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The Wikipedia Library:
#1Lib1Ref - May 15th to June 5th
Tip of the month:
Looking for new red links? Keep an eye out for interesting and
notable friends, family, or associates of your last article subject, and re-examine group photos for other women who may still need an article.
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Lajmmoore (
talk) 09:16, 28 May 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Greetings and...
Hi Oronsay! Thanks
for spotting that! Despite the evidence to the contrary, am surprised I wrote that... In my defence, it was a knee-jerk reaction to word having been used in the previous sentence. That said, no excuse! Regards, --
Technopat (
talk) 11:44, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #578
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries.
Agenda
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Other Noteworthy Stuff
The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata.
Full announcement and access to the toolkit
The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see
https://replag.toolforge.org/ &
Phab T337446. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases.
ISCED category orientation (International Standard Classification of Education category (based on focus/orientation) applicable to an educational program)
Learning outcome (specific knowledge, skills, and abilities that students are expected to acquire as a result of participating in a particular education program)
... that lists of books should be referenced? That is, either one reference that covers them all, or else an individual reference for each entry? Just saying. Schwede66 02:13, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands -
Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.
Event page
Registration has opened for the
workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.
Tool of the week
IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.
beforehand owned by (person or institution that owned the subject just before stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
afterward owned by (person or institution that owned the subject after stated event. Meant to be used as qualifier of "significant event (P793)" for events like sales, auctions, gifts, etc)
solubility product constant (equilibrium constant for a sparingly soluble solid chemical substance dissolved in an aqueous solution)
funded by grant (title or name of the grant funding this item)
Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (
phab:T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (
phab:T337720)
Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (
phab:334682)
Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (
phab:T335857)
EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.
UK report: Promoting cultural diversity on Wikipedia
USA report: A Spotlight on Black Women Birders; DC Nobel Solution Sessions; Women of Color in the Renwick Gallery; Anthropology and Community Connections; SAGE edit-a-thon; WikiWednesday Salon; Into the Wikiverse: AANHPIs in Science Fiction and Pop Culture; Queering Wikipedia 2023
Special story: Help Wikimedia Map Your Efforts to Improve Copyright!
GLAM Wiki conference report: GLAM Wiki Conference 2023: Announcing the venue & scholarship application process open
In general for your work around the honours lists and awards system as well as more specifically the
2023 King's Birthday Honours (Australia) article. Thankyou for everything you do!
Thank you, @
Nford24, for getting the page started. I do enjoy collaborating on our Aussie award pages twice each year.
Oronsay (
talk) 01:49, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Thank you as well
I also wanted to thank you for all the work you did on the Years in Australian Literature that you undertook while I was away from Wikipedia. I'll just be going through the year pages and adding in the Literary prizes for each year. Along with a lot of other things. Cheers.
Perry Middlemiss (
talk) 23:36, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi @
Perry Middlemiss. It's good to have you back. I've enjoyed curating the new Years in OzLit pages but am very pleased to have another pair of hands and eyes on the job. Cheers, indeed, to you, too.
Oronsay (
talk) 01:53, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #580
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics
Agenda
The role of Wikidata within the research lifecycle, Wednesday 21 June, 10am BST (UTC+1), online event hosted by the University of York, UK. International participation is welcome, despite "available to White Rose institutions only" on the booking page.
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 23, 2023: Returning to Podcasts, we will be working on creating podcast episode pages. We will discuss how this episodic content can be transferred to other serialized items. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on
Event page
Webinar: Common European Data Space for cultural heritage (The ontology of Wikidata, how to interact with it for a better quality). Tuesday 20th June 2023, from 3.00 p,.m. to 5.00 p.m. CET.
Register
Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.
mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (
phab:T329644,
phab:T338302,
phab:T329655,
phab:T316767)
Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (
phab:T327510)
Hi. I work for
Richard Chandler (businessman). I am reaching out to you because I saw that you're a member of
WP:NZ. I have posted an edit request at
Talk:Richard Chandler (businessman) to update and expand his article; an editor came on and did one part, but many of the changes remain undone. I would appreciate your assistance in completing these changes to strengthen the article. Thank you,
Rob6031 (
talk) 10:25, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #582
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Open request for adminship:
Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
Closed request for adminship:
Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
New requests for permissions/Bot:
RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the
Russian Wiktionary)
The next
Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 12th July 2023 (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.
re:publica 2023 - Peer learning methods and Open Educational Resources (OER) on Wikidata for a viable digital culture of remembrance (in German) -
YouTube
Workshop - Aligning Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry ontologies with Wikidata -
YouTube
Managing conflations and duplications of personal items in Wikidata, National Library of Greece -
YouTube
Why Wikidata in Linked Data and Libraries (in Greek)-
YouTube
Adding metadata utilities in the Koha staff interface based on Wikidata -
YouTube
From authority control to identity management -
YouTube
DSI Webinar - The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality -
YouTube
Wikidata as a tool for biocuration of cell types, Biocuration Conference 2023 -
YouTube
Webinar: Wikidata, a useful knowledge base for any study -
YouTube
KGC '23 Talk — The Error Is The Message: Extracting Insights From Deceptive Data for Nazi-Looted Art -
YouTube
TU Berlin research group "
The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page:
Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.