This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2023-09-18.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, FlyingAce! ( see the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 4 (Task: Import commune of France contact data from french official directory, french official directory
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot: JoRobot 8 (Task: Removing good list badge from articles in the Catalan Wikipedia)

• Events
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 15, 2023. We will learn how to use Zotero, the reference management software, and its browser plugin to automatically extract metadata for articles and convert them to a Wikidata format that can be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. More information on the event page

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Paper: Documenting Biodiversity in Underrepresented Languages using Crowdsourcing - Mohammed Kamal-Deen Dnshitobu Fuseini, Agnes Ajuma Abah, Andra Waagmeester
  • Press: Statement by Alliance F5 on the German Government's data strategy (in German)
  • Videos
    • List of free software in le socle interministériel de logiciels libres (SILL/the interministerial base of free software) recommended by the French Government in Wikidata - Nicolas Vigneron
    • Georeferencing using OSM and Wikidata - Oficina Wiki Apoia
    • Members of Riksdag (Sweden's parlement) - Magnus Sälgö
    • Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments with Content Partnerships Hub - Wikimedia Sweden
    • From self-documentation to federated querying using Wikibase: a new topology to Media Art Archiving? - Raphael Tsz Kin Chau

• Tool of the week
  • LowercaseDescription.js is a script that adds a link to automatically lower the first letter of an item's description in the user's language.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now browse all the Wikibase instances hosted on Wikibase.Cloud: https://www.wikibase.cloud/discovery
  • Wikibase resources, a collection of resources, overviews, links and knowlegde related to Wikibase, collected and curated by KB, national library of the Netherlands

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: RBC person ID, Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål ID, France 3 Régions journalist ID, Médiathèque Numérique CVS ID, MyShows show ID, NHK News topic ID, ‎Sitios ID, Xiaohongshu user ID, Fansly ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • chronological designation (as a typical instance, the stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: the reference source being cited to support the statement being made)
      • Flora of New Jersey Project atlas URL (URL for a plant species in the Flora of New Jersey Project atlas)
    • External identifiers: British Pathé ID, ProductReview ID, BISAC Subject Heading, EDItEUR Thema id, ONIX Subject Scheme id, MiMoText ID, ADVN ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, Diktyon, Codeberg username, RAWG tag ID, National Library of Albania ID, DfE Group UID, AARoads Wiki article ID, Armasanicana person ID, FloraVeg.EU species ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID
  • Query examples:
    • Google Scholar Organization IDs to Wikidata ( source)
    • Power stations of this world ( source)
    • Usage state of the nuclear power plant ( source)

• Development
  • We are planning the migration of some of our existing components from the Wikit to the Codex design system in Query Builder, Mismatch Finder and the Special:NewLexeme page.
  • Warnings about not being logged-in will now have a returnto= parameter attached to their links, so that you can don’t use your flow from logging in ( phab:T330550)
  • We fixed an issue with the LanguageSwitcher in Query Builder where it would open out of the viewport on some tablet screen widths ( phab:T344231)
  • Wikibase REST API: We finished the work on making it possible to remove a statement from a Property ( phab:T342976) and getting the labels of a Property ( phab:T342977)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: AytekUstundag-RoyalMapperBot (Task: Add missing historical figures from royalmapper database)

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • WikidataCon 2023, the conference dedicated to the Wikidata community, is taking place on October 28-29, online all around the world and onsite in Taipei. You can now register for the conference.
    • WikiIndaba 2023 Microgrants available for community events!
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour September 29. This event is part of a series where you can gain hands-on experience with Wikidata by working on a diverse library and information science (LIS) dataset. In this fourth session, we'll introduce the Wikimedia PAWS environment for data gathering and processing in your Wikidata projects. We'll focus on web scraping for article data using Python and the Beautiful Soup package for parsing. You'll learn about data models for making your data accessible to both machines and humans. This session will be recorded and shared on the event page. Event page.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #110, Ohm's law (Challenge started on 2023-09-25 12:01:32)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Mass-importing games from Steam into Wikidata by User:Nicereddy
  • Papers
    • Unifying Biodiversity Knowledge to Support Life on a Sustainable Planet (A Wikimedia Projects White Paper from the Biodiversity Heritage Library). Jacqueline J. Dearborn
    • "Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives" Numerical perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar numbers. (Cao et al, 2023)
    • Response to Marcin Roszkowski 2023: Modelling doctoral dissertations in Wikidata knowledge graph: Selected issues. Tamsin L. Braisher
  • Press
    • They call it the Barassi Line, defining our footy codes - how fitting that seems today - The Barassi Line has been a focus of my research and has recently been plotted and visualised by Brett Tweedie as part of his Wikidata fellowship.
  • Videos
    • The mess with Wikidata death location and the instance of a location - salgo60
    • Developing a linked data workflow using Wikidata - Will Kent
    • Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia - Kai Labusch
    • From EAD to MARC to Wikidata and back again - Crystal Yragui, Adam Schiff
    • Adventures in Korean Wikidata - Margaret Donald
    • Getting started on Wikidata - Mohammed Sadat Abdulai
    • Wiki(su)data #2: Wikidata live editing in Italian - Wikidata in italiano
    • Wikibase as an institutional repository authority file - Michael Lindsey

• Tool of the week
  • User:Luca.favorido/linkypop.js is a script that can be used to search an identifier on an external site. It provides a button to search for an identifier as soon as you type it in the property input field. For example, if you type “ORCID”, an icon with a lens will appear, and when you click it, a new tab will open with the ORCID site looking for the name of the researcher. You can then copy the URL and paste it to Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Want to play a game? Wikidata:Games has some Wikidata-related ones for you.
  • Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 27! September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Project submission deadline.
  • Citation.js Toolforge is a service to export citations from Wikidata items in various formats (BibTeX, RIS) and various citations formats (Vancouver, APA, etc)
  • As a next step in the deprecation process of ORES the WMF Machine Learning team will switch the backend of ores.wikimedia.org to ores-legacy so users that have not yet migrated to Lift Wing will be transparently migrated. This change is planned to take place on Monday 25th of September.
  • Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech (d/f/m)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • type of musical notation (system of musical notation used on a given music source or composition)
      • ‎chronological designation (stated scholarly journal year to which reference is made by: source cited in support of a particular statement may not be the same as the publication date or volume)
    • External identifiers: J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, Diktyon ID, RAWG tag ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Demo (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
      • ETCS level (ETCS level of implementation)
      • adoption variant (variant of this loanword with the same origin)
      • Temaportalen ID ()
    • External identifiers: Metacritic game ID, BAN ID, handlingar.se ID, identifiant Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, South African NPO number
  • Query examples:
    • Subclass of blogger ( source)
    • List of taxon name as first having been described by Dennis P. Gordon ( source)
    • Gallery of wood cuts made before 1600, including file description and the link to the Wikimedia Commons file ( source)
    • Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 38, 2023) ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Chopin Thematic Catalog Concordance - an effort by members of the Music Library Association (MLA) Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) to create and enhance Wikidata items for Frédéric Chopin's musical works.
    • WikiProject Museum AI projects - aims to map AI projects (including events, datasets) from museums into Wikidata and create a data model for it.

• Development
  • Lexemes: We are fixing an issue that made edit links and styles disappear ( phab:T344362)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • We made improvements to the store part of the tool ( phab:T335864) and fixed small issues ( phab:T344336,, phab:T343344)
    • We worked on making it possible to upload mismatches on qualifiers ( phab:T313467)
  • We are continuing to migrate tools from ORES to Lift Wing ( phab:T343731)
  • We've added Wikifunktions as a new wiki for sitelinks ( phab:T342857)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get labels, descriptions and aliases from a Property as well as modify the description of an Item

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Saroj (RfP scheduled to end after 8 October 2023 12:01 (UTC))
  • New request for comments: MotoGP riders' links (Update the broken links of MotoGP racer ID (P3928))

• Events
  • November 7, 2023, Hannover, Germany - WikiRemembrance: researching and remembering National Socialism - Wikipedia and Wikidata's role in documenting memorial sites.
  • January 12 - 14, 2024, Berlin, Germany (and online) - CFP: Provenance Loves Wiki - A workshop on art history, art science and provenance research in Wikidata/Wikipedia & Wikibase

Ongoing

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

This Week

• • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 3, 2023: Lars Willighagen will discuss on citation.js.org, Wikidata, and plans for more linked data. Agenda

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • The State of Wikimedia Research 2022 - 2023
  • Papers
    • Using Large Language Models for Knowledge Engineering (LLMKE): A Wikidata Case Study - Zhang et al, 2023
    • Chain-of-Verification reduces hallucination in Large Language Models across a variety of tasks, including list-based questions from Wikidata - Dhuliawala et al, 2023
  • Videos
    • Intro about WikiPathways< showing bits of Wikidata and Scholia
    • Wikidata for Better Health (in French) - Houcemeddine Turki, Faculty of Sciences SFAX < closing session of "Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning"
  • Notebooks
    • Implementing a parser for a sample Wiki article
    • Artist selection (in French)

• Tool of the week
  • Swiss Archives is an interactive overview map of the Swiss archives present in Wikidata have corresponding Wikipedia articles and in which language (FR, DE, IT), allowing interested Wikimedians to know where they can contribute or expand. - Michael Gasser (X post)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WikidataCon 2023: first version of the program is out - find out more about the format, registration and scheduled program.
  • The Search Platform / Query Service Team monthly Open Meeting is coming up. Got any Wikidata Query Service questions? Feel free to join!
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is still looking for an Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and FunTech.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • demo of (video game or software that this trial version is based on)
    • External identifiers: ‎Codeberg username, ADVN ID, ‎MiMoText ID, BookBrainz series ID, National Register of Monumental Trees ID, ‎National Library of Albania ID, AARoads Wiki article ID, BAN ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • self-identified name (the name used by an ethnic group to refer to itself)
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify an ethnic group against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts)
      • exception to constraint (lexeme) (lexeme that is an exception to the constraint, qualifier to define a property constraint in combination with P2302)
    • External identifiers: Metacritic numeric game ID, DBIL ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Gematsu game ID, Matilda paper ID, Basketball Bundesliga Teams UUID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, Pinakes IDs, WikiKids ID, Aves de Chile ID, Klingon Word Wiki id, Metacritic company ID, Metacritic publication ID, StopGame series ID, Game Jolt ID, SlackBuilds package, California State Park ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most frequent birth places for PTBNP authors ( source)
    • University's museum in France ( source)
    • 52,153 French words which have both masculine and feminine forms ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject African Literary Metadata - a project dedicated to create and improve Wikidata's coverage of African informal literatures.
    • WikiProject GLAM-BW - a project to connect major collections held by museums in Baden-Württemberg by uploading information on collectors, former collection locations, collecting histories, and objects

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We are finalizing the work on getting the labels, descriptions and aliases of a Property.
    • We are finishing work on modifying the descriptions of an Item.
  • You can now add sitelinks to Wikifunctions ( phab:T342857)
  • We dug into what the upcoming IP-masking changes mean for the Wikidata-related extensions and where code changes are needed
  • Lexicographical data:
    • We improved the “required” marker on Special:NewLexeme, hopefully making its meaning clearer ( phab:T322683)
    • If you are not logged-in, you’ll also get the yellow warning when editing Lexeme’s Lemmas, Forms, and Senses ( phab:T343979)
  • We added the tlh-latn and tlh-piqd codes for monolingual text, so that now you can add the titles to Shakepear’s works in the original Klingon ( phab:T286239)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Failed uploads now no longer offer to download review results ( phab:T335864)
    • We are working on the ability to report mismatches on qualifiers ( phab:T313467)
    • The Mismatch Finder will show a clarifying message when Java Script is disabled ( phab:T343344)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• 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!