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Wikidata weekly summary #683

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #682.
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Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Coinhoe - RfP scheduled to end after 10 June 2025 23:49 (UTC)

Events

• Upcoming events: New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our second event will be a conversation with Daniel Mietchen and Lane Rasberry about Scholia, the Wikidata frontend which generates and presents scholarly profiles based on WikiCite content. They'll speak to Scholia's current state and roadmap, with consideration for the recent Wikidata graph split. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. More info and Zoom links: project page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection: resources to reproduce training and evaluation procedure for the paper Graph-Linguistic Fusion: Using Language Models for Wikidata Vandalism Detection
  • Cataloguing guidelines for representing the Memory of the World International Register on Wikidata Google Doc to shape the process of a coming data upload: comments are open.
  • GLAM:Memory of the World Report: Hannah Drummen at UNESCO, alongside data expert Martin, has completed a structured dataset of 496 International Register items, ready for bulk upload to Wikidata in June, with an aim to enhance accessibility and define best practices for future updates.
  • Wikidata QID updates to BHL catalogue: The BHL Lead Developer, Mike Lichtenberg, is ensuring periodic Wikidata Qid refreshes in the BHL Catalogue, with the working group advising a downloadable post-refresh report for OpenRefine integration, to be sent to the BHL Metacat group for reconciliation by Siobhan or other Wikidata editors.
  • Wikidata training & Datathon in Indonesia: Wikimedia Indonesia hosts WikiLatih Wikidata training to enhance skills in editing Indonesian cultural heritage data on Wikidata, while Datathon challenges participants to make the most edits on museum-related topics in Indonesia.
• Papers
  • Wikidata for Botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data By von Mering et al., (2025) - This paper explores Wikidata as a multilingual open knowledge base for botany, highlighting its role in connecting botanical information across sources, and calling on the botanical community to enhance its content.
  • CS-KG 2.0: A Large-scale Knowledge Graph of Computer Science By Dessí et al., (2025) - This paper introduces CS-KG 2.0, an advanced AI-powered knowledge graph built from 15 million research papers, designed to enhance scientific exploration by structuring and interconnecting vast amounts of computer science literature.
• Videos
  • Using the Wiki List tool - GoogleSheet with formulae for retrieving Wikidata values and writing QuickStatements commands.
  • Introduction to Wikidata By Robin Isadora Brown and Lane Rasberry
  • Wikidata Editing By Kusaal Wikipedia Community
  • (Portuguese) Federating academic SPARQL searches in Wikidata By Tiago Lubiana

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Phonemes This is the web application developed specifically for Wikidata IOLab. In here you can add phonemes to a whole bunch of languages, basing your work on the work that the brazilian students of their national olympiad did while editing Wikipedia.
• Should I watch this? is a tool that helps users decide whether a movie or show is worth watching.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • Guizzi's classification of musical instruments (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments)
  • single taken from the album (indicates the album from which the item is taken)
• Newest External identifiers: ‎GameSpot platform ID, ‎OberpfalzWiki article ID, ‎Private Enterprise Number, TNT Sports soccer team ID, ‎Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID, ROAR ID, ‎15min.lt theme ID, FMJD person ID, NAQ non-elected person ID, paleo.ru person ID, ‎Sierra Wiki article ID
• New External identifier property proposals to review:
  • Biblioteca Pública (<nowiki>{{TranslateThis</nowiki>)
  • Libretexts ID (the world's largest collection of free OER textbooks online)
• External identifiers: identifiant Évêques suisses, Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID, Deaf Movie Database, Biographical Dictionary of Affiliated Dissemination of Literacy among Georgians ID, Biographical Dictionary of Physicians of Georgia ID, Biographical Dictionary of Athletes of Georgia ID, Biographical Dictionary of Winemakers of Georgia ID, matricule number, inn, Debian Wiki article, Desura game ID (archived), Diccionario de catedráticos españoles de derecho ID, QUDT dimension ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Wikisource transcriptions of texts on the Memory of the World International Register, (source)
  • Bills and coins of Brazilian Real (with pictures)
• WikiProject highlights: Names/Belarusian - This WikiProject aims to add structured and linguistic data to Wikidata to enable the study of people's names across all time periods, regions, and languages.
• Showcase Items: Ant-Man (Q5901134) - 2015 film directed by Peyton Reed

Development

• Mobile editing of statements: We are doing initial development focusing on technical investigations and basic UI elements (phab:T394292, phab:T394886)
• Lexemes: We are looking into a rare error when trying to do undo certain Lexeme edits (phab:T392372)
• Watchlist/Recent changes on Wikipedia: We continued working on showing labels instead of IDs in the edit summaries of Wikidata changes that are shown in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co (phab:T388685)
• Wikibase REST API: Finishing touches on simple search (phab:T383126)
• Query Service UI: Added experimental popup to point people running very simple queries to other available access methods (phab:T391264)

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 own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Previous issue · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery（留言） 2025年6月10日 (二) 13:21 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #684

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #683.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 - Program Call-for-Proposals: Deadline 15 June.
  • COSCUP 2025 (Q134950534) Open Street Map x Wikidata Track - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Q699543) 9 August - 10 August.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikibase Faceted Search Released (demo video)
  • DecomissionedAircraftMap (see tool below) - The Decommissioned Aircraft Map project uses Wikidata to enhance its mapping of historic aircraft by pulling images from linked Wikidata entries. Users can contribute by adding or correcting Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap, ensuring accurate representation of aircraft locations and visuals. By Watmildon.
• Videos: Querying Wikidata using tools such as QuickStatements and Petscan - Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Visualization: a visualization tool for Wikidata SPARQL queries
• DecomissionedAircraftMap (as a demonstration of the power of OpenStreetMap into Wikidata): pulls geodata for displayed aircraft from OpenStreetMap and generates thumbnails from linked Wikidata entries.
• Query split tester (Beta): webtool to see the impact on the graph split on your SPARQL query.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Nominations for the Coolest Tools Award 2025 are open. Nominate your favorite tool! Nominations are due by the 25th of this month already.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes
  • ‎breed belongs to taxon (taxon to which members of this breed (or these breeds) belong)
• Newest External identifiers: CARLA ID, Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID, ThinkyGames genre ID
• New External identifier property proposals to review:
  • worn on (part of the body where an item of clothing, equipment, or jewelry is worn)
  • rewards this type of work (kind of work for which an award is given)
  • sign meaning ()
  • trailer of (works that this trailer video represents)
• External identifiers: Facebook image ID, DE-BIAS ID, Author identifier in FragTrag, Niedersächsische Personen-ID, FBref match ID, FBref competition ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • A visual representation of the birthplaces and death places of women medical doctors who qualified in the UK between 1877 and 1914. (source)
  • Distinct languages of Wikidata Lexemes
• Newest WikiProjects: EMCO Wikidata CoP - EMCO promotes the discovery and use of the world’s knowledge by supporting metadata producers in library and other cultural heritage communities.
• Showcase Items: The Times (Q50008) - British daily national newspaper based in London
• Showcase Lexemes: right (L3348) - English adjective (rīt) meaning "opposite of left", "correct/just", or "politically conservative"

Development

• Mobile editing:
  • Share your feedback on the new prototype that brings statement editing on Items to mobile.
  • We continued base work for making editing statements on mobile possible.
• Simple search is now available in the Wikibase REST API! You can find information and leave feedback here.
• Lexemes: We’re working on a WikibaseLexeme error that happens when trying to revert the deletion of a form that was already undeleted (phab:T392372)

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:
• 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!

· Previous issue · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery（留言） 2025年6月16日 (一) 14:28 (UTC)

2025年第25期技術新聞

維基媒體技術社群現在發布最新的技術新聞。請告知其他使用者這些變更；不是所有的變更都會對您造成影響。技術新聞提供其他語言的譯文版本。

近況更新 - 面向編輯者

• 即日起，您可以提名您最喜歡的工具參加第六屆最酷工具獎。提名採不具名，將持續開放至6月25日。您可以重複提交問卷以提名多個工具。
• 上週有33件社群提交的工單得到解決。

近況更新 - 面向技術貢獻者

• 本週軟體更新細節： MediaWiki

深入了解

• 多年來，基金會職員和技術志願者利用維基媒體API開發了各種工具、應用程式、功能和整合方案，以提升使用者體驗。未來幾年，MediaWiki介面團隊將投資維基媒體Web（HTTP）API，以更好地滿足技術志願者的需求，並預防維基媒體基礎設施遭到濫用。參閱這篇Techblog文章，了解更多關於團隊的API發展計畫。

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MediaWiki message delivery 2025年6月16日 (一) 23:37 (UTC)

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本次對話時間將進行今年COSCUP議程主題爆料，這是將是讓你深入了解協會運作並參與交流的絕佳機會！快來一起參加！

--MediaWiki message delivery（留言） 2025年6月23日 (一) 01:03 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #685

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-06-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #684.

Events

• Join us for the third LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event on the Wikidata Graph Split project, Tuesday, June 24 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. We’ll share updates on the Query Service, tools, and SPARQL learning resources. Stanford researchers Shicheng Liu and Sina Jandaghi Semnani will present their Spinach Wikidata Agent, which translates complex questions into SPARQL queries Project page

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Presentations
  • Slides of the panel MediaWiki-based tools and services in Digital Humanities workflows, part of the DARIAH-EU Annual Event 2025 in Göttingen: (the panel was about Wikibase instances, including Wikidata)
• Blogs
  • Who appeared how often on Lanz? (in German)
  • Wikidata’s Lydia Pintscher on importance of open data in the age of AI
• Papers
  • Scientists uncover surprisingly consistent pattern of scholarly curiosity throughout history
  • The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality by Ambrosia10 and colleagues used Wikidata to publicly curate the information.
• Videos
  • Holy wells and OpenData - a talk about Wikidata et al.
  • Wikidata Graph Split - Writing an FAQ - By Tiago Lubiana
  • Taller introducción a Wikidata - Erika Guetti Suca
  • Wikidata Lab XLV: Quick Statements 3.0 - Part II By Wikimedia Brasil
  • (Spanish) ¿Qué es Wikidata y cómo se edita? By Wikimedia Colombia

Tool of the week

• FEMIber: a digital humanities tool that uses structured data aligned with Wikidata principles to document and analyze how women are represented in medieval Iberian chronicles.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest External identifiers: The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID, Debian Wiki article, UK Parliament bill ID, CPJ topic ID, Desura game ID (archived), Diccionario de catedráticos españoles de derecho ID, Swiss Bishops ID, KNDB person ID, MAI person ID, necropolis.uinp.gov.ua person ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • état (state of the matrix while printing)
  • Russian Federal Tax Service ID (identifier of Russian Tax Service for people or organization)
  • donation URL (official URL for making donations to the subject)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Ukrainian Memorial person ID, Memorial Platform person ID, Klimadashboard.de region ID, Taiwan Central News Agency News topic id, identifiant HAL d'une collection, CoreTennis.net player ID, identifiant sujet du dictionnaire biographique du Canada, AMNH entity ID, nasljerseys.com player ID, Portal Decentralization hromada ID, Portal of united hromadas of Ukraine hromada ID, Archive of Our Own story ID, rada.info council ID, International Tennis Federation player ID, Confederation of African Tennis player ID, Artvee artwork ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Place of birth to Place of Death - arrow indicator (source)
  • Map with place of birth and years of cartographers (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Personal Collections - The WikiProject Personal Collections aims to develop standardized terms, multilingual ontologies, and best practices for consistently describing personal collections and archives on Wikidata.
• Showcase Items: David Duchovny (Q484365) - American actor and writer
• Showcase Lexemes: газ (L183915) - Russian noun (ɡas) meaning "gas (physical state)", "natural gas", or "accelerator pedal"

Development

• Query Service: It is now possible to download query results in Wikidata Query Service that include coordinates as GeoJSON (KML & GPX should also be available soon). Thanks to Atom.oil.2 for the patch. (phab:T216601)
• Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are continuing the work on improving how Wikidata changes show up in watchlist and recent changes, specifically showing labels instead of IDs in the future. (phab:T388685)
• Search: We enabled the new search box that makes it easier to search in Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas as well. We are working on minor fixes based on feedback.
• Mobile statement editing: We are working on showing the first statements in the new way - mostly tech demo and nothing to see yet (phab:T394886)
• Federation: We are looking into measuring and better understanding queries that use SPARQL federation.
• REST API: We continued working on prefix search for Items in the API (phab:T388209)

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: Norway
• 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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