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Hello everyone,
As a reminder, we're welcoming *proposals for the Data Reuse Days
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025 > online event
until January 12th*. On the talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event_talk:Data_Reuse_Days_2025 > you can
already see a few interesting proposals from the Wikidata community and
reusers.
We're especially looking for short presentations/demos of *tools using
Wikidata's data*, in areas such as GLAM, civic tech, AI and LLMs, services
and games.
If you have any questions or doubts before publishing a proposal, feel free
to reach out to me.
Best,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
theweek leading up to 2024-12-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #659
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20… >*
* Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary! *
A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!
🎉 Each of your contributions, whether big or small, has made a difference
and has helped us create a vibrant and informative resource for the
Wikidata community. 🙏 Let's continue building and sharing knowledge
together in the coming year! 🙌✨
*Discussions*
- Open request for oversight: Ameisenigel
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/A… >
(RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos*
- Papers
- Library Data in Wikimedia Projects: Case Study from the Czech
Republic <https://doi.org/10.5282/o-bib/6081 > by Jansová, L.,
Maixnerová, L., & Š´tastná, P. (2024). *"The paper outlines the
collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic and
Wikimedia since 2006, focusing on linking authority records with
Wikipedia
articles and training librarians and users. By 2023, the National Library
provided most of its databases under a CC0 license, launched a
"Wikimedians
in Residence" program, and collaborated on projects involving linked data
and using authority records in Wikidata. This partnership has enhanced
their cooperation for mutual benefit, identifying key factors for their
successful long-term collaboration."*
- How have you modelled my gender? Reconstructing the history of
gender representation in Wikidata
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2024.2431798 >
by Melis, B., Fioravanti, M., Paolini, C., & Metilli, D. (2024). *"The
paper traces the evolution of gender representation in Wikidata, showing
how the community has moved from a binary interpretation of gender to a
more inclusive model for trans and non-binary identities. The Wikidata
Gender Diversity project (WiGeDi) timeline highlights the significant
changes influenced by external historical events and the community's
increased understanding of gender complexity."*
- Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First
Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool (part 1
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTkF1Y5sOPY >, part 2
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fpWNtyO9Qg >) by Saeed Habishan. "The
Wikibase-CLI enables command-based interaction with Wikidata using shell
scripts and JavaScript. The tool runs on NodeJS and enables automatic
reading and editing of Wikidata."
*Tool of the week*
- WikiORA <https://github.com/lubianat/wikiora > - is a tool designed for
gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata,
Wikipedia, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify
significantly enriched gene sets in their data.
*Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties >
and property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal >
to review*
- Newest General datatypes:
- bequest income <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13171 > (the
sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe)
- taxon known by this common name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13176 > (taxon item of which
this common name refers)
- homonymous taxon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13177 >
(taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
- role named as <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13187 > (use
as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the
credits of
its respective work)
- meeting of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13188 > (subject
is a meeting or session of this organization)
- Newest External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13165 >, PUG authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13166 >, Three Decks class ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13167 >, Vidas author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13168 >, Usito ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13169 >, ZSL authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13170 >, Collectie Nederland ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13172 >, Hachette author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13173 >, CamerounWeb person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13174 >, Hindi Shabdamitra entry
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13175 >, OpenSSF Practices ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13178 >, Japanese Health
Insurance System Facility ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13179 >, Centre d'Etudes Picasso
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13180 >, CUATM statistical
code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13181 >, CUATM unique
identification code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13182 >, JudaicaLink
person (GND) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13183 >, teams.by
national team ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13184 >, Eyrolles
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13185 >, Mémoire des
avocats ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13186 >, BCU
Kirundi-English Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13189 >, Estonian–Latvian
Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13190 >, WHL
player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13191 >, Indo-European
Lexicon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13192 >, Battle.net
game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13193 >, Singapore
Unique Entity Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13194 >, AniSearch
character ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13195 >, Three
Decks conflict ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13196 >,
Berlinische
Galerie object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13197 >
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- About box
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/About_box >
(Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software
(contains important
information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is
included in almost every software))
- nonprofit tax status
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nonprofit_tax_stat… >
(country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
- nomenclatural type of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nomenclatural_type… >
(taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type)
- World Heritage type
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Heritage_type >
(Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DVD_region_code >
(DVD release is restricted to region code)
- number of shading units
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_shading_… >
(Number of shading units in a graphics card.)
- Archaeological National Register code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archaeological_Nat… >
(identifier of elements of the National archaeological register
of Moldova)
- presented works
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/presented_works >
(works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_REGAFI >
()
- Maximum beam energy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Maximum_beam_energy >
(Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
- Accused of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Accused_of >
(Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or
convicted'')
- hat gespendet
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/hat_gespendet >
(Amount of money donated to a person or organization)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Algeria Press
Service tag ID (French)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Algeria_Press_Serv… >,
Algeria Press Service tag ID (English)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Algeria_Press_Serv… >,
Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Algeria_Press_Serv… >,
Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Newmark_Albanian-E… >,
Norsk oversettterleksikon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Norsk_oversettterl… >,
hockey1946.ru player id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/hockey1946.ru_play… >,
footballdatabase.eu match ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/footballdatabase.e… >,
Kamus Pelajar Edisi Kedua ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kamus_Pelajar_Edis… >,
Lyricfind artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lyricfind_artist_ID >,
HonestGamers game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HonestGamers_game_… >,
identifiant MACM d'un artisite
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_MACM_d… >,
Syrian Memory person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Syrian_Memory_pers… >,
Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27un… >,
Paris Match ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Paris_Match_ID >,
Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kamus_Dewan_Edisi_… >,
identifiant Registre national des gels
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Regist… >,
DOSBox Wiki
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DOSBox_Wiki >,
Identifiant
Cimetières de France
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Cimeti… >,
Ech-Chaab tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ech-Chaab_tag_ID >,
Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Amsterdam_Monument… >,
Kyiv Independent Topic
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kyiv_Independent_T… >,
Lutris company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lutris_company_ID >,
Shamela Algeria person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shamela_Algeria_pe… >,
enterprise number (Germany)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/enterprise_number_… >,
Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ohio_University_Ar… >,
Progetto Euploos ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Progetto_Euploos_ID >,
Nafziger Order of Battle ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nafziger_Order_of_… >,
National Football Teams.com stadium ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Football_… >,
Play:Right genre ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Play:Right_genre_ID >,
DataGov dataset
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DataGov_dataset >,
ERR keyword ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ERR_keyword_ID >,
Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Comprehensive_Hist… >,
Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ohio_University_Ar… >,
Russian Football National League player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russian_Football_N… >,
Gaia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gaia_ID >,
Inventory
of Natural Heritage site ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inventory_of_Natur… >,
Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inventory_of_Natur… >,
Wellcome Collection concept ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wellcome_Collectio… >,
Spanish-German Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Spanish-German_Dic… >,
UAF match ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/UAF_match_ID >,
Identifiant
d'un(e) journaliste sur Francetvinfo
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27un… >,
Game Vortex software ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Game_Vortex_softwa… >,
VG247 game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VG247_game_ID >,
identifiant Pappers d'un dirigeant
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Papper… >,
Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Database_of_Canada… >,
Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Canadian_Writing_R… >,
Mishramilan catalog ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mishramilan_catalo… >,
SearchCulture.gr ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SearchCulture.gr_ID >,
Cinema Belgica venue ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cinema_Belgica_ven… >,
Cinema Belgica person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cinema_Belgica_per… >,
Cinema Belgica film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cinema_Belgica_fil… >,
Cinema Belgica company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cinema_Belgica_com… >,
Cinema Belgica censorship ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cinema_Belgica_cen… >,
Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archaeological_Cad… >,
Hankook Ilbo tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hankook_Ilbo_tag_ID >,
Rijksmuseum ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rijksmuseum_ID >,
SOIUSA code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SOIUSA_code >,
myCast
work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/myCast_work_ID >
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview >!
*Did you know?*
- Query examples:
- trees of motifs described in Thompson's motif index (first two
levels) <https://w.wiki/CZYW >
- Think tanks by country <https://w.wiki/CZ$T > (source
<https://x.com/AlexHinojo/status/1873636409262670255 >)
- Painters that have died before 1925 but do not have a Wikimedia
Commons category on their Wikidata Item <https://w.wiki/Ca5f > (source
<https://wikis.world/@magnusmanske/113583435538294677 >)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects >:
Uganda <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Uganda > -
aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items
(biographical, cultural, geographical, organisational, etc...)
relating to Uganda
(Q1036) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1036 >
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Narration/Folktales
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Narration/Folktales >
- creation of Items for motifs described in Thompson's motif
index completed
- Austria
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Nonprofit_Organizations/… >
- concerns itself with improving data from nonprofit organizations in
Austria
- Newest database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports >: Deleted
Wikidata entities used in SDC
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Deleted_Wikidata_en… >
- Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items >:
Wressle Castle (Q8037764) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8037764 > -
late 14th-century quadrangular castle in East Yorkshire, England, UK
- Showcase Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes >: ਲੇਟਣ (L750580)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L750580 > - in Punjabi (pa) and
"لیٹݨ" in Punjabi Shahmukhi (pnb) transliterate to "Leṭaṇ," which means "to
lie down" or "to rest" in English.
*Development*
- Most of the development team staff are still taking a break, so no
development happened.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R >. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt… >.
*Weekly Tasks*
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_propertie… >
.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? >
.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Liechtenstein
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Liechtenste… >
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? >
in one or two sentences.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats >
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge > across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next >
· Read the full report
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20… >
·
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*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: cal.com/masssly .
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exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our
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Dr. Christian Humborg
/Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata
in the
week leading up to 2024-12-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #658
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20… >/
*Discussions *
* New request for comments:
o P518 scope
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/P518_scope >
- Should scope of league or competition (P118)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P118 > include forms and
aspects?
o Trying to get a consensus on English label for Q30 -- "United
States of America" vs "United States"
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Trying_to_get_a_consens… "United_States_of_America"_vs_"United_States">
*Events *
* Ongoing: Wikidata Cleanup 2024
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/th… >
- Romaine(A) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Romaine > continues
his initiative, "Wikidata Cleanup," to coordinate community efforts
in addressing the problem of items missing basic properties during
the last ten days of 2024, when many users have extra time due to
holidays. The aim is to improve data quality by focusing on ensuring
all items have essential properties like "instance of" (P31) or
"subclass of" (P279), adding relevant country and location data, and
maintaining consistency within item series.
* Upcoming events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events >:
Data Reuse Days
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025 > - online
event focusing on projects using Wikidata's data, 18-27 February
2025. You can submit a proposal for the program on the talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event_talk:Data_Reuse_Days_2025 >
until January 12th.
*Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
* Blogs
o Exploring YouTube Channels Via Wikidata
<https://www.calishat.com/2024/12/16/exploring-youtube-channels-via-wikidata/ >,
by Tara Calishain. "This time I'm playing with a way to browse
YouTube channels while using Wikidata as context. And you can
try it too, because it doesn't need any API keys!"
o Wikidata Items "described at URL" domain ranked list
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/archives/754 >, by Magnus Manske
* Papers: Finding Female Film Editors in Wikidata: How to Query and
Visualize Filmographic Records
<https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111082486-003/html >
* Videos: How to link a Wikipedia article to Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7sK-nFiRbM > (Spanish)
*Tool of the week *
* Flying Dehyphenator
<https://ordia.toolforge.org/flying-dehyphenator/ > is an Ordia game.
Given the start part of a word, use the space bar to move the word
and hit the next part of the word. Only hyphenations described with
the Unicode hyphenation character work.
* Want a wrap of your Wikidata activities in 2024? Wiki Year In Review
<https://wikipediayir.netlify.app > has it for you! (use
www.wikidata.org for the project URL)
*Other Noteworthy Stuff *
* Wikibase/Suite-Contributing-Guide
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Suite-Contributing-Guide >:
Wikibase Suite's contributing guide has been published. This guide
aims to help anyone who wants to contribute and make sure they are
equipped with all the relevant information to do so.
*Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties > and property
proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal >
to review *
* Newest General datatypes:
o bequest income <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13171 >
(the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a
timeframe)
o taxon known by this common name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13176 > (taxon item of
which this common name refers)
o homonymous taxon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13177 >
(taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
o role named as <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13187 >
(use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in
the credits of its respective work)
o meeting of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13188 >
(subject is a meeting or session of this organization)
* Newest External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13165 >, PUG authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13166 >, Three Decks class
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13167 >, Vidas author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13168 >, Usito ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13169 >, ZSL authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13170 >, Collectie Nederland
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13172 >, Hachette author
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13173 >, CamerounWeb
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13174 >, Hindi
Shabdamitra entry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13175 >, OpenSSF Practices
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13178 >, Japanese Health
Insurance System Facility ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13179 >, Centre d'Etudes
Picasso ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13180 >, CUATM
statistical code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13181 >,
CUATM unique identification code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13182 >, JudaicaLink person
(GND) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13183 >, teams.by
national team ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13184 >,
Eyrolles author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13185 >,
Mémoire des avocats ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13186 >, BCU Kirundi-English
Dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13189 >,
Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13190 >, WHL player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13191 >, Indo-European
Lexicon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13192 >,
Battle.net game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13193 >
* New General datatypes property proposals to review:
o About box
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/About_box >
(Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software
(contains important information such as authors, license,
version number and year(s) and is included in almost every
software))
o nonprofit tax status
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nonprofit_tax_stat… >
(country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
o nomenclatural type of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nomenclatural_type… >
(taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type)
o World Heritage type
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Heritage_type >
(Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural,
Mixed))
o DVD region code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DVD_region_code >
(DVD release is restricted to region code)
o number of shading units
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/number_of_shading_… >
(Number of shading units in a graphics card.)
o Archaeological National Register code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archaeological_Nat… >
(identifier of elements of the National archaeological register
of Moldova)
o presented works
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/presented_works >
(works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
o identifiant REGAFI
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_REGAFI >
()
* New External identifier property proposals to review: Three Decks
conflict ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Three_Decks_confli… >,
Algeria Press Service tag ID (French)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Algeria_Press_Serv… >,
Algeria Press Service tag ID (English)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Algeria_Press_Serv… >,
Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Algeria_Press_Serv… >,
Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Newmark_Albanian-E… >,
Norsk oversettterleksikon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Norsk_oversettterl… >,
footballdatabase.eu match ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/footballdatabase.e… >,
Kamus Pelajar Edisi Kedua ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kamus_Pelajar_Edis… >,
Berlinische Galerie object ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Berlinische_Galeri… >,
Singapore Unique Entity Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Singapore_Unique_E… >,
Lyricfind artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lyricfind_artist_ID >,
HonestGamers game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HonestGamers_game_… >,
identifiant MACM d'un artisite
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_MACM_d… >,
Syrian Memory person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Syrian_Memory_pers… >,
Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature
d'oc
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27un… >,
Paris Match ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Paris_Match_ID >,
Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kamus_Dewan_Edisi_… >,
identifiant Registre national des gels
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Regist… >,
DOSBox Wiki
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DOSBox_Wiki >,
Identifiant Cimetières de France
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Cimeti… >,
Ech-Chaab tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ech-Chaab_tag_ID >,
Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Amsterdam_Monument… >,
Kyiv Independent Topic
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kyiv_Independent_T… >,
Lutris company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lutris_company_ID >,
Shamela Algeria person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Shamela_Algeria_pe… >,
enterprise number (Germany)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/enterprise_number_… >,
Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ohio_University_Ar… >,
Progetto Euploos ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Progetto_Euploos_ID >,
Nafziger Order of Battle ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nafziger_Order_of_… >,
National Football Teams.com stadium ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Football_… >,
Play:Right genre ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Play:Right_genre_ID >,
DataGov dataset
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DataGov_dataset >,
ERR keyword ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ERR_keyword_ID >,
Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Comprehensive_Hist… >,
Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Ohio_University_Ar… >,
Russian Football National League player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russian_Football_N… >,
Gaia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gaia_ID >,
Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inventory_of_Natur… >,
Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Inventory_of_Natur… >,
Wellcome Collection concept ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wellcome_Collectio… >
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview >!
*Did you know? *
* Query examples:
o Countries that have had a woman serving as Minister of Defense
<https://w.wiki/CVwB >
o Leonardo DiCaprio's partners <https://w.wiki/CUKR > (source
<https://x.com/Michal_J_Spacek/status/1870053341436223745 >)
o Countries that have most items with Mastodon or PeerTube
(ActivityPub) social networks <https://w.wiki/CGYX > (source
<https://wikis.world/redirect/statuses/113582298631341475 >)
o Olympians who died during the year 2024 <https://w.wiki/CVwi >
(source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query#Deaths_in_2024 >)
* WikiProject Highlights: Nonprofit Organizations/Japan
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Nonprofit_Organizations/… >
* Newest database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports >: Items
with a sitelink to Dutch Wikipedia and have no P31 and/or P279
<https://w.wiki/CVtd > (source
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/th… >)
(replace 2x the "nl" into the language code of your language)
* Showcase Items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items >: Boeing
(Q66) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66 > - American global
aerospace and defense corporation
* Showcase Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes >:
julehilsen <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L348887 > -
Christmas greeting in Danish
*Development *
* With the winter holidays upon us, the development team is taking a
break, and there will be no deployments for Wikidata during this time.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R >. If
you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a
volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt… >.
*Weekly Tasks *
* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_propertie… >.
* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? >.
* Govdirectory weekly focus country:
* Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? >
in one or two sentences.
* Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats >
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own
language!
* Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge > across
Wikimedia projects.
* Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next >
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It's time for Wikidata Cleanup 2024 !
The year 2024 is slowly coming to an end as the end of this month is
approaching. Also in 2024 many items have been created, and while in many
cases this went well, also many items are missing the basic properties.
When people see such an item, we have no clue what the item is about and
with queries they can't be found. This results in that an item without
properties is almost useless. If we don't tackle this problem, the number
of items with this problem will only be growing each year. Therefore I
think it is good to have some coordinated effort to work on this together
in the last ten days of 2024 when many users have some extra time because
of holidays.
Why are basic properties missing?
It can be simple vandalism, a risk especially with Q's with lower numbers
and many interwiki links. If such comes across, it might be the easiest to
just check the history of an item and revert the vandalism if someone tried
to (partly) empty an item.
Also it is still a problem that there are still users that simply remove
basic properties if one is considered to be wrong, instead of replacing it
by the right one.
Or a basis property was simple forgotten to be added or the user who
created the item did not know it is needed.
In many cases, just one of the basic properties is missing, but often
multiple of them are missing on items. To keep it a bit clear, I divided
the missing properties in multiple levels. Each level builds on a previous
one. Once a certain level has been added to an item, it can be found
(quicker) by people working on the other levels. You can just work on one
level, but it would be handy if you could also see if you can easily add
another other basic level(s) too.
It is not my intention to be complete with all basic properties as there
are too many groups of subjects with their basic properties. I have chosen
the most generic and largest basic properties, and I just hope that this
would help to reduce the backlog.
== Level 1 ==
Every single item (Q) should have the property "instance of" (P31
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31 >) or "subclass of" (P279
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P279 >). So our goal is to make sure
all items have one of these two properties, sometimes both.
For many obvious, but as it still goes wrong, please use "instance of" on
specific examples of that subject, and "subclass of" on items that are a
subset. Example: K2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43512 > is an instance
of mountain; volcano <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8072 > is a subclass of
mountain.
How to start working on this? There can be various approaches and each one
that results in the missing properties to be added (properly) is good,
choose the one that works for you. I share my approach here below. I think
it can be helpful for users if other approaches are shared to so it becomes
easier to work on this problem.
The approach I personally choose is to work by language. As my native
language is Dutch, I try to make sure that all items with a sitelink to the
Dutch Wikipedia have P31 and/or P279.
To do that I use this query
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0… >.
The limit is set on 10, otherwise the query can result in error because it
takes too much time. If you want to use it for your language, just replace
2x the "nl" into the language code of your language.
If you are unsure about which item to select with P31/P279, please check
other items about similar subjects.
The goal is to make sure every single item to have P31 or P27. If you work
by language like I do, when done with one language, please consider also to
work on other languages, especially the ones with a limited amount of
speakers/users active.
== Level 2: country ==
One of the main characteristics of many subjects is that they are related
to or located in a certain country. A country is basic knowledge people
want to know about a subject, and in queries, the country is often used to
limit the amount of results.
What does have a country?
Use "country" (P17 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P17 >) for
buildings and other structures, human settlements, physical features
(rivers, mountains, etc), sports event/competition, and more.
But not with subjects on Antarctica, in international waters, on a
different planet or other astronomical object, etc.
*With Antarctica:* set "country" with no value and add the property
"continent" (P30 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P30 >) with "
Antarctica <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51 >".
*In international waters:* set "country" with no value.
*On other astronomical object:* set "located on astronomical body" (P376
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P376 >).
Example query
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescri… >,
excluding Antarctica, items with "country" no value and items with
astronomical body.
Use "country of citizenship" (P27
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P27 >) for people.
Use "country of origin" (P495 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P495 >)
for some other subjects.
== Level 3: location ==
There are about 23 towns with the name "Paris" in the United States, so
just saying that a certain item is an instance of and is located in a
certain country is not enough.
Use "located in the administrative territorial entity" (P131
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P131 >) for physical subjects.
Use "coordinate location" (P625
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P625 >) to add coordinates.
Use "location" (P276 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P276 >) for
other indications of a location, but not for streets (use "located on
street" (P669 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P669 >)), not for
mountain ranges (use "mountain range" (P4552
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4552 >)), not for rivers and other
water bodies (use "located in or next to body of water" (P206
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P206 >)) and not for others natural
features (use "located in/on physical feature" (P706
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P706 >)).
== Level 4: sports ==
A popular name for various sports competitions are for example League or
Liga 1, so knowing which sport (P641
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P641 >) a league or liga is part of
is basic information.
Example query
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescri… >
for sports season without sport.
== Bonus: series ==
With various groups of subjects, an item is part of a larger series. For
example sports events or seasons of competitions with each item about one
season. There are two things needed:
1. Make sure an item of a certain year/season has the same properties as
the previous/next year, and try to avoid variances between them.
2. Make sure each item is connected to the previous (P155
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P155 >) and next (P156
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P156 >) item of that series.
Often the newly created item for a new year/season is missing properties,
sometimes this is the case for multiple years on a row.
== Input welcome ==
Do you know another or better query to work on the listed problems above,
please share them so working on it becomes easier.
For everyone: have a nice time in the coming days!
Romaine
Hello all,
I'm happy to announce that we started preparing our next Wikidata community
online event: the *Data Reuse Days 2025
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025 >*.
The event will be focusing on *how people and organizations use Wikidata's
data to build interesting applications and tools*. It aims to bring
together data reusers and editors to learn from each other and discover
cool Wikidata-powered applications. We will also cover technical aspects of
Wikidata and share research and ideas for the future of reusing Wikidata’s
data.
The event is taking place *online*, we will have sessions taking place
during *periods of 2 hours through 8 days: from February 18 to 27, 2025*.
You will be able to join sessions live, or to watch the replay later on.
You will find the schedule below on this page. The sessions take place in
English, and are open to everyone interested in the topic of data reuse.
We are welcoming proposals from Wikidata editors and reusers who want to
showcase their applications or facilitate discussions! You can *propose
sessions on the talk page until January 12th
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event_talk:Data_Reuse_Days_2025 >*. We will
then select some of them and add them to the schedule. We are especially
welcoming demos of tools or applications using Wikidata's data, discussions
between editors and reusers, and technical presentations.
While waiting for the event to take place, you can also rewatch some
sessions from our last edition in 2022
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejNaZk15ybdHNWY8z-FyunRm >.
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write on the talk
page or to reach out to me directly.
Best,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
theweek leading up to 2024-12-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #657
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20… >*
* Discussions *
- New requests for permissions/Bot: PWSBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/PWSBot >
- Task(s): Is a selfmade chatbot to answer factual questions as part of a
final research project for educational purposes.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: CarbonBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/CarbonB… >
- *Withdrawn by submitter*
* Events * Upcoming events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events >:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr… >
session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 17 December 2024:
We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17
December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (Time zone
converter <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1734454800 >) Wikimedian Mahir
Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical
data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these
Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions,
please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series Etherpad
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/LD4-WDAG_Lexicographical_Data_Series >
to help us prepare relevant materials for you. Sessions will be held on
November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular
time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Event page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr… >
- 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - register now
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… >
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Papers
- Are Wikipedia articles representative of Western or world knowledge?
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-12-12/In… >,
December 12, 2024, *The Signpost
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/ >*
- Baptiste de Coulon, "Les données liées, Wikidata et les
archives : une opportunité de contribution aux communs
numériques".
In: La Gazette des archives <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15751263 >,
n°271, 2024-2, p.37-56 (free access online after 3 years).
- Videos: AWS re:Invent 2024
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9byadj0uko > - Wikimedia
Deutschland's Lydia
Pintscher (WMDE) (Staff)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE) > and Philippe
Saadé talk about d:Wikidata:Embedding Project
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Embedding_Project >.
* Tool of the week *
- Tabular Online Validator
<https://shex-validator.toolforge.org/packages/shex-webapp/doc/shex-simple.h… >
- checks if SPARQL query results conform to a provided schema by validating
data and highlighting potential errors, such as missing properties, invalid
values, or too many values, with the option to refine the schema if issues
arise. (A major update to the current ShEx validator that is expected to
get integrated into the existing validator soon)
- CAT🐈: Overview if references
<https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cat-overview-of-references >: looking at
references for a set of Wikidata items
* Other Noteworthy Stuff *
- Now Hiring: OpenRefine Developer & Contributor Engagement
<https://openrefine.org/blog/2024/11/25/openrefine-developer-role >
- The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) is launching the Entity
Management Cooperative (EMCO) program in 2025, aiming to unify entity
management across the semantic web, including registries like
Wikidata. Volunteers,
including those with prior experience in PCC’s ISNI or Wikidata pilots, are
invited to join the Early Adopters Phase by January 17, 2025
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/me… >
.
- The Biodiversity Heritage Library Working Group has set up a page on
Meta t <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL >o coordinate contributions
across projects, including Wikidata
* Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties >
and property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal >
to review *
- Newest General datatypes:
- bequest income <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13171 > (the
sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe)
- Newest External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13165 >, PUG authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13166 >, Three Decks class ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13167 >, Vidas author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13168 >, Usito ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13169 >, ZSL authority ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13170 >, Collectie Nederland ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13172 >
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- About box
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/About_box >
(Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software
(contains important
information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is
included in almost every software))
- nonprofit tax status
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nonprofit_tax_stat… >
(country specific tax status of non-profit organisations)
- Рахимов, Гафур Рахимович
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%85… >
(Gʻafur Rahimov)
- nomenclatural type of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/nomenclatural_type… >
(taxon item of wich this item is the taxonomic type)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: Three Decks
conflict ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Three_Decks_confli… >,
Algeria Press Service tag ID (French)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Algeria_Press_Serv… >,
Algeria Press Service tag ID (English)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Algeria_Press_Serv… >,
Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Algeria_Press_Serv… >,
JudaicaLink person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JudaicaLink_person… >,
Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Newmark_Albanian-E… >,
Norsk oversettterleksikon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Norsk_oversettterl… >,
footballdatabase.eu match ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/footballdatabase.e… >,
Kamus Pelajar Edisi Kedua ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kamus_Pelajar_Edis… >,
Berlinische Galerie object ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Berlinische_Galeri… >,
Singapore Unique Entity Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Singapore_Unique_E… >,
Lyricfind artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lyricfind_artist_ID >,
HonestGamers game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/HonestGamers_game_… >,
identifiant MACM d'un artisite
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_MACM_d… >,
Syrian Memory person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Syrian_Memory_pers… >,
Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_d%27un… >,
Paris Match ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Paris_Match_ID >,
Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kamus_Dewan_Edisi_… >,
identifiant Registre national des gels
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_Regist… >,
DOSBox Wiki
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DOSBox_Wiki >,
Identifiant
Cimetières de France
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Identifiant_Cimeti… >
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview >!
* Did you know? *
- Query examples:
- World map of recent censuses known at Wikidata for each decade
<https://w.wiki/4fKM > (select decade on the right side)
- Timeline of inception of Ghanaian universities <https://w.wiki/CS6f >
- Most common name in Germany by year of birth <https://w.wiki/3Sxm >
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Chemistry/Elements
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Chemistry/Elements >
- Taiwan/Truku
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Taiwan/Truku > - a
compilation of information on the subject of Taroko culture, including
statistics and records of activities.
- Newest database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports >: Dagbani
Lexemes with Glosses which are the same as the Lemma
<https://w.wiki/CSEU >
- Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items >:
Alice Through the Looking Glass (Q17485699)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17485699 > - 2016 film directed by James
Bobin where now 22-year-old Alice comes across a magical looking glass that
takes her back to Wonderland.
- Showcase Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes >: آبلرزهیاب
(L744998) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L744998 > - Persian noun,
translates to "hydro-seismometer"
* Development *
- Wikibase REST API: We prototyped search support for the REST API and
would like your feedback on it
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:REST_API_feedback_round#Give_us… !>
.
- Property Suggestions: We updated the underlying data so you should
have more up-to-date suggestions again when making new statements.
- EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search
for EntitySchemas by their label and aliases when linking to them in a
statement.
- Query Service: We are investigating if we can do something about the
issue where not all edgeLabels are shown on a graph visualisation (
phab:T381857 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381857 >) and if there
are any alternatives to the library used for the graph builder in the Query
Service (phab:T381764 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381764 >)
- Under the hood: We are optimizing the server setup for the term store
to accommodate its growth (phab:T351802
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T351802 >)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R >. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt… >.
* Weekly Tasks *
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_propertie… >
.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? >
.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country:
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? >
in one or two sentences.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats >
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge > across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next >
*· Previous issue
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20… >
· *
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Hello, everyone –
We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1734454800 >).
If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out this brief survey<https://forms.gle/tQqQiEt41uCmkiSZ6 > to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend.
Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation > in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024 at our regular time of 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET.
Here is the plan for the series sessions:
Session 1 (November 5)
This first session started with an introduction and discussion of the multitudes of uses for Wikidata’s lexicographical data, with specific examples and motivations provided for each use case, and ended with a listing of specific actions that can be taken depending on the language an editor wishes to improve. The remaining workshop sessions will elaborate on these actions.
Session 2 (November 19)
Working session covering ways to improve existing lexemes and tools to find lexemes to create
Session 3 (December 3)
Working session covering how modeling parts of complex lexemes in one language can be used to improve Wikidata’s ability to express concepts in other languages
Session 4 (December 17)
Working session covering how sentences can be modeled and formed using Wikidata lexemes and items
The call details are below. Working sessions will not be recorded, but demos and how-to sections will be made available as recordings. To receive notifications about upcoming calls and session information you can subscribe to the <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata > ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata >.
Call Details:
Date and Time: Tuesday, 17 December, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1734454800 >)
Zoom link to join meeting:
https://washington.zoom.us/j/99751624871?pwd=9aP5kaCixHlMRwCbppaZHitt8Un3wZ…
Meeting ID: 997 5162 4871
Passcode: 113059
Series event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.
Communication:
Ld4-wikidata Google group: <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata > https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: <https://ld4.slack.com/ > https://ld4.slack.com/
Website: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr… > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators,
Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429
Dear Wikidata Community,
As anticipated at the PCC Virtual Participants meeting<https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/EMCO.pdf > on February 15, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging is launching a new Entity Management Cooperative (EMCO)<https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/PFCCP/EMCO > program in 2025. For those of you outside of the library community, this program is an attempt to bring entity management across the semantic web that interacts with library metadata under a single umbrella within the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, or PCC. We are inviting individuals from communities using registries such as Wikidata to participate in this work on a volunteer basis.
EMCO is designed to function in parallel with the PCC's NACO (Name Authority Cooperative) and SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative) programs. There are many more entities in our bibliographic data than are currently receiving entries in the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF). Identifiers are vital to support discovery in linked data environments and the PCC envisions EMCO<https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/PFCCP/EMCO > as being an alternative for creating and maintaining entity identifiers in a linked data environment.
All individuals are invited to participate in the EMCO Early Adopters Phase<https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/PFCCP/Early+Adopters+Phase >, regardless of their institutional affiliation with the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). If you would like to be a part of EMCO at this "Early Adopters" phase, particularly if you previously participated in the PCC's ISNI or Wikidata pilots, we invite you to let us know by filling out a brief form at https://forms.gle/fPpjXfUNEJ5jtpro9 by Friday, January 17, 2025.
If you have questions not covered in the EMCO Wiki<https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/PFCCP/EMCO >, please let us know<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-ZEPzFiHG8xFei3W9xdCPW56k7fEC1Qco___2v3dG0… >.
Best Regards,
Crystal Yragui, MLIS
she/her<https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0001692 >
Wikidata User:Clements.UWLib
Co-Chair, PCC Identity Management Advisory Committee (IMAC)
Co-Interim Head, Metadata & Cataloging Initiatives Unit
Metadata Librarian
Cataloging and Metadata Services Department
University of Washington Libraries
Seattle, WA 98195
cec23(a)uw.edu<mailto:cec23@uw.edu>
https://github.com/CECSpecialistI
https://namedrop.io/crystalyragui
Normal Hours:
Mondays: off
Tuesdays: 7am-7pm Pacific
Wednesdays: 7am-7pm Pacific (remote)
Thursdays: 7am-7pm Pacific
Fridays: off
Weekends: 4 hours (variable)
* Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in
the week leading up to 2024-12-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #656
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20… >*
* Discussions *
- New requests for permissions/Bot: KlaraBot
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/KlaraBot >
- Task(s): Append a human's lifespan to descriptions when they can be
authoritatively sourced.
- Closed request for comments: Audio transcription (P9533)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/audio_transcrip… >
- Closed with no consensus. The discussion is ongoing on the Property
P5933 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P9533 > talk page.
* Events *
- Past: Amical Wikimedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia >, the Catalan-language
and culture focused thematic Wikimedia Organization organized the Celebrem
Wikidata (Let's celebrate Wikidata)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ca:Viquip%C3%A8dia:Celebrem_Wikidata >
project to celebrate Wikidata's 12th anniversary, from November 10 - 30.
This included a Wikidata introduction workshop to equip participants with
the editing skills to tackle the project's main aim. This was presented as
a game to delete duplicate info on Wikidata and Catalan Viquipèdia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ca:Portada > infoboxes, in three areas:
protected buildings, officers' positions and data related to sports teams
players. At the end of the event, ~200 Wikidata-fed infoboxes and Wikidata
items were improved and many Wikipedia editors edited Wikidata for the
first time!
- Upcoming events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events >:
- (Deutsch)Wikidata for Legal Historians
<https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/events/40120/2368 > - Tue. 10 December, 3pm -
7pm (UTC+1). This presentation explores Wikidata as a key
platform for LOD,
explains its Semantic Web foundation, introduces FactGrid (a
Wikidata-based
platform for historical research). Highlights potential of both platforms
using examples and encourages discussion for legal historical
research. Register
here <https://plan.events.mpg.de/event/381/ >.
- *Today* (09.12.2024) is the last chance to submit an Abstract for
the Wikidata and Research
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_and_research > conference (5
- 6 June 2025). If you are interested in participating, please
review the submission
acceptance format
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_and_research/Call#Call_for_abstrac… >
before submitting here
<https://openreview.net/group?id=wikimedia.it/Wikidata_and_Research/2025/Con… >
.
* Press, articles, blog posts, videos *
- Blogs
- MediaWiki Conference Highlights
<https://professional.wiki/en/news/mediawiki-users-and-developers-conference… >,
featuring Wikibase talks including one by Christos Varvantakis
and Jon Amar
from Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Semantic Wikibase 2024 Update
<https://professional.wiki/en/news/connecting-wikibase-and-semantic-mediawiki >
- WMDE launches AI Knowledge project in collaboration with DataStax
built with NVIDIA AI
<https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241203748270/en/Wikimedia-Deutschl… >
- Ten years of Philippine local Govt. data
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/12/07/ten-years-of-philippine-local-governm… >
for Wikidata's 12th Birthday. Read about SKAP's (Shared Knowledge Asia
Pacific) efforts to add 10 years worth of financial data of local
Government assets to Wikidata during a Datathon.
- Papers
- Developing an OCR - Wikibase Pipeline for Place Names in the RGTC
Series <https://zenodo.org/records/14313263 > - introduces a
semi-automated workflow for extracting and digitally storing
geographically
relevant information, including spatial relations and contextual details,
from place names in the Répertoire géographique des textes
cunéiformes. By
Matthew Ong (2024).
- Videos
- Wikibase4Research <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAJwmMrTF-M > -
Kolja Bailly presents ways in which the Wikibase4Research tool by the TIB
Open Science Lab supports researchers in dealing with Mediawiki software
for knowledge bases such as Wikibase and facilitates better and FAIR
Research Data Management. Includes a live demonstration and
beginner-friendly instructions.
* Tool of the week *
- CAT🐈: Metrics <https://observablehq.com/@pac02/cat-metrics > computing
simple metrics (number of labels, number of descriptions, number of
sitelinks, number of statements) for item matching a simple claim.
* Other Noteworthy Stuff *
- Template:Image properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Image_properties > New template
listing properties that link to images.
- Let's Connect
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect >
invites you to get involved in helping spread awareness and knowledge of
Wikidata, potentially help organise a Wikidata Learning Clinic. Are you
interested in participating? Please sign-up on this registration form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiea87tSYmB2-1XHn_u8RLe7efMJifJBz… >
.
* Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties >
and property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal >
to review *
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties >:
- General datatypes:
- reference illustration
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13162 > (an illustration
of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It
should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.)
- External identifiers: Gallimard author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13151 >, Football Kit Archive
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13152 >, Bibliothèque du
Séminaire de Tournai author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13153 >, Bibliothèque du
Séminaire de Tournai publisher ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13154 >, Reg-Arts artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13155 >, EU Corporate body
code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13156 >, PBY Ben-Yehuda
dictionary identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13157 >,
Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13158 >, L'AF au champ
d'honneur ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13159 >, Radio
Algeria tag ID (Arabic)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13160 >, Radio Algeria tag ID
(French) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13161 >, The
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language entry ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13163 >, Kamus Dewan Edisi
Keempat ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13164 >
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal >
to review:
- General datatypes:
- land acknowledgement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/land_acknowledgeme… >
(acknowledgement of indigenous or native people whose
ancestors lived at a
location)
- homonym of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/homonym_of >
(taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
- taxon known by this common name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/taxon_known_by_thi… >
(taxon item of which this common name refers)
- External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/PCGames.de_product… >,
AniSearch character ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AniSearch_characte… >,
Hachette author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Hachette_author_ID >,
El Watan tag ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/El_Watan_tag_ID >,
Albin Michel author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Albin_Michel_autho… >,
DNCI label ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DNCI_label_ID >,
Battle.net game ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Battle.net_game_ID >,
Collectie Nederland ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Collectie_Nederlan… >
You can comment on all open property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview >!
* Did you know? *
- Query examples:
- Items missing Hungarian labels or description that are part of
Library and Information Science (Q13420675) <https://w.wiki/CMYo >
- Items from Maori Wikipedia missing English labels or descriptions
<https://w.wiki/CMZD >
- Instances of "Shopping Center" located in administrative
territorial entity subclass of Norway <https://w.wiki/CMZL >
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects >:
- Nonprofit Organisations in Nigeria
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Nonprofit_Organizations/… >,
Belgium
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Nonprofit_Organizations/… >
and Italy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Nonprofit_Organizations/… >
.
- WikiProject Highlights:
- Rwanda <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Rwanda >
- since its creation a couple of weeks ago, it has expanded greatly with
new sections for Lists
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Rwanda/List >,
Museums
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Rwanda/Museums >
and Hospitals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Rwanda/Hospitals >.
- Newest database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports >: Unauthorized
Bots
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Unauthorized_bots >
- A list of bots and their edits, operating without a Bot flag.
- Showcase Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items >:
Das Erste <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49727 >: A German public
service television channel broadcasting for more than 70 years.
- Showcase Lexemes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_lexemes >: Kerzu (L8153)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L8153 > the Breton
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12107 > word for December, directly
translates from "totally black", rather appropriate for the cold, dark last
month of the year.
* Development *
- You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R >. If
you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a
volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt… >
.
* Weekly Tasks *
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_propertie… >
.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? >
.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Ghana >
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know? >
in one or two sentences.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats >
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge > across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next >
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· Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Danny_Benjafield_(WMDE) >) · **15:19,
9 December 2024 (UTC)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:MassMessage:A_page_that_should_not_exi… >*
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