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Wikidata weekly summary #557

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • A citation hunt program was organized for secondary school students at IIS School in Dubai as part of the 74th Republic Day celebration of India. 16 students participated, with different mother tongues and from different states of India living as expatriates in Dubai. The goal was to increase references for Wikidata statements based on research. The students were introduced to the importance of protecting India's history on the internet, and were taught how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. They were given a special event page on Wikidata with instructions and a list of Wikidata items to add citations to, and they searched for references in their textbooks and search engines to add to the Wikidata items.More details are given here.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour January 30, 2023: The #1Lib1Ref campaign is afoot, so we will be working on adding references to Wikidata statements. We'll have some data for you to work with, but you're welcome to bring your own. We'll be mainly working with adding webpages as sources, but if you want to get experience using books or articles as sources, we recommend bringing some to the session to use as references for Wikidata items you have identified. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page
  • Tool of the week
    • theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: The first version of the new API is released on Wikidata now \o/ We'd love to hear your feedback on what to improve next in the API.
    • Property Suggester: We updated the data for the Property Suggester so suggestions for new statements to add to an Item should be more in line with current Property usage on other similar Items again.
    • Fixed an issue with Item deletions not showing up on Wikipedia and co if they affect an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
    • Vector 2022: Made it possible to add a new sitelink on Wikipedia and co in the new Vector 2022 language selector (phab:T310259)
    • Lua: Working on two new Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #558

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Let's Quiz is a game that generates random quizzes to test your knowledge & learn something new every day.
    • User:Nikki/AddTermboxLanguage.js - makes it easier to add/edit labels to an item in a language other than the ones shown by default.
  • Development
    • REST API: adding a new GET /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions endpoint (phab:T327881)
    • Lua: added two Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378) that make it easier to get this data on Wikipedia and co
    • Lexicographical data: added documentation for the WikibaseLexeme JSON structure (phab:T201489)
    • Action API: fixed a bug that prevented the wblistentityusage API module from being used as a generator (phab:T254334)
    • Dates: working together with Matěj Suchánek to fix date parsing issues in Czech (phab:T221097)
    • Constraints: working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand why a constraint violation is happening and how to fix it (phab:T219037)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #559

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • CJMbot (CJMbot lets users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside this file is then validated and processed. New items wil be created based on the data in the CSV file and existing items wil updated by adding statements and references).
      • RPI2026F1Bot 5 Task/s: Import dependency and version data from PyPi
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikibase Working Hour February 13, 2023. The February Working Hour will feature a presentation by Steve Baskauf on using VanderBot with Wikibase: The Wikibase API provides a mechanism for programmatic control of uploads, and its behavior is consistent across instances (Wikidata, Structured Data in Commons, and those that are established privately). In this session, Steve will discuss basic interactions with the API and demonstrate using the VanderBot Python application to rapidly upload tabular data to a wikibase.cloud instance. After performing a mass deletion, Steve will conclude by describing how he's used the Wikibase API to facilitate addition of structured data to Commons. Registration link
      • Strategically Using Production Photos to Increase Your Online Discoverability, February 22 and 24, 2023. This two-part workshop presented by CAPACOA will explain how to upload performing arts production photos to Wikimedia Commons and how to document credits in Wikidata.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #80, Work
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata Graph Builder released a major update, introducing new layouts and visualization ideas. You can read the full changelog here.
    • The new Service Level Objective for the Wikidata Query Service has been implemented: the current aim is to maintain a 95% uptime based on a 90 day rolling window. You can read the full announcement here.
    • Observablehq.com recently introduced a system of tags. Anyone authoring a notebook using data from Wikidata can add the #Wikidata tag: https://observablehq.com/tag/wikidata?filter=recent.
    • a.gup.pe provides group features for Mastodon. @wikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata in general. @querywikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata queries. Anyone can join those groups simply by following them in Mastodon. Anyone can share a message with all members of those groups by mentioning them in a publication in Mastodon or any other application of the Fediverse.
    • The hashtag #Wikidata can be used to tag all publications related to Wikidata in Mastodon. Anyone can find recent publications using this tag using the search feature: https://wikis.world/tags/Wikidata.
    • @wikidata@wikis.world is the official Mastodon account of the Wikidata project.
    • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata. The voting phase is open until February 24th.
  • Development
    • [Significant change] Heads-up: Upcoming fixes for date parsing - Thank you Matej for moving this forward!
    • REST API:
      • Went over the feedback on the first release and deciding on the next routes to add
      • Added a new endpoint for getting descriptions (phab:T327881)
      • Worked on throwing exceptions when something goes wrong (validation failed, Item not found, etc.) instead of returning an error response object (phab:T327527)
    • Entity Schemas: Finished the technical exploration that will unblock the next steps for actual development
    • Query Service: Changed URLs with URL-encoded characters to be shown un-encoded for better line-breaks and readability (phab:T327514)
      • Query Builder:
      • Adding support for a few additional datatypes (phab:T328528)
      • Adding a basic language selector to make it easier to switch the language of the page (phab:T328764)
    • Constraint checks: Working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand how to fix a violation on a statement (phab:T219037)
    • Search: Exploring design options for how to make it easier to search for entities other than Items (phab:T327507)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #560

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
      • Gabrabot (Bulk upload Maltese lexeme data to wikidata from Gabra.)
      • MsynBot 12 (import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 21, 2023: Jim Hahn and John Mark Ockerbloom will be presenting on Penn Libraries' Linked Data Vision. They will discuss their framework for activities and goals around linked data, which includes both existing standards and new functionality. Additionally, they will share successes and areas where progress has not yet been made. The presentation will cover projects with Wikidata tie-ins, such as the Digital Scriptorium Wikibase project and the Deep Backfile copyright information project. The presenters also plan to have ample time for conversation with those interested in using linked data to bring new functionality to their libraries. Agenda
      • Wikidata and Wikibase - SEMIC workshop 2 physical hands-on workshop in Brussels on the 23rd of February (Register here)
      • If you are interested in organizing or joining the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events, you can apply for funds by March 20 via the Rapid Grants maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation.
      • Call for papers for the 10th Wiki Workshop in 2023 is out. Submit your 2-page abstracts by March 23.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #81, Eye
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished work on endpoints for getting labels and descriptions (phab:T325647, phab:T327881)
      • Started work on makign it possible to get statements from an Item based on the Property ID instead of just the statement ID (phab:T309021)
    • Entity Schemas: finalized technical investigation and making plan for the next steps
    • Working on more validation for valid URIs for units, globes and calendar models (phab:T102840)
    • Query Builder:
      • Adding support for additional data types (phab:T328528)
      • Adding a language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T329487)
    • Constraint: Putting finishing touches on showing the constraint clarification messages in the constraint violation popup (phab:T219037)

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #561

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Closed requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
      • MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Videos
      • LIVE Wikidata editing #106 - YouTube
      • CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1 - YouTube
      • TWed Talk (21 Feb 2023): Sola Shirai on "Working with Wikidata" - YouTube
  • Tool of the week
    • AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (phab:T309021)
      • We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (phab:T329606)
    • Query Builder:
    • Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (phab:T219037)
    • We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (phab:T102840)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #562

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (phab:T309021)
      • We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T327882)
      • We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (phab:T330252)
    • Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
    • Query Builder:
      • We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T328764)
      • We have added support for the datatypes for Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207)
    • Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just Items (phab:T321543)

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.


Wikidata weekly summary #563

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)
  • Development
    • Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764)
    • EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
    • REST API:
      • We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (phab:T330252)
      • We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #564

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
    • Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (phab:T214002)
    • Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
    • REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (phab:T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #565

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour March 27, 2023: We will be creating items related to notable book podcasts. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on.Event page
      • WikiCite Monthly Meeting, online on 28 March 2023 at 16:00 UTC. Information and notes
      • Wikidata Query Service backend update office hours will be held on Jitsi on 27 March 2023 at 17:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad) and 28 March 2023 at 10:00 UTC (link to the Etherpad)
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #86, Clothes
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We started working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
    • Query Builder: We finished the work on the language selector so you can swithc the interface language of the tool (phab:T328148) It will be available on the site in the next days.
    • Wikibase REST API: We implemented the functionality to provide an Item's label, description or aliases in a specific language (phab:T323173)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #566

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the development of a new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T214884)
    • Search: We are doing user testing with prototypes for search that makes it easier to find Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas (phab:T321543)
    • REST API: We are workng on making it possible to create, or replace, a label or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #567

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • RPI2026F1Bot 7 (Add start time (P580) as qualifiers to subreddit (P3984))
      • BotFunast (Task: The bot is already operational in the Tachelhit Wikipedia. One of its main tasks is editing template tags and categories, and creating new ones when necessary, based on a csv database (that you can find in github) . When adding new pages though, a common problem is to link those to Wikidata. This can be unfeasible by hand in a reasonable amount of time, when hundreds of pages, e.g. categories, are added at once. The idea is to have the bot approved for Wikidata, so it can link the pages to their counterparts in other languages automatically.)
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Pauken! ("to cram" in German) - is a tool lets you learn words in different languages, based on images.
  • 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.


Wikidata weekly summary #568

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 19th April 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call, Tuesday, April 14, 2023 - Indigenous Artists and Wikidata: Report launch and discussion. Agenda.
    • Ongoing
  • Tool of the week
    • Query Chest is a tool that allows you to store Wikidata queries if they are too long for w.wiki to shorten it.
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on creating the new datatype that allows linking to EntitySchemas in statements. It will be available on test systems next. (phab:T332139)
    • QueryBuilder: We are putting finishing touches on the language selector so you can switch the UI language of the Query Builder. (phab:T328764)
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on making it possible to create or replace labels and descriptions in a iven language. (phab:T323813)

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #569

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour April 24, 2023: Would you like to know how to join and use Telegram? Two regular Wikidata Telegram users will provide an introduction to Telegram and its available Wikidata channels. They will discuss how they use it, how it can provide help with Wikidata work, and how it can facilitate connections with other Wikidata users Event page
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #89, Ear
    • Past
  • Tool of the week
    • User:Nikki/colour icons.css - is a Userscript to add colour to the editing icons. It uses green for add/save, yellow for edit, red for remove, orange for cancel and blue for help.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • REST API: We continued work on making it possible to create or replace a label, or a description in a given language (phab:T323813)
    • EntitySchemas: We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas. It is now available on beta in a very bare-bones version but not ready for wider testing yet. (phab:T332139)
    • Ontology issues: We are evaluating the results of the survey we ran earlier this year.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #570

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
      • BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
      • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • WeChangEd is an ERC-funded research project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io.
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
    • Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like phab:T335578 and phab:T335581.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #571

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)
  • Tool of the week

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

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.

Wikidata weekly summary #572

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
    • Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
    • mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).

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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