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: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) :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) ::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)

== Wikidata weekly summary #656 ==

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'''Discussions'''
* 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.

''']'''
* 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.
** . The time is 17:00 CET
** Tomorrow / 3rd December 2024: Linked Data for Libraries ] Group session @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC / 6pm CET. If you would like to attend, please fill out the to ensure all necessary materials are provided for you.
** 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'''
* 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
** - 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).
** - 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).
** 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'''
* - 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'''

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* Newest ]:
** 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>ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing</nowiki>)
** External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New ] to review:
** General datatypes:
***] (<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 third-gender 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>)
***] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
***] (<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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You can comment on ]!

'''Did you know?'''
* Query examples:
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* Newest ]:
** ] - documenting, archiving and creating items from collections from the UvA/AUAS Library in Amsterdam, beginning with the works of ].
** ] - A hub for Ghanaian activities and entities, including regional languages: Dagbanli, Twi and Dagari.
** ]: For collecting information related to Thao cultural themes, including statistics and activity records.
* Newest ]: ]
* ]: ]: Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
* ]: ] - A Tamil lemma for dense forest, impassable jungle and a pigeon dove.
'''Development'''
* 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.

]. If you want to help, you can also have a look at .

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* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country: ]
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
* ] across Wikimedia projects.
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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! Guy WF Loftus (talk) 13:46, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

I have no recollection of this - link? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 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! Geneus01 (talk) 11:53, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Please refer to my reply to the same question from another user (are you perhaps related?), above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 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. Geneus01 (talk) 12:33, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-49

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

Updates for editors

  • Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Misplaced Pages conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Misplaced Pages.
  • Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
  • Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
  • 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 on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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Category:Years AD by century has been nominated for merging

Category:Years AD by century has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:24, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Your demo on User talk:Pigsonthewing/Archive 1

User talk:Pigsonthewing/Archive 1

In that demonstration, you are transcluding {{Archive-index}}, which is currently being deleted. I would like to ask if you would like it to be changed to {{archive|type=index}}, which is more up-to-date. JJPMaster (she/they) 00:28, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, no. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:28, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #657

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

Discussions

  • New 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) - Closed with no consensus. The discussion is ongoing on the Property P5933 talk page.

Events

  • Past: Amical Wikimedia, the Catalan-language and culture focused thematic Wikimedia Organization organized the Celebrem Wikidata (Let's celebrate 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 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 Misplaced Pages editors edited Wikidata for the first time!
  • Upcoming events:
    • (Deutsch)Wikidata for Legal Historians - 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.
    • Today (09.12.2024) is the last chance to submit an Abstract for the Wikidata and Research conference (5 - 6 June 2025). If you are interested in participating, please review the submission acceptance format before submitting here.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • 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 New template listing properties that link to images.
  • Let's 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.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Did you know?

Development

Weekly Tasks

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Tech News: 2024-50

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

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  • Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature
  • Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
  • The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide.
  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
  • 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. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements.
  • The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:)
  • Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing.
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases.

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  • Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library.
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
  • The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Wikidata weekly summary #658

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #657

Discussions

  • New 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 - Withdrawn by submitter

Events Upcoming events:

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group 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) 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 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
  • 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - register now

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Tabular Online Validator - 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: looking at references for a set of Wikidata items

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We prototyped search support for the REST API and would like your feedback on it.
  • 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) and if there are any alternatives to the library used for the graph builder in the Query Service (phab:T381764)
  • Under the hood: We are optimizing the server setup for the term store to accommodate its growth (phab:T351802)

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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