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Wikidata weekly summary #670

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-03-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #669 Events Upcoming events: Tuscan Women & Wikidata - data entry lab for shared memory, 5 March. Press, articles, blog posts, videos Blogs WMDE Blog - Highlights of Data Reuse Days: The post showcases 3 excellent apps: WikiFlix (public domain full-length films), KDE Itinerary (travel assistant app) and Scribe Keyboard (easier writing in secondary languages). These are just some of the applications built using Wikidata; check out more at the Data Reuse Days pages. (German) Digital Stumbling Blocks – How the Wiki Community Drives Remembrance Culture: User:Cookroach highlights the efforts of Wikimedians across projects (Wikidata, Wikipedia, Commons) to digitally document the Stolpersteine, brass-plaques laid to commemorate victims of the National Socialism. (German) Digital History Berlin: Field research with LOD - a write-up of the methods, experiences data-model and SPARQl queries of the field research conducted as part of the WikiProject: Field Survey Digital Humanities. (Italian) Wikipedia & Wikidata project for Cesare Alfieri - an introduction to the project to expand articles and data of the archives of Cesare Alfieri University of Florence. Communicating Ontology: Technical approaches for facilitating use of our Wikibase data (Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute) Tool of the week zelph: A new tool for detecting logical contradictions and making inferences in Wikidata, using a rule-based system to improve data quality and derive new facts. Check it out on GitHub or explore results on the project website. New Tool for Women’s Day: Scheherazade identifies women without articles in your Wikipedia but present in many others, helping editors prioritize creating missing biographies. Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Research Fund had launched. You're encourage to submit proposals around Wikidata. The deadline to submit your proposal is April 16, 2025. The 4th iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from March 17 until April 30. 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 Newest General datatypes: model number (identifier for a product model) provides data for property (dataset associated with this external ID usually contains data applicable to this other Wikidata property) items classified (class of items that this classification system classifies) presented works (works of art or creative works performed, displayed or presented at a given event) number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout) Newest External identifiers: ‎Thinky Games game ID, Lenape Talking Dictionary ID, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (X-Boorman) ID, LEMAC ID, Bane NOR station ID, Sutian entry ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture ID, Meine Abgeordneten ID, Hiking Note plant ID, VGC game ID, VGC company ID, VGC people ID, Archives in Bavaria ID, VGC theme ID, ‎Steam group ID, AllGame game ID (archived) New General datatypes property proposals to review: kigo of (the season the sense denotes in haiku in Japanese) Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised score (score that the subject have received on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised psychological assessment tool as administered by a suitably qualified and experienced clinician under scientifically controlled and licensed conditions, standardized conditions) New External identifier property proposals to review: Archaeological site (Japan) ID, Hmong Studies Citations ID, GitLab topic, Christchurch City Council Park ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Clio-online organization ID, Congress.gov committee ID, AGORHA ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, ZOOM Platform product ID, GCMD keyword ID, KnowWhereGraph entity ID, VejinBooks author ID, SteamDB tech ID, Identifiant Cartofaf d'une organisation, Saarland Biografien ID, Murderpedia ID, Big Fish Games game ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know? Query examples: Obscure units of measurement and where to find them Female scientists with most number of sitelinks (but not English Wikipedia) Newest WikiProjects: AncientCoinsAndModernMedals WikiProject Highlights: WikiProject Biology: List of Mushrooms - revived by User:Prototyperspective, help catalogue all known fungal friends, and join the subreddit (for all Wikidata topics): r/WData India/Police Stations Newest database reports: List of free software without an image set - This is a table of Wikidata items about a free software missing an image. Showcase Items: Doctor Strange (Q18406872) - 2016 film directed by Scott Derrickson Showcase Lexemes: felle (L476372) - Bokmål verb that can mean "to make something fall", "to kill", "to force a resignation", "to prove guilt", "to let lose", "to announce" or "to join." Development Search: The search team at the WMF has added a new search keyword for Lexemes. You can use the keyword "inlanguage:en" or "inlanguage:Q1860" to limit your search to Lexemes with Lexeme language English and so on. Here is an example search for "bank" within English Lexemes: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=L%3Abank+inlanguage%3Aen (phab:T271776) 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! · Read the full report · Previous issue · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Revdels

I always see your name doing my revdels, so just wanted to say thanks! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 19:31, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, but I think the harder part is your part - finding and identifying them in the first place. Nthep (talk) 12:47, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #671

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670 Discussions New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)? Events Upcoming events: Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack here. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series. Press, articles, blog posts, videos Blogs Training for the staff of the Museum of Photography in Krakow on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata - "The training aimed to enable the MuFo staff to effectively navigate and develop skills in editing and managing the museum's digital resources within the Wikimedia projects." (German) Wikipedia Unterwegs - this time in Neu-Ulm: This travelling community meetup for German Wikimedians discusses the growing ecosystem of Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons. REST in Rust by Magnus: "A new Rust crate has been developed to simplify access to the Wikibase REST API, featuring industry-level coding standards, 248 unit tests, >97% code coverage, and high maintainability. Check out the GitHub repo and contribute via the issue tracker or pull requests!" Videos Useful videos that explain how to set up/make use of Wikibases. Put together by Valerie Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities (Chinese) Open Data Day Taiwan 2025: more details and program agenda on the Wikimedia Taiwan Meta Event page Wikidata as an Open Data Resource: Ian Watt at Open Source SG Bridging GLAM and Wiki: The Khalili Perspective: Dr. Martin Poulter, WiR at Khalili Foundation. Tool of the week Research Expeditions on Wikidata with itineraries - Visualization tool for research expeditions itineraries and natural history collections. Other Noteworthy Stuff An update regarding the WDQS backend has been published, about the adoption of the new endpoints and the next steps that will take place. Call for Projects – Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon 2025. Do you have a technical project that needs contributions? Or a testing initiative that could use more hands? Submit a project BY 21st March 2025. The Wikidata Vector Database prototype is almost ready! Developers interested in integrating semantic search into their applications and editors looking to explore Wikidata items using natural language search are invited to reach out for more details: philippe.saadewikimedia.de Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders) Newest properties and property proposals to review Newest General datatypes: OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting services) AI-generation prompt (exact prompt that was used to generate this AI-generated media or work) data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information) Newest External identifiers: Wikishire article ID, HelloAsso organization ID, Dictionnaire de la déportation gardoise person ID, Graceful17 entity ID, ‎Game Input Database ID, DRTV ID, Calindex person ID, Historia Hispánica ID, ‎TERMDAT ID, Kulturdatenbank ID, DDLC entry ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, ‎Captain Coaster coaster ID, Memoria Chilena ID, Jamendo track ID, MikuWiki article ID, ‎ZOOM Platform product ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online organization ID, ‎SteamDB tech ID, ‎Big Fish Games game ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Iowa State University Library Vocabularies ID, Newsweek topic ID, booru tag New General datatypes property proposals to review: watercraft prefix (prefix applied to watercraft operated by different organisations) accused (person or organization who has been accused of carrying out this harmful, illegal, or immoral act without having received a criminal conviction or where the accused have been acquitted in a court of law) applies to volume (volume of the item (usually edition of a work) to which the claim applies) oxygen endurance (The maximum time a submarine, spacecraft or enclosed vehicle can sustain life using its onboard oxygen supply.) Coefficient of thermal expansion () fracture toughness () New External identifier property proposals to review: Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk character ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, Yale LUX ID, geraldika.ru symbol ID, Swimcloud swimmer ID, CACI company ID, VD 16 ID, World Higher Education Database ID, Qur'an Wiki article ID, JSIC code, Macrotransactions game ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, NexusMods mod ID, Thunderstore game ID, SideQuest app ID, IndExs Exsiccata ID, National Academy of Engineering member ID, DGO ID, The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain ID, Audiovisual Identity Database page, Encyclopaedia of Islam (Arabic edition) ID, Rodovid family ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, Zurich Kantonsrat and Regierungsrat member ID You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know? Query examples: Location of fire stations in Spain (source) Oldest known individual per taxon (pre-20th century) (source) Newest WikiProjects: AncientMaths WikiProject Highlights: New country page for Poland in WikiProject Nonprofit Organizations, and on cividata.org. Help expanding it! Newest database reports: German lexemes without forms divided by lexical category (source) Showcase Items: Perm (Q915) - city in Russia Showcase Lexemes: Knoten (L298686) - German noun that can mean "knot", "fundamental unit of which graphs (in graph theory) are formed", "point where an orbit crosses a plane of reference to which it is inclined", or "hair wrapped in a circular coil around itself (bun)." Development Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126) Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483) Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021) Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200) 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! · Read the full report · Previous issue · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:55, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671 Discussions New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome, d:Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items. The admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity but the bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back. Events Upcoming events: AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon Wikidata and Sister Projects to take place May 29 - June 1. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. See Talk page for proposals. Press, articles, blog posts, videos Blogs Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions Editing Lexemes with your little finger Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition by Jean-Fred Thread: Who wins in a Wikipedia race between GPT-4.5, o1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and @OpenAI's new Computer-Using Agent? Tool of the week Lexica - a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels. Other Noteworthy Stuff Mobile Editing of Statements - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users. Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders) Newest properties and property proposals to review Newest properties: General datatypes: data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information) External identifiers: booru tag, Steam Group numeric ID, Kompass company ID, ‎Macrotransactions game ID, Thunderstore game ID, ‎JSR package ID, ‎GitLab topic ID, Amazon Music track ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID New property proposals to review: General datatypes: levels (levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game) Scilit scholar ID (author identifier on {{Q|77125337}}) وزن صرفي عربي (A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes) باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة (Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs) land degradation (The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects) Research projects that contributed to this data set (This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item) Platform height (platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses)) extended by (addons for this item) (Class of software this software is extended by) External identifiers: Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, identifiant Dezède d'un individu, SeqCode Registry ID, Openalfa street ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, TDKIV wikibase ID You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know? Query examples: 2024 Population Census in Uganda (source) WikiProject Highlights: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal/Liste des artistes de la collection Showcase Items: Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh Showcase Lexemes: страсть (L166968) - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering." Development Wikibase REST API: We finished work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126) and started on the one for Properties (phab:T386377) Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039) and sitelink positioning (phab:T316797) Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543) 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! Anything to add? Please share! :) · Previous issue · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) talk ·

Draft:2025 Australia Jillaroos tour of England

I've moved it to draft. The article has no information about the supposed topic, and there are no good sources about it either. Fram (talk) 12:11, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

that's ok I can rescue the transcluded section. Nthep (talk) 13:05, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

But why did you oppose deletion then? If there are no good sources for it, there was no reason for you to remove the deletion template surely? I know that any and all reasons are good enough to contest a prod, but if that results in keeping false or at the very best unrelated / unverified information in the mainspace, then it isn't really the responsible thing to do... Fram (talk) 13:55, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

None of it is unrelated information and the article can be improved, and would have been within the prod period if it have remained in article space. As it is, that can happen in draft space and the article move back later. Nthep (talk) 14:23, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Article has already been recreated and is now at AfD. How can the article be improved if none of the sources in it are about the actual subject (a womens tour in England) and none can be found? Fram (talk) 14:44, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

commented on the AFD. Nthep (talk) 16:21, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Nthep a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Randompersonediting (✍️•📚) 01:27, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #673

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-04-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #672 Discussions Open request for adminship: BRPever 2 adminship request closes tomorrow. Events Upcoming events: MCL's Linked Data Usergroup's Wikidata Edit-A-Thon - The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services is hosting an editathon between April 7 - 11, 2025. This is an onsite event and only available to USA states: Indiana and Michigan. (German) Wikidata models on colonial looting and African cultural heritage - June 4, 2025, 1300 UTC+2. This event will be presented in German. Wikidata Training Workshop by WM Uganda - on April 26, discover how Wikidata powers Wikipedia and beyond! Register here Press, articles, blog posts, videos Blogs Diginomica: Wikidata adds AI vectors graph and knowledge bases, here's why Diginomica: Differing versions of reality; how Wikidata navigates conflicting accounts Papers The New Zealand Thesis Project: Connecting a nation’s dissertations using Wikidata Wikipedia is Not a Dictionary, Delete! Text Classification as a Proxy for Analysing Wiki Deletion Discussions - includes Wikidata. Presentations Using chemistry data in Wikidata in AI, at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting Videos Live Wikidata editing - creating Property proposals with Jan Ainali. Entity Management Cooperative meeting, with Wikidata (Taiwanese) Seediq Wikimedia 2024 Annual Conference - hosted by Wikidata Taiwan, here are the opening remarks by Principal Zhan Su'e's opening speech. Open translations in mathematics (Oxford Seminar) - This presentation from Tim Osgood discusses the utility of mathematics for translations, a community-driven approach, and how Wikidata is contributing. (Spanish) Socialisation: Literary Data in Bogota 2015 - 2020 - The Colombian Publishing Observatory of the Caro y Cuervo Institute presents "Metadata Model for Independent Publishing in Bogotá", containing over 31,500 data points, all catalogued in Wikidata. (Italian) Tools for Visualising Wikidata - Carlo Bianchini presents some useful tools for visualising data and queries from Wikidata, with a focus on Digital Humanities. Tool of the week Revisiting the Twelfth Birthday Presents - if you haven't seen the birthday presents already, go check them out! Other Noteworthy Stuff [BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT] Please find full information here Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details |available here. Newest properties and property proposals to review Newest properties: General datatypes: none External identifiers: Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID, The Atlantic topic ID, TechSavvy.de GPU ID, ‎Delfi.ee theme ID, The College of Cardinals Report ID, NexusMods mod ID, Hiking Note Trail identifier, Hiking Note mountain identifier New property proposals to review: General datatypes: SWIS-WEM Facility Code (Unique identifier for facilities registered with the Australian Energy Market Operator for facilities operating in the South West Interconnected System Wholesale Electricity Market (SWIS-WEM Facility Code)) number of downloads (2) (number of downloads of times this application or creative work have been downloaded) species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species) Number of Heads of Families (number of family cards (KK) in an area) mother's maiden name (maiden name of this person’s mother) External identifiers: FirstCycling team season ID, FirstCycling race ID, Dizionario della Musica in Italia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, Untappd beer ID, Catálogo Histórico de Teses e Dissertações da Área de História ID, The Sun topic ID, Databáze her platform ID, Rekhta Gujarati author ID, Itch.io tag ID, The Jerusalem Post topic ID, DVIDS Photo ID, LUX person ID, LUX group ID, LUX place ID, Shazoo tag ID, ідентифікатор особи в Бібліометрика української науки, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Climate Policy Radar ID, LUX concept ID, iNaturalist photo ID, identifiant Ordre national du Québec, LUX event ID, Cabinet minutes of the Federal Government ID, R-Sport match ID, Sport Express football match ID, CPJ topic ID You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know? Query examples: Find Good or Featured Articles in Spanish and Portuguese Wikipedia Newest WikiProjects: Govdirectory: Rwanda Showcase Items: Pleinfeld (Q252320) - market municipality in Germany Showcase Lexemes:humpback (L322138) - English noun that can mean " kyphosis (condition of the spine)", "a person with an abnormal curvature of the spine", "humpback whale, a particular marine mammal variety", "pink salmon", "lake skygazer, a type of ray-finned fish", " type of arch bridge where the span is larger than the ramps on either side", or " humpback dolphin, a particular variety of marine mammal." Development Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search entity types other than Items (Lexemes, Properties, EntitySchemas) in the search box (phab:T321543) Vector 2022 theme: We are fixing remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039) Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple Item search endpoint (phab:T386228) and are looking into the one for Properties (phab:T386377) 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: Australia 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! Anything to add? Please share! :) Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 16:38, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

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Bodmin Jail

Hi, this edit is a copyvio too, of the same site as some of the others. DuncanHill (talk) 18:52, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

gone. Nthep (talk) 19:03, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I'll drop the editor a copyvio and a coi notice. I suspect the other new accounts on the page are related. DuncanHill (talk) 19:24, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #674

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 2025-04-07. Please help Translate.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wiki Workshop Registration is Now Open! The event will be held virtually over two days on May 21 & 22, 2025.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #75 April 14 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
  • (French) Collection and use of Wikipedia and Wikidata data in SHS searches - 17 June, 2025. Participation via video-conference available, register here and program info here.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Inference, continued - Magnus Manske adds 2 new functions to WD-infernal. The Whelming
  • (French) Illustrious women in public spaces. Streets, buildings and other places overwhelmingly feature men Porte Plumpe
  • Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) receives ProjectUil from Dutch Wikipedia
• Papers: Enabling disaggregation of Asian American subgroups: a dataset of Wikidata names for disparity estimation - Paper by Lin, Q. et al (2025).
• Videos
  • Curationist: What is it and how does it work? - Curationist utilises Wikidata to help discover, curate and share public-domian art and cultural heritage content. YouTube
  • (Swedish) Connecting Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the National Archives with Magnus Sälgö YouTube
  • (French) Focus on Wikidata, Wikifying Science, a presentation from Delphine Montagne and Pierre-Yves Beaudouin. Canal-U TV: C@fé Renatis
• Other
  • (Portuguese) Wikidata at School: expanding access to knowledge and tackling gender gaps! Instagram: Projeto Mais

Tool of the week

• Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata for Web - also known as Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that displays data from Wikidata on various websites, enhancing the information you are already looking at, and also allows extraction of data from these websites.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details available here.
• Job Vacancy - Are you interested in helping shape the technical future of Wikimedia's knowledge graph? We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Wikidata)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
  • External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, ‎TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • interior decorator (A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings)
    • incompatible with (significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity)
    • warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
    • Trafikplatssignatur (Swedish station code)
    • outcome 2 (outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint)
  • External identifiers: TechPowerup GPU ID, ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Plants missing a French description
  • Sorting Organisations by the no. of subsidiaries it owns
  • Popular German Family names
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Govdirectory: Chile
  • WikiProject: Bahamas
• Newest database reports: Items with identical Birth and Death dates - another way to identify duplicate items.
• Showcase Items: Game of Thrones (Q23572) - American fantasy drama television series
• Showcase Lexemes: umuyagankuba (L1215369) - "electricity" in Kirundi

Development

• We made some progress on the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature by improving the UI, and making it translatable (phab:T390269)
• We continued working on dark mode support (phab:T389633)
• Wikibase REST API: We are almost done adding the last few features on the simple item and property search endpoint. We'll be happy to get feedback on these from 15.04 when they're completed
• We will begin user testing to improve Mobile Editing Experience: Mobile editing of statements

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: European Union
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).

Administrator changes

• Giraffer
• Goldsztajn

Dennis Brown

• Cyclonebiskit
• Nohat
• Someguy1221

Bureaucrat changes

Barkeep49

CheckUser changes

0xDeadbeef

Oversighter changes

GB fan

Moneytrees

Miscellaneous

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