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• 🧵Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • Wd-Ryan (RfP scheduled to end after 10 October 2022 17:38 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • EuropeanCommissionBot 1
      • Task/s: The objective is to link Wikidata with the 'Eu Knowledge Graph'. We introduced this property in order to do this.
    • William Avery Bot 10
      • Task/s: Fix instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143)-->Minor Planet Center (Q522039) to stated in (P248)-->Minor Planet Center Database (Q106600690) as requested at Request to fix certain instances of imported from Wikimedia project (P143) (2022-09-25)

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
      • October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
      • Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
    • Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
  • Ongoing
    • Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Introducing Wikidata to the City of Sydney
    • Linking Portuguese culture to Wikidata
    • Wiki Loves…. Wikidata!
    • More Picasso paintings in one year than all the Vermeer paintings? (Answering an art history question SPARQL).
  • Papers
    • LOD4Culture: Easy Exploration of Cultural Heritage Linked Open Data
    • Using logical constraints to validate statistical information about disease outbreaks in collaborative knowledge graphs: the case of COVID-19 epidemiology in Wikidata
  • Videos
    • Tutorial on how to build SPARQL queries on Wikidata - YouTube
    • 2022: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: Case study of Taiwan's villages and rivers dataset - YouTube
    • Editing Wikidata: Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #92 - YouTube
    • Wikibase: Build a professional cultural knowledge base with open source and free tools (in Chinese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/smiles gadget.js: This tool displays SMILES renderings for chemical compounds, where the item contains statements for P233 and/or P2017.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Valerie Wollinger joins Wikimedia Deutschland as Community Communications Manager for Wikibase
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund. You can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
  • View it! is now multilingual! Please help us by submitting translations.
  • 11 interns successfully completed a project via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24. Many thanks to the participants who worked on Wikidata-related projects.
  • It is now possible to create Kartographer maps on Wikimedia wikis which use live SPARQL queries showing individual point features on the map.
  • Job openings
    • Open call for a WiR at The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
    • Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Senior Software Engineer (Wikibase.Cloud)
      • Software Engineer (Wikibase Suite)

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: won sets
    • External identifiers: UConn Plant Database ID, Breton Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, French Favereau dictionary lexeme ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID, Aragonario ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, vPlants ID, Kubbealti Lugati lexeme ID, Biota Information System of New Mexico species ID, VocaDB artist ID, Naturbasen species ID, Linktree ID, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets depuis 1982 ID, Woody Plants Database cultivar ID, Maryland Plant Atlas ID, Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID, Three Decks ship ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: type code, RAM, Universal Content Identifier, PIM publication ID, hlavní spolek, Merriam-Webster entry
    • External identifiers: Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID, Dams in Japan number, Disused stations ID, National Institute of Korean Language IDs, utas.hu ID, Language of Bindings ID, EuDML id, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Förvaltningshistorisk ordbok, Pennsylvania State Park Hiking Trails ID, Matrix channel, Beyond Notability ID, MaDada ID, OpenCritic outlet ID, IHF profile ID, Athletic Bilbao profile ID
  • Query examples:
    • UK railway stations with coordinates sourced to English Wikipedia that have different coordinates on English Wikipedia (1/10) (source)
    • Graph visualisation of 12 British monarchs and their 56 British prime ministers (source)
    • British Monarchs vs. US Presidents (source)
    • Children of Nobel laureates have themselves been awarded the prize (source)
    • Profession and gender of people whose works are kept in the Musée de Bretagne (source)
    • Map the type locality of New Zealand endemic species (source)
    • Map visualization of Wikidata items located in Ukraine (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of women in Finistère (with and without photo) (source)
    • People in the British Museum's person-institution thesaurus by gender and occupation (source)
    • Films with "it" in the title (source)
    • Buildings most depicted on paintings (source)
    • Emblems depicting birds! (source)
    • Number and percent of lexemes with an external ID for top 20 languages in Wikidata (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Improved handling of localized language names (phab:T261851/phab:T275781)
  • REST API:
    • Continued work on automated edit summaries (phab:T312811)
    • We now require clients to send a User-Agent header (phab:T318151)
    • Started work on conditional HTTP request headers (phab:T318221)
  • Continued work on the mul language code (phab:T285156)
  • Wrapped up Codex work supporting the new design system (phab:T313477)

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.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 11 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Live editing session on Twitch as part of the DACH Culture Contest, in English (or French, depending on the audience), by Jean-Frédéric, October 12 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • 12 November 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Mini Wikimedia Hackathon for experienced Wikimedians. Includes a farewell ceremony to the GLAMwiki Toolset.
    • UM Data Science Research Seminar. Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Egon Willighagen. Title: Making research output FAIR with Wikidata
  • Ongoing
    • DACH Culture Contest to add and improve data about libraries and culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland − until October 16th.
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #62, Cereals
  • Past
    • The European Citizen Science Association's 2022 conference was held from 5-8 October in Berlin. It included a presentation on Interactions between citizen science and the ecosystem around Wikipedia.

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 1 (en, de)
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 2 (en, de)
    • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In
  • Videos
    • Wikidata Tenth Birthday Speaker Series Week 1 (n part one we learn how Wikidata is (or is not) integrated into Wikipedia, how it helps an enormous cultural institution like the Smithsonian achieve its goals)
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #93
    • DCMI Webinar: Querying Wikidata - All the Knowledge in the World
    • Merging data from a remote SPARQL End Point (Wikidata) with locally stored Data using Apache Fuseki and Jena
  • Dataviz
    • All Nobel laureates by year and gender
    • Tribute to Annie Ernaux, Literature Nobel lauréate in 2022

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • User:Magnus Manske/author strings.js will automatically run on any item with author name string (P2093). It allows to "create new author" for the selected entries, and change the string author properties for authors (P50)

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: model image
    • External identifiers: eGardenGo plant ID, Oculus Store ID, UniChem compound ID, Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number
    • External identifiers: Online French Dictionary Larousse ID, C64-Wiki, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Wikidata has more than 200 Klingon lexemes. qapla'!
    • Map of historic Welsh parishes (source)
    • "Controversies” articles with the most sitelinks (language versions) (source)
    • Are you cited by Nobel Prize winners? (Replace with your ORCID id in query to check) (source)
    • Current members of UK Parliament and their PhD theses (source)
    • Map of Rennes, each dot is a thoroughfare, in blue if there is an image of their name sign on Wikimedia Commons, red otherwise (source)
    • Count of all external identifiers for people with ADB identifier (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
    • Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
  • REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
  • Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
  • Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
  • Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!

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.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DwdsBot
      • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).
    • RobertgarrigosBOT
      • Task/s: I'm using Openrefine to edit items related to Wikidata:Wikiproject_Lieder, beginning by adding the new subclass lyrico-musical work (Q114586269) to the actual lieder in WD. I hope to gain some experience before going with further edits.
    • Josh404Bot 4
      • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
    • BorkedBot 8
      • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, October 19, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. This month's presentation is a panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call October 18th: session where community members can share their favorite Wikidata gadgets, user scripts, or SPARQL queries Agenda
    • Wikimedia Norge: Wikidata celebrates 10 years, and it is marked both in Oslo and in Bergen. Time: 12:00–16:00 Wikimedia Norway's Oslo office
    • Learn Wikidata and celebrate #WikidataBirthday in Sydney! (An introduction to wikidata: how worlds of wikimedia link). Saturday 22 October from 11am to 2pm. Sign up.
  • Ongoing
    • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #63, Vehicles

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • 10 Years of Wikidata Part 3
    • Adding Jaxsta - the Australian database of international songwriting credits - to Wikidata (How we're using Mix'n'match to add Jaxsta profiles to Wikidata)
  • Papers
    • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections - Wikidata, ORCiD and Bionomia
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #94
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 10: Adding references to Wikidata items
    • Qichwabase as a Wikibase instance - Wikibase as a core technology to support a harmonization process of the Quechua language and knowledge.
  • Dataviz
    • Career of Nobel laureates in literature
    • Actress-singers and actor-singers careers in dataviz
  • Twitter threads
    • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata (Curious about some of the more quirky things around Wikidata? Let's have a look!)
    • 10 Queries that teach you something about the world.
    • 10 great website and apps and built on top of Wikidata

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • New Wikidata game - match new Wikipedia articles and categories with Wikidata items!

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Outreachy Round 25–projects finalized & contribution period begins!
  • The Welsh Government's new mapping platform Data Map Wales (for publishing public geo data) now has an optional base layer entirely in Welsh. This is largely based on OSM data with additional place names from Wikidata.
  • The Wikimania 2023 Organizing Team is looking for your suggestions on the first in-person Wikimania in 4 years or on virtual/hybrid setup next year.
  • Job opening
    • Software Engineer (Wikibase Product Platform) (m/f/d) - Wikimedia Deutschland

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: model image, annotator, alphabetical index, recorded participant
    • External identifiers: Boomplay artist ID, Scottish Buildings at Risk ID, Nebraska Invasive Species Program species ID, TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, USGS Thesaurus ID, LINCS small molecule ID, National Library of Indonesia Control Headings ID, Tas Parliament member ID, VocaDB album ID, VocaDB track ID, JioSaavn album ID, British Athletics ID, IAHR member ID, SR-Archiv person ID, Onestop ID, CMA ID, Female Physicians in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic ID, NASA International Space Station experiment ID, NASA International Space Station facility ID, Illinois Plants ID, IRIS UNIBAS author ID, Yarus feed ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cultural identity, Android application ID, collection items at, pin out, abbreviation, store number, said to be the same as (lexeme), has reply, Stamp perforation, Kanseki Repository work ID, solved by algorithm
    • External identifiers: Epson Tour player ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, EPA ID, sinta kemdikbud Author ID, Sogou Baike ID, The Athletic player ID, The Athletic team ID, Reddit topic ID, CIViC gene ID, Assomptionnistes ID, identifiant Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne, Cannabis Database ID, WPGA Tour Australasia player ID, IDG IT-ord ID, OMED ID, MMB ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, MSVF ID, UOM ID, Central Library of Volos ID, Voroklini Library ID, Miraheze article ID, Pakistan Sign Language Dictionary ID, Hungarian Film Archive person ID, Municipal Library of Volos ID, Levadia Library ID
  • Query examples:
    • Bands that have had more members than the Sugababes (source)
    • Average age difference from one's spouse, by profession, (for men) and (women) (source)
    • How long has each UK chancellor been in office? (source)
    • Streets of Paris that meet (source)
    • Players in the FIFA World Cup 2022 Sticker Album with most years in the national team (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
    • Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
  • Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
  • The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
  • Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
  • Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
  • Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
  • Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
  • Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

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.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• 🧵Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • Welcome onboard, Wd-Ryan!
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • AniMangaDBImportBot
      • Task/s: Imports properties include genre (P136), intended public (P2360), publication date (P577). Adds references to new and/or existing values from the databases they are imported from.

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour October 24, 2022: ninth Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be batch loading data using QuickStatements to create items for works and editions in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
    • October, 25, 2022 (Tuesday) at 17:00 (UTC): Wikidata Lab XXXV: Modeling Elections
    • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 25 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • [LIVE Wikidata editing #96] Wikidata Birthday special of Wikidata live editing with surprise guests, October 29 18.00 UTC YouTube
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #126, October 30 at 13.00 UTC
    • Webinar: Exploring Wikidata to Find Good Stories - October 28 at 7:00 PM CEST (in Portuguese)
  • Ongoing
    • Filmi music datathon to add and improve data about songs used in Indian movies. − until October 28th. Participate
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Vegetables
  • Past
    • The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online. It included a session about the role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data, which featured six talks, all of which with strong Wikidata components. Slides and/ or video recordings are already available for some (more to follow):
      • Unpacking IPCC and IPBES Reports
      • Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • #WikidataBirthday: A series of blog posts written by Sannita highlighting the amazing work of the Wikidata community
      • The Impact of Wikidata and its Community – Part 1, Part 2
    • Bookfair back on site; Cultural history in High Schools; More identifiers from National Historical Museums of Sweden on Wikidata; Swedish general election 2022
    • What you need to know to kickstart a Wikidata Initiative
    • Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister, reaches 100 million items (in Dutch)
    • Volunteers speaking Turkic languages ​​met at Wikidata Istanbul 2022 (in Turkish)
  • Videos
    • Wikimedia Research Showcase - October 2022. A panel discussion celebrating Wikidata's 10th birthday and featuring Lydia Pintscher.
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #95
    • GND meets Wikibase
    • COVIWD - Lightning Talk @Wikidata Workshop 2022
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday Speaker Series 3 - Sustaining a Wikidata Initiative
    • Wikidata 10 years celebration video by WMTURKIC
    • Wikidata at the museum: lowering thresholds for research with linked data in Sweden
    • Visualizing Biodiversity Information using Wikidata and Scholia (The Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference in 2022)
  • Papers
    • Towards improving Wikidata reuse with emerging patterns
    • The disambiguation of people names in biological collections
    • Empirical Study of Elite Networks with Wikidata
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as complementary research data management services for cultural heritage data
  • Dataviz
    • Nobel laureates in Economics
  • Twitter threads
    • 10 awesome tools and little helpers to help you around Wikidata
    • 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
  • Presentations
    • Documenting our languages with Lexeme by Asaf Bartov

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • spacyfishing is a Wikidata entity disambiguation tool based on entity-fishing.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata has crossed the mark of 100,000,000 items
  • The Small wiki toolkits team are looking for feedback on the ongoing workshop series around bots and scripts development.
  • Job openings
    • Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Software Engineer (Wikidata) (m/f/d)
      • Data Analyst Wikidata (m/f/d)

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: Viveport ID, Larousse Online French Dictionary ID, RaiPlay ID, Rai Teche person ID, Rai Teche program ID, HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: shortened URL formatter, addresses, model for, e-mail subscription URL, official websites, e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, about, Rotational speed, NIP
    • External identifiers: Piraeus Library ID, note.com ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Mod DB engine ID, Litres author ID, Bureau of Meteorology Location Identifier, OKRB 011-2022 code, Cimetière russe ID, New Cinematografo.it IDs, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID
  • Query examples:
    • Number of French lexemes per number of dictionaries they are linked to (source)
    • People born in Split or Šibenik for whom there is a statement that they wrote or spoke Latin (source)
    • Locations of employers/affiliations of first authors of articles in the Journal of Cheminformatics (source)
    • Birthplaces of the presidents of the American Medical Association (source)
    • Flags containing the colors white and yellow (source)
    • AI models (source)
    • Swedes accused for churel (source)
    • Lunar craters and gender of their namesakes (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Lexicographical data: New Lexeme creation page will be live on Wikidata on November 2nd (phab:T307866)
  • Updated the ontology file at https://wikiba.se/ontology (phab:T314360)
  • Mismatch Finder: Added a Random mode to make it easier to get mismatches (phab:T302289)
  • REST API:
    • Documented the differences in the JSON data format between the REST API and the ActionAPI (phab:T318681)
    • Continued work on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors (phab:T320358)

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.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 1, 2022: Egon Willighagen (d:User:Egonw) on SARS-CoV-2 queries, a a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to d:Wikidata:Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda.
  • Past
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday: see the list of events (some of them are taking place in November), the presents and birthday messages, and the Commons category with photos and videos of the events
    • Some additional materials have been made available from the Wikimedia session at the Biodiversity Information Standards annual conference (TDWG 2022) that took place from 17-21 October in Sofia, Bulgaria, and online:
      • Transforming Closed Silos into Shared Resources: Opening up data on historical collection agents affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
      • Community Data Mobilization in Wikidata: A paleontology perspective
      • Connecting IndExs Editors and exsiccata IDs with Wikidata for Disambiguation of People Names and Work in Botanical and Mycological Collections

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Make Wikidata also Colorful: Using Media in Wikidata by Jsamwrites
    • Interview of Lydia Pintscher for Wikidata's 10th birthday (English and German)
  • Videos
    • Wikidata's 10th birthday collaborative video (Youtube, Commons)
    • Livestream with Jan Ainali, Abbe98, Denny Vrandečić and Sandra Fauconnier for Wikidata's birthday (Youtube)
  • Threads
    • History of Wikidata by Denny Vrandečić
    • 10 ways you can contribute to Wikidata
    • 10 WikiProjects you should join
    • 10 tools and helpers to help you around Wikidata
    • 10 websites and apps built on top of Wikidata
    • 10 queries that teach you something about the world
    • 10 things you didn't know about Wikidata

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.

• ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: embargoed until
    • External identifiers: HomeComputer Museum ID, Förvaltningshistorisk Ordbok ID, Basic Korean Dictionary ID, Standard Korean Language Dictionary ID, Rowing Australia ID, MEXT school code, SA Parliament member ID, C64-Wiki ID, Merriam-Webster online dictionary entry, Undiscovered Scotland ID, Mod DB engine ID, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Inventory identifier, CCB ID, Project Identification Code (Dams), shortened URL formatter, Reddit topic ID, Sõnaveeb lexeme ID, Ma Dada organisation ID, Asian Tour player ID, WikiProjectMed ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: about, Rotational speed, NIP, Imagem da platibanda, tiratge, Dictionary.com entry, software feature, Base Units, processes to, build system, one of class, Mac OS creator code
    • External identifiers: Mines ID, Listal.com ID, identifiant web Léonore, FDIC Certificate ID, NCUA Charter ID, AUTC heritage object ID, Famous Birthdays ID, RISM siglum, Cinemaazi ID, Hypothèses notebook ID, SMA ID, KBR Catalogue ID for writers, Aathavanitli Gani song ID, Aathavanitli Gani film ID, Identificador Musicsperlacobla de sardana, Identificador musicsperlacobla de compositor, Identificador boig sardanista de sardana, travelweekly hotel ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, Universal Spectrum Identifier, Cinemaazi people ID
  • Query examples:
    • Collaborative map of events taking place for Wikidata's 10th birthday
    • Birth year of winning candidate of the last eight U.S. presidential elections (source)
    • Number of music albums by language in descending order (source)
    • French préfets with their signature on Commons (source)
    • Graph of filmi music composers (source)
    • Map of the highest points of Spain provinces (source)
    • Twitter usernames and associated mastodon adresses

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Sitelinks to Redirects are now available on Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: We are replacing the existing Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866)
  • Mismatch Finder: Working on improving the handling of calendar models and precision in dates (phab:T288511)
  • REST API: Continued working on better error handling for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)

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.

• ☑️ Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: MsynBot 10, Mr Robot
  • New request for comments: Create items for property proposals
  • Other discussions: State of the Wikidata, thoughts on data quality and structure (on the mailing-list)

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
    • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
    • Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
    • Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
    • Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
    • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Analysis of City Information on Wikidata by Jsamwrites
    • Exploring government departments by linking Wikidata to the National Archives of Australia by Tim Sherratt
    • Trust in Rust by Magnus Manske
  • Papers
    • Leveraging Wikidata's edit history in knowledge graph refinement tasks (Gonzalez-Hevia and Gayo-Avello)
  • Videos
    • Practical Linked Open Data for Small Archives (in English)
    • Live Wikidata editing #97 with Jan and Albin

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: collection items at
    • External identifiers: Language of Bindings ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, AUTC herritage object ID, MangaUpdates manga ID, Ministry of Unification politician ID, Universal Content Identifier, Léonore Web ID, BritBox ID (UK version), OMED ID, Municipal Library of Trikala ID, MMB ID, HiSCoD ID, Dimitri and Aliki Perrotis Central Library ID, ILAMDIR ID, Cannabis Database ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, island code of Indonesia, SR-Archiv print media ID, SR-Archiv record ID, EuDML work ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official demo URL, WMOOV movie ID, press information URL, contact page URL, sitemap URL, REGON, Check Digit, impressum URL, from language & to language, object identifies
    • External identifiers: Oblio author ID, Pittori Liguri ID, Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, SciSpace author ID, RomArchive person ID, Webtoon creator ID, Archives West repository ID, npm scope, Team Norway profile ID, identifiant USTC, worldofsam ID, Open Supply Hub organization ID, Kotobank ID, Weblio ID, Haymarket Books Author ID, ILNM ID, BookWalker series ID, IRIS Sicily IDs
  • Query examples:
    • Intangible cultural heritage (source)
    • Wikimedians with Mastodon accounts
    • Politicians with Mastodon accounts (source)
    • Graph of the characters of the book "We Are Here" (source)
    • Map of birth places of women mentioned in the book "Femmes de lettres en Bretagne" (source)
    • Participants in the 1955 Bandung Conference (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
  • Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
  • Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
  • Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
  • REST API:
    • Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
    • Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places

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.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• 🧵Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 11
      • Task: update Wikidata:Main Page/Popular daily
    • VojtěchDostálBot 1
      • Task/s: Import of field of work (P101) from Czech National Authority Database (Q13550863)
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • MsynBot 10
      • Task/s: manage badges in sitelinks to redirects
    • Josh404Bot 4
      • Task/s: Add review score (P444) for video game (Q7889) items that have an OpenCritic ID (P2864) with data from the OpenCritic (Q21039459) API.
    • BorkedBot 8
      • Update official website (P856) to HTTPS when appropriate
    • DwdsBot
      • Task/s: The bot imports lexeme data (lemmas, forms, morphological information) from the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (Q1225026).

• 🎊 Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 15, 2022: We will be discussing the first Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour series, which ran from July to early November of this year. We will offer visualizations based on our data, listen to some of our volunteers talk about their experience helping to build the series, and discuss the results of our participant survey. We want to hear your questions and suggestions for future series! Agenda
    • Enrichissement des données sur la danse: Wednesday 16 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session A) and Thursday 17 November at 6:30 pm UTC (Session B). Join the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) and the Linked Digital Future Initiative (LDFI) for two dynamic sessions focusing on dance data. Session A will focus on artists, while Session B will focus on organizations and dance companies. Note: These sessions are offered in French only.
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #67, Numbers (5/n)
  • Past:
    • Wikidata/Wikibase Telegram office hours log (2022-11-09)

• ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Awesome Wikidata: Curated list of Wikidata Projects and information
    • The Wednesday index, evolution of gender diversity in a selection of Wikipedia articles. The data are collected from Wikidata using @pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipedia-article
    • The Enduring Allure of the Library of Alexandria
    • Cultural AI team wins special award at the Heritage Hackathon
    • Checking lexical forms - Abstract Wikipedia Updates
  • Papers
    • Building the European Social Innovation Database with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
    • WDBench: A Wikidata Graph Query Benchmark
  • Videos
    • Get to know Wikidata Lexemes (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • Live Wikidata editing #98 - YouTube - The theme is music! with User:Moebus as guest.
    • David Lindemann: LOD-infication of Bibliographical Data Using Free Software: CLB Wikibase - YouTube
    • Experience in Integrating Wikidata and Government Open Data, By Wikidata Taiwan (in Chinese) - YouTube
    • The Greek Wikidata community celebrated the Wikidata 10th birthday (in Greek) - YouTube
    • 10 Years of Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, by Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (in Portuguese) - YouTube

• 🧰 Tool of the week
  • QLever - Alternative instance for SPARQL queries.
  • Discuss.js - Adds a link to a diff when clicked will open a new topic on the talk page that mentions the revision and the user.

• 🤔 Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, JioSaavn artist ID, England Hockey ID, UWIND ID, NCUA Charter ID, FDIC Certificate ID, Niconico ID, Camp Wild ID, Cordial Dictionary ID, MSVF ID, Central Library of Volos authority ID, Aerodrome identification Code, UOM ID, Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, Levadia Library ID, IHF profile ID, ihg Hotel ID, Conspiracy Watch person ID, Louisiana Plant ID, WMOOV movie ID, PGA of Australia Player Profile ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (A) ID, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Library (B) ID, Famous Birthdays ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: subfunction, mastodon URL, unique name, user input & output, Cuneiform character in this lexeme, fruit color, headline, chapter or section
    • External identifiers: BestWestern hotel ID, Wyndham Hotel ID, Hilton Hotel ID, DML-CZ publication ID, Accor Hotel ID, article ID in Alex Författarlexikon, Hlídač státu, Kirjasampo ID, Boksampo ID, UNIMARC Medium of Performance ID, KOBIS people ID, RISM siglum, Infopédia ID, ResearchGate journal ID, Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, Nişanyan Sözlük lexeme ID, Collins Online English Dictionary entry, Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
  • Query examples:
    • Biggest Mastodon instances according to Wikidata
    • Mastodon accounts of researchers (source)
    • Most annotated servers according to Wikidata (source)
    • Map of birthplaces of people with known mastodon address (source)
    • European islands culminating at more than 1,000 m of altitude (source)
    • Map of water bodies in France (source)
    • Other awards won by winners of the Booker Prize (source)
    • Timeline of Libre and Open Source videogames (source)

• 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished work on improved error reporting of the PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
    • Finished work on properly handling bot user right and marking bot edits as such
    • Adjusting statement data structure in Wikibase REST API responses and requests (phab:T321459)
  • Mismatch Finder: continuing work om improving the handling of dates in the Mismatch Finder (phab:T288511)
  • New Vector skin: continuing work with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093, phab:T317682)

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.

• 🫶 Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Cewbot 5
      • Task/s: Add sitelink to redirect (Q70893996) for sitelinks to redirects without intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
    • Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
    • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
  • Ongoing:
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #68, SI base units

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Apple Podcasts is auto-tagging episodes with topics
  • Papers
    • Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing — covers a range of identifiers (including Wikidata ones) for taxa, people, institutions and other entities relevant to biodiversity studies
  • Videos
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #99 - YouTube
    • The Greek Wikidata community celebrates their 10th birthday (Part 2) (in Greek) - YouTube
    • Round table "Women, Science and Wikidata" (in Catalan) - YouTube
    • Working for the Invisible Machines or Pumping Information into an Empty Void? An Exploration of Wikidata - YouTube
    • Import Wikidata into an RDF based Ontology using Apache Jena - YouTube
    • SMWCon 2022 - Day 3 - Wikidata Synchronization for the CEUR-WS publishing platform - Tim Holzheim - YouTube
    • Sitelinks wikibase cloud - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • User:Nikki/LinkLabelsToLexemes.js is a userscrip that links Labels to Lexemes.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts is a model that tries to predict the instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279) of unlabeled items. You can play with it and leave Daniel some feedback.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: build system, tiratge, official demo URL, pinout, sitemap URL
    • External identifiers: Annales des mines person ID, Baidu Tieba name, DrugCentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, Musicsperlacobla sardana ID, Musicsperlacobla composer ID, Boig Sardanista sardana ID, npm scope, IRIS UNICT author ID, IRIS UNIME author ID, IRIS UNIPA author ID, IRIS UNIKORE author ID, Hlídač státu person ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: has visual representation, chapter and verse in the Bible, commit hash, official server list URL, translation management URL
    • External identifiers: Datastory Glossary ID, SNE publisher ID, Livres Hebdo ID, Can I Play That? Games Codex game ID, AniList staff ID, ECOF saint ID, DFK Paris person ID, Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) ID, Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions ID
  • Query examples:
    • Finding the first revision and original creator of items with mwapi
    • Mastodon accounts (with Twitter equivalents) (source)
    • Gender balances of winners of literary awards (source)
  • Newest templates:
    • Template:Quickquery can be used to quickly write and link SPARQL queries on the Wikidata wiki

• Development
  • REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459)
  • Lexicographical data:
    • Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310)
    • Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687)
    • Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (phab:T315161)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511)
    • Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship:
    • ChristianKl 2 (RfP scheduled to end after 4 December 2022 17:22 UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Identifier sync bot
      • Task: Add database identifiers to items, mainly journal article items.
    • BorkedBot 9
      • Task: Import values of YouTube handle based on YouTube channel ID (P2397) and vice versa.
    • Botcrux 11
      • Task/s: Replace stated in (P248) to publisher (P123) where the value is World Athletics (Q1158).

• Events
  • Upcoming:
    • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
    • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
    • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
    • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
  • Past:
    • Wikibase live session (November 2022) log

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • When information expands, ronnabytes and quettabytes come to the rescue.
    • Understanding the Knowledge Graph: Examples, Uses and More
    • Plotting the age of parliament with Livebook
    • Programming Languages Influence Ranking
  • Papers
    • Mapping Process for the Task: Wikidata Statements to Text as Wikipedia Sentences
    • KnowGL: Knowledge Generation and Linking from Text
  • Videos
    • LIVE Wikidata editing #99
    • WikiMentorAfrica - Displaying Wikidata DataViz on external web pages day - YouTube (part1, part 2)
    • Wikidata Workshop (Digital Humanities on Wikipedia - Archiving of COVID-19 under debate) (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Creating a Wikidata item (in Estonian) - YouTube
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday Taiwan: Wikidata Cross-Domain Forum 2022 (in Chinese) - YouTube
      • The past and future of Wikidata in Taiwan
      • An Attempt to Connect Wikidata with OpenStreetMap
      • Wikidata teaching experience in National Cheng Kung University's "Integrating Wiki into History Teaching"
      • Is it composition or construction? Talking about the System Thinking of "Data Translation" Opening up in Data Dictionary
  • Other
    • Summary of the tabular style data discussion at Wikidata 10th Birthday in Utrecht, the Netherlands

• Tool of the week
  • The user script User:Ainali/common-properties.js shows the most common properties using a specific value (video (YouTube))

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • OpenCheck is a new effort to build an open community-powered identity verification system, among other things with the help of Wikidata.
  • The Digital Benin website is linking to Wikidata identifiers, making more exploration and understanding possible beyond what the site itself has: https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109380697777661025
  • Wikidata is on Mastodon: wikis.world/@wikidata. Remember to toot using the #Wikidata hashtag so people can find related topics.
  • New product managers have joined the Wikimedia Deutschland development team:
    • Arian Bozorg, Junior Product Manager for Wikidata
    • Jon Amar, Wikibase Suite Product Manager

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎fedpress.ru person ID, ‎UNIMARC: Medium of Performance ID, ‎OVO ID, ‎Best Western hotel ID, ‎Culinary Heritage of Switzerland ID, ‎New Zealand Legislation ID, ‎Travel Weekly hotel ID, ‎fruit color, ‎e-mail unsubscribe URL or e-mail, ‎Accor hotel ID, ‎OpenCritic outlet ID, ‎Aathavanitli Gani film ID, ‎ID of část obce díl, ‎Livres Hebdo ID, ‎AniList staff ID, ‎Dictionary.com entry, ‎Golfdata ID, ‎Collins Online English Dictionary entry
  • New property proposals to review: Verbalization by lexeme, Cultural Good of Croatia ID, access via, Occitanie Livre et Lecture ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, image of feces, image of fauna tracks, hackage package, Packagist package, supports authentication method, package registry usernames, Go package path, Dongqiudi.com player ID, Plazi reference ID, Kanjipedia ID, kino1tv.ru ID, EuDML journal ID, Jiten Online kanji ID, lexeme of other gender, serves resource, YouTube handle, Wikimedia Phabricator project, ISFDB award ID, Trismegistos author ID, Africultures Structure-ID, African American Visual Artists Database ID, Lighthouse Directory page, UniProt Disease ID, Google Product Taxonomy ID, object pertains to, negates property, GCD issue ID, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, Nîmes cemetieres person ID, LMÍ id, kód adresního místa podle RÚIAN, IdnaMapping, экологическая группа растений, International Computer Game Collection work ID, JLect entry ID, Scottish National Dictionary lexeme ID, Au Senate ID, manchu.work lexeme ID, Israeli Opera site (English) person id, of instances of, subclass of with uncertain existance, vazn, ForPost persons ID, Crimean virtual necropolis persons ID, Sense relationships connected to semantic roles, TV Maze episode ID
  • Query examples:
    • Translated Wikidata property labels (top 100 languages) (source)
    • Dentists who are notable footballers (source)
    • Map of obelisks over 40 m high (source)
    • Notable doctoral student/advisor pairs where at least one of them is within the Wikidata:WikiProject NZThesisProject (source)
    • Wikimedia affiliates on Mastodon (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • Finished the adjusted statement data structure (phab:T321459)
    • Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (phab:T321483)
    • Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (phab:T322734)
    • Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (phab:T322746)
  • Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (phab:T313468)
    • Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (phab:T288511)
  • Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:
    • Improved the markers that indicate the field is required input (phab:T322683)
    • Improved a help link (phab:T315161)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Go through the list of pages with 넘겨주기 문서 (Q70893996) and update them either to intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304) or remove the sitelink. We have worklists for many languages.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship:
    • ChristianKl 2 (successful) Welcome on board \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • TaxonomyBot
  • New request for comments:
    • Remove watchlist summary

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and playing with some tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. This will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work together. Event page
    • Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC, on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come with your favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
    • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023 page.
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in Wikipedia - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
    • The Archaeology Data Service and Wikidata
    • Animals to Play H-O-R-S-E With
    • Mini hackathon in Utrecht, by Jan Ainali
  • Papers
    • Structural Quality Metrics to Evaluate Knowledge Graphs
    • Using the W3C Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web recommendation to manage small Wikidata datasets
  • Videos
    • How to edit a Wikidata item to appear in an Infobox on Wikipedia (in Portuguese) - YouTube
    • Library data on Wikidata: a case study of the National Library of Latvia - YouTube
    • Wikidata / National Archives of Australia Project with Tim Sherratt - YouTube
    • How WMDE can support partnerships with GLAM institutions for Wikibase and Wikidata projects - YouTube
    • 2022 edition: Timelapse of railway stations in Denmark (Wikidata, QGIS) - YouTube
    • Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 14: How To Add References To Wikidata Articles (in Dagbani) - YouTube
    • Wikidata 10th Birthday celebration events, By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
    • Wikidata Istanbul 2022
      • Wikidata for Absolute Beginners (I-II) by Asaf Bartov (Day 1: English, Turkish)
      • Modeling Our Languages ​​with Lexeme (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
      • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata Querying with SPARQL (I-II), Asaf Bartov (Day 2: Turkish, English)
      • Wikidata and GLAM: Museums of Turkey (Day 3: Turkish, English)
      • Potential Benefits of Wikidata to the Health System, Nevit Dilmen (Day 3, Turkish)
      • Useful Wikipedia Tools, Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, Turkish)
      • Handy Wikidata Gadgets by Toghrul Rahimli (Day 3, English)
      • Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects and Beyond, Lydia Pintscher (Day 1: Turkish, English)
      • Structured Data Across Wikimedia by Luca Martinelli (Day 2, English)
      • Getting Inspiration from Projects Using Wikidata, Neslihan Turan (Day 1: Turkish, English)
  • Podcasts
    • WikiProject Biography, a podcast episode presenting Wikidata:WikiProject Biography
  • Thread
    • The advent of Wikiviz, 24 dataviz about Wikipedia and Wikidata until Christmas
  • Other
    • A rap battle between Wikipedia and Wikidata as envisaged by ChatGPT

• Tool of the week
  • How many edits does Wikidata get per second? listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job opportunities: Post-doc in Natural Language Processing (1.0 FTE), University of Groningen

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: has biological vector, EuDML journal ID, SciSpace author ID, Oblio author ID, Dams in Japan number, SNE publisher ID, KOBIS people ID, OpenML dataset ID, DFK Paris person ID, PIM publication ID, Pittori Liguri ID, USTC identifier, EPA ID, Databank Beschermheiligen anno 1959 ID, YouTube handle, hackage package, Observation.org place ID, Diskograf artist ID, KBR person ID, Miraheze article ID, ILNM ID, Trismegistos author ID, Packagist package, translation contribution URL, Cinemaazi people ID, Cinemaazi film ID, MAK Collection Online person ID, MAK Collection Online object ID, BookWalker series ID (JP version), list item, toli.query.mn lexeme ID, toli.gov.mn lexeme ID, The Britannica Dictionary entry, mongoltoli.mn lexeme ID, alt text
  • New property proposals to review: Amazon Browse Node, Beatport release ID, Bandcamp release ID, subject of qualifier, has part part of, property metamodelling, MangaUpdates IDs, man page, Islam Dusunce Atlasi ID, MyAnimeList magazine ID, OpenPlaques place ID, is a number of, source of action & destination of action, CSD Refcode, Ès lettres ID, is the change of, removed in version (2), PodLink ID, KOBIS film festival ID, KOBIS film company ID, DBpia journal ID, DBpia publisher ID, tuxDB game ID, Crunchyroll series ID, US-DMF ID, Dehkhoda ID, CocoaPods pod, Appsight app, Appsight SDK, Maven groupID and Maven artifactID, Pixiv Encyclopedia ID, Game Boy hardware database ID, Bane NOR Network Statement station ID, Olympedia-Veranstaltungsort-ID, has duplicate Wikimedia page, GBDB ID, Lygaeoidea Species File ID
  • Query examples:
    • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
    • Researchers with a Mastodon account and a known field of work (source)
    • Count per each language of unique language codes used in lemmas for Lexemes in that language

• Development
  • Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (phab:T320490)
  • Made the Property namespace a content namespace (phab:T321282)
  • Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (phab:T315161)
  • Mismatch Finder:
    • Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (phab:T323680)
    • Made the layout more compact (phab:T323678)
    • Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table was a link instead of just the Item ID (phab:T323823)
    • Improved the text on a button (phab:T323682)
    • Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision (phab:T288511)
    • Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more sense (phab:T323819)
  • Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL interface languages (phab:T321441)
  • Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (phab:T324148)
  • Query Service:
    • Making the popup less intrusive that leads to the Query Builder (phab:T296135)
    • Adding tooltips for Lexemes (phab:T255245)
    • Unifying the way to get a link to a query (phab:T324218)
  • mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on mobile that is currently blocking it (phab:T323098)
  • REST API:
    • Finalized json format for sitelinks and data values (phab:T321483, phab:T322734)
    • Investigating rate limiting (phab:T322746)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!

• Discussions
  • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • DL2204bot 2
      • Task/s: Correct messy entries for scholarly articles of Uztaro. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. (Q12268801) and Aldiri. Arkitektura eta abar (Q12253132) journals, add 2020-2022 articles.
    • Kalliope 7.3
      • Task/s: Update User:Kalliope 7.3/List of bots every hour.
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • RPI2026F1Bot 2
      • Task/s: For all items that have an enwiki page that starts with Template:Taxonomy/, set instance of (P31) taxonomy template (Q115595777).

• Events
  • Upcoming
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call December 13, 2022: Wikimedia Search Platform Team will be sharing updates on Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and Blazegraph. For background, see Wikidata:SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update. Agenda.
    • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki channel.
    • Next Wikimedia Research Showcase - December 14. "A year in review from the WMF Research team: Tying our work to the research community".
  • Ongoing
    • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #71, Qatar 2022
  • Past
    • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 7, 2022

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Blogs
    • MatchID enriched with Wiki links
    • Another successful Wikidata Project with UVA
  • Papers
    • The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2023 EU welcomes papers...Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
    • Computational Metabolomics: From Spectra to Knowledge (Dagstuhl Seminar 22181) (Q115647969), with:
      • 3.7 Wikidata: empowering metabolomics research
      • 3.14 CxSMILES: computation ready representation for compound classes (about CXSMILES (P10718))
  • Videos
    • Wikidata as a tool to connect researchers, By Daniel Mietchen - short, full talk
    • Using and Editing Wikidata - YouTube
    • Introduction to Wikidata and Wikibase for Libraries and Librarians (in Greek) - YouTube
    • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #100 - YouTube
    • Tutorial for adding OSM data with the Wikidata tag and adding Wikidata items (in Indonesian) - YouTube
    • BNElab, contribution and reuse in Wikidata (in Guaani) - YouTube

• Tool of the week
  • qualifier-constraint-usage.js: Shows what properties this qualifier is a required and allowed qualifier on at the bottom of the qualifier page

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations. Submit your nominations by February 6, 2023.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ‎contact page URL, ‎Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers ID, ‎press information URL, ‎changeset, ‎RomArchive person ID, ‎African American Visual Artists Database ID, ‎Bureau of Meteorology location ID, ‎Epigraphic Database Heidelberg ID, ‎Dicionário de Gentílicos e Topónimos lemma ID, ‎manchu.work lexeme ID, ‎Professional Referee Organization ID, ‎CIViC gene ID, ‎Athletics Canada ID, ‎is a number of, ‎Ma'agarim ID, ‎Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID, ‎Tanzania Parliament member ID, ‎JCDb ID, ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (1st edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (2nd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (3rd edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (4th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (5th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (6th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (7th edition), ‎Dictionnaire de l'Académie française ID (8th edition), ‎man page, ‎Amazon.com browse node, ‎TV Maze episode ID, ‎International Computer Game Collection work ID, ‎Cultural Good of Croatia ID, ‎JLect entry ID, ‎Open Korean Knowledge Dictionary sense ID, ‎Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Inscriptions ID
  • New property proposals to review: number of penalty kicks scored, Play:Right series ID, OWID identifiers, Wikidata property example statement ID, Mangadex IDs, WSJ article ID, maturity level, official list URL, thumbnail sharpness, Play:Right company ID, IRIS Apulia IDs, Geograph Germany image ID, Spiritains ID, Play:Right class ID, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, INKR title ID, Kitsu IDs, Game-Rave ID, Anime-Planet IDs, has value, ComicWalker content ID, STEDT ID, Middle English Dictionary ID, Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID, Adventure's Planet ID, value of property identifies, not, frame rate, Copernicus EMS ID, Sega-Saturn.net ID, PLDB ID, ArchWiki ID, has right, (not) officially recognized by, Famicom World ID, property describes
  • Query examples:
    • Person(s) after whom both a warship and a microarchitecture are named (source)
    • Institutions that have contributed to all #vBIB conferences so far (source)
    • Composers by country of birth and edition (source)
    • Mountains in Iceland with no Cebuano Wikipedia sitelink (source)
    • Universities that have an associated Mastodon account (source)
    • Most frequently occurring titles found on audio tracks (source)

• Development
  • REST API:
    • We would love to have some feedback on the JSON format for the REST API
    • Planning the final pieces that still need doing before the first release
  • Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (phab:T275251)
  • Query Service:
    • Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (phab:T324218)
    • Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (phab:T296135)
    • Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (phab:T302057)
    • Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (phab:T288939)
  • Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (phab:T316936)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • 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!