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Wikidata & AI, together again - Wikimedia Tech News
The recently launched LangChain is an open-source framework for constructing applications with LLM backends; users can ask ChatGPT a question and have it reference data from the Wikidata knowledge graph before responding.

Federation in the #Wikimedia #Commons Query Service is impressively powerful: You can use the wealth of information contained in #Wikidata, combine it with structured metadata on Commons and re…

So I noticed that some bots(?) have been adding foreign language info to my Wikidata entry. Neat!
Except that some of these seem to be incorrect. Most of the non-English ones list "researcher" (which, sure I guess?), but both the Mongolia and Dutch are translated by Google Translate as "scientist."
Anyone know what's up with this? Mistranslation? Error? Is Google Translate wrong? Is this showing up in anyone else's Wikidata pages?
Mongolian: эрд…

I often want to link to a specific section of a #Wikipedia (or other #Wikimedia project) page. It's a bit tiresome to always retrieve the element id to build the link (e.g. <…

started the #Wikidata entry on #RocLang yesterday:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124813537

TIL since September 2023 the #Wikidata property P12045 – initiated by @… –has been existing for recording a #Codeberg user name:

Apple co-founder and former CEO #Steve #Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, so today would have marked his 69th birthday had he not passed away in 2011 at the age of 56.

Interessiert an #Wikidata im #GLAM-Bereich? @… veranstaltet am 19.4. eine ganztägige online-Einführung mit viel hands-on. Wir werden Statements/Items erstell…

Does anybody know of reasonably efficient workflows to bulk upload bibliographic metadata to #wikidata? Adding items via GUI is annoyingly repetitive and slow. Reconciling and uploading via #OpenRefine is probably one possibility, but that's not trivial. Has anybody come across tutorials…

#Wikidata community never fails to surprise: It took them less than 4 hours to revert the addition of an apparently wrong external identifier in a rather obscure context: https://www.