Danny Benjafield (WMDE)

Wikidata QID and Special:Export?

Apologies for posting in English

Hello everyone, the Wikidata for Wikimedia projects team is investigating the benefits of adding a new <tag> for a Wikidata item QID into the XML file output from the Special:Export function.
Have you used this function before? If yes, we would like to hear from you.

• Would adding a new <tag> for a linked Wikidata item (e.g. <wikidataid>) help you?
• What types of pages did you export? (Article, Template, Talk etc.)
• What did you do with the exported content?

Please leave your comments or questions in your preferred language as a reply to this message, thank you. -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 14:53, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #672

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, 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. Currently welcoming session ideas and proposals on the event Talk page until March 31. The event will focus on the ways Wikidata is integrated and supports the other Wikimedia (sister) Projects.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Enhance Your Wikibase With Extensions
  • Editing Lexemes with your little finger
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2024 edition by Jean-Fred
• Thread: Who wins in a Wikipedia race between GPT-4.5, o1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and @OpenAI's new Computer-Using Agent?

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

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

• 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 (test)

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-04-07. Missed the previous one? See issue #673

<translate> Events</translate> <translate>

• 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.

</translate>

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

• 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

</translate>

<translate> Tool of the week</translate>

• Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata for Web - <translate> 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</translate>.

<translate> Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate> <translate>

• 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)

</translate>

<translate> Newest properties and property proposals to review</translate>

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• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes:</translate>
    • 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
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New property proposals to review:

• • General datatypes: </translate>
    • 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)
  • <translate> External identifiers:</translate> 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

<translate> You can comment on all open property proposals!</translate>

<translate> Did you know?</translate> <translate>

• Query examples:
  • Plants missing a French description
  • Sorting Organisations by the no. of subsidiaries it owns
  • Popular German Family names
• 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

</translate>

<translate> Development</translate> <translate>

• 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. </translate>

<translate> Weekly Tasks</translate> <translate>

• 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!

</translate>

· Previous issue · Help translate · Danny Benjafield (WMDE) talk · MediaWiki message delivery (discuter) 7 avril 2025 à 17:48 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #674 (test2)

<languages/>

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:
  • Plants missing a French description
  • Sorting Organisations by the no. of subsidiaries it owns
  • Popular German Family names
• 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 (discuter) 7 avril 2025 à 18:15 (CEST)