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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-02-10. Missed the previous one? See issue #665
Discussions
New requests for permissions/Bot:
TiagoLubianaBot 5 - Task(s): Add image or reference illustration based on categories for botanical illustrations on Wikimedia Commons. Only add when only 1 or 2 files in category.
Closed request for permissions/Bot: MangadexBot - Task(s): add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID - closed as relevant Property has been deprecated and marked for deletion.
Whose (Wiki)Data is it anyway? - Ethics & Consent when cataloguing people, places and things. An on-site Library workshop of the Toronto Metropolitan University, February 12, 1200 - 1600 EST (UTC-5).
Comics Edit-A-Thon for Black History month, hosted by the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship of the University of Colorado (onsite only & registration required). February 12, 1300 - 1500 MST (UTC-7).
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
Blogs
Making SPARQL more accessible: Daniel Motz's bachelor's thesis on visual query graphs, check out their project in Tool of the Week
Preserving Community History with Wikibase - Tan Li Qi of MyCommunity, a Singaporean nonprofit dedicated to preserving the stories of everyday people by documenting community narratives, social memories, and local heritage.
Query by Graph - build a SPARQL query using drag'n'drop visual elements. This is an interesting tool that provides another way to approach building SPARQL queries, especially for those that find the Query builder or raw SPARQL unintuitive or complex.
CivData - "Cividata makes the diverse world of non-profit organizations visible. As a volunteer project, Cividata provides a comprehensive overview of non-profit organizations worldwide, based on data from Wikipedia's sister project Wikidata."
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Creation of the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee - Call for candidates ends February 25, midnight (AOE). The interim GDRC is being established to oversee and adjust resource distribution for the Community Fund, aligning with the movement's evolving needs. Currently open to applications from candidates with experience in grantmaking, budgeting and knowledge of Wikimedia's grant types. Further information on the role and how to apply can be found on the GDRC Meta page
Curationist seeks Digital Archivist - Curationist, a free online resource for cultural heritage seeks a part-time archiver who can navigate Wikidata, SPARQL and create metadata and support writers.
romantic orientation (pattern of romantic attraction of this person or fictional character — use ONLY IF they have stated it themselves, unambiguously, or it has been widely agreed upon by historians after their death)
location code (the location code of the location (please use more specific property if available))
directs readers to (document or class of documents to which this item or class directs readers)
nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
Hey, I did take a look through the CAB report, but couldn't find the paragraph from ASN in it. It seems to me that ASN reworded the summary, and this was then added verbatim to Wikipedia, which I think would still make it a copyvio? FozzieHey (talk) 14:46, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
Happy to do so, but if you asked me about something I added in an edit almost 20 years ago now I wouldn't be able to answer you! If you take a look at the ASN archive URL, the summary is identical to what was added to Wikipedia. If you take a look at the CAB report linked on that archive URL, you can get an idea of where it has been summarised by ASN, but it doesn't look to be an exact excerpt from the report itself. FozzieHey (talk) 15:24, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
I probably couldn't remember either, but you never know. If Crum375 agrees it's problematic or can't remember then we'll take another look at it. Nthep (talk) 15:56, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
You are right, I can't say I recall much about it, but in general I consider the CAB much more reliable than ASN. Not sure if quoting the ASN text is copyvio, but I simply don't consider it reliable enough, unlike the CAB and NTSB which are generally hyper-reliable. It seems to me that what I did at the time is move the CAB paragraph to the Investigation section, since it doesn't belong in "Background". Thanks, Crum375 (talk) 17:09, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
@FozzieHey I've had another look. Revdel require "blatant violations of the copyright policy", a cited quote doesn't come in that category. I'm not saying it's right to retain the material in the article, but I don't think it meet the criteria for revdel. Nthep (talk) 21:35, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
Thanks both for taking a look. I've obviously rewritten a large portion of the article following the relevant ranges, so it's solved from that perspective. As for the revdel, RD1 does point to WP:Copyright problems for less blatant cases and that page only mentions revdels in the context of RD1, so I think you're right, although I don't have a lot of experience with that criterion. At least I now have a good grasp of what to do if I come across similar cases in the future though. Thanks again for both of your help! FozzieHey (talk) 21:48, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #667
Extended content
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the week leading up to 2025-02-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #666
Discussions
Open request for CheckUser: Lymantria (RfP scheduled to end at 19 February 2025 04:22 UTC)
New request for comments: Anna's Archive - The RFC is about whether Wikidata should import and store metadata from Anna's Archive, considering legal, copyright, and technical challenges.
New Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series! We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group project series session on Tuesday, 18 February, 2025 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET Time Zone Converter. Eric Willey will be facilitating a series of four sessions focused on starting a Wikidata project from the foundation up at your institution. The second session will focus on choosing your project. Event page
Wikidata and Wikibase: Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities. Talk on Wednesday, 5 March. By Information Services, University of Edinburgh. (register)
Fedipol (Fediverse Activity Tracker) is a Wikidata-based tool used for tracking activity and analyzing accounts related to German political parties, institutions, and instances on the Fediverse.
Peh-oe-ji (writing system for {{Q|36778|Taiwan Taigi}} or other {{Q|36495}} language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System (romanization system for {{Q|36778|Taiwan Taigi}} or other {{Q|36495}} language varieties in Fujian and South East Asia.)
leader of organization (This property identifies the top executive leader of an organization, regardless of the specific title used by the organization.)
Search: We are continuing the work on the improved search that lets you limit your search more easily to other entity types besides Items like Lexemes and Properties (phab:T321543)
RDF: We are working on aligning the RDF export to the Query Service prefixes (phab:T384344)
New request for comments: Certify the Wikidata trainers? - Initially discussed in Project Chat, this RfC looks to establish a clear community-endorsed policy on how Wikidata Trainers can be appropriately certified and their skills demonstrated and recognized.
The WikidataDiffAnalyzer is a Ruby gem designed to parse and analyze differences between Wikidata revisions, providing detailed statistics on changes to claims, labels, descriptions, aliases, site links, and more, while also supporting analysis of merges, redirects, and other edit types.
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
Date filed (Filing date for a document, e.g. a patent or court case. Alternative names include <code>date submitted</code>, <code>submission date</code>, <code>filing date</code>, etc. These are all distinct from dates of issuance, granting, acceptance, publication, etc. that are public-facing and have to do with the last stage in a publication process. Searches for [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=date+filed&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns120=1 similar] terms yielded [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=filing&ns120=1&fulltext=Search+for+a+property&fulltext=Search no results], so apologies if this is redundant.)
Showcase Lexemes: år (L743600) - Nynorsk noun that can mean "a vein", "road", "talent", "an ore", "insect wing part" or "small stripe with a different colour from its surroundings."
Development
Hosting the Data Reuse Days
Wikibase REST API: We are continuing the work on a search endpoint for the API (phab:T383126)
Search: We are continuing to work on the search field that lets you search other entity types as well and not just Items (phab:T321543
Mobile editing: We are designing prototypes for first testing sessions
Vichy France. Just an FYI, Academia Lab is a esWiki mirror that machine translates some articles into English. I'd repaired attribution for of the IP's additions, and while I can't see the one that got revdelled, I'm assuming it's a similar situation? Anyways, hope you're having a good day, and thanks for handling all my revdels (especially the ones I make mistakes on!) GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 19:10, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
Oh gosh yes, they're literally the worst. Translations between common European languages at least have the benefit of occasional accuracy which, thinking about it, is probably the nicest thing I can say about them. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:17, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
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Hey I just wanted to let you know that this is my new account. I had to leave the project because my mental health got out of control, and I was in danger of getting kicked off the site entirely. The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 22:26, 2 March 2025 (UTC)