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Wikidata weekly summary #608
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"
 *  Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

 *  Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:
 * 1) Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
 * 2) Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.

 *  Events
 * Upcoming: Introducing WMF Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist! "focused on bringing together people who already contribute to technical aspects of the Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on the technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather autonomously." March 15th to 17th, 2024.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #122: Rock-forming minerals

 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * African Librarians empowered to share knowledge and enhance information visibility through AfLIA Wikidata Online Course --> The "Promoting Open Knowledge Practices in African Libraries through Wikidata" project, executed by AfLIA with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, trained African librarians on using Wikidata to enhance the visibility of library collections and close the knowledge and gender gap on Africa. The course was facilitated by experienced African Wikimedian editors and included diverse strategies for learner engagement and support.
 * Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
 * Videos
 * Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
 * Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
 * Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
 * No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
 * Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
 * Notebooks
 * Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
 * Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
 * The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
 * Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
 * State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
 * An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.

 *  Tool of the week
 * Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
 * Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.

 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Job opening: Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an US National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.

 *  Did you know?

 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: WHDLoad database ID, Shanghai Library movie ID, PCSX2 Wiki ID, KRS number, Twitch numeric channel ID, RPCS3 Wiki ID, Black Games Archive ID, Citra compatibility database ID, DraCor ID, ORBi article ID, IGN wiki article ID, AreWeAntiCheatYet ID, RPGFan game ID, Arcade Hub ID

 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Laws of Malaysia URL ( Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia )
 * production manager ( manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production; oversees production plans, controls resources, initiates production, ensures ongoing operations, monitors schedules and expenditures, and creates a detailed production schedule and budget )
 * External identifiers: Schnittberichte.com ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, GamesMeter ID, Walk Score ID, Malaysia company new number, Am Faclair Beag ID, xemu compatibility database ID, Sofascore player ID, GameGear.jp ID, RPGWatch IDs, Team England ID, TORCH taxon ID, ScummVM ID, Abandonware France IDs

 * Query examples:
 * Distribution of the different tram gauges in Germany (source)
 * Scale of stampedes reported on Wikidata (source)
 * Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
 * Christmas traditions around the world (with pictures) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Städel Museum Wikidata Clean-Up - This WikiProject from the Städel Museum aims to actively participate in the Wikimedia community by maintaining and updating the quality of its data. This includes their collection of public domain art, which has been digitized and made freely available for public use. The project focuses on ensuring that the most current and high-quality data, including high-resolution images and improved metadata, are available on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
 * Newest database reports: children of dead mothers - List of mother-children pairs, where death date of parent < birth date of child
 * Showcase Items: Esperanto (Q143) - international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
 * Showcase Lexemes: L1222568 (বড়দিন) - Bengali noun for 'Christmas'

 *  Development
 * Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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.

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 *  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 #609
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

 *  Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.

 *  Events
 * Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 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.
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist

 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
 * Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.

 *  Tool of the week
 * WICA: Wikidata's insights for created articles is an updated version of an old tool. It now includes many new features to analyse your list of created articles using Wikidata properties.

 *  Did you know?

 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Shamela book edition ID, HistoriaGames series ID, Schnittberichte.com title ID, Kemono Games game ID, Internet Game Database event ID, Xemu compatibility database ID, GamesMeter game ID, GameGear.jp ID, Walmart product ID, Swissubase person ID, RPGWatch game ID, RPGWatch company ID, RPGWatch press ID, Indie DB company ID, NIWA article ID, turismoroma.it place ID, ScummVM ID, ORBi author ID, Abandonware-France video game series ID, Abandonware-France video game compilation ID, Abandonware-France person ID, Abandonware-France company ID, Abandonware-France magazine ID, Abandonware-France award ID, Kanjipedia word ID, Moviefone movie ID, South African NPO number, Nigerian registered company ID, Abandonware-France video game ID, AFJV directory ID

 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Nonprofit Status ( Indicating the legal and tax status of a non-profit organization (specific to served legal areas, aka. Countries). Addition to . to nonprofitStatus from schema.org. Organizations can have multiple Nonprofit Status from different countries. )
 * International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ( for  created by the  and adapted by the . )
 * creative director ( person who makes high-level creative decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as adverts, products, events or logos and guides and directs the creative people who create the end result )
 * television judge
 * External identifiers: SERNEC taxon ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, nebula channel id, Deutsche Bahn station number, ISzDb series ID, BG localisation unit ID, Cathopedia article ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, Penstemon Database ID, Wikisage ID

 * Query examples:
 * Visual artists whose works will enter the Public Domain in Mexico on January 1, 2024 (source)
 * Top music album languages found on Wikidata right now (Week 52, 2023) (source)
 * Western composers until the end of the Renaissance (source)
 * Newest database reports: Merge candidates: Identical birth and death dates
 * Showcase Items: Team Fortress 2 (Q382108) - team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game.
 * Showcase Lexemes: ورھا لگّݨ / ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਲੱਗਣ (L907713) - Punjabi verb expressing the setting in of a new year.

 *  Development
 * The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

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!

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #137 is out: Introducing our first new type: Lists
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we introduce our newest and much requested type of function, list. Also, we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on January 8, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:37, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #610
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

 Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

 Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (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.
 * Wiki Mentor Africa (WMA) Hackathon, 19th to 21st January 2024
 * Forschungsdatenmanagement: Wikidata as a collaborative information resource on research data management (German), takes place online, Wednesday 10th January 2024, 10-11am (CET).

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs: PubChem on Wikidata – What is the state of coverage? by Tiago Lubiana. In summary, Wikidata has good coverage of the structured chemical data in PubChem, though there are improvement points. PubChem displays, and will always display, textual information and vendor-specific data that do not fit Wikidata, but they are complementary tools in the ecosystem of open chemical data.
 * Papers
 * Linked data: un’opportunità per il riuso (Q124079430) "scientific article published in 2023" (paper in Italian) - deals with linked data in library catalogues, with many mentions of Wikidata.
 * Automatically Constructed Indonesian Question Answering Dataset by Leveraging Wikidata by K. Doxolodeo & A.A. Krisnadhi - researchers have created a new Indonesian Question Answering dataset that is produced automatically end-to-end using Context Free Grammar, the Wikipedia Indonesian Corpus, and the concept of the proxy model
 * LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Eric Willey & Susan Radovsky, discusses the gap of Wikidata items being created for scholarly articles by the scholar's themselves and if this can lead to inconsistent or inaccurate data model.
 * Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias: this paper asks whether there is an americanisation bias in the content created by the communities. By Piotr Konieczny & Włodzimierz Lewoniewski.
 * Videos
 * Map Kerala Initiative is an opendata portal geospatial map powered by Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, introduced by Manoj Karingamadathil.
 * This video on Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning: Biodiversity Data Access Functions shows how Wikidata is being used to populate species entity profiles at Wolfram U, presented by Jofre Espigulé-Pons.
 * Notebooks: Wikipedia article as a timeline - This tool transforms a Wikipedia article in a timeline by parsing all internal links in a Wikipedia article and retrieving the date corresponding to each internal link using the point in time (P585) property in Wikidata.

 Tool of the week  Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

 Other Noteworthy Stuff  Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL ( URL of the entry for a plant genus, species, subspecies, or variety in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands website )
 * (Montana Plant Life URL ( URL for a plant family, genus, or species on the Montana Plant Life website )
 * plate(s) ( plate number(s) in the reference source being cited to support the statement being made )
 * Newest External identifiers: Abandonware-France book ID, MilliBase taxon ID, Monasticon Hibernicum database ID, Rhineland-Palatinate school ID, Enciclopedia di Roma monument ID, Enciclopedia di Roma street ID, Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium taxon ID, The Criterion Collection spine number

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * Water bottle volume ( Volume of the water bottle )
 * Is it metric? ( To check if it's a metric. )
 * Anti-Cheat software used ( anti-cheat solution used by this multiplayer video game )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: turismo.marche.it place ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Team Scotland ID, Globoplay ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Commonwealth Games Australia ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, TouchArcade game ID, Mod.io ID, The Models Resource game ID, The Models Resource entity ID, tourist information point number, Jinji Koshinjyo ID, Bandcamp track ID

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Average age of supporters of Gérard Depardieu according to Appel de 50 personnalités du monde de la culture (source)
 *
 * Bridges in the UK with photos (source)
 * Programming languages influenced by Niklaus Wirth (directly or indirectly) (source)
 * Newest WikiProject: Podcast Episodes 2024 - The goal of this project is to add episode pages for individual podcasts.
 * Newest database report: children of unborn parents
 * Showcase Item: Helsinki (Q1757) - capital and most populous city of Finland
 * Showcase Lexeme: Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish for 'God forbid'

 Development
 * IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (T351968)
 * Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (T305660)
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (T344041)
 * We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (T344039)

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.

 Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Ologies
 * 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!

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #138 is out: The Joy of Collaboration; Introducing the Function of the Week: reverse string
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we present you an essay from Denny and we introduce a new section of the newsletter, dedicated to the "function of the week". Also, we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

We also wanted to note that we are in the process of moving the Updates from Meta to Wikifunctions. We'll keep you updated about it.

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:27, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 January 2024
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!

 * Special report: Public Domain Day 2024

 * Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit

 * News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!

 * In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate

 * In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?

 * WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine

 * Obituary: Anthony Bradbury

 * Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023

 * Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading

 * Comix: Conflict resolution

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Wikidata weekly summary #611
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

 Discussions
 * New request for comments: Community request for the development team to access inverse properties on client wikis. (Summary: We currently cannot access inverse property values on Wikipedia. This can be a data management issue on Wikipedia as we must always ask ourself if we must introduce an inverse property for cases where we need them. So I think it’s useful to gather the usecases community would want and draft a request for an API to the devteam to do that.)

 Events
 * Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 17th January 2024 (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.
 * Past
 * Provenance Loves Wiki (PLW24), Jan 12th - 14th, research and data on the origin of artworks and cultural heritage and how Wikibase and Wikidata can support this.
 * WikiLovesWomen #SheSaid campaign wrapped up the 2023 campaign by visiting Kinshasha and Kisangani, where local Wikimedians improved quotes from women on FR Wikipedia and Wikidata.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Building Connected Libraries in Nigeria: --> Reflections from the Wikibase Journey on collaboration and resouce sharing between Nigerian Libraries.
 * Wikidata and ChatGPT integration failure --> read about Finn Årup Nielsen's attempts to integrate LLM's with Wikidata.
 * QLever: a new way to query OpenStreetMap --> Discussion of the new opportunities offered by QLever to query OpenStreetMap and to run federated queries with Wikidata
 * Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work --> The three-year Wikidata for authority control project, a collaboration between Wikimedia Sverige and Swedish museums, concluded in December 2023. It equipped museum staff with tools and skills to integrate their authority databases with Wikidata, resulting in added identifiers, SPARQL query proficiency, and enhanced knowledge sharing within the GLAM sector.
 * Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg --> The GLAM-BW project, under "GLAM goes OpenData," connects major collections in Baden-Württemberg, focusing on the württembergische Kunstkammer. With over 3,000 objects, the project integrates information on collectors, histories, and objects into a knowledge graph for semantic searches, contributing to the broader realm of linked open data, akin to Wikidata.
 * Swiss GLAM Programme --> Wikimedia CH imported the Museum of Natural History of Neuchâtel's urchin fossil casts to Wikimedia Commons, connecting structured data on Wikidata. The project involved data cleaning, adding missing elements, and file imports via OpenRefine, highlighting seamless integration between Wikidata and Commons.
 * Papers
 * Reflections on the PCC Wikidata Pilot at UCLA Library: --> Undertaking the PCC Learning Objectives. Discusses the 14-month Pilot programme for cooperative cataloguing of UCLA Library and Museum Collections. By E. Zhang, P. Biswas & I. Dagher.
 * Few-Shot Event Classification in Images using Knowledge Graphs for Prompting --> How can Wikidata and Wikipedia help Vision-Language Models improve their classification of images. Tahmasebzadeh et al., 2024.
 * Videos
 * SMWCon 2023: Semantics, Wikis, and AI --> Day 1, Keynote by Prof. Markus Krötzsch who explores origins and principles of semantic wikis and key challenges that lie ahead in managing knowledge.
 * GLAM on Tour 2023 im Museum Barberini (German) --> find out what Museums have got to do with Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. More Info Here.
 * Interactive notebooks: GLAM : Geolocated and Labelled Articles Map - explore Featured and Good Wikipedia articles through a map, powered by Wikidata.

 Tool of the week
 * Brian M Sperlongano released US boundary QA checker, a quality assurance tool for finding issues with boundary data in the United States by using Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and US Census Bureau data.
 * The Surrounding Ocean (available at vrandezo.github.io/TheSurroundingOcean) - is a tool that allows you to browse lexicographical data. You can use the tool to explore words and their meanings, translations, and synonyms. The tool is currently under development, and the developer, Danny, would appreciate feedback to fix any issues with the tool. More info: The Surrounding Ocean.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * OS-Wikidata Map Framework List of tools and maps which combines OSM and Wikidata.
 * Call for Projects and Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2024 and Outreachy Round 28 is OPEN!
 * Got an idea for a project to reclaim the public nature of the internet? With Wikidata? NLNet has a new fund you could apply to.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes: none
 * Newest External identifiers: Walk Score ID, HistoriaGames game ID, Deutsche Bahn station number, Legends Tour player ID, Moscow Cultural Heritage ID, USOPC Hall of Fame ID, Cathopedia article ID, TouchArcade game ID, DoblajeVideojuegos game ID, Adventure-Treff game ID, Biota of New Zealand ID, Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria taxon ID, Consortium of Lichen Herbaria taxon ID, Native Plants Hawaii ID, SERNEC taxon ID, TORCH taxon ID, Penstemon Database ID, Digicarmel ID, Retskrivningsordbogen ID, MAMCS artwork ID, Sofascore player ID, Mod.io game ID, Sina Chinese Basketball player ID, turismo.marche.it place ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * describes ( Data objects that are described by this entity (e.g. an encyclopedia or topic-related book; intended for input of several data objects.) )
 * memory type ( specifies the type of working memory of this data object )
 * filial church ( church which acts as the less important temple of a parish )
 * TOPO id ( unique code to identify topographical features of France (department, city, thoroughfare...) )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Bluesky handle, Merkur author ID, Bavarian school ID, Rugby Database ID, Playstation Store Concept ID, ArchDaily Architecture Office ID, Il Nuovo De Mauro ID, Bluesky DID

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Historical events by a city sorted by importance (source)
 * Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
 * Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Decolonise Wiki --> intends to focus on decolonising text, depictions and media within all relevant Wikipedia articles.
 * WikiProject Highlights: Ontology Cleaning Task Force: A group of people have started a task force to discuss problems with the Wikidata ontology and how to clean them up. Anyone interested in participating is welcome. The task force maintains WikiProject Ontology/Cleaning Task Force as a record of its activities. You can add yourself to the participants list there and find out how to join group meetings or otherwise participate in the group. (Got something noteworthy happening in your WikiProject? Share it in the upcoming issue!)
 * Newest database reports: Lexicographical data/Reports/Empty lexemes - Lexemes with no statements, no forms and no senses. (Do you see Lexemes from your language in the list that you can fix?)
 * Showcase Items: January 15, 2018 (Q45919591) - Monday in January 2018
 * Showcase Lexemes: در جنگ حلوا بخش نمی‌کنند (L1081423) - Persian with a meaning similar to "all's fair in love and war"

 Development
 * IP masking: We are working on adjusting Wikibase to handle the upcoming introduction of IP masking, which will give editors who are not logged in a temporary account name instead of using their IP to attribute edits to (T351968)
 * Lexicographical data: We are changing how empty Senses and Forms are represented in the dumps (T305660)
 * mul language code: We are doing user testing for the current implementation to see if it is understandable for people.
 * Mismatch Finder: We are continuing the work on migrating it to the Codex design system.
 * REST API:
 * We improved the handling of lower-case statement IDs (T354262)
 * We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (T344039)

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.

 Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Pigs
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #139 is out: Refreshing the Function page; Function of the Week: ROT13
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we announce a redesign and rewrite of the Function page and we present our first "function of the week". Also, we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Wikidata weekly summary #612
''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.''

 Discussions
 * New request for comments: Domain name as data (Summary: How should Wikidata store the domain name associated with an item? There are many properties for URLs, but a domain name is a different value.)

 Events
 * Past
 * Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2024-01-17
 * PLW 2024: Provenance loves Wiki - Fri. 12th - Sun. 14th January. If you missed the event, catch up by reading the slides, Notes and watching the recordings on the Project page
 * Next: Linked Open Data in Heritage Workshop > Jan. 23rd, 13:00 - 15:00 CET. If you are in the Maastricht University Faculty and want to know enhance heritage research, improve data management, connectivity and visualisation, register for the Workshop.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Languages with the best lexicographic data coverage in Wikidata 2023
 * Working with catalogues: a Wikidata volunteer’s perspective --> interview with Epìdosis where they discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with catalogues on Wikidata.
 * Papers
 * The reconciliation of SBN authority records with Wikidata. Progresses and perspectives after a decade of work (2013-2023) (Q124289369) (Italian title: Riconciliare le voci di autorità in SBN con Wikidata. Progressi e prospettive dopo un decennio di lavoro (2013-2023)) (paper in Italian) - deals with the reconciliation of the authority file of the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN) with Wikidata
 * The evolution of authority work in SBN. From origins to Alphabetica and future prospects (Q124289388) (Italian title: L’evoluzione dell’authority work in SBN. Dalle origini ad Alphabetica e prospettive future) (paper in Italian) - deals with the evolution of the authority work in the biggest Italian collective library catalogue (OPAC SBN), with many references to Wikidata
 * Biological Pathway Abstractions: From 2D drawings to Multidimensional Linked Data > this thesis by Andra Sachinder Waagmeester discusses the utility of using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph for Life Sciences.
 * Videos
 * "From Wiki to Digital Humanities - Establishing a Literature Index Network" Symposium(Taiwanese) from Wang Shiqing. A scholar of Taiwanese history, this symposium explores linking their historical and academic research with Wikidata.
 * Semantic MediaWiki Con 2023
 * AskWikidata: Natural language queries to Wikidata, a naive prototype created by Senior Software Engineer for Wikidata, Robert Timm. Want to try? (Google Colab)
 * Fixing Wikidata: by viewing it as a series of tables by Yaron Koren, who challenges that Wikidata can become more useful with more structured editing and querying practices.

 Tool of the week
 * Wikimedia Commons based streaming services by Magnus: WikiFlix for movies and the companion tool WikiVibes for audio.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland hiring:
 * Software Engineer, Wikidata
 * Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * underlying structure ( an instance of the subject becomes an instance of the object if some of its data are lost )
 * working memory type ( specifies the type of working memory of this data object )
 * production manager ( manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production )
 * simulate ( the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real )
 * Philippine middle name ( maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name )
 * Newest External identifiers: ISzDb series ID, IFTTT service ID, National-Football-Teams.com team ID, Moviefone person ID, Commonwealth Games Australia athlete ID, Team Scotland athlete ID, Kicker team ID, goalzz.com team ID, vesti.kz team ID, Am Faclair Beag ID, tourist information point number, Alexandria.dk person ID, Babelio serial ID, Moviebuff ID, RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju Word ID, Stage, Qué series ver ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * If non-metric
 * civil rank ( non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: PhoneScoop phone ID, TopKar ID, IFOPT stop identifier, Flashback lexicon ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, HbVar ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, HistoryMakers Digital Archive Maker ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, Code de la collectivité territoriale ayant les compétences départementales, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Distance between the birthplace of UK ministers and London (source)
 * Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize
 * People who have returned to being their country’s head of government after the longest gap
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Media art - to work together with initiatives archiving media art and find common best practices.
 * Newest database reports: Count of Senseless Lexemes per language
 * Showcase Items: Mona Lisa (Q12418) - oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci
 * Showcase Lexemes: grilldress (L1131949) - track suit for grilling in Bokmål

 Development
 * IP Masking: We are continuing to adapt Wikibase to the upcoming IP Masking feature. We worked on hiding warnings about IP addresses being saved when they don’t apply (T353807, T352006) and creating temporary accounts when editing (T354730)
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We continued working on the ability to get a sitelink for a given site (T344039)
 * We started working on the ability to remove a sitelink for a given wiki (T344685)
 * We worked on fixing a bug where the REST API PUT request does not handle statement on Items with lowercase statement IDs (T352644)
 * mul language code: We did user testing to find any remaining issue before release

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.

 Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Cinematography
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #140 is out: Getting debug information from code; Function of the Week: Wrap string
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss debugging in implementations and we present our new "function of the week". Also, we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Wikidata weekly summary #613
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.'' <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">

 Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: ROBERTSHST requested adminship to be able to link protected Wikipedia pages to Wikidata. The request has been denied and closed.
 * New request for comments: Frettiebot block? - Bovlb has requested community input about the edit behaviour of this bot, with more discussion found on the Frettiebot Discussion page.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Books: Banned books, Wikipedia and Wikidata - Volume 54, Number 2, 2023 of the focus on International Library and Information Work. Professor Núria Ferran of Women and Wikipedia.
 * Papers
 * Assisted Knowledge Graph Authoring: Human-Supervised Knowledge Graph Construction from Natural Language - a Web app allowing domain experts to create natural language Wikidata-based knowledge graphs. By Gohsen & Stein (2024).
 * Large Language Models are Superpositions of All Characters: Attaining Arbitrary Role-play via Self-Alignment - Lu, K., Yu, B., Zhou, C. & Zhou, J., (2024),. This paper explores using Knowledge Graph data silos to enrich interactions and dialogues with AI NPC's in roleplay videogames.
 * Narrowing the Knowledge Evaluation Gap: Open-Domain Question Answering with Multi-Granularity Answers - evaluating predicted answers against a set of multi-granularity answers based on Wikidata. By Yona et al, (2024).
 * Videos
 * Introduction to Wikidata Query Tool - Learn A Wiki Skill (LAWS). If you are a Wikidata beginner, enjoy this video provided by Open Foundation West Africa.
 * Wikibase Cloud For Cultural Heritage Data Online and the SNARC Hub for Name Authority Records relating to Wales and the Welsh Language, with Jason J. Evans.
 * How to use Wikidata in research: good practices for using and sharing open data (Portugese). A training session by Rute Correia of Wikimedia Portugal.
 * WikidataCon 2023 - (English Audio)
 * Wikifunctions: fulfilling one of Wikidata's missing promises? - with Denny Vrandečić
 * Structured data and collaborative curation: WikiProjects and Wikidata - with Daniel Mietchen.
 * Spreading our Data further with Wikibase REST API by L. Pintscher.
 * Presentations:
 * Wikibase for a Research Project - A slidedeck provided by Ruth v.d. Bussche presented at Provenance Loves Wiki '24
 * Provenance Loves Wiki 2024 slides on Linking Boetticher and 19th Century Paintings through Wikidata and Wikisource
 * Notebooks: GLAM2: Geolocated and Labeled Articles Map - much like the previously shared GLAM1 visually representing distribution of Good & Featured Articles but in a different visualisation.

 Tool of the week
 * Wikidata's insights for featured and good Wikipedia articles, a new Observable's notebook which helps exploring good articles or featured articles in any Wikipedia using Wikidata properties such as P31, P21, P106, P17, P27, etc.
 * SpeedPatrolling - This tool helps Wikidata editors to patrol recent changes.
 * metaphacts and Ontotext launch a new end-user interface on top of the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: try it here!

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A job opening for a Data Scientist / Knowledge Engineer to use Wikidata as a foundational layer for an NSF-funded Prototype Open Knowledge Network.
 * The Wikidata Development team needs your feedback! We are currently evaluating a new feature for the Wikidata Query Service. Fancy sharing your thoughts? We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this survey on Lamapoll. It should take you around 10–15 minutes. Your input means a lot to us. Thank you!

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * underlying structure(s) ( mathematical structure(s) obtained by deleting some data of the subject )
 * working memory type ( specifies the type of working memory of this data object )
 * production manager ( manager that is responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production )
 * simulates ( item simulated, imitated, or made to appear real by this item )
 * Philippine middle name ( maternal surname generally placed in the middle of this person's name )
 * combines media ( media files that composes this media file )
 * clerked for ( this person has held a clerkship with the judge )
 * Newest External identifiers: RCS number, Sayed Ganj Balochi Glossary ID, Vazhaju word ID, Stage username, Qué series ver series ID, Baseball-Reference.com manager ID, Playstation Store concept ID, Pallaalcentro player ID, Rowing Canada ID, Rugby Database ID, Encyclopedia of Cacti species ID, Nebula channel ID, fiba.basketball player ID, Académie de Stanislas member ID, National Natural Parks System ID, Bandcamp track ID, NientePopCorn movie ID, NientePopCorn series ID, NientePopCorn person ID, Bavarian school ID, BookBrainz edition ID, British Pathé asset ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century ID, Merkur author page, Globoplay ID, BindingDB ID, FFTT player ID, Czech geological location ID, etymologiebank.nl ID, Bluesky handle, Parliament of Victoria ID, ArchDaily architecture office ID, HistoryMakers Maker Directory ID, OKRB 011-2022 code, Plant Illustrations taxon ID, Plant Illustrations species ID, Bantumen Powerlist 100, International Hockey Federation competition ID, IndExs Exsiccata editor ID, COSL profile ID, The Models Resource entity ID, HbVar ID, TracesOfWar award ID, Latindex 2022 ID, Flashback lexicon ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * Number of delegates
 * afd-verbot.de person id
 * date of application ( date of a application/request that lead to a membership in an organisation, an employment or issuance of an identifier )
 * authorized image ( Proposing to distinguish images with reliable source from GLAM partners or cultural institutions )
 * Dejure.org-Schlagwort (de) ( searchword in Dejure.org )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review:: VD 17 ID, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID, MobiTUKI English-Swahili Dictionary entry, Singerman Identifier, X place ID, PteridoPortal taxon ID, Plants of Hawaiʻi ID, Kalliope.org author ID, The StoryGraph Author ID, EDIT16 title & place IDs, Myths on Maps Identifier, Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry, Archives départementales du Vaucluse Fonds ID, ru.hayazg.info ID, Sundance Institute Archive ID, Mindat taxon ID, notify.moe ID, nimi.li id, Nintendo eShop (UK) ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * The 100 smallest mountains in France (source)
 * French Prime ministers ordered by age when they start in office (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024 - The International Botanical Congress (IBC) takes place once every six years. The organisers of this WikiProject see this conference as an ideal opportunity to engage with the wider botanical community, educate them about the potential of Wikidata and to train them in its use. We will also use this opportunity to improve the data held in Wikidata about the participants, presenters and their contributions to botany.
 * WikiProject Health Data Space - This project is about organising data related to health data spaces, in particular the efforts to create a European Health Data Space. Initially it will focus on Sweden.
 * Newest database reports: Differences in birth and death dates - This is list of reports when birth date or death date in Wikidata differs from other sources:
 * Showcase Items: Hubble Space Telescope (Q2513) - NASA and ESA space telescope (launched 1990)
 * Showcase Lexemes: šťastný (L204262) (Czech) - having luck, fortune, happy. This is our first Czech showcase lexeme and it just so happens to be the largest Lexeme on Wikidata!

 Development
 * [Breaking Change] We are changing how empty Sense and Form lists are represented in dumps
 * Fixed the order of item/property suggestions on several occasions, primarily sex or gender (P21) (phab:T355697)
 * mul lanuage code: We are wrapping up the usability testing.
 * IP Masking: We continued the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to not show IP addresses for non-logged in users anymore.
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We added the ability to add a sitelink to an Item or edit an existing one (T342987)
 * We are fixing a bug where badges were missing in the API reponse for sitelinks (T355293)

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.

 Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Diplomacy
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

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The Signpost: 31 January 2024
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 * News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail

 * Opinion: Until it happens to you

 * Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry

 * In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race

 * In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2

 * Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"

 * Comix: We've all got to start somewhere

 * Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #141 is out: The Igbo Imperative!
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we focus on language functions in Igbo, a language spoken by more than 44 million people in South-Eastern Nigeria. Also, we take a look at the latest software developments.

Starting from this issue, the status updates will be hosted on Wikifunctions, instead of Meta. One more step towards maturation of the project!

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive (on Meta)!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on February 5, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 09:14, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #614
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.'' <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">

 Discussions
 * New request for permissions/Bot:
 * SamoasambiaBot - Adding coordinate values from fiwiki articles, and 2.) adding location statements based on the coordinates.
 * MidleadingBot 5 - Create items for books in National Diet Library (Q477675).
 * Closed request for comments:
 * Closure reason listed as "Not an RfC discussion": Moto GP Riders Links, Improve performance of label, description and alias retrieval, Create massive changes in one property for specific categories/properties, Auto analysis and breakdown of links (for social account reference), Separating citations from all Wikipedia articles by using Wikidata, Items for external links
 * Closure reason listed as "No Consensus": Remove watchlist summary, Unify GO articles and enzyme articles
 * Closure reason listed as "Stale": Potd, Population data model, Handling of data objects for pages in project namespace, Shouldn't there be a feature adding Qualifiers inside Qualifiers?, Auto sorting according to weight assigned, Should we create new properties for beaches, Should previously linked Wikipedia articles be separated?, A meta item namespace (Mxxx) for structured data about Wikidata, Structured path for property definition changes, Improved instructions for translation admin

 Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 6, 2024: Wikimedia user Dnshitobu will discuss Wikidata for Education, the Dagbani NLP project, and the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group/sister communities. In the last part of the meeting, Dnshitobu will lead a discussion of your ideas for Wikidata Affinity Group activities in 2024 using Jamboard. Agenda
 * Kick-Off Panel Discussion: Black Histories Wikipedia & Wikidata Edit-a-thon February 6, 17:00 - 18:00 CET. Toronto Metropolitan University. Edit-A-Thon's are also being hosted on Feb. 8th 16:00 CET and Feb. 15th 18:00 CET.
 * Wikidata 101 is a clinic, part of the #LoveDataWeek hosted at Toronto Metropolitan University; February 13th 11:00 - 12:30 EST in LIB 387 - Library Collaboratory building.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Diff Blog: #LD42023 II: Getting to Know Each Other, Librarians in the Wikidata World by SEgt-WMF
 * 20th Century Press Archives: access extension and full-text search via Wikidata
 * Papers
 * Wikidata Challenges in the Semantic Web Community by Andrea Westerinen. This presentation was given at the Data Modelling Days conference.
 * Comparative Study on the Approaches of Name Authority Control and Wikidata Identity Management pages 63 - 74 of the Proceedings of the 18th International ISKO Conference (2024). Authored by Chen C. & Yuxuan Z.
 * Videos
 * Connecting People, Connecting Archives Project (CACP) – Wikidata Workshop (Arabic). Archivists and scholars collaborated to align objectives and methods for the Connecting Archives Connecting People (CACP) Project. The aim of the workshop was to understand biographical data in archives.
 * Wikibase SPARQL Demo A live demo of the SPARQL MediaWiki extension during the February 2024 Wikibase Stakeholder Group meetup.
 * Podcasts: Between the Brackets, Episode 155 - Alan Ang and Kris Litson discuss Wikidata partnerships and outreach.
 * Notebooks
 * Mapping of a director's work a tool which explores the narrative locations of works directed by a filmmaker.
 * Mapping of a writer's work : a tool which explores the narrative locations of works written by an author.

 Tool of the week
 * A Query and UI for exploring works of Venezuelan authors, artists, scientists and creators in the Public Domain.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikidata development goals for 2024 Q1 has been updated: Wikidata:Development plan

 Newest properties and property proposals to review
 * Newest General datatypes:
 * official list URL ( URL of a website listing instances of the subject, maintained by the authority on the subject )
 * Laws of Malaysia URL ( Uniform Resource Locator for laws of Malaysia )
 * semantic derivation ( links a lexeme sense to a particular sense it is derived from )
 * date of application ( date of a application/request that lead to a membership in an organisation, an employment or issuance of an identifier )
 * Newest External identifiers: VMH ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web version), Euro+Med PlantBase taxon ID, LoverFans ID, DigiListan artist ID, Letterboxd director ID, Letterboxd user ID, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID, Dansk Forfatterleksikon ID, Qantas hotel ID, Veterans Legacy Memorial ID, China Animal Scientific Database dbb ID, National Library of Malaysia OPAC ID, Taiwan Biographical Database ID, IFOPT stop ID, Jinji Koshinjyo ID (1st edition), Jinji Koshinjyo ID (4th edition), Jinji Koshinjyo ID (8th edition), TheTVDB season ID, TheTVDB company ID, TheTVDB award ID, Kialo ID, Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames ID, Myths on Maps identifier, Plants of Hawaiʻi ID, Kalliope.org author ID, PteridoPortal taxon ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz sense ID, XWord Info author ID, Bluesky DID, Unified Saudi Occupational Classification, Lobbypedia ID, ru.hayazg.info ID, VD 17 ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * smells of
 * moment of onset of sexual maturity ( the point in time after which an individual attains the ability to reproduce sexually )
 * url namespace ( URL prefix behind which values of this property can be found using a search engine )
 * ultima verba ( last words spoken by a subject )
 * Performing organization ( organization that received funding to create this entity )
 * filial church ( church which acts as the less important temple of a parish )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Identifiant Mémoire des lieux d'un bâtiment, PlaymakerStats.com executive ID, Identifiant du Référentiel national des bâtiments, Dictionary of American Regional English ID, Dictionary of Old English ID, Encyclopedia Mythica ID, Shamela Author ID, Oxford English Dictionary object identifier, Daryab Pashto Glossary ID, Great Plains Herbaria taxon ID, PROSPEROPatches game ID, ORBISPatches game ID, Quake Wiki ID, Hong Kong Cinema ID, Műemlékem.hu identifier, Trakt-Film-ID, Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID, MobiTUKI Swahili-English Dictionary entry, Personen der Moderne Basis person ID, Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Projects with which New Zealand Thesis people overlap (source)
 * Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FcounLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fcountry%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FhqLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fheadquarters%29%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%20%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4830453.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP159%20%3Fhq.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcoun.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Frank.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP2139%20%3Fstatement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fstatement1%20%21%3D%20%3Fstatement%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab9.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab9%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ4917%20AS%20%3Funit%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20psv%3AP2139%20_%3Ab10.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Frevenue.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab10%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%3Funit.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20wikibase%3Arank%20%3Funit_rank.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement%20psv%3AP2284%20_%3Ab11.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20_%3Ab11%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3Fusd.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit%20p%3AP2284%20%3Funit_statement1.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20%28psv%3AP2284%2Fwikibase%3AquantityUnit%29%20wd%3AQ4917.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Funit_statement1%20wikibase%3Arank%20wikibase%3APreferredRank.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3APreferredRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_statement1%20%21%3D%20%3Funit_statement%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28%3Frevenue%20%2a%20%3Fusd%20AS%20%3Frevenue_USD%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ4917%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Funit_rank%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%21BOUND%28%3Funit_statement1%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcoun%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcounLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Fhq%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FhqLabel%20.%0A%20%20%3Funit%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FunitLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Frank%20%21%3D%20wikibase%3ADeprecatedRank%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21BOUND%28%3Fstatement1%29%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Frevenue%20%3Frevenue_USD%20%3FunitLabel%20%3Fdate%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Frevenue_USD%29%0ALIMIT%2015 Largest companies by revenue in USD]
 * Newest database reports: Popular Items without claims (Items with the most links but without statements)
 * Showcase Items: Airbus (Q67) - European aircraft manufacturer
 * Showcase Lexemes: sala (L578377) - translates to "human" or "charcoal" in Dagbanli

 Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We are finishing the endpoint for adding/replacing a sitelink on an Item for a given wiki (T342987) and have finished the ones for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (T344039, T344685)
 * We have documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (T355659)
 * We fixed the bug where sitelink data was not including badges even when available (T355293)
 * IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase so we don't show IP addresses for non-logged-in users.
 * mul: We finished the user testing and will now work on the remaining blockers for the first release.

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.

 Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #142 is out: Quarterly planning. Thank you, Nick! Function of the Week: is permutation
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss about the results of our last internal planning meeting, whose objective was to define what we will work on in this quarter. Also, we take a look at the latest changes in the team and the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive on Wikifunctions and also on Meta.

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 16:22, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2024
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In This Issue
 * Cross-Continental Wikimedia Activities: A Dialogue between Malaysia and Estonia
 * Czech programme SWW in 2023 – how have we managed to engage students
 * Extending Updates on Wikipedia in Education – Elbasan, Albania
 * Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Teacher’s guide – now available in Bulgarian language
 * Summer students at Auckland Museum
 * WikiDunong: EduWiki Initiatives in the Philippines Project
 * Wikimedia Armenia's Educational Workshops
 * Wikimedia Foundation publishes its first Child Rights Impact Assessment

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Wikidata weekly summary #615
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 Discussions
 * New request for permissions/Bot:
 * CJMBot - let users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside is validated and processed, creating new items or updating existing items by adding statements and references.
 * MidLeadingBot_5 - create items for books in National Diet Library (Q477675).
 * Closed request for comments: Revamping Birth related properties the use of P1545-Series ordinal was recommended.

 Events
 * Knowledge Graphs and large Language Models (KALLM) workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. Call for Papers (details) has begun (deadline May 10th)
 * WMF Community Wishathon is coming next month: March 15th-17th, 2024! Sign up by Wednesday, March 15th.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * What does it take to become a Spotify artist? - Skoove blog uses Wikidata and other databases to put together an infographic.
 * WiLMa Updates, OpenRefine training, Biodiversity, and Librarians (GLAM newsletter)
 * Love Data Week - My Kind of Data by Ali Smith. Shared relevant links to learn about data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities, and creating a kinder world through data.
 * Papers
 * Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers - with detailed discussion of curation of taxon-related information in Wikidata
 * Wikidata for Teaching Biology: Coloration in Felines (Spanish) - a paper that showcases Wikidata as a learning tool for students through the use of properties and statements applied to biological entities can enhance students computational and informational skills, by Marín1 D. & Michán L.
 * LIS Journals' Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation by Willey, E. & Radovsky S., Vol. 7 No.1 (2024) of the Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies.
 * Videos
 * GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 - Uruguay
 * Wikisource and Wikidata - when 2 cool kids play together. Session given by Bodhisattwa.
 * Wikidata + Education + Heritage - hosted by Sailesh Patnaik (WMF) & Nat Hernández Clavijo (WMU)
 * Using Wikidata integration on Wikimedia projects to enhance GLAM-Wiki content sharing - hosted by Mike Peel (WMB/WMF volunteer) & João Peschanski (WMB)
 * Advancing Drinking Water Justice at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Conference discusses how Wikidata and Wikibase Cloud can help address differences in data quality (at the 55:00 minute mark)
 * Mapping Graiguenamanagh Heritage Trail 2 - shows how to create a Heritage walking trail and add subject:wikidata to plaques to OpenStreetMap
 * Notebooks
 * Au bord de l'eau Mapping Wikidata's items next to a body of water using P206 property.

 Tool of the week
 * MediaWiki:Gadget-dataDrainer.js - this userscript allows you to delete the data of an item. You can choose what you want to delete: labels and/or descriptions and/or aliases and or sitelinks.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A project page for the experiment has also been published.
 * WMDE is currently conducting a research on Knowledge Equity in Linked Open Data. The goal is to try to better understand how the use of Wikidata, Wikibase Suite, and Wikibase Cloud both support knowledge equity and create barriers to knowledge equity when people are contributing historically and structurally marginalized knowledge and perspectives. If you are interested in participating in this project, please fill out this survey!

 Newest properties and property proposals to review
 * Newest General datatypes:
 * Environmental Performance Index ( measure of understanding environmental performance and sustainability for 180 countries )
 * age of onset of sexual maturity ( the point in time after which an individual attains the ability to reproduce sexually )
 * Beta Code ( representation of Ancient Greek as ASCII characters )
 * phonetic value ( phonetic value of signs/characters )
 * civil rank ( non-military rank of a civil office holder in Russian Empire )
 * Newest External identifiers: Dongqiudi.com team ID, Nintendo eShop (Europe) ID, Joseph Smith Papers person ID, Il Nuovo De Mauro ID, Sundance Institute Archive film ID, Sundance Institute Archive event ID, Sundance Institute Archive person ID, notify.moe anime ID, Swetrails POI-ID, UT.no ID, The StoryGraph author ID, X place ID, nixpkgs path, Shamela author ID, PROSPEROPatches game ID, ORBISPatches game ID, Quake Wiki ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * is invariant under ( subject is preserved by this process / function / group of transformation )
 * formatter URL for IIIF manifest ( URL to generate IIIF manifest from specific ID )
 * location information URL ( URL of a web page providing information on the locations of stores or other physical locations of a brand or operator )
 * SMIRKS ( A superset of "reaction SMILES" and a subset of "reaction SMARTS", is a line notation for specifying reaction transforms. )
 * appeals to ( court or other body that hears appeals from subject's decisions )
 * in service of ( qualifier, which must be used when a person is in the service of a settlement or institution through his position )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID, government.ru person ID, Kremlin.ru glossary ID, British Listed Buildings Online ID, Parsifal cluster ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Souls Grown Deep ID, OHDSI ID, identifiant Trismegistos d'une divinité, Encyclopedia Sindhiana entry, Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) ID, GNM ID, AniSearch anime ID, livechat.me anime ID, NACSIS-CAT library ID, JAHIS Law Database ID, Texas Legislator ID, Company ID number (Slovenia), Weird Gloop article ID, nagrada.srs.kg person ID, who.ca-news.org person ID, literatura.kg person ID, 2nd German Basketball Bundesliga ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Map of items next to the Seine (source)
 * 300 most followed Mastodon accounts (source)
 * Hospitals across Scotland (source)
 * People educated at the University of Leeds with a Wikipedia article (source)
 * Compare lat/long of UK Parliament and Wikidata constituency records [federated query] (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Library and Information Science - this new Wikiproject aims to identify and fill gaps in LIS-related content. If you are interested in the areas of librarianship, information studies, metadata and indexing; then please consider joining!
 * Political murders in the Weimar Republic - Collect historic political murders in the Weimar Republic e.g. through historic newspaper articles or scientific articles.
 * Newest database reports: Humans with missing claims
 * Showcase Items: Cactaceae (Q14560) - family of mostly succulent plants, adapted to dry environments
 * Showcase Lexemes: ग़रीब को कौड़ी अशरफ़ी है/غریب کو کوڑی اشرفی ہے (L656971) Hindustani proverb that translates to "a farthing is a pound to one who is poor"

 Development
 * The new mul language code is now ready for beta testing. You can find out more at Help talk:Default values for labels and aliases.
 * The graph split testing for the Wikidata Query Service has started. Please find more details in the "Other Noteworthy Stuff" section above.
 * IP Masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP Masking feature, so that IP addresses for non-logged-in users are no longer published.
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished the route for getting and removing a sitelink from an Item (T344039, T344685) and we continue work on the one for adding/ replacing and modifying a sitelink on an Item (T342987, T342988)
 * We now handle of case sensitive statement IDs in GET, PUT, PATCH and DELETE requests as HTTP redirect (T354261)
 * We documented the differences in sitelink data structure between Wikibase REST API and Action API responses (T355659)
 * We fixed the bug where sitelink data did not include badges (T355293)

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.

 Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

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The Signpost: 13 February 2024
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 * News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers

 * Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?

 * Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna

 * In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part

 * Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?

 * Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football

 * Crossword: Our crossword to bear

 * Comix: Strongly

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #143 is out: Fix-it week
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we take a look at the latest software developments, after our monthly "fix-it week", where we work on technical debt and other issues that pile up in our daily work.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive on Wikifunctions and also on Meta.

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #617
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Translations are available.'' <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">

 Discussions   Events   Press, articles, blog posts, videos   Tool of the week   Newest properties and property proposals to review
 * Open request for adminship: WT2O_2 - (RfP deadline: February 22, 2024 17:46 UTC)
 * Other: Project chat: PI Bot is an interesting conversation about the function of PI Bot in creating Stub articles and evolves into discussing ways of matching articles, categories and templates in sibling projects with their Wikidata items. Contribute to the discussion or even better, use one of the many tools posted and get linking!
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 20, 2024: In honor of Valentine's Day month, we are bringing back the popular program from last February: What's Your Wikidata Passion? What is your central Wikidata interest right now? It can be a work or personal project, even if you’re just beginning to think about it, or just what you like to edit when you have time. This is a great way to share your ideas, solicit community input and ask questions about resources or tools. This will be an open mic session, completely informal. Please add yourselves to the list on our agenda here if you would like to talk for 5 minutes or so. You can share your screen if you like, but there’s no need for slides. Or just show up and talk on the spur of the moment. This will be a community session where we welcome all to participate! Agenda
 * Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM) at ACL 2024. Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE
 * Wiki Workshop 2024 ― Research Track Papers - Call for contributions. Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
 * Blogs
 * 2023 Year Review by ADDSHORE, a prominent contributor and community member for WBStack and Wikibase.Cloud.
 * Wikidata Literary Influencers by Paul Matthews shows step-by-step how to get to an interactive network visualization based on Wikidata data
 * Papers: Language models for extracting Wikidata statements and generating Wikipedia content - is a Wikimedia Research proposal to improve Wikidata and English Wikipedia content using machine-learning power of AI and LL Models; by Thang, T.
 * Videos
 * Kairntech Demo Entity Extraction using Wikidata - is an example of how Wikidata is being used as a knowledge base to populate AI companions and LLM's with relevant content for profit.
 * Dancing Digital Project with Rebecca Salzer is a Wikibase instance sharing LOD between itself, video archives and Commons.
 * WikiPod AI - try listening to last week's Status Updates with AI-generated speaking, an experiment by Tiago Lubiana.
 * Notebooks: TTTTRPG - Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games queried using SPARQL from Wikidata.
 * User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js - this userscript changes the appearance of Recent Changes, Watchlist, Contributions, History pages, and Related Changes. It also adds filter options.
 * Wikidata Topic Curator (a rewrite of ItemSubjector into a webapp) help wikimedians add relevant topics to items. Based on a given topic QID it fetches articles matching the label, aliases or a custom user-provided term of that QID that is currently missing the main subject property.
 * Author Disambiguator - is a tool for editing the authors of works recorded in Wikidata, e.g. for finding Wikidata Items for the authors (P50 instead of 'author name string').

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * has cabinet ( value is the advisory committee to the item's head of state )
 * ISCED field ( mapping of a particular course or curriculum to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) )
 * appeals to ( court or other body that hears appeals from subject's decisions )
 * location information URL ( URL of a web page providing information on the locations of stores or other physical locations of a brand or operator )
 * phonographic copyright ( person or organization that holds the phonographic copyright )
 * is invariant under ( subject is unchanged by this process / function / group of transformation )
 * formatter URL for IIIF manifest ( URL to generate IIIF manifest from specific ID )
 * PyPI trove classifier ( standardized classification system for software, used and maintained by the Python Package Index )
 * graduation rate ( proportion of students who graduate from the institution in the given timeframe )
 * normal graduation time ( expected or typical duration of an educational program from matriculation to graduation )
 * multiplier of normal graduation time ( how much longer than "normal" someone took to graduate; used as a qualifier for the "graduation rate (P12469)" )
 * top scorer ( best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition )
 * Newest External identifiers: Anglo-Norman Dictionary entry, TopKar ID, Mindat taxon ID, China Animal Scientific Database taxon ID, Daryab Pashto Glossary ID, Dictionary of American Regional English ID, Dictionary of Old English ID, Encyclopedia Mythica ID, Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID, Great Plains Herbaria taxon ID, FrameNet frame ID, Parsifal cluster ID, Archives départementales de Vaucluse fonds ID, Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) ID, National Buildings Repository identifier, Location Memory building ID, JSTOR Global Plants type specimen ID, EDIT16 catalogue title ID, EDIT16 catalogue place ID, Trismegistos god ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Weird Gloop article ID, Kremlin.ru glossary ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * Hindawi Foundation book ID ( A property for IDs of books published by Hindawi Foundation )
 * Castradenumber ( number for a registred subject in a Castrade )
 * latest end date ( (qualifier) latest date on which the statement could have ceased to be true (i.e., latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true) )
 * anthesis start ( time of the year when a plant normally starts flowering )
 * leaf morphology ( characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Oyez Project ID, GARAE, WhatPub pub ID, Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID, Dictionary of Gandhari ID, UCA authority ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, Epigraphic Database Roma ID, European Union trade mark number, GCatholic Episcopal Conference ID, Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know?   Development ''' 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.  Weekly Tasks
 * Query examples:
 * Graph of ancient philosophers master/student relationships
 * Properties for UK lakes (contains a report-within-a-report allowing to look at Items having the Property) (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: Looted heritage - aims to use Wikidata to document looted cultural heritage. Its primary focus is on the colonial era, but it also encompasses other relevant historical periods. It's scope includes artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage.
 * WikiProject Highlights: Staedel Museum Wikidata Clean-up The Staedul Museum comprises 24,000+ works of art spanning more than 700 years. They have generously opened up digital surrogates of their collection to the Wikimedia community. This project improves the metadata quality and create Wikidata items for works of art.
 * Newest database reports: Genderless people with Facebook ID
 * Showcase Items: Varanus komodoensis (Q4504) - species of reptile
 * Showcase Lexemes: scala (L683571) - "stairs" in Italian
 * IP Masking: We added redirect-related parameters to most Wikibase API modules (T357024; an announcement is in the works)
 * We migrated Termbox SSR from Node 16 to 18 (T355685)
 * We made the (legacy) termbox remember its expanded/collapsed state for anonymous visitors and temporary users (T351976)
 * We deployed and backported several security fixes to Wikibase release branches (T345064, T356764)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: #128 Languages
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #144 is out: Updating the function model
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we present the new documentation about our function model and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 09:55, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #145 is out: Type proposal for natural numbers
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss our progresses with the new natural numbers type, we talk about events we are taking part to, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #146 is out: Introducing our second new type: Natural numbers
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In this issue, we discuss the launch of the new natural numbers type, we talk about events we are taking part to, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Wikidata weekly summary #618
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Mike Peel (scheduled to end after 9 March 2024 13:08 (UTC))
 * Closed request for adminship: Madamebiblio requested for admintool to fight against vandalism, and the request was closed as successful.
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Mfchris84-Bot - Task: Will run scripts on toolforge to automate and schedule edits on bibliographic items. Starting with Swiss online magazine Syntopia Alpina (Q112206291), then continuing by adding swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to version/edition items.
 * BorkedBot_12 - Task: Update number of viewers/listeners (P5436) with the qualifier YouTube channel ID (P2397) for YouTuber content creators and influencers.
 * LocodeBot - Task: Match UN/LOCODE (Q499348) to Wikidata entries by ISO 3166-2 region code, name and distance (if defined), important for UN organisations.

 * Events
 * Wiki-in-action: Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons at the Stars (Italian) - WM Italy, AIB Lombardia & GWMAB host a practical workshop on Wikidata Thursday, March 21, 16 - 18:00 CET in the Valvassori Peroni Library, Milan. Further details on the Wiki Event page: GWMAB/Stelline/2024
 * Join the Queensbridge Tech Lab edit-a-thon - create and enrich local diverse heroes in Queens, NYC as part of the NYC Open Data Week. March 16, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC -5).
 * Wikidata, Open Education Resources and Curriculum alignment discussion - hosted by Creative Commons during the OEWeek event. Takes place 5th March 15:00 CET, register in the link!

 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Empowering BHL Staff with Wiki Education’s Wikidata Certificate Course - The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog celebrates committee members completing a Wikidata Certification course led by Will Kent, as part of the Wiki Education. Participants levelled up SPARQL queries, visualisations, federation, modelling and bulk loading and editing.
 * Observable tutorial for Wikidata users (French) published in the last issue of RAW in Wikipedia in French
 * Papers: LLMs Can Better Understand Knowledge Graphs Than We Thought - This paper employs CQA, complex question answering, to assess LLMs ability to comprehend knowledge graphs. Xinbang, D. et al.
 * Videos
 * OpenRefine - extract tables from Wikipedia for Wikidata (French) - Part 6 of the Wiki Wake Up Afrique, this shot tutorial will show a simple and advanced method of converting tabulated data to enrich Wikidata.
 * Breathing life into the women's archive through Wikidata - speaker Brodie Hoare advocates for adding data and information about women from historical archives to Wikidata at the National Digital Forum '23.
 * Application development using open knowledge graph, Wikidata (Japanese) speaker Koji Furusaki hosts an open data study session and showcases examples of app development using Wikidata.

 * Tool of the week
 * WiQuizz - from Nuxt and SPARQL WiQuizz allows you to create or play quiz games where content is generated from Wikidata. It could be a fun way to get people interacting with Wikidata!

 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Claim Analysis Toolkit, collection of Observable notebooks to visualize simple Wikidata claims

 * Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * top scorer ( best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition or the best ever scorer of the history of a competition )
 * filial church ( church which acts as the less important temple of a parish )
 * television judge ( person who participates in a television show as a competition judge or mentor )
 * Papers with Code URL ( URL for subject in Papers with Code system )
 * SMIRKS ( line notation that represents generic chemical reactions )
 * thesaurus's main topic ( primary topic of the subject Wikimedia thesaurus )
 * thesaurus combines topics ( this theasurus combines (intersects) these two or more topics )
 * topic's main thesaurus ( main Wikimedia theasurus )
 * latest end date ( latest date beyond which the statement could no longer be true )
 * rug style ( classification of an individual textile floor covering based on geographic or cultural origin, structure, or pattern )
 * performing organization ( organization that received funding to create this entity )
 * External identifiers: AniSearch anime ID, Brazzers ID, Tekściory artist ID, Hong Kong Cinema ID, PlaymakerStats.com sports executive ID, Műemlékem.hu identifier, PMB – Personen der Moderne Basis person ID, British Listed Buildings ID, GNM ID, 2GIS place-ID, 2GIS route-ID, livechart.me anime ID, Trakt.tv film ID, NACSIS-CAT library ID, Epigraphic Database Roma ID, WhatPub pub ID, JAHIS Law Database ID, literatura.kg person ID, nagrada.srs.kg person ID, who.ca-news.org person ID, UCA authority ID, European Union trademark number, ONIX codelist ID, GCatholic episcopal conference ID, Oxford English Dictionary object ID, 2nd German Basketball Bundesliga ID, Tashrihi Qamos Pashto Glossary ID, nimi.li ID, Nye ord i dansk ID, OHDSI ID, Consortium of Midwest Herbaria taxon ID, Encyclopedia Astronautica ID, Spesalay Pashto (Dari/Persian Dictionary) ID, Italian Senate (1848-1943) ID, ICANNWiki page ID, Dictionary of Gandhari ID, FSA Food Hygiene Rating System ID, Finnish Service Catalogue organization ID, Köztérkép creator ID

 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * date popularized ( point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception )
 * Bild der Person bei der Tätigkeit ( picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits )
 * Hindawi Foundation book ID ( A property for IDs of books published by Hindawi Foundation )
 * A New Nation Votes ID ( ID of a person in A New Nation Votes: American Electoral Returns, 1788-1825 )
 * form decomposition ( form decomposition )
 * Ludzie Nauki ID ( identifier in the Ludzie Nauki, the new official database of Polish scientists )
 * Nanopublication identifier ( Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history. )
 * External identifiers: TNHR&CE Temple ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Saudipedia ID, DLE entry ID, Singapore Infopedia ID (new scheme), COBISS ID, DWDS sense ID, museum-digital tag ID, Gematsu event ID, RERO+ ID, Premier League player ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, 11v11 player ID, OSL ID, EJ Atlas ID, Statbunker player ID, BFO class ID, Combine OverWiki ID, Autores Galegos na BUSC

 * Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!

 * Did you know?
 * Query examples:
 * 28 Female Biographies that exist in 50 Wikipedias, but not Catalan - a good example for finding knowledge gaps.
 * Explore data about Wikimedia Residencies - see start and end dates, organisation employer, average duration and associated project.
 * Newest WikiProjects: Te Papa Research Expeditions - create and enrich metadata and trial research expeditions schema for Te Papa, Dominion and Colonial Museums.
 * Newest database reports: Unauthorized Bots (active in last 30 days without Bot flag)
 * Showcase Items: Zootopia - the 2016 animated Disney film about anthropomorphic Police officers.
 * Showcase Lexemes: bezczelny (L2781) (Polish) To be shameless, uncaring of others, arrogant, over-confident.

 * Development
 * IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming change to no longer show IPs for non-logged in users.
 * Wikibase REST API: We are almost done with the routes for adding/editing/removing a sitelink.
 * Entity Schemas: We prototyped another approach to making it possible to link to Entity Schemas in statements.

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.

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 * 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.
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Wikidata weekly summary #619
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'' Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-11. Translations are available.''

 Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Zafer - (RfP scheduled to end after 12 March 2024 20:03 (UTC))
 * Closed request for adminship: Mike Peel 2 - Adminship re-granted, welcome back Mike!
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Mfchris84-Bot 1 - Task: Add swisscovery edition ID (P9907) to instance of (P31) version, edition or translation (Q3331189) based on checking ISBN-13 (P212) or ISBN-10 (P957).
 * NinoBot - Task: Semi-automatically create version, edition or translation (Q3331189) entries for Spanish Wikisource Index pages from Commons files.
 * Emijrpbot 10 - Task: Create a written work (Q47461344) and version, edition or translation (Q3331189) item for works and editions in the National Library of Spain datos.bne.es project.

 Events
 * Upcoming
 * Queer Data Days - Wikidata Gender Diversity Project Event, a pair of virtual events welcoming a range of speakers investigating queer approaches to data and technology. Sign up for March 15 or March 16, 15:00 (CET).
 * Wikimedia Indonesia/Bulan Wiki Perempuan 2024 WM Indonesia Women's Wiki Month 2024 (Indonesian) - join classes on learning to edit Wikidata and address gender biases in Wikidata, Wikipedia and sibling projects. Program and register for Wikidata classes / datathon schedule
 * Wikidata Leveling Up Days, an online event and a collection of resources to welcome new people to Wikidata. The online event takes place on April 5-7 and 12-14 with presentations, workshops and discussions. The program is open to contributions. Learn more about the project at the website WiGeDi.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Standardization of publishing data with Wikidata - a poster for the Austrian Transition to Open Access Two (AT2OA²). Join the project Wikiproject Academic Publisher
 * Wikibase Intro (Dutch) - Bart Magnus writes an article about the benefits of Wikibase for the Flemish Association for Library, Archives & Documentation (VVBAD).
 * A Red&Blue Wikibase disambiguation on the English Wikipedia -
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2023 edition by Jean-Fred
 * Multilingual entity linking and global insights - Ontotext are developing AI products that can read text and establish of the same concept in different languages (MEL) and between knowledge graphs and plaintext.
 * Papers
 * A Knowledge Plug-and-Play Test Bed for Open-domain Dialogue Generation - this paper details attempts at building chatbots that provide reliable, accurate information in a natural way from Wikidata and other sources. By Xiangci L., et al (2024).
 * Videos
 * Wikipedia Weekly #252: Bare words and red links (Swedish) with Jan Ainali and Magnus Olsson.
 * Evaluation of research put to the test: projects and experiments (Italian) Camillo (WM Italy) and Alessandro (WM Switzerland) show and discuss how Wikidata is being used to support experiments and projects with UniFi Biblioteche.

 Tool of the week
 * GLAMorous Europe - allows you to identify your artistic interests and put together your own artwork from existing art across Europe
 * List of all tools and scripts by Magnus Manske. There are currently 348 active tools.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * form decomposition ( decomposition of a word )
 * Newest External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, DLE entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, Oyez Project ID, Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, Galician Authors in BUSC ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * document keywords ( Keywords associated with the text found in  of an HTML document. )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Portal Wiki ID

 * Deleted properties: Eurovision Song Contest song ID, surrounds the enclave, Everipedia ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of aircraft types around the world and the first time a type of aircraft made a flight
 * Timeline of 1st women practising a given sports discipline
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Bosnia and Herzegovina - This project aims to be a central hub for the curation of all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc.) related to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 * Wikiproject European Union - aims to create, maintain and improve items about the European Union (EU).
 * NYC Free Circulating Libraries - focuses on NYC Free Circulating Libraries
 * Te Papa Research Expeditions - aims to create or enrich Wikidata with data on research expeditions undertaken by Te Papa/ Dominion Museum/Colonial Museum and institutional staff
 * WikiProject Highlights: Looted heritage - this WikiProject is calling for Item suggestions to work on. The scope includes all forms of looted heritage; artworks, sacred items, human remains, and other forms of tangible and intangible artifacts that may be considered a part of a people's heritage.
 * Newest database reports: unmarked supercentenarians - contains instance of (P31) human (Q5) with period of life greater than 110 years and not marked with subject has role (P2868) supercentenarian (Q1200828) or subject has role (P2868) alleged supercentenarian (Q106991708).
 * Showcase Items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028) - 2010 film directed by Jon Favreau
 * Showcase Lexemes: Vand (L8266) - Danish noun, translates to "water"

 Development
 * IP masking: We are continuing the work on adapting Wikibase to the upcoming IP masking changes in MediaWiki
 * Mismatch Finder: Already reviewed mismatches are now ignored when mismatches are reuploaded (T329631)
 * Query Builder: Selecting the user interface language became easier in Query Builder (T353728) and Query Service (T353729)

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.

 Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: #131 Cooking
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #147 is out: On identity
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss the notion of identity and present our latest document about how we represent it, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:27, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly Summary #620
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-18.'' <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;">

 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 (RfP scheduled to end after 20 March 2024 17:37 UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: Zafer Adminship granted, welcome Zafer!
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * PagesBot - Task: Adds no. of pages statements based on page(s) on items of type: scholarly article. Then adds a reference with based on heuristic equal to inferred from page(s).
 * Wicci'o'Bot - Task: Import identifiers of new properties created for TheTVDB (Q15616250), nientepopcorn (Q123434360) (and more properties I plan to request to be added shortly) inherent in the film and TV industry, using IMDb ID (P345) as source.
 * Closed request for comments: Duplicate Refs, Data Model and UI - (RfC closed 15 March 2024 18:57 UTC). The Community showed support for the proposal to change data model and UI for duplicated references. A Phabricator ticket has been opened: T360224

 * Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call March 19, 2024: Please join us on March 19 for a community discussion about how GLAM professionals can incorporate Wikidata/linked data into their work week. Bring your success stories about institutional buy-in and how you’ve communicated the value of linked data to managers and colleagues. We hope to share some strategies that you can take back and use in your own workplace. This will be a followup of sorts to our call last May, and you can review some of what we talked about then, plus slides from our survey here: Notes from May 30, 2023 Meeting on Advocacy for Wikidata & Linked Data in Libraries.Agenda
 * Wiki Workshop 2024 - Announcing a new track and a Call for Proposals - Submit your contributions by April 29, 2024 (23:59 AoE)
 * WikiCon Aotearoa - Auckland 2024 - The New Zealand WikiCon has a couple of events introducing and workshopping Wikidata:
 * Saturday 23 March 2024, 11:15 NZT - Intro to Wikidata / 13:00 NZT - Beginner's OpenRefine Workshop
 * Sunday 24 March 2024, 11:00 NZT - Presentation: Breathing life into the Women's Archive through Wikidata

 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Making the Colombian public domain visible in Wikidata results from WM Colombia are now published.
 * Papers
 * Connecting Local Archive Data to Wikidata: Focusing on the Archives of National Debt Redemption Movement. By Yun, J., & Oh, S.G. Documents the findings of connecting Wikidata with the Korean NDRM.
 * Narrating Queer History with Wikidata, Queer Data Days 2024 (UCL Department of Information Studies), Presentation by John Samuel.
 * Videos
 * WikiClub 3L (French) - learn how to create a Wikidata file and an Infobox with Simon Villeneuve.
 * Making Colombian public domain data visible on Wikidata (Spanish) - Presents the methodology and findings of analysis of data in the public domain of part of the collections of the National Library of Colombia. Part of the Conector.red project)
 * Wikidata Lab: Dear Diary (Portugese) - Aims to share resources and capabilities for integration of Wikidata with other free knowledge projects, in particular the Querido Diário project, from Open Knowledge Brasil. Hosted by Porto, É. & Giulio Carvalho, G.
 * Notebooks
 * The media directory a Wikidata-driven media directory by country

 * Tool of the week
 * ORCID Scraper - helps users get DOIs from orcid.org for a specific author and curate them using Scholia. It gives users an overview of which DOIs are missing and helps them easily import missing articles one by one.
 * Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * form decomposition ( decomposition of a word )
 * External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, DLE entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, Oyez Project ID, Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, Portal Wiki ID

 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * document keywords ( Keywords associated with the text found in  of an HTML document. )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * Media modality ( Lists which media modalities are present, particularly in multimodal creative works such as electronic literature. )
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * External identifiers: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, Doom Wiki ID, Instagram account numeric ID, ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, Traineras rower ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Peertube Channel Address

 * Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!

 * Did you know?
 * Query examples:
 * exploratory query to find new items for the WikiProject: Polish Socialist Party
 * SPARQL query examples for the Nobel Prize
 * Exploring Wikidata Items for people born in the Basque country
 * Birthplace of Colombians in the Public Domain
 * Relationship between Institutions, Works and Persons in the Colombian Public Domain
 * Newest WikiProjects: Polish Socialist Party - aims to document and enrich data and items (Leadership, sports clubs, commemorated buildings, art, publications etc.) that are connected with the Polish Socialist party.
 * WikiProject Highlights:
 * RfC: Slowking4 (2) - Comments are required on actions against the named editor.
 * Newest database reports: Language statistics for Items - Number of labels, descriptions and aliases for items per language (2024-03-18).
 * Showcase Items: Mahatma Gandhi - The "Great Soul", lawyer, political ethicist and leader of the non-violent resistance to end Imperial British occupation of India.
 * Showcase Lexemes: Jak - (Polish) The noble Bos mutus or Yak.

 * Development
 * 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.

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 * 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!

This Month in Education: February 2024
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 * 2 new courses in Students Write Wikipedia Starting this February
 * More two wiki-education partnerships
 * Open Education Week 2024 in Mexico
 * Reading Wikipedia in Bolivia, the community grows
 * Wiki Education Philippines promotes OERs utilization
 * Wiki Loves Librarians, Kaduna
 * Wiki Workshop 2024 CfP – Call for Papers Research track

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #148 is out: On the way to internationalizing numbers
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss our progresses with the implementation of renderers and parsers for natural numbers, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly Summary #621
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 * Discussions
 * Closed request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 - Adminship request successful, congratulations KonstantinaG07 3!

 * Events
 * 2024 Women's Wiki Month Datathon (Indonesian) Between 24 - 26 March 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting a competitive Data-thon with Prizes available for editing and enriching Wikidata items on the topic of Women's Health. Full details on the project page.
 * Wikidata and FactGrid - Knowledge Graphs of data query entry (French) - a workshop taking place 26 March, 13:30 - 16:30 (GMT+1), hosted by Datalab MSHB Rennes and moderated by Jean-Baptiste Pressac.
 * Levelling Up Days 2024 is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata, upgrade their editing skills and find out about useful tools and apps. Join us for a series of videos and discussions regarding Wikidata and its uses in and outside of the Wikimedia projects.
 * Program - the live portions of the event take place across the weekends 5-7 and 12-14 April
 * YouTube Video Playlist

 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Are our Wikibase QueryServices about to mess up two millennia of historical dates? by Olaf Simons. This article discusses the intricacies and drawbacks of historical dates stored in Wikidata under different Calendars (e.g. Julian and Gregorian).
 * At least a make shift solution: The “Julian calendar stabiliser” by Olaf Simons. An update to the above article, including input from community members.
 * Papers
 * Contributor or Commodity? Inequities of Labor and Representation in Wikidata - this paper by m:User:MatthewVetter explores gender diversity, representation and decision-makers of Ontology discussions impacting Queer and Gender diversity.
 * Videos
 * Co to są Wikidane - wprowadzenie dla początkujących [What is Wikidata? An Introduction for Beginners] (Polish) - recording of a webinar held by Wikimedia Polska, with Jarosław Błaszczak and Jolanta Drzewakowska.
 * Leveraging Quantitative Bibliometrics in Assyriology - Exploring Distant Reading, Computational Linguistics, and the FactGrid Cuneiform Wikibase Project, presented by Adam Anderson.
 * Wikibase Training workshop for Librarians at College of Science Library, KNUST organized by KNUST Wiki Club in collaboration with Dagbani Wikimedians user group.
 * Wikipediapodden episode 254 (Swedish) - Wikipedia Weekly Network recording, hosted by Jan Ainali and guest, Magnus.
 * How does a high school student promote the Taiwanese Wikimedia movement? (Chinese) - a podcast feat. Wang Wenyue of the Wikidata Taiwan community.
 * Notebooks
 * Cycling stage race explorer, an Observable notebook
 * Ontology Explorer, also an Observable notebook, explore the subclasses in front or behind a Wikidata Item.

 * Tool of the week
 * Members of European Parliament by pac02. Explore visualisations of MEP's in the European Parliament. Country of origin, gender, political alignment and other properties from Wikidata can be explored.

 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland published a Call for Software Contributions! Application deadline is April 21th, 23:59 (GMT+1).
 * Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023 - We encourage you to nominate and vote for research papers published in 2023 that focused on or benefited the Wikimedia projects (we're not biased but hope you vote for Wikidata-based Papers). Please submit your nominations by April 18, 2024.
 * In preparation for the Research Track of the 11th Wiki Workshop, there is now a Call for Contributions for the event scheduled virtually on June 20, 2024 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). The Wiki Workshop aims to bring together researchers who study all aspects of the Wikimedia Projects. We hope Wikidata and Wikibase are well represented! Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

 * Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * form decomposition ( decomposition of a word )
 * Nanopublication identifier ( Nanopublications are small RDF-based publications, quite similar to Wikidata Statements with references and history. )
 * media modality ( lists which media modalities are present, particularly in digital, multimodal creative works such as electronic literature )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, Diccionario de la lengua española entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, Oyez Project ID, Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Instagram account numeric ID, Doom Wiki ID, DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, hyatt Hotel ID, ECF rating code

 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * document keywords ( Keywords associated with the text found in  of an HTML document. )
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * Imagehash difference hash ( Imagehash difference hash is hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical. )
 * Image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * RTE substation ID ( Identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * Caste ( Property to indicate the caste affiliation of individuals in India. )
 * External identifiers: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, CalPhotos taxon ID, Traineras rower ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Peertube Channel Address, TMDB TV IDs, istina.msu.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, identifiant Sculpturo, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, AllSkaters persons ID, Triton Poker player ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, Mammal Diversity Database ID (MMD ID), BSWW team ID, Algerian National Library ID, museum-digital person ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Supreme Court of Canada case number, Featherbase ID, TMDB award IDs, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Algerian National Assembly ID, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID

 * Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals!

 * Did you know?
 * Query examples:
 * Graph of all individuals connected to the Suffrage Interviews and institutions holding their oral history
 * QLever: Find items with no 'en' Label but are linked to other Wikimedia Projects
 * Newest WikiProjects: The Women's Library LSE Suffrage Interviews Project - this project aims to populate and enrich items connected with participants of The Suffragette Interviews.
 * Newest database reports: Most sitelinked items - explore this DB report if you're curious to see what is connected most frequently to Wikidata Items.
 * Showcase Items: Symphony No.7 - in A Major, Op. 92, by Ludwig von Beethoven.
 * Showcase Lexemes: अग्नि -the Sanskrit word for 'fire' and also the Hindu God of fire 'Agni'

 * Development
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We worked on the ability to create Items via POST /entities/items (T342990)
 * We worked on making it possible to modify the data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (T347394)
 * EntitySchemas: We are getting back to making architecture improvements to enable the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
 * IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP masking changes.
 * Query Service: We added the ability to stop a query in the UI in order to not have to wait for a broken query to finish or run into a time-out. You can find the stop button below the run button in the query UI now.

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.

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 * Weekly 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!

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #149 is out: Creating tests is now much easier!
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss our progresses with tests and how it is easier to make them, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Wikidata weekly summary #622
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 Discussions   Events
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: MONA.artpublic.bot (Task: The bot's function is to add information about artists specializing in public artwork in Québec, Canada. The bot will initially only add that an artist's genre of work is public art for a set of known public artists in Québec compiled by MONA Montréal from open data sets.)
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 2, 2024: Come join us for fun data modeling discussions! We'll create breakout rooms in Zoom for people to discuss 4 examples of cultural heritage items to contribute to Wikidata.  Each group will choose categories, brainstorm properties for basic and enhanced description, and discuss challenges. Then we'll have some quality time at the end to compare notes and discuss our processes! Agenda
 * Wikidata Leveling Up Days, everything you need to know about Wikidata: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 April. The event is taking place online and the videos are already available on the program page.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs: Galerij der Groten op Wikidata (Dutch) - Wikimedia NL hosted an Edit-A-Thon on the Baroeg project, the task was to document and archive on Wikidata all of the bands that have played at the live music venue, the idea born from a stack of band flyers and posters hung in the bathroom(!) Join the next one Sunday April 14th.
 * Papers: Understanding Wikidata - Wikidata is extremely valuable as a data source to supplement, validate and extend existing knowledge bases and applications. To effectively utilize Wikidata in a Semantic Web application, one must understand its design, terminology and correspondence with ontological concepts (especially RDF and OWL). This paper attempts to explain and position this information. (by AWesterinen)
 * Videos
 * Wikipedia Weekly: Ep. 255 (Swedish) - Hosted by Jan Ainali and Magnus. This week covers scarcely clicked sources, API uses and wave at beautiful images.
 * Wikimedia Ghana is bringing together Ghanians to enrich and translate content for the Ga Language and Twi Language as part of the Wikidata For Education Project.
 * Mapping Linguistic territories using Wikidata and SPARQL - a topic presented by Camilo Fique, shows how to use Wikidata and the WDQS as tools for mapping linguistics. In this example, Camilo uses toponyms, specifically Human Settlements.
 * Evaluating Named Entity Disambiguation with Wikidata & SpaCy - creating a Named Entity Disambiguation model in SpaCy with the entity linker based on a custom knowledge base derived from Wikidata and Wikipedia, by Matthew Pellegrino.
 * Notebooks: Gender differences in the number of sitelinks among members of the European Parliament, a statistical analysis based on Wikidata about the number of sitelinks by gender.

 Tool of the week
 * Wikidatalite : Search, browse, and navigate Wikidata items with a mobile-friendly, simplified user interface.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * MEPs: Sitelinks and Gender differences - this Notebook by PAC explores the completeness or lack of content differentiated by gender of MEP's in the Wikimedia Projects, helping highlight lack of representation and information.
 * Metadata schemas and vocabularies for TU Delft's digitized special collections
 * Dashboard of Members of European parlianent - by PAC02
 * ORACC & Cuneiform Project - repository of LOD datasets for the FACTGRID Wikibase instance for the Cuneiform project.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * form decomposition ( decomposition of a word )
 * nanopublication identifier ( RDF-based publication, with references and history )
 * media modality ( which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * Imagehash difference hash ( hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical )
 * image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * Newest External identifiers: TNHR&CE temple ID, Diccionario de la lengua española entry ID, Malaysia company new number, GARAE ID, Oyez Project ID, Gematsu event ID, Singapore Infopedia ID, OSL ID, Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Instagram account numeric ID, Doom Wiki ID, DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * follows spelling paradigm ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * intervener
 * WEM facility code
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: SNS Info Saúde, Zentrum für Dramatik ID, Michigan Historical Marker ID, RERO+ ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān entry, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Oxford Reference entry, Peertube Channel Address, istina.msu.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, identifiant Sculpturo, AllSkaters persons ID, BSWW team ID, Algerian National Library ID, museum-digital person ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Supreme Court of Canada case number, Featherbase ID, TMDB award IDs, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Algerian National Assembly ID, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog Author ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, BeSoccer player ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, KupiGolos game ID, ffspb.org player ID, Touhou Wiki id, TUESPWiki id, az.lib.ru author ID, Droitne ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * List of masters theses written in Māori (source)
 * Tram systems with 1435mm wide rails (source)
 * Location and official opening of statues in Denmark (source)
 * Map of objects on the banks of the Kama and the rivers flowing into it (source)
 * Remakes of Soviet films with their popularity (source)
 * Images for all monuments with a Bavarian monument authority ID in Passau administrative district (source)
 * Most frequent objects depicted on coats of arms (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Azerbaijan - aims to organize data related to Azerbaijan.
 * WikiProject Paralympics - The goal of WikiProject Paralympics is to improve items about Paralympic Games, Paralympians, and Paralympic events.
 * Lieder - This project aims to collect all Lieder, Lieder cycles and Poems as well as Composers and Poets related to them.
 * Cultural venues - The aim of the present project is to create the world’s most complete high-quality database of cultural venues, such as theatres, concert halls, etc.
 * Cal State University Building/San Bernardino - Aims to document and lists guidelines for the California State University San Bernardino's participation in the California State University Wikidata Building Project.
 * Epigraphy - Aims to create Items of epigraphs on Wikidata.
 * Newest database reports: This query shows that there are 8000 botanists with a standard botanical abbreviation, IPNI code, and little else. Help expand, merge, and otherwise help us know who these folks are! (source)
 * Showcase Items: INS Vikrant(Q2283194) - 1961 Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy
 * Showcase Lexemes: لله قوریسین/Allah korusun (L1226849) - Turkish interjectional locution 'God forbid!'

 Development
 * mul language code: We are continuing the work on fixing remaining issues for the next stage of releasing it (T356200)
 * REST API:
 * We continued work on modifying the data of a Property (T347394)
 * We continued work on creating Items (T342990)
 * EntitySchemas: We continued work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T359419)

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.

 Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Sandwich
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #150 is out: Product Update on Diff and Upcoming API Improvements
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss our latest blog post on Diff, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on April 8, at 22:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:23, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #623
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 Events
 * Did you manage to see the first weekend and sessions of the Leveling Up Days 2024, well fret not as there is another weekend of Wikidata-related sessions to come. Day 4 begins Friday April 12, join via Jitsi - see you there!
 * Wikidata - collect and use open data (Italian) - April 19 at the University of Catania, Léa Lacroix and Luca Martinelli (WMIT) will give an overview of Wikidata's use for sharing data, querying data and some of its main applications.
 * Build Open Data through Wikidata: a database integration model (Taiwanese) - April 9 19:00 - 20:00. Wang Wenyue (WMTW) will lead this discussion on how Wikidata can re-connect and index a topic that may be documented in multiple various places online.
 * Wikimania 2024: Submission deadline extended to April 10, 12:00 UTC! Get your Wikidata submissions in.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs: Told Cities: Unveiling the Heritage and Chronicles of UNESCO World Heritage Cities - initiated by Wiki World Heritage, this project aims to comprehensively document UNESCO World Heritage Cities using Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
 * Videos
 * Wikidata editing #113 (English) at Wikidata Leveling Up Days. Ainali and Abbe98 do some live editing on biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists.
 * Panel: 10 years of FAIR principle - Lydia Pintscher joins a panel to talk about implementation of FAIR principles and how Wikidata and Wikibase can contribute.

 Tool of the week
 * Anti-Pattern Analyzer is a static website capable of checking the existence of 'anti-pattern 1' (AP1) occurrences given an entity from Wikidata. It can also check if a new statement would introduce new violations.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Only 13 more days to go! The deadline to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions is coming closer and closer. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * nanopublication identifier ( RDF-based publication, with references and history )
 * media modality ( which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * Imagehash difference hash ( hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical )
 * image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * base units ( property that lists the different units that a unit is derived from, would be useful to add a qualifier for the exponent of each unit )
 * International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ( industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations )
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * Newest External identifiers: OSL ID, Combine OverWiki ID, EJAtlas ID, Galician Authors in the BUSC ID, Premier League player ID, Ludzie Nauki ID (new), WhatsApp channel ID, Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Instagram account numeric ID, Doom Wiki ID, DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * follows spelling paradigm ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * WEM facility code
 * API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the type of representation as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, BSWW team ID, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, ffspb.org player ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Droitne ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Oxford Reference subject ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Tolkien-style plurals (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Lexemes with a Sense related to a geolocated Item
 * Map of all places related to persons with layers by property of the place (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Hijri Calendar - aims to create and improve Items for Hijri Calendar dates such as 1 Ramadan (Q4886009).
 * MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
 * Newest database reports: birthdays today - People born this day of the year (primarily currently living people)
 * Showcase Items: John Cale (Q45909) - Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
 * Showcase Lexemes: armastuskolmnurk (L415173) - Estonian noun, translated "love triangle"

 Development
 * REST API:
 * We continued the work on the endpoint for creating an Item via POST /entities/items (T342990)
 * We continued the work on the endpoint for modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (]]phab:T347394]])
 * EntitySchemas: Work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements is continuing.
 * mul language code: We are fixing remaining issues uncovered during testing. (T355059, T356200, T135871, T356201)

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.

 Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) · 15:43, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Misc
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #151 is out: New API for calling Wikifunctions and celebrating 1000 functions
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss the new API for calling Wikifunctions, we celebrate our first 1,000 functions, and we take a look at the latest software developments. Also, there's a job opening for joining our team!

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive.

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 09:57, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #622
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 Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * AzBot - Task: adding a space in over 7k malformed Dutch descriptions per this request.
 * DifoolBot 3 - Task: fill in empty English/French/German labels and basic statements for persons with VIAF ID (P214) and a VIAF authority source GND ID (P227), IdRef ID (P269), Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268) or Library of Congress authority ID (P244)

 Events
 * The next Wikidata Bug triage hour is happening on April 15th at 16UTC. It will focus on mobile editing of statements.
 * Telegram Office Hour - 04-10-2024 log - if you missed all the exciting updates, you can see them all here on the Archived log.
 * The Leveling Up Days 2024 was concluded, you can watch the videos available on the program page and contribute to the captions on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 16, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 16 April, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is, amazingly, 5 years old this month, and we are planning a very Zoomy celebration befitting our virtual community. We are hoping you can join and share some reflections. Feel free to sign our anniversary card and update your Zoom background to something festive! Agenda
 * Documenting Nigeria's Supreme Court Cases - this online event is a contest to enrich and connect the verdicts and sitting Judges of Nigerian Supreme Court cases. Points will be awarded for contributions. Event ends: 28 April 00:00 UTC.
 * Edit-A-Thon of the LOD user group: Midwest Collaborative Library Services - registration is now open for this online event, taking place 22 - 26 April.
 * II International Convention on GLAM Wikiverse and Gender - June 5, Aula Rubió, Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, University of Barcelona (UB), 9:30-1:30 p.m.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Working towards a Brazilian History Knowledge Graph - Mike Young describes the progress towards building a KG on Brazilian history and how Wikidata supported this endeavour, especially for linking poiticians, movements, constitutions, laws and events that may not be notable for individual Wikipedia articles.
 * Reimagining cultural heritage data - this article by Jason Evans documents the efforts of the Llyfgrell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales) to open their archives and datasets to Wikidata and the creation of their Wikibase-powered SNARC Tool (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru).
 * Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata how to remove the mismatches between Wikidata and Openstreetmap for villages of a district in Andhra Pradesh (India)
 * Andhra Pradesh/Notes/Arjunaraoc/Improving geodata accuracy on OSM and Wikidata
 * Presentations
 * Wikidata: your friendly (University's) knowledge graph - Christian Erlinger on behalf of the University of Innsbruck has produced this slidedeck showing how Wikidata can be used for science and research communication.
 * Workshop: Making the Colombian public domain visible on Wikidata (in Spanish) - Fundación Conector with the support of Wikimedia Colombia presented this workshop to create items in Wikidata about Colombian authors. This is part of the directory of Colombian authors in Public domain
 * Papers: Assessing knowledge organization systems from a gender perspective: Wikipedia taxonomy and Wikidata ontologies - analyze the ontologies of Wikidata and the taxonomy of Wikipedia. Centelles, M. and Ferran-Ferrer, N. (2024)
 * Videos
 * Wikidata per la ricerca (Wikidata for research): online conference, organized on 9 April 2024 by Wikimedia Italia, by Epìdosis (in Italian: slides and video)
 * Demonstration of the XML-TEI Wikidata Geocoder Tool (French) - This tool from PhilippGam will showcase how the Wikidata Geocoder tool can extract information such as PersName, PlaceName, geographic coordinates and images from XML-TEI files. Try it here.
 * Live Wikidata Editing #113 with User:Abbe98 and User:Ainali explain the thought process behind how they edit whilst looking at biographies of climate scientists and glaciologists, during the Leveling Up Days 2024 event.
 * WikiConference NA 2023
 * Open scholarly communication with Wikidata - Daniel Mietchen talks about the benefits of Wikidata and the Wikimedia platforms to enhance researcher and collaborative workflows.
 * Wikidata for open museum data sharing - Rhonda Yearwood explains how Wikidata can facilitate and provide a platform for the open sharing of Museum and Gallery datasets.
 * Wikidata's usefulness for university knowledge sharing- Will (Wiki Ed) hosts workshops on Wikidata and advocates Wikidata as a way for Universities to share general reference knowledge.
 * FOSSGIS 2024 Modelling with 'Fuzziness' / 'Wobbliness' in Geodata (German) - Florian Thiery presents a paper on data-driven use cases for modeling vague or uncertain georeference data, to adhere to FAIR principles as closely as possible.
 * Notebooks: Medias by country

 Tool of the week
 * Missing biographies, a companion tool which helps identifies people without a biography in a given Wikipedia using Wikidata
 * It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Join the Wikidata Open Online Course starting April 22, 2024! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
 * Only 6 more days to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review
 * General datatypes:
 * nanopublication identifier ( RDF-based publication, with references and history )
 * media modality ( which media modalities are present in a creative work, particularly in digital, multimodal works such as electronic literature )
 * height of letters ( height of the letters of an inscription )
 * Imagehash difference hash ( hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical )
 * image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * derived from base unit ( the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from )
 * International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ( industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations )
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * Newest External identifiers: Portal Wiki ID, RatingGraph TV show ID, Instagram account numeric ID, Doom Wiki ID, DWDS sense ID, 11v11 player ID, Hyatt hotel ID, ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * official gazette ( periodical publication authorised to publish public or legal notices for that administrative entity or governmental institution )
 * follows spelling paradigm ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * WEM facility code
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * EBITDA
 * Authorised capital
 * is fake of ( the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for )
 * image decay ( image decay suffered by an old photograph )
 * number of submissions ( number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference )
 * number of accepted contributions ( number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference )
 * risk group ( Risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification )
 * electoral symbol ( symbol allocated to a political party / candidate for use on ballots )
 * tartan image ( image of the item's tartan )
 * tartan ( subject's tartan )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Zentrum für Dramatik ID, RERO+ ID, Peertube Channel Address, Quran.com entry, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, az.lib.ru author ID, WildTangent Games ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Zillow zpid, Cemu Wiki article ID, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, Algerian Government ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, mosff.ru staff ID, Hanslick Online person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, HCERES organisation ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, Duden Sense ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, Algerian trademark number, YList ID, WDF players ID, GovTrack person, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, pressball.by football manager ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, Delisted Games ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, Kritikanstvo IDs, case number (mainland China), myabandonware.com game id, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID, English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples: Map of river names in german coloured by gender
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * MLA Linked Data Working Group - The Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) is a Music Library Association (MLA) working group convened by the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC). Members are music catalogers and other library metadata workers exploring linked data topics through Wikidata projects, discussion of BIBFRAME and linked data cataloging, and other areas of interest.
 * Albums - A WikiProject about music album releases
 * Algeria - Aims to collaborate on Algeria-related topics
 * Showcase Items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062) - Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
 * Showcase Lexemes: kone (L6888) - Finish noun, translate to "machine"

 Development
 * mul langauge code: We are finishing the polishing for the first proper release coming soon.
 * EntitySchema: We are continuing the work on the new datatype that will make it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
 * REST API:
 * We continued work on creating an Item via POST /entities/items (T342990)
 * We continued work on modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (T347394)

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.

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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Misc (2/n)
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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 #624
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 Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * OpeninfoBot - Task: Importing financial data (assets, equity, revenue, EBIT, net profit) from openinfo.uz to entries on public Uzbek companies in Wikidata.
 * IntegrationBot - Task: retrieve information from Wikidata and contribute data back

 Events
 * It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners will be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs: Wikimedia begins mapping of Anambra MDAs, streets, markets on Wikidata - The Wikimedia Anambra Network and the Anambra State ICT Agency are collaborating on a project to map ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs), streets, and markets in Anambra State on Wikidata.
 * Papers
 * Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata
 * Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata + AI audio abstract

 Tool of the week
 * Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন), a tool listing words/phrases in different language catalogs and allowing users to match the entries in those catalogs to existing Wikidata lexemes or to create new lexemes based on those entries.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * It's not too late to join the Wikidata Open Online Course, open from April 22 to May 31! Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you. Register here: Wikidata:Open Online Course
 * There is a new update relative to the experiment with splitting the Wikidata Query Service graph. A new proposal for the split has also been published, feedback will be open until May 15th 2024.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * General datatypes:
 * Imagehash difference hash ( hash which tells whether two images look nearly identical )
 * image of construction ( image showing the building/object/work under construction )
 * derived from base unit ( the base unit(s) that this derived unit is derived from )
 * International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations ( industry classification for nonprofit organization created by the Johns Hopkins University and adapted by the United Nations )
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * leaf morphology ( characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves )
 * creative director ( person who makes high-level creative decisions )
 * beneficial owner ( natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation )
 * official server list URL ( website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software )
 * EBITDA ( accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted )
 * date popularized ( point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception )
 * number of accepted contributions ( number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference )
 * electoral symbol ( symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots )
 * authorised capital ( maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders )
 * number of submissions ( number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference )
 * follows spelling pattern ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * Newest External identifiers: ECF rating code, CalPhotos taxon ID, TMDB season ID, TMDB episode ID, ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID, SteamGridDB ID, Amazon Luna game ID, Triton Poker player ID, Traineras rower ID, StatMuse Premier League player ID, AllSkaters person ID, DoblajeVideojuegos dub actor ID, IsThereAnyDeal ID, Algerian National Library ID, Lisaan Masry Egyptian Arabic Dictionary ID, Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān ID, Brazilian Football Confederation player ID, BeSoccer player ID, A New Nation Votes ID, istina.msu.ru person ID, KupiGolos game ID, Oskar Schindler Archive agent ID, Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID, WildTangent Games ID, HCERES organisation ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Hanslick Online person ID, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, mosff.ru staff ID, PeerTube channel address, WDF player ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Cemu Wiki article ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, Zillow zpid, Aragonario ID (6th version), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, Algerian trademark number ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, Delisted Games ID, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, pressball.by football manager ID, Duden sense ID, GovTrack person ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Kritikanstvo game ID, Kritikanstvo publication ID, Kritikanstvo critic ID, myabandonware.com game ID, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * WEM facility code
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * is fake of ( the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for )
 * image decay ( image decay suffered by an old photograph )
 * risk group ( risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual )
 * tartan image ( image of the item's tartan )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * hasFeldpostNumber ( Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars. )
 * total deposits ( total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution )
 * Total loans ( total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution )
 * source of transfer & destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender] )
 * type of deterioration ( to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc. )
 * rythme narratif ( video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions )
 * event role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * Patent Abstract ( Abstract of the patent )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, CPV profile ID, SPV profile ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, YList ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, case number (mainland China), English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, NICE Paintings ID, AccessAble venue ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ID, Asociation Espanola de Amigos de los Castillos ID, Pitchbook Company Profile, Cbonds Company Profile, Sonic Retro article ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID, identifiant Encyklopedia Medyków Powstania Warszawskiego, Algerian district ID, The Spriters Resource platform ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics ID, PEGI game ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person id, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Flora Croatica Database taxon ID, Algerian province ID, more kaino.kotus.fi identifiers, World Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Gentoo Guru ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * World map of subway maps
 * View of the associative network of artists to societies (source)
 * Top album languages found on Wikidata right now source
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject NZThesisProject Wikidata library training Christchurch 2024 - The aim is to organize an event to show participants how adding New Zealand collections to Wikidata can be useful, and to train participants to improve Wikidata Items so that tools such as Scholia, which builds academic profiles, will be demonstrated.
 * WikiProject Islam - Aims to collaborate on Islam-related topics
 * WikiProject Algerian History - The goal of this project is to ensure the completeness of the history of Algeria (Q473761) during its historic period to modern time in Wikidata.
 * WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject India/General Elections 2024 task force - is an initiative to create and up-to-date information related to general election (Q1076105) in India (Q668).
 * Newest database reports: Merge candidates based on same sitelink name
 * Showcase Items: Bertus Aafjes (Q353003) - Dutch poet and writer (1914–1993)
 * Showcase Lexemes: dismesso (L1200000) - "discontinued/disused" in Italian

 Development
 * mul language code: We are continuing the roll-out. It is now available on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org.
 * REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the following:
 * Create an Item via POST /entities/items (T342990)
 * Modify data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (T347394)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
 * Leveling Up Days: We are wrapping up the event.

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.

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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Other objects and tools
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #152 is out: Welcome, Sharvani!
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we welcome a new member of the team and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive.

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:14, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Growth News, April 2024

The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.

If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.

Community Configuration
Growth features are currently configurable at. This quarter we are working on making Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.

An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.

In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.

Experiment Results
Add a Image experiment analysis results

The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:

 * The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
 * The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
 * The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
 * A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).

Personalized praise experiment results

This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)

English donors encouraged to try editing

As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)

Future work
Annual Plan

The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)

Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module

We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024
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 * In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV

 * News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law

 * WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

 * WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)

 * Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users

 * Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem

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This Month in Education: March 2024
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 * Reading Wikipedia in the classroom, Kaduna
 * Reading Wikipedia in Ukraine – the course for educators is now available on demand
 * Wiki Movement Brazil will once again support the Brazilian Linguistics Olympiad
 * Wikipedia within the Education Setting in Albania

Wikidata weekly summary #625
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 Events   Press, articles, blog posts, videos   Tool of the week   Other Noteworthy Stuff   Newest properties and property proposals to review
 * Nubuke Wikidata Workshop - Sat. 27 April 1100 - 1400 GMT at the Nubuke Foundation, Lome Close Accra, Ghana.
 * There's still time for nominating your favorite tool in the Coolest Tool Award! To nominate, follow this link. Deadline: 10 May 2024 - winners unveiled at Wikimania 2024
 * Coordinate Me 2024 - an international Wikidata competition around content with geodata. The competition starts on 1 May 2024 and ends on 31 May 2024.
 * Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is just around the corner, taking place in Tallinn, Estonia from 02 - 06 May. We hope there will be lots of Wikidata hacking projects worked on.
 * Blogs
 * Diff Blog: Museums around the world, according to Wikidata - Wikimedia's own blog, Diff, has this interesting graphic showing museums around the world. To explore further, check the Wikidata Query.
 * Papers
 * Bringing PanglaoDB to 5-star Linked Open Data using Wikidata - This paper documents the experiences mapping PanglaoDB's free text cell types and genes i Wikidata to improve reusability and fairness. By Tiago Lubiana & João Vitor F. Cavalcante.
 * Exploring Wikidata for Social Science Research (Portugese) - Highlights the relevance of open resources such as Wikidata for the Social Sciences, providing access to information that facilitates research in the social, economic and cultural areas. By Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado.
 * Integrating Wikidata with Data Sleuthing Techniques For Enhanced Knowledge Discovery of Hidden Figures - this is a training resource to find and enrich Items on Natural History collector's.
 * Videos
 * The Data Mine: Wikimedia Content Quality 2024 - a short video on how to find mismatched data between Wikidata on other data sources.
 * MWCon Spring 2024 (Day 3) - This session of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference explores the different extensions you can use with Wikibase. See the rest of the program here
 * Getting Started with OpenRefine - Introducing OpenRefine, importing data, filtering and faceting and bulk editing, as well as how to connect to other data sources for reconciling your data. By Margaret Heller & Diana Rusch.
 * A Decade of Scholarly Research on Open Knowledge Graphs - Houcemeddine Turki host this presentation of the LREC-COLING 2024's findings. You can read the full paper here.
 * Beyond Wikidata: building a universal knowledge graph with MediaWiki and Wikibase - James Hare explores Wikibase as a focused alternative to creating a knowledge graph around a specific theme or project.
 * Antvaset's Wikidata Ontology explorer - explore Wikidata's Ontology in this top-down tree explorer. By Anton Vasetenkov.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland closed their Call for Software Contributions! Discover the project proposals submitted and share your feedback.
 * Release of Wikibase Suite: Wikibase 1.39.7WMDE .18 - minor security release compatible with MediaWiki 1.39.7
 * OpenRefine 3.8.0 was released

 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * RTE substation ID ( identifier of electrical substations operated by RTE in France )
 * API formatter URL ( URI template from which "$1" can automatically be replaced with the effective property value on items; for API access and other machine-readable data )
 * leaf morphology ( characterization of aspects of the shape of a plant’s leaves )
 * creative director ( person who makes high-level creative decisions )
 * beneficial owner ( natural person or persons who ultimately owns or controls a company or organisation )
 * official server list URL ( website, officially recommended by the developer of the software, that lists public server instances of the software )
 * EBITDA ( accounting measure: net earnings, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted )
 * date popularized ( point in time the subject became well known to the public, if different from its inception )
 * number of accepted contributions ( number of accepted submissions, e.g., conference articles to a conference )
 * electoral symbol ( symbol allocated to a political party or candidate for use on ballots )
 * authorised capital ( maximum amount of share capital that the company is authorised to issue to shareholders )
 * number of submissions ( number of submissions, e.g., submitted papers to a conference )
 * follows spelling pattern ( spelling rule, pattern or paradigm followed by this form )
 * risk group ( risk group of a biological agent guiding its initial handling in labs according to the risk group classification defined by the WHO laboratory biosafety manual )
 * timetable/schedule URL ( link to the timetable or the schedule (in PDF, HTML, image format) for the given service or the event schedule. The current timetable/schedule should have preferred rank. )
 * deterioration ( to indicate types of deterioration presented by an artwork, building, artifact, etc. )
 * External identifiers: Oxford Reference overview ID, Theatrical Index company ID, Touhou Wiki ID, Traineras club ID, Traineras competition ID, Slovenian organization number, Featherbase ID, TUESPWiki ID, Theatrical Index theatre ID, Supreme Court of Canada case number, SNS Info Saúde, OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID, National Library of Uruguay authority ID, museum-digital tag ID, museum-digital person ID, government.ru person ID, arch2.iofe.center person ID, Digital Athenaeus Catalog author ID, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ID, BFO class ID, identifiant Sculpturo, Michigan Historical Marker ID, Barry Hugman's Footballers player ID, droitne.ch author ID, Statbunker player ID, ffspb.org player ID, beachsoccer.com team ID, WildTangent Games ID, HCERES organisation ID, az.lib.ru author ID, Hanslick Online person ID, ID of member of the Chambre des députés, Algerian National Statistics Office ID, mosff.ru staff ID, PeerTube channel address, WDF player ID, The Spriters Resource game ID, Cemu Wiki article ID, Génération Nintendo game ID, British Comedy Guide person ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam ID, Zillow zpid, Aragonario ID (6th version), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ID, Algerian trademark number ID, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID, Delisted Games ID, Algerian commune ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women ID, The Islamic World: Past and Present ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ID, pressball.by football manager ID, Duden sense ID, GovTrack person ID, PlantZAfrica Plants of the Week ID, Kritikanstvo game ID, Kritikanstvo publication ID, Kritikanstvo critic ID, myabandonware.com game ID, FürthWiki article ID, IAFD film UUID, A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices ID, Rugby Romania ID, Scottish Register of Tartans ID, Asociation Espanola de Amigos de los Castillos ID, NICE Paintings ID, Sonic Retro article ID, Algerian district ID, English & Scottish Football League transfers player ID, The Spriters Resource platform ID, Encyklopedia Medyków Powstania Warszawskiego ID, Cerist.dz CCDZ ID, Flora Croatica Database taxon ID, Quadrinhopédia artist ID, SPV profile ID, CPV profile ID, Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ID, Hindawi Foundation book ID, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English ID, Pennsylvania State Senate ID, Vanhan kirjasuomen sanakirja ID, Suomi–ruotsi-suursanakirja ID, FilmVandaag ID

 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * WEM facility code
 * Type of representation ( Property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items, indicating the media type of the media file as can be derived from its registered property in Wikidata, being different from P18 (image). )
 * is fake of ( the kind (class) of elements this item falsifies / is a fake for )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * hasFeldpostNumber ( Property to link German military units to their respective Feldpost numbers, referencing the specific identifier used during the military communications in the world wars. )
 * total deposits ( total value of deposits held by a bank or financial institution )
 * Total loans ( total value of loans given out by a bank or financial institution )
 * source of transfer & destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity (the destination of transfer) [aliases: source / sender] )
 * rythme narratif ( video game mechanic based on the rhythm of the player's actions )
 * event role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * Patent Abstract ( Abstract of the patent )
 * category for this time deaths ( category item for people who died in this time )
 * category for this time births ( category item for people who born in this time )
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * founder of ( Organization, religion, or place that was founded or co-founded by subject. Inverse of P112. )
 * writing technique ( technique used for writing on stone, paper or other support )
 * identifiant Inventaire du patrimoine immobilier culturel
 * External identifiers: TMDB award IDs, Algerian National Assembly ID, YList ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Brill ID, Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadith ID, case number (mainland China), AccessAble venue ID, Pitchbook Company Profile, Cbonds Company Profile, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics ID, PEGI game ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person id, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Algerian province ID, World Encyclopedia ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Gentoo Guru ID, Oxford University Press ID, FilmVandaag ID, FBW-Kennung, Duden node ID, Cambridge University Press ID, Taylor & Francis book ID, AbeBooks book ID, COBISS ID, Dhliz person ID, LGD Block Code, Edinburgh University Press ID, BD Gest' work ID, Gentoo Wiki ID, Barnes & Noble ID, Vanguard Books ID, Douban Personage ID, De Gruyter ID, Thriftbooks ID, eBay item, numéro d'établissement d'une ICPE, Columbia University Press ID, Kōmako id

You can comment on all open property proposals!
 * Deleted properties:

''' Did you know?   Development '''  Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 14:41, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Query examples:
 * Two or more statements on a certain property - generates a list of all elements where there are two or more statements on a certain property (without deprecated statements).
 * Explore data about Tabakalera participants - find biographical information of film director's that have participate din the San Sebastian Film Festival Tabalakera cultural centre.
 * Mothers on Wikidata - explore the mother and child relationships of Wikidata items.
 * Presidents of French Universities - curious about which individuals have presided at French Universities and Higher education institutions? This query explores that!
 * Showcase Items: Jerzy Spława-Neyman - A polish Statistician, the first to introduce a confidence interval to statistical hypothesis testing.
 * Showcase Lexemes: Pfeil (DE) - Arrow, part of the Weekly Lexeme Challenge.
 * 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.
 * 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!

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #153 is out: Team meeting and Quarterly plan
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss the results of our team meeting held in San Francisco, USA, as well as presenting the objectives that we will pursue in the next months.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:57, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Next Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Volunteer's Corner is on May 6
We remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on May 6, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

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Wikidata weekly summary #626
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 Discussions
 * Reminder: the period for feedback on the Wikidata Query Service graph split ruleset closes on 15-May-2024. More information here!

 Events
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 took place in Tallinn, Estonia. Wikimedians from all over came together to hack on a huge variety of topics, including Wikidata and Wikibase topics. See the entire Program
 * International Museum Day 2024 on Wikimedia: Take part in the translation, media, and data challenges!
 * Registration for Wiki Workshop 2024 is now open! The event will be virtually held on *June 20, 12:00-18:30 UTC
 * Coordinate Me 2024 is an international Wikidata competition taking place over the month of May. This year, the focus is on enriching or creating Wikidata items with the Property: Coordinate Location (P625). To participate, |first enroll on the dashboard to ensure your edits are tracked.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: MisgenderMender - A community-informed approach to interventions of misgendering.
 * Videos
 * Intro to Wikidata Query Service - hosted by User:Gnoeee, this comprehensive video will equip newcomers to Wikidata with the skills to effectively start querying Wikidata.
 * Siobhan Leachman, NZ Citizen Scientist and Wikipedian - CitSciOz23 Keynote Speaker, this prolific editor discusses her passions and workflows for contributing and enriching Wikidata on topics as diverse as women scientists, scientific illustrators, artworks and citation data, moths and more.
 * WikiSearch from Wikibase Data - Wout Geveart shows how the WikiSearch extension is using Wikibase data to explore and visualise the data in new ways.
 * WikimediaAPIs: a WM Technology Training Session - Mr. Neechalkaran of the WM Indic MediaWiki Developers Usergroup introduces the function and utility of WM projects APIs, including the REST AOI, the Wikidata API and more.
 * Accessing Wikidata's Data: An Introduction to the Wikidata REST API (Zoom recording). A WikiMentor Africa session by Eugene Egbe.

 Tool of the week
 * Wikidata periodic table - Tool by User:Ricordisamoa, to browse all chemical elements available on Wikidata, with atomic number, chemical symbol, and localized label. It also includes two charts of the nuclides, with links to every isotope in Wikidata, colored by half-life or decay mode.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new UI mode is available for the online validator for EntitySchemas. It represents validation reports as a table rather than a very long string, and replaces most links with hyperlinks with some of the text behind them; making them easier to read. Currently being tested at https://shex-validator.toolforge.org/packages/shex-webapp/doc/shex-simple-improved.html, we are looking for participants to evaluate this tool. Some experience with editing Wikidata is appreciated, but no experience working with Schemas is required. If you are interested, you can sign up here. We hope to begin interviews around May 13. For more details, visit User:M.alten.tue

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * category for this time births ( category item for people who born in this time )
 * category for this time deaths ( category item for people who died in this time )
 * representation type ( property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items )
 * source of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity )
 * destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process )
 * Newest External identifiers: FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz person ID, RAG ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID ( ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it )
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, The Law Dictionary entry, urban area census code, Wardah Books ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, Palula dictionary ID, CDC Stacks ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, NLR editions, الملف الاستنادي للمؤلفين العراقيين, Dhliz film ID, Dhliz TV series ID, glubinka.by, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, TheLegacy ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Semantic Search word ID

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''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 *
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 * Images of types of dance in the world (source)
 * Newest database reports: young mothers (source)
 * Showcase Items: Deirdre (Q1183379) - heroine in Irish mythology
 * Showcase Lexemes: 사랑하다 (L741213) - verb "to love (cherish with affection)" in Korean

 Development
 * We attended the Wikimedia Hackathon.
 * REST API: We are finishing the route for creating an Item (T342990) and modify the data of a Property (T347394)
 * EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (T214884)

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.

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 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #154 is out: Flagship type for enumerations: Months of the Gregorian calendar
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss our first proposal for a new type for enumerations and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive.

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:22, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #627
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 Discussions
 * Project Chat - Data model pages: Alexmar983 and User:Epìdosis have proposed updates to standardize the nomenclature in the Wikidata: Data Model pages, join the conversation. Also see this Talk page for a draft proposal for a new Navbox.
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 - Task: Infer Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of an episode from the Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of the corresponding TV series.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs: Navigating the world of Wikidata: An intro and hands-on experience. This blog entry documents the session from Yaw Tuba and Nana Yaw Botar and organised by Open Foundation West Africa in building skills for new and experienced editors alike.
 * Papers
 * Sharing data, caring for collections. Open data on collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - This paper documents a project at the MN to digitise collector metadata from museum exhibits for reuse, research and provenance. S. Mering et al.
 * Erenrich, Daniel. ‘Psychiq and Wwwyzzerdd: Wikidata Completion Using Wikipedia’. 1 Jan. 2023 : 1 – 14.
 * Ilievski, Filip et al. ‘A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata’. 1 Jan. 2024 : 1 – 20.
 * Videos
 * using Open Data to Automatically Generate Localised Analogies - Sofia Spatharioti explains how information from Wikidata and Wikipedia can be used to provide more contextual comparisons when dealing with large numbers, dimensions or statistics.
 * Thesaurus INAPP in Wikidata (Italian) - Camillo Carlo Pellizzari shows INAPP thesaurus usage on Wikidata and how to normalise keywords assigned to publications.
 * Authors INAPP on Wikidata (Italian) - Camillo also presents how Wikidata can record biographical data and the presence of authors affiliated with INAPP.

 Tool of the week
 * Wikidata:Projector - is a tool that shows maps and lists with Wikidata items for a specific topic, usually a location. As an example, see the Projector for Corfu
 * Wikidata Anti Pattern Analyzer companion tool to the Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata research paper

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * category for this time births ( category item for people who born in this time )
 * category for this time deaths ( category item for people who died in this time )
 * representation type ( property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items )
 * source of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity )
 * destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process )
 * LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID ( ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it )
 * Newest External identifiers: FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz person ID, RAG ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * located in the Islamic territorial entity ( the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity. )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Wardah Books ID, Palula dictionary ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, NLR editions, Dhliz film ID, Dhliz TV series ID, glubinka.by, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Semantic Search word ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, Lille norske leksikon-ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, GOG product ID, Yandex.Music track ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, person ID in MNAHA

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Indigenous Performers Arts Alliance (IPAA) Members living, working or from Canada
 * Schools of magic by numbers of students
 * Schema examples: List of roles played by siblings
 * Newest database reports: Lost links - (New editor removed sitelink and did not reconnect it)
 * Showcase Items: Mister President (Q3050361) - novel written by Miguel Ángel Asturias
 * Showcase Lexemes: Ordbokredaktør - (Bokmål; a literary version of Norwegian) appropriately, for Lexicographer.

 Development  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.

 Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE)  16:04, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Gambling
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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 Education: April 2024
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In This Issue
 * EduWiki Updates From Uganda
 * Good news from Bolivia: Reading Wikipedia Program continues in 2024
 * Hearing Health Project: Impactful partnership with Wiki Movement Brazil
 * Wikimedia Spain, Amical Wikimedia and the University of Valencia develop Wikipedia educational project

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The Signpost: 16 May 2024
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 * News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections

 * Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?

 * Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24

 * In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis

 * Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure

 * Comix: Generations

 * Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #155 is out: Call for Functions: Spell out the number!
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we call on you to help us doing new language functions about numbers and we also take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive.

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 18:01, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #628
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 Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Browse9ja Bot - Task: Automated data retrieval focusing on Nigerian / African-based information, integrating a chatbot, NLP API, knowledge graph, and machine learning model.
 * DhlizBot - Task: add Dhliz ID (P12696) for persons/films/TV series that exist in Dhliz (Q125594802) database.
 * AmeisenBot 2 - Task: Working on bot requests at WD:RBOT using QuickStatements.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure, by Bluerasberry. "The split will create a WikiCite graph separate from the main Wikidata graph. The main Wikidata graph will retain content of broader interest, including items for authors, journals, publishers, and anything with a page in a Wikimedia project."
 * Learnings from AI and Heritage inclusive Metadata requires more than erasing stereotyping terms - this article explores the presence of contentious terms in Wikidata labels.
 * Reconciling Shira: Wikibase Cloud and OpenRefine - as part of the Shira project to document and digitise Penn University's Jewish music collections, the author gives a step-by-step process on installing OpenRefine for Wikibase Cloud instances.
 * Papers
 * Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Storia della collaborazione tra Wikidata e le biblioteche della Rete URBE nel controllo di autorità. Abstract: "The contribution draws a history of the presence of the identifiers of the authority records of the URBE network libraries in Wikidata, and of the collaboration that has evolved since 2020 between the Wikidata community and the cataloguers of the URBE network libraries, relating to the harmonisation of these authority records with Wikidata and the improvement of the quality of the respective data. The first part of the contribution traces the main stages of collaboration in chronological order, while the second part of the contribution presents the main areas in which the collaboration materialises (or can materialise) in the daily authority work carried out by cataloguers in theme-based groupings".
 * Using Open Data to Automatically Generate Localized Analogies. Numerical analogies that translate unfamiliar measurements into familiar reference objects (e.g., “275k sq miles is roughly as large as Texas”). By "Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Daniel G. Goldstein, Jake M. Hofman"
 * Videos
 * ¿Cómo contribuir masivamente a Wikidata con OpenRefine? (Spanish) - As part of the Coordinate Me Campaign, this is a review of the OpenRefine tool for contributing large sets of data to Wikidata.
 * Patrimoine spolié : le projet ProvEnhance (French) - A seminae on the looted heritage project on the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. At timestamp: 55:02 onwards, Wikibase is discussed as a platform to host the Looted Heritage and Provenance research project.

 Tool of the week
 * Wikidata GenderStats measures gender bias at the user level by computing stats on created items.
 * Created items : a list of items created by a user with labels. This not new but this has been repaired.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job opening: Project Manager Machine Learning, Wikidata. Application deadline: Apply until 26.05.2024

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * population by native language ( native language population of a place )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * Newest External identifiers: FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz ID, RAG ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy game ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, LGD Block Code, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, ICPE establishment ID, case number (mainland China), Lille norske leksikon ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, GOG product ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * located in the Islamic territorial entity ( the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity. )
 * address of addressee ( address of the address e.g. on a postcard )
 * TheaterEncyclopedie ID ( An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie )
 * relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator ( relation to the SDGs )
 * taxon synonym of ( taxon item (considered a preferred name according to a given reference) of which this taxon name is a synonym - the new property will be the inverse property of )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Wardah Books ID, Palula dictionary ID, NLR editions, glubinka.by, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, Yandex.Music track ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, person ID in MNAHA, New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID, Archnet authority ID, Nintendo Life game ID, Push Square game ID, Pure Xbox game ID, Global Egyptian Museum ID, TheLegacy company ID, Historic Synagogues of Europe ID, IAFD actor UUID, Database of Hungarian archaeology ID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID, Zoraptera Species File taxon ID, Dermaptera Species File taxon ID, Plecoptera Species File taxon ID, Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID, Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID, Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID, vehicle keeper marking / VKM, Oxford Dictionary of English ID, Embioptera Species File taxon ID, Isoptera Species File taxon ID, Aphid Species File taxon ID, Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID, LGD Subdistrict Code, PLC (Primary Location Code), Sinhala Cinema Database ID, LGD District Code, LGD Village Code, LGD State or UT Code, Slovenski etymološki slovar ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik, Bundes-Klinik-Atlas Hospital ID, Jedipedia.net ID, JJM Habitation id, McDonald's US product, Justapedia, Atarimuseum ID, PNG School Code

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * A map with locations of Pablo Picasso works - (source)
 * Descendants of King Antso III (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * MELA on Palestine - The Wiki project page for the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) work group on Palestine.
 * India Aviation - A usergroup focused on airports in India
 * Newest database reports: Complex constraint violations (list of Properties)
 * Showcase Items: 12 Angry Men (Q2345) - 1957 drama film by Sidney Lumet
 * Showcase Lexemes: panneband (L1223420) - means "headband" in Nynorsk

 Development
 * We have completed the preparation work to migrate the Query Builder's front end from Wikit to Codex (T360096)
 * We also continued work on the EntitySchema data type and refining the CI flow for EntitySchemas (T362000)

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.

 Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #156 is out: New type - Gregorian calendar months
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we announce our initial enumeration Type, Gregorian calendar months, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #157 is out: A single singular or a plurality of plurals?
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss the various implications of linguistic functions about singulars and plurals, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on June 3, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #158 is out: New Type: Sign
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we introduce a new enumeration type, Sign, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

We are also looking for feedback for our next new types. See the announcement at the Project Chat for more information.

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Wikidata weekly summary #629
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 Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: ELMCIPBot - Task: Import records from ELMCIP Knowledge Base (Q113705072) as part of the Wikidata WikiProject Digital Narratives
 * New request for oversight: KonstantinaG07 - RfP scheduled to end 8 June 2024 16:09 (UTC)

 Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 28, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 28 May, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on the LCCN Wikidata Bot with Mary Campany, Steven Folsom, and Matt Miller. 2024-05-28: Wikidata Affinity Group Call Agenda
 * Coordinate Me 2024 (Spanish): An international Wikidata competition around geolocation content, from towns, hospitals, public art and natural monuments to improve or create Wikidata elements with a coordinate location (P625) in focus countries. Contest ends 31 May 2024.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Using Wikidata (and Mapbox) to make a UNESCO World Heritage Sites map Stefan Bohacek documents a follow and code along project to make a map displaying UNESCO World Heritage sites on a Mapbox, fuelled by Wikidata.
 * Libraries using Wikidata: 11 examples - following on from the previous post, this Diff blog highlights 11 projects where Libraries and Librarians are using Wikidata in their projects.
 * Use SPARQL to query for movies, then watch them Bob DuCharme inspired by WikiFlix demonstrates how SPARQL queries can be used to find YouTube-hosted media content entered in Wikidata to curate your next Watchlist.
 * Enhancing KG's with LLM's: A novel approach to keyword extraction and synonym merging. This blog post shows an example of using a Wikidata subgraph with AI to discover new connections and relationships.
 * Papers
 * RQSS: Referencing Quality Scoring System for Wikidata - The authors show how RQSS framework can be applied to Wikidata subsets to qualify Reference Quality. By S. Beghaeiraveri, A.Gray & F. McNeill.
 * Automatisierte semantische Anreicherung von historischen Texten: Erkennung und Verknüpfung von Entitäten mit Wikidata und Wikipedia (German) - The paper discusses using AI and Wikipedia and Wikidata as Knowledge Graphs to identify, classify and link entities from the Berlin State Library.
 * ParaNames 1.0: Creating an Entity Name Corpus for 400+ Languages Using Wikidata - ParaNames is a multilingual parallel name resource consisting of 140 million names spanning over 400 languages. Names are provided for 16.8 million entities, and each entity is mapped from a complex type hierarchy to a standard type (PER/LOC/ORG). Using Wikidata as a source, the authors created the largest resource of this type to date.
 * Videos
 * FOSSGIS 2024 Das Zusammenspiel von Wikidata, Wikipedia und OpenStreetMap (German) - A presentation of what tags are present in OpenStreetMap that connects to Wikidata and Wikipedia.
 * IWD Inspire Inclusion Campaign English Wikidata Training - Rhoda James gives an introduction to Wikidata, its principles and common misconceptions and how to begin editing.

 Tool of the week
 * Wikipedia:WE-Framework: WE-Framework is a tool developed by Sergey Vladimirov that allows editing related Wikidata elements in an article without having to go to Wikidata. When you save your Wikidata edit, it will reference the utility in the edit summary.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a machine learning project manager to make it easier to use Wikidata's data in machine learning settings.

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * category for births in this time period ( category item for people who born in this time period )
 * category for deaths in this time period ( category item for people who died in this time period )
 * representation type ( property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items )
 * source of transfer ( entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity )
 * destination of transfer ( entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process )
 * LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID ( ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it )
 * population by native language ( native language population of a place )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * Newest External identifiers: FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz ID, RAG ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy game ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, LGD Block Code, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, ICPE establishment ID, case number (mainland China), Lille norske leksikon ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, GOG product ID, Archnet authority ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, Archaeological investigations in Hungary ID, Global Egyptian Museum ID, Historic Synagogues of Europe ID, TheLegacy company ID, Nintendo Life game ID, Push Square game ID, Pure Xbox game ID, Palula dictionary ID, Oxford Dictionary of English entry ID, Slovenian Etymological Dictionary ID, Jedipedia.net ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * last appearance ( last work featuring a fictional character or item )
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * located in the Islamic territorial entity ( the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity. )
 * address of addressee ( address of the address e.g. on a postcard )
 * TheaterEncyclopedie ID ( An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie )
 * relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator ( indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components )
 * taxon synonym of ( taxon item (considered a preferred name according to a given reference) of which this taxon name is a synonym - the new property will be the inverse property of )
 * Competitor ( Competitors in game shows )
 * basionym of ( taxon item of which this taxon name is a basionym (original name, for botanical and similar items) - inverse property of )
 * land acknowledgement
 * protonym of ( taxon item of which this taxon name is a protonym (original name, for zoological taxa) - inverse property of )
 * replaced synonym of ( taxon item which replaced this taxon name (now only a synonym) - inverse property of )
 * student count by gender ( I think there should be a way to document the number of students at a university by their gender, as data for student counts (at least if they come from GENESIS Online - german universities) contain that data divided in male and female students. I think it would make more sense to implement that as a qualifier for than implementing it as a new property as that wouldn't make old data obsolete, but also it could interfere with tools that retrieve that data automated and are then confused by having multiple counts at the same time. )
 * has semantic role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Wardah Books ID, NLR editions, glubinka.by, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, Yandex.Music track ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, person ID in MNAHA, New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID, IAFD actor UUID, The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID, Zoraptera Species File taxon ID, Dermaptera Species File taxon ID, Plecoptera Species File taxon ID, Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID, Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID, Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID, vehicle keeper marking / VKM, Embioptera Species File taxon ID, Isoptera Species File taxon ID, Aphid Species File taxon ID, Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID, LGD Subdistrict Code, PLC (Primary Location Code), Sinhala Cinema Database ID, LGD District Code, LGD Village Code, LGD State or UT Code, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik, Bundes-Klinik-Atlas Hospital ID, JJM Habitation id, McDonald's US product, Justapedia, Atarimuseum ID, PNG School Code, Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku ID, Garner's Modern American Usage ID, Meurgorf historical dictionary, SNARC ID, milog.co.il entry ID, Green's Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Reference) ID, F.C. Copenhagen player id, Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player id, Milldatabase ID, A Dictionary of Biology ID, Chinese Basketball Association ID, WHO Country Database ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number (LLPIN) in India

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Birthplace of French Heads of State
 * Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube
 * Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Solarpunk - aims to collects Wikidata Items (focus list) and supports the Solarpunk Movement.
 * Newest database reports: Items without Labels - explore Wikidata Items that are missing a Label. This list is handy for finding abandoned, incomplete or vandalised Items.
 * Showcase Items: Hessischer Rundfunk (Q23565) - German public broadcaster
 * Showcase Lexemes: L1221007 - Nynorsk noun, translates to "a spy ring"

 Development
 * EntitySchemas: We continued work on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas in statements. We focused on the input so it shows the label of the EntitySchema when entering the ID. Search by label and aliases will follow. (T362004)
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We looked into how to improve error messages.
 * We wrapped up the route for modifying the data of a Property. (T347394
 * We are nearing the finish line for the route for creating a new Item. (T342990)
 * We are continuing work on the route for modifying an Item. (T342993)
 * Developer advocacy: We are collecting content for a new landing page for developers who want to build applications with Wikidata's data.

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.

 Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024
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 * News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

 * Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade

 * Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor

 * In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say

 * News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024

 * Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies

 * Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth

 * Featured content: We didn't start the wiki

 * Essay: No queerphobia

 * Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!

 * Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer

 * Comix: The Wikipediholic Family

 * Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox

 * Concept: Palimpsestuous

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Wikidata weekly summary #630
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 Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - RfP scheduled to end after 9 June 2024 06:47 (UTC).
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: TongcyBot - Task: Linking the Chinese and English Wiktionary, specifically in categories using Template:auto cat, and pages in the Template, Module, Appendix, Reconstruction, and Rhymes namespaces.
 * Open request for permissions/Bot: IliasChoumaniBot - Task: Automatic updating of data from JSON files on German scientists.
 * Closed request for comments: IP Masking Engagement - The RfC was closed due to inactivity. Discussions are still welcomed on Meta.

 Events
 * Wikidata workshop at the university of Catania, Sicily, Italy, on June 14th.
 * Lexicodays 2024, June 28-30, online event dedicated to Lexicographical Data on Wikidata with a focus on languages of Indonesia. Proposals for the program open until June 20th.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Deploying Wikidatalite into Toolforge - This article explains the deployment process of Wikidatalite into the Toolforge platform. This tool is now available at wdlite.toolforge.org.
 * (fr) Wikidata and the missing data : discussion in French about missing data in Wikidata
 * (fr) Sous-classe ou instance de ? Comprenons nous l'ontologie de Wikidata ?, discussion in French about "Evidence of large-scale conceptual disarray in multi-level taxonomies in Wikidata"
 * Papers
 * Taxonomies and Ontologies in Wikipedia and Wikidata: In-Depth Examination of Knowledge Organization Systems. This paper explores the Knowledge Organisation System (KOS) of Wikipedia, Wikidata and gender-related biases contained within. By M. Centelles & N.Ferran-Ferrer.
 * Videos
 * BHL Day 2024 | Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements - talk by Siobhan about her biodiversity work.
 * Contributing to Wikidata - African Library Activism Month - Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi provides a tutorial on the characreristics of Wikidata and how Librarians can contribute.
 * Learning Clinic: Wiktionary & Lexemes on Wikidata - this clinic co-hosted by Taufik Rosman and Sadik Shahadu of Wikimedia User Groups Malaysia and Dagbani respectively.
 * ¿Cómo convertir la edición de Wikidata en un juego? (Spanish) - User:Piracalamina and User:Jmmuguerza show in this Wikitools how to create a API to add your own themed game to The Distributed Game.
 * Miscellaneous
 * Wiquizz a quiz generator based on Wikidata and Query.wikidata.org

 Tool of the week   Other Noteworthy Stuff   Newest properties and property proposals to review
 * WikiTwister - RoloWiki: Replace the interwiki links of a Wikipedia article with a pop-up card full of useful Wikidata, & Wikidata Quick Dip: Browse the Wikidata properties used by the pages in a category.
 * Wikidata Infobox is now used by over 5 million Commons categories.
 * Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets is a new page where you can propose to turn CSS and JS scripts into gadgets, so that the can be activated from Preferences instead of through user common.css and common.js pages.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a Head of Product Strategy and a Senior Software Engineer.

 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID ( ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it )
 * population by native language ( native language population of a place )
 * tartan ( item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group. )
 * taxon synonym of ( (without English description) )
 * replaced synonym of ( taxon item which replaced this taxon name (now only a synonym) - inverse property of replaced synonym (for nom. nov.) (P694) )
 * protonym of ( taxon item of which this taxon name is a protonym (original name, for zoological taxa) - inverse property of original combination )
 * basionym of ( taxon item of which this taxon name is a basionym (original name, for botanical and similar items) - inverse property of basionym (P566) )
 * External identifiers: Dhliz ID, RAG ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, Cbonds company profile, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, Kōmako author ID, urban area census code, The Law Dictionary entry, CDC Stacks ID, Authority file of the Iraqi Authors, Gentoo GURU package ID, TheLegacy game ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Grand Theft Wiki ID, Folkets lexikon ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, LGD Block Code, Australian Oxford Dictionary ID, ICPE establishment ID, WIPO Lex ID, Lille norske leksikon ID, WiiG.de developer ID, WiiG.de publisher ID, The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID, GOG product ID, Archnet authority ID, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID, Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID, Archaeological investigations in Hungary ID, Global Egyptian Museum ID, Historic Synagogues of Europe ID, TheLegacy company ID, Nintendo Life game ID, Push Square game ID, Pure Xbox game ID, Palula dictionary ID, Oxford Dictionary of English entry ID, Slovenian Etymological Dictionary ID, Jedipedia.net ID, Bundes-Klinik-Atlas hospital ID, Atarimuseum ID, Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID, LGD Village Code, LGD District Code, LGD State or UT Code, LGD Subdistrict Code, SNARC ID, Dermaptera Species File taxon ID, Embioptera Species File taxon ID, Isoptera Species File taxon ID, Zoraptera Species File taxon ID, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur PID, Garner's Modern American Usage ID, Artcena ID, Islamic Art and Architecture ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Sinhala Cinema artist ID, Sinhala Cinema film ID, Meurgorf identifier, milog.co.il entry ID, Aphid Species File taxon ID, Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID, Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID, Plecoptera Species File taxon ID, Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID, Milldatabase ID, New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Biology ID, Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID, IAFD actor UUID, F.C. Copenhagen player id, Norwegian prisoner of war camp ID, Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik person ID, Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik work ID, Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku ID, PLC (primary location code)

 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * last appearance ( last work featuring a fictional character or item )
 * is ontological root of ( forms the root element of the ontology )
 * located in the Islamic territorial entity ( the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity. )
 * address of addressee ( address of the address e.g. on a postcard )
 * TheaterEncyclopedie ID ( An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie )
 * relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator ( indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components )
 * student count by gender ( I think there should be a way to document the number of students at a university by their gender, as data for student counts (at least if they come from GENESIS Online - german universities) contain that data divided in male and female students. I think it would make more sense to implement that as a qualifier for than implementing it as a new property as that wouldn't make old data obsolete, but also it could interfere with tools that retrieve that data automated and are then confused by having multiple counts at the same time. )
 * has semantic role ( item that describes a role in an event class )
 * model for (2) ( what the subject is a conceptual or scientific model/theory for )
 * Dynasty ( A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a monarchy or imperial system but sometimes also appearing in republics. A dynasty can be used to describe the time period in which a person lived, an event happened, a work was created, or a place existed. )
 * showrunner ( person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show )
 * antonomasia ( epithet or phrase that takes the place of a proper name )
 * screen size ( Size of a display screen as measured along the diagonal )
 * External identifiers: NLR editions, glubinka.by, Cerist journal ID, Soldatregisteret ID, Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID, promodj album ID, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID, The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID, person ID in MNAHA, vehicle keeper marking / VKM, JJM Habitation id, Justapedia, PNG School Code, Green's Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Reference) ID, Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player id, Chinese Basketball Association ID, WHO Country Database ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number (LLPIN) in India, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, SALDO sense ID, Flown From The Nest person id, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, Seret film ID, Pocket Oxford American Thesaurus ID, Oxford Paperback Thesaurus ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID, CAMRA Experience pub ID, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID, Paleobiology Database ID for this journal article, Naturalis Repository ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat identifier, 广播电视播出机构许可证编号, Vikidia ID, This Is Basketball player ID

 * Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals! ''' Did you know?   Development '''
 * Query examples:
 * Mountains with a height over 7000m - display on a map. Adjust the P:elevation above sea level to widen or narrow the search.
 * Find Items that share an Identifier - this query has identified a possible duplicate by matching P5696 - Indian Railways Station Code.
 * Who has worked with this Celebrity? - this query looks for co-stars, colleagues and co-actors of Seth Rogen. Adjust this value for other celebrities or professionals.
 * Schema examples: Tamkang University location - building and location entities associated with Tamkang University, Taiwan.
 * Newest WikiProjects: Timna Valley - a community project on the Timna Valley archaelogical site.
 * Newest database reports: Gadget usage statistics - find out which gadgets are used the most and perhaps find something new.
 * Showcase Items: Ferdinand Magellan - 15th Century Portugese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Globe (despite his death in the Philippines).
 * Showcase Lexemes: Be - The english copular verb that helps express all of existence.
 * EntitySchemas: The new EntitySchema data type is ready for testing on Test Wikidata
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We finished the route for modifying the data of an Item (T342993)
 * We finished the route for modifying the data of a Property (T347394)
 * We continued working on the route for creating an Item (T342990)
 * We fixed an issue where IDs were shown for badges and after editing a statement. The fix will be rolled out this week. (T366236)

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.  Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Danny Benjafield (WMDE)  17:00, 03 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Gambling
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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 #631
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 Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Kadı - RfP scheduled to end after 14 June 2024 17:51 (UTC)
 * Closed request for adminship: The Squirrel Conspiracy - Closed as successful. Welcome back Squirrel!
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * MDanielsBot 2 Task(s) - Replace translations of descriptions and labels.
 * TapuriaBot Task(s) - interwiki
 * Skybristol bot Task(s) - Flesh out mapping of DOI provider orgs to WD orgs, syncing DOI prefix values.
 * EpidòseosBot Task(s) - improve incomplete references to GND for sex / gender; add new references containing GND ID for sex / gender when the property has no references containing stated in.

 Events
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 11, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on SMALL GLAM SLAM Pilot 1 with Ismael Olea. Link to agenda.
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Conference, September 25-27, 2024 in Waterford City, Ireland. This conference usually hosts Wikidata-related sessions. You can now propose your contributions to the program until July 14th, and apply for a scholarship until June 30th (full announcement and links)
 * WikiIndaba conference 2024, 4 - 6 October 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This conference typically hosts Wikidata-related sessions. Program submissions 05 - 30 June 2024.

 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * 100,000 video games on Wikidata - Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games has just passed a major milestone: 100,000 video game (Q7889) items on Wikidata.
 * Videos
 * (es) How to strengthen the public domain with Wikidata? - This is a Spanish-speaking Wikitools workshop exploring Paulina (see: Tool of the Week), a search interface powered by Wikidata for finding and exploring author's and whether their works are in the public domain.
 * Notebooks
 * Radio France meets Wikidata 😘: Extracting IDs from radio France and matching them with Wikidata using P10780 property
 * Wikidata's analytics for Radio France's podcasts

 Tool of the week
 * Paulina: Data for the Public Domain - Explore the cultural heritage of humanity. Search Paulina by author and discover if they have freely accessible works in the Public Domain.

 Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Propose to transform an existing CSS or Javascript script (i.e. scripts that you can enable in your common.css and common.js pages) into a gadget: Wikidata:Tools/Potential gadgets

 Newest properties and property proposals to review

 * Newest General datatypes:
 * showrunner ( person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show )
 * Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish ID, Vikidia ID

 * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
 * Music mood ( qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not) )
 * ecosystem type ( type of ecosystem that the item represents )
 * Burgenwelt ( Burgenwelt; castles )
 * construction time
 * Nom dans la langue locale
 * YAMAP mountain ID ( YAMAP mountain ID )
 * New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, MODI ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, AllGame style ID, MoFo ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, FC Metz player id, Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English ID, itch.io numeric ID, produsent-ID hos Nasjonalmuseet, Phasmida Species File taxon ID, Psocodea Species File taxon ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID, Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID, filmas.lv film ID, filmas.lv studio ID, filmas.lv person ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Elonet company ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

''' Did you know? '''
 * Query examples:
 * Average height of people named Joe
 * Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID
 * Timeline of inception of Ghanaian universities
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Honoris Causa France - aims to coordinate the actions carried out in terms of reporting the attributions of honorary doctorate (Q11415564) by French universities.
 * HolyWells - aims to organize Items around Holy Wells.
 * OghamStones - aims to organise Items around Ogham Stones
 * Western Michigan University Libraries - used to gather Wikidata work being done at Western Michigan University Libraries.
 * Visibilizando el dominio público colombiano - to help the unique, permanent and visible identification, worldwide, of Colombian authors in the public domain, within the framework of Colombian legislation.
 * Newest database reports: Connectivity between Wikimedia projects
 * Showcase Items: Pomona College (Q7227384) - private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States
 * Showcase Lexemes: bustadmarknad (L1122204) - "housing market" in Nynorsk

 Development
 * The UnpatrolledEdits gadget now shows a notice when there are older and multiple unpatrolled edits, previously it only showed the notice when the most recent edit was unpatrolled. Please help translate the messages here.
 * Query Service: We are fixing a bug where no examples are shown in the example dialog (T366871)
 * EntitySchemas: We have enabled the new datatype for testing on test.wikidata.org and are preparing the rollout to Wikidata (T365686)
 * Item UI: We fixed an issue where labels were not shown for badges or after making an edit (T366236)
 * Wikibase REST API: We have continued the work on the route for modifying the data of an Item (T342993)

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.

 Weekly Tasks  <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (Talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:10, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #159 is out: New Type: Igbo calendar months
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we introduce a new enumeration type, this time for the thirteen months of the Igbo calendar, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 16:21, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2024
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 * Albania - Georgia Wikimedia Cooperation 2024
 * Aleksandër Xhuvani University Editathon in Elbasan
 * Central Bicol State University of Agriculture LitFest features translation and article writing on Wikipedia
 * Empowering Youth Council in Bulqiza through editathons
 * We left a piece of our hearts at Arhavi
 * Wiki Movimento Brasil at Tech Week and Education Speaker Series
 * Wikimedia MKD trains new users in collaboration with MYLA

Weekly Summary #632
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<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'' Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-17.'' <div style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; -webkit-column-width: 400px; -moz-column-width: 400px; column-width: 400px;"> Discussions Events
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Mdann52 bot - Task(s): Updating callsign, frequency and FCC ID of US Radio Station items from FCC database.
 * M2Ys4U-Bot - Task(s): Import data about candidates standing for election in the 2024 United Kingdom general election.
 * Looking ahead
 * Lexico Days 2024 is coming up. June 28 - 30, there will be a packed programme of presentations, discussions and workshops on Lexicographical data. This is an online event.
 * Wikidata Workshop for Botanists at the XX Intl. Botanical Congress, July 21 - 27, 2024, Madrid, Spain.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos Tool of the week Other Noteworthy Stuff Newest properties and property proposals to review
 * Blogs
 * Diff Blog: Why Wikimedia (and Wikidata) is an antidote to disinformation - Wiki Movimento Brasil discuss how Wikidata has equipped researchers, activists and the public the ability to safeguard truths about human rights abuses during the civic-military Brazilian dictatorship between 1964 - 1985.
 * Making location based timelines with Wikipedia, Wikidata and mojeek - Tara Calishain of Calishat blog.
 * (de) 20 Years of WMDE - scroll down the timeline and see what Wikimedia Deutschland has done in its 20 years of existence!
 * Papers
 * Linking Named Entities in Diderot's Encyclopédie to Wikidata - This paper describes the annotation of more than 10,300 of the Encyclopédie entries with Wikidata identifiers enabling them to be connect to the graph of structured data. By Piere Nugues.
 * Towards a linking between WordNet and Wikidata - The authors propose linking the 2 described reosurces through hapax legomenon and natural language processing techniques to create new connections and uses. By J. McCrae & D. Cillessen.
 * Videos
 * WikiWednesday Webinar – Increasing Education & Outreach through Wikidata & the Wiki-Commons - Victoria Stasiuk and Navino Evans of the Digital Literacy for GLAM show how museums and galleries have opened up their collections through Wikidata and Commons and increase education, outreach and volunteer engagement strategies.
 * What is Wikidata? How to use Wikidata? - Asaf Bartov hosts this informative session on Wikidata at the Wikimania Singapore 2023. If you're attending Wikimania 2024, this session will prepare you for other Wikidata-related sessions.
 * Creating a Lexeme Database from Scratch - The runup to Wikimania Katowice has begun. Refresh yourself for upcoming sessions with this Wikidata basics workshop hosted by Leon Liesener.
 * Gestapo.Terror.Places (in Lower Saxony 1933-1945) - This app displays on a map of lower Saxony areas of interest or significance of the terror-related crimes of the Gestapo during WWII.
 * A new Wikidata Query Service scaling update has been published. It outlines the final set of rules for the WDQS graph split.
 * Programming Languages ranked by Sitelinks in Wikidata

 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * showrunner ( person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show )
 * External identifiers:Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, filmas.lv person ID, filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, Burgenwelt ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: Irish-English ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID

 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * Music mood ( qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to an audio recording (musical or not) )
 * ecosystem type ( type of ecosystem that the item represents )
 * construction time ( Construction time refers to the time which was needed to build a certain building, which sometimes took more than one year, especially in former times )
 * Nom dans la langue locale
 * YAMAP mountain ID ( YAMAP mountain ID )
 * coin edge ( Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering. )
 * ozone depletion potential ( relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11 )
 * External identifiers: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary: English-Irish ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, MODI ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, Douban Personage ID, Canadian Great War Project person ID, stiga.trefik.cz, PMC journal ID, European Education Thesaurus ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID

 * Deleted properties:

You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know?
 * Query examples:
 * Tool Registry for Digital Humanities
 * Operas ordered by First Performance
 * Performing Arts Productions with a Composer property
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * Assoc. Football - Euro 2024 - for best practices on UEFA Euro 2024 items.
 * Bulgarian Elections - for describing data related to elections in Bulgaria.
 * ARS3D - statements and properties for an African Red Slip ware 3D artifact data model.
 * WikiProject Highlights:
 * (de)Theorie und Praxis in Wikidata - User:Matthiasb uses examples of Highway intersection classification on Wikidata of locations in and around Berlin to highlight inconsistencies between the data model and legal classification. By highlighting a considerable number of differences in a relatively small geographic area, these comments provide further context on an earlier discussion within the German Wikipedia community on integrating Wikidata further into Wikipedia articles.
 * Newest database reports: Badge Stats - How are badges being applied in Wikidata, which items have the most Good or Featured Articles? Savvy editors can use this to enrich said articles in their own Wiki.
 * Showcase Items: Mordor - A desolate volcanic plain of nauseous gases and shadows. J.R.R Tolkien's blighted land is this week's showcase.
 * Showcase Lexemes: вода - A Russian word for a clear, vitality-giving liquid, of course it's Water.

Development
 * EntitySchemas: We are preparing for the rollout of the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
 * Wikibase REST API:
 * We are continuing the work on the route for modifying an Item (T342993)
 * We are working on improving errors and error messages in the API
 * Query Service UI: We fixed a bug. The example dialog was empty and not showing any examples (T366871)
 * We changed the datatype of two Properties to external ID as requested (T367174)

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.

Weekly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
 * Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge: Gambling
 * Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
 * 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!

Anything to add? Please share! :) <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">· Unsubscribe · Help translate · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) · 17:45, 17 June 2024 (UTC)