Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2024-11-04. Missed the previous one? See issue #651
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot: Andrebot 2 - Task(s): Will check Romanian local election information on MongoDB against current relevant Items, where differences occur, will create new Items, link them and update associated information.
Closed request for permissions/Bot: CarbonBot - Withdrawn by proposer.
Rename Peakfinder ID (P3770) - The Peakfinder website content moved to cdnrockiesdatabases.ca, the associated Property (P3770) has been relabeled to crdb peak ID.
Mois de l'histoire LGBTQ+ (LGBTQ+ History month): A month-long edit-a-thon from November 1 to 30 for documenting, improving and translating articles on LGBTQ+ topics on Wikidata and French Wikimedia projects.
Check out the call for papers for the "Wikidata and Research" Conference! It will be held at the University of Florence in Italy on June 5-6, 2025. You can submit your papers by December 9, 2024: Wikidata and research/Call
Using AI to add to Wikidata - Magnus Manske discusses the challenge of integrating Wikimedia Commons artworks into Wikidata.
Papers
Disjointness Violations in Wikidata Finds 51 pairs of classes on Wikidata that should be disjoint (e.g. "natural object" vs. "artificial object") but aren't, with over 10 million violations, caused by a small number of "culprits" (source)
Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models (source)
Women Do News at Wikidata Day - This lightning talk from journalist Molly Stark Dean introduces the Women Do News project to increase visibility of women journalists and expand and enrich Wikipedia articles about them. The project could greatly benefit from Wikidata items being created and/or expanded.
Wikidata One Click Info is a multilingual extension that enables you to search for any item or word that you come across while reading or browsing online. It's an extension that makes Wikidata's data easy to retrieve and access. Install on Chrome browser or Firefox browser. A short video about the usage of the extension.
Are you able to learn languages with Wikidata content? In Ordia there is the "Guess Image from Pronunciation" game you can use to learn a few words from various languages.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A small project on benchmarking query engine performance on useful Wikidata queries is asking for queries from the Wikidata user community to potentially be part of the benchmark. If you are a user of any Wikidata SPARQL service please send queries that you find useful to Peter F. Patel-Schneider. Say what you used the query for and whether you would like to be noted as the source of the query. Queries that take considerable time or time out are especially welcome, particularly if the query caused you to switch from the official Wikidata Query Service to some other service. More information about the project is available in Wikidata:Scaling_Wikidata/Benchmarking.
WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
Eurotopics ID (A database containing data on European media.)
rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
TOPO id (unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...))
ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
Newest WikiProjects: AveburyPapers - The Avebury Papers is a collaborative UKRI-funded research project between University of York; University of Bristol; the National Trust; English Heritage; and Historic England. As part of this project, the team are doing several tasks which are generating data, some of which will be shared via Wikidata, in an effort to link parts of the Avebury collection with other collections.
Mobile statement editing: We are making progress on the technical investigation for how to make it easier to edit statements on mobile. A lot more work to be done after that though.
We fixed the sidebar link to the main page in many languages (phab:T184386)
Codex: We are continuing with the migration of the Query Builder to Codex, the new design system. The migration of Special:NewLexeme is almost finished.
Query Service: We have updated the list of languages for the language selector in the UI (phab:T358572)
Vector 2022: We are continuing to adress issues of the Item UI in dark mode (phab:T369385)
Wikibase REST API:
We are moving from v0 to v1.
We have finished the work on the new endpoint for creating Properties.
Action API: We’re improving the way the wbformatvalue API handles invalid options (phab:T323778)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [1]
Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [2]
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [3]
In depth
Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
Black Teacher Archive Wikidata Edit-a-thon - 19 November 2024, 9am - 12pm, Address: Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA. Improve information about individual educators and their relationships with Colored Teachers Associations, HBCUs, the Divine Nine, religious institutions, and political organizations like the NAACP and Urban League.
Wikidata in dance workshop - 3 December 2024, 1pm EST (UTC+5). A step-by-step workshop for members of the Canadian Dance Assembly. A free, expert-led series on how open data can benefit dance companies and artists.
Swiss server helps optimise Wikidata in the field of medicine - Wikimedia CH supporting Houcemeddine Turki in leveraging AI to transform Wikidata into a comprehensive, reliable biomedical resource, to bridge healthcare information gaps, especially in the Global South.
(es) OpenRefine - Wikidata Days 2024 - Conducted by Omar Vega from Wikimedia Peru, learn how to create a project with a list, clean and collate data, create a Wikidata schema and upload using QuickStatements.
Wikidata Edits Heatmap: Real-time map that visualizes recent changes in Wikidata with geospatial markers showing the location of updated Items.
Western world versus the rest of the world: a tool computing the distribution of mentioned entities in Wikipedia articles between Western world and the rest of the world.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Starting ca. today (2024년 11월 11일), tools or bots which use the wiki replicas (such as Quarry) will observe outdated data for up to 8-10 days, as a result of necessary database maintenance (T367856). Tools or bots which use the APIs will not be affected.
Job vacancy Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikibase Suite allows institutions to create and host their own linked knowledge base with maximum customizability, this role will be responsible for the vision and strategy of this exciting product!
WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
beer style (classification of a beer based on its style)
has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
most populous settlement (city, town, or other settlement with the largest population in this area (country, state, county, continent, etc.))
rubrique d'une installation classée pour la protection de l'environnement (Industrial or agricultural operations generating risks to health and the environment are regulated in France. The various risks are organized into headings in the nomenclature of installations classified for environmental protection. The dangers, pollution and nuisances of each operation are listed by public authorities.)
prototypical syntactic role of argument (qualifier for {{P|9971}} indicating the most basic/fundamental syntactic position of that argument for that verb sense (that is, when the argument structure is not subject to any alternations))
operating cost (ongoing recurring cost for operating or using an object)
effective life of asset (duration of time which an object/asset is expected to be used before needing to be disposed of or replaced)
Toki Pona headnoun (Toki Pona common noun for which the name serves as a proper modifier)
Provides data for property (the dataset associated with this external id usually contains data applicable to this other wikidata property)
TOPO id (unique code, defined by the {{Q|3029562}}, to identify topographical features of France (regions, departments, citys, hamlet, thoroughfares ...) and elsewhere (Countries, Foreign Cities, ...))
ISCC (International Standard Content Code. Hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing.)
romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character)
Railway station linear reference (line & milestone) (Stations are located on one or more railway routes, each at a given milestone. This makes it possible to situate them in the topology of a railway infrastructure.
A linear reference system can be used to position any object on this topology. In this case, we would add one or more route (or line) number + milestone data pairs.)
Data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
Use data collection instrument (Tool used by/in the subject to facilitate the collection of qualitative or quantitative data)
French Literary Prizes - Aims to coordinate the development of a database on French literary prizes (prize list, jury members, list of winners). In 2008, Bertrand Labes listed more than 1,500 French-speaking literary prizes. To date, Wikidata has 709, including 24 including the list of winners and awarded works.
Lua: We changed the Wikibase function getAllStatements logic to behave as getBestStatements. When invoked, it was returning mutable direct-values, now it will return a copy of those values (which are immutable). (phab:T270851)
We've finished the work on the create Property endpoint so it is now possible to create Properties via the REST API.
Configuration: We removed 'mainpage' from $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for Wikidata as requested so translations of the main page are available (phab:T184386)
mul language code: We moved it to the top of the termbox so labels and aliases in mul are visible first (phab:T371802)
Revision table size: We are investigating the current state of the revision table of Wikidata's database and what the next steps should be to address its issues.
1.44.0-wmf-2에서 위키베이스 함수 getAllStatements의 논리가 getBestStatements처럼 동작하도록 변경되었습니다. 이제 함수를 호출하면 변경 불가능한 값의 사본이 반환됩니다. [6]
봇 운영자 및 도구 유지 관리자와 같은 위키미디어 REST API 사용자는 진행 중인 업그레이드의 영향을 받을 수 있습니다. API는 일부 페이지 콘텐츠 엔드포인트를 RESTbase에서 새로운 미디어위키 REST API 엔드포인트로 다시 라우팅합니다. 영향을 받는 엔드포인트에는 페이지/개정 메타데이터 및 렌더링된 HTML 콘텐츠를 가져오는 것이 포함됩니다. 이러한 변경 사항은 이번 주 후반에 test-wiki에서 사용할 수 있으며, 다른 프로젝트도 뒤따를 것입니다. 이 변경 사항은 기존 기능에 영향을 미치지 않지만 영향을 받는 엔드포인트의 활성 사용자는 test-wiki에서 동작을 확인하고 관련 파브리케이터 티켓에 대한 우려 사항을 제기해야 합니다.
심층 기술
Automoderator가 활성화된 위키미디어 프로젝트의 관리자와 사용자는 이제 Automoderator의 동작과 관련된 중요한 지표를 모니터링하고 평가할 수 있습니다. 이 Superset 대시보드는 배포된 프로젝트에서 Automoderator의 동작에 대한 지표를 계산하고 집계합니다. 이 대시보드를 제공해준 Moderator 도구 팀에 감사드립니다. 이 작업에 대한 자세한 내용은 설명서 페이지를 방문하세요. [7]
회의 및 행사
2024년 11월 21일(8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - 2025-2026년 회계연도 지원 활동의 우선순위를 정하기 위한 위키미디어 공용 자원봉사자 및 이해 관계자와의 커뮤니티 대화. 이 대화의 주제는 위키미디어 공용에서 콘텐츠를 어떻게 구성해야 하는지입니다.
위키미디어 기술 커뮤니티의 최신 기술 소식. 이러한 변경 사항에 대해 다른 사용자에게 알려주십시오. 모든 변경 사항이 여러분에게 영향을 미치는 것은 아닙니다. 번역이 가능합니다.
편집자를 위한 업데이트
이제 위키미디어 사이트 사용자는 존재하지 않는 페이지로 넘겨주기를 만들 때 경고를 받게 됩니다. 이를 통해 프로젝트에서 빨간색 링크로 넘겨주기되는 끊어진 횟수가 줄어듭니다. [8]
지난주에 해결된 42 커뮤니티 제출 작업을 모두 확인하세요. 예를 들어, 미디어위키 사이트의 작업을 자동화하는 Pywikibot은 Toolforge에서 9.5.0으로 업그레이드되었습니다. [9]
기술 기여자를 위한 업데이트
FlaggedRevs 확장 기능을 사용하는 위키에서 적절한 권한이 있는 사용자가 만들거나 이동한 페이지는 자동으로 플래그가 지정됨으로 표시됩니다. 이 기능은 최근에 작동하지 않았으며 이를 수정하는 변경 사항은 이번 주에 배포될 예정입니다. 이 작업을 해준 다니엘과 워고에게 감사드립니다. [10][11]
심층 기술
임시 계정에 대한 새로운 Diff 게시물이 15개 이상의 언어로 제공됩니다. 임시 계정이 무엇인지, 다양한 사용자 그룹에 미치는 영향은 무엇인지, 모든 위키에 변경 사항을 도입하기 위한 계획은 무엇인지 알아보려면 읽어보세요.
회의 및 행사
기술 자원봉사자는 이제 터키 이스탄불에서 열리는 2025년 위키미디어 해커톤에 등록할 수 있습니다. 여행 및 숙박 장학금 신청서는 2024년 11월 12일부터 12월 10일까지 가능합니다. 이벤트 등록은 2025년 4월 중순에 마감됩니다. 위키미디어 해커톤은 글로벌 기술 커뮤니티를 하나로 모아 기존 프로젝트에 협력하고 새로운 아이디어를 모색하는 연례 모임입니다.
이번 주에 위키미디어 공용 커뮤니티 대화에 참여하여 2025-2026년에 계획될 공용에 대한 지원의 우선순위를 정하는 데 도움을 주세요. 주제는 위키미디어 공용에서 콘텐츠를 어떻게 구성해야 하는지입니다. 이는 다양한 일을 하는 자원봉사자들이 모여 프로젝트의 미래에 중요한 사항에 대해 이야기할 수 있는 기회입니다. 대화는 2024년 11월 21일 8:00 UTC와 16:00 UTC에 진행됩니다.
11월 29일 16:00 UTC에 언어 커뮤니티 회의가 열려 업데이트와 기술적 문제 해결에 대해 논의할 예정입니다.
위키미디어 기술 커뮤니티의 최신 기술 소식. 이러한 변경 사항에 대해 다른 사용자에게 알려주십시오. 모든 변경 사항이 여러분에게 영향을 미치는 것은 아닙니다. 번역이 가능합니다.
편집자를 위한 업데이트
표준 위키텍스트 편집기 모드 구문 강조기의 새 버전이 이번 주 후반에 베타 기능으로 제공됩니다. 여기에는 오른쪽에서 왼쪽으로의 지원, 템플릿 폴딩, 자동 완성 및 개선된 검색 패널을 포함하여 많은 새로운 기능과 버그 수정이 포함됩니다. 자세한 내용은 도움말 페이지에서 확인할 수 있습니다.
2010년 위키텍스트 편집기는 이제 굵게 Ctrl+B, 기울임체 Ctrl+I와 같은 일반적인 키보드 단축키를 지원합니다. 여섯 가지 단축키의 전체 목록을 사용할 수 있습니다. 이 개선 사항에 대해 SD0001에게 감사드립니다. [12]
11월 28일부터 플로/구조화된 토론 페이지는 다음 위키에서 자동으로 보관되고 읽기 전용으로 설정됩니다: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. 이는 구조화된 토론 사용 중단 작업의 일부로 수행됩니다. 페이지를 미리 보관하는 데 도움이 필요하면 Trizek (WMF)에게 문의하세요.
지난주에 해결된 25 커뮤니티 제출 작업을 모두 확인하세요. 예를 들어, 새로운 편집필터를 생성하는 사용자는 보호된 변수가 포함된 경우에만 필터를 "보호됨"으로 설정할 수 있습니다.
기술 기여자를 위한 업데이트
자바스크립트, CSS, JSON 및 루아 페이지에서 사용할 수 있는 CodeEditor는 이제 라이브 자동 완성을 제공합니다. 이 개선 사항에 대해 SD0001에게 감사드립니다. Ctrl+,를 누르고 "Live Autocompletion"을 선택 취소하여 페이지에서 이 기능을 일시적으로 비활성화할 수 있습니다.
Graphite 시스템을 사용하여 메트릭을 추적하는 도구 유지 관리자는 최신 프로메테우스 시스템으로 마이그레이션해야 합니다. 그들은 이 대시보드와 작업 T350592의 설명에 있는 목록을 확인하여 도구가 나열되어 있는지 확인하고 도구에 연결된 메트릭과 대시보드를 청구해야 합니다. 그런 다음 작업의 지침에 따라 모든 기존 메트릭을 비활성화하거나 마이그레이션할 수 있습니다. Graphite 서비스는 4월에 읽기 전용이 됩니다. [13]
새 전처리기 파서 성능 보고서는 액세스한 위키베이스 개체 수에 대한 정확한 계산을 제공하도록 수정되었습니다. 이전에는 400개 개체 이후 재설정되었습니다. [14]
회의 및 행사
언어 커뮤니티 회의가 11월 29일 16:00 UTC에 열립니다. 언어 키보드 개발, 모레어 위키백과 생성, 위키 인다바의 언어 지원 트랙, 와유어 커뮤니티가 인큐베이터와 새로운 커뮤니티로서 지난 3년 동안의 경험에 대한 보고서와 같은 주제에 대한 프레젠테이션이 있을 것입니다. 이 회의에는 스페인어 통역도 있습니다.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 3 December 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikimedian Mahir Morshed is leading a series of four sessions focused on lexicographical data in Wikidata. We are looking forward to learning more about these Wikibase entities! If you anticipate attending the workshop sessions, please fill out a brief survey linked from our Series Etherpad to help us prepare relevant materials for you. You only need to fill it out once, no matter how many sessions you plan to attend. Sessions will be held on November 5, November 19, December 3, and December 17, 2024, at our regular time of 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6 pm CET. Event page
Where the data may roam: Bringing Wild West performers to Wikidata. Author Jason Sharp documents their experience adding legendary showman Buffalo Bill to Wikidata.
(Portuguese)Wikidata & OpenRefine - Part of the “Introduction to digital platforms for research” sessions for the Centro Luís Krus of NOVA FCSH. Practical exercises for data reconciliation from the Portuguese Early Music Database using the OpenRefine tool.
Uploading Images From Public Sites - Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata make great bedfellows. Margaret Donald shows how to create Commons categories, create structured data and link categories to Wikidata.
WCNA: LOFESQ Lots of Farmers Empty Silos Quicker: building community through a named entity Wikibase. Experiences of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives setting up the WikiNames Wikibase instance and breaking down knowledge silos
Guess Image from Pronunciation is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts.
ABECTO is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export (Tweet)
Wikidata Infernal is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. (blog)
picture of this person doing their job (picture of a person in action, especially for a sportsperson, visual artist, musican, actor. P18 is normally used for portraits)
ISCC (ISCC hash code that identifies a media object based on fuzzy hashing)
OAI formatter (formatter to generate ID compatible with {{Q|2430433}} services)
Open Library Collection (Link to Open Library Collection which contain manually and automaticallly collections of editions and works on certain topics)
scientific illustration (an illustration of this subject to provide a detailed reference for its appearance. It should be ideally tied to the primary literature on the item.)
thesis submitted for (academic degree for which a thesis or dissertation is submitted)
meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this body (legislature, committee, convention, etc.))
UMC rating (Age rating category as designated by the UAE Media Council (UMC))
WikiProject Taiwan/Amis - collects information related to the Ami culture, including statistics and activity records.
Rwanda - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organizational, etc...) relating to Rwanda Rwanda (Q1037)
Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (phab:T378627)
EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label and aliases when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema.(phab:T375641)
