User talk:TapticInfo

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • 8-11 September: OpenRefine Barcamp - fully virtual, registrations and call for sessions are open
  • WikidataCon 2025 returns this year on the theme of Connecting People through Linked Open Data...on the links below you can
    • Register to the event to get updates and news
    • Submit now, the Call for Proposals is open!
  • Wikidata for Jewish Studies, a hands-on Wikidata workshop at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz from September 8-9, 2025. (Registration by July 18)
  • Drop in and Wikidata - This regular online meeting has moved to the last Thursday of every month. Join via Zoom

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Visualizing Knowledge - how Indonesians turn Wikidata into stories that matter. This article details the efforts and winners of a WM Indonesia organised 30-day competition to create cool visualizations powered through Wikidata.
  • OpenRefine: Data workflow via open source collaboration - the Linux Professional Institute interview the project manager of OR, Martin Magdinier, on the journey developing this data manipulation tool.

Tool of the week

• User:Jon Harald Søby/senseItemLabel.js What it does is that when you add a P5137 statement in a lexeme, it will let you add the lemma as a label to the item in one click, if the item doesn't have a label in that language yet, or if the label is different (very useful for case differences, for instance)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikidata Ontology Course has finished its course sessions. The slides for all sessions of the course are available on the course page. Part of participating in the course was to set up a project related to the Wikidata Ontology. Current information on the projects, many of which are continuing after the end of the course is now available. If you are interested in one or more of the projects please follow the project, add something to its discussion page, or contribute to it.
• PhD Position in Digital History at the University of Luxembourg is seeking someone with experience in Wikibase and Linked Open Data.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: none
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • defining Prolog formula (Prolog rule expressing the intended logical behavior of a property, for use in ontology formalization and rule-based reasoning.)
    • Codes for the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (identifier for administrative divisions of People's Republic of China, published by Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China)
    • ENTSO-E resource type (ENTSO-E code for type of Power System Resource. Alias: PSR type, electrical aset type)
  • External identifiers: Film Atlas ID, FLBB player ID, MarathonView person ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • UNESCO Memory of the World International Register (now complete up to 2023) (source)
  • Largest collections on the MoW International Register
  • Featured and Good Articles in Korean or Chinese Wikipedia, with no English version - source
  • Ugandan Female Footballers - source
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Personal Collections - The WikiProject Personal Collections aims to develop structured, multilingual standards and best practices for describing personal collections and archives on Wikidata.
• Newest database reports:
• Showcase Items: Arctic Monkeys (Q170599) - English rock band
• Showcase Lexemes: ਸਿਫ਼ਤ (L713097) - Punjabi noun (si-fat) meaning "praise/glorification", "virtue", or "attribute"

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We continued working on Item prefix search (phab:T388209) and started working on stemming support (phab:T397605)
• Integration in Wikipedia and co: The improved edit summaries are now live on the first wikis (ca, uk, he). We are now showing the labels for linked entities instead of just their IDs (phab:T388685)
• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing working on the basics of showing statements in the new way - nothing useful to see yet (phab:T394886)

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: New Zealand
• 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!

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Bovlbbot - Task(s): this bot request asks for admin access (or access to deleted revisions if possible) so it can move the updater task for User:Bovlb/wd-deleted.
  • Andrebot 3 - Task(s): Fill in historic countries for the settlements, communes, towns and cities of Romania.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! Mark your calendars for our final session of our event series on the Wikidata graph split project and SPARQL skills! We will be diving into the mechanics of federated SPARQL queries and look forward to a hands-on and interactive session exploring how to use the scholarly article query service. Join us Tuesday, July 8th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1751990400). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
  • Hackathon announced for Wikimania 2025, Nairobi. Call for Projects is now open! Includes a newcomer track for first-time participants. Add yourself to the participants list or see the resources page for further event info.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Press
  • Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy - by The Register, this article highlights examples of Wikidata serving and powering a growing ecosystem of FOSS projects, outside of Wikipedia.
  • (Italian) WikiLib: Roman+Vatican Librarians compared on Wikidata -
• Blogs
  • Preserving Indonesian GLAM Assets in Wikidata - This article documents how Indonesian users collaborated in preserving Indonesian GLAM assets by adding its metadata to Wikidata during 2025 GLAM Wiki Month organized by Wikimedia Indonesia.
• Papers
  • Linking Challenges for Pseudonyms: The Studies of VIAF, ISNI, Wikidata, Meridian, and Beyond by Charlene Chou
• Thesis
  • The Dictionary of Italian contemporary pseudonym writers in Wikidata. Methodology and results: MA thesis (discussed on 29 May) regarding the systematic addition in Wikidata of all the nearly 500 Italian writers described in a biographical dictionary, with a first introductory part, a second part describing the editing methodology, including the authority work done both in Wikidata and in some major authority files (SBN, GND, IDREF) to disambiguate the main homonyms, and a third part analysing through SPARQL queries the data about these writers
    • full thesis (in Italian) published in the University of Pisa thesis repository; work materials available in the Wikidata usersubpage of Sara De Monaco; slides (in Italian) used in the discussion available in Wikimedia Commons; related datasets available in Zenodo
• Videos
  • (mostly Italian, with some parts in English) Wikidata & Research International Conference (video of 5 June session) - held at the University of Florence 5-6 June 2025, the conference touched on role of Wikidata in academic research (cf. Wikidata and research]), building on past initiatives such as Wikidata Days Bologna 2024.
  • (Portuguese) How to add Wikidata-powered Infoboxes to Wikipedia - a short tutorial video from the University of São Paolo Institute of Mathematics and Statistics.

Tool of the week

User:Kod B - ArchiveExternaLinks.js This script automatically archives external links found in the statements of Wikidata items, in order to improve source durability and reduce the risk of broken links (link rot), similar to what already exists on Wikipedia.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• What belongs where in the Wikibase Ecosystem? There is ongoing research to better understand what people are currently thinking about this and you can take part by sorting some scenarios.
• How to properly cite a Newspaper article? Project Chat discussion.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: QUDT dimension ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, Niedersächsische Personen ID, Submarine Cable Map ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • MediaWiki page revision ID (ID for a MediaWiki wiki revision, Wikimedia projects should use {{P|7569}})
    • applies if VIN matches regular expression (this statement is only true if the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) of a vehicle matches this regular expression)
    • Cadastral areas (List of cadastral areas of municipality)
    • settlement classification (settlement classification)
    • Modern Shrine Ranking (Rank in the [[Q712534|Modern system of ranked Shinto Shrines]])
    • Divine Rank (The [[Q11591025|Shinkai (divine rank)]] of a Shrine)
    • Engishiki celebration category (Celebration category mentioned in the engishiki)
    • Engishiki Rank (Rank of a shrine in the Engishiki Jinmyocho.)
    • Honji Buddha (Buddha that this kami is identified with)
    • Suijaku Kami (Kami that this Buddha is believed to have manifested as)
    • identifiant Generation MSX d'une société ou d'un groupe de démo (company or demo group identifier in the Generation MSX database of MSX videogames)
  • External identifiers: Knowledge Graph for Irish History ID, National Library of Uruguay book ID, Kokugakuin University Shrine Database ID, Observer tag, Observer contributor ID, Geoguessr ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Uganda's hydropower plants (source)
• Newest WikiProjects Postcards was created, including a list of project-specific Queries
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • GovDirectory added a Type watchlist.
  • WikiProject Taiwan added a Library List.
• Newest database reports: Abuse Filter effectiveness
• Showcase Items: Stefan Löfven (Q2740012) - Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 2014–2021
• Showcase Lexemes: sterk (L453737) - Norwegian Bokmål adjective (stæʁk) meaning "strong", "intense", or "durable"

Development

• Wikibase REST API: We finished the Item prefix search (phab:T388209). It'll go live later when we are also done with the Property prefix search.
• Search: We are fixing a bug when pasting into the new search box (phab:T397608)
• Mobile statement editing: We are working on basic viewing of statements (phab:T394886) - nothing useful to see yet
• Dumps: There was an issue with the last dumps not being generated. The Data Platform SRE team is looking into it (phab:T398756)

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: Austria
• 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!