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== ''The Bugle'': Issue 224, December 2024 ==
== November thanks ==
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Thank you for improving articles in November! --] (]) 16:37, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang ] at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --] (]) 20:12, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
:I am sorry for your loss. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 13:56, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:: Thank you - ]. It helps to sing together, for the funeral with friends and family (from US and Israel), today a song he loved, taken by Handel from Jewish origin, ]. Will meet his wife tonight for whom it's much harder. See also what else we sang, texted by ] to a famous Beethoven melody. --] (]) 14:11, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

== "]" listed at ] ==
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== Tech News: 2024-48 ==

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Latest ''']''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. ] are available.

'''Updates for editors'''
* ] A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode ] will be available as a ] later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, ], ], and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the ].
* The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>B</code></bdi> for bold and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>I</code></bdi> for italics. A full ] is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement.
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* View all {{formatnum:25}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:25|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" ].

'''Updates for technical contributors'''
* The ], which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, ] live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>Ctrl</code>+<code>,</code></bdi> and un-selecting "<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">Live Autocompletion</bdi>".
* ] Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check and the list in the Description of the ] to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April.
* ] The ] has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities.

'''Meetings and events'''
* A ] will take place November 29 at . There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Misplaced Pages, the language support track at ], and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

''''']''' prepared by ] and posted by ]&nbsp;• ]&nbsp;• ]&nbsp;• ]&nbsp;• ]&nbsp;• ].''
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''' Discussions '''
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* Closed request for comments: ] - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights.

''' ] '''
* Upcoming
**
** Save the date: the ], an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already ].
** Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 3 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (). 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 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. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024, at our regular time of 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET. ]
** ] This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs
** ]
** ]
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** : Bringing Wild West performers to Wikidata. Author Jason Sharp documents their experience adding legendary showman Buffalo Bill to Wikidata.
** The ] has enrolled a Wikimedian-in-Residence with a focus on Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
* Papers
** - examines how integrating Wikidata into libraries enhances resource discoverability, fosters interoperability, and empowers users within a global knowledge network. By Okuonghae, O. (2024).
** - approaches to representing weaker logical status (WLS) information in Wikidata, finding limited usage, variations and ambiguities between datasets, and proposes improvements for clarity and accuracy. By Di Pasquale et al.(2024)
* Books: : contains many references to the use of Wikidata in cataloguing
* Videos
** (Portuguese) - Part of the “Introduction to digital platforms for research” sessions for the Centro Luís Krus of NOVA FCSH. Practical exercises for data reconciliation from the Portuguese Early Music Database using the OpenRefine tool.
** - Cuneyt Tyler presents 'Semantic Space', a project using Dbpedia and Wikidata to enhance the user experience browsing articles on the web.
** - Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata make great bedfellows. Margaret Donald shows how to create Commons categories, create structured data and link categories to Wikidata.
** : building community through a named entity Wikibase. Experiences of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives setting up the WikiNames Wikibase instance and breaking down knowledge silos
* Podcast series: including "Episode 5 -- Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with ]"
* Other
** ]
** ], presentation by ] at ], Lyon, November 23, 2024.

''' Tool of the week '''
* is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts.
* is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export ()
* is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. ()
''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
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**] (<nowiki>ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing</nowiki>)
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>preliminary work for this finished work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>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.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of non-binary people inhabiting the place</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.</nowiki>)
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== Richard Buckner's commission book ==

Hi - you clearly had access to the eponymous book some years ago - any chance of establishing whether this has been published or not? - I am eager to get a look at it! ] (]) 13:46, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
:I have no recollection of this - link? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 13:55, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

=== Richard Buckner's commission book ===

Hi - you appear to have had access to the eponymous book some years ago - any chance of establishing whether this has been published or not? - I am eager to get a look at it! ] (]) 11:53, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

:Please refer to my reply to the same question from another user (are you perhaps related?), above. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 12:04, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
::Yes - slightly less emphatic than my father but I should have seen this but somehow missed it... Thanks for the response. ] (]) 12:33, 4 December 2024 (UTC)


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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''' '''Discussions'''
* Open request for oversight: ] (RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)
* New requests for permissions/Bot: ] - Task(s): Creating and updating Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian and Coptic lexemes and ancient Egyptian text artifact items. It is also to maintain links to the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae project via approved properties.
* New request for comments: ] - ] would like feedback on determining a data model and schema for Wikidata items that are an instance of ] - See ] for more info.
* Closed request for comments: ] - Despite a spirited discussion with many comments both in favour and opposition, no consensus was reached.

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* Upcoming:
** Wikimedia Deutschland is providing a total of 15 participation scholarships for Wikimania 2025 (7 individual and 4 tandem scholarships). Further information is available on ]. An overview of all questions in the application form is ]. . Closes 8 December 2024.
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** Deadline for the ] scholarship application is December 30, 2024. We encourage you to make Wikidata-related submissions (the deadline for submission is March 22, 2025.


'''Press, articles, blog posts, videos''' '''Press, articles, blog posts, videos'''
* Research
** ]: A new research report is available. Explores what trace Wikidata data is measurable on other Wiki pages and proposes initial metrics for measuring Wikidata statement usage on Wikimedia content pages. Also suggests methods to improve data analysis and collection. PDF is available on ]
* Blogs
** - Wikidata celebrated its 12th birthday in October and November 2024, with a series of global events and activities aimed at commemorating the platform's contributions to the open knowledge movement, engaging its community of volunteers, and highlighting the significant role Wikidata plays in the digital landscape. By Dan Shick
* Papers * Papers
** 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 Misplaced Pages 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."''
** - This paper explores how libraries can leverage Wikidata to enhance resource discoverability, foster interoperability, and integrate into the global knowledge ecosystem. By Omorodion Okuonghae (2024).
** 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."''
** - Enhancing Wikidata’s biomedical knowledge by integrating OBO ontologies and PubMed’s MeSH keywords, addressing gaps, improving classification accuracy, and verifying relations for stronger interoperability and accuracy. By Chebil et al. (2024).
* Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool (, ) 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."
** analyzes class order violations in Wikidata's ontology using SPARQL, evaluates fixes, and offers solutions through improved tools or community involvement. By P. Patel-Schneider and E. Doğan.
* Videos
** - The Tyap Wikimedia User Group produced this tutorial on editing as part of the Wikidata 12th Birthday celebrations for the Wikidata @12 Data-a-thon.
** - Covers Linked Data basics, its potential with OSM, and popular methods for linking, extracting, combining, and querying data from both sources. Jump to ()
** (正體字, CN Trad.) - An introduction and overview to Wikidata and some associated tools such as ORES and LiftWing.
** (正體字, CN Trad.) - This session was given as part of the COSCUP '24 conference on the OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Agenda Track.
** - LORiS: This tool can help you understand complex SPARQL queries by converting them to natural language.
** - At the 7th ISRITI 2024 conference, Jaycent Ongris shows how RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) has been used in a natural-language question-answer platform to directly query Wikidata.
** - Denny Vrandečić gives this keynote session at the SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference.
** - Alexandros Kosiaris of the Wikimedia Foundation explains changes made to make Misplaced Pages more stable and prevent outages, including how it calls and fetches data from Wikidata. Session given at SREcon24.


'''Tool of the week''' '''Tool of the week'''
* - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Misplaced Pages, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.
* - Generate natural-language descriptions of SPARQL queries via LLM's.

'''Other Noteworthy Stuff'''
* ]: Google released the WordGraph dataset as a belated present for Wikidata’s 12th birthday. The dataset contains 968,153 forms in 39 languages.
* : Wikimedia Deutschland has an open and exciting vacancy for a Product Manager of Wikibase Suite.
* Tools or bots which use the ] (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (]). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected. (This was previously announced ] but didn’t actually take place yet.)


'''Newest ] and ] to review''' '''Newest ] and ] to review'''

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**] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
** General datatypes:
***] (<nowiki>picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this organization</nowiki>)
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* New ] to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>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)</nowiki>)
** General datatypes:
***] (<nowiki>preliminary work for this finished work</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>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.</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>number of third-gender people inhabiting the place</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted''</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki></nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Amount of money donated to a person or organization</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
***] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>analogous to {{P|4329}} for tracking cat:s populated by extensions of MediaWiki, linking to extension causing the population</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>7-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova</nowiki>)
***] (<nowiki>4-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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** ] - creation of Items for motifs described in Thompson's motif index completed
** ] - documenting, archiving and creating items from collections from the UvA/AUAS Library in Amsterdam, beginning with the works of ].
** ] - concerns itself with improving data from nonprofit organizations in Austria
** ] - A hub for Ghanaian activities and entities, including regional languages: Dagbanli, Twi and Dagari.
* Newest ]: ]
** ]: For collecting information related to Thao cultural themes, including statistics and activity records.
* ]: ] - late 14th-century quadrangular castle in East Yorkshire, England, UK
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* ]: ]: Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616) * ]: ] - in Punjabi (pa) and "لیٹݨ" in Punjabi Shahmukhi (pnb) transliterate to "Leṭaṇ," which means "to lie down" or "to rest" in English.

* ]: ] - A Tamil lemma for dense forest, impassable jungle and a pigeon dove.
'''Development''' '''Development'''
* Most of the development team staff are still taking a break, so no development happened.
* EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema.
* PropertySuggester: We have updated the script that generates the suggestions and will update the suggestions next.
* Lexicographical data: We fixed a visual issue with search results on the Codex-based Special:NewLexeme (])
* Vector 2022: We are working on designs to fix the remaining issues with the skin on Wikidata.
* Wikibase REST API: We are finishing the prototype for supporting search in the API.


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* This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version ] and read ] for more details.
* View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were ]. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed.

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* New request for comments: ] - Following from a property discussion on ], this RfC aims to find consensus on how to apply constraints that exclude items of historical periods in German history.


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In that demonstration, you are transcluding {{tlx|Archive-index}}, which is currently being deleted. I would like to ask if you would like it to be changed to {{tlx|archive|2=type=index}}, which is more up-to-date. ]<sub>]<sub>]</sub></sub> (]/]) 00:28, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
* This Portuguese-language workshop takes place Thursday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00, Room 208, 206 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
: Thank you, no. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 12:28, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
* Please submit your proposals for the ] online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the ] and here's some ideas to inspire you: presentations/demos of tools using Wikidata's data (10mins Lightning Talk presentations), discussions and presentations connecting Wikidata editors with reusers and/or explanations and demos on how to use a specific part of the technical infrastructure to reuse Wikidata's data (APIs, dumps, etc.).
* . The Search Platform Team holds monthly meetings to discuss anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
* The next ] will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the . 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.
* . Submission deadline: March 9, 2025 (23:59 AoE)

''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs: (fr) , blog post by ''Le Deuxième Texte'' including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
* Websites :, website by 'Students at the Maastricht Science Programme', includes data visualizations of the prevalence and current treatments of dementia across the world. It utilises data extracted as SPARQL Endpoints from Wikidata.
* Papers
** - This paper proposes an ontology-driven approach to KG construction using LLMs where competency questions guide ontology creation and relation extraction, leveraging Wikidata for semantic consistency. A scalable pipeline minimizes human effort while producing high-quality, interpretable KGs interoperable with Wikidata for knowledge base expansion. By Xiaohan Feng, Xixin Wu & Helen Meng (2024).
** - Proposes a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model that integrates external knowledge from Wikidata to address complex open-domain questions by combining image, question, and knowledge modalities. Evaluated on the VQAv2 dataset, the model outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches, demonstrating improved reasoning and accuracy (Koshti et al., 2024).
* Videos: (arabic) - Sparql SERVICE clause gives access to additional data such as labels via wikibase:label, interaction with MediaWiki APIs using wikibase:mwapi, and integration of data from subgraphs (such as the main graph and the scholarly articles graph). Integration of data from external SPARQL endpoints such as DBpedia.

''' Tool of the week '''
* - is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that creates web links for matching inner HTML text based on a regex format of Q\d+ which is the format of a Wikidata Entity ID. ()

''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
* - The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) located in Hannover has a research position open for someone interested in the deployment, administration and maintenance of open source knowledge management software such as Mediawiki, Wikibase and OpenRefine as part of the NFDI4Culture partnership within the OSL.
* January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. ] has shared ] to assist in making these films discoverable via ], by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!

'''Newest ] and ] to review'''
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**] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this organization</nowiki>)
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**] (<nowiki>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)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted''</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Amount of money donated to a person or organization</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>formal styles of address used for members of the clergy</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>User ID on a2b2.org</nowiki>)
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #659

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 (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 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 Misplaced Pages 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 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, part 2) 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 - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Misplaced Pages, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.

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Development

  • Most of the development team staff are still taking a break, so no development happened.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

added Sennecaster
readded
removed

CheckUser changes

added
readded Worm That Turned
removed Ferret

Oversight changes

added
readded Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Wikidata weekly summary #661

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-06. Missed the previous one? See issue #660

Discussions

Upcoming events

  • Workshop: Lexicography and linguistic sustainability - Mirandese documentation using Wikidata This Portuguese-language workshop takes place Thursday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00, Room 208, 206 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
  • Please submit your proposals for the Data Reuse Days online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the talk page and here's some ideas to inspire you: presentations/demos of tools using Wikidata's data (10mins Lightning Talk presentations), discussions and presentations connecting Wikidata editors with reusers and/or explanations and demos on how to use a specific part of the technical infrastructure to reuse Wikidata's data (APIs, dumps, etc.).
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team --January 8, 2025. The Search Platform Team holds monthly meetings to discuss anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
  • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  • Wiki Workshop 2025 Announcement and Call for Papers. Submission deadline: March 9, 2025 (23:59 AoE)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: (fr) female authors with male pseudonyms, blog post by Le Deuxième Texte including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
  • Websites :Global Dementia and Risk Factors, website by 'Students at the Maastricht Science Programme', includes data visualizations of the prevalence and current treatments of dementia across the world. It utilises data extracted as SPARQL Endpoints from Wikidata.
  • Papers
    • Ontology-grounded Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction by LLM under Wikidata schema - This paper proposes an ontology-driven approach to KG construction using LLMs where competency questions guide ontology creation and relation extraction, leveraging Wikidata for semantic consistency. A scalable pipeline minimizes human effort while producing high-quality, interpretable KGs interoperable with Wikidata for knowledge base expansion. By Xiaohan Feng, Xixin Wu & Helen Meng (2024).
    • Knowledge Incorporated Image Question Answering Using Wikidata Repository - Proposes a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model that integrates external knowledge from Wikidata to address complex open-domain questions by combining image, question, and knowledge modalities. Evaluated on the VQAv2 dataset, the model outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches, demonstrating improved reasoning and accuracy (Koshti et al., 2024).
  • Videos: (arabic) Part 6: SPARQL Demo Session: connecting external services - Sparql SERVICE clause gives access to additional data such as labels via wikibase:label, interaction with MediaWiki APIs using wikibase:mwapi, and integration of data from subgraphs (such as the main graph and the scholarly articles graph). Integration of data from external SPARQL endpoints such as DBpedia.

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Entity Linker - is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that creates web links for matching inner HTML text based on a regex format of Q\d+ which is the format of a Wikidata Entity ID. (email)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Vacancy: Research Software Engineer / Wikibase-Expert - The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) located in Hannover has a research position open for someone interested in the deployment, administration and maintenance of open source knowledge management software such as Mediawiki, Wikibase and OpenRefine as part of the NFDI4Culture partnership within the OSL.
  • January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. Sandra has shared helpful notes to assist in making these films discoverable via WikiFlix, by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!

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Development

  • The development team is just settling back in after the holidays, so there haven’t been any significant updates yet.

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