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6 and 8 June:
Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
29 July 2022: The submission deadline for
the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa -
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Tool of the week
LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (
phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (
phab:T307087) completed.
First batch of
WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to
Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket
phab:T303852.
Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (
T302877,
T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (
T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (
T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (
T303806,
T290733,
T305359) and improving validation / error messages (
T305854).
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Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 31, 2022: Felicia Smith, Nicole Coleman, and Akosua Kissi on the Know Systemic Racism Project
Agenda
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Radioactivity map: Mind map about radioactive radiation built by importing from Wikidata with InfoRapid KnowledgeBase Builder
Wikibase REST API: Expanding statement reading routes (a single statement specified by ID (
phab:T307087), all statements of an item (
phab:T305988), a single statement for a specific item (
phab:T307088))
Fetch revision metadata and entity data separately in all use cases (
phab:T307915,
decision)
Update installation instructions in WikibaseLexeme.git readme file (
phab:T306008)
Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (
phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (
phab:T290733,
phab:T30535).
REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (
phab:T307031,
phab:T307032) and published the
OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (
phab:T306667).
Hi there, I noticed you've created a new template,
Template:Olympic standard. It's adding itself into the maintenance category,
Category:Pages with missing references list. Obviously it would be helpful for the template to act this way when transcluded into articles, but not so on the template page itself. I'm afraid I don't know enough wiki markup to know how to remove it from the maintenance category in this way. I wondered, as you likely have more knowledge of templates than me, if you could help me with this? It would just help keep the maintenance category uncluttered, which is helpful as I patrol it regularly. Thanks!
SamWilson989 (
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23:15, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi @
SamWilson989, thanks for letting me know. I've corrected it by throwing a reflist in the noinclude so it displays on the template page, but not the template itself. Thanks for reaching out!
TartarTorte13:09, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap.
Agenda
ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (
phab:T306214)
Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (
phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (
phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (
phab:T307869)
REST API: continued work on creating statements (
phab:T306667)
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Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour: Featuring speaker Barbara Fischer, Liaison Counsel at the German National Library’s Agency for Standardization (DNB). On behalf of the DNB, Fischer initiated the WikiLibrary Manifesto. Fischer works to increase the quality of metadata through Authority Control to foster retrieval and linked data. Where: Zoom (
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Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa 3rd edition - Creating tools on Wikimedia Toolforge using Python and Flask. Friday 24th June and Sunday 26th June 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00 (UTC)
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The
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Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call June 28, 2022: Andrew McAllister will introduce us to Scribe, an app that provides keyboards for second-language learners, and its use of Wikidata. This presentation should appeal to anyone who has worked on or is interested in learning more about the applications of lexicographical data in Wikidata as well as anyone who has an interest in language, open information, data and programming.
Agenda
IsisCB Explore - is a research tool for the history of science whose books and subjects use imagery from Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Template
Item documentation now includes a query to the corresponding lexemes. This is an attempt to make navigation between lexemes and items easier. For the record,
Item documentation is available in the header of the talk page for each item.
Lexicographical data: We are wrapping up the coding on the new Special:NewLexeme page. Testing and rolll-out will follow soon. We are still working on making it easier to find languages in the language selector on the Special:NewLexeme page. (
phab:T307869)
REST API: We are continuing to code on the ability to create statements on an Item (
phab:T306667)
Investigating an issue with labels not being shown after merges (
phab:T309445)
Preparation for upcoming work: We are planning the next work on the Mismatch Finder to address feedback we have received so far as well as EntitySchemas to make them more integrated with other areas of Wikidata.
Hi TartarTorte, I'd appreciate if you would review my edit request on the
Clayton Morris talk page. The current article needs to be expanded and brought in line to meet
NPOV and
BLP guidelines. Since you are an active editor with specific interest in biographies and topics relating to Philadelphia, I thought you may want to help facilitate these changes as I am not editing directly due to my COI. I'd be happy for your input and to collaborate in improving the page. Thank you,
LabradoriteRocks (
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20:25, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #522
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
ListedBuildingsUKBot. Task/s: Add wikidata site links to appropriate wiki commons category pages for listed buildings with matching ID numbers. I've identified about 1000 entities that can be updated. e.g.
[1] should have a wiki commons link to
[2] since they both refer to
[3].
Job openings in the software development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
Junior Product Manager Wikidata - "In this role you will be part of a cross-functional team, and be the product manager of product initiatives for Wikidata, the largest knowledge base of free and open data in the world."
Product Manager Wikibase Suite - In this role "you will be part of an interdisciplinary team and the product team, and work closely with a broad variety of stakeholders in the Wikibase Ecosystem."
We are continuing to work on the new search profile for languages to make setting the language of a new Lexeme easier (
phab:T307869)
REST API: We are putting finishing touches on the first version of the API route to add statements to an Item. It is still lacking support for automated edit summaries.
We are working on word-level diffs to make it easier to see what changed in an edit (
phab:T303317)
We are investigating the issue of labels not being shown after some merges (
phab:T309445)
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, July 27th 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 call July 12, 2022: Houcemeddine Turki will speak on "Enriching and Validating Wikidata from Large Bibliographic Databases." This call will be part of the 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data, “Linking Global Knowledge.” While you can attend the call directly via the links below without registering for the conference, we encourage everyone to check out the full conference program and all the excellent sessions on
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Due to summer vacations and our current workloads the response times from the Wikidata communications team (Léa and Mohammed) to requests and queries may be delayed. We will resume full capacity by October.
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