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Wikidata Eleventh Birthday - India Datathon

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Greetings Daniel Mietchen!

Wikidata's Eleventh birthday datathon

As part of Wikidata's 11th birthday celebration a 11 days long datathon is planned from October 26, 2023 00:00 to November 5, 2023, 23:59 (both times Indian Standard Time) to improve the India related data in Wikidata. The data-thon aims to enhance Wikidata items by incorporating labels and descriptions in your native language, along with the addition of references, qualifiers, and statements. Additionally, it encourages the utilization of India-related properties within these items, ultimately contributing to the improvement of structured data in Wikidata.


Please have a look at the event page and and join the datathon by adding your name in the participant's section at here.


You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove your username from here.

Regards,

Gnoeee

The above post does not have a date, which complicates archiving. But this one has, so the section should be picked up in due course. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 11:58, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #608

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year!👏🙏 As we step into 2024, we'd love to hear what changes you would like to see in the newsletter. Share your wishlist here: What changes would you like to see in the newsletter in 2024?"

  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: EPIC (RfP scheduled to end after 26 December 2023 20:34 UTC)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: Balyozbot. Tasks:
  1. Import sitelinks, labels, descriptions from ku wikipedia pages which use the template w:ku:Template:Înterwîkî etîket û danasîn. (There are over 1800 articles that use this template waiting to be connected to Wikidata at the moment.)
  2. Add sitelinks to kuwiktionary / kuwikipedia categories / create an item for the category if necessary. I have been doing this manually for quite some time using Quickstatements but since I need to get permission for the first task, I will be handling them using a bot as well.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Blogs
    • Papers: Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs by (Conia et al, 2023) --> This paper introduces a novel task of automatic Knowledge Graph Enhancement (KGE) to bridge the gap in the quantity and quality of textual information between English and non-English languages in Wikidata. It presents M-NTA, an unsupervised approach that combines Machine Translation, Web Search, and Large Language Models to generate high-quality textual information, and studies its impact on Entity Linking, Knowledge Graph Completion, and Question Answering tasks.
    • Videos
      • Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: Wikisource for DH (WiSe 2023) --> The lecture "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of the Digital Humanities" by Kay-Michael Würzner is designed as a series of lectures in which teachers in the "Digital Humanities" course present their fields of work and key topics and present them for discussion.
      • Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata knowledge graph --> Generative AI has changed the information ecosystem, and open-source knowledge graphs like Wikidata can become invaluable assets, propelling a myriad of applications forward. Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher present the practical integration of Wikidata's open-source, open-access knowledge graph to empower Generative AI applications. Harnessing the real-time updated, structured data encapsulated within Wikidata, they explore automated content creation, data augmentation, and semantic analysis, underpinning the generative paradigms. Through a blend of theoretical insights and real-world applications, they elucidate how to leverage Wikidata to elevate generative AI applications, breaking down existing data silos, and fostering a collaborative ecosystem within our global community of developers and contributors.
      • Wiki Indaba 2023 - African content on Wikidata --> Discussion with Alice Kibombo, Georges Fodouop and Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi, about Wikidata for African Librarians during the Wiki Indaba conference, that took place between 3-5 November 2023 in Agadir, Morocco.
      • No Time to Wait - S07E10 - ACMI // Wikidata - Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler --> Report on recent residency program to extensively link together collection data from ACMI with Wikidata. This work has allowed the organisation to import vast quantities of data and media to enrich their own internet collection experience, as well enable writing information back to source and federating with other linked institutions.
      • Wiki(s)data #5: Wikidata Live editing (in Italian) --> The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality, by Epìdosis
    • Notebooks
      • Map of K-Pop Idols --> An interactive map where each red dot represents a K-pop Idol (a singer or musician in South Korean Pop music) you are able to click on.
      • Disney as the Mega Corporation it is Today --> Disney has greatly evolved from the simple animation company that first debuted in 1923 with its signature Steamboat Willie animation. This analysis details some of the major acquisitions Disney has chosen to help expand its reach as a media and entertainment company.
      • The Gender-Equality Gap in STEM Awards --> A network graph and multiple data visualizations on UCLA's alumnni awards based on gender.
      • Exploring The Belichick Coaching Tree --> This analyses details the coaching tree of the prolific American Football coach Bill Belichick.
      • State of statues in the US --> Map of how many statues there are, who is depicted in the statues, their genders, and where the statues are concentrated.
      • An Analysis on Nepo Babies: Net Worths and Fame --> This work uses Wikidata to analyze the influence and success of children of famous actors (nepo babies) in the entertainment industry, and compares the careers and net worth of these children with their parents to understand the impact of nepotism on their success.
  • Tool of the week
    • Cersei - is a tool designed for importing or scraping data from various third-party sources, using source-specific Python code. It can use a "headless browser" to scrape complicated websites that rely on eg JavaScript to navigate. It can therefore access data sources that can not be accessed via eg Mix'n'match. The data from sources can be updated regularly, either for everything, or just changed entries (if the source has a "recent changes" equivalent).
    • Wikidata:Zotero/Cita - is a Wikidata addon for Zotero that adds citations (i.e., what other items an item cites) metadata support to this open source reference management software, using cites work (P2860) information available from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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.

The above post does not have a date, which complicates archiving. But this one has, so the section should be picked up in due course. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 11:58, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #609

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: WikiBayer (RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2024 12:01 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: EPIC (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: HVSH-Bot . Task: Import data about politicians from the Q119949776, now only partially online available.
  • Events
    • Upcoming: The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC, 17th January 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.
    • Ongoing: Weekly Lexeme Challenge #123: Ologist
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Papers: Improving maintenance of community-based knowledge graphs. This paper by Nicolas Ferranti addresses the critical issue of data quality in open knowledge graphs, with a specific focus on Wikidata. It aims to formalize Wikidata's unique approaches to assess and resolve data inconsistencies, proposing a semi-automatic refinement pipeline to empower the Wikidata user community in maintaining and enhancing the reliability of this extensive collaborative knowledge graph.
    • Videos: WikidataCon 2023 Day 1.5 - The past and future of Wikidata. In this video Lydia Pintscher takes a moment to review the major events of Wikidata over the past few years. Then turns to look forward and predict what Wikidata's prospects will be over the next year.
  • Development
    • The development team is just returning from the winter holidays so there is no development update at the moment.

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.

The above post does not have a date, which complicates archiving. But this one has, so the section should be picked up in due course. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 11:58, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Wikidata weekly summary #610

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: WikiBayer (closed as successful). Welcome onboard \o/
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: So9qBot 9. Task: Add DDO identifier to Danish lexemes.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week Map your list of created articles - a notebook display of geolocated articles on a map created by a user per chosen project and batch (featured/good article).

Other Noteworthy Stuff Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Deutschland ended their partnership within the project Software Collaboration for Wikidata prematurely. Read their joint statement here.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Did you know?

Development

  • IP masking/temporary accounts: We are adjusting Wikibase to be prepared for the upcoming changes to no longer expose IP addresses for non-logged-in users (phab:T351968)
  • Dumps/lex. data: We’re adjusting how empty lists of Forms and Senses are represented in JSON dumps (phab:T305660)
  • Wikibase REST API:
    • We finished the work on making it possible to get all sitelinks of an Item (phab:T344041)
    • We are working on getting a sitelink for a given wiki (phab:T344039)

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

The above post does not have a date, which complicates archiving. But this one has, so the section should be picked up in due course. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 11:58, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Mongolian to description

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Hello, I saw that a bot you created added the Mongolian term "эрдэмтэн" to my description on Wikidata. As far as I can tell this term means "scientist." (You can see it listed as a translation of "scientist" on the Wikidata page for Scientist.)

While I am an academic, I am far from any sort of scientist (though I am also not fluent in Mongolian!). How are you/your bot deciding which people to add this descriptor to? Thanks! Thematthewmurray (talk) 03:46, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Thematthewmurray: The term is closer to "scholar", "learned person" or "researcher" and not limited to those engaged in natural sciences. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 17:14, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2024 Newsletter

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This is our thirtieth newsletter covering March and April 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 13, 14 and 15.
User group news
Other news
Events

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Duplicates for Zoosystematica Rossica

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Hi @Daniel Mietchen, I've noticed that User:Research Bot is creating duplicates of existing articles for Zoosystematica Rossica (Q18649566). I think there are 40-50 cases of articles prior to 2007 where the article already has an item in Wikidata (because I added it), but without a DOI. When I added those articles they didn't have one. Now many of them do, and ResearchBot has added some without first checking if they already exist(!).

I don't know how you check for duplicates, but I've learnt from experience that it's not enough to assume that if the DOI isn't in Wikidata that means that there is no item for that DOI. Any chance you can merge these newer items with the existing ones? I did a couple by hand but it's tedious. Rdmpage (talk) 12:57, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Rdmpage: Thanks for the note — I'm on it. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 19:14, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Rdmpage: I'm done with the merges for now. Noticed a few things on the way: (i) the dates rarely agree — this probably needs some more cleanup; (ii) your Q107057509 was a duplicate of your Two new species of cave crickets of the genus Eremogryllodes (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae: Bothriophylacinae) from Iran (Q104465575), (iii) your Q116677031 was a duplicate of the bot's A description of Dendronotus shpataki sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) from the Sea of Japan: a contribution of citizen science to marine zoology (Q114293958). A test merge via QuickStatements was incomplete, so I did the rest by hand. Do you have plans to fill in the missing DOIs? I normally work by topic rather than journal. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 20:12, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Daniel Mietchen Thanks for the merges, I did a couple that were missed. I've also gone through them and removed obvious duplicate bibliographic information, such as authors, and flagged CrossRef-sourced dates as preferred. I've left the main subject (P921) as is, figuring that was more your domain. I tend to work by journal as sadly, each journal typically requires its own special handling. Yes, I plan to add the missing DOIs for those articles that have them. Oh, and thanks for spotting the duplicates I'd made. Rdmpage (talk) 11:14, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2024 Newsletter

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This is our thirtyfirst newsletter, covering May 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 13, 14 and 15.
User group news
Other news
Events
  • Wiki Loves Earth, the international photo contest of protected nature, continues in some countries. (SDG 14 & 15)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June 2024 Newsletter

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This is our thirtysecond newsletter, covering June 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 13, 14, 15 and 16.
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Wrong dates

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Hello, these items that your bot claimed were published on "19 July 2019" actually are from the XX century!

I suppose this is due to a general misbehavior of the bot. Are you able to identify the magnitude of the problem? And could you fix it as soon as possible? Horcrux (talk) 18:25, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Horcrux: Thanks for checking. The problem is described here, along with a code fix and some discussion about fixing the data. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:12, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I don't think I'll go into it further. Anyway, some of those items were duplicated of other ones that, curiously, were correctly dated by Research Bot in 2017 (see e.g. [1][2][3]), apart from the known problem of the date's precision ("1" should not be used as day of the month). --Horcrux (talk) 06:59, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could you implement large-scale import of studies data with the Research Bot?

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Hi there, thanks for User:Research Bot which seems very useful and like it has imported data on a significant number of studies.

Could the bot be used to bulk-import data on very many studies – please give your input here and/or here. The latter is about Scholia and I think that platform becomes useful in the real world only once Wikidata has data on, basically, most studies.
For example, charts on scholia would be inaccurate if so many studies are missing in Wikidata. The former is also about books and names a few datasets that I think could be used, maybe most notably dumps by Anna's Archive. I also asked the operator of "LargeDatasetBot". I think you know a lot in this space and your input would be very appreciated!

Also <sub> does not work in item titles – for example see Q125340665. Maybe these could be replaced with the ₂ characters retrospectively and the title be altered accordingly for future imports. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:27, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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