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Wikidata weekly summary #641

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-08-19.

Discussions

Open request for adminship:
- Wüstenspringmaus (RfP scheduled to end after 21 August 2024 11:07 (UTC))
- Mohammed Qays (RfP scheduled to end after 19 August 2024 19:11 (UTC))
New requests for permissions/Bot: Bot5958 1b - Task: Infer of TV series, seasons, and episodes from vertically adjacent levels.

Events

(Save The Date)
- Wikidata Days Bologna - November 8 - 9, 2024. Dario Nobili Library (CNR). A conference dedicated to the Italian-speaking Wikidata community, with a focus on libraries and research.
Ongoing
- Like Soccer? Did you know the Uganda Wiki Soccerthon 2024 is still running and aims to create over 300 Wikidata items on Ugandan clubs, players, coaches, leagues, associations and leagues related to Ugandan soccer.
In case you missed it...
- Catch up on all the Wikimania 2024 sessions with these YouTube replays. Or check the Eventyay schedule for recordings of individual sessions linked to each item.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
- (Tech News) Unveiling discrepancies: First experiences with finding mismatches on Wikidata and how you can too - A team of five Purdue University students partnered with Wikimedia Deutschland for the Purdue Data Mine to find mismatches for the Wikidata Mismatch Finder.
- (Tech News) Wikidata power contributor: an interview with user Bodhisattwa - WMDE's Alan Ang talks with long-time editor and pillar of the Bangla Wiki community, Bodhisattwa.
- (de) Whether toolbox, workshop or hardware store: open, community-curated tool Registries with Wikidata - I. Trilling, T. Grallert and J. Schmitz discuss the tool-directory created “Kompetenzwerkstatt Digital Humanities” (KDH) at the UB and the “Methods Innovation Lab” of the NFDI4Memory and presented at the Chair of Digital History.

Papers
- Discovering Relationships Among Properties in Wikidata Knowledge Graph - Authors Emetis Niazmand and Maria-Esther Vidal use class-based relationship discovery to study and explore distribution and frequency of predicates across six domains. Pp 388–394 of Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery.
Videos
- (pt) Wikidata Lab XLII: OpenRefine Éder Porto and Luca Belo host a workshop covering the newest features for loading media and Structured Data (SDC) on Commons, as well as metadata on Wikidata through OpenRefine.
- (es) Use of records on Wikipedia using Wikidata - Mikel Zubimendi shows how to populate Wikipedia articles with Infoboxes populated by data hosted on Wikidata.
- Engaging with language diversity via the Wikipedia ecosystem @ PGO24 - User:Daniel Mietchen at the Polyglot Gathering hosts a workshop with numerous examples of how the Wiki ecosystem hosts and represents linguistic content.
Notebooks
- Medals count by continent Combining data from the International Olympic Committee and Wikidata, this notebook computes medals count by continent.
- Winners of the Tour de France Femmes The Tour de France Femmes 2024 just ended on Sunday 18th of August. The cycling stage race explorer notebook shows all stage winners of the Tour de France Femmes.
Visualisation of location of Japanese Lighthouses The TU Delft Library queries Wikidata to map the location of Japanese lighthouses designed by Richard Henry Brunton or Léonce Verny.
Tools
- (fr) WikidataESR: Tenter d’y voir clair dans l’ESR : exploring French higher education and research institutional landscape with the help of Wikidata. French higher education and research landscape is highly complex. Wikidata can help to better understand the landscape.

Tool of the week

Anvesha is a drill-down browser for any Wikibase installation (incl. Wikidata). A prominent example of it in use is the Wikidata Walkabout.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikidata: For Developers - We have a shiny new portal for developers wanting to build applications using Wikidata's data. Visit it for inspiration with showcase examples, resources, information and support.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
  - object of action (specific object to which an action or class of actions applies)
  - object class of action (class of objects (including substances) to which an action or class of actions may occur)
  - public funding (amount of public funding an organisation receives)
  - relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
- External identifiers: ARABTERM entry ID, Hawramani Arabic Lexicon entry ID, Women in Resistance ID, French-English Dictionary ID, German-English Dictionary ID, Emerald Group Publishing journal ID, Taylor & Francis journal ID, JTA Sightseeing Database ID, WorldCyclingStats ID, The New Mithraeum ID, Finnish Ministers database ID (new), State Historical Museum of Russia person ID, mandumah ID, Educational center of resistance and deportation of Landes ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (French edition) ID, FoodData Central ID, French bathing water ID, Norwegian Kunstnerforbundet artist ID, Political Dictionary ID, United Nations Digital Library ID, U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System work ID, 365scores football player ID, African Music Library artist ID, Akademický slovník současné češtiny ID, GamingOnLinux Database ID, TIPLOC code, JJM Habitation ID, IDU play ID, ‎IDU original ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur beer ID, The House of Graphs ID
New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
  - date de vote (vote date, date on which people decided or cast their ballot)
  - schmeckt nach (taste that a food or drink has)
  - has semantic role (2nd proposal) (item that describes a role in an event/action class)
  - growth rate (growth rate of something over time)
  - APPF registration status (status of registration of this entity with the Authority for European political parties and European political foundation)
  - exponent of base unit (a qualifier of {{Q|P12571}} used to describe the exponent of the unit)
  - Javanese registers (suggest the relationship between similar Javanese lexemes, between its various registers (social variants), mainly {{Q|12500634}} register (plain Javanese), {{Q|12492493}} register (high/polite Javanese), and {{Q|13091955}} register (middle Javanese))
  - objects of action have role (role that objects of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use {{P|12913}} instead.))
  - ConLang Code Registry code (3-letter identifier for language defined in the ConLang Code Registry, using codes reserved for private use in ISO 639-3)
  - dénomination (value of a currency or type of currency)
- External identifiers: Tretyakov Gallery artist ID, Religion Past and Present Online (German edition) ID, identifiant FranceTerme, Yediot Books book ID, xdaforums, FolkWiki ID, 365scores basketball player ID, SIMBAD catalog properties (used more than 1 million times), All Musicals lyrics ID, 365scores football team ID, 365scores basketball team ID, Illinois Center for the Book Author ID, Ôlyrix Person ID, Ідентифікатор відеогри Gamekombo, Slekt og Data grave ID, iasj article ID, MobyGames critic ID, Grand Comics Database feature ID, Operabook Person ID, Retromags game ID, Retromags magazine ID, speedrun.com series ID, Madain Project ID, GameFAQs genre ID, Altar of Gaming game ID, Altar of Gaming company ID, Polygon game ID, Altar of Gaming franchise ID, Altar of Gaming character ID, Altar of Gaming person ID, FOLDOC ID, WE.League player ID, WE.League manager ID, Nomes e Voces ID, cnkgraph person ID, cnkgraph poem ID, cnkgraph book ID, Identifiant d'un auteur sur Ciel d'oc

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
- Of the official mottos of U.S. states, there are more in Latin than in English
- Instance/sub-classes of LGBT+ identity (Q115870510) that have 3 or more non-English Wikipedia site-links
Newest WikiProjects: Disambiguation
Newest database reports: Wanted footballers
Showcase Items: Jupiter (Q319)

Development

QuickStatements Community Consultation, until August 31st
Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to improve error messages and handling.
Wikipedia and co: We are working on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the sidebar (phab:T66315)
Wikidata Query Service graph split: The WMF Search Platform team is setting up the servers for the split graphs. We hope to have them ready for use soon. We also prepared the constraints checks for this.

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.
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!

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