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The Signpost: 30 September 2022
- News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
- In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
- Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
- Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
- Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
- Featured content: Farm-fresh content
- CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
This Month in Education: September 2022
This Month in Education
Volume 11 • Issue 9 • September 2022
- OpenEdu.ch: centralising training documents, a platform for the teachers' community in Switzerland
- Senior Citizens WikiTown 2022: Exploring Olomouc and its heritage
- Wikimedia Research Fund
- Wikimedia Youths Commemorate the International Youth Day 2022 in an exciting way across the globe
- Wikipedia, Education, and the Crisis of Information
Wikidata weekly summary #540
- 🧵Discussions
- Open request for adminship:
- Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- EuropeanCommissionBot 1
- Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
- William Avery Bot 10
- EuropeanCommissionBot 1
- Open request for adminship:
- 🎊 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)
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
- 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
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
- 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
- Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
- Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
- 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.
- Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
- View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations.
- 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
- It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
- Job openings
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: won sets
- External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
- External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID
- Query examples:
- UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
- Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers (source)
- British Monarchs vs. US Presidents (source)
- Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
- Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
- Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
- Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine (source)
- Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
- People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
- Films with "it" in the title (source)
- Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
- Emblems depicting birds! (source)
- Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Improved handling of localized language names (phab:T261851/phab:T275781)
- REST API:
- Continued work on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
- We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (phab:T318151)
- Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (phab:T318221)
- Continued work on the mul language code (phab:T285156)
- Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (phab:T313477)
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!
This Month in GLAM: September 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #541
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Live editing session on Twitch as part of the DACH Culture Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset.
- UM Data Science Research Seminar. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata
- Ongoing
- DACH Culture Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th.
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals
- Past
- The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia.
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In
- Videos
- Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #93
- DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World
- Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena
- Dataviz
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- 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)
- ✨ 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.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: model image
- External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID, Oculus Store ID, UniChem compound ID, Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number
- External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID, C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID
- Query examples:
- Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes. qapla'!
- Map of historic Welsh parishes (source)
- "Controversies」 articles with the most sitelinks (language versions) (source)
- Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source)
- Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses (source)
- Map of Rennes, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source)
- Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 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!
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #542
- 🧵Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- DwdsBot
- Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
- RobertgarrigosBOT
- Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
- Josh404Bot 4
- Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
- BorkedBot 8
- Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate
- DwdsBot
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
- Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
- Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
- Ongoing
- Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #63, Vehicles
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
- Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- Papers
- The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
- Videos
- Dataviz
- Twitter threads
- 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
- 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
- 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
- The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
- The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
- Job opening
- Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
- External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
- External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID
- Query examples:
- Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
- Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
- How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
- Streets of Paris that meet (source)
- Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 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!
- 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.
- 🫶 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!
《通用行為準則》執行規範修訂版的諮詢期已經結束
《通用行為準則》執行規範修訂版的社群諮詢期自2022年9月8日開始,已經於10月8日結束。在過去幾週裡,通用行為準則項目團隊舉辦了三場對話時間,讓維基人齊聚一起討論修訂版的執行規範。項目團隊在此期間收到了許多寶貴的社群意見,對話時間內未回答的問題會後也透過書面方式回答。
接下來修訂委員會將審查社群的意見,通用行為準則項目團隊也會持續提供支援,並向社群分享所有重大進展與里程碑。委員會將完成最終版本,預計在2023年1月中旬進行社群投票。
如果您還有相關意見尚未發表,歡迎與我聯繫,或透過其他渠道分享,例如在運動策略論壇上發表。--VChang (WMF)(留言) 2022年10月18日 (二) 16:08 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #543
- 🧵Discussions
- Closed request for adminship:
- Welcome onboard, Wd-Ryan!
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- AniMangaDBImportBot
- Task/s: Imports properties include genre (P136), intended public (P2360), publication date (P577). Adds references to new and/or existing values from the databases they are imported from.
- AniMangaDBImportBot
- Closed request for adminship:
- 🎊 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.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour October 24, 2022: ninth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be batch loading data using QuickStatements to create items for 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. Event page
- October, 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXV: Modeling Elections
- Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 25 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- [LIVE Wikidata editing #96] Wikidata Birthday special of Wikidata live editing with surprise guests, October 29 18.00 UTC YouTube
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #126, October 30 at 13.00 UTC
- Webinar: Exploring Wikidata to Find Good Stories - October 28 at 7:00 PM CEST (in Portuguese)
- Ongoing
- Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Vegetables
- Past
- The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online. It included a session about the role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data, which featured six talks, all of which with strong Wikidata components. Slides and/ or video recordings are already available for some (more to follow):
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
- Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
- What you need to know to kickstart a Wikidata Initiative
- Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister, reaches 100 million items (in Dutch)
- Volunteers speaking Turkic languages met at Wikidata Istanbul 2022 (in Turkish)
- Videos
- Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2022. A panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #95
- GND meets Wikibase
- COVIWD - Lightning Talk @Wikidata Workshop 2022
- Wikidata 10th Birthday Speaker Series 3 - Sustaining a Wikidata Initiative
- Wikidata 10 years celebration video by WMTURKIC
- Wikidata at the museum: lowering thresholds for research with linked data in Sweden
- Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia (The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference in 2022)
- Papers
- Dataviz
- Twitter threads
- Presentations
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing.
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Viveport ID, Larousse Online French Dictionary ID, RaiPlay ID, Rai Teche person ID, Rai Teche program ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: shortened URL formatter, addresses, model for, e-mail subscription URL, official websites, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, about, Rotational speed, NIP
- External identifiers: Piraeus Library ID, note.com ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Mod DB engine ID, Litres author ID, Bureau of Meteorology Location Identifier, OKRB 011-2022 code, Cimetière russe ID, New Cinematografo.it IDs, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID
- Query examples:
- Number of French lexemes per number of dictionaries they are linked to (source)
- People born in Split or Šibenik for whom there is a statement that they wrote or spoke Latin (source)
- Locations of employers/affiliations of first authors of articles in the Journal of Cheminformatics (source)
- Birthplaces of the presidents of the American Medical Association (source)
- Flags containing the colors white and yellow (source)
- AI models (source)
- Swedes accused for churel (source)
- Lunar craters and gender of their namesakes (source)
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Lexicographical data: New Lexeme creation page will be live on Wikidata on November 2nd (phab:T307866)
- Updated the ontology file at https://wikiba.se/ontology (phab:T314360)
- Mismatch Finder: Added a Random mode to make it easier to get mismatches (phab:T302289)
- REST API:
- Documented the differences in the JSON data format between the REST API and the ActionAPI (phab:T318681)
- Continued work on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors (phab:T320358)
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!
The Signpost: 31 October 2022
- From the team: A new goose on the roost
- News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
- Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
- Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
- Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
- Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
Wikidata weekly summary #544
- 🎊 Events
- Upcoming
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 1, 2022: Egon Willighagen (d:User:Egonw) on SARS-CoV-2 queries, a a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to d:Wikidata:Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda.
- Past
- Wikidata's 10th birthday: see the list of events (some of them are taking place in November), the presents and birthday messages, and the Commons category with photos and videos of the events
- Some additional materials have been made available from the Wikimedia session at the Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) that took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online:
- Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- Community Data Mobilization in Wikidata: A paleontology perspective
- Connecting IndExs Editors and exsiccata IDs with Wikidata for Disambiguation of People Names and Work in Botanical and Mycological Collections
- Upcoming
- ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Make Wikidata also Colorful: Using Media in Wikidata by Jsamwrites
- Interview of Lydia Pintscher for Wikidata's 10th birthday (English and German)
- Videos
- Threads
- Blogs
- 🧰 Tool of the week
- ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.
- 🤔 Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: embargoed until
- External identifiers: HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID, C64-Wiki ID, Merriam-Webster online dictionary entry, Undiscovered Scotland ID, Mod DB engine ID, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Inventory identifier, CCB ID, Project Identification Code (Dams), shortened URL formatter, Reddit topic ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma Dada organisation ID, Asian Tour player ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: about, Rotational speed, NIP, Imagem da platibanda, tiratge, Dictionary.com entry, software feature, Base Units, processes to, build system, one of class, Mac OS creator code
- External identifiers: Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID, RISM siglum, Cinemaazi ID, Hypothèses notebook ID, SMA ID, KBR Catalogue ID for writers, Aathavanitli Gani song ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, Identificador Musicsperlacobla de sardana, Identificador musicsperlacobla de compositor, Identificador boig sardanista de sardana, travelweekly hotel ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Cinemaazi people ID
- Query examples:
- Collaborative map of events taking place for Wikidata's 10th birthday
- Birth year of winning candidate of the last eight U.S. presidential elections (source)
- Number of music albums by language in descending order (source)
- French préfets with their signature on Commons (source)
- Graph of filmi music composers (source)
- Map of the highest points of Spain provinces (source)
- Twitter usernames and associated mastodon adresses
- Newest properties:
- 🧑🏿💻 Development
- Sitelinks to Redirects are now available on Wikidata
- Lexicographical data: We are replacing the existing Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866)
- Mismatch Finder: Working on improving the handling of calendar models and precision in dates (phab:T288511)
- REST API: Continued working on better error handling for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
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
- Suggested and open tasks!
- 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!