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Wikidata weekly summary #641

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 2024-08-26. Please help Translate.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship:
  • Gwanki - RfP scheduled to end after 26 August 2024 05:54 (UTC)
  • Putnik 2 - RfP scheduled to end after 27 August 2024 23:17 (UTC)
• Closed request for adminship: Both requests successful, welcome new admins: Mohammed Qays and Wüstenspringmaus!
• New requests for permissions/Bot: Leaderbot - Task/s: reminds users when their rights are to expire (see Phab:T370842)
• Closed request for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - RfP successful!
• New request for comments:
  • Citations from Wikidata from Author: Palu
  • Audio Transcription (P9533) from Author: Yug. P9533 is described as transcription of the word/text being spoken in this file. Does this exclude other communications modalities?

Events

• "The Future of Wikidata Events" report by Wikimedia Deutschland is now available on Wikimedia Commons. This report provides valuable insights into the current state and future possibilities of Wikidata events. We encourage everyone to read the report and share their thoughts to help shape the future of our community events: Wikidata talk:Events#"The Future of Wikidata Events" Report Now Available on Wikimedia Commons.
• Wikidata's 12th Birthday is fast approaching. Do you need financial support to organize a birthday event? Here is some useful information about how to get funding: Wikidata:Twelfth Birthday/Run an event/Funding. The deadline to apply is September 1st.
• WikiLibCon25 The Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 takes place in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 - 17 January 2025 - Call for Scholarships (ends 31 August0 and Proposals (ends 15 September) are open. WikiLibCon25 brings together Wikimedians, Wikibrarians, information professionals, library workers and mission-aligned partners from around the globe to create a vivid community and promote cooperative projects in the Library & Wikimedia sphere.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers
  • What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata?: Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
  • Diversity and bias in DBpedia and Wikidata as a challenge for text-analysis tools by B. Berendt et al. This paper explores how data sources can impact content analysis of their tool Diversity Searcher for analysing diversity in news media texts.
• Videos
  • (sw) Wikipedia vs Wikidata - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized.
  • Wikimania Coolest Tool Award! 2024 - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout.
  • Qichwabase: Building Knowledge Graphs for Under-Resourced Languages Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages.
• Slides: Giving metabolites (and lipids) a chemical and biological context with open science. This talk discusses the role of open science in providing chemical and biological context for metabolites and lipids, highlighting open-source cheminformatics, open standards, and open data to facilitate linking knowledge across databases and publications, as well as describing chemical interactions in biological pathway databases. By Egon Willighagen.
• Notebooks
  • Olympic medals by group of countries 🥇🥈🥉: Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries
  • Unequal distribution of medals from the Summer Olympics

Tool of the week

• Wikidata distributed/#game=94 - Help adding missing information related to artists on BNU's catalog (Select the option that fits best).

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit (YouTube link). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
• Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, ‎FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, DOS Game Modding Wiki article, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Denkmalnummer des Archivs der Stadt Linz, GameSpot genre ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Of the 15424 existing subway stations on Earth, 5726 of them are in People's Republic of China (Q148)
  • Map of tripoints known to Wikidata (source)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Sweden/Banks - All Swedish banks still in operation
  • Antiquity/Mythology - This WikiProject deals with everything connected to Greek mythology with an outlook on the traditional tales and divinities which came before and/or inspired it, like Ancient Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian) and Hittite mythology, as well as those of adjacent cultures and those influenced by the Greeks, most notably Roman mythology).
• Newest WikiProjects: Aotearoa Asian Artists - This project aims to improve the data available about Aotearoa Asian Artists - Asian diaspora artists from, living in, and connected to Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Newest database reports: Terminator: Articles with no interwikis in a given Wikipedia - Wikidata Items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language.
• Showcase Items: Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania

Development

• Not much happened this week. Many of the developers are still on vacation, and some are out sick.

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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September 2024 at Women in Red

Women in Red | September 2024, Volume 10, Issue 9, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 316, 317 Online events: New: Women writers & their works | Geofocus: Islands A - H Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) | Translation contest 2024 (Jul, Aug, Sep) Announcements from other communities August 30 is the tenth anniversary of WikiProject Women writers! Tip of the month: Try her pen name when searching for sources, and remember to add her to any of these that apply: List of pen names, List of literary initials, and Category:Pseudonymous women writers. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Tech News: 2024-35

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

Feature news

• Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
• Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [1]

Bugs status

• Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
• Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.

Learn more

• If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
  • Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.

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Perran Moon

Hello Andy, the outstanding COI issue on the Perran Moon article was the ongoing talk page discussion re: whether some criticism repeatedly removed by apparent COI users ought to be reinstated. That was the reason why I didn't remove the COI tag. My impression is that the tag ought to remain until that issue is resolved, but I would (as ever) be grateful for your thoughts. Best wishes, Axad12 (talk) 18:56, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

I referred in my edit summary to the template's documentation, It requires "if you place this tag, you should promptly start a discussion on the article's talk page to explain what is non-neutral about the article". The discussion to which you refer does not justify the use of the template, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:18, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me on this Andy.

In fairness, the talk page discussion does note There seems to have been quite a lot of conflict of interest editing on this article recently and that With regard to the block of text (with reference) that has now been removed 3 times in the last 24 hours re: the subject's name... [lets] see if we can get some sort of consensus here.

So that does seem to me to be fairly clear re: what is non-neutral about the article and to be a genuine attempt at addressing it.

Admittedly the issue on non-neutrality is in relation to material that has been removed, rather than material which currently exists within the article, but the effect surely is the same.

There is an ongoing discussion taking place with a view to resolving that issue, so it does seem to me that the tag is merited in the short term and that I've done what the template documentation requires.

I'd therefore be grateful if you would consider either re-adding the tag, or allowing me to do so. Axad12 (talk) 03:03, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

That reads more like "is the article non-neutral?" than "the article is non-neutral because...". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:00, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, that's a very fair point. I'll take that on board for the future.

I looked at the edit history for that article earlier today and I think that Melcous has done a great job of reworking the contested material into something that both sides can probably agree on. That being the case, I suspect that any COI concerns are probably resolved, at least for the time being.

Thanks for your input here, much appreciated. Axad12 (talk) 14:38, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #643

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 2024-09-02.

Discussions

• Project chat: Wikidata:Project chat#Mass-import policy - A new mass-import policy has been proposed, focusing on improving the quality of existing items rather than importing new ones, with a suggested limit of 100 new items before requiring community approval.

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/First Project Series
• (id) Registration is open for the Wikimedia Indonesia Research Grant 2024 program. Open until 30 September 2024. This program opens funding opportunities for research on topics related to Wikidata, Wikipedia, or other Wiki projects, and Linked Open Data.
• Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—September 4, 2024. Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs: (de) Wikibase4Research - Easily manage, share and visualize knowledge data, tailored for academic purposes, WB4R simplifies the installation and use of MedaWiki software. By Kolja Bailly.
• Papers
  • KGPrune: a Web Application to Extract Subgraphs of Interest from Wikidata with Analogical Pruning (see also Videos) - this web application when given seed entities of interest and properties to traverse, extracts neighboring subgraphs from Wikidata. By Pierre Monnin.
  • Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing - A fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning. By Hanna Abi Akl.
  • Transforming higher education: a decade of integrating Wikipedia and Wikidata for literacy enhancement and social impact - Demonstrating the role of Wikipedia and Wikidata in fostering knowledge creation, digital and data literacies and critical thinking, in Open Edcuational resources. By S.E. Sigalov, A. Cohen & R. Nachmias.
• Videos
  • (es) Connect biodiversity to Wikimedia projects via iNaturalist? - Tiago Lubiana presents the inat2wiki platform (https://inat2wiki.toolforge.org/), designed to connect biodiversity observations to Commons and subsequently, to Wikipedia and Wikidata.
  • (es) Lecture on Knowledge Graphs & Workshop on Querying Data - Sebastián Ferrada presents this lecture at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2023 including a SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service workshop.
  • Wiki4Education Technical Training - session 2 of the Wiki4Education training series held across 17 - 24 Aug 2024 in Uganda.
  • Introducing KGPrune - a web application to extract subgraphs of interest from Wikidata with analogical pruning by Pierre Monnin.
  • (ar) Intro to Wikidata at the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, hosted by Houcemeddine Turki
  • (ar) 2: Wikidata for Wikipedians - this session of Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 shows the benefits of using Wikidata in Wikipedia.
• Notebooks: Drawing the network of Adventures of Tintin

Tool of the week

• Display Wikidata Info on sister projects by User:Yair rand. This user-script will add the articles corresponding Wikidata item Label, Q-ID, Description and Short Desc. neatly under the article title. If no Wikidata item is linked, option to CreateNewItem page on Wikidata is provided.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy Round 29 is open! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by September 18, 2024.
• QuickStatements Community Consultation. Wiki Movimento Brazil as part of the Software Collaboration for Wikidata are conducting interviews to build upon the QuickStatements tool. If you're interested in helping refine the tool then get in touch with them.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • denomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
  • exponent of base unit (a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit)
• Newest External identifiers: Illinois Center for the Book author ID, Slekt og Data grave ID, ‎FolkWiki ID, iasj article ID, 365scores football team ID, speedrun.com series ID, All Musicals lyrics ID, MobyGames critic ID, Polygon game ID, Madain Project ID, 365scores basketball player ID, FOLDOC ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Retromags game ID, Nomes e Voces ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, Ciel d'oc ID, VideoGameGeek genre ID, GameSpot genre ID, FranceTerme identifier, DOS Game Modding Wiki article ID, monument ID in the archive of Linz
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
  • board game designer (person(s) who devised and developed this game)
  • has reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram)
  • agent of action & agent class of action & agents of action have role (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
  • formula weight (molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope)
  • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
  • initialism (abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word))
  • Handwriting example (Sample image of the person's handwriting.)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: ACUM IDs, Mapcarta, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, WikiYeshiva article ID, Identifiant Say Who, VIRIN, Tabletopia game ID, Board Game Arena ID, CNES identifier, BoardGaming.com game ID, Finnish Company Number, case id (mainland China), Identifiant dans l'annuaire de l'École des chartes, Trakt episode ID, The Indian Express Topic ID, NWIS site ID, Hindustan Times Topic ID, Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID, Biblioteka Nauki IDs, TV Maze character ID, identifiant Prosocour d'une personne, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, culture.ru organization ID, 365scores basketball team ID, identifiant Encyclopédie des femmes tunisiennes

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Template:LangSwitch
  • What Wikidata album languages grew the most this week? (source)
• Newest database reports: Sitelinks to Wiktionary - List of Items with links to Wiktionary main space.
• Showcase Items: Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410): type of wiki page usually in main namespace (article namespace, ns=0) containing links to articles with similar names, and very little details only, use with P31 "instance of" (2024-09-02)
• Showcase Lexemes: থোড়া (L345714): Bengali verb thôṛa in English imply something that is “chopped” or “minced”

Development

• Wikidata Query Service:
  • The WMF Search Platform team is putting the finishing touches on the new Query Service servers that contain the two parts of the split graph.
  • We are analyzing which percentage of current queries are better served by other systems like the REST API or search.
• Wikimedia projects integration:
  • We have worked on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the toolbox section of the sidebar of an article. It has been rolled out to the first wikis: ukwiki, hewiki, fawiki (phab:T66315)
  • We are working on decreasing the amount of irrelevant changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co by correcting the tracking behaviour of the Lua function mw.wikibase.entity:getSitelink() (phab:T295356)
• Wikibase REST API: We continued improving errors and error messages.

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
• Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Tech News: 2024-36

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

Weekly highlight

• Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

• Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [2]
• Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [3]
• Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

• A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

Learn more

• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
  • State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [4]

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