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Deleted Property clean-up in references

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Property:P10589 was deleted and I have removed any Claims using it with QuickStatements having found them with a SPARQL query.

How to similarly clean up References using it? See genre in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11147846#P136 as an example? I don't think this is something QuickStatements can handle, is there another way or do I need to write a Bot to do it? OQZYwD0R (talk) 18:16, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@OQZYwD0R: looks like User:ChristianKl was bit too quick with deleting the property. Usually we first remove all usage before doing the actual deletion. Not sure why that didn't happen here.
A property is also a wiki page so you can look at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=Property%3AP10589&namespace=0&limit=50 to see where it's still used. That's currently 25 items so I don't think you'll need a bot for that. Multichill (talk) 18:58, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think there are more than 23 sadly; I don't see Q11283669 on that WhatLinksHere page.
Only looking for Items with a genre (P136) with a Reference containing P10589 returns about 2000 results. OQZYwD0R (talk) 19:31, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed it seems like there are many more. A maintenance bot to clean this up sounds like a good idea to me. So9q (talk) 03:59, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I attempted to remove them with my bot, but the Pywikibot code encountered an error because the property P10589 does not exist. If you could temporarily recreate the property, I can proceed to remove the references. Difool (talk) 02:20, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The references have now been successfully removed. Difool (talk) 09:21, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Multichill I'm not aware that we have a policy that requires deleting uses of a property before deleting it. If you think we have a policy that requires this, could you point toward it? ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 21:32, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@ChristianKl: it's standing practice to remove (or replace) usage before deleting the property, see Wikidata:Properties for deletion/Archive/2024 for some recent examples.
When it's a lot of work, the proposal usually gets moved to Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion#On_hold waiting for the usage to be replaced. That's what I would do in this case: Undelete it for now and leave it in the on hold section until usage has been replaced. Multichill (talk) 16:55, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Multichill there's always a constant process of adding more steps to processes and burocratic buildup. When it comes to most decisions like deleting properties or closing RfC's our main problem is that we don't have enough people making the calls.
I think it would be bad for Wikidata to increase barriers.
The task of removing claims like this could be automatically done by a bot (the same we that bots automatically remove statements that point to deleted items). I see no good reason for putting that responsibility on the person closing the request for deletion. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 22:23, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@ChristianKl: I'm just telling how you can do it so you don't break stuff. It's just like deleting a template in a wiki: If you don't remove usage first, stuff will break and people will complain. Multichill (talk) 22:57, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not aware that we have a policy that requires deleting uses of a property before deleting it. I really hope we don't need a policy for everything. WD:UCS applies. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 07:21, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
When it comes to deleting items, it's not the responsibility of the person doing the deletion to delete uses of the property. It's something that happens automatically via bots. We did that to remove administrative overhead when it comes to the item deletion process.
My common sense would be that it would be ideal if usage would be automatically removed for properties as well as that removes administrative burden. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 09:14, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the property temporarily, in order to allow a proper cleanup before deletion. Stuff breaks left and right due to the premature deletion. P10589 can of course be re-deleted once the property has been removed from ~25.000 statements (where it is being used as a reference). —MisterSynergy (talk) 14:20, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MisterSynergy: Thanks for that. I added it to Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion#On_hold. While doing that I noticed that the closing edit is currently signed with User:Mahir256, but the edit is by User:ChristianKl? I'm confused. Also 10 supporting and 7 opposing deletion is hardly consensus and should probably have been closed by a less involved admin. Multichill (talk) 21:29, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My guess is that he has copied the closing template from here and somehow managed to mess it up. Since it was not Mahir256 who has closed the PfD, I have removed his wrongfully copied signature from the P10589 PfD page [1]. —MisterSynergy (talk) 21:43, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Just for fun I would like to manually add some facts of the type: "Investor X invested Y (dollars|euros|etc.) into company Z at date W."

Is there a currently well established way of modeling that?

The closest property I could find was funder (P8324). But then how do I set the date and amount in a way that other casual users like me are also likely to use the same mechanism so we can have a coherent model?

E.g. for the money amount I could use prize money (P2121), which has the advantage of trying to restrict the value to currencies, as a qualifier but it doesn't feel so intuitive and I'm not sure others would find it.

Similarly for the date, the best bet seem like announcement date (P6949) rather than point in time (P585) since we only generally know when something was announced, rather than agreed upon or money transferred.

Another related concept in existence is securities offering (Q3489761).

Another thing that comes to mind is in a funding round it is not generally known which entity gave how much funding exactly, so perhaps funder (P8324) won't even cut it. A better model generally would be "funding round value, date and investors involved".

Or you think this case would justify adding a new property of some kind, or some other way to help things be coherent naturally?

This type data can be quite valuable, e.g. https://crunchbase.com/ actually sells this type of funding data, but for now I'm just interested in learning how Wikidata works a little better.

Maybe cc. @FULBERT who introduced "funder" in 2020. Cirosantilli2 (talk) 16:17, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is price (P2284) where the original proposal makes it sound like it's only for list prices of products, but the current property description makes it sound like it could also be used to document actual price paid. I also wonder how you might model investments where non-monetary assets are exchanged, like stock or cloud credits (Microsoft's investment in OpenAI, for example). And more broadly, do you anticipate attaching the funder statements to the company/fund item or creating a new item for the specific investment series? An item for each series might make sense when there are a large number of investors over many rounds and their statements would become dominating on the main company/fund item.
Just some rambling thoughts. The members of WikiProject Companies might have some more developed ideas. Notified participants of WikiProject Companies William Graham (talk) 22:48, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
These points also crossed my mind @William Graham.
price (P2284) is also possible. This is a general issue I see with Wikidata given my inexperience, there are many properties that "would not be used in natural language for something", but would make sense if you take them in a slightly more generalized view. The issue I guess is, will people intuitively find the "right" properties on the search or not, and how to make that happen.
Yes, it would be good not to restrict just to currencies. If there's a way to force the value to just not be a raw value without unit, that would be perfect.
About item for specific funding event, both would work. My gut feeling is that almost all entries of this type would be quite short and people would be less lazy to add them as qualifiers. I'm not sure how interchangeable items vs properties are in the model. It would be cool if all Wikidata property assignments automatically generated corresponding items so we wouldn't have to worry about this kind of Cirosantilli2 (talk) 09:54, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The information "Investor X invested Y (dollars|euros|etc.) into company Z" is a bit vague, we prefer to record more specific information, typically purchases of shares in companies. However for investments you can use the investor (P1951) property and qualifiers such as point in time (P585). For the amount, capital cost (P2130) seems to be (a bit surprisingly) most popular property (see query). --Jklamo (talk) 10:14, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that @Jklamo, investor (P1951) and capital cost (P2130) seem like the best options then. I'm a bit surprised how almost none of the usages have a time. I still think announcement date (P6949) make a bit more accurate for time, but what matters is what most people will use. If only there was a way to propose "recommended qualifiers" of properties to help these things be more uniform. Cirosantilli2 (talk) 22:14, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

URL redirector for P12393

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For IFOPT stop ID (P12393), I thought it’d be good to point users to an authoritative database with current and complete data for these external identifiers. However, there’s no such global database, and the existing country-specific databases seem very incomplete outside their respective countries. To work around this, I’ve implemented an URL redirector in a few lines of Python, running on Toolforge. Is anyone here interested in becoming a co-maintainer for this tool? I don't expect much work, but it would be good to have some co-maintainers in case I get hit by a bus :-) --Sascha (talk) 16:46, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sascha: You can add me, though I'm not sure I'll be able to help much. I run the generic redirector that some properties use here so it's definitely related. Specific ones like this are probably better though. My Toolforge username is 'apsmith'. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:03, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, added you as a co-maintainer. —Sascha (talk) 13:16, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

about the medical datasets

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can you provide me with the datasets of medical api 183.82.105.93 12:46, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to mark topics on my talk page as resolved?

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One user recently reverted my edit where I tried to put a [RESOLVED] to my original title. Should I instead put it at the top? What am I allowed to change on my own talk page? Is there a guide? SuperUltraHardCoreGamer (talk) 13:04, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I got help. The suggestion to use Template:Section resolved but how do I actually use that? If you check I asked about this earlier on the talk page of that page. Anyone here knows? SuperUltraHardCoreGamer (talk) 14:07, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like you worked it out. If so, you can also mark this topic as resolved.  :)
BTW, We generally allow users great latitude in how they organize their own user and talk pages, but you should be aware that changing a section heading will break any links to it, but it should not (as I understand it) disrupt subscriptions made via DiscussionTools (Q94698747). Bovlb (talk) 16:20, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do have an unorthodox idea: Instead of having a normal title I'd have a link title ie. This is the title. The title would always link to my userpage. If I want to close it I simply change the title even though the link is the same: [RESOLVED] This is the title. I just came up with it. Can I do that on my talk page? This link will be the title basically or will the links still break after the change? I find that the Template:Section resolved is not visible in the Table of Contents and I think it would be cool if someone can immediately see in the toc if some topics have been resolved or not. Is that possible or is Template Section Resolved the best we can do? SuperUltraHardCoreGamer (talk) 17:14, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you hold multiple chess titles in one time?

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Hello, When I edit section about chess titles should I set to when they the title held to a year that they obitained another?

Wesalius B20180 Eran gobonobo Dr.üsenfieber Zpro1408 LockaPicker Dusty292

Notified participants of WikiProject Chess

Thanks for responses. Dusty292 (talk) 18:36, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to automatically hook these categories up

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e.g. subcats of zh:Category:20世纪浙江 and c:Category:Zhejiang in the 20th century. manually clicking, typing, copypasting... are tedious.

and, even better would be, replace the commons category page content with 

{{Category description/Administrative division by decade}}
{{Wikidata Infobox}}

.

there are probably as many as 30*20 = 600 such categories to link (30+ provinces of china, 20+ existing subcats by decade or by year...) RoyZuo (talk) 21:35, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New data-driven objects

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I created data-driven organization (Q131309257) and data-driven decision-making (Q131309236). Please help use, improve and translate them. So9q (talk) 06:28, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused what your intention is with this discussion topic.
The first item doesn't appear especially notable. I can't find any serious sources. The second appears to be one step beyond a marketing buzzword. William Graham (talk) 06:46, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to represent fractions e.g. to say which proportion of the Nobel Prize each person won without resorting to floating point numbers?

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The Nobel Prize can be given to multiple people with different weights to each, e.g. 1/2 to one and 1/4 to two others.

But currently this is not modeled as far as I can see.

I tried to add a qualifier proportion (P1107) e.g. to the award received (P166) of John Vane (Q309971) but my issue with it is that fractions that 1/3 are not allowed, I'd have to use floating points numbers like 0.333333 which is ugly.

Is there any better way? Cirosantilli2 (talk) 07:45, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A prize amount may be divided, but all recipients are laureates. The other recipients are recorded by qualifier together with (P1706). Trying to record the ratio of prize amounts would be rather confusing. Jklamo (talk) 09:15, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Protect against

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How can we set a property that wolf collar (Q8029919) protects against wolf (Q18498). Or bulletproof vest (Q391752) protects against projectile (Q49393) or stabbing weapon (Q1514280). --sk (talk) 11:27, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

has use (P366) protection (Q2251595) object class of occurrence (P12913) wolf (Q18498), as antivirus software (Q93249) does, though it has removal (Q23009442), and object class feels clumsy Vicarage (talk) 05:18, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Q49481656

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For Dahl Playfield (Q49481656), everything is referenced to a nonexistent GNIS record. No idea what we are supposed to do with that. - Jmabel (talk) 16:55, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the problem is more general than I thought: same issue for GNIS record for Woodland Park (Q49582806). - Jmabel (talk) 22:20, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Need to merge to items

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Hello,

I am working on the English Wikipedia. I wanted to get the article ru:Калюка to link to all the other articles about that subject, by linking to en:Willow flute. I unlinked the Russian article from kalyuka (Q4229054) and linked it to willow flute (Q1685320). On the English-language Wikipedia, I merged en:Kalyuka into en:Willow flute; however I don't know how to finish the process. Right now kalyuka (Q4229054) is linked to a redirect page. Jacqke (talk) 22:14, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, moved the ruwiki sitelink back to kalyuka (Q4229054) and added a badge intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304) to the enwiki sitelink which enables interwiki linking. For the future you can find instructions at Wikidata:Sitelinks to redirects. Samoasambia ✎ 11:03, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AGB, Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen (Q34582) wouldn't allow adding T&Cs for English language

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The item seems to be blocked by a rarely populated term (merely three languages in wikidata Q5165703) the T&Cs redirects to in English Wikipedia. This causes no language link for English language showing up in German Wikipedia lemma Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen at all, and also Allgemeine_Geschäftsbedingungen not showing up as Language link in English Wikipedia entry T&Cs. Seem I can't fix that, Wikidata wouldn't let me add the English Wikipedia lemma T&Cs to Q34582. Not sure whether the English Wikipedia redirection from T&Cs to the more general Contractual term is proper at all, causing the trouble in the first place here. Please could somebody more experienced fix this issue, so the T&Cs English Language link shows up in German Wikipedia Lemma Allgemeine_Geschäftsbedingungen? --92.117.131.30 00:31, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish entries overwriting english entries

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Hi everyone,

twice now I've stumbled upon english labels with spanish entries:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q682496&diff=prev&oldid=2279578863

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q80689&diff=prev&oldid=2279508631

I can't quite find the reason as to why this happened

(see https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q80689&diff=prev&oldid=1018414241)

,but found that both changes that undid it were reverted:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q682496&diff=prev&oldid=1337956303

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q80689&diff=prev&oldid=1765167231


There might be a systemic issue/reason behind this. Any help appreciated TimBorgNetzWerk (talk) 12:08, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just looks like vandalism that was discovered way too late. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 13:17, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To merge?

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Can you merge Q20009218 and Q99984255, please? The museum and the maze are the same attraction, compare itwiki and enwiki. Elena Tartaglione (talk) 14:16, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Elena Tartaglione: thanks for the report, you can merge them directly using the Merge gadget as explained in Help:Merge#Automatic merge. You can write me if you have doubts of course. Epìdosis 16:26, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Moana 2

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Moana 2 is a big budget film being released this week, see Q124457266. Except it's actually two films being released on the same day, one in English and one in te Reo Māori Q36451.

Since they're being released on the same day by the same company, this is technically not a dub since there is no 'original' (which is the terminology that ever definition of 'dub' I've seen uses), although I admit there's a 'main'. imdb only has the main one. How do I represent this as a second item? I have assembled some links and done created some items for cast, see User:Stuartyeates/Moana 2. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:52, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are these actually two separate films that have different visuals or is this one Film with two different audio tracks? i.e. do they actually animate the characters' faces differently when they are speaking Maori than English? If the video is the same and the score is the same, etc. but the only difference is the audio, then it's not two different films any more than a film being released in color and black-and-white is two different movies or an album being released in mono and stereo is two different albums. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:05, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The differentiation between these is unclear, as they haven't been released yet. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:10, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Teaser at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJHRxReah68 suggests different animation. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:58, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting merge assistance

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The wikidate page Operazione Riva Ridge (Q3883998) had been created back in 2013 about a WWII battle involving American & Brazilian troops against Germans, likely in support of the it.wikipedia article on that war. (Until now no English version of that article exists, to my surprise, & I have been collecting material to fix that oversight.) However, not knowing about this earlier article, I created a wikidata page about the same battle -- Battle of Mount Belvedere (Q124217523). I tried using the merge tool to merge the two pages, but that failed. Can someone with more experience than I have merge the two?

COI note: My father was awarded the Bronze Star for heroism in this battle. -- Llywrch (talk) Llywrch (talk) 23:44, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done The problem is that they each had their own itwiki sitelink, one a redirect to the other. The trick was to delete the redirect one before merging. Bovlb (talk) 01:25, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Property proposals

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Audio tour

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There is a element page for an audio tour see Q758877 but not yet a property.Thats why I would like to suggest of the creation of a property tag for a audio tour. Audio tours are used in for example a museum. Brechtd (talk) 05:13, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Augmented reality tour

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There is a element page for augmented reality tour see Q254183 but not yet a property.Thats why I would like to suggest of the creation of a property tag for augmented reality. Augmented reality is used for interactive experience of a real-world environment enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information spatially registered to the user's environment. Brechtd (talk) 05:18, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Virtual reality tour

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There is a element page for virtual reality tour reality see Q170519 but not yet a property.Thats why I would like to suggest of the creation of a property tag for virtual reality. Virtual reality is a computer-simulated environment simulating physical presence in real or imagined worlds. Brechtd (talk) 05:39, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Modify P5282 360 degree view

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Now you can only use a URL for P5282 "ground level 360 degree view URL" , I would like to suggest that in addition to using a URL for this property, I would suggest allowing the use of a link to an app (App store, Google play, ...). Brechtd (talk) 08:11, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic on how to propose new properties. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 09:06, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
So if you want to modify an property you also need to start a new proposal, right? Brechtd (talk) 21:48, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I had a look @ the following, it said "Before a new property is created, it has to be discussed here."
Property proposalBefore proposing a property, search the Wikidata:List of properties to see if it already exists. Before a new property is created, it has to be discussed here. When after some time there are some supporters, but no or very few opponents, the property is created by a property creator or an administrator.

See Wikidata:Property proposal. Brechtd (talk) 09:31, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #655

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-11-26. Missed the previous one? See issue #654

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: 333Bot - Task(s): Add missing sitelinks to english Wikisource based on their header templates there.
  • Closed request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - Closed as successful. Bureaucrats will now be able to remove Admin rights.

Events

  • Upcoming
    • 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon - registration is now open
    • Save the date: the Data Reuse Days 2025, an online event focusing on the use of Wikidata's data for tools and applications, will take place in February. You can already propose sessions for the program.
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    • Wikimania 2025 Scholarships are now open! This application is open until Sunday 8th December, 2024

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Guess Image from Pronunciation is an Ordia game that uses lexicographic data in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The game challenges players to match the correct image with the audio pronunciation of what the image depicts.
  • ABECTO is a tool that compares #RDF data to spot errors and assess completeness. Recent changes to the tool adjust result export for #Wikidata Mismatch Finder to changed format, add reporting of qualifier mismatches to Wikidata Mismatch Finder export, and suppress illegal empty external values in Wikidata Mismatch Finder export (Tweet)
  • Wikidata Infernal is an API that allows you to infer new facts from Wikidata. It uses a set of rules to infer new facts from existing ones. The generated statements will have qualifiers to indicate the source and method of the inference. Output is an array of statements in JSON/Wikidata format. (blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

  • Wikidata Query Service: The graph split rules have been updated to now also include Items that contain a statement using "publication type of scholarly work" into the scholarly article graph.
  • Wikibase.cloud now allows personal userscripts (phab:T378627)
  • EntitySchemas: We continued the work on making it possible to search for EntitySchemas by label and aliases when making a statement linking to an EntitySchema.(phab:T375641)
  • Ontology file: We are updating the Wikibase ontology file. (phab:T371196, phab:T371752)
  • Property Suggester: We are updating the suggestions data (phab:T377986 but first need to improve the underlying scripts (phab:T376604)
  • Wikibase REST API: We are prototyping the search functionality for the REST API (phab:T379608)
  • Revision table: We are continuing the investigation into the size limitations of the table.

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

ISBN --> QuicksStatements

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I'm sure we have a SourceMD-like took for generating QS statements from an ISBN, but can't find it. Please can someone remind me where it is? Searching for "isbn" at WD:Tools got no results. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:28, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe there's any open database of ISBN metadata, and I don't remember any such tool existing. I could certainly be wrong on this though. ArthurPSmith (talk) 21:16, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
citoid (Q21679984) populates reference templates from a given ISBN. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:16, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I guess you're looking for Zotero. You and Mike are the only reason I even know about that tool. Infrastruktur (talk) 15:57, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, but no, I was looking specifically for a Wikimedia-movement tool. Zotero will be my fall-back. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:42, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cronjobs at PAWS

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I'm possibly going to be running a pywikibot bot weekly on PAWS soon (BRFA, input is appreciated), and I wondered whether it can be automated, i.e. if there is no alternative to manually starting it up every week? The normal way to do this would be with cron, but it appears to not be installed, and users don't have the permissions to install it. I figured I'm probably not the first person to try to run code at fixed intervals on PAWS, so there's probably a solution. Is there one? — Alien  3
3 3 19:30, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PAWS is not ideal for scheduled jobs. Typically, such jobs run on Toolforge. —MisterSynergy (talk) 20:33, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the information! — Alien  3
3 3 20:46, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Automatic addition of signatures and ratifications of UN treaties

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I posted about this at WikiProject International relations. Since the last post there is from 2021 and the advice I’m seeking could mostly be provided by anyone with a good grasp of Wikidata policies and ontologies, without specific expertise about treaties, I’m posting here to reach a wider audience. Any advice would be much appreciated. Joriki (talk) 16:22, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Modeling assumption" being a subclass of "lemma" is nonsensical and give rise to surreal inclusion chains

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In the last edition of The Open Wikipedia Ranking we noticed some very weird results. We rank Wikipedia pages using standard centralities measures, and then let the user select subsets corresponding to Wikidata. As we explain in the FAQ, since 2024 the best theorem on Wikipedia is "Conspiracy Theory", which makes no sense. The problem lies in the subclass relationship between "modeling assumption" and "lemma", which causes absurd chains such as foreign policy ⊆ public policy ⊆ policy ⊆ principle ⊆ axiom ⊆ lemma ⊆ theorem, or conspiracy theory ⊆ reductionism ⊆ simplism ⊆ modeling assumption ⊆ lemma ⊆ theorem.

We tried to deprecate the faulty subclass relationship, to no avail. It should be removed, as it is simply not true. Lemma and theorem in mathematics are interchangeable, but a modeling assumption is certainly not a lemma. And subclass causes a semantic collapse of a very large number of concepts into being transitive subclasses of “theorem”. Sebastiano Vigna 18:16, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was actually able to remove the subclass. Let's see if it comes back... Vigna (talk) 12:09, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Vigna: If you have any further issues of this sort I'd suggest raising it with Wikidata:WikiProject Ontology which deals with anomalies in the subclass tree. ArthurPSmith (talk) 12:57, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Three is a crowd ... so how to fix?

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I would like to link the page Foo and the category Foo on some project to the the category Foo on Commons. That is ofcourse not possible. When I can't have both I need to chose. But who to pick? Is there a good practice for match making?

The relevant pages are Category:Printedition (Q33697781) and Wikinews:Print edition (Q33124259). I could chose to link the category to c:Category:Wikinews Print Edition - English because the files are in English and do the same for the Persian category.

I had this problem many times before and I always gave up and thought someone else would probably fix it but it would be nice to know how to solve such matching problems. MGA73 (talk) 11:50, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know which data type to take with proposal there are several possibilities that fit

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I am preparing a proposal for Audio tour

But have the problem that multiple data types can be used for this property proposal, so don't know how I should handle this.

Sometimes the audio tour can only be listened to on site, e.g. the MSKGent where there are several audio tours included in the museum ticket.
Another time one uses a site with multiple podcasts describing a city and where you can download them as mp3 or listen to them live via URL see e.g. vienna
In addition, you have museums that use an app for an audio tour

So then you need something that can indicate whether you can only listen to the audio tour physically on site, whether you can download it e.g. as an audio file,
further whether there is a URL to a podcast or the like and lastly whether you need to use an app to listen to the audio tour.

Can anyone tell me how best to approach this? Thanks in advance. Brechtd (talk) 17:31, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think you needed to have created one proposal, not three, properly fleshed it out, and invite discussion there, rather than come back here. Once your proposal is ready we'd be notified of it by the weekly message system. Vicarage (talk) 22:55, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merging or deletion needed

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I created Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (Q131343177) without realising it already existed under Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (Q124536127). I ported over all the data, so Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (Q131343177) should be kept and Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (Q124536127) should be removed. Can anyone help? Edo999 (talk) 10:05, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

→ ← Merged RVA2869 (talk) 10:25, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That was quick. Thank you! Edo999 (talk) 10:26, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

how to describe new objects 'studio equipment', 'lighting equipment', 'camera accessory'

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For an archive system we need objects that describe what technical equipment was used to produce a film. Camera, lens, tripod, etc. already exist and can be used perfectly. But then there are a lot of smaller pieces of equipment that need to be grouped together. We are thinking of generic items such as 'studio equipment', 'lighting equipment', 'camera accessory', etc.

I assume I need to create these objects. What properties should I use? As a subclass of 'equipment' Q10273457 ? Any other ideas? Thanks! Graefestrasse (talk) 11:14, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ethical Considerations: home addresses

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When describing a historic home that is still in use today what are the Wikidata guidelines for including a home address? H.Crummey (talk) 16:27, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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