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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

How to rename Wikipedia page without account?

Hello Nthep! Could you please help an anonymous Wikipedia user? Last week, Norwegian Wikipedia user Ranværing has created this page:

Draft:The_train_accident_between_Bjerka_and_Finneidfjord_in_2024

There is a list of train accidents, but the naming convention seems to be that the year should always come in front. This is why I tried to request to rename the article to 2024 train derailment at Finneidfjord, but I made a mess, because I never took the time to learn how Wikipedia is working inside and outside.

I usually try to stay away from Wikipedia, because editing tends to be time consuming, but I am very curious, so I use Wikipedia a lot and I am not shy to make corrections when I come across obvious errors. I have added tons of references manually, but my efforts to edit in good faith were often met with hostile reactions (...).

It can also happen that I get carried away on one subject that I found in the news. I edit Wikipedia in all the languages I know, but Welsh is not one of them. I do read Norwegian and I know exactly where the train crash has happened: The train was much closer to Finneidfjord, than to Bjerka, hence my renaming proposal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_(2020%E2%80%93present)#2024

So you have deleted the mess I made, but who can please rename that page about the train accident at Finneidfjord, to fit naming conventions?

Thanks a lot in advance! (No, I will not register an account...) 82.173.160.29 (talk) 16:54, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

As I've commented on the page, it's currently a draft, if it gets accepted as an article, the title can be sorted out then. There's no point moving it at the moment. Nthep (talk) 17:08, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #654

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2024-11-19. Missed the previous one? See issue #653 Events Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session (Attn: Please fill out Pre-Participation Survey!) 19 November, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 19 November, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm 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 LD4-WDAG Lexicographical Data 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 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET. Visit the event LD4 Affinity Group WikiPoject page Conference about Wikidata and research at the University of Florence in Italy - call for papers deadline December 9, 2024 Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 Registration is open until mid-April 2025 (unless event reahes capacity earlier). Hackathon takes place in Istanbul May 2 - 5, 2025. Press, articles, blog posts, videos Blogs GLAM October Newsletter (Spanish + En) Colombia Report - exploring uses of Wikidata in the Colombian context. Stats and program of the Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia Wikidata 12th Birthday Report Wikidata and the 2024 Open Library Community Celebration - Ray Berger shares their presentation for the Open Library celebration. A Hip Hop World Map - Mark Reuter uses Wikidata to create a map of Hip Hop artists birthplaces. Papers Journal Article: “Shifting Paradigms: The Impact of Streaming on Diversity in Academic Library Film Collections” - Examines the impact of academic libraries shifting collections from physical to digital medium storage, and how Wikidata is used to analyse this. By Clarkson et al.,2024. Encoding Archaeological Data Models as Wikidata Schemas - How Wikidata schema are being used to help the Duros-Europos archaelogical archive By Thornton et al., 2024. Population and Exploration of Conference Data in Wikidata using LLMs - to automate addition of scholarly data. By extracting metadata from unstructured sources and adding over 6,000 entities, it demonstrates a scalable method to enhance Wikidata as a scholarly resource. By Mihindukulasooriya et al., 2024. DBLP to Wikidata: Populating Scholarly Articles in Wikidata Presents a tool and method for adding scholarly articles and related entities, like co-authors and conference proceedings, to Wikidata using DBLP data, promoting the enhancement of Wikidata’s scholarly coverage. By Nandana Mihindukulasooriya. Slides (Italian) all the slides of the presentations held during Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 are available in commons:Category:Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 presentations (the links have also been added to the program page) Videos (Italian) all the videos of the presentations held during Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 in the main room are available in commons:Category:Wikidata Days Bologna 2024 videos (the links have also been added to the program page) Launch of Wikidata Lexicographical Data Contest from the Dagaare Wikimedia Community. (Spanish) How to contribute to Wikidata with QuickStatements? Omar Vegu of the Wikimedia Perú community will be showing how QS can be used to mass-edit Wikidata. (Spanish) Wikidata - how to merge two elements that are repeated statements? - What to do if you find more than one Wikidata item of the same, exact thing? This guide will show you what to do. WCNA 2024 Lightning talk: Designing a Wikidata Edit-a-thon for the Black Teacher Archive - if you are interested in organising a Wikidata edit-a-thon (on any subject), this presentation shows the steps needed. WCNA 2024: Adding authority control properties in Wikidata for writer and artist biographies - an example of using Wikidata to enrich and expand an item for biographies. WCNA 2024: Wikidata profiling of small town art - an example of how structured data can be used to preserve cultural history. MediaWiki U&D Con Fall 2024 - Day 3 - Introduction to Wikibase: Managing Datasets & Collections Tool of the week DBLP to Wikidata - This tool is for adding scholarly articles to Wikidata utilizing data from DBLP. It also provides article authors with a tool to enhance Wikidata with associated entities, such as missing co-authors or conference proceeding entities. Demo video & Github repo Other Noteworthy Stuff Observable: Example SPARQL Queries Provenance Index LOD Newest properties and property proposals to review Newest General datatypes: none External identifiers: TEES ID, DVIDS unit ID, Korean Basketball League player ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense person ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense work of art ID, ‎Atatürk Ansiklopedisi ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, ‎eHLFL ID, Songkick area ID, DDB institution ID, Enciclopedia medica ID, Sapere.it Italian Dictionary ID, Steam tag ID, L'Équipe basketball team ID, AELC author ID, TF1 info topic ID, RTL topic ID, Actu.fr topic ID, FAO fungal entity ID, France Info topic ID, KISTI institute ID, Israel Railways station number, Digital LIMC ID, TDK lexeme ID, Yandex Maps organization ID, FightTime fighters ID, Finlandssvenska bebyggelsenamn ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Innovating Knowledge manuscript ID, L'Équipe basketball player ID, Damehåndbolddatabasen ID, Journalistikon.de ID, graphclasses.org ID, Taiwan Professional Basketball League player ID, PublicationsList author ID, Monument Counter ID, Spirit of Metal album ID, Spirit of Metal style ID, Spirit of Metal artist ID, Spirit of Metal label ID, Spirit of Metal place ID, Libération topic ID, Azerbaijani Explanatory Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Dialect Dictionary ID, Azerbaijani Phraseology Dictionary ID, Lezgian Explanatory Dictionary ID, VK Music track ID, Taiwan Railways (TR) station number, GamersGlobal genre, Archivportal NRW ID, Department of Defense Identification Code, Health Facility Registry ID, BioMed Central journal ID, Immortal Regiment ID, dictionary of affixes used in Czech ID, Eurotopics ID, TMDB network ID, Kultboy editor ID, WikiBaseball ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, ANID Researcher Portal, TOPO ID, DBIS Resource ID, ITV News topic ID, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, El Moudjahid tag ID Newest General datatype property proposals to review: chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts) mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings) health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character) damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character) Mummy of a person (mummy of a person) 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) 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) GND-BEACON-URL (URL of an online service's BEACON file) 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) Data collection method (scientific data collection procedure used in/by the subject) World Snooker Tour tournament ID (Identifier for a tournament on the main website of World Snooker Tour (official site)) study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work) 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 (a scientific or technical illustration of this subject) 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.)) External identifiers: case id (mainland China), Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, dtf.ru person ID, NLI Newspaper Collection ID, Identifiant Les Inrockuptibles d'un sujet, GERS ID, European Legislation Identifier, Danbooru tag, Alexander Keiller Museum ID, Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative, Timenote.info Person ID, Thai railway station identifier, Resistance in Belgium ID, Comprehensive Information System on Korean Historical Figures ID, SNCF station trigram, Game Jolt username, Identifiant Mediapart d'un blogueur, identifiant Centre d'études Picasso, Indo-European Lexicon ID, SGES monument ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, Presisov večjezični slovar ID, Usito, Sanzhi Dargwa dictionary ID, FVDP Vietnamese dictionary ID, FNAC author ID, CAMRA Experience pub ID 2, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, Everand author ID, Phish.net Venue ID, teams.by national team ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Measuring points uuid, DEX '09 entry ID, Marktstammdatenregisternummer (Einheit), Paramount+ video ID, Gerbang Kata ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, Chinese Basketball Association player ID, NBA G League player ID, Basketballnavi.DB player ID, Football Kit Archive ID, Electronic Language International Festival Person ID, ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier, Gallimard author ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID, Zvuk album ID, Chtyvo author ID You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know? Query examples: List Authors by work language (Latin) Return Lexemes of Month and Day in the filtered languages Hip Hop artists by place of birth Newest WikiProjects: Helvetic Archives - coordination of data ingests and workshops related to the HelveticArchives, operated by the Swiss National Library. Scholia, 2024 Surveys - assists with the planning, conduct, analysis and communication of a user survey for Scholia. Authors by writing language (Latin) - Wikidata list for the Biography WikiProject. Newest database reports: Entities without description - find items missing a description in a chosen language. Showcase Items: Darius I (the Great) (QQ44387) Showcase Lexemes: Vrimle (L712968) This Lexeme is 'teem'ing with forms (Bokmål). Development [BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT] wbformatvalue API will no longer accepts most options Wikibase REST API: We are looking into how to do search in the REST API. Special:NewLexeme: We merged the full migration from the Wikit to the Codex design system. EntitySchemas: We are polishing the patches to make it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label when linking to an EntitySchema in a new statement. Wikidata support is now available to Tulu Wikipedia and Tulu Wikisource You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer. Weekly Tasks Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above. Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences. Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects. Help write the next summary! · Previous issue · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 11:30, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

AFC for Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit

Hi, I noticed you deleted the previous versions of this AFC, or at least I believe this is the cause of the struck out links for *all* previous versions. Presumably this was done in reaction to a reported CV. I want to flag that the reported CV affected exclusively *one section* in the AFC, titled "Education and Training at the Gatsby Unit" or something close to that effect, which was added (by me) at some intermediate version. Therefore, deleting only the version(s) affecting the said section should be sufficient for clearing the reported CV. Note that I can no longer verify the reported CV if the version(s) affecting it remain deleted, while I believe I had attributed the source of the content by inserting references. I'd be happy to check the reported CV and fix accordingly, for which I think that the deletion of the previous version affecting this section prevents verification of the reported CV and corrective action. At the same time, I believe it is not justified to delete other previous versions not affecting the said section. Many of the other previous versions of this AFC had content and references that will be helpful to keep track of. Therefore I request to please kindly revert the deletion of all previous versions. Thanks. Orivasplata (talk) 16:56, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

@Orivasplata yes, for some reason I applied revdel to too many versions. I have reinstated the versions prior to the point at which the violating material was added. Nthep (talk) 17:52, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

@Nthep Many thanks. I believe the content in question may not have constituted an unambiguous cv meriting a speedy deletion request, after all. I reiterate: the source of the content in question had been credited with citation, the source being the About page within the website of the Gatsby Unit, which is publicly accessible. Even if this was indeed a cv, it is easy to fix (removing the content in question, and/or replacing with suitable content). Besides, the content in question was non-extensive. I and I'm sure other users would be grateful to receive guidance.

On the other hand, having checked just now the copyright cleanup instructions, item (iv) appears to be relevant:

(iv) change the decline parameter in your AfC copyvio decline template from cv to cv-cleaned – or remove that decline entirely, since you've just cleaned it, and re-assess the draft on its other merits; and

Therefore, could the AfC be re-assessed based on its merits, please, since it's been cv-cleaned. Thanks. Orivasplata (talk) 19:05, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

@Orivasplata there wasn't a case for a speedy deletion which is why I declined that and limited things to revdel of some revisions. I did mark the template as cv-cleaned but I didn't conduct the review. You can either ask Lemonaka to re-review or, as you've already asked for another review, just leave it until someone reviews it. Nthep (talk) 19:38, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #655

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2024-11-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #654 Discussions New requests for permissions/Bot: 333Bot - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there. Closed request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights. Events Upcoming 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - registration is now open Save the date: the Data Reuse Days 2025, an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already propose sessions for the program. 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 Wikimania 2025 Scholarships are now open! This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024 Press, articles, blog posts, videos Blogs Why and for what purpose should Wikidata be used in Colombia? Wikidata Workshop 2024: National Library of Latvia Wikidata and the 2024 Open Library Community Celebration Where the data may roam: Bringing Wild West performers to Wikidata. Author Jason Sharp documents their experience adding legendary showman Buffalo Bill to Wikidata. Advancing BHL’s Data for a Sustainable Future: Meet Tiago, Our New Wikimedian-in-Residence The BHL-Wiki Working Group has enrolled a Wikimedian-in-Residence with a focus on Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons. Papers Beyond the Library Catalogue: Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata - examines how integrating Wikidata into libraries enhances resource discoverability, fosters interoperability, and empowers users within a global knowledge network. By Okuonghae, O. (2024). On assessing weaker logical status claims in Wikidata cultural heritage records - approaches to representing weaker logical status (WLS) information in Wikidata, finding limited usage, variations and ambiguities between datasets, and proposes improvements for clarity and accuracy. By Di Pasquale et al.(2024) Books: Tiziana Possemato, Entity modeling: la terza generazione della catalogazione: contains many references to the use of Wikidata in cataloguing Videos (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. NODES 2024: Using Dbpedia and Wikidata Knowledge Graphs With Neo4j - Cuneyt Tyler presents 'Semantic Space', a project using Dbpedia and Wikidata to enhance the user experience browsing articles on the web. 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 Podcast series: Decolonizing structured data: a new season of Whose Voices? including "Episode 5 -- Unpacking Wikidata’s possibilities with Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)" Other SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions" De Wikidata à Wikibase : Pour une meilleure compréhension de vos données, presentation by John Samuel at Le campus du libre 2024 (Q131312243), Lyon, November 23, 2024. Tool of the week 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) Other Noteworthy Stuff Newest properties and property proposals to review Newest General datatypes: 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) Newest External identifiers: Kultboy editor ID, WikiBaseball ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, ANID Researcher Portal ID, TOPO ID, DBIS Resource ID, ITV News topic ID, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, El Moudjahid tag ID, SGES monument ID, DEX ’09 entry ID, Electronic Language International Festival person ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Paramount+ video ID, Le Club Mediapart blogger ID, Phish.net venue ID New General datatypes property proposals to review: study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work) 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)) Non-binary population (number of non-binary people inhabiting the place) role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work) bequest income (The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.) New External identifier property proposals to review: ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier, Gallimard author ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID, Zvuk album ID, Chtyvo author ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai IDs, EU Corporate body code, SBOID, Waymark code, Radio Algeria tag ID, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier, ThePWHL.com player ID You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know? 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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) Newest database reports: A list of Items with a sitelink to English Wikipedia but without any Statements Showcase Items: Cueva de las Manos (Q223385) - cave with cave paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina Showcase Lexemes: bezczelny (L2781) - Polish adjective that can mean "impudent" or "brazen" in English Development Wikidata Query Service: The graph split rules have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "publication type of scholarly work" into the scholarly article graph. 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) Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. (phab:T371196, phab:T371752) Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (phab:T377986 but first need to improve the underlying scripts (phab:T376604) Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (phab:T379608) Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table. You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer. Weekly Tasks Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above. Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences. Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects. Help write the next summary! · Previous issue · Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:42, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #656

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2024-12-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #655 Discussions New requests for permissions/Bot: ThesaurusLinguaeAegyptiaeBot - Task(s): Creating and updating Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian and Coptic lexemes and ancient Egyptian text artifact items. It is also to maintain links to the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae project via approved properties. New request for comments: Schema Virtual Tour - User:Brechtd would like feedback on determining a data model and schema for Wikidata items that are an instance of virtual tour(Q2915546) - See Schema Proposal - Virtual Tour for more info. Closed request for comments: Create items for Property proposals - Despite a spirited discussion with many comments both in favour and opposition, no consensus was reached. Events Upcoming: Wikimedia Deutschland is providing a total of 15 participation scholarships for Wikimania 2025 (7 individual and 4 tandem scholarships). Further information is available on this page. An overview of all questions in the application form is here. Apply here. Closes 8 December 2024. Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—December 4, 2024. The time is 17:00 CET Tomorrow / 3rd December 2024: Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm UTC / 6pm CET. If you would like to attend, please fill out the Etherpad form to ensure all necessary materials are provided for you. Deadline for the Central Asian WikiCon 2025 scholarship application is December 30, 2024. We encourage you to make Wikidata-related submissions (the deadline for submission is March 22, 2025. Press, articles, blog posts, videos Research Statement Signals: Wikidata usage on other Wikis: A new research report is available. Explores what trace Wikidata data is measurable on other Wiki pages and proposes initial metrics for measuring Wikidata statement usage on Wikimedia content pages. Also suggests methods to improve data analysis and collection. PDF is available on Commons Blogs Celebrating Wikidata’s 12th birthday across the world - Wikidata celebrated its 12th birthday in October and November 2024, with a series of global events and activities aimed at commemorating the platform's contributions to the open knowledge movement, engaging its community of volunteers, and highlighting the significant role Wikidata plays in the digital landscape. By Dan Shick Papers Beyond the Library Catalogue: Connecting Library Metadata to Wikidata - This paper explores how libraries can leverage Wikidata to enhance resource discoverability, foster interoperability, and integrate into the global knowledge ecosystem. By Omorodion Okuonghae (2024). A framework for integrating biomedical knowledge in Wikidata with open biological and biomedical ontologies and MeSH keywords - Enhancing Wikidata’s biomedical knowledge by integrating OBO ontologies and PubMed’s MeSH keywords, addressing gaps, improving classification accuracy, and verifying relations for stronger interoperability and accuracy. By Chebil et al. (2024). Class Order Disorder in Wikidata and First Fixes analyzes class order violations in Wikidata's ontology using SPARQL, evaluates fixes, and offers solutions through improved tools or community involvement. By P. Patel-Schneider and E. Doğan. Videos Edit a Wikidata Item and Lexeme - The Tyap Wikimedia User Group produced this tutorial on editing as part of the Wikidata 12th Birthday celebrations for the Wikidata @12 Data-a-thon. State of the art in combining OpenStreetMap and Linked Data - Covers Linked Data basics, its potential with OSM, and popular methods for linking, extracting, combining, and querying data from both sources. Jump to (Wikidata) (正體字, CN Trad.) Getting Started with Wikidata - An introduction and overview to Wikidata and some associated tools such as ORES and LiftWing. (正體字, CN Trad.) Wikidata Basic Editing Tutorial - This session was given as part of the COSCUP '24 conference on the OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Agenda Track. LLM-based natural-language representations for SPARQL queries over Wikidata and DBpedia - LORiS: This tool can help you understand complex SPARQL queries by converting them to natural language. Towards an Open NLI LLM-based System for KGs: A Wikidata Case Study - At the 7th ISRITI 2024 conference, Jaycent Ongris shows how RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) has been used in a natural-language question-answer platform to directly query Wikidata. How knowledge representation is changing in a world of LLM's - Denny Vrandečić gives this keynote session at the SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference. the Capacity to Grieve Once More - Alexandros Kosiaris of the Wikimedia Foundation explains changes made to make Wikipedia more stable and prevent outages, including how it calls and fetches data from Wikidata. Session given at SREcon24. Tool of the week LoRiS - Generate natural-language descriptions of SPARQL queries via LLM's. Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikidata:WordGraph: Google released the WordGraph dataset as a belated present for Wikidata’s 12th birthday. The dataset contains 968,153 forms in 39 languages. Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikimedia Deutschland has an open and exciting vacancy for a Product Manager of Wikibase Suite. Apply! 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. (This was previously announced 2024-11-11 but didn’t actually take place yet.) Newest properties and property proposals to review Newest properties: General datatypes: 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) External identifiers: Kultboy editor ID, WikiBaseball ID, Ninilchik Russian Dictionary ID, ANID Researcher Portal ID, TOPO ID, DBIS Resource ID, ITV News topic ID, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID, ISFDB editorial collection ID, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia contributor ID, ILEC World Lake Database ID, Sage Social Science Thesaurus ID, El Moudjahid tag ID, SGES monument ID, DEX ’09 entry ID, Electronic Language International Festival person ID, Medieval Coin Hoards of the British Isles ID, Paramount+ video ID, Le Club Mediapart blogger ID, Phish.net venue ID New property proposals to review: General datatypes: study or design for this work (preliminary work for this finished work) 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)) Third-gender population (number of third-gender people inhabiting the place) role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of it's respective work) bequest income (The sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe.) Audio tour () Augmented reality tour () Virtual reality tour () extension that populates category (analogous to {{P|4329}} for tracking cat:s populated by extensions of MediaWiki, linking to extension causing the population) CUATM statistical code (7-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova) CUATM unique identification code (4-digits code attributed to administrative-territorial units of Moldova) External identifiers: ISLRN, erail.in railway station identifier, Gallimard author ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Identifiant d'un(e) artiste sur Reg-Arts, Eyrolles author ID, Zvuk album ID, Chtyvo author ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai IDs, EU Corporate body code, SBOID, Waymark code, Radio Algeria tag ID, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier, ThePWHL.com player ID, Radio Algeria tag ID (Arabic), Identifiant L'AF au champ d'honneur, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans Vidas, Open Source Security Foundation Best Practices Identifier, OpenSSF Best Practices ID, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language entry, Identifiant sur Mémoire des avocats, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary ID, Wurfhand, University Bibliography Tübingen ID, ZSL Authority ID, PUG authority ID, Three Decks class ID, HCERES expert ID You can comment on all open property proposals! Did you know? Query examples: Using cross-product / cross-join to produce list of categories Map of individuals charged, convicted and/or exonerated of Witchcraft with place of death in Switzerland Names and Locations of French Castles (Château) Train Station information (with a Spanish Wikipedia article) Newest WikiProjects: Bibliothek UvA/HvA - documenting, archiving and creating items from collections from the UvA/AUAS Library in Amsterdam, beginning with the works of Allard Pierson. Ghana - A hub for Ghanaian activities and entities, including regional languages: Dagbanli, Twi and Dagari. Thao (Taiwan): For collecting information related to Thao cultural themes, including statistics and activity records. Newest database reports: Recent Deaths Showcase Items: Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616) Showcase Lexemes: புறவு (L1236574) - A Tamil lemma for dense forest, impassable jungle and a pigeon dove. Development EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on making it possible to search for an EntitySchema by its label or alias when making a new statement linking to an EntitySchema. PropertySuggester: We have updated the script that generates the suggestions and will update the suggestions next. Lexicographical data: We fixed a visual issue with search results on the Codex-based Special:NewLexeme (phab:T370057) Vector 2022: We are working on designs to fix the remaining issues with the skin on Wikidata. Wikibase REST API: We are finishing the prototype for supporting search in the API. You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer. Weekly Tasks Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above. Govdirectory weekly focus country: Ghana Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences. Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects. Help write the next summary! · Previous issue · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

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

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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Wikidata weekly summary #657

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #656

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: KlaraBot - Task(s): Append a human's lifespan to descriptions when they can be authoritatively sourced.
• Closed request for comments: Audio transcription (P9533) - Closed with no consensus. The discussion is ongoing on the Property P5933 talk page.

Events

• Past: Amical Wikimedia, the Catalan-language and culture focused thematic Wikimedia Organization organized the Celebrem Wikidata (Let's celebrate Wikidata) project to celebrate Wikidata's 12th anniversary, from November 10 - 30. This included a Wikidata introduction workshop to equip participants with the editing skills to tackle the project's main aim. This was presented as a game to delete duplicate info on Wikidata and Catalan Viquipèdia infoboxes, in three areas: protected buildings, officers' positions and data related to sports teams players. At the end of the event, ~200 Wikidata-fed infoboxes and Wikidata items were improved and many Wikipedia editors edited Wikidata for the first time!
• Upcoming events:
  • (Deutsch)Wikidata for Legal Historians - Tue. 10 December, 3pm - 7pm (UTC+1). This presentation explores Wikidata as a key platform for LOD, explains its Semantic Web foundation, introduces FactGrid (a Wikidata-based platform for historical research). Highlights potential of both platforms using examples and encourages discussion for legal historical research. Register here.
  • Today (09.12.2024) is the last chance to submit an Abstract for the Wikidata and Research conference (5 - 6 June 2025). If you are interested in participating, please review the submission acceptance format before submitting here.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • MediaWiki Conference Highlights, featuring Wikibase talks including one by Christos Varvantakis and Jon Amar from Wikimedia Deutschland.
  • Semantic Wikibase 2024 Update
  • WMDE launches AI Knowledge project in collaboration with DataStax built with NVIDIA AI
  • Ten years of Philippine local Govt. data for Wikidata's 12th Birthday. Read about SKAP's (Shared Knowledge Asia Pacific) efforts to add 10 years worth of financial data of local Government assets to Wikidata during a Datathon.
• Papers
  • Developing an OCR - Wikibase Pipeline for Place Names in the RGTC Series - introduces a semi-automated workflow for extracting and digitally storing geographically relevant information, including spatial relations and contextual details, from place names in the Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes. By Matthew Ong (2024).
• Videos
  • Wikibase4Research - Kolja Bailly presents ways in which the Wikibase4Research tool by the TIB Open Science Lab supports researchers in dealing with Mediawiki software for knowledge bases such as Wikibase and facilitates better and FAIR Research Data Management. Includes a live demonstration and beginner-friendly instructions.

Tool of the week

• CAT🐈: Metrics computing simple metrics (number of labels, number of descriptions, number of sitelinks, number of statements) for item matching a simple claim.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Template:Image properties New template listing properties that link to images.
• Let's Connect invites you to get involved in helping spread awareness and knowledge of Wikidata, potentially help organise a Wikidata Learning Clinic. Are you interested in participating? Please sign-up on this registration form.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • reference 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.)
  • External identifiers: Gallimard author ID, Football Kit Archive ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai author ID, Bibliothèque du Séminaire de Tournai publisher ID, Reg-Arts artist ID, EU Corporate body code, PBY Ben-Yehuda dictionary identifier, Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian entry ID, L'AF au champ d'honneur ID, Radio Algeria tag ID (Arabic), Radio Algeria tag ID (French), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language entry ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Keempat ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • land acknowledgement (acknowledgement of indigenous or native people whose ancestors lived at a location)
    • homonym of (taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
    • taxon known by this common name (taxon item of which this common name refers)
  • External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID, AniSearch character ID, Hachette author ID, El Watan tag ID, Albin Michel author ID, DNCI label ID, Battle.net game ID, Collectie Nederland ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Items missing Hungarian labels or description that are part of Library and Information Science (Q13420675)
  • Items from Maori Wikipedia missing English labels or descriptions
  • Instances of "Shopping Center" located in administrative territorial entity subclass of Norway
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • Nonprofit Organisations in Nigeria, Belgium and Italy.
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Rwanda - since its creation a couple of weeks ago, it has expanded greatly with new sections for Lists, Museums and Hospitals.
• Newest database reports: Unauthorized Bots - A list of bots and their edits, operating without a Bot flag.
• Showcase Items: Das Erste: A German public service television channel broadcasting for more than 70 years.
• Showcase Lexemes: Kerzu (L8153) the Breton word for December, directly translates from "totally black", rather appropriate for the cold, dark last month of the year.

Development

• You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

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

· Previous issue · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) · MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:19, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 December 2024

• News and notes: Arbitrator election concludes

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5

• Disinformation report: Sex, power, and money revisited

• Op-ed: On the backrooms

• In focus: Are Wikipedia articles representative of Western or world knowledge?

• In the media: Like the BBC, often useful but not impartial

• Traffic report: Something Wicked for almost everybody

• Opinion: Worm That Turned's reconfirmation RfA debriefing

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