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== Administrators' newsletter – January 2025 ==
== Wikidata weekly summary #641 ==


] from the past month (December 2024).
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* "The Future of Wikidata Events" report by Wikimedia Deutschland is ]. This report provides valuable insights into the current state and future possibilities of Wikidata events. We encourage everyone to read the report and share their thoughts to help shape the future of our community events: ].
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* Wikidata's 12th Birthday is fast approaching. Do you need financial support to organize a birthday event? Here is some useful information about how to get funding: ]. The deadline to apply is September 1st.
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* ] The Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 takes place in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 - 17 January 2025 - Call for ] and ] are open. WikiLibCon25 brings together Wikimedians, Wikibrarians, information professionals, library workers and mission-aligned partners from around the globe to create a vivid community and promote cooperative projects in the Library & Wikimedia sphere.
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** : Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community. By B. Melis et al.
** by B. Berendt et al. This paper explores how data sources can impact content analysis of their tool Diversity Searcher for analysing diversity in news media texts.
* Videos
** (sw) - Fjodor Eklund shows how wikidata works and how searches are visualized.
** - Wikidata had good representation with InteGraality and Wikidata Walkabout.
** Elwin Huaman discuses how Wikibase and Wikidata have helped create a KG to empower local communities and languages.
* Slides: . This talk discusses the role of open science in providing chemical and biological context for metabolites and lipids, highlighting open-source cheminformatics, open standards, and open data to facilitate linking knowledge across databases and publications, as well as describing chemical interactions in biological pathway databases. By Egon Willighagen.
* Notebooks
** : Using Wikidata and IOC data to compute the share of medals for a selected groups of countries
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''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
* New AI Project Manager to join Wikimedia Deutschland: We’re pleased to announce that a new AI project manager will be joining our team next week. Lydia and Jonathan (Director of Engineering) have been prototyping in this area and recently presented their work at the AI_dev summit (). Our goal is to bring knowledge graphs and generative AI closer together, making AI more equitable, truthful, participatory, and open. More updates to come soon!
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* Query examples:
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* WikiProject Highlights:
** ] - All Swedish banks still in operation
** ] - This WikiProject deals with everything connected to ] with an outlook on the traditional tales and divinities which came before and/or inspired it, like ], ] (], ] and ]) and ], as well as those of adjacent cultures and those influenced by the Greeks, most notably ]).
* Newest ]: ] - This project aims to improve the data available about Aotearoa Asian Artists - Asian diaspora artists from, living in, and connected to ].
* Newest ]: - Wikidata Items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language.
* ]: ] - heritage site in Sălaj County, Romania

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== WikiCup 2024 August newsletter ==
* Following ], ] was adopted as a ].
* A ] is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
] '''Technical news'''
* The Nuke feature also now ] to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.


] '''Arbitration'''
The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:
* Following the ], the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|CaptainEek}}, {{noping|Daniel}}, {{noping|Elli}}, {{noping|KrakatoaKatie}}, {{noping|Liz}}, {{noping|Primefac}}, {{noping|ScottishFinnishRadish}}, {{noping|Theleekycauldron}}, {{noping|Worm That Turned}}.


] '''Miscellaneous'''
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}} with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 ]s, 2 ], 7 ], and 13 ] nominations;
* A ] is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the ]. ]
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Arconning}} with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AirshipJungleman29}} with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on ] and 2 good articles; and
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|BennyOnTheLoose}} with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on ], 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.


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== Wikidata weekly summary #661 ==
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''' Discussions ''' ''' Discussions '''
* New request for comments: ] - Following from a property discussion on ], this RfC aims to find consensus on how to apply constraints that exclude items of historical periods in German history.
* Project chat: ] - A new mass-import policy has been proposed, focusing on improving the quality of existing items rather than importing new ones, with a suggested limit of 100 new items before requiring community approval.


''' ] ''' ''' ] '''
* This Portuguese-language workshop takes place Thursday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00, Room 208, 206 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
*Next Linked Data for Libraries ] session 3 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: ]
* Please submit your proposals for the ] online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the ] and here's some ideas to inspire you: presentations/demos of tools using Wikidata's data (10mins Lightning Talk presentations), discussions and presentations connecting Wikidata editors with reusers and/or explanations and demos on how to use a specific part of the technical infrastructure to reuse Wikidata's data (APIs, dumps, etc.).
* (id) Registration is open for the ] program. Open until 30 September 2024. This program opens funding opportunities for research on topics related to Wikidata, Misplaced Pages, or other Wiki projects, and Linked Open Data.
* . Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST * . The Search Platform Team holds monthly meetings to discuss anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
* The next ] will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (18:00 Berlin time) in the . 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.
* . Submission deadline: March 9, 2025 (23:59 AoE)


''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos ''' ''' Press, articles, blog posts, videos '''
* Blogs: (fr) , blog post by ''Le Deuxième Texte'' including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
* Blogs: (de) - Easily manage, share and visualize knowledge data, tailored for academic purposes, WB4R simplifies the installation and use of MedaWiki software. By Kolja Bailly.
* Websites :, website by 'Students at the Maastricht Science Programme', includes data visualizations of the prevalence and current treatments of dementia across the world. It utilises data extracted as SPARQL Endpoints from Wikidata.
* Papers * Papers
** - This paper proposes an ontology-driven approach to KG construction using LLMs where competency questions guide ontology creation and relation extraction, leveraging Wikidata for semantic consistency. A scalable pipeline minimizes human effort while producing high-quality, interpretable KGs interoperable with Wikidata for knowledge base expansion. By Xiaohan Feng, Xixin Wu & Helen Meng (2024).
** (see also Videos) - this web application when given seed entities of interest and properties to traverse, extracts neighboring subgraphs from Wikidata. By Pierre Monnin.
** - Proposes a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model that integrates external knowledge from Wikidata to address complex open-domain questions by combining image, question, and knowledge modalities. Evaluated on the VQAv2 dataset, the model outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches, demonstrating improved reasoning and accuracy (Koshti et al., 2024).
** - A fine-tuned language model trained on an intermediate task using associative deductive reasoning. By Hanna Abi Akl.
* Videos: (arabic) - Sparql SERVICE clause gives access to additional data such as labels via wikibase:label, interaction with MediaWiki APIs using wikibase:mwapi, and integration of data from subgraphs (such as the main graph and the scholarly articles graph). Integration of data from external SPARQL endpoints such as DBpedia.
** - Demonstrating the role of Misplaced Pages and Wikidata in fostering knowledge creation, digital and data literacies and critical thinking, in Open Edcuational resources. By S.E. Sigalov, A. Cohen & R. Nachmias.
* Videos
** (es) - Tiago Lubiana presents the inat2wiki platform (https://inat2wiki.toolforge.org/), designed to connect biodiversity observations to Commons and subsequently, to Misplaced Pages and Wikidata.
** (es) - Sebastián Ferrada presents this lecture at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2023 including a SPARQL and Wikidata Query Service workshop.
** - session 2 of the Wiki4Education training series held across 17 - 24 Aug 2024 in Uganda.
** - a web application to extract subgraphs of interest from Wikidata with analogical pruning by Pierre Monnin.
** (ar) at the Arabic Wikidata Days 2024, hosted by Houcemeddine Turki
** (ar) - this session of Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 shows the benefits of using Wikidata in Misplaced Pages.
* Notebooks:


''' Tool of the week ''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* - is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that creates web links for matching inner HTML text based on a regex format of Q\d+ which is the format of a Wikidata Entity ID. ()
* by ]. This user-script will add the articles corresponding Wikidata item Label, Q-ID, Description and Short Desc. neatly under the article title. If no Wikidata item is linked, option to CreateNewItem page on Wikidata is provided.


''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
* - The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) located in Hannover has a research position open for someone interested in the deployment, administration and maintenance of open source knowledge management software such as Mediawiki, Wikibase and OpenRefine as part of the NFDI4Culture partnership within the OSL.
* The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by September 18, 2024.
* January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. ] has shared ] to assist in making these films discoverable via ], by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!
* . Wiki Movimento Brazil as part of the ] are conducting interviews to build upon the QuickStatements tool. If you're interested in helping refine the tool then get in touch with them.

''' Newest ] and ] to review '''


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**] (<nowiki>a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
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**] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>person(s) who devised and developed this game</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>particular item that initiates this action or class of actions</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Number of shading units in a graphics card.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Sample image of the person's handwriting.</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted''</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Amount of money donated to a person or organization</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.</nowiki>)
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**] (<nowiki>User ID on a2b2.org</nowiki>)
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* Newest ]: ] - List of Items with links to Wiktionary main space.
* Newest ]: ] aims to list French-language awards and to ensure the mention of a source associated with each award.
* ]: ]: type of wiki page usually in main namespace (article namespace, ns=0) containing links to articles with similar names, and very little details only, use with P31 "instance of" (2024-09-02)
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* ]: ]: Bengali verb thôṛa in English imply something that is “chopped” or “minced”
* ]: ] - sled dog race
* ]: ] - Norwegian irregular verb "to pull", "to drag", or "to draw"


''' Development ''' ''' Development '''
* The development team is just settling back in after the holidays, so there haven’t been any significant updates yet.
* Wikidata Query Service:
** The WMF Search Platform team is putting the finishing touches on the new Query Service servers that contain the two parts of the split graph.
** We are analyzing which percentage of current queries are better served by other systems like the REST API or search.
* Wikimedia projects integration:
** We have worked on moving the Wikidata Item link out of the toolbox section of the sidebar of an article. It has been rolled out to the first wikis: ukwiki, hewiki, fawiki (])
** We are working on decreasing the amount of irrelevant changes from Wikidata in the watchlist and recent changes on Misplaced Pages and co by correcting the tracking behaviour of the Lua function mw.wikibase.entity:getSitelink() (])
* Wikibase REST API: We continued improving errors and error messages.


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* Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ]. * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed ].
* Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ]. * Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme ].
* Govdirectory weekly focus country: ] * Govdirectory weekly focus country:
* Summarize your ] in one or two sentences. * Summarize your ] in one or two sentences.
* Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! * Help ] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
* ] across Wikimedia projects. * ] across Wikimedia projects.
* Help ] * Help ]
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== RFC Notice ==
== Administrators' newsletter – September 2024 ==


Hello, this notice is for everyone who took part in the ]. I have started a new RfC on the subject. If you would like to participate please follow this link: {{slink|Misplaced Pages talk:What Misplaced Pages is not|RfC on WP:NOT and British Airways destinations}}. ] (]) 01:15, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
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You edited a page on wiki about CW Fitzwilliam Viscount Milton. I am trying to find out more information about his children. I was wondering if you could tell me what your sources of information were when you wrote your article? ] (]) 22:55, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
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:It's been a while so I can't be sure, but I don't think there was anything I used that isn't footnoted there.
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:He will get an entry in the 1832-68 History of Parliament volume, though that is still in draft and I don't know if they will have written his entry yet. You could try contacting them to ask if they have any information? ] (]) 23:59, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
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::Just checked - he has a single para in ''Who's Who of British MPs'', vol 1 - mentions that he married in 1833 to "Selina, 2nd d. of Charles 3rd Earl of Liverpool" but the entries there do not normally mention children.
::Digging around WP finds that ] - his father's article - mentions one surviving daughter and a stillborn son. The reference for those is Burke's so you could see if that has further information. ] (]) 20:08, 11 January 2025 (UTC)


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**(de) - The aim of the project was to develop a handout on digital culture of remembrance in a collaborative and participatory process. The project will be ending soon and you can for the closing event (9 Oct 2024).
** ] - The newly published Wikidata module for the Hidden Figures CURE teaches undergraduates to use Wikidata for uncovering and highlighting the contributions of hidden figures in natural history, such as women, people of color, and Indigenous peoples.
** - Anj Simmons takes us through an example of finding an outdated or inaccurate fact and correcting it with supporting references.
** ] - Efforts to improve the representation of UNESCO's Memory of the World (MOW) international register on Wikidata include new articles, enhanced data quality, and training on creating structured data. Key contributions involve updating Misplaced Pages and Wikidata entries, addressing data inconsistencies, and expanding the visibility of MOW inscriptions across languages.
** - About a command line tool written in Groovy to enrich Wikidata with citations between journal articles and other research output with DOIs
** ] - Introduces the ] for your browser. A project funded by the Arcadia grant through Wikimedia Deutschland and fiscally sponsored by the Dagbani Wikimedians user group.
** (in Catalan). The article discusses how Wikidata is being used to enhance the visibility of public domain works by integrating copyright information and making it easily accessible.
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** Empowering Wikidata editors and content. Albert Meroño introduces a suite of tools to assist editors by recommending items to edit, detect poorly-supported item references and generating EntitySchemas to find items missing information.
**(ar) - Houcemeddine Turki introduces how to forumlate and build SPARQL queries in the Wikidata Query Service. **
* Presentations: ''Wikibase e Wikidata per lo studio dell'epigrafia greca'' (in Italian, i.e. Wikibase and Wikidata for the study of Greek epigraphy), presentation at SAEG (Advanced Seminar of Greek Epigraphy) IX in Rome, 10 January 2025, by ], ], ] - ]


''' Tool of the week ''' ''' Tool of the week '''
* - is a roguelike game with Items generated from Wikidata that lets you crawl through the Dungeon of Knowledge in a classic ASCII interface. () ()
* ] - a Userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", it uses pyshexy to validate the entity against the schema and displays whether the entity passes or fails.


''' Other Noteworthy Stuff ''' ''' Other Noteworthy Stuff '''
* ] has joined the (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of June 2025. Welcome Zita!
* 🔥 Big changes are coming to the #WikidataQueryService. If you query for scholarly articles, please take a look at ]!
* (cf. ] and ]) underwent a relevant change of interface on January 10; the way of visualizing clusters in JSON format has changed in comparison with and e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/102333412/viaf.json doesn't work anymore; this broke most or all Wikidata gadgets using VIAF data; in the absence of official communications from OCLC, developers are trying to understand if the new VIAF interface is stable before changing their gadgets accordingly
* Is Shakespeare in German something for you? A digital version of the Schlegel/Tieck edition (Aufbau-Verlag 1975) was released with Wikidata connections. ()


''' Newest ] and ] to review ''' '''Newest ] and ] to review'''
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**] (<nowiki>value of a currency or type of currency</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>a qualifier of derived from base unit (P12571) used to describe the exponent of the unit</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this common name refers</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>person(s) who devised and developed this game</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Sample image of the person's handwriting.</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>subject is a meeting or session of this organization</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>jurisdiction specific tax status of organisations like non-profits</nowiki>)
* Newest External identifiers: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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* New General datatypes property proposals to review: * New General datatypes property proposals to review:
**] (<nowiki>Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>phonetic reading or pronunciation of the sinogram</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>particular item that initiates this action or class of actions</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>molar mass of an empirical forumula unit of a chemical compound, element or isotope</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>DVD release is restricted to region code</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>number of shading units in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>abbreviation containing only first letters of an expression (regardless if pronounced as letters or as a word)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki></nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>magazine capacity or clip size of this firearm or weapon (real or fictional)</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}}</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted''</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}}</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>Amount of money donated to a person or organization</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>mummy of a person</nowiki>) **] (<nowiki>The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>formal styles of address used for members of the clergy</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
**] (<nowiki>User ID on a2b2.org</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>headword languge of dictionary</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Height of the entrance above ground level for boarding public transport vehicles.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>the location code of the location item. Should be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used.</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site)</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of render output units in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
**] (<nowiki>number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit</nowiki>)
* New External identifier property proposals to review: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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Upcoming events

  • Workshop: Lexicography and linguistic sustainability - Mirandese documentation using Wikidata This Portuguese-language workshop takes place Thursday 16 January, 10:00 - 17:00, Room 208, 206 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
  • Please submit your proposals for the Data Reuse Days online event until January 12th. See current proposals on the talk page and here's some ideas to inspire you: presentations/demos of tools using Wikidata's data (10mins Lightning Talk presentations), discussions and presentations connecting Wikidata editors with reusers and/or explanations and demos on how to use a specific part of the technical infrastructure to reuse Wikidata's data (APIs, dumps, etc.).
  • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team --January 8, 2025. The Search Platform Team holds monthly meetings to discuss anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.! Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
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  • Blogs: (fr) female authors with male pseudonyms, blog post by Le Deuxième Texte including SPARQL queries to find female authors with male pseudonyms.
  • Websites :Global Dementia and Risk Factors, website by 'Students at the Maastricht Science Programme', includes data visualizations of the prevalence and current treatments of dementia across the world. It utilises data extracted as SPARQL Endpoints from Wikidata.
  • Papers
    • Ontology-grounded Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction by LLM under Wikidata schema - This paper proposes an ontology-driven approach to KG construction using LLMs where competency questions guide ontology creation and relation extraction, leveraging Wikidata for semantic consistency. A scalable pipeline minimizes human effort while producing high-quality, interpretable KGs interoperable with Wikidata for knowledge base expansion. By Xiaohan Feng, Xixin Wu & Helen Meng (2024).
    • Knowledge Incorporated Image Question Answering Using Wikidata Repository - Proposes a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model that integrates external knowledge from Wikidata to address complex open-domain questions by combining image, question, and knowledge modalities. Evaluated on the VQAv2 dataset, the model outperforms prior state-of-the-art approaches, demonstrating improved reasoning and accuracy (Koshti et al., 2024).
  • Videos: (arabic) Part 6: SPARQL Demo Session: connecting external services - Sparql SERVICE clause gives access to additional data such as labels via wikibase:label, interaction with MediaWiki APIs using wikibase:mwapi, and integration of data from subgraphs (such as the main graph and the scholarly articles graph). Integration of data from external SPARQL endpoints such as DBpedia.

Tool of the week

  • Wikidata Entity Linker - is a Microsoft Edge browser extension that creates web links for matching inner HTML text based on a regex format of Q\d+ which is the format of a Wikidata Entity ID. (email)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Vacancy: Research Software Engineer / Wikibase-Expert - The Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) located in Hannover has a research position open for someone interested in the deployment, administration and maintenance of open source knowledge management software such as Mediawiki, Wikibase and OpenRefine as part of the NFDI4Culture partnership within the OSL.
  • January 1, 2025, marked Public Domain Day, with hundreds of 1929 films entering the public domain. Sandra has shared helpful notes to assist in making these films discoverable via WikiFlix, by adding video files to Wikicommons and Wikidata. Join the effort!

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RFC Notice

Hello, this notice is for everyone who took part in the 2023 RfC on lists of airline destinations. I have started a new RfC on the subject. If you would like to participate please follow this link: Misplaced Pages talk:What Misplaced Pages is not § RfC on WP:NOT and British Airways destinations. Sunnya343 (talk) 01:15, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Nomination of Martin Smith (academic) for deletion

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Charles William Fitzwilliam

Dear Andrew,

You edited a page on wiki about CW Fitzwilliam Viscount Milton. I am trying to find out more information about his children. I was wondering if you could tell me what your sources of information were when you wrote your article? 89.240.132.87 (talk) 22:55, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

It's been a while so I can't be sure, but I don't think there was anything I used that isn't footnoted there.
He will get an entry in the 1832-68 History of Parliament volume, though that is still in draft and I don't know if they will have written his entry yet. You could try contacting them to ask if they have any information? Andrew Gray (talk) 23:59, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
Just checked - he has a single para in Who's Who of British MPs, vol 1 - mentions that he married in 1833 to "Selina, 2nd d. of Charles 3rd Earl of Liverpool" but the entries there do not normally mention children.
Digging around WP finds that Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam - his father's article - mentions one surviving daughter and a stillborn son. The reference for those is Burke's so you could see if that has further information. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:08, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

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Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 15th January 2025 (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.
    • Join the Wikidata Training Event 2025 organised by Wikimedia Botswana UG for Wikidata enthusiasts of all levels. Starts 18 Jan 10:00am CAT (UTC+2), registration required.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Dungeon Of Knowledge - is a roguelike game with Items generated from Wikidata that lets you crawl through the Dungeon of Knowledge in a classic ASCII interface. (toot) (blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Zita Ursula Zage has joined the Software Communication team (SCoT) at Wikimedia Deutschland as an intern until the end of June 2025. Welcome Zita!
  • VIAF (cf. Q54919 and P214) underwent a relevant change of interface on January 10; the way of visualizing clusters in JSON format has changed in comparison with present OCLC documentation and e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/102333412/viaf.json doesn't work anymore; this broke most or all Wikidata gadgets using VIAF data; in the absence of official communications from OCLC, developers are trying to understand if the new VIAF interface is stable before changing their gadgets accordingly

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

  • Wikidata Query Service UI: We fixed a long-standing issue with missing edge labels in graph visualisations (phab:T317702)
  • Wikibase REST API: We implemented a proof of concept for a search endpoint you can try out.
  • EntitySchemas: We’re working on language fallback for the heading on EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
  • Language codes: We cleaned up language codes in WikibaseLexeme after moving some of them to CLDR (phab:T352922)

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