User talk:ASid - 维基百科，自由的百科全书

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: William Avery Bot 12 - Task(s): Add PubMed publication ID(P698) to items that lack it, but have DOI(P356), which allows it to be looked up using the PubMed API.
• Talk: Wikidata Identifiers (No value for missing Ids): about how to indicate that a certain entity is absent in a given database

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects
    During 4 half-days of sessions showcasing and showing how Wikidata supports and is integrated to the other Wikimedia projects
    From Thursday, May 29 from 16:00 UTC to Sunday, June 1 13:30 UTC.
    Registration link - Program - Questions? (Talk page)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Taiwan Street-view Expedition (Huwei and Tuku, Yunlin, Taiwan) - joint OSM and Wikidata activity
• Papers
  • (Italian) Termini, dati e collegamenti: ‘conversazioni’ tra il Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario e Wikidata: This study is about the history of the cooperation between the Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario (the main thesaurus used by Italian libraries for subject indexing) and Wikimedia projects, initially Wikipedia and now mainly Wikidata
  • WikiDBGraph: Large-Scale Database Graph of Wikidata for Collaborative Learning By Wu et al., (2025) — This study introduces WikiDBGraph, a network of 100,000 linked databases from Wikidata, using 17 million connections to improve AI learning and reveal challenges in handling interconnected data.
  • Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps By Ripoll et al., (2025) – The paper systematically reviews content gaps in Wikidata, proposing a typology of missing data and a framework to measure these gaps, highlighting their impact on knowledge quality and completeness.
  • AI in Data Management and Analysis By Haber et al., (2025) – This paper explores how AI streamlines academic data tasks like cleaning and analysis, whike tools like Google DataPrep, Airtable and Wikidata help researchers, but human oversight is key to maintaining accuracy and ethics in research.
• Videos
  • Using PetScan to create lists from Wikipedia and Wikidata By Tamsin Braisher (Dr Thneed).
  • (Spanish) Connecting Collections: Wikidata as a Bridge between Museums and Communities By Museo de los Museos and Carla Toro.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Toolkit The Wikidata Toolkit is an open-source Java library for using data from Wikidata and other Wikibase sites. Its main goal is to make it easy for external developers to take advantage of this data in their own applications.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Some of the hypothesis involve Wikidata. You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Geographicus cartographer ID, ‎Wikibase of Czech Librarians ID, Jesuit Online Necrology ID, Ons Land ID, ‎VejinBooks author ID, ‎PC98 Images game ID, Rhein-Neckar-Wiki ID, CvLAC ID, ‎Stadtwiki Meißen ID, ‎WürzburgWiki ID, Wetzipedia ID, AW-Wiki ID, ‎Tüik village ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • LSF rating (Indonesia film classification administered by the Indonesian Film Censorship Board)
    • image of cosplay (cosplay that depicts this character or person)
    • Classificazione Guizzi degli strumenti musicali (Guizzi's classification system of musical instruments)
    • name translation (translation into native language)
  • External identifiers: Concertzender ID, MCW-PL article ID, Polska Biblioteka Muzyczna PBM, norsk soldatregister person ID, Databank verkiezingsuitslagen, TNT Sports soccer team ID, NHK Archives Portal Broadcasting History ID, Lithuanian lake ID, Sierra Wiki article ID, Fondazione Ragghianti Fototeca image ID, archive creator archieven.nl

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples: Exemplars of the Magna Carta (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Revitalizing UK History- A wikiproject with the aim of enriching UK historical figures.
• Showcase Items:The BFG (Q19689203) - 2016 film by Steven Spielberg
• Showcase Lexemes: trucco (L580449) - Italian noun (ˈtruk.ko) meaning "deceptive ploy", "makeup", or "strategic maneuver"

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:
• 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: Wikidata Translation Bot - task/s: Automate translation of Item Labels and Descriptions across supported languages and submit them using the official Wikidata API.
• New request for comments: Mass-editing policy
• Closed request for comments:
  • Rename PeakFinder ID (P3770) - Property was renamed.
  • Domain name as data - property domain name (P13337) was created.

Events

• Upcoming events:
  • New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group event series on the Wikidata Graph Split project. Our first event will include guests from the Wikidata Search team to discuss the recent graph split project. Join us Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter). Please see our project page for more information and Zoom links.
  • OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #77 June 9 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
  • Revitalizing UK History #June 7 Time 16:00 UTC Revitalizing UK History
• Just missed it?
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects: full day videos and presentation slides are being made available on the program page.
  • Coordinate Me 2025, the contest to add geographic coordinates (P625) for countries with low representation has ended. Who will be declared winner?

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Wikidata promotes Sister Projects through interwiki links SLUB Open Science Lab writer Jens Bemme has put together a comprehensive article covering the recent online event and many examples of Wikidata being used.
• Papers
  • MAKIEVAL: A Multilingual Automatic Wikidata-based Framework for Cultural Awareness Evaluation for LLMs By Zhao et al., (2025) - This paper presents MAKIEVAL, a framework for evaluating cultural awareness in LLMs across languages, showing that models exhibit stronger cultural awareness when prompted in English.
  • Conversational Lexicography: Querying Lexicographic Data on Knowledge Graphs with SPARQL through Natural Language By Sennrich & Ahmadi (2025) - This paper develops a natural language interface for retrieving lexicographic data from Wikidata, creating a taxonomy and dataset, and evaluating language models, with GPT-3.5-Turbo showing the best generalization despite scalability challenges.
  • UAQFact: Evaluating Factual Knowledge Utilization of LLMs on Unanswerable Questions By Tan et al., (2025) - This paper introduces UAQFact, a bilingual dataset for evaluating LLMs on unanswerable questions, showing that models struggle to fully utilize stored factual knowledge even with external support.
• Videos
  • Listful Thinking:Using Wikidata to support editing workflows By Dr Thneed
  • (French) Using Wikidata to gain visibility on the internet? By Nelly Darbois
  • How to create a SPARQL Query to search Wikidata Item Description By vlogize
  • (Spanish) Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata tutorial for the subject of Virreinal Art By Luis Alvaz
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects (YouTube Playlist) - full daily recordings from the Wikidata and Sister Projects event.

Tool of the week

• Wikidata Qrank is a ranking signal for Wikidata entities. It gets computed by aggregating page view statistics for Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks, Wikispecies and other Wikimedia projects. For example, according to the QRank signal, the fictional character Pippi Longstocking ranks lower than Harry Potter, but still much higher than the obscure Äffle & Pferdle.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Should I watch this? - Enter a film title or IMDb ID to get a recommendation, uses data from Wikidata.
• Job Openings - want to help shape the future of Wikidata or Wikibase?
  • Software Engineer (Wikidata)
  • Staff Engineer (Wikidata)
  • UX Designer (Wikibase Cloud)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:
    • ‎reason for no value (qualifier property to be used with statements having the object "no value", given to provide a reason for "no value")
    • cosplay of (characters that are cosplayed in this image or video)
  • External identifiers: espn.com soccer team ID, ‎Yale LUX ID, Židovski biografski leksikon ID, verkiezingsuitslagen database ID, Norwegian soldier register 1940 ID, Polish Music Library PBM ID, ‎MCW-PL article ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes:
    • UK Mutual Registration Number (identifier for an organisation in the UK's Mutuals Public Register)
  • External identifiers: Scilit organization ID, paleo.ru person ID, identifiant Assemblée nationale du Québec non-élu, ThinkyGames genre ID, Letopis of MSU person ID, MAI person ID, istina.msu.ru journal ID, MultimediaWiki page ID, Submarine Cable Map ID, Nederlands Film Festival person ID, CTS URN, Scientific heritage of Russia person ID, Virtual necropolis of Ukrainian emigration person ID, Russian Cycling Federation person ID, The Memories of the Gulag and Their Authors person ID, Yandex Books author ID, Theatre museums of Russia person ID, Reabilitovani istoriyeyu person ID, CARLA ID, Boosty author ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • All lexemes in Minangkabau (sorted chronologically by their entry time)
  • Film Directors who are still alive
• Schema examples:
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject WordNet
• WikiProject Highlights:
• Newest database reports:list of the most linked category page items
• Showcase Items: Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657) - 22016 film by Anthony and Joe Russo
• Showcase Lexemes: (L1250690) spegnere (L1250690) - Italian verb "switch off" or "to die"

Development

• Vector 2022 skin: We enabled dark mode for Items, Properties and Lexemes on Wikidata (phab:T389330)
• Mobile statement editing: We are continuing with the technical investigation.
• Diffs: We merged a volunteer patch by Matěj Suchánek to format quantity diffs a bit more sensibly (phab:T394585)
• Search in the UI: We enabled the new search on https://test.wikidata.org and https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org. It lets you easily search in other entity types as well now, not just Items. Please give it a try.
• Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on integrating simple search, specifically phrase matching (phab:T389011)
• Query Service: We are working on an experiment to add a small dialog to inform people about alternative access methods for very simple queries that don't require SPARQL (phab:T391261)

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:
• 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!