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== Wikidata weekly summary #634 ==


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Hi, I have a request: Three years ago, you ] for Reach Records. I've been working on ] of a Reach Records article that is actually sourced, but when I tried to move it to mainspace, I found that Reach Records is under creation protection. Are you able to undo that protection? Could you also review the new version to make sure it is notable enough to avoid deletion again?
Thanks, --]''''']''''' <sub>]</sub> 01:47, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
:I wouldn't G4 your draft, though I am rather unsure about how truly independent some of your sources are. (Music is not my field) I've unsalted the page, and you should have no problems moving it over, but I won't make any predictions about a third AFD. ] 02:13, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
::Okay, thank you. I might try to dig up some more coverage before moving to mainspace.--]''''']''''' <sub>]</sub> 02:16, 11 July 2013 (UTC)


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** ] Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
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* ] (]) 08:23, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
* Blogs
** - This blog post discusses using SPARQL queries on Wikidata to find audio recordings, focusing on musical compositions and their associated genres.
** - The blog post highlights how Wikidata, as a central storage repository, plays a crucial role in countering disinformation by providing reliable, structured data for Wikimedia projects and beyond.
** - the sixth and final blog post from the LD42023 conference. Silvia Gutiérrez (WMF) and Giovanna Fontenelle (WMF) document the results of the collaborative session on building a bridge between the Library-Wikidata community and WMF.
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** : Contributing to a shared data commons. David Erlandson describes the experiences of using Wikidata for the pilot Program for Cooperative Cataloging to "accelerate the movement towards ubiquitous identifier creation and identity management at the network level".
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** - This paper describes the extraction of location entries from a prominent Swedish encyclopedia and sheds light on selection and representation of geographic information in the Nordisk Familjebok. By A. Ahlin, A. Myrne & P. Nugues.
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** - Wikimedia Deutschland's Jonathan Fraine and ] show how Wikidata can be used to provide well-cited information and how semantic search can augment generative AI inference. Presented at the Open Source GenAI & ML Summit.
** - ] and ] are back for another session of live-editing, focused on lexicographical data, during the Lexico Days 2024 event that took place this last weekend, June 28 - June 30.
** - Rachel Hendrick and Gary Price of LibTech Tools walk through Resonator and point out the best ways to use it. Resonator is available on .
** - ] and Mykola Trokhmovych showcase their work on building a model to help Wikidata editors identify edits that require patrolling, as part of the .
** - Erin Yunes talks about their work in using Wikibase Cloud as part of the Compel project (COmputer Music Preservation Electronic Library).
** (es) - This Wikitools Workshop hosted by Jorge Gemetto is on , a tool for exploring and accessing public domain information on authors and their works.

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* ] - This is a User script to easily add a new Item while editing a Statement and noticing that the desired Item is missing.

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* The second iteration of the ] has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

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**] (<nowiki>person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>image or images that show the edge of a coin</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11</nowiki>)
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**] (<nowiki>inventory number of a creative work assigned by KANAL</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier of neighborhoods <small>({{q|Q17051044}})</small> in Turkey in TÜİK <small>({{q|Q1375058}})</small> database</nowiki>)
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* ]: ] - Dagbanli verb, translates to "vomiting" and "sprouting"

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** ] map , take a look at the amazing visualisations!
* 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.).
** Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen .
* . 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
** ]'s database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen ].
* 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.
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** The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been ].
* 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.
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** - 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).
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* 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!

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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>)
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**] (<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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Wikidata weekly summary #634

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
    • Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
  • New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.

Events

  • Past: The Lexicodays 2024 was an online event designed to offer a discussion space for the Wikidata community about Lexicographical Data. An archive of some of the slides and session recordings are here c:Category:Lexicodays 2024. More will be added as they become available.
  • Upcoming:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 10th July 2024 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—July 3, 2024
    • Botany-focused Wikidata online workshop online as part of the #IBC2024. Date: Tuesday 9th July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) / 11 am central Europe. Register here!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course has begun. Class will continue until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • EntitySchemas:
    • We worked around an issue where EntitySchema pages were no longer considered “content” and had become unsearchable (phab:T368010)
    • We prepared for the release of the new datatype on July 2nd.
  • mul language code: We are working on the last remaining blocker before rolling out the first stage to Wikidata (phab:T362917)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to rework API errors (phab:T366911, phab:T366239)

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

Weekly Tasks

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

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

Administrator changes

added Sennecaster
readded
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CheckUser changes

added
readded Worm That Turned
removed Ferret

Oversight changes

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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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January 25: Misplaced Pages Day
Brooklyn Central Library

You are invited to Misplaced Pages Day 2025, hosted by Wikimedia NYC at the Brooklyn Public Library's central branch.

The special focus this year will be the launch of our "400 Neighborhoods" campaign for the city's 400th anniversary and WikiProject New York City/400 Task Force.

We'll also have a lightning talks session and you're invited to sign up for one, though space is somewhat limited.

  • Saturday, January 25, 2025
    12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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    Afterparty: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm (off-site venue, TBA)
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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.

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

Weekly Tasks

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