other properties.
# For the weekly summary, adjust the number in line 13 to the highest number mentioned in the last weekly summary,
# run the query and paste the results into the summary.
# (Note: results should hopefully be ordered, but this is not guaranteed.
# In particular, it’s possible that the order flips from ascending to descending
# if something about the way the query is optimized changes.)
SELECT ?identifierProperties ?otherProperties WITH {
  SELECT ?property ?propertyId ?label WHERE {
    ?property a wikibase:Property.
    BIND(SUBSTR(STR(?property), STRLEN(STR(wd:)) + 1) AS ?propertyId)
    BIND(xsd:integer(SUBSTR(?propertyId, 2)) AS ?propertyNumber)
    FILTER(?propertyNumber > 4721)
    OPTIONAL {
      ?property rdfs:label ?labelEn.
      FILTER(LANG(?labelEn) = "en")
    }
    BIND(COALESCE(?labelEn, "no label"@en) AS ?label)
  }
  ORDER BY DESC(?propertyNumber)
} AS %results WITH {
  SELECT (GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT("[[:d:Property:", ?propertyId, "|", ?label, "]]"); separator = ", ") AS ?identifierProperties) WHERE {
    INCLUDE %results.
    ?property wikibase:propertyType wikibase:ExternalId.
  }
} AS %identifierProperties WITH {
  SELECT (GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT("[[:d:Property:", ?propertyId, "|", ?label, "]]"); separator = ", ") AS ?otherProperties) WHERE {
    INCLUDE %results.
    MINUS { ?property wikibase:propertyType wikibase:ExternalId. }
  }
} AS %otherProperties WHERE {
  INCLUDE %identifierProperties.
  INCLUDE %otherProperties.
}
Try it!

--Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 15:47, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks :) --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 15:51, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Oh, but I didn’t know that the bot that normally does this is open source, so I submitted a PR there as well :) --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 18:33, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
@Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE): Thanks for the PR. --Pasleim (talk) 19:14, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
@Pasleim: Thanks for the speedy merge! And I see it’s deployed as well now, hooray :) --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 16:14, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

@Pasleim, Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE): This is a great improvement, but we now display the text as:

  • Other datatypes: ...
  • External identifiers: ...

It reads oddly to have "other" first; may we either reverse the order, or change the former to, say, "General datatypes"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:49, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

I agree it’s weird, I just couldn’t think of a good name for “other”. “General datatypes” sounds okay… --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 10:58, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Ok, I changed it [3]. --Pasleim (talk) 12:40, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Thanks @Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE), Pasleim: for the improvements! Many readers of the newsletter will be happy about this :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:35, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Additions without clear Wikidata scope

What is the point of adding things like this where readers don't even know what it has to do with Wikidata? Ping Pigsonthewing and Lea Lacroix. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 16:10, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Hey :) I've listened to the first 15 minutes of it now. Andy is talking quite a bit about Wikidata in the podcast, especially about the relation with Wikispecies, which doesn't get too much attention otherwise. So I've left it in. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 21:49, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:44, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Events/Press/Blogs

What would folk think of splitting "Events/Press/Blogs" into two; say "Events" and, say, "Coverage" (or "Media coverage")? The latter often incudes audio and video. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:44, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

WMCON

@Lea Lacroix (WMDE): maybe put links to Wikidata related sessions, what did happen in last three days? Not sure about right section. P.S. Was nice to meet you and Lydia :) --Edgars2007 (talk) 08:55, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Sure, I'll have a look, and if some documentation is not online yet, I'll put it in the next WeekSum :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 09:27, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Issue of April 23rd will be sent on April 24th

Just a short notice, for various reasons I will only be able to send the WeekSum tomorrow morning, around 10am (Berlin time). Which means people have a few more hours to add content in there :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 12:06, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

"Underused properties created >3 months"

For "Underused properties created >3 months" part of summary I have report of such properties. Maybe add a link to it? And yes, now it'll be updated regularly (once a week) --Edgars2007 (talk) 16:24, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Next issue (May 21st)

Hello all,

Just to let you know that the next issue of the Weekly Summary will be published in the late evening tonight, or early tomorrow morning. That means you have a bit more time to add information in there ;) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:11, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Issue of June 18th will be sent on June 19th

Hello all,

I'll publish and send the Weekly Summary of this week, tomorrow morning (Tuesday, June 19th). That means you have a few more hours if you want to add content :)

Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 13:59, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Schedule of issues in July

Hello all,

Because I'm traveling to several conferences, the schedule of the issues will be slightly modified.

  • July 9th: the issue will be sent on Tuesday, July 10th
  • July 16th: the issue should be sent on time
  • July 23th: the issue will be sent on Wednesday, July 25th
  • July 30th: back to normal

Thanks for your understanding and thanks for helping me filling the newsletter! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 14:40, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Issue of September 3th

Hello,

For information, the issue of September 3th will be sent only on September 4th around 10:00 (UTC+2). You can keep adding information until that time. Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 09:51, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Schedule of next issues

Hello all,

The schedule of the next issues will be slightly changed:

  • Issue of September 24th: will be sent on Tuesday, September 25th morning (around 10:00, UTC+2)
  • Issue of October 1st: will be sent as usual
  • Issue of October 8th: will be sent on Tuesday, October 9th morning

Thanks for your understanding and thanks to everyone who helps filling the newsletter :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 15:13, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Move

When it finish, it can move to this week and create next page. Nhatminh01 (talk) 14:57, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Vietnamese Wikipedia

Why it don't post this week (24/9) to Vietnamese Wikipedia? Nhatminh01 (talk) 09:54, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Schedule of next issues

FYI, the schedule of the next issues will be the following:

  • 5.11. should be sent on 5.11. afternoon/evening
  • 12.11. as usual
  • 19.11. as usual
  • 26.11. will be sent on the next day
  • 03.12. will be sent on the next day

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 16:05, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Schedule of issues for the end of the year

Hello,

I'm not sure if anyone is really interested by this, but I'm writing it here for the sake of tracking :D

Because of various events and holidays in Germany, the following issues will be sent on a different day than Monday:

  • December 17th: will be sent on December 19th
  • December 24th: will be sent on December 27th or 28th
  • December 31st: will be sent on January 1st
  • January 7th: back to normal

Thanks for your understanding, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 15:42, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

"Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata" blog post

I wrote a blog post about adding the PCGamingWiki ID (P6337) property to Wikidata and using Ruby scripts to associate a bunch of video games with their PCGamingWiki IDs, not sure what the criteria is for getting added to the press section of the weekly update, but I figured I'd suggest it :) https://connorshea.gitlab.io/blog/connecting-pcgw-and-wikidata.html Nicereddy (talk) 06:32, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! user:JeanFred already added it :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 11:08, 14 January 2019 (UTC)


Wikidata at WMPL Winter Retreat

Hi! Just to let you know: Wikimedia Poland (Q9346299) is holding its annual Winter Retreat this weekend in Kalisz (Q52842) and on Sunday there will be a Wikidata session. Yarl will give a general, introductury lecture on WD and then he will hold a Q&A session. This will be followed by my lecture about some of WD tools. Powerek38 (talk) 17:41, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Queries or redirects

I just replaced a few redirecting urls with the actual queries, thinking that people are expecting queries in the query section of newsletter, not some redirect. The queries can be read without actually clicking on them. Afterwards I noticed that @Lea Lacroix (WMDE): you had previously done the opposite. Maybe we can have both, similarly to when we were debating whether we should have the item about a scholarly article or a direct link to an article. --- Jura 06:13, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

The links are linking to queries. In the past people asked me to reduce the number of characters of the newsletter: the URL shortener is serving that purpose, that's why I use it. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 18:37, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
I think it's better to send out the actual queries than redirects. Otherwise you could just link to an onsite page with the queries. When displayed, there shouldn't be much difference in the number of characters. --- Jura 18:44, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
An onsite page with the query would require that the reader makes two clicks before accessing to the query. With the URL shortener, it's transparent for the user: they click on the link, access to the query. Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 06:53, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
An onsite page could easily cover several queries. One could just read the entire page. I don't see what's transparent about an url shortener. There is no indication what will be displayed. --- Jura 09:22, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
+1 for using the new redirects Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:19, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Next issue on August 18th

FYI, because of Wikimania, the next issue of the newsletter will be published a bit earlier than usual, on Sunday August 18th rather than Monday 19th. Feel free to add content before tomorrow! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:52, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Next issue on April 14th

Hello all,

Just to let you know that because of the holiday, the issue of next week will be published on Tuesday, April 14th instead of Monday, April 13th.

Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 09:19, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

4 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories

Hi, maybe something for the next issue: there are now over 4 million uses of commons:Template:Wikidata Infobox in Commons categories (plus more in galleries). See commons:Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:55, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Added line : diff -- Jheald (talk) 07:15, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. -Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 17:02, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

View it! Translation request

Hello! View it! is working on becoming multilingual and we are seeking assistance with localization. Could a one line request be added to the appropriate section of the upcoming update?

"View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations."

Thank you!! JamieF (talk) 02:36, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Yes. Please go ahead and add it under the "Other Noteworthy Stuff" section. -Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 14:39, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
Thanks so much, added. JamieF (talk) 18:28, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Next issue on December 27th

Hello,

This is a reminder that due to the Boxing Day holiday, the next issue of the newsletter will be published on Tuesday, December 27th. Please note the change in schedule. Thank you. -Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 15:27, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

Next issue on January 3rd

Hello,

Please take note, due to the holidays the next issue of the newsletter will be published on Tuesday, January 3rd. Thank you. -Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 16:00, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Reorder?

Just a suggestion, it might be worth thinking through the order of items in the newsletter. While I personally love bots, I'm not sure it should be the first thing displayed - maybe better to focus on events/calls for action? It also feels a bit odd that new property proposals are under 'Did you know' (which is normally used for specific facts). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:52, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, Mike. While it's a valid point and the change may seem insignificant, I have to consider the impact on my tools and workflow. However, if there are a few more people who share the same opinion, I would be happy to reorder the items in the newsletter. - Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) (talk) 08:54, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Créer plus de formations et élargir l'organisation.

J'aimerais que vous organisez plus de formations au sein de votre organisation et créer une formation spéciale aux nouveaux arrivants . Baname LARE (talk) 07:00, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

(apologies for responding in English). Could you clarify if this is a request to WMDE to organize a training? If so, could you please provide more information about the specific training you are interested in? We'd be happy to connect you with people in your community who may be able to assist. -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 19:26, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Au fait, mon souhait, c'est d'organiser beaucoup des ateliers de formation. C'est une doléance,au fait. Merci. Baname LARE (talk) 08:19, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Bonjour @Baname LARE: et merci pour votre message.
Il existe de nombreuses formations à Wikidata qui sont accessibles en ligne. Vous pouvez par exemple trouver ici des vidéos courtes expliquant Wikidata, qui proviennent du MOOC Wikidata de Wikimédia France. Vous pouvez aussi trouver une présentation de Wikidata en français ici, ou encore une présentation de quelques outils intéressants ici. Sur Wikidata, vous pouvez vous aider des pages d'aide et des visites guidées.
Si vous souhaitez organiser des formations en présentiel, le mieux est de vous adresser à un groupe d'utilisateurs Wikimedia dans votre pays. Vous pouvez contacter Wikimédia Togo ou encore les Wikimédiens du Cameroun, qui parlent français et organisent parfois des ateliers Wikidata. Enfin, n'hésitez pas à regarder du côté de WikiFranca, le groupement d'associations francophones.
J'espère que cela vous sera utile. Bonne continuation, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 10:04, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Super ! Je satisfait. Merci à vous. Baname LARE (talk) 11:21, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Tool of the week Archived

Tool of the week Backlog

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  • NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add. (2019-08-19)
  • Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable. (2019-08-26)
  • Cocoda is a web application to manage mappings between authority files. It supports editing Wikidata-mappings including GND, Basisklassifikation, Regensburg Classification, Iconclass, and Nomisma. Cocoda can be used like mix'n'match but for more complex mappings. (2019-09-02)
  • User:Matěj Suchánek/moveClaim.js Move or copy claims from one item to another. Especially usefull when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items. (2019-09-09)
  • Hauki lets you browse existing lexemes, add senses to them, and easily create new lexemes for common languages and lexical categories. (2019-09-16)
  • namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of name items, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements). (2019-09-23)
  • This Recent changes tool allows to get a list of unpatrolled Wikidata changes with enhanced filters that are more adapted to Wikidata than the standard Recent Changes page. Available actions include mass patroling and easier revert interface. (2019-09-30)
  • soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend Mix'n'match, our beloved knowledge base gets ready to become the universal linking hub of open data. (2019-10-07)
  • ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown. (2019-10-14)
  • The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels. (2019-10-21)
  • MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata. (2019-10-29)
  • SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata. (2019-11-04)
  • Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on the phone. (2019-11-11)
  • User:Magnus Manske/mixnmatch gadget.js: displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them. (2019-11-18)
  • Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand. (2019-11-25)
  • Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated. (2019-12-02)
  • overpass Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct. (2019-12-09)
  • Recoin displays information about the relative completeness of a Wikidata item by comparing its statements with those found on other similar items. Especially useful for editors working in a knowledge area that is new to them. (2019-12-16)
  • PetScan revised version of the tool to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties (2019-12-30)
  • Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata. (2020-01-06)
  • Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated. (2020-01-13)
  • The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item. (2020-01-20)
  • Duplicate Item copies the current item (without descriptions or sitelinks) to a new item. This tool is useful for splitting items and for making sets of similar items. Recommended for experienced users. (2020-01-27)
  • VizQuery allows you to use Wikidata Query without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries. (2020-02-03)
  • Reasonator offers a "pretty" formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface. (2020-02-10)
  • Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties. (2020-02-17)
  • Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation (2020-02-24)
  • Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs. (2020-03-02)
  • TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab (2020-03-16)
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once. (2020-03-23)
  • IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part (2020-03-30)
  • Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages. (2020-04-06)
  • COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications. (2020-04-13)
  • Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added. (2020-04-20)
  • zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary. (2020-04-27)
  • ProWD explores completeness for entities and classes (2020-05-04)
  • WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities (2020-05-11)
  • WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis. (2020-05-18)
  • If you're looking for even more tools, the Tools Directory indexes over 130 Wikidata tools. (2020-05-25)
  • wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI. (2020-06-01)
  • QuickStatements lets you edit thousands of Wikidata items at a time. Add labels and descriptions, or statements with sources and qualifiers, add sitelinks, create or merge items, or remove statements that were created in error. Batches can be discussed and, if necessary, reverted in full through the EditGroups tool. (2020-06-08)
  • Mix'n'match lets you match lists of external identifiers to Wikidata items, or create new items if necessary. Thousands of catalogs already exist, in dozens of different topic areas, and it's easy to import new ones. (2020-06-15)
  • The currentDate gadget automatically adds the current date when using retrieved in a reference. (2020-06-22)
  • The Sourcerer edit game suggests some sources that could fit to a claim and helps people adding references easily. (2020-06-29)
  • Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary. (2020-07-06)
  • DragNDrop.js makes it possible to show a Wikipedia article and drag items to Wikidata. (2020-07-13)
  • User:Frettie/consistency_check_add.js check consistency and add missing relations of a Wikidata object like father/son... (2020-07-20)
  • SQID allows you to analyse, browse and query Wikidata. SQID is inspired by Magnus Manske's Reasonator, but focuses on prominently featuring information about Wikidata classes and properties. (2020-08-03)
  • OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher links Wikidata entries to places in OpenStreetMap. (2020-08-10)
  • Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video) (2020-08-17)
  • Sophox allows for SPARQL querying of Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in a single query (2020-08-24)
  • Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension that displays Wikidata items while browsing the web, adds missing IDs and extracts information from websites to Wikidata. (2020-08-31)
  • wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/WD_percentUsageDashboard is a dashboard that measures Wikidata's usage and coverage on Wikimedia Foundation projects. (2020-09-07)
  • Mbabel is a tool that simplifies article creation by providing pre-made sentences based on Wikidata statements. (2020-09-14)
  • Copy Qid is a user script by Abbe98 that allows you to copy the Qid with one click. (2020-09-21)
  • omeka-s-wikidata is an Omeka-S module for auto-suggesting Wikidata URIs and labels. (2020-09-28)
  • IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects. (2020-10-05)
  • OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video (2020-10-12)
  • Prepbio tool uses Wikidata to create the beginnings of a Wikipedia stub biography article. (2020-10-19)
  • WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements. (2020-10-26)
  • reCH is a Wikidata antivandalism tool that is used to review edits and patrol new changes. (2020-11-02)
  • Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references. (2020-11-09)
  • ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata. (2020-11-16)
  • EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item. (2020-11-23)
  • osm2kg is a tool to facilitate matching Wikidata entries to OSM nodes. (2020-11-30)
  • User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)
  • datao.net is a visual tool for querying and exposing Wikidata easily. (2020-12-14)
  • Wikidata Live is a real-time visual dashboard for Wikidata edits; paper, interface (visualises recent changes to Wikidata in quasi real time). (2020-12-21)
  • Template:TP administrative area is a new template designed for all items which are instance of administrative territorial entity. It defines useful queries for those items. For example, {{QT|Q173695}} links to this page. Feedback and contributions are welcome. (2020-12-28)
  • User:Bargioni/WikiBridge.js userscript enables you to add a tabbed section to Wikidata items showing some paragraphs from Wikipedias chosen by the Babel languages of the logged in user. Demo video (in Italian) (2021-01-04)
  • QueryGraph is a web tool for creating queries in SPARQL from graphs. (2021-01-11)
  • User:Lagewi/navigation.js userscript enables adding links to list subclasses and instances to Wikidata items. (2021-01-18)
  • TAViewer is a web-based anatomy atlas viewer that cross-references Terminologia Anatomica terms with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata. (2021-01-25)
  • Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items. (2021-02-01)
  • Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example. (2021-02-08)
  • Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once. (2021-02-15)
  • UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this YouTube video for more information) (2021-02-22)
  • LexemeForms-SearchPage adds links on the search results page for creating new lexemes using the Lexeme Forms tool based on the languages in your Babel box. (2021-03-01)
  • Panoviewer.js inserts an iframe from the Panoviewer tool to photosphere image (P4640) statements.(2021-03-08)
  • User:Nikki/LexemeToggleSections.js script allows to expand/collapse the sections on lexeme pages. (2021-03-15)
  • Sparql_rc is a recent changes feed that only shows you changes in an area of Wikidata you care about. It now also supports Lexemes. (2021-03-22)
  • d:User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js userscript is a proper entity suggester that gives a fixed set of properties for various languages. (2021-03-29)
  • QRank is a tool providing a rank for Wikidata entities based on page view statistics from several Wikimedia projects. (2021-04-05)
  • EditSum, a user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification. (2021-04-12)
  • User:So9q/Gadget-CreateNewEntity.js is a userscript to add a "create new item" link in the dropdown menu for when you want to * add an item to a property, but the item does not exist. (recently modified to support lexemes). (2021-04-19)
  • User:So9q/AddNewLexemeMenu.js is a userscript that adds a section to the sidebar with links for creating new lexemes. (2021-04-26)
  • Wikinegata is a platform for browsing interesting negations about Wikidata entities. (Overview video) (2021-05-03)
  • User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page. (2021-05-10)
  • User:Lucas Werkmeister/hyphenation-point.js is a user script replaces any | characters with U+2027 HYPHENATION POINT when editing hyphenation snaks. (2021-05-17)
  • User:Jon Harald Søby/compact items.css is a stylesheet that shrinks the vertical space items take up on your screen, reducing the need to scroll to get an overview of an item. (screenshot). (2021-05-24)
  • User:So9q/ordia-link.js - is a script to add a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items. (2021-05-31)
  • Wikidata Image Positions is a tool to show and add relative position within image (P2677) qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata items as areas on the item’s image (P18). (2021-06-07)
  • SPARQL Jupyter notebooks in PAWS: PAWS is a wikitech services which allows to run Jupyter notebooks. There is a SPARQL kernel which makes it possible to run SPARQL queries. See this example notebook. (2021-06-14)
  • Template:PositionHolderHistory displays the full list of position holders for a given position. (2021-06-21)
  • Template:Generic queries for positions new template with generic queries for positions. (2021-06-21)
  • Template:Item documentation now includes Template:Generic queries for positions. It can be used for every position item in the talk page. See example with head of the United Nations Secretariat. (2021-06-28)
  • User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.(2021-07-05)
  • Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example) (2021-07-12)
  • searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region) (2021-07-19)
  • User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on lexeme pages (2021-07-26)
  • User:Mahir256/syndepgraph.js is used to make interesting SVG-based syntactic dependency graphs generated with {{Syndepgraph}} appear. (2021-08-02)
  • Template:Generic queries for musicians new wikidata template to explore the work of a musician. (2021-08-09)
  • User:So9q/duplicate item.js is a userscript that can duplicate the current item, minus sitelinks and descriptions (not allowed by Wikidata). (2021-08-09)
  • Template:SPARQL Inline is a Wikidata template which allows to write SPARQL query in Wikidata with a label. It is an alternative to Template:SPARQL and Template:Wdquery. (2021-08-16)
  • Python script to Add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons from an Excel sheet (Github) - by OlafJanssen (2021-08-23)
  • Wikidata2ical provides an ical file for each wikidata entity that has start time (P580) and end time (P582) (2021-08-30)
  • Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome (2021-09-06)
  • Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome (2021-09-13)
  • User:Inductiveload/scripts/ShowQsAndPs shows the Q and P IDs on Items. (2021-09-20)
  • User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API. (2021-09-27)
  • ItemSubjector is Python console tool that helps add main subject (P921) to groups of items in a semi-automatic way. (2021-10-04)
  • Neguess is a Wikidata entity guessing game with negative clues. (Demo video) (2021-10-11)
  • Snowman is a static site generator for SPARQL backend (source) (2021-10-18)
  • User:Bargioni/UseAsRef has now a 2.0 version, allowing to use as references not only external IDs but also some other properties (P1343, P973, P8214 etc.) (2021-10-25)
  • Cemeteries.wiki by Yamen is a project to display Dataviz and statistics about cemeteries all over the world. (2021-11-01)
  • are occupation labels gender neutral? a tool to explore gender neutrality of labels in different languages. (2021-11-08)
  • RAWGraphs, a dataviz tool which allows SPARQL queries (source) (2021-11-08)
  • ca:Plantilla:Infotaula persona, infobox for people on Catalan Wikipedia with extensive use of Wikidata, used 175000 times, with Bridge editing. Sample use at ca:Frits Zernike. (2021-11-15)
  • WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching. (2021-11-22)
  • New gadget available in the preferences: "compact items" makes the interface on item pages more compact (it was previously a gadget for common.css) (2021-11-29)
  • Weaviate big graph (source) : a vectorised search engine which returns similar items in Wikidata. (2021-12-06)
  • Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article using Wikidata's API and SPARQL (2021-12-13)
  • embeds.js: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more! (2021-12-13)
  • NoclaimsBot adds the first statements on items without claims based on the templates used on the linked article. (2021-12-20)
  • Articles created by country of citizenship : a javascript notebook which looks at the distribution of articles created by a user by country of citizenship (P27). It uses Wikidata's API through wikibase-sdk library. (2021-12-27)
  • Wikidata's Q item explorer: Show claims where the item is the subject of the statement but doesn't show statements where the item is the target value. (2022-01-03)
  • OneZoom "tree of life explorer" is an interactive map of the evolutionary links between all living things known to science using Wikidata.(2022-01-10)
  • Wiki History Game is a game based on Wikidata where you have to put events in order of when they happened. (2022-01-17)
  • GraphQL demo for WikiCite is a simple GraphQL interface to Wikidata. (2022-01-17)
  • Comparator compare the list of cited entities across two different wikipedia articles using Wikidata and SPARQL. (2022-01-24)
  • Basque version of Wordle using Wikidata's lexicographic data. Check it out! (2022-01-31)
  • Wikidata edit map puts a dot on the map whenever an Item with a geocoordinate is edited. (2022-02-07)
  • Equal Street Names is a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender. (2022-02-14)
  • Wikidata:Tools/asseeibot - is a tool made by User:So9q to improve the scientific articles in Wikidata. Source code on GitHub under GPLv3+ (2022-02-21)
  • Coinherbarium.com - coins depicting plants; powered by Wikidata (2022-02-21)
  • User:Guergana Tzatchkova (WMDE)/MismatchFinderWidget.js is a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it. (2022-02-28)
  • Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk. (2022-03-07)
  • User:Nikki/LexemeTranslations.js is a userscript that shows translations for a lexeme. The translations are inferred from statements on senses, such as item for this sense (P5137) (item for this sense). (2022-03-14)
  • Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata. (2022-03-21)
  • Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks. (2022-03-21)
  • Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules. (2022-03-28)
  • WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque. (2022-03-28)
  • QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it! (2022-04-04)
  • Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on open linked data. (2022-04-04)
  • Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources. (2022-04-11)
  • Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world! (2022-04-18)
  • Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plants information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries. (2022-04-18)
  • wikitaxa software written in R. (2022-04-25)
  • User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript to add a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items. (2022-04-25)
  • User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase. (2022-05-02)
  • EqualStreetNames - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions. (2022-05-02)
  • MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees! (2022-05-09)
  • User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags. (2022-05-09)
  • Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items! (2022-05-16)
  • LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage. (2022-05-23)
  • Template Item documentation is now automatically displayed in the header of each item's talk page via MediaWiki:Talkpageheader. (2022-05-30)
  • Article's wikilinks inspector (2022-06-06)
  • 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. (2022-06-13)
  • Wikidata Card Game Generator: generate card games from Wikidata! (2022-06-20)
  • IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata. (2022-06-27)
  • User:Lectrician1/AddStatement.js is a userscript that can add values to properties that already exist on an item and new statements. (2022-07-04)
  • User:Lectrician1/discographies.js: Shows chronological data about artist's discographies on music albums and provides functions to add new items. (2022-07-11)
  • User:Xiplus/TwinkleGlobal is a userscript that is used to combat cross-wiki spam or vandalism. (2022-07-11)
  • EntitySchema Generator - is a GUI to help create simple EntitySchemas for Wikidata. (2022-07-18)
  • User:Jean-Frédéric/ExLudo.js - is a userscript that adds links expansions and mods on item pages for video games. (2022-07-18)
  • 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. (2022-07-25)
  • Gender diversity inspector is a new tool to inspect gender diversity in Wikipedia articles based on SPARQL and Wikidata. (2022-08-01)
  • Wiki tools - adds dozens of Wikipedia and Wikidata functions to your Google sheets. (2022-08-08)
  • KnolCase is a case-based knowledge management tool for gathering information about subjects of interest and organizing these into case files. (2022-08-15)
  • 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. (2022-08-22)
  • SenseForThisItem.js: Adds a button on items to show what senses are linked to it. (2022-08-29)
  • Browse and search a collection of 2,400 SPARQL queries. See also the underlying dataset. (2022-09-05)
  • View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia. (2022-09-12)
  • 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). (2022-09-19)
  • 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. (2022-09-26)
  • User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017. (2022-10-04)
  • User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093). It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50). (2022-10-10)
  • New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items! (2022-10-17)
  • spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing (2022-10-24)
  • 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. 2022-10-31)
  • WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox. (2022-11-07)* QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries. (2022-11-14)
  • 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. (2022-11-14)
  • User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js is a userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes. (2022-11-21)
  • The user script User:Ainali/common-properties.js shows the most common properties using a specific value (video (YouTube)) (2022-11-28)
  • 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. (2022-12-05)
  • qualifier-constraint-usage.js: Shows what properties this qualifier is a required and allowed qualifier on at the bottom of the qualifier page. (2022-12-12)
  • 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.) (2022-12-19)
  • Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas (2022-12-19)
  • Fediscope (source) - lets you find fediverse accounts for people in a field using Wikidata. (2022-12-27)
  • OWL Map, a tool to help in linking Wikidata items with the matching object on OpenStreetMap. (2023-01-02)
  • Web Hub allows users to navigate between origin and destination on the web using information from Wikidata, primarily on Wikimedia sites. (2023-01-09)
  • Auhority Control data to Wikidata item - helps to create Wikidata Items based on authority control records. (2023-01-16)
  • A new Wikidata distributed game that populates instance of statements using a neural network. (2023-01-16)
  • Romain de Bossoreille has generated a map named Space Industry around the World using data from The Space Devs, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. (2023-01-23)
  • theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies. (2023-01-30)
  • Let's Quiz is a game that generates random quizzes to test your knowledge & learn something new every day. (2023-02-06)
  • User:Nikki/AddTermboxLanguage.js - makes it easier to add/edit labels to an item in a language other than the ones shown by default. (2023-02-06)
  • User:So9q/openalex-search-link-on-lexemes.js is a userscript that adds a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.
  • User:Nikki/DisplayColourSwatches.js is a userceripot that adds color swatches under color statements. (2023-02-20)
  • AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking. (2023-02-27)
  • wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata. (2023-03-06)
  • Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish) (2023-03-13)
  • User:BrokenSegue/shorten.js - makes statements boxes for a particular property scrollable if it is too tall (2023-03-20)
  • is Transparency Intl. Russia's project to track politicians assets. See tweet (2023-03-27)
  • User:Zvpunry/WikibaseEcho.js is a userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. (2023-04-03)
  • Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool that lets you learn words in different languages, based on images. (2023-04-11)
  • Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it. (2023-04-17)
  • 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. (2023-04-24)
  • Twitter Wikipedia Badge - is a Chrome extension for verifying a Twitter username using Wikidata. (code, Tweet) (2023-05-02)
  • Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. (2023-05-08)
  • tidywikidatar is an R package for exploring the wealth of information stored by Wikidata. (2023-05-15)
  • https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:So9q/CreateNewEntity.js - got improved to support up to 11 languages. (2023-05-22)
  • https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Nikki/TalkPageHeader.js (2023-05-29)
  • 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. (2023-06-05)
  • narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens. (2023-06-12)
  • 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.(2023-06-19)
  • User:Nikki/NarrowUI.css is a User script that tries to make Wikidata work better on narrower screens, including mobile devices. (2023-06-26)
  • m:User:Base/Scripts/HaveWikibaseLabelLowercased.js - is a User script 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. (2023-07-03)
  • 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) (2023-07-10)
  • 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. (2023-07-10)
  • 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) (2023-07-17)
  • 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) (2023-07-24)
  • osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side. (2023-07-31)
  • 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) (2023-08-07)
  • Everything is connected - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections. (2023-08-14)
  • Psychiq, a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content. (2023-08-21)
  • 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. (2023-08-28)
  • User:Sanqui/referenceurl.js - is a userscript that adds a button to add a reference which immediately suggests reference URL (P854). (2023-09-04)
  • Peppercat is a website listing government ministers, and other key political leaders, from all over the world, taking data from Wikidata. More information (2023-09-11)
  • 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. (2023-09-18)
  • 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. (2023-09-25)
  • Swiss Archives Interactive Map 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. (2023-10-02)
  • 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. (2023-10-09)
  • Map Kerala (https://wikiproject-kerala.github.io/Panchayat/) uses Wikidata to distinguish Panchayats of Kerala at a glance based on three distinct identifier codes (LGD code, LSG code, SEC code). (2023-10-16)
  • User:Nikki/ChecksumCheck.js <-- This script displays a symbol after external identifiers which contain checksums, to indicate whether the checksum in the identifier is correct. Currently only supporting a small number of Identifiers. (2023-10-16)
  • 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. (2023-10-23)
  • User:Magnus Manske/author sort.js is a user script to automatically sort the authors of a paper in the order they appear on the paper, ie. by sorting author (P50) and author name string (P2093) statements by series ordinal (P1545). Example: One Hundred and Seventeen Clades of Euagarics (Q28209168). (2023-10-30)
  • Notable People is a map project by Topi Tjukanov that showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. It uses the combined data of Wikipedia and Wikidata from the paper's "a cross-verified database of notable people, 3500 BC-2018 AD" by Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoît Eyméoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique & Etienne Wasmer. The data shows only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank. (2023-10-30)
  • subclass of, new Observable tool to test which item is a subclass of another. (2023-11-06)
  • 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. (2023-11-13)
  • 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. (2023-11-20)
  • Luthor - tool for finding usage examples from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata. (2023-11-20)
  • Harvest Templates - is a tool that helps transfer data from Wikimedia projects to Wikidata. (2023-11-27)
  • 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. (2023-11-27)
  • ZotWB - A python app for LODifying bibliographical data, involving Zotero, Wikibase, and Wikidata. (2023-12-04)
  • 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) (2023-12-11)

  • 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. (2023-12-18)
  • Magnus Manske added a new game to the Wikidata game to identify duplicate Items for researchers. (2023-12-18)
  • Mike Peel set up a new Distributed Game to add links to Wikiquote to Wikidata. (2023-12-18)
  • 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). (2023-12-25)
  • 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. (2023-12-25)
  • WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties. (2024-01-02)
  • 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). (2024-01-08)
  • 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. (2024-01-15)
  • 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. (2024-01-15)
  • Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio. (2024-01-22)
  • Wikidata's insights for featured and good Wikipedia articles, a new Observable's notebook which helps exploring good articles or featured articles in any Wikipedia using Wikidata properties such as P31, P21, P106, P17, P27, etc.
  • SpeedPatrolling - This tool helps Wikidata editors to patrol recent changes. (2024-01-29)
  • metaphacts and Ontotext launch a new end-user interface on top of the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: try it here! (2024-01-29)

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