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Jan Ainali<p>With <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wikimania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikimania</span></a> coming up and a lot of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikimedia</span></a> people out traveling, here are all the embassies, consulates and missions in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Kenya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kenya</span></a> that <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> knows about: <a href="https://w.wiki/Evmx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">w.wiki/Evmx</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Moebeus<p>Week 31, 2025: What <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wikis.world/@wikidata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wikidata@wikis.world</span></a></span> album languages grew the most this week?</p><p>No sardine jokes to be found here, no Sir! We are just happy to see the Sardinians back on top, and to get to know more of their music. 🥇🇮🇹🎉</p><p>📊 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> 🎶🎵 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ExMusica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExMusica</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/wikidata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wikidata@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Sardu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sardu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Sardinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sardinian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LinguaSarda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinguaSarda</span></a></p>
Moebeus<p>Week 31, 2025: Top album languages found on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wikis.world/@wikidata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wikidata</span></a></span> right now.</p><p>For the complete list, see <a href="https://w.wiki/6TNS" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">w.wiki/6TNS</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>📊 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> 🎶🎵 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ExMusica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExMusica</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/querywikidata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>querywikidata</span></a></span></p>
Mita Williams<p><strong>How I use Zotero + OpenRefine + Quickstatements to create Scholia profiles from Wikidata</strong></p><p><a href="https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/08/01/how-i-use-zotero-openrefine-quickstatements-to-create-scholia-profiles-from-wikidata/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">librarian.aedileworks.com/2025</span><span class="invisible">/08/01/how-i-use-zotero-openrefine-quickstatements-to-create-scholia-profiles-from-wikidata/</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://librarian.aedileworks.com/tag/wikidata/" target="_blank">#wikidata</a></p>
Debora Weber-Wulff<p>My talented Semantic Modeling students from the HTW Berlin have contributed to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> project Govdirectory (<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wik</span><span class="invisible">iProject_Govdirectory</span></a>) by modeling the governments of Cyprus, Grenada, Togo, and Vietnam!</p><p>They had to deal with large reorganizations in first-level regions and ministries, stealth ministries, differing information in English/French/Vietnamese, lots of phone numbers for various offices, part of the country occupied, a one-party system ruling all branches of government, a top-level judicial system shared by a number of countries, and other real-world issues that cause problems when modeling them in an ontology.</p><p>They did a great job finding solutions for many issues encountered!</p><p>The results, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@ainali" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ainali</span></a></span> , are documented at <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Government/Report/Cyprus" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wik</span><span class="invisible">iProject_Government/Report/Cyprus</span></a> , <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Government/Report/Grenada" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wik</span><span class="invisible">iProject_Government/Report/Grenada</span></a> , <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Government/Report/Togo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wik</span><span class="invisible">iProject_Government/Report/Togo</span></a> , and <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Government/Report/Vietnam" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wik</span><span class="invisible">iProject_Government/Report/Vietnam</span></a></p>
Govdirectory<p>Join us in two hours for our weekly collab hour. Work on data in <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a>, perhaps on this week's focus country 🇰🇪 <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/Kenya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kenya</span></a>, help us hack on the website, ask questions or just hang out. <br><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Events" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wik</span><span class="invisible">iProject_Govdirectory/Events</span></a><br><a href="https://wikis.world/tags/CivicTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivicTech</span></a></p>
Raymond<p><a href="https://social.cologne/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> für Fortgeschrittene.</p><p>In Köln gibt es seit kurzem den Dirk-Bach-Platz, vor dem Schauspielhaus. Herausforderung: Wie modelliert man einen Platz in Wikidata, der bisher keinen offiziellen Namen, aber einen inoffiziellen (aka Volksmund) Namen hatte? </p><p><a href="https://social.cologne/tags/K%C3%B6ln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Köln</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/DirkBach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirkBach</span></a></p>
100%/0% TAX ✅ ✅<p>NO SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS MY PROBLEM???</p><p>It's happening!</p><p>new WIkidata item!</p><p>Label: Uşaklı</p><p>Description: family name</p><p>There, created: Q135509512</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WikidataQ135509512" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WikidataQ135509512</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WikidataU%C5%9Fakl%C4%B1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WikidataUşaklı</span></a></p>
100%/0% TAX ✅ ✅<p>Though the problem on Wikidata was that the family name was Uşaklı and in Wikidata there ain't anything like that so...</p><p>...didn't think I'd had to go in this much detail...</p><p>...AND MAYBE I WON'T HAVE TO...it all depends on if the Wayback Machine is going to archive</p><p><a href="https://lastnames.myheritage.se/last-name/usaki" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lastnames.myheritage.se/last-n</span><span class="invisible">ame/usaki</span></a></p><p>If not, I'll skip adding the last name cause I have other things to do as well...</p><p>giving this 5 more minutes and if 5 minutes are up I ignore the last name in Wikidata...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a></p>
Jez 🍞🌹<p>There are several SSI Fellows with <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/GLAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GLAM</span></a> and <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a> backgrounds: it would be amazing if there could be more of us! If this is you and you have an idea for a Fellowship project, please feel free to DM me with questions, I'd be happy to help.</p><p>It might be that you write research software yourself, or it might be that you support others who do, or provide training, or do related things like research data management. Like DH, it's a Big Tent! 🎪😜</p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DH2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DH2025</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/IIIF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IIIF</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/IIIF2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IIIF2025</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DARIAH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DARIAH</span></a></p>
David Zellhöfer<p>(Solved thanks to the great Mastodon crew!)</p><p>HELP needed ASAP in <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/SPARQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPARQL</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> for a research project as I haven’t used both in years &amp; fail miserably. Please boost and thanks for your help.</p><p>The query should list all German federal ministries and their associated federal or otherwise supervised federal agencies etc. The list should make visible which federal ministry is „in charge“ of each entity.</p><p>Any ideas?</p>
Bergisches Bäuerlein<p>Ich habe gestern ein bißchen 'rumgenerded. Auf meinen Obstnotizen steht jetzt auch, wo laut <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Openstreetmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Openstreetmap</span></a> die nächsten Bäume dieser Sorte zu finden sind: <a href="https://notizen.23.nu/Obstsorten/Blauer+Kölner" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">notizen.23.nu/Obstsorten/Blaue</span><span class="invisible">r+Kölner</span></a> </p><p>Und Links zu <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> gibt es auch.</p><p>Edit: Der Link scheint Probleme zu machen. <a href="https://notizen.23.nu/Obstsorten/Blauer%20Kölner" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">notizen.23.nu/Obstsorten/Blaue</span><span class="invisible">r%20Kölner</span></a> vielleicht?<br>EditEdit: nee. Dann eben <a href="https://notizen.23.nu/Obstsorten/Berlepsch" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">notizen.23.nu/Obstsorten/Berle</span><span class="invisible">psch</span></a></p>
Jan Ainali<p>Nu börjar det finnas tillräckligt med grundfunktioner i <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wikis.world/@wikifunctions" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wikifunctions</span></a></span> för att man ska kunna göra språkliga funktioner. Här är en funktion där man matar in ett Wikidataobjekt och ut kommer en mening "X är en/ett Y" baserat på hur objektet är klassificerat i <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a>. <a href="https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/sv/Z26795" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikifunctions.org/view/sv/Z267</span><span class="invisible">95</span></a></p>
100%/0% TAX ✅ ✅<p>That way...work to do.</p><p>And just realized that </p><p>occupation --&gt; film director</p><p>but no references to back that up.</p><p>Truly work to do which I'm gonna do if you don't do it first.</p><p>"You" = Wikidata users!</p><p>1. <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23771550" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">wikidata.org/wiki/Q23771550</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and then I follow after I've done something there...</p><p>Check edit history to see how many spelling errors I make.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WikidataReferenceMissing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WikidataReferenceMissing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WikidataUsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WikidataUsers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WikidataElenaRossini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WikidataElenaRossini</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WikidataQ23771550" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WikidataQ23771550</span></a></p>
100%/0% TAX ✅ ✅<p>Anyway my Wikidata account is called:</p><p>"Shorpingtonz"</p><p>If my description said this and that person created x project I might have been 100% WRONG.</p><p>My user page on Wikidata should no longer say anything too stupid. As long as it's a little stupid I guess it's ok.</p><p>For more stupid stuff I type without thinking just check the edit history of this post. (#)ThankYou</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shorpingtonz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shorpingtonz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThankYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThankYou</span></a></p>
100%/0% TAX ✅ ✅<p>I hope I didn't have a Wikidata account cause I just created one.</p><p>Felon Musk did not turn up any results, it must have been vandalism.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shoppingtonz/114064628708667157" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@shoppingtonz/</span><span class="invisible">114064628708667157</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FelonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FelonMusk</span></a></p>
Jan Ainali<p>The <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> item for United Nations General Assembly resolution 76/276, that asked the question to the International Court of Justice in the Hague about what obligations states have in respect of climate change has some basic info. What more could it have? <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135455492" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">wikidata.org/wiki/Q135455492</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Angelo Veltens 🏳️‍🌈<p>Why is <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wikidata</span></a> hiding the canonical URIs of their entities so badly...?! Really tough to link to things and not pages accidentally... <a href="https://social.veltens.org/tags/LinkedData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinkedData</span></a></p>
Jan Ainali<p>Nytt lexem på <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a>: magnifik<br>Har du några andra bra användningsexempel (gärna från kända verk)?<br><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L1474821" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L1474</span><span class="invisible">821</span></a></p>
Govdirectory<p>With <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/Wikimania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikimania</span></a> coming up next week, this week's focus country is 🇰🇪 Kenya! <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory/Kenya" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wik</span><span class="invisible">iProject_Govdirectory/Kenya</span></a><br><a href="https://wikis.world/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> <a href="https://wikis.world/tags/CivicTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivicTech</span></a></p>