• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Saroj! ( see the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Tildebot (Task: Upload about 16,000 AARoads Wiki article ID statements based on reconciliation in OpenRefine)
    • GamerProfilesBot (Task: Regularly update existing video games with the GamerProfiles game ID sourced from GamerProfiles.com)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (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 Working Hour October 13, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The fifth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover manually adding authors and publishers from our bibliography into Wikidata. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
    • Wikidata's 11th birthday is around the corner, on October 29th! Discover how you can prepare and present a gift to the community and organize a local birthday celebration.
    • New round open HDI course on Knowledge Graphs. October 11, 2023 - November 21, 2023. Sign up enrol here.
    • Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. An online event dedicated to our data modelling challenges. You can already submit a session or ideas.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #112, Dogs (Challenge started on 2023-10-09 12:01:19)

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Connecting They Work For You to Wikidata by Chris Hanretty
    • Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate by Prosperosity & Giantflightlessbirds
    • These are the top 10 most famous musicians of all time, according to MIT, by Hannah Murdock
    • COVID-19 Wikipedia pageview spikes, 2019-2022 < Wikipedia pageviews spikes using Wikidata as a source for determining page titles for topics across languages. By Addshore
  • Papers
    • Large language models converge toward human-like concept organization by Jonathan Gabel Christiansen, Mathias Lykke Gammelgaard, and Anders Søgaard
  • Press
    • Is AI lying to us? These researchers built an LLM lie detector of sorts to find out - Tiernan Ray, ZDNET ("Step one is to come up with a list of over 20,000 questions and known answers, drawn from sources such as Wikidata, for which the large language model, in this case, OpenAI's GPT-3.5, can be reliably expected to provide the correct answer.")
  • Videos
    • Graphic Possibilities 50 States of Comics Wikidata Tutorial < discusses data modeling, notability, cultural importance of Comic books and how to add them to Wikidata. By Kate Topham
    • Linking cultural heritage data in practice < discusses interlinking diverse museum data between Sweden’s National Museum and National Historical Museums and Wikidata.
    • Data Scraping, Gathering & Annotation (in Ukrainian VO, English text) < lecture on data gathering, Wikidata, SPARQL and structured data from Ukrainian Catholic University
    • Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) < adding a link in Wikidata between work and the edition, and beyond.
    • Proposal and creation of properties (in French) by VIGNERON < Exploring the property creation process on Wikidata.
    • Wikidata: first pragmatic approach - Ismael Olea - OpenSouthCode 2023 < an introduction to Wikidata - the objective of this talk is for the public to leave amazed and addicted to Wikidata.

• Tool of the week
  • 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.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: BAN ID, Metacritic game ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID, ‎Gematsu game ID, Encyclociné ID, DBIL ID, Pinakes country ID, Pinakes city ID, Pinakes institution ID, Pinakes fonds ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux object ID, Aparat channel ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • self-identified name (the name by which a group of humans refers to itself)
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans against their self-determination, e.g. in colonial contexts)
      • fonds ()
    • External identifiers: 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, SBL player ID, identificador Qué series ver, Steam Workshop file ID, Find my School ID, Fichier des ecclésiastiques ID, Walmart product ID, Open Library publisher ID, kihondōshi handbook ID, OzBargain tag, OzBargain brand, ELSST Thesaurus ID, Gematsu company ID, Valve Developer Community article ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, Illinois State Parks ID, Flixy.dk emne ID
  • Query examples:
    • Accused witches in Scotland accused of shapeshifting( source)
    • Argentinian national team football players that participating in 3 matches or bellow ( source)
    • List of people who are in Art Looting Investigation Unit red flag list ( source)
    • Main Subject bubble chart of Articles in Journals with AJOL ID, published in Ghana, about diseases (source: @espejolento)

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We worked on the new routes for PATCHing Property and Item aliases as well as PUTing Property labels and descriptions ( phab:T342982, phab:T337371, phab:T337371, phab:T348150)
  • We are continuing to work on fixing an issue with Lexeme pages missing styles and scripts ( phab:T344362)
  • We’re adding some missing license notes to some javascript UI interfaces ( phab:343998, phab:T343999)
  • Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on supporting mismatches for data that is stored in qualifiers ( phab:T313467)

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!

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 17, 2023: Our scheduled speaker had to unexpectedly cancel, so please join us to transfer group call notes from the Google Drive to the wiki project page (see instructions link in agenda document!) Agenda
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 18th October 2023 (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.
    • WikidataCon 2023 on October 28-29: don't forget to register for the online or the onsite event! You can also check the program, prepare a present for the Wikidata birthday, and join or organize a satellite event with your local community.
    • Wikidata Day NYC '23 Join fellow Wikidata-enthusiasts on October 29th at the Butler Library, 114th Street West, NYC for a free Wikidata-celebration with a selection of engaging workshops and presentations to attend.
    • State of the Map EU 2023 has a session on OSM-Wikidata Map Framework on Sunday, 12th Nov., taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.
    • Wikidata Days: WM-Peru (in Spanish) attend a 2-day event, with sessions devoted to Wikidata, OpenRefine, QuickStatements and SPARQL.
    • Wikimedia Chile: Wikidata Training Course Staying in South America, Chilean and all Spanish-speakers can attend a 4-day Course and earn a participation Certificate. Online event - 17 to 20th October.
    • Igbo Wikimedians User Group invites you to a Wikidata event tagged "One Item, One Image". October 17th at 5pm WAT on Google Meet.
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #113: Apple (Challenge started on 2023-10-16 12:01:41)
  • Past Week:
    • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #112: Dogs has ended. Did you contribute?
    • Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikibase: Usage Scenarios for Literary Studies International Workshop at the Freie Universität Berlin.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Papers: WikiDBs: A Corpus Of Relational Databases From Wikidata by Vogel & Binnig.
  • Press: Indexing news with AI via BroadCast Pro ME ("We are able to create a rich multilingual archive, leveraging translations based on the Wikidata knowledge graph.")
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Properties: Proposal & Creation (in French), by Nicolas VIGNERON.
    • Drag'n'Drop Gadget <-- This handy gadget allows you to click and drag information from a Wikipedia article and add it to a Wikidata-item as a Statement. By Magnus Sälgö.
    • Add information about Wikisource works to Wikidata (in French) <-- a comprehensive guide through linking Wikisource entries to their Wikidata-items.
    • Introduction & Overview of Wikidata (in Spanish), by Ismail Olea.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #110 <-- Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on Wikidata (in English), and discuss the thought process of what we are doing and why we do it.
  • Notebooks
    • Analysis of Wikidata reconciliation results (in French)
    • What's nearby, Wikidata? will generate a list of nearby places that have a Wikipedia article close to your current location.
  • Reports: Report on the Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) by Ambrosia10

• Tool of the week
  • 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).
  • 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.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • ‎WHO Aware Classification (antibiotic classification according to the World Health Organization)
      • ‎self-identified name (name by which a group of humans refers to itself (endonym))
      • non-self-identified name (name used to identify a group of humans as opposed to their self-determination)
    • External identifiers: FaroeSoccer referee ID, Matilda paper ID, Sessionize speaker ID, Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID, MUSE book ID, ‎Game Jolt ID, Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français ID, ‎ProductReview ID, ‎Acclaimed Music album ID, Nordic Women in Film-ID, SlackBuilds package, Metacritic numeric game ID, Metacritic publication ID, Metacritic company ID, StopGame series ID, Steam Workshop mod ID, California State Park ID, ‎Find my School ID, WikiKids ID, SBL player ID, Open Library publisher ID, DBpia article ID, ‎Gematsu company ID, ‎Valve Developer Community article ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • parent form of an active substance (parent form of a chemical entity used as an active substance in the form of a salt)
      • FAO WIEWS Institution ID ()
    • External identifiers: numéro de licence d'un joueur de la FFTT, Rahlfs Number, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Kinobox ID, GNU Savannah project, Indie DB company ID, Mod DB company ID, Catenae Catalogue, GameBrew ID, JLPGA player ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of lighthouses in France ( source)
    • Which academic journals publish the most International Space Station Research? (graph) ( source)
    • Tamil Lexemes missing Item for this sense statements ( source)
    • People with no country of citizenship having Norwegian names ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Catalan creators - a project for documenting creators born or active in the Catalan speaking territories
    • WikiProject BeyondNotability - a project for improving content on Wikidata women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in the UK circa 1870-1950
    • WikiProject Manuscripts

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • Working on the ability to modify the aliases of an Item or Property ( phab:T342982, phab:T337371)
    • Working on the ability to add or replace a label in a given language on a Property ( phab:T342979)
    • Working on the ability to add or replace a description in a given language on a Property ( phab:T348150)
  • Lexicographical data: We (mostly) fixed an issue where Lexeme pages where missing styles and scripts ( phab:T344362)
  • Mismatch Finder: We continued work on making it possible to report mismatches on qualifiers ( phab:T313467)

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: Hjart (RfP scheduled to end after 26 October 2023 11:20 UTC)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour, Q4 2023
  • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #114: Cars (Challenge started on 2023-10-23 12:01:27)
  • Upcoming:
    • How cultural institutions use Wikidata to share their data with the world < organised by WikiEdu, happening today, Oct. 23.
    • Edit-A-Thon for LGBTQ+ History Month < Binghamton University Library, New York, Oct. 25th. Help make visible the important contributions of queer figures.
    • Bridging Art Archive to the Wikidata Ecosystem < a guest lecture from Joyce Chen at the Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship '23, Oct. 27, via Zoom.
    • Wikidata Birthday Edit-A-Thon (Albanian) < Albanian language Wikimedians celebrate Wikidata's Birthday with a 2-day event (Oct. 28 - 29, 2023) near the "Aleksandër Xhuvani" University, Elbasan.
    • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour October 23, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The sixth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover batch creating items using OpenRefine.This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the Event page
    • 4th Wikidata Workshop as part of the International Semantic Web Conference. 7th Nov., Athens, Greece.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Final Report of the Adapting Wikidata to support clinical practice using Data Science, Semantic Web and Machine Learning Project funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund.
  • Videos
    • Let's Connect Learning Clinic #2: Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments < Learn how to run SPARQL queries, create Listeria lists, and structure data on commons for Wiki Loves Monuments and other WikiLoves campaigns, provided by Wikimedia Sweden. Missed Clinic #1? Find it here.
    • Live Editing #110 < Develop your SPARQL query-building skills in this follow-along session.
    • Tutorial on Wikidata for or WikiConnect course (in Portuguese) <-- Explaining the Wiki Movimento Brasil's WikiConecta Wikidata course. The course entails Understanding what Wikidata is and its operating logic, Learning the basics of editing and recovering data, and Understanding why and how to use Wikidata with your students.
    • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit:
      • MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
      • MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.

• Tool of the week
  • 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.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is a new update relative to the Wikidata Query Service scaling of the backend, that explains how the team will experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph and use federation for the queries that need access to all subgraphs.
  • Mismatch Finder tool improvements: In the next deployment scheduled for November 1, the tool will let you report mismatches on qualifiers in addition to the main part of a statement.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • ‎fonds (archival fonds (part of a collection) which an item belongs to)
      • parent form of an active substance (parent form of a chemical entity (e.g. a salt) used as an active substance in pharmaceutical products)
      • ‎Red List of South African Plants conservation status (conservation status of endemic South African plants assigned by the South African National Biodiversity Institute)
      • Parpulov group (class of similar manuscripts with Catenae as assigned by Georgi Parpulov)
    • External identifiers: ‎DfE group UID, Kinobox film ID, Kinobox person ID, FloraVeg.EU taxon ID, DBpia author ID, ‎Mod DB company ID, ‎GameBrew ID, Royal Irish Academy ID, ‎RKDexcerpts ID, ELSST Thesaurus ID (Version 4 - 2023), JLPSA player ID, ‎Catenae Catalogue ID, ‎IGI Global author ID, ‎Pandit Project work ID, Vascular Plants of Iowa species ID, Flora of New Jersey Project atlas ID, ‎GNU Savannah project ID, ‎Rahlfs number
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • used by practitioners of (item used by a practitioner of another item)
      • Plant Illustrations taxon ID (URL for a taxon on the Plant Illustrations website)
      • Art Platform Japan ID (identifier in {{Q|123139107}} (Japanese & English))
    • External identifiers: IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code, Flickr Photo ID, North Rhine-Westphalian school ID, identifiant d'un membre de l'Académie de Stanislas, Bantumen Powerlist 100, identifiant Repairs, Legends Tour ID, Radio Paradise song ID, Archivio storico artisti lucchesi ID, Cycling Archives race ID, Gale ACID, ID osoby Medvik, HBL topic ID, National Humanities Center Fellow ID
  • Query examples:
    • Birthplace of recipients of the Nazi Germany Iron Cross
    • Burial place of Swedish Prime Ministers
    • List of cathedrals around the world with its height ( source)
    • Population of Check villages with rivers flowing through them ( source)
    • Ships with multiple operators that do not have multiple official names ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects
    • WikiProject Photography in Finland - a project for photography in Finland, including photographers, studios and other related items
    • WikiProject Celtic Music - a project for collecting Celtic tunes

• Development
  • We are preparing for WikidataCon and the Data Modelling Days.
  • We are looking more into where Wikibase needs to be adapted to the upcoming IP Masking changes.
  • We added a notification about the license to all edits to labels, descriptions and aliases that was missing still ( phab:T343998) The same for Lexemes is coming next ( phab:T343999)

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!

• Welcome to the 600th Weekly Summary!

Lydia initiated the weekly newsletter at the start of the Wikidata project, before it even went live, to keep the community in the loop about the developments, the new projects and tools. Léa carried on the newsletter in 2016 and then it was my turn in 2020. The newsletter has been going strong for eleven years, with its content powered by the community, and delivered every week without fail. Thank you to everyone who helped fill in the different sections of the Weekly Summary thus far ❤️ -- Mohammed

• Item #600 Ichiro Suzuki; Property #600 is Wine AppDB ID; and Lexeme #600 is the Japanese conjugation だから
  • 600 in the multiverse: as a year ( another year), a number, a category, a track gauge, a jet, an asteroid, an auto race, a genetic element, a death, a birth, a TV serie, a car, a galaxy, a sport discipline, a radio telescope, an engine, a polygon, a film, a GPU, a photolithography, and many more…
• Timeline of places when they had a population of exactly 600
• Map of things at an altitude of 600 m
• List of items with an external ID equal to 600
  • Wikidata was 600 days old on Wednesday 11 June 2014. It will be 600 weeks old on Monday 9 August 2027
• WikidataCon happened over the weekend
  • Birthday wishes from the community, and a special note from the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland below:

Today it is time to celebrate Wikidata’s 11th birthday. Let’s take a look back at the past year and what’s coming.

There are now over 12.200 amazing people who are actively editing on Wikidata - 3000 of them even making more than 100 edits a month ♥️ Thank you! Without you Wikidata wouldn’t be what it is today. Thank you for helping give more people more access to more knowledge every single day. This year also marks the year we can welcome a new sister to the Wikimedia projects: Wikifunctions is live, letting us all geek out on functions in anticipation of Abstract Wikipedia. Another big milestone was Wikibase Cloud coming out of private beta. Now you can more easily run your own Wikibase and collect and maintain data that doesn’t fit into Wikidata. 2023 was also the year when the efforts of Wikidata editors were recognized across the Wikimedia movement with the awarding of the Wikimedian of the Year award to Taufik Rosman and the Wikimedia Laureate award to Siobhan Leachman. Over the coming year I want us to find ways how we can bring more people, who are already editing a bit here and there, closer to the community and help them find their place in our community. If you are one of them and have not found your place yet, check out a WikiProject related to your interests. Wikidata has something for everyone 😉

Wikidata now has over 106 Million Items and nearly 1.2 Million Lexemes. We are closing in on 2 Billion edits, making about 20 Million edits per month. All this content is used to create useful, quirky, educational or just fun applications that wouldn’t be possible without Wikidata and all the work you put into it. Check out Notable People for example. Over the coming year we want to make that even easier by building better APIs, lessening the strain on the Query Service, doing more outreach to developers as well as making our data more usable by ironing out ontology issues. In addition there will be increased focus on improving how the other Wikimedia projects integrate Wikidata. With the opening up of Wikibase Cloud we will hopefully also see many new Wikibases pop up that cover more specialized data or be used as playgrounds to prepare data for Wikidata. I am looking forward to a growing Wikibase Ecosystem and excited about more Linked Open Data becoming available to the world, with Wikidata being an entryway to it all.

And last but not least: if you want to learn a bit more about the history and backstory of Wikidata, then you might like Wikidata: The Making Of by Denny, Markus and me.

Lydia for the development team

• Documentation of the sessions is currently ongoing with the slides getting uploaded on Wikimedia Commons here. The Livestream and replay of the conference per day are already available on YouTube. The individual sections are here.
• List of presents gathered by the community for Wikidata's eleventh birthday
  • Luthor is a multi-lingual tool for adding usage examples to lexemes on Wikidata, from sentences found on Wikisource in the same language. (by Asaf Bartov)
  • সংকলক একটি সরঞ্জাম যেটা দিয়ে উইকিসংকলনের লেখাগুলির উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেম অনুসারে সে লেখাগুলিকে উন্নত ভাবে অনুসন্ধান করা যায়। - Sangkalak is a tool with which Wikisource works can be searched more readily, using the Wikidata items for those works. (present from Mahir256) (by মাহির২৫৬-এর উপহার)
  • File:Wikidata 11th Birthday Card.jpg (by Almaddy2022)
  • Quonter Vandal - is a tool powered by AI to help identify vandalism to Wikidata. For more details and to leave comments see Wikidata:Quonter_Vandal. Developed by BrokenSegue ( talk)
  • Creating new Lexemes? For a lot more languages you now no longer need to provide a spelling variant when creating a new Lexeme, making it even easier to contribute data about words in your language. (present from the development team)
  • The Mismatch Finder, the tool to help review mismatches between Wikidata and other data sources now also has support for mismatches on qualifiers. This allows it to be useful also for issues that are in the data in qualifiers. (present from the development team)
  • inteGraality service pack update from d:User:Jean-Frédéric
    • support for grouping by predicates, particularly useful for Lexemes ( example by wikibase:lexicalCategory, example by dct:language) ; other example by badge
    • new column type: sitelinks ( example 1, example 2)
    • Automatic support for grouping by datetime properties ( example)
  • Wikidata Lexeme Forms experimental Wikifunctions support (details TBA) -- Lucas Werkmeister ( talk)
  • The projects WiseWoman briefly presented of students editing obscure corners of Wikidata are on her Wikidata user page.
  • Birthday Presents from Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit (by Houcemeddine Turki):
    • MedCYN as an intuitive web tool for Wikidata-based clinical decision support.
    • MeSH2Wikidata as an approach for validating and classifying biomedical relations in Wikidata based on MeSH Keywords of PubMed scholarly publications.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Welcome to our new admin, Hjart! ( see the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DifoolBot (Task: Update pages containing an ECARTICO person ID (P2915) statement, currently 5709 pages)
    • MsynBot 13 (Task: Remove unnecessary use of preferred rank)

• Events
  • Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 31, 2023: We will hear from Darnelle Melvin, Cory Lampert, and Andre Hulet, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Libraries, on WireframeVG: A Search and Discovery Application for Wikidata Projects. Agenda
  • Ongoing:
    • WikiProject India/Events/Wikidata Eleventh Birthday online Datathon, Oct 26 - Nov 5th 2023
    • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #115: Orchestra (Challenge started on 2023-10-30 12:01:26)
  • Past: Wikidata Eleventh Birthday Distributed events

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • From MeSH Keywords to Biomedical Knowledge in Wikidata: The giant move
    • Linking ACMI & Wikidata, by Paul Duchesne
    • Enhanced Wikibase, by Wikiworks MediaWiki consulting
    • Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes, by Yamen
    • 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects, By Dario Crespi (WMIT) & Ilaria Diterlizzi (WMIT)
    • The 11th Birthday of Wikidata was celebrated in Bhubaneswar by the Odia Wikimedians User Group
  • Papers
    • Relevant Entity Selection: Knowledge Graph Bootstrapping via Zero-Shot Analogical Pruning (Jarnac et al)
  • Press
    • The 11th Birthday Of Wikidata Was Celebrated In Bhubaneswar By The Odia Wikimedians User Group via OrissaDiary.com
    • Find the most famous person in your city using this interactive map (in German) by Kay Nordenbrock via t3n.de ("The database contains data on people from 3,500 BC to 2018 AD. It consists largely of data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.")
  • Videos
    • How cultural institutions use Wikidata (How cultural heritage institutions sharing their collection data, including implementing Wikidata projects, batch uploading datasets to Wikidata, and how to share successes to a broader audience) - Jackie Rubashkin, Metadata Technician, Barack Obama Presidential Library; Michelle van Lanschot, Project Coordinator at Wikimedia-Netherlands; William Blueher, Associate Museum Librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Will Kent, Wiki Education
    • (in Chinese) Wikidata基礎編輯教學 (Wikidata basic editor) - Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters (COSCUP) 2023
    • How can we utilize Wikidata to protect Puyuma, an endangered language - Yucheng Lin (COSCUP 2023)
    • Wikidata merge-gadget (in Swedish) by Magnus Sälgö
    • Wikidata Live editing session - NASA, inteGraality, dates and qualifiers (in French) by Nicolas VIGNERON
    • Pairing SBN with Wikidata via WikiLinker (in Portuguese)
    • Introduction to Wikibase Cloud (in Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • 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).
  • 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.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members.
  • Wikimedia Research Fund Update update. "You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 15, 2023. While all research proposals related to Wikimedia projects are welcome, we particularly encourage research studies on medium to small size languages and communities, as well as in low resourced languages and projects."
  • The Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is investigating the different ways Wikidata is used in the sister projects. We would like to speak with you about your experiences integrating or connecting Wikidata, if you'd like to tell us, please sign up for an interview on our project page or on our Registration Form.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Illinois State Parks ID, Minnesota State Forests ID, Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas ID, ‎Flickr photo ID, ‎IBP 6-letter bird species alpha code, ManyVids ID, ‎North Rhine-Westphalian school ID, Repairs ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • nixpkgs path (other operating systems have their package manages as id properties)
      • Cultural Heritage Online ID (identifier for heritage assets and related institutions on Cultural Heritage Online)
    • External identifiers: Encyklopedia Teatru Polskiego author ID, Emerald network site ID, Playdate Catalog ID, Rowing Canada ID, Radio Paradise song ID, Tennessee-Kentucky Plant Atlas ID, old-games id, TheTVDB movie ID, Indiana Plant Atlas ID, cagb manuscript ID, la Repubblica TV series ID, Filmweb ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Gale document ID
  • Query examples:
    • Property completeness dashboard for manuscripts
    • Map of narrative locations of romantic comedies ( source)
    • Tunisian scientists are cited by Nobel Prize winners ( source)
    • Which cathedrals are the tallest in the world? ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Source Reliability - an project to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources
    • Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher - a project to display open access shares (among others based on publishers) at the Austrian Datahub for Open Access Negotiations and Monitoring

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on making it possible to remove a description in a given language from an Item, modify the label of an Item and add aliases to an Item ( phab:T342986, phab:T342980, phab:T335842)
  • Lexicographical data: We switched the Property that is used to pre-select the spelling variant on the Special:NewLexeme page from P218 (ISO 639-1 code) to P305 (IETF language tag) to make use of the latter’s larger coverage. ( phab:T348923)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing to work on addressing the feedback from the testing of the new datatype in the test system.

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
  • AramBot (Task: adding site links, especially from ckbwiki and kuwiki pages to Wikidata).

• Events
  • Past: Search Platform / Query Service Team office hour log — November 1, 2023
  • This Week:
    • Wikidata for Digital Humanities workshop hosted by Brown University Library, Nov. 6th 19:00 - 20:00 CEST.
    • Wiki Loves Monuments: Learning Clinic #3 hosted by WM Sweden in partnership with WM Uganda, Nov. 9th
  • Upcoming: Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2. You can propose a session until November 19. If you are running another event or meetup and would like to connect it to the Data Modelling Days, you can add it to the satellite events section.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Wikidata Arabic Community.
    • ULTRA: Foundation Models for Knowledge Graph Reasoning.
  • Papers
    • PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept A White Paper released from Charles Faulhaber
    • Using Pregel to Create Knowledge Graphs Subsets Described by Non-recursive Shape Expressions by Á. Préstamo & J. Gayo
    • Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web is a collection of preceedings from the 5th Iberoamerican Conference and 4th Indo-American Conference, KGSWC 2023, Nov. 13–15. By F. Ortiz-Rodriguez, B. Villazón-Terrazas, S. Tiwari & C. Bobed.

• • Videos
    • OpenHPI Querying Wikidata with SPARQL
    • OpenHPI Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph
    • Wikidata 11th Birthday Celebrations(YouTube shorts) are celebrated by the Community
    • Live Editing with Wikidata in Italiano (Italian)
    • Intro to Wikibase Cloud (Italian)

• Tool of the week
  • subclass of, new Observable tool to test which item is a subclass of another.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SMWCon 2023 Call for Contributions on the topic 'MediaWiki in the age of AI'
  • The Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool was upgraded to autogenerate the different forms of a regular word with functions from Wikifunctions
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ‎Playdate Catalog ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • linguistic family of place name (Relates directly a placename to its original language family. It's not the language in which the toponym is written, but the language from which the word (place name) comes from.)
      • according to (to be used together with P248 if the statement is taken from an aggregator rather than directly from the source)
      • counterexample (qualifier for deprecated P279 statements; example instance or subclass of the item class for which a "subclass of" statement does not hold (alias: "item belonging to the subject class but not the value class"))
      • Book ordinal in a publication series (This property describes the order of the book within a book series.)
      • Comitato Italiano Paralimpico ID (Athlete ID in the Italian Paralympi Committee website (comitatoparalimpico.it))
      • tax base (This property describes the calculation basis for the item of Taxation.)
      • tax objects (This property describes certain objects, acts, or other facts that are the basis for calculating taxes.)
      • taxpayer (This property describes someone who owes money.)
    • External identifiers: Pallaalcentro player ID, Propylaeum-VITAE id, Linked Open Data Comune Firenze ID, Alexandria.dk person, Identifiant One Earth d'une écorégion, CECC Political Prisoner ID, shukach.com ID, Carte d'autore online ID, Fondazione Fiera ID, Il Sole 24 Ore cinema IDs, Dongqiudi.com team ID, Moviepilot.de person ID, IDVT, National-Football-Teams.com national team ID, Kicker team ID, FilmAffinity person ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of phobias in French
    • Interviewees who were part of the Suffragette Movement and
    • Interviewees who had a relative or friend in the Suffragette Movement as part of the LSE Suffrage Interviews Project

• • Newest WikiProjects: Source Reliability "is an effort to identify and aggregate online sources of assessments of the reliability and credibility of sources".

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We have implemented the endpoints for PATCH /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases ( phab:T337371), PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/aliases ( phab:T342982) and PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id}/labels ( phab:T342980)
    • We started working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} ( phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} ( phab:T342986)
  • Language codes:
    • We made Special:NewLexeme more likely to guess the spelling variant for you by changing the Property we use to get the language code. Now you will see the spelling variant input pop up less often. ( phab:T349652)
    • We started work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. ( phab:T341409)
  • Query Service UI: We’ve fixed a small issue in the Query Service UI that was introduced when updating CSS variables. Content of selected cells in the query result should be readable again. ( phab:T350153)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.

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: S8321414 (RfP scheduled to end after 13 November 2023 14:50 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DiFoolBot 2 (Task: import VIAF ID based on Union List of Artist Names ID)
    • KizuleBot (Task: Adding sitelinks to Serbian Wikipedia for maintenance categories (see contributions of account) based on items for English Wikipedia's ones)
    • KormiSKbot (Task: Linking newly created pages on SKWiki to the appropriate Wikidata items.)

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

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

• Tool of the week
  • OpenFlights.org is now getting some of its airline data from Wikidata. It is a free open-source tool that allows you to log, map, calculate, and share your flights and trips.

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

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

• Development
  • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} ( phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} ( phab:T342986)
  • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.
  • Language codes: We continued work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. ( phab:T341409)

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

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Congratulations to our new Admin! S8321414 - ( See the closed request)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: KormiSKbot - (Task: Linking newly created pages on Slovak Wikipedia to the appropriate Wikidata items)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Data Modelling Days, from November 30th to December 2nd: 3 days of online events to address data modelling challenges, discuss how to improve the way we structure data together, and discover the point of view of external reusers. Feel free to have a look at the program (under construction) and to sign up as a participant.
    • Wikidata Lab XXXIX: Structuring the Wikimedia Ecosystem presented by Wiki Movimento Brasil. November 21 at 2:00 PM CEST. The presentation will be held in English by the wikimedian Mike Peel.
    • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour November 20th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles.During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
    • Wikibase for art and cultural data (German) - #9 of kuwiki tips & tools, taking place Thursday, 23 November 2023, 19-20.30
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexeme Challenge #118: Diseases (Challenge started on 2023-11-20 12:01:41)
  • Past:
    • ItWikiCon '23 (Italian) was hosted in Bari, Italy between the 17th - 19th November. Check the Programme for details on sessions and check for recordings or slidedecks of presentations.
    • GLAM Wiki 2023 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. There were several Wikidata-related sessions some of which are linked in the Videos section.

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • New study shows how authors’ personal circumstances influence the depiction of nature in their works
  • Papers
    • Can you trust Wikidata? - is a paper exploring Wikidata's veracity and trustability for providing values to Knowledge Graphs. Written by V. Santos et al.
  • Videos
    • Wikidata for Cultural Heritage, available in Spanish, Portugese, English
    • Find-A-Grave of Swedish politicians in Magnus Sälgö's exploration of Wikidata, OpenRefine, SPARQL and Svenskagravar (Swedish).
    • Wikidata Live Editing #111 with the Wikipedia Weekly Network, hosted by Ainali and Abbe98
    • Wikidata for Wiki Loves Monuments w/ Content Partnerships presented by Hub Wikimedia Sweden & Wikimedia Uganda. Get essential Wikidata-editing skills for Listeria, OpenRefine, run queries and structured data on Commons.
    • How to upload collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine (in Portuguese). Training on uploading collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata using Open Refine.
    • Cohort 2 Graduation: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course. The session includes exciting testimonials from participants and goodwill messages.
    • Enhancing Factuality in Large Language Models with Wikidata's 12B Facts. This HackerNews video discusses a paper that explores the use of Wikidata, which contains over 12 billion facts, to improve the factuality of large language models (LLMs)
    • Back to basics and #SPARQL #Wikidata (in French). Using Wikidata SPARQL query by VIGNERON
    • Wikidata for cultural heritage (ES) - GLAM Wiki Conference
  • Presentations: "Wikidata Lexemes: Introduction to the Possibilities" - workshop on at WikiConference North America, by User:Mahir256
  • Notebooks:
    • The End of an Era - A study on the major deaths that have occurred in our generation and the people that were left behind. (1997-2012)
    • Relationship Between Senators and Political Parties - A sample network graph that depicts the political parties of Senators.
    • Family Network of Female Horse - A sample network graph that depicts the relationships of female horses.
    • Poets and the Monarchs they were appointed by
    • Metro stations of The Metropolitan line (Q19891) of the London Underground Metro System - A sample network graph that depicts the stops and adjacent stops of metro stations of the London Underground's Metropolitan line.

• Tool of the week
  • 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.
  • Luthor - tool for finding usage examples from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are now open until December 18th!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Fondazione Fiera ID, EIDR party ID, ‎Gaming Wiki Network article ID, ‎Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) heritage ID, Cultural Heritage Online (Japan) institution ID, Playdate community wiki ID, Danacode (short), Danacode (long), archINFORM ID (awards), shukach.com ID, BNE periodical SID, Moviepilot.de person ID, FilmAffinity person ID, Archiefpunt archive ID, Archiefpunt compiler ID, Archiefpunt curator ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, BioGRID ID, la Repubblica TV series ID, CECC Political Prisoner ID, One Earth ecoregion ID, ‎Spectrum Computing ID, IDVT, BISAC Subject Heading
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • Papers with Code URL (URL for subject in Papers with Code system)
      • PAEnflowered taxon URL (URL for a plant taxon found in Pennsylvania on the PAEnflowered website)
      • BioCyc ID (Pathway/Genome Databases) ()
    • External identifiers: Star Citizen Tools Wiki ID, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame ID, Shanghai Library organization ID, Shanghai Library era ID, Shanghai Library surname ID, Paradox wikis article ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae lemma ID, Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae object ID, Rare Species Guide ID, TLA thesaurus ID, Minnesota Plant List ID, ELMCIP person ID, Flora of the Southeastern United States ID, SWERIK Person ID, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora ID, Go Botany taxon ID, Team Wales ID, Unified Saudi Occupational Classification, Pinakes work ID, Search System of Japanese Red Data ID, ELMCIP organization ID, Japan Search ID
  • Query examples:
    • Articles on English Wikipedia tagged 'Water pollution' with no equivalent article in Spanish ( source)
    • Highest point (in meters) per counties in Finland ( source)
    • Week 46, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now ( source) "Basque are back on top for the second time this month"
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Manuscripts - This WikiProject coordinates efforts on Wikidata to gather and curate structured data on manuscripts.
    • WikiProject Grove Hall Black Women Lead - aims to shed light on the lives and stories of Black women leaders who have shaped Boston’s history from the colonial era to the present day.
  • Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/projectmerge/enwiki-svwiki - 3875 merge candidates in English Wikipedia and Swedish Wikipedia based on same sitelink name.
  • Showcase Items: University of Konstanz (Q835440) - University in Konstanz, Germany (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)
  • Showcase Lexemes: rød - Danish word for red with features in many compounds and derivations (feel free to suggest the next one for next week)

• Development
  • We are taking steps towards making many more languages available in Lexemes and monolingual text statement values. ( phab:T341409)
  • Nikki fixed a bug where the CSS class for a statement rank wasn't updated after a rank change ( phab:T209138)
  • We are continuing the work on improving EntitySchemas by making it possible to link to them in statements.
  • We are migrating several tools from the Wikit design system to the Codex design system to be able to deprecate Wikit in the future.

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
  • New request for comments: Clarify Wikidata: Account creators abilities and where to request from S8321414. (RfC started 23-11-20)

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • UNLP: the first Wikiarchivists Day is coming < 04.12.23 at the UNLP Public Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Organised by WM Argentina.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 28, 2023: As a satellite event for Data Modeling Days, we will facilitate community discussion around data modeling in Wikidata for library collections in a variety of formats, including people, books, serials, scholarly articles, rare materials, music, media, and realia. Agenda
    • Data Modelling Days, November 30-December 2, online. 3 days of discussions, presentations and workshops to discuss our challenges related to data modelling and improve the structure of Wikidata's data together. Check out the program, add yourself as a participant.
    • Wikidata editathon to add Arabic labels & descriptions to Islamic art objects, hosted by Wikimedians of the Islamic Civilization User Group, 2 December 17:00-19:00 UTC

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • 23 Linked Data Things
    • Querying for labels: The normal way and the wikibase:label service way, by Bob DuCharme.
    • Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is Here: Mark Your Calendar 🎉 for May 3rd – 5th, 2024, and register to attend
    • What is Wikidata? Your Guide to the World’s Largest Free Knowledge Base
  • Papers
    • Using Wikidata to identify the gender gap in Ibero-American public art (Q123470669) - The study, using Wikidata, reveals gender disparities in public art in Madrid and Buenos Aires, emphasizing the need for more works created by women and increased visibility of female artists.
    • Understanding Structured Knowledge Production (Q123561334) - A Case Study of Wikidata’s Representation Injustice. This paper seeks to explore the sources of epistemic injustice and biases from Wikidata's peer-production data model.
    • Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers (Q123561640) - highlights the use of Wikidata as an asset when linking taxa in different databases.
  • Videos: Individual Sessions from Wikimania Singapore 2023
    • Exploring Wikidata as a learning platform < Shani Evenstein Sigalov presents this Wikimania Singapore session on her 5-year PhD journey
    • Data use and reuse: Unlocking Potential of Frictionless Data for Wikidata < Sara Petti, Shashi Gharti & Carol Matos of the Open Knowledge Foundation host this session.
    • Using Wikibase and Wikidata for Community Archives by My Community < a non-profit organisation using Wikibase and Wikidata to digitise and preserve Singaporean cultural artefacts and stories.
    • Wikidata Basics with SPARQL access to analyse data from Wikidata < Asaf Bartov hosts this workshop for Wikidata newbies. Gain some foundational skills and learn how you can contribute to the biggest Knowledge Graph!
    • How to use Wikidata to build web tools for the social good < Csisc & Yamen present Sawtpedia & (github), 2 tools built using Wikidata and will show you how you can build your own.
    • Linked Open Data and Wikidata < Alan Ang (WMDE) talks about the importance of Linked Open Data and forming mutually beneficial partnerships between the Foundation and Institutions.
  • Notebooks
    • Explore new ways of visualising your data with a Circular Dendrogam, illustrated here with Association Football players broken down by Country and Team.

• Tool of the week
  • Harvest Templates - is a tool that helps transfer data from Wikimedia projects to Wikidata.
  • 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.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WMDE is researching ways to improve the editing experience in different languages and would love to hear your feedback. We would like to talk to a few of you in online interviews to learn about your experiences, expectations, and concerns. Please let us know in this sign-up form if you are interested in taking part.
  • The Research team at WMF is running a second labeling campaign to evaluate the Revert Risk model for Wikidata. This is part of ongoing work on creating a new generation of Machine Learning models to support patrolling work on Wikimedia projects. Please help by going to this link, and labeling each revision in one of these three categories: Keep, Not Sure, Revert. Notice that "Not Sure" should be used in all cases where the Keep or Revert labels are not clear to you.
  • Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.40.1 – major release compatible with MediaWiki 1.40, based on MediaWiki 1.40.1
  • Is there a Wikidata item (about you)? Consider providing a voice-clip pronouncing your name in this Voice-intro project

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes:
      • Torino scale (the Torino scale level for the astronomical object)
    • External identifiers: ‎Star Citizen Tools Wiki ID, Gale publication ID, Emerald network site ID, Museo Nacional de Arte artist ID, GeoLOD ID, Catalogo Nazionale Dati ID, Klingon Word Wiki ID, Newman Numismatics Portal ID, tribal council number, EDItEUR Thema ID, Propylaeum-VITAE ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes:
      • COR SEM (The Danish central word registry identifier)
      • UPOC ({{TranslateThis | de = Ist eine eindeutige id zur Identifizierung von Organisationen/Sendungen/... zu einem Dienstleister. <!-- | xx = Beschreibungen in anderen Sprachen --> }})
      • উইঙ্ক অ্যালবাম আইডি ()
      • Europeana record ID (unique Europeana record identifier for photos, objectes etc.)
      • ISU ranking position (Skater's position in the ranking of the International skating union)
      • old image (image of this thing taken long ago)
      • Montana Plant Life URL (URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website)
    • External identifiers: Japan Search ID, NIWA article ID, WikiIndex ID, Wiktionary ID, Moviebuff ID, Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire ID, Flightradar24 ID, identifiant du musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Baidu Baike page numeric ID, Parliament of Victoria ID, m3db.com lyrics ID, ELMCIP ID, The Plant List ID (Arizona Native Plant Society), TracesOfWar award ID, Babelio serial ID
  • Query examples:
    • Rail link between Narvik and Singapore ( source)
    • Week 47, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now ( source)
    • Gender representation of Scottish witches ( source)
    • Most popular names in Ghana among Ghanaians on Wikidata ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
    • WikiProject Heritage Collections - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most comprehensive high quality database of archival fonds and heritage collections (including contemporary scientific collections or documentation holdings) and to ensure the interlinking of respective catalogues, finding aids, or collection databases with Wikidata.
    • WikiProject Roman Provinces
    • WikiProject Events and Role Frames - The primary aims of WikiProject Events and Role Frames is to define a set of properties that consistently model event occurrences and their participants; to fill gaps in Wikidata regarding items for events and actions; and to encourage use of the proposed model and newly introduced items across Wikidata.
  • Newest database reports: Wikidata:Database reports/badged items without claims - This is a list of badged items (i.e. items for feature or good articles in somewiki) without claims. Ideally it should be empty.
  • Showcase Items: Nelson Mandela (Q8023) - First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)
  • Showcase Lexemes: gepard - Polish noun for cheetah with many forms

• Development
  • We are preparing for the Data Modelling Days happening later this week
  • Language codes:
    • We are making some small remaining changes before the next testing round of the new language code ( phab:T345750, phab:T345751, phab:T345083)
    • We continued to make a lot more language codes available ( phab:341409)
  • EntitySchemas: We are experimenting with how to work around some technical blockers for the new datatype
  • Wikibase REST API: We've been working on the ability to remove an Item's label in a specific language and modify the descriptions on a Property ( phab:T342981, phab:T342981)

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!