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Wikidata weekly summary #670

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #669

Events

Upcoming events: Tuscan Women & Wikidata - data entry lab for shared memory, 5 March.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
- WMDE Blog - Highlights of Data Reuse Days: The post showcases 3 excellent apps: WikiFlix (public domain full-length films), KDE Itinerary (travel assistant app) and Scribe Keyboard (easier writing in secondary languages). These are just some of the applications built using Wikidata; check out more at the Data Reuse Days pages.
- (German) Digital Stumbling Blocks – How the Wiki Community Drives Remembrance Culture: User:Cookroach highlights the efforts of Wikimedians across projects (Wikidata, Wikipedia, Commons) to digitally document the Stolpersteine, brass-plaques laid to commemorate victims of the National Socialism.
- (German) Digital History Berlin: Field research with LOD - a write-up of the methods, experiences data-model and SPARQl queries of the field research conducted as part of the WikiProject: Field Survey Digital Humanities.
- (Italian) Wikipedia & Wikidata project for Cesare Alfieri - an introduction to the project to expand articles and data of the archives of Cesare Alfieri University of Florence.
- Communicating Ontology: Technical approaches for facilitating use of our Wikibase data (Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute)

Tool of the week

zelph: A new tool for detecting logical contradictions and making inferences in Wikidata, using a rule-based system to improve data quality and derive new facts. Check it out on GitHub or explore results on the project website.
New Tool for Women’s Day: Scheherazade identifies women without articles in your Wikipedia but present in many others, helping editors prioritize creating missing biographies.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikimedia Research Fund had launched. You're encourage to submit proposals around Wikidata. The deadline to submit your proposal is April 16, 2025.
The 4th iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from March 17 until April 30. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
- model number (identifier for a product model)
- provides data for property (dataset associated with this external ID usually contains data applicable to this other Wikidata property)
- items classified (class of items that this classification system classifies)
- presented works (works of art or creative works performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
Newest External identifiers: ‎Thinky Games game ID, Lenape Talking Dictionary ID, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China (X-Boorman) ID, LEMAC ID, Bane NOR station ID, Sutian entry ID, Platform for Taiwan Religion and Folk Culture ID, Meine Abgeordneten ID, Hiking Note plant ID, VGC game ID, VGC company ID, VGC people ID, Archives in Bavaria ID, VGC theme ID, ‎Steam group ID, AllGame game ID (archived)
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- kigo of (the season the sense denotes in haiku in Japanese)
- Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised score (score that the subject have received on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised psychological assessment tool as administered by a suitably qualified and experienced clinician under scientifically controlled and licensed conditions, standardized conditions)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Archaeological site (Japan) ID, Hmong Studies Citations ID, GitLab topic, Christchurch City Council Park ID, Clio-online researcher ID, Clio-online web resource ID, Clio-online organization ID, Congress.gov committee ID, AGORHA ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, ZOOM Platform product ID, GCMD keyword ID, KnowWhereGraph entity ID, VejinBooks author ID, SteamDB tech ID, Identifiant Cartofaf d'une organisation, Saarland Biografien ID, Murderpedia ID, Big Fish Games game ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk work ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
- Obscure units of measurement and where to find them
- Female scientists with most number of sitelinks (but not English Wikipedia)
Newest WikiProjects: AncientCoinsAndModernMedals
WikiProject Highlights:
- WikiProject Biology: List of Mushrooms - revived by User:Prototyperspective, help catalogue all known fungal friends, and join the subreddit (for all Wikidata topics): r/WData
- India/Police Stations
Newest database reports: List of free software without an image set - This is a table of Wikidata items about a free software missing an image.
Showcase Items: Doctor Strange (Q18406872) - 2016 film directed by Scott Derrickson
Showcase Lexemes: felle (L476372) - Bokmål verb that can mean "to make something fall", "to kill", "to force a resignation", "to prove guilt", "to let lose", "to announce" or "to join."

Development

Search: The search team at the WMF has added a new search keyword for Lexemes. You can use the keyword "inlanguage:en" or "inlanguage:Q1860" to limit your search to Lexemes with Lexeme language English and so on. Here is an example search for "bank" within English Lexemes: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=L%3Abank+inlanguage%3Aen (phab:T271776)

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!

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Invitation to participate in research

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of a group of Wikipedians to better understand their experiences! We are also looking to interview some survey respondents in more detail, and you will be eligible to receive a thank-you gift for the completion of an interview. The outcomes of this research will shape future work designed to improve on-wiki experiences.

We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this survey, which shouldn’t take more than 2-3 minutes. You may view its privacy statement here. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Kind regards, Sam Walton (talk) 16:35, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: February 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue II, February 2025
Headlines
Albania report: Celebrating the English Wikipedia’s Birthday in Albania! Belgium report: Belgium Public Domain Day and Dance Heritage Brazil report: Wiki and COP30 in the Amazon rainforest Germany report: GLAM digital and seminar on Jewish life Italy report: GLAM call and Progetto cultura Netherlands report: [GLAM metrics] Usage of Delpher in Dutch Wikipedia articles New Zealand report: Wikipedia podcast episode, Trilepidea newsletter article, and the Wikipedian at Large North Macedonia report: Wikimedia MKD GLAM program for 2025 Poland report: What's up in GLAM in Poland Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme UK report: Islamic and Jewish history Ukraine report: GLAM news from Ukraine – events for libraries, #1Lib1Ref, launch of a larger GLAM product USA report: February meetings Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group February monthly highlights AvoinGLAM report: Connecting Media Art Archives Memory of the World report: 5.1 million image views Wikidata report: Wikidata event: Data Reuse Days 2025 Wikisource report: Wikisource Conference 2025 Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: Wikimedia + Libraries International Convention 2025 Calendar: March's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #671

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670

Discussions

New request for comments: Time to deprecate P642 - of (P642) has spent 3 years marked asdeprecated. Is it time to finally mark it as an obsolete Wikidata property(Q18644427)?