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Weekly Summary #660

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-12-30. Missed the previous one? See issue #659

Welcome to 2023’s Final Weekly Summary!

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the newsletter this year! 🎉 Each of your contributions, whether big or small, has made a difference and has helped us create a vibrant and informative resource for the Wikidata community. 🙏 Let's continue building and sharing knowledge together in the coming year! 🙌✨

Discussions

• Open request for oversight: Ameisenigel (RfP scheduled to end at 6 January 2025 21:52 UTC)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers
  • Library Data in Wikimedia Projects: Case Study from the Czech Republic by Jansová, L., Maixnerová, L., & Š´tastná, P. (2024). "The paper outlines the collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic and Wikimedia since 2006, focusing on linking authority records with Wikipedia articles and training librarians and users. By 2023, the National Library provided most of its databases under a CC0 license, launched a "Wikimedians in Residence" program, and collaborated on projects involving linked data and using authority records in Wikidata. This partnership has enhanced their cooperation for mutual benefit, identifying key factors for their successful long-term collaboration."
  • How have you modelled my gender? Reconstructing the history of gender representation in Wikidata by Melis, B., Fioravanti, M., Paolini, C., & Metilli, D. (2024). "The paper traces the evolution of gender representation in Wikidata, showing how the community has moved from a binary interpretation of gender to a more inclusive model for trans and non-binary identities. The Wikidata Gender Diversity project (WiGeDi) timeline highlights the significant changes influenced by external historical events and the community's increased understanding of gender complexity."
• Videos: Arabic Wikidata Days 2024 - Data Science Course - First Practical Session: Wikibase-CLI Tool (part 1, part 2) by Saeed Habishan. "The Wikibase-CLI enables command-based interaction with Wikidata using shell scripts and JavaScript. The tool runs on NodeJS and enables automatic reading and editing of Wikidata."

Tool of the week

• WikiORA - is a tool designed for gene over-representation analysis. It integrates data from Wikidata, Wikipedia, Gene Ontology, and PanglaoDB to help researchers identify significantly enriched gene sets in their data.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • bequest income (the sum a organisations receives from bequests/legacies in a timeframe)
  • taxon known by this common name (taxon item of which this common name refers)
  • homonymous taxon (taxon item of which the taxon name is an exact homonym)
  • role named as (use as qualifier to indicate how the object's role was named in the credits of its respective work)
  • meeting of (subject is a meeting or session of this organization)
• Newest External identifiers: PCGames.de product ID, PUG authority ID, Three Decks class ID, Vidas author ID, Usito ID, ZSL authority ID, Collectie Nederland ID, Hachette author ID, CamerounWeb person ID, Hindi Shabdamitra entry ID, OpenSSF Practices ID, Japanese Health Insurance System Facility ID, Centre d'Etudes Picasso ID, CUATM statistical code, CUATM unique identification code, JudaicaLink person (GND) ID, teams.by national team ID, Eyrolles author ID, Mémoire des avocats ID, BCU Kirundi-English Dictionary ID, Estonian–Latvian Dictionary ID, WHL player ID, Indo-European Lexicon ID, Battle.net game ID, Singapore Unique Entity Number, AniSearch character ID, Three Decks conflict ID, Berlinische Galerie object ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • About box (Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software))
  • nonprofit tax status (country specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
  • nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type)
  • World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
  • DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
  • number of shading units (Number of shading units in a graphics card.)
  • Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
  • presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
  • identifiant REGAFI ()
  • Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
  • Accused of (Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted'')
  • hat gespendet (Amount of money donated to a person or organization)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Norsk oversettterleksikon ID, hockey1946.ru player id, footballdatabase.eu match ID, Kamus Pelajar Edisi Kedua ID, Lyricfind artist ID, HonestGamers game ID, identifiant MACM d'un artisite, Syrian Memory person ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Paris Match ID, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, DOSBox Wiki, Identifiant Cimetières de France, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, Kyiv Independent Topic, Lutris company ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Play:Right genre ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Russian Football National League player ID, Gaia ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Wellcome Collection concept ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, UAF match ID, Identifiant d'un(e) journaliste sur Francetvinfo, Game Vortex software ID, VG247 game ID, identifiant Pappers d'un dirigeant, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, Mishramilan catalog ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Rijksmuseum ID, SOIUSA code, myCast work ID

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • trees of motifs described in Thompson's motif index (first two levels)
  • Think tanks by country (source)
  • Painters that have died before 1925 but do not have a Wikimedia Commons category on their Wikidata Item (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Uganda - aims to be a central hub for the curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organisational, etc...) relating to Uganda (Q1036)
• WikiProject Highlights:
  • Narration/Folktales - creation of Items for motifs described in Thompson's motif index completed
  • Austria - concerns itself with improving data from nonprofit organizations in Austria
• Newest database reports: Deleted Wikidata entities used in SDC
• Showcase Items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764) - late 14th-century quadrangular castle in East Yorkshire, England, UK
• Showcase Lexemes: ਲੇਟਣ (L750580) - in Punjabi (pa) and "لیٹݨ" in Punjabi Shahmukhi (pnb) transliterate to "Leṭaṇ," which means "to lie down" or "to rest" in English.

Development

• Most of the development team staff are still taking a break, so no development happened.

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: Liechtenstein
• 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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Question from EngineStalled (10:09, 31 December 2024)

Hello Cassiopeia, how do I find articles that need some work on them? The Survey never helped me in any way... --EngineStalled (talk) 10:09, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

EngineStalled Good day and thank you for the question. Not sure what you meant "The Survey" but if you want to find articles that need some work on them, first you need to know some basic Wikipedia guidelines so you don't make mistakes or violate the Wikipedia guidelines on your editing such as adding not independent or reliable sources such as you have added source/citation from "fandom" sites on one of the edits you made or you bold the text without knowing the MOS:NOBOLD guideline. There are many Wikipedia guidelines but as a newcomer to Wikipedia, I "strongly" suggest you to take a short program - WP:TWA so you can familiarize yourself with some basic Wikipedia guidelines. Please take the program (30mins) on laptop/desktop and not on mobile devices. Once you have done that, pop back here and I will point you to the articles you seek. By the way, what areas of work (example, adding categories, adding short disruptions, correct manual of style in arrivals or etc) you would like to contribute? Happy Year and stay safe. Cassiopeia talk 11:02, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

thank you, I will do that. By Survey I was talking about a Survey nobody else can view. Happy Year and stay safe. EngineStalled (talk) 12:17, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from SineKite (02:56, 2 January 2025)

FYI, I created this account with the intention of making one edit to the Carbon Dioxide page, which is semi-protected. I am planning to make enough small edits for my account to be auto-confirmed, so that I can make the desired change (which I mentioned on the talk page a few weeks ago, but hasn't gotten any response). Let me know if I am going about anything the wrong way! --SineKite (talk) 02:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

SineKite Good day and thank you for the question. I believe your edit on the Talk:Carbon dioxide page is under IP address 73.171.45.17 from Virginia and your edit was - "Here-1" and see - Here-2. Thank you for registering and checking the content info according to the source. If you dont ping particular editors on any talk page, then only the interested editor of the article will reply to your question and discuss the issue. Since the page is semi-protected, it will only allow registered user accounts that are at least 4 days old and have made at least 10 edits. Currently, you have 9 main space edits and one talk page (my talk page) edit. So you need to make at least one more edit on the main space and wait until 02:12 January 6,2025 to become an auto-comfited user to edit Carbon Dioxide. I hope you continue to edit Wikipedia from here on and please pop back here if you have further questions as I am here to help. Stay safe and Happy New Year. Cassiopeia talk 05:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Question from Marcberg06 on World Airlines (19:09, 3 January 2025)

I would like to upload a photo to the site How? I am a very very basic user. Either I'm too basic or it is too complicated to simply upload an archive image. Pity. Thanks for your help anyway.--Marcberg06 (talk) 19:09, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Marcberg06 First of all, please note that I have reverted your edits - see here for the lead section.

All articles in Wikipedia have a certain format/style which complies with Wikipedia guidelines. Please do not change them again.

To upload a photo in Wikipedia:

(1) You must be the copyright holder of the photo (the person who took the photo). You will be banned from editing if you violate copyright guidelines, as copyright violation entails legal implications, and Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously.

{2) Once you have uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, you must irrevocably agree to release your contribution/copyright of the photos under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License and the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License), which means you agree to let anyone in the world use your images for any purpose.

(3) To upload a photo, please go to Wikimedia Commons and follow the instructions.

(4) After uploading and saving the photo in Wikimedia Commons, click on "Use this file" and copy the link to paste into the Wikipedia article.

(5) Before uploading any photo, it is important that you carefully read the Wikipedia:Copyrights and Wikipedia:Uploading images Wikipedia guidelines.

Let me know if you have further questions for I am here to help. Stay safe and Happy New Year. Cassiopeia talk 23:07, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Question from ElynOliver (22:44, 4 January 2025)

hello! I created an article in sandbox, and it had a redirect added. I haven't seen any approvals or edits in over a month. Is there something I need to do to help move it to publication? --ElynOliver (talk) 22:44, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

ElynOliver Good day, and thank you for your question. I believe the article you mentioned is Draft:Karl Krüger (adventurer). Please note that this is not your sandbox but an article in the "Draft" space on Wikipedia.

To create your own sandbox, click "here" in the sentence: "If you have an account, you can create your own sandbox in your user space. You can find your user sandbox 'here' on the Wikipedia:About the sandbox page." All reviewers in the draft space are volunteers, and they select which drafts or new pages to review. Currently, the backlog is close to 1,755 draft articles awaiting review.

I have reviewed your draft page, and you can find my comments explaining why the draft article was declined for inclusion in the Wikipedia main space on top of the draft page. Let me know if you have further question. Stay safe and Happy New Year.