Translations:Wikidata:Status updates/2024 09 23/4/en

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • 2 years of Wikibase Cloud by WMDE: User:Addshore provides a timeline of the development work, challenges, successes and thoughts about the 2 year journey and growth turning WBStack into Wikibase.Cloud.
  • Wikimedia Germany develops semantic search for non-profit AI applications - Wikimedia Germany is developing a semantic search project to simplify access to Wikidata’s open data for non-profit AI applications, aiming to support open-source projects and enhance the quality of AI-generated content.
  • Wikidata and Artificial Intelligence: Simplified Access to Open Data for Open-Source Projects - A more expansive blog article from the above Press Release (also available in German).
  • Role Model data model - Creating a data model on "Role Model"
  • Wikidata unlocks its own knowledge base by vectorizing its data: WMDE partners with DataStax and China’s Jina AI to convert the mountain of data into semantic vectors that are readable to nonprofit AI applications.
  • (fr) Wikidata MOOC: 3rd edition - the latest round of the Wikidata MOOC will soon begin. This edition has new chapters and features, including a focus for secondary school teachers. If you're new to Wikidata and a Francophile, this is an amazing learning tool to expand your skills and knowledge of Wikidata.
• Papers
  • Refining Wikidata Taxonomy using Large Language Models - Manual efforts to clean up Wikidata's taxonomy are time-consuming and prone to error, this paper introduces WiKC (a new version of Wikidatataxonomy) which automatically cleans using a combination of large language models (LLMs) and graph mining techniques. Quality of the refined taxonomy is evaluated from both intrinsic and extrinsic perspectives, on a task of entity typing for the latter. By Y. Peng, T. Bonald & M. Alam.
• Videos
  • Wikimania 2024 Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, including : Extract Python library for Wikimedia tool i18n from Wikidata Lexeme Forms tool (Phab:T283376)
  • Wikidata Lab XLIII: Wiki Loves Brasil - Sandra Soster and Éder Porto present a workshop that covers the app developed based on Wikidata and the ontology and organizational work for the Wiki Loves Monuments in Brazil event!
• Research: Wikibase Cloud Usability Research (Q2-Q3 2024) - Research by Wikimedia Deutschland to better understand Wikibase Cloud novice user's experience as well as to identify opportunities to increase usability.
• Notebooks: Publications of French Sociologists