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Wikidata weekly summary #672 (correct version!)

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-24. Missed the previous one? See issue #671

Discussions

New requests for permissions/Bot:Request for admin flag for MsynBot - From 2021 through 2024, this bot has implemented the 2019 RfC “semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items” by maintaining page protections based on the outcome, d:Wikidata:Protection policy#Highly used items. The admin flag got lost due to bot inactivity but the bot operation could be resumed immediately if the admin flag is given back.

Events

Upcoming events:
- AAFRennes2025, 26-28 Mars 2025
- 5-6 April & 12 April: Scholia Hackathon
- Wikidata and Sister Projects to take place May 29 - June 1. Please send us your session ideas, we still have lots of space for proposals. This is a great chance to highlight the benefits of Wikidata use in other WM projects. See Talk page for proposals.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Lexica - a mobile-friendly tool that simplifies micro contributions to lexicographical data on Wikidata, making various editing tasks accessible and intuitive for contributors of all experience levels.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Mobile Editing of Statements - You have been asking for the ability to edit statements from mobile devices for years, this project will make editing statements on Wikidata Items more accessible and user-friendly for mobile users. Sign up to participate in prototype testing and interviews with our UX team
Join the Wikimedia Deutschland software development team: Product Manager Wikibase Suite (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
  - data analysis method (methods used in the main item for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information)
- External identifiers: booru tag, Steam Group numeric ID, Kompass company ID, ‎Macrotransactions game ID, Thunderstore game ID, ‎JSR package ID, ‎GitLab topic ID, Amazon Music track ID, Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID
New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
  - levels (levels, maps, episodes, chapters or stages of this video game)
  - Scilit scholar ID (author identifier on {{Q|77125337}})
  - وزن صرفي عربي (A feature to adjust the pattern of Arabic words in lexemes)
  - باب صرفي للأفعال العربية الثلاثية المجردة (Morphology of the Arabic triliteral verbs)
  - land degradation (The amount of land that is degraded by an object. Mainly for infrastructure projects)
  - Research projects that contributed to this data set (This property allows to identify research projects that they have contributed to or created an item)
  - Platform height (platform height above the top of the rail (or above the road for buses))
  - extended by (addons for this item) (Class of software this software is extended by)
- External identifiers: Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient ID, Delfi.ee theme ID, identifiant Dezède d'un individu, SeqCode Registry ID, Openalfa street ID, The Oxford Dictionary of Music entry ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, TDKIV wikibase ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
- 2024 Population Census in Uganda (source)
WikiProject Highlights:
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal/Liste des artistes de la collection
Showcase Items: Cinderella (Q15046091) - 2015 film directed by Kenneth Branagh
Showcase Lexemes: страсть (L166968) - Russian noun that can mean "love", "passion", "desire", or "suffering."

Development

Wikibase REST API: We finished work on the simple Item search (phab:T383126) and started on the one for Properties (phab:T386377)
Vector 2022 skin: We fixed a number of the remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039) and sitelink positioning (phab:T316797)
Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search in other entity types (Properties, Lexemes, EntitySchemas) besides Items (phab:T321543)

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

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Wikidata weekly summary #673

Legutóbbi hozzászólás: 26 nappal ezelőtt1 hozzászólás1 résztvevő

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #672

Discussions

Open request for adminship: BRPever 2 adminship request closes tomorrow.

Events

Upcoming events:
- MCL's Linked Data Usergroup's Wikidata Edit-A-Thon - The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services is hosting an editathon between April 7 - 11, 2025. This is an onsite event and only available to USA states: Indiana and Michigan.
- (German) Wikidata models on colonial looting and African cultural heritage - June 4, 2025, 1300 UTC+2. This event will be presented in German.
- Wikidata Training Workshop by WM Uganda - on April 26, discover how Wikidata powers Wikipedia and beyond! Register here

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
- Diginomica: Wikidata adds AI vectors graph and knowledge bases, here's why
- Diginomica: Differing versions of reality; how Wikidata navigates conflicting accounts
Papers
- The New Zealand Thesis Project: Connecting a nation’s dissertations using Wikidata
- Wikipedia is Not a Dictionary, Delete! Text Classification as a Proxy for Analysing Wiki Deletion Discussions - includes Wikidata.
Presentations
- Using chemistry data in Wikidata in AI, at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting
Videos
- Live Wikidata editing - creating Property proposals with Jan Ainali.
- Entity Management Cooperative meeting, with Wikidata
- (Taiwanese) Seediq Wikimedia 2024 Annual Conference - hosted by Wikidata Taiwan, here are the opening remarks by Principal Zhan Su'e's opening speech.
- Open translations in mathematics (Oxford Seminar) - This presentation from Tim Osgood discusses the utility of mathematics for translations, a community-driven approach, and how Wikidata is contributing.
- (Spanish) Socialisation: Literary Data in Bogota 2015 - 2020 - The Colombian Publishing Observatory of the Caro y Cuervo Institute presents "Metadata Model for Independent Publishing in Bogotá", containing over 31,500 data points, all catalogued in Wikidata.
- (Italian) Tools for Visualising Wikidata - Carlo Bianchini presents some useful tools for visualising data and queries from Wikidata, with a focus on Digital Humanities.

Tool of the week

Revisiting the Twelfth Birthday Presents - if you haven't seen the birthday presents already, go check them out!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

[BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT] Please find full information here
Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details |available here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Crunchyroll artist ID, SideQuest app ID, The Atlantic topic ID, TechSavvy.de GPU ID, ‎Delfi.ee theme ID, The College of Cardinals Report ID, NexusMods mod ID, Hiking Note Trail identifier, Hiking Note mountain identifier
New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
  - SWIS-WEM Facility Code (Unique identifier for facilities registered with the Australian Energy Market Operator for facilities operating in the South West Interconnected System Wholesale Electricity Market (SWIS-WEM Facility Code))
  - number of downloads (2) (number of downloads of times this application or creative work have been downloaded)
  - species protection status (Links species, habitat or biotope type with the regulation international or national that protects this species)
  - Number of Heads of Families (number of family cards (KK) in an area)
  - mother's maiden name (maiden name of this person’s mother)
- External identifiers: FirstCycling team season ID, FirstCycling race ID, Dizionario della Musica in Italia ID, Ethnologue language family ID, Untappd beer ID, Catálogo Histórico de Teses e Dissertações da Área de História ID, The Sun topic ID, Databáze her platform ID, Rekhta Gujarati author ID, Itch.io tag ID, The Jerusalem Post topic ID, DVIDS Photo ID, LUX person ID, LUX group ID, LUX place ID, Shazoo tag ID, ідентифікатор особи в Бібліометрика української науки, SCImago Institutions Rankings ID, UniRank ID, Climate Policy Radar ID, LUX concept ID, iNaturalist photo ID, identifiant Ordre national du Québec, LUX event ID, Cabinet minutes of the Federal Government ID, R-Sport match ID, Sport Express football match ID, CPJ topic ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
- Find Good or Featured Articles in Spanish and Portuguese Wikipedia
Newest WikiProjects:
- Govdirectory: Rwanda
Showcase Items: Pleinfeld (Q252320) - market municipality in Germany
Showcase Lexemes:humpback (L322138) - English noun that can mean " kyphosis (condition of the spine)", "a person with an abnormal curvature of the spine", "humpback whale, a particular marine mammal variety", "pink salmon", "lake skygazer, a type of ray-finned fish", " type of arch bridge where the span is larger than the ramps on either side", or " humpback dolphin, a particular variety of marine mammal."

Development

Search: We continued the work on making it easier to search entity types other than Items (Lexemes, Properties, EntitySchemas) in the search box (phab:T321543)
Vector 2022 theme: We are fixing remaining issues with dark mode (phab:T385039)
Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple Item search endpoint (phab:T386228) and are looking into the one for Properties (phab:T386377)

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: Australia
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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

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Wikidata weekly summary #674

Legutóbbi hozzászólás: 20 nappal ezelőtt1 hozzászólás1 résztvevő

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2025-04-07. Please help Translate.

Events

Upcoming events:
- Wiki Workshop Registration is Now Open! The event will be held virtually over two days on May 21 & 22, 2025.
- OpenStreetMap X Wikidata Meetup #75 April 14 Time: 19:30-21:00 UTC+8 at Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245)
- (French) Collection and use of Wikipedia and Wikidata data in SHS searches - 17 June, 2025. Participation via video-conference available, register here and program info here.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
- Inference, continued - Magnus Manske adds 2 new functions to WD-infernal. The Whelming
- (French) Illustrious women in public spaces. Streets, buildings and other places overwhelmingly feature men Porte Plumpe
- Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) receives ProjectUil from Dutch Wikipedia
Papers: Enabling disaggregation of Asian American subgroups: a dataset of Wikidata names for disparity estimation - Paper by Lin, Q. et al (2025).
Videos
- Curationist: What is it and how does it work? - Curationist utilises Wikidata to help discover, curate and share public-domian art and cultural heritage content. YouTube
- (Swedish) Connecting Wikidata, OpenStreetMap and the National Archives with Magnus Sälgö YouTube
- (French) Focus on Wikidata, Wikifying Science, a presentation from Delphine Montagne and Pierre-Yves Beaudouin. Canal-U TV: C@fé Renatis
Other
- (Portuguese) Wikidata at School: expanding access to knowledge and tackling gender gaps! Instagram: Projeto Mais

Tool of the week

Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata for Web - also known as Wikidata for Firefox is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that displays data from Wikidata on various websites, enhancing the information you are already looking at, and also allows extraction of data from these websites.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikidata Ontology Course Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan will run a seven-week Wikidata Ontology Course starting late April / early May. It aims to expand the Wikidata community’s knowledge of the Wikidata ontology through lectures, exercises, and group projects. Participants should have prior Wikidata experience and are expected to attend lectures, complete exercises (about one hour per week), and contribute to a group project. More details available here.
Job Vacancy - Are you interested in helping shape the technical future of Wikimedia's knowledge graph? We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Wikidata)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
  - beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
- External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, ‎TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID
New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
  - interior decorator (A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings)
  - incompatible with (significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity)
  - warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
  - Trafikplatssignatur (Swedish station code)
  - outcome 2 (outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint)
- External identifiers: TechPowerup GPU ID, ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
Newest WikiProjects:
- Govdirectory: Chile
- WikiProject: Bahamas
Newest database reports: Items with identical Birth and Death dates - another way to identify duplicate items.
Showcase Items: Game of Thrones (Q23572) - American fantasy drama television series
Showcase Lexemes: umuyagankuba (L1215369) - "electricity" in Kirundi

Development

We made some progress on the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature by improving the UI, and making it translatable (phab:T390269)
We continued working on dark mode support (phab:T389633)
Wikibase REST API: We are almost done adding the last few features on the simple item and property search endpoint. We'll be happy to get feedback on these from 15.04 when they're completed
We will begin user testing to improve Mobile Editing Experience: Mobile editing of statements

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: European Union
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!

· Previous issue · Help translate · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery ^vita 2025. április 7., 18:19 (CEST)Válasz

The Signpost: 9 April 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

Special report: Wikipedian and physician Ziyad al-Sufiani reportedly released from Saudi prison

In focus: WMF to explore "common standards" for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear

In the media: Indian judges demand removal of content critical of Asian News International

News and notes: 35,000 user accounts compromised, locked in attempted credential-stuffing attack

Op-ed: How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas

Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing

Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM

Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...

News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view

Comix: Thirteen

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Wikidata weekly summary #675

Legutóbbi hozzászólás: 13 nappal ezelőtt1 hozzászólás1 résztvevő

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-14. Missed the previous one? See issue #674

Events

Upcoming events: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16:00 UTC, 16th April 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.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs
- Introducing m3api, By Lucas Werkmeister
- Wikidata Query Service graph database reload at home, 2025 edition. By Adam Baso
Videos
- Understanding Why Your OPTIONAL Properties in Wikidata Queries Might Be Ignored
- Playing with LEGO on Wikidata. By Tiago Lubiana
Other: Wikidata references made easier. "Several tricks to make it easier and faster, using various scripts and gadgets" to add references to Wikidata statements. By Spinster

Tool of the week

Wikidata Topic Curator is a React-based web application. It’s a new and improved version of ItemSubjector created to help Wikimedians connect items on Wikidata to the right topics. By entering a topic QID, it finds related articles using the topic’s label, aliases, or custom terms.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Join the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland
- Staff Engineer Wikidata (all genders)
- Senior UX Designer Wikidata (all genders)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
- beam energy (kinetic energy of elementary or composite particles moving together (for example in a particle accelerator))
- number of downloads (number of downloads of times this application or creative work have been downloaded)
- Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System (Romanization system for Taiwan Taigi or other Southern Min language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia)
Newest External identifiers: National Academy of Engineering member ID, Murderpedia ID, Cultural Heritage Azerbaijan ID, ‎TDKIV Wikibase ID, Landtag Tirol person ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID, Kosovo NGO registration number, TechPowerUp GPU Specs Database ID, iNaturalist photo ID, Climate Policy Radar ID, LIBRIS library ID, Dizionario della Musica in Italia ID, Untappd beer ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy ID, KnowWhereGraph entity ID, GCMD keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, CBFC record ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- interior decorator (A property for the interior decorator of notable buildings)
- incompatible with (significant elements with which an entity is incompatible and indicates a significant property of this entity)
- warranty period (warranty period of this product as covered by the original manufacturer or creator)
- Trafikplatssignatur (Swedish station code)
- outcome 2 (outcome of a criminal charge or a civil complaint)
- output color (color of the generated images)
- proposal of (Qualifier for the statement {{P|31}} {{Q|64728694}} to state what the proposed thing is.)
- floral diagram (picture on commons of a floral diagram of a Taxon)
- member of sequence or class of number (The number is of a special form or class or member of a sequence)
New External identifier property proposals to review: ISFDB category of an award ID, L'Expression topic ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque du Saulchoir, National Gallery (London) PID, Identifiant sur Orthodox World, Steam Deck HQ game ID, Hardcore gaming 101 ID, torial username, BirdLife DataZone species ID, BirdLife DataZone site ID, Schulnummer Schleswig-Holstein, Kunstkamera ID, Corago singer ID, MoNA spectrum ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice dans La Croix, identifiant Meta-Doctrinal.org, CvLAC ID, OGDB genre ID, IGDB genre ID, WSGF taxonomy term ID, GameSpot platform ID, PerformArt ID, Billie Jean King Cup player ID 2024

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Query examples:
- Top 10 items instance of Wikimedia category ordered by number of Sitelinks (source)
- Twitter accounts of biologists
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject USC Libraries A WikiProject for work done at University of Southern California Libraries to connect library data with Wikidata.
WikiProject Highlights: Nonprofit Organizations/Kosovo - Add the most important NGOs of Kosovo
Newest database reports: User:Pasleim/Connectivity - Connectivity between Wikimedia projects
Showcase Items: Nea Salamis Famagusta FC (Q714581) - professional association football club based in Ammochostos (Famagusta)
Showcase Lexemes: Straße (L44061) - German noun that can mean "road", "straight", "street", "strait", "group of people inhabiting buildings along a perticular street" or "production line".

Development

We merged and prepared changes to rename wikibase:EntitySchema to wikibase:WikibaseEntitySchema in RDF (phab:T371196) – this has been announced as a breaking change and will be deployed to Wikidata on 24 April
We made some more improvements to dark mode support (phab:T389633)
We’re working on tests for the ScopedTypeaheadSearch feature (phab:T385790)
Wikibase REST API: We're going to wrap up pagination on the simple Item and property search endpoint and are working to improve our test architecture for search (phab:T386691). We're going to pick up prefix search for Items and phrase matching next!

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: Chile
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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Wikidata weekly summary #676

Legutóbbi hozzászólás: 5 nappal ezelőtt1 hozzászólás1 résztvevő

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #675.
<translate>Translations are available</translate>

<translate>Events</translate>

<translate>[[<tvar name="1">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events</tvar>|Upcoming]]:</translate> <translate>Yunlin Liu Fang Tien Shang Sheng Mu OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Workshop</translate> <translate> April 27 Time: 09:30-17:00 UTC+8 at 土庫鎮 (Q708809) Red Altar (Hongtan)</translate>.
<translate>Past: Missed the Q2 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: [[<tvar name="2">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/Telegram office hour 2025-04-16</tvar>|2025-04-16 (Q2 2025)]]</translate>

<translate> Press, articles, blog posts, videos </translate>

<translate>Blogs</translate>
- qjson: <translate>Fetching all properties of a Wikidata item in a single API call</translate> <translate>By Santhosh Thottingal</translate>
- <translate> A Wikibase call for action at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025</translate> <translate>By Ismael Olea </translate>
- <translate> Putting UK collections on the map</translate> <translate>by the Museum Data Service</translate>
- The April 2025 Scholia Hackathon by Egon Willighagen
<translate>Papers</translate>
- <translate>Talking Wikidata: Communication Patterns and Their Impact on Community Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Graphs</translate> - <translate> Investigative study on Wikidata discussions, revealing that the community is generally inclusive and conflict is rare, but many controversial topics lack consensus, and valuable contributors disengage early. By Koutsiana et. al., (2025)</translate>
- <translate>Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited</translate> - <translate>By Latham (2025)</translate>
<translate>Videos</translate>
- Wiki Workshop 2025 - Wikidata Inconsistencies with Language Models and Data Mining in a Pipeline by Houcemeddine Turki
- (Italian) Cla-G, an instance of Wikibase as a tool to support game classification by Carlo Bianchini
<translate>Other</translate>
- <translate>Wikidata & Wikibase for Authority Control & Knowledge Organization Workshop</translate> <translate>By AfLIA</translate>
- <translate>Mastodon bot</translate> <translate> that "highlights natural compounds found in plants, fungi, bacteria or animals — and includes Wikidata references and visual structure depictions."</translate>

<translate>Tool of the week</translate>

<translate>[[<tvar name="3">d:Special:MyLanguage/User:Spinster/Wikidata_references_made_easier</tvar>|User:Spinster/Wikidata references made easier]]: The script helps in adding references to statements, in order to provide context for our data, make the data more reliable, transparent and trustworthy for anyone who uses it </translate>.

<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate>

<translate>Registration is open for a Wikidata ontology course led by Peter Patel-Schneider and Ege Doğan.</translate> <translate>To register, email pfpschneider gmail.com with your Wikidata username and a brief note on your interest. The course starts 1 May, with weekly lectures on Thursdays from 1–3pm EDT (skipping 29 May and 12 June).</translate> <translate>Space may be limited; priority goes to those already interested. Participants should know Wikidata, attend sessions, complete weekly exercises (~1 hour), and join a group project</translate>. <translate>Details: Course page</translate>
Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles.
<translate>Wikidata job openings at the The Wikimedia Foundation</translate>
- <translate>Lead Product Manager, Wikidata Platform</translate> (<translate>remote</translate>)
- <translate>Tech Lead, Wikidata Platform</translate> (<translate>remote</translate>)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
- number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
Newest External identifiers: Saarland Biografien ID, A Dictionary of Education entry ID, Cultural Heritage in Japan site ID, BirdLife DataZone site ID, BirdLife DataZone species ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, Internet-Portal „Westfälische Geschichte“ person ID, Chtyvo author ID, Homosaurus ID (V4)
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- terminal speaker ()
- organization code (the organization code of the organization item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.)
- organization unit code (the organization unit code of the organization unit/part/(sub)division item. Should either be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which system being used, or be used as the qualifier of {{P|31}}.)
- Picture composition (Description of a picture composition (design rules) analogous to the Commons category “[[:commons:Category:Picture composition]]”)
- MANDALA Tibetan Living Dictionary ID (entry for a lexeme in the Tibetan Living Dictionary by MANDALA)
- Monarque régnant (Person who has held or is holding the role of king, queen, sultan, or other monarch at the head of a kingdom or empire.)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Moure's Catalog ID, MobyGames attribute ID, Número RPJ, Identificador de obra no Catálogo Mourisco, IPRESS ID, TeamUSA.com athlete ID, IEC document kind classification code, Europe PMC Preprint identifier, Snopes ID, A Dictionary of Media and Communication entry ID, Black Sea Cultural Inventory ID, PyPI organization name, PlayStation Museum product ID, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology entry ID, A Dictionary of Public Health entry ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

<translate>Did you know?</translate>

<translate> Query examples</translate>:
- All Genres of Classical Musical Compositions and their Labels in English and German (source)
<translate>WikiProject Highlights</translate>: <translate>[[<tvar name="51">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProject Taiwan/Travel</tvar>|Taiwan Travel]]</translate> - <translate>aims to create travel related items about Taiwan</translate>
<translate>[[<tvar name="6">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase items</tvar>|Showcase Items]] </translate>: Pete's Dragon (Q18786473) - 2016, film by David Lowery
<translate>[[<tvar name="7">d:Wikidata:Showcase lexemes</tvar>|Showcase Lexemes]]: Bill (L3855) - English noun (/bɪl/) that can mean "invoice", "proposed law", "bird's beak", or "a given name"</translate>:

<translate>Development</translate>

<translate>Wikidata changes in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co: We are continuing the work on making the edit summaries more understandable </translate>(phab:T386200)
<translate>Wikibase REST API: We are continuing to build out the simple search functionality</translate> (phab:T389011)
<translate>Dark mode: We are fixing a few remaining issues with dark mode support in the Vector 2022 theme</translate> (phab:T389633)

<translate>You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here</translate>. <translate>If you want to help, you can also have a look at</translate> <translate>the tasks needing a volunteer</translate>.

<translate>Weekly Tasks</translate>

<translate> Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed [[<tvar name="8">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Newest_properties_and_property_proposals_to_review</tvar>|above]] </translate>.
<translate>Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme [[<tvar name="9">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?</tvar>|above]]</translate>.
<translate>Govdirectory weekly focus country: [[<tvar name="10">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Chile</tvar>|Chile]]</translate>
<translate> Summarize your [[<tvar name="11">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next#Did_you_know?</tvar>|WikiProject's ongoing activities]] in one or two sentences</translate>.
<translate>Help [[<tvar name="11">d:Special:LanguageStats</tvar>|translate]] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!</translate>
<translate> [[<tvar name="12">d:Special:MyLanguage/User:Pasleim/projectmerge</tvar>|Help merge identical items]] across Wikimedia projects </translate>.
<translate>Help [[<tvar name="13">d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status updates/Next</tvar>|write the next summary!]]</translate>

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