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Wikidata weekly summary #41
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/01/14/first-steps-of-wikidata-in-the-hungarian-wikipedia/ We are live on the Hungarian Wikipedia] \o/
- We have an intern for a week, Marius aka User:Hoo man. He’ll be working on the wizard for linking a new Wikipedia article to an existing item or creating a new item for it if none exists yet. (the first two stories here)
- Refactored sites code to improve design
- Changed item datatype to use entityid as datavalue rather than string
- Added lots of new Selenium tests
- Changed AbuseFilter so Wikibase can hook into it
- Implemented new change dispatcher script
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Working on combining successive changes to avoid watchlist clutter
- Claims error handling (i.e. they now show error messages when needed)
- Implemented initial version of Solr-based search for Wikidata in extension WikibaseSolr
- Started investigating use of Lua/Scribunto for the Wikibase client
- Updated the [https://github.com/SilkeMeyer/wikidata-vagrant Wikidata Vagrant development machine]
- Improved the setup via puppet on [http://labsconsole.wikimedia.org Labs]
- Discussions/Press
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-January/001596.html Latest updates on time and coordinate datatypes]
- Schedule for the reconfirmation of the first round of admins
- RFC on en:wp about the transition to language links from Wikidata
- Signpost, among others, covers the deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoyage-a-free-worldwide-travel-guide-that-anyone-can-edit/ Congrats to our sister Wikivoyage on their official launch]
- There’s now a manual for using the Pywikipediabot on Wikidata
- Deployed new code on wikidata.org
- Community Portal got a rework
- Tried to drop www from Wikidata URLs but that was more difficult than expected. Sorry for the issues it caused. We're working on resolving the remaining ones.
- Open Tasks for You
- d:Wikidata:Press coverage needs some love and attention
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #42
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- [http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de Updated demo system]
- Improved design of sites code in core
- Fixed SQLite compatibility
- Worked on implementing references handling in statements user interface
- Useful error messages will be shown in statements user interface in case of data value mismatches
- Switched the demo system to Labs’ puppet
- Selenium tests for length constraint, claim edit-conflicts
- Setting up dispatcher script on internal test machine
- More work on wikibase.getEntities() function for Scribunto/Lua-Templates
- AbuseFilter is now working with Wikibase
- The change dispatcher script is now ready for use on the WMF cluster
- Initial implementation of
{{#property}} parser function for the client - Created a widget for the client to connect a page to a Wikidata item and add interwiki language links to a page
- Preparing a page to list unconnected pages on the clients
- Discussions/Press
- VIAF
- Events
- InfoLunch at Hasso-Plattner-Institut
- Deutscher Sprachtechnologietag
- upcoming: FOSDEM
- upcoming: [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-January/065839.html talk about MediaWiki groups]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reconfirmation of temporary admins
- Next deployment (Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia) still scheduled for 30th of January as planned
- Planning for Wikimania in Hong Kong
- [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/19/wikimedia-sites-move-to-primary-data-center-in-ashburn-virginia/ Wikimedia data center move went rather smoothly]
- Request from the Bosnian Wikipedia community to be among the next to use Wikidata
- [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/23/german-community-project-about-paid-editing-starts/ Project about paid editing] that might also become relevant for Wikidata at some point
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #43
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployment on the Hebrew and Italian Wikipedia ([http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/01/30/wikidata-coming-to-the-next-two-wikipedias/] [http://blog.wikimedia.org.il/?p=768] [http://nonnawiki.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/wikidata-arriva-su-wikipedia-in-ebraico-e-in-italiano/])
- Switched the Wikipedias over to a new, more scalable dispatching changes script for propagating changes from the repository to the clients
- Fixing various deeply buried bugs and a few minor bugs reported after deployment
- Preparations for next deployment on wikidata.org
- Working on property parser function for the client
- Implemented robust serialization of changes for dispatching
- Resumed work on linked data interface
- References can now be created, edited and removed on existing statements
- Several minor user interface fixes
- Styling of the user interface for statements
- Selenium tests for references
- Selenium tests for non-JS SpecialPages
- Worked on puppet
- Discussions/Press
- Abuse filter guidelines
- Policy on properties
- First external tool for output in RDF: [http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#A_first_draft_of_an_external_tool_to_output_Wikidata_content_in_RDF] and [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-January/001682.html]
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-January/001637.html Running your own instance of Wikibase (for science!)]
- Events
- We’ve set the date for the next office hours
- upcoming: FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Admin reconfirmation is still ongoing
- Deployment of first parts of phase 2 on wikidata.org are planned for February 4 and deployment on English Wikipedia for February 11. See [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/01/30/wikidata-coming-to-the-next-two-wikipedias/ this blog post] for details and more dates.
- Open Tasks for You
- Test statements on the [[http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de demo system] before the roll-out to wikidata.org on February 4
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
List of terrorist incidents - your opinion needed
I noticed you were active in a 2011 discussion considering some general guidelines on what to include in the list of terrorist incidents, how to phrase it, and how long to keep it, as well as what kind of attacks should be on the list (because we obviously can't have ALL of them, or even a large percentage). Since a few conflict points have surfaced in the last few months, I would like to invite you to share your opinion on an ongoing discussion between myself and User:Lihaas that is taking place over here. Of course, I'm not expecting you to take my side, but it would be great if more people can weigh in. I have copied this to the talk pages of other people who were previously involved in editing these articles. Skycycle (talk) 01:07, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #44
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/04/first-parts-of-phase-2-of-wikidata-going-live/ Deployment of the first parts of phase 2 (infoboxes/statements) on wikidata.org done] - see it live for example here, here and here
- Diffs for statement edits can now be shown
- Started work on query definitions
- Edit links are now disabled in the interface when the user does not have the rights to edit
- Edit links are now hidden when viewing old revision
- Worked on search field for WikibaseSolr
- More work on Lua templates for Wikibase entities
- Worked on bugfixes in the statement user interface
- New features in the statement user interface (references counter/heading)
- JavaScript editing for table showing labels and description of the same item in different languages
- Repaired and updated the [http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de demo system]
- Resumed work on Linked Data interface
- Support for enhanced recent changes format in client
- There are automatic comments for statement edits as well in the history now
- Special page for unconnected pages, that is pages on the client that are not connected to items on the repository
- Added permission checks for statements, so a user that can not edit will not be able to edit or that only a group can be allowed to do some changes like creating statements
- Discussions/Press
- Signpost
- Lots of discussions about the usage details and policies of phase 2 on d:Wikidata:Project chat
- Events
- FOSDEM
- upcoming: office hour (English; German later)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on the English language Wikipedia is still planned for Monday late evening UTC (pending a performance review)
- List of existing properties and their usage
- List of new proposed properties
- Open Tasks for You
- d:User:PinkAmpersand is looking for someone to write a script that once someone has been made an autopatroller, retroactively patrols all of their prior edits
- d:Wikidata:Press coverage could use some love and care
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
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Wikidata weekly summary #45
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-english-wikipedia/ Deployment to English Wikipedia]
- Fix various minor bugs in client, including watchlist toggle with preference to default to always show Wikidata edits
- Added the new Baso Minangkabau Wikipedia (min)
- Fixed wrong revision of statements being shown in diff and old revision view
- Diff visualization for claims (simple version for main snak)
- Diff visualization for claims (extended version for references, qualifiers, ranks)
- Tooltip that notifies about the license your contributions will be covered by while editing (can be disabled by each user)
- Started with valueview refactoring
- Started with user interface handling of deleted properties
- Started with refactoring of local partial entity lookup
- Started with refactoring of toolbar usage in jQuery.wikibase view widgets
- Finished improvement on jQuery.wikibase.claimview’s edit mode handling
- Improved search by using entity selector in search field instead of normal MediaWiki search field
- More work on Lua-based templates for entities
- Specified the capabilities of the query language we need
- Created query object
- Proper bot-flagging of edits (bugzilla:44857)
- Use of ID to directly address an item or property
- Search should give more of the complete matches now
- Special:ItemByTitle should work for canonical namespaces and later on for local namespaces
- More robust format for notifications of changes on the repository to the client
- Started work on refactoring API and autocomments code
- Started to maintain documentation of configuration options in git
- Discussions/Press
- List of currently existing properties
- Proposals for new properties
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
- Upcoming: office hour in English tomorrow
- Note: changed day of next German office hour to March 8
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have a time scheduled when Wikidata will be read-only for a database migration. The window for that is Feb 20 19:00 to Feb 21 2:00 UTC.
- New features and bugfixes on Wikidata are planned to be deployed on Monday (Feb 18). This should among other things include:
- Showing useful diffs for edits of claims (they’re currently empty)
- Automatic comments for editing of claims (there are currently none)
- Ability to add items to claims by their ID
- Better handling of deleted properties
- More results in the entity selector (that’s the thing that lets you select properties, items and so on) so you can add everything and not just the first few matches that are shown
- We’re still working on the issue that sometimes editing of certain parts of items or properties isn’t possible. If you’re running into it try to reload the page and/or change the URL to the www. version or the non-www. version respectively.
- Deployment on all other Wikipedias is currently planned for March 6 (a note to the Village Pumps of all affected projects will follow soon)
- Check out a well-done item
- Open Tasks for You
- Help expand en:Wikipedia:Wikidata
- Help expand and translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
- Hack on one [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #46
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
- Updated [http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Testwiki:Main_Page demo system]
- Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
- Implemented first version of a string data type
- Worked on better error reporting from the API
- Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
- Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
- Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
- Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
- Worked on cleanup of local entity store
- Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
- Discussions/Press
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/20/the-future-of-wikidata/ Wikidata development will continue in 2013]
- [http://semanticweb.com/wikidata-phase-2-in-full-swing_b35445 Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing]
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-February/001763.html RFC about the Wikidata API]
- Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at [d:Wikidata:Property proposal]]
- RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
- Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines
- Events
- office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
- upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
- Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
- [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q1339 Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata]
- “[http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/22/restricting-the-world/ Restricting the World]” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
- List of most used properties
- [http://omegawiki.blogspot.de/2013/02/using-wikidata-to-display-links-to.html OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles]
- Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
- We’ve hit d:Q5000000
- Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
- Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
- Help bring the content of :en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia
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The Teahouse Turns One!
It's been an exciting year for the Teahouse and you were a part of it. Thanks so much for visiting, asking questions, sharing answers, being friendly and helpful, and just keeping Teahouse an awesome place. You can read more about the impact we're having and the [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/27/wikipedia-teahouse-celebrates-its-first-birthday reflections of other guests and hosts] like you. Please come by the Teahouse to celebrate with us, and enjoy this sparkly cupcake badge as our way of saying thank you. And, Happy Birthday!
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Wikidata weekly summary #47
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Extended diff view to include references now
- Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
- Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
- Updated the [http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/ demo system]
- More work towards using Solr for our search
- More investigation and fixes of search issues
- Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
- Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
- Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
- A lot of bug fixing
- Events
- Wikipedia Day NYC
- upcoming: Wikimedia metrics and activities meeting
- upcoming: office hour (German)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
- Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
- Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
- d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
- The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
- The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
- [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/reasonator/?q=Q1339 Reasonator] gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
- Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
- A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
- We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
- Open Tasks for You
- Help bring the content of :en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to the remaining Wikipedias that will get phase 1 on March 6
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #48
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- More work on widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly without having to go to Wikidata
- Bug fixes for Wikipedias, including:
- don't show edit link when noexternallanglinks magic word suppresses Wikidata links (bugzilla:45037)
- use Q## links instead of linking to Special:ItemByTitle for “edit links” link (bugzilla:44536)
- preference for showing Wikidata edits by default in watchlist (bugzilla:44973)
- Catching up on writing tests for untested functionality
- More work on the Lua support for accessing data from the repository (wikidata.org) on the Wikipedias
- Updated Wikidata’s Vagrant development machine
- Created initial QueryStore interface
- Created initial setup code for the SQL QueryStore
- Discussed and created initial schema for the SQL QueryStore
- Simplified code for client settings, including which namespaces can have Wikidata links. The default is now all namespaces, without needing to explicitly specify them in the settings
- Improved code for sorting interwiki links in the clients, with step towards allowing the communities to specify custom sort orders per Wikipedia
- Improved handling of deleted properties
- Further work on replacement for current search box
- More work on improving error reporting and edit summaries in the API
- Tim and Aaron killed the mystery bug that caused corrupt login tokens (bugzilla:41586)
- Discussions/Press
- [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5328472 Hacker News noticed we exist]
- RFC about opting out of global sysops or not (more RFCs d:Wikidata:Requests for comment)
- Asked the Italian, Hebrew and Hungarian Wikipedias if they want to be the first to use phase 2 (will ask a few more to join the first batch later today)
- Events
- WMF Metrics and Activities meeting (recording is linked there)
- office hour in German
- upcoming: Bibliothek & Information
- upcoming: Wikidata trifft Achäologie
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/06/wikidata-now-live-on-all-wikipedias/ We’re now live on all Wikipedias with phase 1] \o/
- Deployed bugfixes and a new data type (string) to wikidata.org
- [http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/How-will-the-Wikidata-1-project-impact-Wikipedia How will Wikidata impact Wikipedia?]
- More useful database reports (more are being requested on the discussion page)
- Quite a few new properties that make use of the new string data type now and more are being proposed
- Lukas wants to work with us to improve usability
- New user scripts at d:Wikidata:Tools
- Did you know?
- Is a specific bug report really important to you? If you have an account on bugs.wikimedia.org you can easily add yourself to the CC list of the bug and then receive updates about its status via email
- Wikidata is also on [https://twitter.com/wikidata Twitter], [https://identi.ca/wikidata identi.ca], [https://www.facebook.com/Wikidata Facebook] and [https://plus.google.com/105776413863749545202/posts Google+]
- There is an IRC channel too: #wikimedia-wikidata on freenode
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
- Continue being awesome
Wikidata weekly summary #49
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Design improvements to the SetClaim API module
- More work on implementing the simple inclusion syntax that will be 1 way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia
- More work on Lua (the second way to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia)
- Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
- bugzilla:45037 - don’t show edit link if noexternallanglinks has suppressed all Wikidata links
- bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
- Selenium tests for deleted-property-handling
- Selenium tests for multiline references
- Selenium tests for add-sitelinks-from-client
- Selenium tests for Entity-Selector-as-Searchbox
- Selenium tests for language-table
- Implemented in-process caching for entities
- Lua support to access the repo data and implement getEntity (so you can use stuff like entity = mw.wikibase.getEntity("Q1459") in Lua modules)
- rebuildTermSearchKey is now ready for production (this still needs to be run but once done it will make search case-insensitive)
- Improved error reports from the API
- Ground work for better edit summaries from the API
- Added a table of content to item pages
- Added debug functionality to be able to investigate why it takes longer than it should for Wikidata changes to show up on recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia
- Finished implementation of References-UI
- Implemented GUID generator in JavaScript
- Worked on fixing a bug related to deleted properties where the UI would display wrong information
- Minor fixes/additions to the JS datamodel implementation
- Minor bugfixes in Statements-UI
- More work on RDF export
- Discussions/Press
- When to autoconfirm users
- More property proposals
- Events
- Bibliothek und Information
- 3rd Media Web Symposium
- upcoming: Wikidata trifft Archäologie
- upcoming: SMWCon
- Log of latest office hour on IRC (in German)
- We’ll be at the Amsterdam Hackathon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New features/bugfixes on wikidata.org are planned for March 20
- Lua roll-out! You’ll be able to use it soon to access Wikidata data on Wikipedia. Here's two introductory blogposts: [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/lua-templates-faster-more-flexible-pages/] [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-open-source/]
- The new pope didn’t go unnoticed on Wikidata either
- Someone sent the dev team [http://file3.status.net/i/identica/wikidata-20130315T113320-s3l7v4r.jpeg a cake]! <3
- Want an easy way to add authority control data? Check this
- We crossed item ID 7000000
- We now have over 4000 active editors \o/
- Some more stats based on a database dump from end of February
- [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/reasonator/?q=Q254 Reasonator got a few more goodies]
- Did you know?
- If you add a Babel box to your user page Wikidata will show you items and descriptions in other languages you speak as well without you having to switch the language
- Want to know which items use a certain property? Try the “what links here” link on a property page
- Open Tasks for You
- Help translate m:Wikidata/Deployment Questions
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #50
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
- Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
- Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
- d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
- Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
- Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
- Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
- Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
- Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
- Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
- Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
- Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
- Support for multi-line references in diff view
- Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
- Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
- Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
- Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
- Discussions/Press
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/19/some-data-on-wikidata/ Denny had a look at some data about Wikidata]
- Events
- 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
- Wikidata trifft Archäologie
- SMWCon Spring NYC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Join us for the Amsterdam and Wikimania hackathon and Wikimania
- Too many items with the same label and no description? [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wd_terminator.php Terminator] helps you hunt them all down and clean them up. Also check out the [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wd_terminator.php?list top 1000]
- Interested in the distribution of books by genre on Wikidata and similar things? [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/wdstats/?q={%22r%22:%5B{%22p%22:31,%22i%22:5398426}%5D,%22p%22:%22p136%22} WikidataStats] can help
- d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot needs input from more people
- Detailed list of bots
- Collecting information about creating a bot
- We’ve crossed Q8000000
- Did you know?
- When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
- Still looking for the right way to contribute for you? Have a look at d:Wikidata:Contribute
Wikidata weekly summary #51
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- The [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/27/you-can-have-all-the-data/ first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata] in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at :it:Torino)
- Worked on automatic summaries for statements
- Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use
{{#property:executive director}} instead of{{#property:p169}} for example - Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
- Selenium tests for qualifiers
- Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
- Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
- Discussions/Press
- Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata. Feedback welcome.
- Proposal for a vandalism policy
- Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a discussion on the best way to use them. (You can see an example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry number” on d:Q153)
- Should Wikidata have featured items?
- RFC about restricting the ability to create properties to some users
- [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikipedia-Datenfundus-Wikidata-geht-in-die-zweite-Runde-1832031.html Heise.de reporting] about deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/28/die-digitalen-romer-wikidata-trifft-archaologie/ Report] about a collaboration event between Wikipedians and archeologists
- Events
- Newline 2013
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
- Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
- Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/thetalkpage/ Wiri]!
- We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-March/001940.html analysis]
- We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
- In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
- We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
- Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
- Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? [http://toolserver.org/~legoktm/cgi-bin/wikidata/copypaste.py This] is for you
- The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
- Denny hacked together a [http://simia.net/treeoflife/ tree of life] based on data from Wikidata
- Wikidata was added to [http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/ wikipulse]
- A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
- Did you know?
- If you need to merge two items d:Help:Merge explains how
- Open Tasks for You
- See note at the end of this weekly summary
- Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the [http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki test wiki] so we can roll it out with the next release
- Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
- Add some missing descriptions to those [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wd_terminator.php?list items with the same label]?
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)
Wikidata weekly summary #52
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
- Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
- Worked on improving recent changes code in client
- Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
- Implemented string formatter
- Discussions/Press
- RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata
- RFC about statements for items related to software
- Events
- upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
- There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
- There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
- We hit Q10000000
- [http://goo.gl/maps/DyrsA A Wikidata item in the wild] ;-)
- Did you know?
- There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata
- You can get database dumps to play with
- There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org
- Open Tasks for You
- Hit a random item and add a missing source?
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.
Wikidata weekly summary #53
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
- Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
- Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
- Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
- Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
- Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser
- Events/Press
- right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013
- Discussions
- The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
- RfC about policy for translation admins
- We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
- Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
- There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
- If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
- There is a new user right: property creators
- There is now a page to request deletion of a property
- We now have Bureaucrats
- [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/reasonator/ Reasonator] was improved and extended ([http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/reasonator/?q=92642 1] [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/reasonator/?q=4504 2])
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
- Help draft the next weekly summary
Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.
Wikidata weekly summary #54
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Dispatch lag is now down to 0 so changes should show up very quickly on the Wikipedias in watchlists and recent changes
- wikidata.org now always redirects to www.wikidata.org. This should among other things solve the issue where people were not able to edit when on wikidata.org (bugzilla:45005)
- Fixed weird blocked-user/protected-page handling in UI (bugzilla:45140)
- Final meetings for the external professional review of our code and architecture. They were quite happy with the quality of the codebase and gave useful tips for improvements
- Worked on automatic summaries for editing claims
- Investigation of different JavaScript frameworks dealing with date and time
- Worked on using Redis and the job queue for change notifications to clients
- Work on the storage code for answering queries
- Events/Press
- GLAM-WIKI 2013
- upcoming: office hour on IRC about sources
- upcoming: Opensource Treffen
- upcoming: intro to Wikidata at the British Library
- Discussions
- RfC about references and sources
- RfC about local oversighters
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deployment of phase 2 (infoboxes) on English Wikipedia is planned for April 22. All remaining Wikipedias are planned for April 24.
- Qualifiers are available now. In the same update several bugs have been fixed mainly related to Internet Explorer 8. At the same time search has been made case-insensitive. More details here.
- d:Wikidata:Notability has been completely rewritten
- Cool task force page: d:Wikidata:Video games task force
- [http://bots.wmflabs.org/~addshore/addbot/index.php List of Wikipedia articles that still have language links in the wiki text]
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #55
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Started working on support for the Time data type in the frontend (editing/displaying of time values)
- Fixed copyright tooltip’s issues where it was not possible to dismiss it
- Started work for making it possible to track where on the client a property is used
- Work on dispatching changes to Wikipedias via the redis job queue
- Introducing core hooks to allow us to avoid page re-rendering when language links are changed
- Implemented automatic comments for setClaim (adding/setting claim, adding/removing/changing qualifiers)
- Investigated issue where edit conflicts are detected in error
- Fixed wrong revision shown in history-view
- Events/Press
- A lot of articles about the deployment of phase 2 on all Wikipedias among them: [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikipedia-Datenfundus-Wikidata-geht-in-den-Regelbetrieb-1849208.html Wikipedia-Datenfundus Wikidata geht in den Regelbetrieb], [http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Wikidata-goes-live-worldwide-1849479.html Wikidata goes live worldwide], [http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/view/pressrelease/wikidata-revolutionen-aer-haer-moejliggoer-strukturerade-data-paa-wikipedia-859762 Wikidata-revolutionen är här: Möjliggör strukturerade data på Wikipedia]
- Wikimedia switching to MariaDB in c'T (German): [http://www.heise.de/ct/meldung/Wikipedia-wechselt-von-MySQL-auf-MariaDB-1848140.html Wikipedia wechselt von MySQL auf MariaDB]
- Office hour about references (log)
- Introduction to Wikidata - talk at the British Library
- OpensourceTreffen in Munich
- Upcoming: Hypertext 2013
- Discussions
- RfC about vandalism
- RfP for oversighters
- RfC about interproject links interface
- RfC about inactive administrators
- RfC about permissions for rollbackers regarding vandalism
- RfC about Kinship
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Phase 2 has been [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/04/22/and-that-makes-12/ deployed on English Wikipedia] and [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/04/24/wikidata-all-around-the-world/ all remaining ones]
- Deployed a widget that makes it easier to add language links when there is only one language link on Wikidata so far
- Page to collect information about phase 2 on the Wikipedias
- Page edits have passed 31 million.
- d:Help:Shortcut lists shortcuts for frequently used pages
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-April/002165.html Nice interaction of local data and data from Wikidata] on English Wikipedias
- Did you know?
- Item Q12000000 is is the Czech Wiki entry about "Výškové horolezectví" or "high altitude climbing"
- Newest properties are: occupant, color (hex triplet), NOR, member of, color (item), opposite of, said to be the same as, IMO ship number, foundational text, Emporis ID, Structurae ID, industry, cohabitant, astronaut's missions, original network, launch site
- Newest qualifiers are: determination method, role
- Properties merged: sister and brother (discussion)
- Open Tasks for You
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
- Translate the Table of properties into your language
- Review a proposal for a qualifier property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- If fixing a particular bug is especially important for you then please consider voting for it in Bugzilla to help the development team prioritize. A list of all of the currently open ones is [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org here].
Wikidata weekly summary #56
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Worked with students on their Google Summer of Code proposals
- Worked on time data type editing in the frontend
- Worked on improving the DataTypes system
- Working on better Continuous Integration strategy
- Moving Selenium tests to Cloudbees & Saucelabs
- Catching up with Selenium tests
- Events/Press
- Hypertext 2013
- upcoming: Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
- Discussions
- RFC to enable the "flood flag"
- RFC about "labels in uncommon language variants"
- RFC to create "Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia"
- 7 users requesting access to the oversight permission
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
- when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. Hopefully it is now more obvious how to change the links.
- fixed a few cases where edit conflicts where detected in error
- added automatic edit summaries for adding qualifiers and claims
- fixed wrong revision being shown in div history
- Translators can now sign up to receive translation notifications at d:Special:TranslatorSignup
- [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/wdq/ Visual query interface for Wikidata]
- 3 Wikimania submissions that could use your vote at the bottom: [http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/State_of_Wikidata State of Wikidata], [http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Technology_Behind_Wikidata The Technology Behind Wikidata], [http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Ask_Us_Anything_About_Wikidata Ask Us Anything About Wikidata]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Recorded at (studio), Supporting actor/actress, Palissy identifier, Filmaffinity number, input device, Volume (collections), Historic Places identifier, CELEX number, country calling code, local dialing code, eight banner register, lakes on river, dan/kyu rank, legislated by
- Newest task forces: Pokémon task force, Cultural heritage task force, Space task force
- Open Tasks for You
- Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
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Wikidata weekly summary #57
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Development
- Implemented basic editing of Time values
- Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
- Work on RDF mapping/export
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
- Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
- Events/Press
- [http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/2096865/ Interview on dradio.de]
- PHP Unconference Europe 2013
- PHP Days 1013 Berlin
- Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
- Discussions
- RfC: Bureaucrats' role in removal of permissions
- RfC: Disambiguation pages guidelines
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/05/06/the-wikidata-tool-ecosystem/ Blog post by Magnus Manske about the Wikidata tool ecosystem]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech New mailing list for discussion of development of Wikidata]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
- Newest task forces: Baseball
- Open Tasks for You
- Review a proposal for a qualifier or property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #58
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- What should be done with the property stable Version?
- [http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2877 Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF]
- [http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2878 The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata]
- Events/Press
- [http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania]
- Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
- upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
- upcoming: Linked Data in Business
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
- Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
- The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
- English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
- Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
- Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
- The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use
{{#property:logo image}} in addition to{{#property:P154}} .) - Did you know?
- Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
{{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language.{{label|Q123}} does the same for items.- Development
- Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2013-May/000006.html Result of the external codebase review has been published]
- Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
- Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
- Jenkins setup improvements
- Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
- Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
- Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
- Progress on the SQLStore
- Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
- Bug fixing
- Made property parser function code more robust
- Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
- Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
- Work on RDF mapping and serialization
- Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
- Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
- Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #60
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press
- [http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/wib/2119210/ Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more]
- Hackathon in Amsterdam
- Linked Data in Business
- Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
- Upcoming: SemTechBiz
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-May/002293.html 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013]
- [http://4thmain.github.io/d3hacks/wiki-atlas.html prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata]
- Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
- Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
- Development
- Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (bugzilla:36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
- Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
- Worked on coordinate value support
- Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
- Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
- Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (bugzilla:48506)
- Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #61
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
- Events/Press
- Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
- SemTechBiz
- WMF metrics and activities meeting
- [http://oe1.orf.at/programm/337891 "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage [http://internet.cnews.ru/news/2013/06/06/proekt_wikidata_poluchil_grant_na_150_tys_ot_yandeksa_531335 here] and [http://digit.ru/internet/20130606/402157132.html here] among others)
- :en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/06/04/on-truths-and-lies/ Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth]
- Average edits per page has passed 4
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
- Newest task forces: Catalunya task force
- Development
- Worked on globe coordinate editing
- Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
- EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
- First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
- Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
- Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #62
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Noteworthy Stuff
- Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
- [http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2013/06-13.html The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files]
- [http://notconfusing.com/the-most-unique-wikipedias-according-to-wikidata/ And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata]
- [https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/344815790178045953 Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
- If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
- Development
- More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
- Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
- Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
- EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #63
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
- Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-June/002380.html Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary]
- RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
- RfC about personal names
- Events/Press
- [http://blogs.rue89.com/les-coulisses-de-wikipedia/2013/06/17/wikidata-le-wikipedia-que-vous-utiliserez-bientot-tous-230557 Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
- Development
- Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
- Further work on input validation
- Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
- Use Serializers for generating API results
- Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
- Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
- Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
- Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #64
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
- Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
- RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
- Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata ([https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/172199972/map.png normal] and [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/172199972/map_huge.png huge] version - updated daily)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
- Development
- The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (bugzilla:36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
- Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (bugzilla:49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
- Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (bugzilla:49080)
- Added serializers for the Ask query language
- Buuuugfixes and testing
- Refactoring
- Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #65
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
- RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
- Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
- One of our Google Summer of Code students is [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-July/002470.html looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
- Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
- Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
- Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
- Development
- Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: mw:Roadmap#Wikidata deployment
- Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
- Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (bugzilla:49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
- Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
- Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
- Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
- Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
- Lots of bugfixing
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #66
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- A request for comment on defining administrator activity
- A request for comment on image properties
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-July/002518.html A personal note and secret] from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
- Denny's map [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/172199972/map/index.html gets an upgrade], take a look at the amazing visualisations!
- Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-July/002524.html created].
- Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
- Development
- Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
- Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
- Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
- The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #67
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
- Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
- Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
- Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
- Events/Press
- [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/16/ibm-research-watson-aaai-prize-wikimedia-foundation/ Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize] which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698) , Ex taxon author(s) (P697)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-July/002539.html 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias], almost 5GB of text. ([http://simia.net/languagelinks/index.html 2012] vs [http://simia.net/languagelinks/2013.html 2013]).
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-July/002541.html Saskia joins the Wikidata team] to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
- Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
- Development
- Wmf11 has been deployed to [http://test.wikidata.org test.wikidata.org]!
- Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
- Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
- Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
- Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
- Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
- Templates no longer parsed in labels.
- Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
- Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
- Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these]
Wikidata weekly summary #68
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New UI Mockup suggested for Wikidata Mobile. [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Pragunbhutani/GSoC_2013_Implementation_Approaches#UI_Mockup_v3 Please give feedback].
- Events/Press
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-July/002563.html Next office hour on August 26]
- upcoming: COSCUP
- upcoming: Wikimania (including hackathon)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata learns to travel - language link support for Wikivoyage has been enabled and it was concluded that Wikivoyagers are pretty awesome
- There is now a gadget you can use to see a map of a geocoordinate on Wikidata
- Picture of the week could use some more input
- Top 20 items on Wikidata that are covered in a lot of Wikipedias? [http://p.defau.lt/?LMb9d2EYyf7rMsTDetDqeQ Here you go.]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Dodis (P701), encoded by (P702), found in taxon (P703), Ensembl Transcript ID (P704), Ensembl Protein ID (P705), located on terrain feature (P706), Satellite bus (P707), diocese (P708), Historic Scotland ID (P709), participant (P710), Strunz 8 (P711), Strunz 9 (P712), Strunz 10 (P713), Dana 8th edition (P714), Drugbank ID (P715), JPL Small-Body Database identifier (P716), Minor Planet Center observatory code (P717), Canmore ID (P718), Notable Incident (P719)
- Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
- Development
- When a page is moved on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage the link on Wikidata is now updated (bugzilla:36729)
- Ranking of the search results has been improved
- Worked on URL data type
- [https://coveralls.io/r/wikimedia Added coveralls.io support for most of our components] (test coverage)
- Fixed some minor bugs related to site-links editing
- Fixed bugzilla:52023, where multiple anon warning bubbles are displayed at once
- Worked on SpamBlacklist to filter URL values in Wikibase
- Improved handling of corrupt data from the database
- Made tests more reliable
- Made regular undo via the API work with Wikibase
- Worked on Time value formatter
- Error handling for ByPropertyValue API module
- Work on implementing QueryEntity
- Open Tasks for You
- Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #69
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Request for comment on defining CheckUsers.
- Request for comment on class ⇄ instance relationship in Wikidata
- The d:Wikidata:Global Economic Map task force is starting its property list. Please go there to propose important properties about economics for countries, regions or companies.
- Events/Press
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-July/002563.html Next office hour on August 26]
- [http://coscup.org COSCUP this weekend], Taipei (August 3-4, 2013)
- [http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org Wikimania is nearly here!], Hong Kong (August 7-11, 2013)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The [http://tools.wmflabs.org/addbot/addbot/iwlinks/index.html list of interwiki links] has been updated with more infomation and now also includes wikivoyage!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: removed feature, introduced feature, Parent company
- Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
- Development
- Custom edit-summaries added for the majority of API modules
- Started working on implementation for ordering qualifiers in the JavaScript user interface
- ChangeOps for wbsetclaimvalue, wbcreateclaim, wbremoveclaims and refactoring of wbremoveclaim
- Fix handling of '0' value in API response
- Solved bugs related to copyright notice
- Some minor UI speed improvements
- EditEntity refactored
- Test cases improved
- Further work on URLs
- Work on implementing QueryEntity
- Open Tasks for You
- Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #70
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Request for comment on Property proposal organisation reform to a more Model
- Request for comment on VCards for Wikivoyage
- Requests for bot approval has many requests that need further discussion!
- Many property proposals still need input!
- Events/Press
- Wikimania continues! If you are around make sure you come and say Hi!
- Wikidata meetup in the chapters village on Saturday at 1 PM at Wikimania.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Following numerous discussions we are happy to present the new version of the proposal that would lead to Wikidata supporting structured data for the Wiktionaries.
- There are now only an estimated 1,000,000 articles remaining with inter language links, down from the previous 26,000,000!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: LAU (local administrative unit), Sikart (identifier in SIKART), symptoms (the possible symptoms of a medical condition)
- Frequently used for cities and other places, P17 ("country") indicates the sovereign state an item relates to. There now at least 100 items for most present day sovereign states. Leading is China (Q148) with 607,817 items, followed by Iran (!794) with 105,875 items and the United States of America (Q30) with 99,243 items. China rose from just 5266 items a month ago.
- Development
- Changeops implemented for all Api modules
- All Api modules now have better auto comments and custom summaries
- Work on claim ordering started
- Work on refactoring Api Tests
- Bug Fixes!!
- Open Tasks for You
- Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #71
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- COSCUP ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UIwjt09frZoBVYFPidF0dRNrGWZFqzpHVKhnRMNSuyw/edit?usp=sharing Wikidata intro slides])
- Wikimania (State of Wikidata presentation, Tech behind Wikidata presentation, [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-August/002628.html Wiktionary discussion])
- [http://notconfusing.com/wikidata-babel-multi-language-display-easter-egg/ Wikidata babel multi-language easter egg]
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/08/the-occitan-wikipedia-and-wikidata.html The Occitan Wikipedia and Wikidata]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
- [http://listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits]
- To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/172199972/map.png a map].
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
- Newest task forces: Physics task force
- Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
- Development
- Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
- Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
- Worked on ability to move qualifiers
- Started improving API and Special Page tests
- Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
- ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
- Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
- Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
- Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
- Open Tasks for You
- See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
- Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #72
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion started about improving the RfC process
- d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources has been closed
- Events/Press/Blogs
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/08/22/wikidata-and-other-technical-bits-at-wikimania/ Report from Wikimania]
- Wikidata meets Incubator
- Office hour on 26th
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
- Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
- Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
- Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
- Did you know?
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/?lang=en&term=Monster&doit=1 20 undescribed monsters]
- Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
- Development
- Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
- Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
- Started work on an api module to merge items
- Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
- Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
- Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
- Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
- Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
- Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
- Updated [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2013-August/000206.html doxygen documentation]
- Open Tasks for You
- Report a paper cut (see above).
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #73
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Request for comment on Geo Coordinates for people
- Request for comment on reuse of data from DBpedia
- Events/Press/Blogs
- [http://2013.stateofthemap.org/ State of the Map] (September 6-8, 2013)
- Recent office hour logs [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-August/002777.html now availible.]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Abraham, Denny and Lydia sat down for an evening trying to [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata%27s_World.webm capture what Wikidata is about in a video.]
- Deployment! Wikivoyage now has access to the wikidata dataset and various other bugs have also been fixed (including the copyright warning)!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
- Newest task forces: Wikidata:País Valencià task force
- Development
- Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
- Work on entity / item redirects
- Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
- Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
- Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2013-August/000210.html EntityId changes], we are now working on 0.5!
- Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
- Further work on merge module for the API
- Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
- Work on value formatters
- Continue on moving tests to cucumber
- Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
- Open Tasks for You
- Report a paper cut (see above).
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #74
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-September/002806.html Saskia has finished her analysis of the different Wiktionary proposals and projects]
- Oversight nomination for Ajraddatz
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-September/002814.html Request for input by ontology experts]
- Help Sven compile a list of major accomplishments of Wikidata to date
- RfC about the Guidelines for the RfC process
- Events/Press/Blogs
- State of the Map
- Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/09/10-questions-about-viaf-wikidata-and.html 10 questions about VIAF, Wikidata and the world]
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/09/04/wikidata-quality-and-quantity/ Wikidata quality and quantity]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://www.coursera.org/course/metadata Potentially useful Coursera course about metadata and information started]
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-September/002817.html URL datatype needs more testing]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
- Development
- mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
- Jeroen gave a [http://jeroendedauw.github.io/slides/craftmanship/functions/#/ presentation on clean functions]
- More work on the URL datatype to make it ready for deployment
- Continuous work on cucumber & moving browser tests to saucelabs/cloudbees
- Simple query special page
- DataValues reorganization
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #75
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- State of the Map
- Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
- Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
- Speaker needed for a [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-September/002859.html Wikidata talk in Slovakia]
- Blog post by Denny: [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/09/12/a-categorical-imperative/ A categorical imperative?]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q2013&diff=69574966&oldid=67029813 The URL datatype is now available.] Go and add all the sources ;-)
- Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
- Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
- Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
- Development
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2013-September/000296.html Breaking change to the API in the last deployment]
- Started work on number data type
- Worked on simple query special page
- Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
- Worked on JSON dumps
- Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
- Continued work on the merge items API module
- Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
- Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
- Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
- Continued moving to new browsertests framework
- Bugfixes on autosummaries
- Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
- Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #76
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=72 Magnus blogged about the Wikidata Query tool]
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/09/some-answers-about-heady-stuff-of.html Gerard did an interview with Emw] about the heady stuff of Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 30 percent of all items are categorized in 6 large groups (main type (GND) (P107)). Most are items about geographic features (1.7 million items), some of these already have coordinates (0.5 million). Items about persons are fairly frequent too (1.3 million), many already with gender (0.9 million), a few with DOB (0.05 million) or DOD (0.04 million). Other groups include: creative works (305,000), terms, organizations, and events.
- The first 2 Wikidata oversighters are elected, Ajraddatz and Rschen7754. Please contact the email at the above page, and do not post requests onwiki. Two more candidates are running: Stryn and Sven Manguard.
- Neat new gadget to semi-automatically import labels, aliases and descriptions based on Wikipedia article introductions
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2013-September/000316.html New search backend on testwikidata needs testing]
- Commons is still scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on Monday and can also be tested on test.wikidata.org
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: GSRR rating, filming location, USK rating, notation, facility, South African municipality code, topic's main category, Nova Scotia Register of Historic Places identifier, PEGI rating, AMG Game ID, Libris, PORT identifier
- Development
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a [http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Software_Developer_(f/m)_focus_on_Frontend_Development_with_JavaScript software developer with a focus on frontend development with Java Script] to work on Wikidata among other things. Apply!
- Paper Cut: Display the ID of an item or property page next to the label (bugzilla:53462)
- Paper Cut: Fix value field not loading for some properties (bugzilla:53157)
- Paper Cut: Work on supporting non-earth globes in the UI (bugzilla:54097)
- Worked on quantity data type implementation in backend and frontend
- [https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/WikidataBuilder Work on a build and release tool for the Wikidata software]
- More work on sorting of references and qualifiers
- Work on database schema modification functionality to be used by the query store
- Prepare deployment for Wikimedia Commons (including improving script for populating sites table, adding support for Wikimedia Commons)
- Work on making entity data available in the Mobile Wikibase skin
- new Cirrus Search (Elastic Search) backend enabled on test.wikidata.org
- Finished up cucumber tests for sitelinks
- Hotfixes for coordinates autosummaries
- Worked on simplifying process of defining wb.fetchedEntities
- Finished working on wbeditentity
- Worked on MySQL and SQLite table definition readers
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #77
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
- What can Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base, do for Wikipedia?
- [http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3331 “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF]
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/09/importing-data-from-polish-wikipedia.html Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/09/27/data-for-the-people/ this blog post].
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-September/002892.html Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata]
- Stryn's request for oversight flag
- Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/?list&lang=en&mode=t1000 Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X]
- Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
- [http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Software_Developer_(f/m)_focus_on_Frontend_Development_with_JavaScript Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata] - please spread the word
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
- Development
- Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
- Improved layout for commons sitelink table
- More work on sorting
- Worked on statements UI tests
- Fixed failing QUnit tests
- Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
- Fixed a number of small bugs
- Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
- Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #78
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- 3 Individual Engagement Grants related to Wikidata are looking for feedback and endorsements: Understanding Wikidata, Wikidata Toolkit and Wikintelligence
- Request for Comments on linking Wikimedia Commons
- Events/Press/Blogs
- UK Wikidata training
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/10/01/pushing-wikidata-to-the-next-level/ Pushing Wikidata to the Next Level]
- [http://semanticweb.com/hello-good-bye-wikidata_b39978 Hello, Good-bye at Wikidata]
- [http://blog.pragunbhutani.in/articles/google-summer-of-code-2013-wrap-up/ Google Summer of Code 2013 - Let's Mobilize Wikidata! - A Summary]
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=92 Wikidata Query updates]
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/09/wikidata-qualifiers.html Blog: Wikidata qualifiers]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tempo_spatial_display.html Tempo-spatial display] (events in Wikidata on a map)
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/canned_queries.html Canned queries] (for queries that help find missing information)
- [http://simia.net/wikidatabrowse Wikidata Browse] (pretty slideshow of random Wikidata items, their pictures, labels in various languages and statements)
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html Wikidata generic tree] (displays a tree of data in Wikidata)
- We've crossed ID 15000000: d:Q15000000 (Category:Sternorsidis)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Code of nomenclature, programmer, theme music, inspired by, GHS precautionary statements
- Development
- Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
- Continued work on numbers data type
- Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
- Fixed RDF serialization issue
- Merged merge API module
- Finished up database schema updating code
- Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
- Finished and released Diff extension version 0.9
- Polishing work on Wikibase QueryEngine
- Some cleanup of EntityView
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries
- I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.
Wikidata weekly summary #79
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion over how Property metadata should be stored within Wikidata
- Events/Press/Blogs
- [//blog.pragunbhutani.in/articles/wikidata-sends-goodies/ Wikidata sends goodies to Google Summer of Code 2013 volunteers]
- [//ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/10/10-wikidata-questions-for-lydia.html A Wikidata interview with Lydia]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Statistics about sourcing on Wikidata
- Help the development team prioritise!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wikivoyage banner, RSL identifier, ISIN
- Development
- Added index removal and addition support to Wikibase Database
- Improved initialization code of Wikibase Query
- Added database setup code to Wikibase Query
- Added schema updating support to Wikibase QueryEngine
- Added SimpleQuery special page to Wikibase Query. This page allows users to find entities by a property value pair
- Formatters for snaks/values are now used throughtout Wikibase
- Some progress on DecimalValues and QuantitiyValues
- Started work to include the data type of snaks in the JSON dumps
- Worked on cleaning up inconsistent handling of Claim GUIDs vs hashes.
- Implemented more convenient user interface for Special:SimpleQuery.
- MergeAPI module and claim editing from wbeditentity to be deployed
- Further work on a build step to make deployment easier
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate :Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #80
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
- Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
- Events/Press/Blogs
- [https://twitter.com/designcaffeine/status/391235609274380288 Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata]
- [https://twitter.com/MerrileeIAm/status/391256391882534912 Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
- Newest task forces: International relations task force
- Development
- Further development on WikibaseDatabase
- IE8 is working again
- JSON socumentation created and merged
- Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
- Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #81
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion over whether to split three properties into six more specific ones
- Closed: Exclusion criteria for Wikipedia: namespace items
- Closed:Place of property documentation
- Events/Press/Blogs
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/10/do-not-use-wikipedia-as-your-source.html Gerard wrote about Wikipedia's place as a source within Wikidata]
- Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) will be held next week, Monday to Wednesday, in Berlin.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Echo has been enabled on Wikidata
- Magnus created some queries for Wikidata
- Wikidata is 1 year on October 29th! Stay tuned for some 'surprises'
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Philippine Standard Geographic Code, IOC country code, MusicBrainz area ID, BAG-code for Dutch villages, code for weekend and holiday homes (Sweden), Pastoratkod (Sweden), code for parishes in the Church of Sweden, Civil parish code/ATA-code in Sweden, Minor urban area code in Sweden, Urban area code in Sweden, tributary, described in URL, catalogue, category combines topics, neurological function
- Development
- Lazowik worked on API support for editing badges
- Bene added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to the item it is connected to on Wikidata (bugzilla:46538)
- Bene worked on a table of content for items (bugzilla:44876)
- Bene improved Special:ItemDisambiguation (bugzilla:55466)
- Bene added ftp as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (bugzilla:54103)
- Linked sitelinks in diffs (bugzilla:53471)
- Cleaned up and added tests in client that are necessary for improving the recent changes integration and for supporting enhanced changes
- Worked on the user interface for simple queries
- Worked on the user interface for the numbers datatype
- Continued work on ordering statement groups in the user interface
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #82
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata celebrates its first birthday!
- Wikidata presentation at the Open Knowledge Workshop Day on November 4th by Wikimedia Suomi
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/10/magnus-master-of-wikimedia-tools.html Interview with Magnus, a Wikimedia tool creator]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- record held, the one-thousandth property, is created.
- Wikidata could be a multilingual picture dictionary
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Lattes Platform number, NTA PPN identifier, PTBNP identifier, MusicBrainz Place ID, NLR (Romania) identifier, engine configuration, belongs to jurisdiction, record held, ARICNS, dmoz, scan file, NFPA Reactivity, NFPA Fire, NFPA Health, function/mission, elected holder, voice recording, spoken text audio
- Newest task forces: Railways task force
- Development
- Create and remove claim diffs will now show a diff for the WHOLE claim, bug 53142
- Sitelinks in diffs now have a link to the article
- ByPropertyLists now also accept lower case propertyids as keys instead of just uppercase
- WikibaseDatabase extension released to version 0.1
- Entity descriptions are now included in the search index text
- Sitelink titles are also included in search index text
- Further developments on Quantities
- Fixed the hiding of the remove button when adding a new statement
- Serialization options have been cleaned up
- Escape titles on revision history and diff pages
- Further work on Query and QueryEngine
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #83
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed: Restructure of minor user rights
- Lua enhancements discussion
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
- On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
- Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=108 Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
- Newest task forces: Athletics task force
- You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
- Development
- Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
- Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (bugzilla:44876)
- More work on badges by mlazowik
- Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
- Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (bugzilla:49434)
- Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (bugzilla:55667)
- Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
- Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
- Fix validation of wbsetreference
- Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Improve biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Flow Newsletter - November 14
Hi. This is a brief note to let you know about an update to the Main FAQ (the addition of a large table of Components of the discussion system), and also to specifically request your feedback on two items: our sandbox release plan, and a draft of the new contributors survey. We look forward to reading your input on these or other topics - Flow can only get better with your ideas! –Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:57, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #84
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed: Geocoordinates on people
- Instances of human
- Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
- Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
- Events/Press/Blogs
- [http://www.europeana-local.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=90:digbib2013&catid=7:veranstaltungen&Itemid=22 Digitale Bibliothek 2013] is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
- Wikidata office hour logs are available here
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=108 Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia]
- [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-November/003123.html Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google]
- The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=114 Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
- Newest task forces:
- Development
- Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bugzilla:bug 46538)
- Fixed bugzilla:49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
- Worked on Lua improvements including bugzilla:54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
- Started making improvements to the loading time of items
- Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (bugzilla:46217)
- More work on ranks for statements
- Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
- Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
- Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
- Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
- Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
- Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
- Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
- Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
- Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
- Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #85
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
- Closed: Commons links
- Events/Press/Blogs
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/wikidata-freebase-interview-with-denny.html An interview with Denny Vrandečić]
- WikiCon 2013
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reasonator now supports cities and locations
- The quantities datatype is available for testing
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
- Development
- Refactored Api output
- Collect tasks for Google Code In
- Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
- Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
- Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
- Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
- Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
- Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
- Improved Wikibase Lua code
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #86
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Showcase items - take 2
- Verified statements
- Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
- Closed: Image properties
- Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
- Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
- Closed: Constraint violation technical bases
- Events/Press/Blogs
- [//blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/25/wikidata-concept-cloud/ The Wikidata Concept Cloud]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Quantities datatype is available for testing
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
- Newest task forces: Sports results task force
- Development
- Ranks are nearing completion (bugzilla:49120)
- Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - bugzilla:54318)
- Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
- Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
- Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
- Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
- Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
- Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (bugzilla:54324)
- [http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2013/11/24/datavalues-library/ Released the Datavalues library]
- Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
- Defined permissions for Simple Queries
- First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!
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Wikidata weekly summary #87
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Change the resysopping process
- Inactive administrators
- Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
- Events/Press/Blogs
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/12/wikidata-complements-search-in-italian.html Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates] ([http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2013/12/wyniki-wyszukiwania-w-wikidata.html See the Polish Wikipedia's update too])
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
- A few new features which require your testing!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
- Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
- Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
- Development
- Finalized localization of quantity values
- Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
- More work on improving diffs
- Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
- Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
- Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
- Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
- Database performance improvements
- Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
- Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help develop the next summary here!
Wikidata weekly summary #88
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Guidelines about ordering
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
- Newest task forces: Political geography task force
- Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
- Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
- Development
- Made improvements to lower database load
- Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
- Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
- Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
- Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #89
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
- Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
- RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
- Showcase items: Douglas Adams
- Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
- Development
- Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
- Improved and added a lot of tests
- Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
- No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
- Caching and database improvements
- Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
- More work on quantities UI
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
- Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
Wikidata weekly summary #90
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion over handling of items
- RfC: Interwiki links for subpages (Notability based discussion)
- Closed: Inactive administrators
- Closed: Bot policy
- Closed RfA: Matěj Suchánek (Successful)
- Open RfA: GerardM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: chromosome, produces
- Development
- Redesign and improvement of toollabs:bene/itemsbycat/. You can also use short urls like toollabs:bene/itemsbycat/enwiki/Wikidata.
- Worked on reorganizing our git repositories and splitting quite a few of them
- Worked more on parser cache to be able to cache more content (this failed during the last deployment)
- Some progress on redirects
- Tests, tests, tests
- Vacations \o/
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Help translate on of Bene*'s tools!
Wikidata weekly summary #91
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion about the RfD process
- Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
- Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
- :d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
- Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: none
- Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
- Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
- Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
DevelopmentWord from John- To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #92
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion over Wikisource's notability within Wikidata
- Make Symmetric & Inverse Property addition automatic and bidirectional
- Closed RfAs: Lymantria (Successful), Lavallen (Successful)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- [http://aldil.org/les-activites/les-jeudis/jeudi-du-libre-du-9-janvier-2014 Presentation about Wikidata at Aldil], Lyon, France
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
- A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-January/003301.html They published a status report and a rough first demo.]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
- Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
- Showcase items: Douglas Adams
- Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
- Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
- Development
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-January/003294.html Adrian Lang joins the team]
- Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
- Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (bugzilla:49079)
- No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (bugzilla:58422)
- More performance improvement work
- Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
- Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
- Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (bugzilla:47070)
- Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
- Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
- Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer ([http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2014-January/000379.html more details])
- Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
- Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help develop the next summary here!
Wikidata weekly summary #93
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- upcoming: FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource now gets its language links via Wikidata
- Reasonator gets extended functionality
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: PlantList-ID, Danemark Job Code (DISCO-08), Instruction Set, Thailand central administrative unit code, student of, archive URL
- Showcase items: ethanol
- Fun Fact: A Space Odyssey (Q2001)
- Development
- Enabled language links for Wikisource
- Move more part of an item page from JS to HTML to improve performance and non-JS interface
- Database performance improvements
- Work on forward compatibility for new entity types
- Introducing the EntityStore service to improve modularity
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #94
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion about using 'instance of' specific for animals
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Next Wikidata IRC office hour on Monday, February 3rd
- FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Development Plan for 2014+ has been published
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php Wikidata stats] now also includes statistics for ranks
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ICTV virus ID, rector, fictional analog of, writable file format, readable file format, place made
- Showcase items: Cactaceae
- Development
- Daniel and Katie took part in the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco
- Bugzilla:60027 Add language to label and description field to make it less likely that people enter a label or description in a wrong language
- Bugzilla:58394 Avoid throwing out of bounds error when adding new claims
- Bugzilla:50570 API now reveals qualifier hashes
- Bugzilla:57213 API now reveals data type ids
- Bugzilla:57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
- Bugzilla:55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
- Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
- Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
- Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #95
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion over P31 as a qualifier
- Open RfA: Sjoerddebruin
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Quantities released on Wikidata!
- Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms , flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
- Development
- Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
- Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
- Wikidata edit permissions now included in [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/109333/ wikimedia OAuth edit groups]
- Moved Diff repo to [https://github.com/wmde/Diff Github]
- Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
- Refactoring of the [https://github.com/wmde/ValueView ValueView extension]
- MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
- Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
- Fixed wbmergeitems issues
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #96
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion over the naming of people
- Discussion over population
- Successful RfA: Sjoerddebruin
- Events/Blogs/Press
- See the office hours logs at meta
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- See the FOSDEM [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16VDTk9Lo9YU-Q-lj68984o8cGLZDwTDVUfazsB4V1GQ/edit slides]
- Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
- Development
- More work on badges by Bene*
- Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
- Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
- Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
- Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
- Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #97
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Let's redesign Wikidata's interface
- Reasonator
- By hovering over a wikilink you will [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/02/reasonator-presents-first-wikipedia.html see the first paragraph].
- The "personal settings" allow you to [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/02/reasonator-improving-your-personal-space.html import your Babel info] from Wikidata. This can be used to [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/02/reasonator-bit-selective-not-random.html restrict the random items you will get].
- The first iteration of [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/02/reasonator-johann-sebastian-bach-in-so.html "on the fly" text generation for English]. It works for "humans" and, is completely based on the available Wikidata information.
- You can now [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/02/reasonator-add-labels-in-your-language.html add labels in your language] from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: IAAF ID, Lagrangian point
- Showcase items: Vesta (Q3030)
- Development
- Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
- Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
- Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
- Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
- Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
- Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
- Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
- Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
- Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
- Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #98
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at d:Wikidata:Wikisource.
- 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesign
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: impact factor, Municipality code (Denmark), USB ID, Home world, Cardinality of the group, Internet media type, Bluebook abbreviation, Z39.5 abbreviation, ISO 4 abbreviation, CODEN, landing site, US Congress Bio identifier, Scopus Source ID, Scopus Affiliation ID, Scopus EID, Scopus Author ID, IPTC Media Topic, topic's main portal, Regensburg Classification, Library of Congress Classification, neutron number
- Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php 30 million statements]
- Development
- Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
- Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (bugzilla:61308)
- Worked on an Apache redirect issue (bugzilla:54273)
- Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (bugzilla:61446)
- Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
- Kept poking TimeParsers
- Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
- Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #99
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion about defining lists
- Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
- Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata scholarships for the Zürich Hackathon
- Wikidata FOSS Outreach Program for Women
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
- Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
- Wikidata's presence: [http://vici.org vici.org] are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
- Development
- Made loading items a lot faster
- Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
- Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
- Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
- Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
- Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
- Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #100
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion about enabling GuidedTours on Wikidata
- Open RfA: ElfjeTwaalfje
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: portal's main topic, Finnish municipality number, carries scientific instrument, upper stage booster, river basin category, mode of inheritance
- Development
- Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
- More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
- Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
- Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (bugzilla:61911)
- Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
- test2.wikipedia.org and test.wikipedia.org now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
- Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
- Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
- Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
- Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
- Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #101
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Notability of items
- Organisation of statements, sitelinks and external identifiers
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://www.mediahackday.com/ Media Hack Days, Berlin] March 22nd-23rd
- Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Happy Pi Day
- [http://korrekt.org/page/Wikidata paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities
- Development
- Changed the
{{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.) - Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
- Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
- Continued research for user interface redesign
- Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374)
- Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149)
- Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
- Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #102
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Wikiquote notability
- Belongs to jurisdiction
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/wikidata-cambridge-revisited-ii.html Cambridge revisited II] documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map.
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/reasonator-cambridge-revisited-v.html Cambridge revisited V] shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels.
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/commons-and-wikidata-architecture-of.html The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files] discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files.
- [http://www.spaghettiopendata.org/it/page/benvenut-sod14 Spaghetti Open Data], Bologna. March 28th - 30th
- GLAM Treffen, Bremen. March 29th - 30th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Riksdagen person-id
- Development
- Continued making the UI faster
- Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
- Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
- Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
- wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
- Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
- Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
- Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
- Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
- Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #103
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Wikiquote notability
- Discussion relating to DBpedia
- Discussion over Wikidata data
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Summary: The summaries will now be sent out on Saturday as opposed to Friday.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: astronomical filter, National Archives specific records type ID, National Archives topical subject ID, National Archives geographic ID, National Archives organization ID, National Archives person ID, compressor type, Internet Broadway Database person ID, Internet Broadway Database show ID, Internet Broadway Database production ID, Internet Broadway Database venue ID, English Heritage list number, apparent magnitude
- Newest task forces: Heraldry task force
- Development
- Reduced page load time significantly once again. Page load time was cut to roughly 2/3. For now we’re happy with the resulting page load times. We’ll start concentrating on other areas of the user interface now.
- Fixed faulty selection handling when adding a property using the keyboard (bugzilla:62868)
- Worked on fixing issues with handling of spaces in quantities (bugzilla:62567)
- Fixed miscount of Wikidata changes on the client watchlist (bugzilla:45812)
- Wrote new browser tests for special pages using the Cucumber and Selenium frameworks
- Improved error formatting, localisation and handling. We will work on error message wording next to make them more understandable.
- Worked on the code which propagates page moves from the clients into Wikidata as a preparation for allowing page deletions to appear on Wikidata
- Made the Wikibase extension work with the new “Compact language links” Beta feature and a bit more independent from the UniversalLanguageSelector in general
- The student team working on the entity suggester has finished the first version of it. The code is being reviewed now and is hopefully ready for deployment soon. Once it is deployed it will show you what new properties you could add to an item.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #104
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed: Merge project chats
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-March/003641.html Wikidata Toolkit 0.1.0 released!]
- Wikidata development has been going on for two years!
- Wikiquote gets Phase I on Tuesdays (April 8th)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: JSTOR journal code, Openpolis ID, Philippine Standard Geographic Code ID
- Newest task forces: France task force, US legislation task force
- Development
- Property of an existing claim can no longer be changed through API with wbeditentity (bugzilla:62425)
- UI for simple query SpecialPage (bugzilla:55593)
- minor fixes in the UI
- UI for claims on property pages
- worked on review of property suggester ([https://github.com/Wikidata-lib/PropertySuggester/pull/44 review])
- [http://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Working_student_Wikidata_(f/m) still looking for a working student/intern]
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #105
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- RfC: Quality is measurable
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://blog.magnusmanske.de/?p=189 Announcing ToolScript]. With [http://tools.wmflabs.org/toolscript/ ToolScript] can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools
- [http://www.haykranen.nl/2014/04/03/feline-mayors-of-the-world-or-why-wikidata-is-awesome/ Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome]
- A [http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=190804 Rijksmuseum] representative indicated [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/04/wikidata-and-naval-history.html what kind of information] she hopes Wikidata will deliver
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow.
- Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt!
- [http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2014/04/qlabel-multilingual-content-without.html Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website!] How awesome is this? Very!
- [https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimania]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: KulturNav-id, compression ratio, patent number, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning, phone number, International Standard Recording Code, Theatricalia play ID, Swiss Football Association Club Number, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level, ISFDB publisher ID, Swedish Football Association ID, Box Office Mojo film ID, Parsons code, ISFDB series ID, ISFDB publication ID, ISFDB author ID, Linguist list code, NARA online catalogue
- Development
- [http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Working_student_Wikidata_(f/m) Still looking for an awesome intern.] Do you know someone who'd fit?
- Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality
- Finishing touches for Statements on properties
- Worked on better error messages when parsing failed
- Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language
- Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded
- Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery
- Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys
- Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are
- Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update
- Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.org
- Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.)
- [http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2014/04/10/diff-1-0-released/ Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.]
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the movement (P135) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #106
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Sources will be called references because of a discussion
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of items without images but possibly free images available
- Any interested in another Wikidata office hour? (Say yes)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) SNO/CNO, earliest written record
- Development
- Lots of small little cleanups.
- Sprintbreak as most people are taking a few days off.
- Happy Q21196! Say Hi to the Q108636 ;-)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #107
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion over property creation guidelines
- Open RfA: JurgenNL
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Lydia will give an update on Wikidata at the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting
- Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon is taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha.
- In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne Wadewitz are taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata.
- Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
- Development
- Worked on making it possible to use languages not supported by MediaWiki in Wikidata
- We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value" on the client (when using the parser function or Lua)
- Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues
- Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester
- Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting)
- Worked more on making error messages localizable
- [https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#version-074-2014-04-24 Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7.4]
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #108
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
- ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working on a Wikidata powered quiz app
- upcoming: Data Science Day
- upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003753.html Helen and Anjali join Wikidata as Outreach Program for Women interns]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: coordinates of the point of view, Rotten Tomatoes ID, depicts Iconclass representation, Iconclass notation, Helveticarchives ID, Slovenska biografija ID, BCU Ecrivainsvd, AUSTLANG code, ABS ASCL code
- Development
- Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
- Cleaned up constraints checks and input validation
- Worked on requirements for the user interface redesign
- Started work on monolingual text datatype
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #109
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- RfC: Developer user group
- Events/Blogs/Press
- There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
- Development
- Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
- Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
- More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
- Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
- Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (bugzilla:55347)
- Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (bugzilla:63309)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #110
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
- Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/05/13/thank-you-zurich-merci-vielmal-zueri-wikimedia-hackathon-zuerich-2014/ wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich]
- upcoming: [https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2014 SMWCon]
- upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
- Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
- The [http://suggester.wmflabs.org/EditItemSuggestions/public/ EditItem suggester] was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
- The new [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/dupe_finder.php duplicate item finder] lists items that should potentially be merged.
- Did you know?
- Newest task forces: Wikidata:WikiProject Mathematics
- Development
- [https://wikimedia.de/wiki/PHP_Backend_Developer_(f/m) We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata]. Apply!
- Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
- Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
- Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
- Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at [http://wbdoc.wmflabs.org wbdoc.wmflabs.org]. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
- Continued working on the [http://wikiba.se wikiba.se] site and FAQ
- Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
- Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
- Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
- Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
- Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (bugzilla:64741)
- More testing on simple queries
- Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #110
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion about Draft articles
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata office hour log
- [http://wikiconferenceusa.org/ Wikiconference USA] in New York on May 30th and June 1st
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
- Play the Wikidata Game
- Development
- jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
- More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
- Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
- Continued working on monolingual text data type
- Continued making messages easier to understand
- Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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=Solar Roadways AfD/Talk Page=
The Solar Roadways AfD debate and talkpage is turning into an Edit War and an endless circular debate with DreamFocus. Can you recommend someone neutral/unbiased to arbitrate for us. He(she?) has decide that them and one other person (GreenC) constitute a "consensus" and keeps reverting my edits. GornDD (talk) 05:18, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
:GornDD Call that an edit war! Why when I was a lad......
:I don't think this has broken down to that point yet. I had been holding off on editing until the AFD is resolved. Looking at the current state of the AFD I don't think there is a consensus to delete so I will start looking in more regularly and participating - not as an arbitrator but as another editor. If you feel your edits are being unreasonable reverted then I suggest you announce what you are going to do in general terms ahead of time on the talk page then give them a day to comment if they think your edit is inappropriate before you do the edits.
:Hope that helps. filceolaire (talk) 11:15, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
::Ha. "Edit Skirmish"...? GornDD (talk) 16:02, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #111
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
- Wikidata:Tours
- RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://filbertkm.github.io/slides/ Slides from WikiConference USA]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
- Development
- More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
- More work on monolingual text datatype
- Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like bugzilla:65398
- Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535 and bugzilla:64887)
- Cleaned up installation instructions
- Tagged version 1.0 of [https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseInternalSerialization/blob/master/README.md Wikibase Internal Serialisation] and [https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization/blob/master/README.md Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation]
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #112
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfAs: FakirNL (Successful), Josve05a (Unsuccessful)
- Open RfAs: Taketa, Jianhui67, 555
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=213 Magnus Manske writes about how the Wikidata Game has developed over two weeks]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:Thepwnco is working on some Wikidata:Tours during for a FOSS project
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Italian Chamber of Deputies ID, eye color, number of injured, EPSG ID
- Development
- Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
- thePHPcc thinghy
- Released DataValues Time 0.6
- Add time support to QueryEngine
- [https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#version-08-2014-06-05 Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8]
- Worked on the way deleted items are formatted (= shown on other items)
- Released ValueView 0.6, which includes refactoring of the entity suggester code, bug fixes.
- Fix issue with entering strings (newline character sometimes got added and then cause api error)
- Fix bug 64658 (date adjustment dialogue doesn't show up on Firefox with Monobook skin)
- Fix bug 64887 (issue with display of globecoordinate when precision does not match predefined precisions)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #113
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Wikidata participation in Wiki Loves Pride
- Discussion: Delete as a new user group
- RfC: Refining "part of"
- Open RfAs: Calak, Andre Engels
- Closed RfAs: Taketa (successful) Jiangui67 (successful) 555 (successful)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The preview gadget has been rewritten and now comes with a completely new user interface. You can enable it here.
- Wikiquote received access to the data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on Tuesday.
- Try out the new [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-June/004013.html Wikidata Property Browser].
- The Merge gadget has been updated. It is now faster and only one edit per merge is performed.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: original spelling, ranking, number of points/goals scored, number of matches played, ploidy, AlgaeBase URL, military casualty classification, winner, number of victims, participated in, described by source, number of seats
- Newest task forces: Sports task forces
- Development
- Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out...
- Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer
- Moved browser tests to a new repository at https://github.com/wmde/WikidataBrowserTests to make the main Wikibase repo smaller and cleaner
- Fixed a bunch of issues with the monobook skin
- Made some more jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
- More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
- Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
- Enabled data access for Wikiquote
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #114
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Idea collection: data quality and trust
- Open RfAs: PMG, Dr Zimbu, 콩가루
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Several Wikipedias now have a template (:d:Q17195970) for articles which have a related property in Wikidata.
- User:Thepwnco is working on a documentation overhaul and updating Help pages for a FOSS project - leave feedback on suggested changes here
- First concept designs of Wikidata's possible new interface
- [http://gendercounter.net GenderCounter] uses Wikidata to provide an accurate service with distinguishing male and female names
- ca.wikipedia found a nice way to use Wikidata. They're comparing their living people to Wikidata to see if any of them have a date of death there. They're then put into a category for review: :ca:Categoria:Persones vives a revisar
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: BBC Your Paintings, successor, predecessor, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID, Monte Carlo Particle Number, Number of points/goals conceded, points for, matches/games drawn/tied, matches lost/games lost, matches won/games won
- New task forces: LGBT task force
- Development
- Created a script that provides the schema creation SQL for Wikibase Query
- Releases Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.1
- Made WikibaseDataModelJavascript a separate component at https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavascript.
- Continued working on full redirect support for items. It touches a surprising big chunk of the code base.
- Continued working on the QueryEngine code base and it’s data type support.
- Fixed and updated the most recent implementation of the property and item selector widget, e.g. a MonoBook specific bug.
- Pushed along reviews and deployment of the entity suggester code that will make suggestions for new properties to be added to items. Our hope is to have it through performance review for the next deployment.
- Pushed along reviews of the “in other projects” sidebar: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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- Note from John
- Hey everyone, it's rare these small sections come along but there is a bit of interesting news to get across which one line under 'noteworthy stuff' won't be the best for. For the next 6 summaries, they will be translatable at Wikidata. This is an interesting idea which was first proposed on the delivery page and on Wikidata-l by Base. This is purely a trial and if you all want the summaries to remain translatable, please participate! You can view the first translated summary (hopefully) here! Also sorry for this one being late :)
Wikidata weekly summary #115
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Second UI designs are now up for comments
- Discussion about predecessor and successor timelines
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://www.passageenseine.org/Passage/PSES-2014 Wikidata intro and QA], June 29th in Paris
- [https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fringe/Open_Data_Hack Open Hack Day], 5th and 6th of July, London
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: contains settlement, coincident with, bridgehunter.com ID, uglybridges.com ID, China railway TMIS station code, MTR station code, capital of, NSK identifier, daily ridership, binding of software library, ASI Monument ID, ihsi identifier, Iranian National Heritage registration number, LNB identifier, BBC Your Paintings, replaced by, replaced, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID
- Development
- Redirects are moving slow because they touch so much of our and the core code base, but they are coming closer!
- Final touches on the monolingual data type and UI
- Fixed some smaller but nasty bugs in the UI like not being able to change only the rank
- Finally improved the most confusing error messages and hints you get to read when using the Wikibase client or repo
- The Wikibase DataModel JavaScript component (which moved to it’s own repository) reached version 0.2.0
- Continued working on the QueryEngine component (the foundation for queries)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #116
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- A question from an intern
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fringe/Open_Data_Hack Open Hack Day], 5th and 6th of July, London
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-July/004148.html Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester]
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-June/004146.html Lydia needs your help with some selfies] (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies)
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/#mode=occupation Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation]
- As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time :w:User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: replaced by structure, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia), Linguasphere code, NCI ID, Glottolog code, proxy, ComicBookDB ID, Index Fungorum ID
- Development
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-July/004190.html Upcoming API change (wblinktitle)]
- Deployed entity suggester.
- More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
- Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
- Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive.
- Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
- Fixed bugs
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #117
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Improving the FAQ
- Should we link to restricted access databases?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Two new GuidedTours (aka interactive tutorials) have been released—we now have one on editing items and one on editing statements! Both tours are available from the Wikidata:Tours portal and feedback can be left on the talk page at Wikidata_talk:Tours. The work was a combined effort of User:Bene* and Outreach Program for Women intern User:Thepwnco.
- We passed another milestone \o/ 10 million items now have an "instance of" or "subclass of" statement making it easy to tell what the item is about.
- Last week to add some selfies. We need more!
- Items with no image around you? [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/missing_images.html?region=Q90 Here you go!] (change the number in the URL and click toggle markers) Thanks Magnus!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to, MusicBrainz series ID, script directionality, World Glacier Inventory ID, original combination, Foundational Model of Anatomy ID, bug report page, FCC Facility ID, convicted of
- Development
- Bene* worked with the dev team this week. He pushed forward support for storing badges (eg featured article) on Wikidata and implemented the first two guided tours.
- CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab.
- Further progress on redirects
- Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector
- Continued work on mockups for new user interface
- Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. This will mean you can link Wikidata pages in items and access the data in them on other pages on Wikidata.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #118
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion about removing person data
- Discussion to increase the support votes required for successful RfAs
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Main Page redesign suggestions
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID, GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to
- Development
- Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump will be available on Monday evening
- Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making them editable
- Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code into an own component
- Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself using Lua (not yet enabled)
- Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same label+description of another item
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #119
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- User conduct policies RfC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The first draft for the Main page redesign is ready for review (a summary of proposed changes can be found at Project Chat)
- User:Thepwnco is working on updating Wikidata documentation for all sister projects, starting with Wikidata:Wikisource
- Drop by the Wikidata Lounge, a new initiative to promote friendliness and civility started by :d:User:Micru
- Wikinews will get sitelink support on August 19th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: b-side, executive producer, OpenPlaques identifier, pet, Lost Art-ID, journey origin
- Development
- Published the first JSON dumps
- Finishing touches on badges support
- Finishing touches on redirects
- Finishing touches on the "in other projects" beta feature that displays links to sister projects in the sidebar of Wikipedia for example
- Tested and fixed issues with allowing sitelinks to Wikidata pages and accessing item data via Lua on Wikidata itself
- Final tests before we can start switching to the new serialization format
- The code for simple queries is being reviewed by the Foundation. This is hopefully the last step before we can deploy this too.
- Worked on improving the code of the {{#property}} parser function in preparation of allowing arbitrary data access and allowing linked output.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #120
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: Gabbe
- Events/Blogs/Press
- List of Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2014
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August 11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
- Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at d:Wikidata:Tours/Items and d:Wikidata:Tours/Statements.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: published in
- Showcase items: Kleinmachnow
- Development
- Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
- More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
- More work on the monolingual datatype
- Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
- Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #121
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/08/09/guided-tours-and-wikidata-how-to-explain-a-complex-project-and-encourage-new-editors/ Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004263.html Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia]
- [http://www.histropedia.com Histropedia] now uses Wikidata to build timelines
- Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: [https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_to_use_Wikidata:_Things_to_make_and_do_with_30_million_statements 1] [https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikidata_Toolkit:_A_Java_library_for_working_with_Wikidata 2] [http://new.livestream.com/wikimania/friday2014 3] (more slides and videos will follow))
- [https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/498048920308969472 First prototype screenshot] of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
- Userboxes
- Did you know?
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Interesting Content, WikiProject sum of all paintings
- Development
- Attended Wikimania and Socrates
- Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
- Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #122
Wikidata weekly summary #114
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfOS: John F. Lewis
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
- Wikidata Translate, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: journey destination, score method, grave picture, present in work, Fide ID, Norsk filmografi ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, plea, collection size
- New task forces: WikiProject Movies
- Development
- Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004328.html this email].
- Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
- Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
- We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
- Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
- Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here
Wikidata weekly summary #123
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/08/19/wikidata-at-wikimania-2014-in-london/ Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London]
- "Growing items" by User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat for more details and to leave any last comments
- It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
- Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
- Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: list of monuments, list of works, legal form, catholic.ru ID, motto, Sandbox Monolingual text, nickname, official name, Sports Reference ID, people missing, fictional universe described in
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Structured Data for Commons
- Development
- Deployed lots of [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004413.html new features] like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects!
- Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
- More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #124
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- past: OpenSym
- upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004461.html New Main Page and other new features]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004492.html Breaking changes for gadgets]
- Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NIEA building ID, Cadw Building ID, color index, absolute magnitude
- Development
- Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage)
- Added a new “item-redirect” permission
- Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface
- DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible
- Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped)
- Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names
- Attended OpenSym
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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Wikidata weekly summary #125
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [//blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/02/why-wikidata-is-so-important-to-histropedia Why Wikidata is so important to Histropedia]
- [//blog.wikimedia.de/2014/09/08/outreach-program-for-women-at-wikidata Wikidata Outreach: What happened?]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The new main page can now be translated.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: reporting mark, maximum glide ratio , FIFA player code, WALS family code, WALS genus code, WALS lect code, category for people died here, category for people born here, PRDL Author ID
- Development
- Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
- Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
- Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
- Worked more on enabling statements on properties
- Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
- First pokes at usage tracking
- Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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Wikidata weekly summary #126
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- A new blocking policy has been accepted.
- Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations needs your input
- RfC: redirect vs. deletion
- Events/Blogs/Press
- past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC
- upcoming: [https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=147&reset=1 Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org.
- WikiProject Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag, vici.org ID, sourcing circumstances, has contributing factor, has immediate cause, birth name (Monolingual text), title, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author, Commons Creator template, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID, male population, female population, number of households, contributing factor of, immediate cause of, used by, end cause, family name identical to this first name, country for sport, parents of hybrids, Glad identifier, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier
- Showcase items: Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Fishing Creek
- Development
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-September/004628.html Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team.]
- Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (bugzilla:66425)
- Fixed broken xml api output (bugzilla:70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format
- Finished performance improvements for badges
- Worked on entity usage tracking
- Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu
- Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index
- Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page
- Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink
- Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues.
- Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see :mw:Wikidata_deployment#wmf.2F1.25wmf1
- Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite bugzilla:70606)
- Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #127
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
- ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: depends on, motto, series ordinal, Federal Register Document Number, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID
- Development
- Investigated and fixed issues with time values
- Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
- Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
- Further work on usage tracking
- Created smoke tests for items and properties
- Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
- Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #128
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfA: Nikosguard
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
- Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
- Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php Wikidata Stats] every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: UBERON ID, Yandex.Music ID, has quality, Exceptionnal heritage of Wallonia ID, Orphanet ID, demonym (monoligual text), maximum Strahler number
- Development
- Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
- More fixes for the switch to HHVM
- Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
- Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2014-October/000632.html Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released]
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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Wikidata weekly summary #129
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-October/004778.html Please provide input].
- Events/Blogs/Press
- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons ([https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/wikimedia-office.2014-10-16-18.00.log.html log])
- hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata ([https://etherpad.mozilla.org/XKHt30NgcO etherpad with notes])
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/10/14/transatlantic-work-on-structured-data-in-berlin/ Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=232 Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata]
- New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property_talk:P496&diff=164022076&oldid=163111143 this example edit for how to use it
- New tool: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/linked_items.php Linked Items]. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus!
- Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
- [http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext#.VD67l7hTfME.twitter Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase] by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata.
- Magnus re-wrote [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ Wiki ShootMe] to now use Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go!
- Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
- Development
- Improvements to sitelink editing usability
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
- Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel
- Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
- Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
- Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #114
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
- Development
- Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
- Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
- When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
- Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
- Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
- Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
- Work on entity usage tracking
- Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
- Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
- Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
- Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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Wikidata weekly summary #131
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
- [http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2014/10/30/wikidata-ii/ Wikidata II]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata is nominated for 2 [http://summit.theodi.org/awards/ Open Data Awards]! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/10/22/establishing-wikidata-as-the-central-hub-for-linked-open-life-science-data/ Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data]
- [http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/608-what-is-wikipedia-about What is Wikipedia about?] Great data viz based on Wikidata
- [http://www.superlachaise.fr/ Super Lachaise], a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/no_statements.php Random items without statements]
- [http://www.histropedia.com/blog/how-to-make-a-descendants-of-timeline/ Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata]
- Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
- Development
- Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
- HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
- Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
- Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
- Work on fixing XML dumps
- Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
- Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
- Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
- Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
- Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
- Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #132
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ ([http://theodi.org/news/first-odi-open-data-awards-presented-by-sir-tim-berners-lee-and-sir-nigel-shadbolt blog post by ODI], [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/11/05/zwei-jahre-wikidata-eine-feier-mit-geschenken-und-einem-preis/ blog post by WMDE])
- [http://www.histropedia.com/blog/tutorial-create-instant-location-based-timelines-using-wikidata-queries/ Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries]
- Did you know?
- Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
- Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID
- Development
- Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
- Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
- Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
- Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
- Lots of bug fixes all over the place
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
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Wikidata weekly summary #133
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
- GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help make sure [https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=CLAIM%5B31%3A17442550%5D these items] have labels in your language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NATO code for grade
- Development
- Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
- Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
- Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
- Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
- Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
- Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
- Improved calendar model display
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
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Wikidata weekly summary #134
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/glamdata Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend]
- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
- [http://lambdazen.blogspot.se/2014/11/building-periodic-table-using-wikidata.html Building a periodic table using Wikidata]
- Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-November/005011.html Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd]
- [http://sum.bykr.org The Sum of all Paintings] - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/commonsedge/commons_institutions_without_wikidata_item.php Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata]
- [https://twitter.com/aharoni/status/534292798430650369 Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/ WikidataTodo] now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
- VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
- Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID, MarineTraffic Ship ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer, SIREN number, CLARA-ID, History of Parliament ID, IRC channel, Commons Institution page
- Development
- When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
- Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
- The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
- Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
- While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
- More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
- Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
- Bug fixes
- Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #135
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
- Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=241 Picture this!]
- [http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2014/wikidata-identifiers-and-the-odnb-where-next/ Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?]
- [http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2014/wikidata-and-identifiers-part-2-the-matching-process/ Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process]
- IRC office hour on Wednesday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
- Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
- VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: China Vitae ID, Formatter URL, subject item, equivalent property, SIL code, Thai cultural heritage ID, has melody, MarineTraffic Port ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer
- Development
- Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
- Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
- Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
- Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
- Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
- Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
- Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348
- Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
- JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
- Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
- Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
- Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
- Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
- Input on mw:Wikibase/Indexing
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 these].
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #136
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- IRC office hour (log)
- Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
- Statements on properties are now live
- [https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/539891914922008577 Sneak peek] at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
- The Game has a new mode: alma mater
- [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/wikidata Work is ongoing] for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
- Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
- English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
- Development
- Started work on units
- More work on evaluating options for querying
- Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
- Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
- Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
- Work on improved label lookup performance
- Wrapping up work on usage tracking
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #137
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=245 Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications]
- [http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/finding-orcid-wikidata-wikipedia/ Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia]
- past: Wikidata workshop in NYC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://projetjourdain.org/network/index.html Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
- Development
- More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
- Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
- Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
- Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
- Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
- Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
- Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #138
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: Petr Matas
- Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Welcome Freebase!
- [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/freebase-discuss/s_BPoL92edc Freebase announcement]
- Wikidata announcement
- Wikiproject
- Primary sources tool
- [http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Faktendatenbank-fuer-Wikipedia-Google-gibt-Freebase-an-Wikidata-2498806.html Heise]
- [http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/16/google-plans-to-integrate-its-fact-database-freebase-into-wikimedias-wikidata/ Venturebeat]
- [https://gigaom.com/2014/12/16/google-is-shutting-down-its-freebase-knowledge-base/ Gigaom]
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/12/19/wikidata-for-research-presenting-the-team-and-a-first-sketch-of-the-workplan/ Wikidata for Research – presenting the team and a first sketch of the workplan]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New features! Language fallbacks, property data type and performance improvements
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-December/005097.html New tree of life based on Wikidata data]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
- New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
- Showcase items: Lion
- Development
- Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
- Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
- Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
- Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
- Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
- Ongoing work on the [https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-WikibaseJavaScriptApi WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension] that was split from the Wikibase code base
- Finished tree of life
- Some more work on support for units
- Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
- [https://wdq.wmflabs.org/ Wikidata Query] has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
- The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #139
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Provide your input on article placeholders based on Wikidata
- new RfC: CoI editing
- Anonymous artists at wiki project visual arts
- Events/Blogs/Press
- We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/01/03/scaling-wikidata-success-means-making-the-pie-bigger/ Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger]
- The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
- [http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2014/12/21/wd4r4a/ wikidata4research4all]
- There was a well-attended [http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Session:Wikidata:_The_free_knowledge_base Wikidata meetup at 31C3]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://wdq.wmflabs.org/ Wikidata Query] now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help.
- Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter.
- The Wikidata BEACON generator was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too.
- [http://www.zone47.com/crotos/collections.php Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH), Terminologia Embryologica (TE), ICD-9-CM, operations and procedures key (OPS), ICD-10-PCS, central government debt as a percent of GDP, AniDB identifier, main property, awarded for work, Pokémon browser number, inscription, quote, subtitle, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier, has vertex figure, index case of, number suspected, number probable, number confirmed, general formula, this taxon is source of, Route number, LAC identifier, CONA, ATCvet, TGN, Chess Club ID, Chess Games ID, Cycling Database ID, ProCyclingStats ID, DOI Prefix, Alexa rank, has index case, related property, number of faces, MPAA film rating, unveiled by, station number, wing configuration, TERYT municipality code, referee, YouTube video identifier, BBF identifier, Korean Movie Database ID, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID
- Showcase items: Iggy Azalea, Helsinki
- Development
- Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata!
- Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #140
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-January/005222.html Office hour on IRC on Friday]. You should come :)
- Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
- We had a meetup with nine people:
- set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland (sound recording of meeting available)
- Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
- For generic wiki, see [http://wiki.opendataday.org/2015/City_Events International Open Data Day]
- [http://odcamp.org.uk/posts/ Open Data Camp UK], Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject, Total valid votes, inverse of, NLP identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Food, UK and Ireland, Suisse
- Newest gadgets: ExportClaims, Mark as patrolled from list of changes
- Development
- The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
- More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :)
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-January/000706.html Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production]
- Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only
- Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box)
- Polished d:Wikidata:Data access and d:Wikidata:Database download. Could still use some more work though if you have time.
- Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues
- We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #141
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion
- Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C (successful)
- Open RfAs: Petr Matas, Edoderoo
- Events/Blogs/Press
- The Wikidata for research proposal was submitted to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort.
- Blog post about how [https://gee0ai0en0gee.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/wikidata-can-change-the-way-citizen-scientists-contribute/ Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute]
- IRC office hour happened (log)
- Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by [http://notconfusing.com/preliminary-results-from-wigi-the-wikipedia-gender-inequality-index/ Max] and [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=250 Magnus]
- MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The development plan has been updated and expanded
- [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/15/immersive-mobile-experience/ Official Wikipedia app] now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come!
- Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access is being tested at Test Wikidata and testwiki:Test Wiki. An example is at testwiki:Kitten on arbitrary page.
- Assigning items on [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match Mix'n'match] will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier, SIPA identifier, SkyscraperPage building id
- Development
- Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress.
- Worked on redesign of header area
- Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment
- Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata
- Collecting Query examples for the new query functionality
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #142
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
- Open RfAs: Eurodyne
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Upcoming: [http://fosdem.org FOSDEM]
- Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
- Past: Meetup in Cambridge
- Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at phabricator:T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2015/01/wikidata-year-in-numbers.html Wikidata - a year in numbers]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a [https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/280 ticket for coordination].
- The new [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/ Content Translation] tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
- Using GNOME Shell? There is a [https://github.com/6ahodir/wikidata-search-provider Wikidata search provider] for you.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
- You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
- Development
- More work on header section redesign
- Released [https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#version-250-2014-01-20 Wikibase DataModel 2.5]
- Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
- Implemented entity change subscription service
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #143
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Past: [http://fosdem.org FOSDEM]
- Upcoming: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artbytes-3-hackathon-tickets-15166279751 ArtBytes hackathon]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wdq_feed.php ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics]
- [http://www.zone47.com/crotos/creators.php Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool] can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
- Development
- Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096)
- Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764)
- Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654)
- Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316)
- Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105)
- Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
- Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
- Released [https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization#130-2015-01-28 Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3] with language fallback support
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #144
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Eurpeana Tech
- Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata ([http://www.slideshare.net/andrewsu/ucsd-dbmi-seminar-2015026 slides])
- Going to Wikimania? Apply for a [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships scholarship].
- [http://teemuleinonen.fi/2015/02/02/internet-archives-wikidata-and-open-education/ Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
- Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ Mix'n'Match got a face lift]
- Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
- [https://github.com/Ironholds/WikidataR RStats client for Wikidata]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q42&lang=fr Reasonator] now also supports biography texts in French
- Did you know?
- Showcase items: Lucy (first name)
- Development
- Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
- Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further work on header section redesign
- Tweaks to the sitelink section
- Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
- Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
- Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
- Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #145
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Europeana Tech
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/02/14/wir-lieben-freie-software/ Wir lieben Freie Software]
- [http://blog.inventaire.io/post/110540440753/mapping-resources-using-open-knowledge-starting Mapping resources using open knowledge: starting with books!]
- [http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/new-recommendations-outline-ways-to-strengthen-europeana%E2%80%99s-future-relationship-with-wikimedia New recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future relationship with Wikimedia]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: [http://inventaire.io inventaire.io]. Check out [https://inventaire.io/entity/wd:Q535 this example entry]!
- You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265 Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus]
- The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Journalisted ID, Biography at the Bundestag of Germany, Metacritic ID
- Newest WikiProjects: Identical Twins
- Development
- <3
- We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? [https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Software_Developer_Frontend_Development Apply!]
- We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
- Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
- Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
- Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
- Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
- Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
- Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
- Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
- Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
- Fixed editing of qualifiers
- Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #146
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/02/16/asking-ever-bigger-questions-with-wikidata/ Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata]
- Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005434.html ViziData]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005440.html Update on data quality project]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005438.html Update on structured data for Commons]
- Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? Please [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005450.html read this].
- [http://www.zone47.com/crotos/lab/prop_nb.php Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: operty:P1721|pinyin transliteration]], posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
- Showcase items:Montblanc
- Development
- Still looking for an awesome [https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Software_Developer_Frontend_Development frontend developer] to join the team
- Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages
- Worked on RDF mapping/export
- Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
- Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered
- Made the diff views for dates easier to read
- Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
- Continued work on header redesign
- Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page
- Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- d:Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help?
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #147
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [https://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/02/23/platypus-a-speaking-interface-for-wikidata/ Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata]
- Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
- Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: [http://the-endless-story.divshot.io/ The Endless Story] and [https://tools.wmflabs.org/family/ancestors.php?q=Q7742&lang=en a family tree])
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
- Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
- Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata Here are the Wikidata related ones.]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005493.html New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.]
- [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?]
- Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
- Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
- Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
- [http://listen.hatnote.com/ You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)]
- Development
- Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
- Updated the json documentation
- Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
- Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
- Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
- Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
- Final touches on new header design
- Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
- More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
- Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
- Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #148
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfA: Haplology
- Events/Blogs/Press
- upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
- upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help flesh out landing pages for partners
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-March/000740.html Update on the Wikidata query service progress]
- The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/autodesc/ automatic description API] can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/wdskim/index.php?prop=P170&item=Q167654&language=en&withimages=on Wikidata Skim] gives you very simple query functionality
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005537.html Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
- Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
- Development
- Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
- Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
- Worked on updating the data model documentation
- Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
- Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
- Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #149
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful RfA: Haplology
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=276 Pictures, reloaded]
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/03/13/improving-data-quality-on-wikidata-checking-what-we-have/ Improving data quality on Wikidata – checking what we have]
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=268 Linkin mash]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wdq2graph.php Simple Wikidata graph generator]
- Please help test the next step for header redesign
- Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/no_statements.php Items without statements] - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
- [https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/575257197187371009 Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005564.html Query generator spreadsheet]
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ Image search] now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
- Development
- Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
- Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
- Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
- Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
- Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #150
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: [https://twitter.com/CatalanMuseums/status/577103895278809088 Editathon at MACBA]
- Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
- Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
- Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html Office hour on 31st of March] (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
- We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
- Lots of improvements around [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match MixNMatch]. It has a new [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=1 catalog overview page]. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
- There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
- First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): [https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/578663253712220160 1] and [https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/578664074101288961 2]
- DBpedia [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005612.html converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005683.html Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
- Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
- Newest gadgets: [http://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ Image search] supports the new "place name sign" property
- Development
- Fixed property suggestions on empty items
- Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
- Updated various documentation
- Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
- Polishing in the user interface
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #151
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278 Sex and artists]
- VIAF is [http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/03/moving-to-wikidata.html Moving to Wikidata]
- Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html IRC office hour on Tuesday]
- Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005703.html The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/sourcery.html New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click]
- [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/freebase-discuss/EhROV7ZnLrk/discussion An update from Freebase] (which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
- The tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
- Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005706.html Eventzoom.net] - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ABoK number, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Danish National Filmography ID, Masaryk University person ID, EMLO person identifier, Commemorative plaque image, Wikimedia database name, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier, ISO 639-5, International Standard Industrial Classification code, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID, format as a regular expression, category of associated people, category of people buried here, BioStor author identifier, chief operating officer, DVN identifier
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image" property
- New task forces: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
- There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
- Development
- Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
- Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
- Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
- Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
- Looked into improving suggestions
- Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
- Removed backwards compatibility from
mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005450.html here]. - Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
- Created a unit test framework for special pages
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #152
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://arabia.wikimedia.tn/index.php?title=Main_Page WikiArabia] takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
- The [http://www.glamwiki.nl GLAM-WIKI 2015] conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
- The [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/04/viaf-move-over-wikipedia-for-wikidata.html Library world will use Wikidata] to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
- Freebase[http://infobib.de/2015/04/01/seo-freebase-und-wikidata/ , SEO and Wikidata]
- Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem.
- A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
- Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
- Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match.
- [https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/582545229884063744 Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted].
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: choreographer, senat.fr ID, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
- Development
- [https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/583220841711845376 Wikidata development started 3 years ago]. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
- Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
- Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
- Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
- Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831)
- Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #153
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=290 Wikidata by country, or: The Wealth of Nation's Data]
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=293 Wikidata the Game - one year in]
- Ongoing: [https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015 GLAM-Wiki 2015]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wdq_image_feed.php Build a RSS image feed based on a query]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-April/005797.html Periodic table based on Wikidata data] by Ricordisamoa
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/dated.html ~8000 biographical items with dates in the description, but no birth/death date statements]
- Magnus says ~8% (~1.4M) of all Wikidata items do not have any site links to Wikipedia etc.; knowledge that exists exclusively on Wikidata
- Bene* wrote a user script that adds a filter bar above the statement section and lets you filter it
- Magnus wrote a quick user script to move identifiers into the right sidebar to show how a statement section without identifiers would look like. This came up as part of a longer discussion on the mailinglist about moving identifier statements into their own section. Progress is being tracked at phabricator:T95287.
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-April/005806.html Samsung releases Freebase-Wikidata mappings in CC0: 4.4M pairs generated from Wikipedia links and custom code]
- Thanks to Bene* hovercards now also work for items and properties
- [https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/586885847712190464 New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: short name, list of episodes, named as
- New task forces: Star Wars, Open Access
- Development
- We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (phabricator:T94404)
- Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287)
- Implemented arbitrary access for the
{{#property:…}} parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using{{#property:P123|from=Q42}} . So far this is only Wikidata itself. - Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
- Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
- Wrote more browser tests for different datavalues
- Further work on RDF mapping and dumps
- Fixed in other language box showing old data (phabricator:T90893)
- Fixed language fallback on Special:Recent changes and Special:Contributions
- Added language fallback for the tooltip on badge icons
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #154
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfA: Aldnonymous
- RfC: Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties, Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://addshore.com/2015/04/redirects-on-wikidata/ Redirects on Wikidata]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wrong_nationality.html Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/whereami.html Where am I?] (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata)
- [https://jsfiddle.net/EdouardHue/yudh3139/4/embedded/result/ Map of French national parks]
- Histropedia published [https://drive.google.com/templates?q=wikidata 5 query generator spreadsheets]
- Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID, road number, BAnQ ID, DSH object ID, Open Food Facts food category slug, Open Food Facts food additive slug, genealogics.org personID, Kaiserhof ID, addressee, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier, RSL book's identifier, name in kana
- Development
- Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
- Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
- Expanded our set of automated browser tests
- Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
- Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
- Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
- Continued work on our RDF generator
- Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
- Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
- Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
- Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
- Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
- Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
- More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
- Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
- Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
- Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #155
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- RfC: Opting out of Global sysops 2
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/wikidata-emerges-as-central-element-of-glam-wiki-2015 Wikidata emerges as central element of GLAM-WIKI 2015]
- ongoing: [http://codingdavinci.de/ Coding DaVinci]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-April/005852.html The question that started Wikidata has finally been answered!] Thank you Markus! ;-)
- Wikimedia Sverige adapted two brochures about Wikidata, one for GLAMs and one for researchers.
- Bene* has been working on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile. [http://wikidata-mobile.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Q117&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile You can check the current status on a demo system].
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-April/005889.html Amir could use your help with automatic transliteration of human names]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-art/commons-wd/ Commons-WD]: a tool to edit Wikidata based on a Commons category
- Various improvements to the Primary Sources Tool including:
- Edits made with it will now say so in the edit summary
- It now uses the URL blacklist to not suggest low-quality references
- Caching issues were fixed
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Kiev street code, blood type, Perry Index, input set, SSR Name ID, SSR WrittenForm ID, INPN Code, Nasjonalbiblioteket photographer ID, distribution map, anti-virus alias, HathiTrust id, common name, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online identifier, Swedish district code, investigated by, US Federal Election Commission identifier, PSS-archi ID, Gaoloumi ID, draft pick number, GrassBase ID, electorate, owner of, Roud Folk Song Index, IPI Code, ISWC
- There are a number of user boxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.
- Development
- On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients.
- Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item)
- More work on RDF output and the query service
- Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items
- Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values (phabricator:92975)
- Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #156
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata was presented at a [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lankade-data-natverkstraff-swedish-linked-data-network-meet-up-tickets-15689895901 Swedish Linked Data Network Meet-up] in Gothenburg.
- [http://www.gizmodo.in/news/The-Most-Important-Wikipedia-Pages-From-the-First-Open-Wiki-Ranking/articleshow/47082229.cms The most important Wikipedia pages]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- P107 (main type) is finally orphaned and deleted, 20 months after deprecation. This was the first property used 1000000 times.
- The royal baby was quickly updated on Wikidata. ([https://tools.wmflabs.org/family/ancestors.php?q=Q18002970&lang=en her family tree])
- New tool by Magnus: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/geograph_candidates.html Find pictures on geography.co.uk, upload them to Commons and add them to Wikidata]
- All Van Gogh Museum paintings are now on Commons and Wikidata. Go go SumOfAllPaintings peeps!
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/static/multi_wp/ List of topics with links in at least X Wikipedias]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=44 All French Senators matched using MixNMatch] \o/
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: represented by, Netflix Identifier, maximum number of players, minimum number of players, CERL ID, Name Assigning Authority Number, Hall of Valor ID, ballots cast, eligible voters, catholic-hierarchy diocese ID, Wikidata example geographic coordinates, Wikidata example monolingual text, Wikidata example property, Wikidata example quantity, Wikidata example time, Wikidata example URL, Wikidata example item value, Wikidata example string, Wikidata example media file, Wikidata property example
- Development
- We rolled out usage tracking on the first two wikis (French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia). Users should not notice anything. More wikis will follow in the next weeks. This is the remaining step for enabling arbitrary access on wikis other than Commons.
- The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out.
- Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off.
- We fixed the focus flow in the property selector.
- We improved the messages on Special:EntityData to make it more understandable.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #157
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Mbch331
- New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
- Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://www.jmir.org/2015/5/e110/ A study] has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
- [http://blog.musicbrainz.org/2015/05/08/downstream-wikipedia-link-usage-and-migration-to-wikidata/ MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links]
- Past: [https://www.facebook.com/events/359195237603987/ Open Data for Academics] - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
- Upcoming: [http://camp.ouisharelabs.net/2015/ OuiShare Labs Camp] in Paris
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
- Denny has published a [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-May/006042.html proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups]. Please read and comment.
- The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=301 Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data]
- The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
- The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
- Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=4925623 Paul])
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=57 Woah! Volcanos!] (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Smithsonian volcano identifier, cathedral, hair color, Declarator.org ID, Web Gallery of Art identifier, list of characters, measured by, income classification (Philippines), Vox-ATypI classification, after a work by, spacecraft
- Development
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-May/006038.html Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday] \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
- [https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/597082067705438209 Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements]
- Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
- Continued working on RDF export
- More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
- Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #158
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Mbch331
- Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/05/18/using-wikidata-to-improve-the-medical-content-on-wikipedia/ Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia]
- Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
- Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
- Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
- Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome!
- Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
- New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata
- English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
- Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. [http://awards.theodi.org Nominations for this year are open now.] Who should win this year?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry, vice-county
- Development
- Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
- Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
- Improvements to calendar handling
- More work on RDF export for query service
- Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
- Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #159
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
File:Logo Hackathon 2015 à Lyon.png
- [http://stateofthemap.us/ State of the Map US] (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
- Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
- A early preview of the official [https://wdqs-beta.wmflabs.org/ SPARQL endpoint] for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
- If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
- To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line [https://github.com/mariushoch/asparagus tool] was crafted by Marius.
- The special page to query for badges is within reach.
- A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
- We got a cool presentation by Maxime about [https://inventaire.io/ inventaire.io].
- We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
- [https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/602094565135425536 Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia] to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://inkdroid.org/journal/2015/05/20/skos-and-wikidata/ New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata] ([https://vimeo.com/128305641 video])
- The [https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:%C3%96ppna_data_2015/Visualisering/T%C3%A4vling Wikidata Visualization Challenge] is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
- The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections
- Development
- Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
- The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
- Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
- Busy with the hackathon (see above)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #160
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- upcoming: [http://stateofthemap.us State of the Map US]
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/05/30/visualizing-history-with-automated-event-maps/ Visualizing history with automated event maps]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Final hours to make your vote count in the WMF board election
- Now we have Q20000000 and P1900
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php Wikidata stats] have been updated
- [http://histropedia.com/blog/timelines-of-famous-painters-portal-page/ Over 100 timeline of famous painters by Histropedia]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html?#top WD-FIST] can now take a manual item list and limit its search to JPEGs
- Traveling this summer? Find items needing pictures around you with [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ WikiShootMe]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: altered regulation leads to, posttranslational modification association with, gene substitution association with, gene inversion association with, gene insertion association with, gene duplication association with, deletion association with, increased expression in, decreased expression in, side effect, Commonwealth War Graves Commission person identifier, Australian Dictionary of Biography identifier, office held by head of state, FundRef registry name, Volcanic explosivity index, Spotify artist ID, BALaT person/organisation id, EAGLE id, Librivox author ID
- Development
- Recovering from hackathon
- Prepared rollout of usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis
- Testing of the query service
- Fixed styling issues with entity selector
- Worked more on Capiunto to make it easier to create good infoboxes
- Worked on making broken values editable to fix them (this for example happens when a property is deleted but some values are left over)
- Made entity id an optional parameter in mw.wikibase.label and mw.wikibase.description lua methods. (default to use connected item)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #161
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
- Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides)
- Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html Office hour on IRC on 19th]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=310 New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references]
- The [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results/ results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election]. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
- [https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649 Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata]. More coming.
- Sylvain made an [https://gist.github.com/Ash-Crow/ae1a3ae8318994afe45d overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have].
- Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
- Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
- Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
- Connectivity statistics were updated.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: DMS V, Clinvar Accession Number, Vaccine Ontology ID, VIOLIN ID, vaccine for, participating team, first line, URI pattern for RDF resource, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID
- Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled by User:Petr Matas
- Development
- Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
- The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
- Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
- Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase:
wikibase.resolvePropertyIdandwikibase.entity:getBestStatements. - Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
- Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
- Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
- Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
June 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #162
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wikidata:Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata .
- Upcoming: [https://sites.google.com/site/donostiasansebastianenwikidata/ Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon]
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=319 News about Wikidata FIST]
- [http://addshore.com/2015/06/review-of-the-big-interwiki-link-migration/ Review of the big interwiki link migration]
- [http://histropedia.com/blog/timeline-of-christopher-lee-films/ Timeline of Christopher Lee films]
- [http://addshore.com/2015/06/wikidata-map-19-months-on/ Wikidata map - 19 months on]
- A [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/06/wikidata-six-degrees-of-separation-of.html challenge was raised] to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ViziData has been improved significantly
- Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
- New paper: [http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/377397/ Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?]
- Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
- Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: street key, relief location map, location map, McCune-Reischauer romanization, conifers.org ID, Dyntaxa ID, Project Gutenberg ID, UN/LOCODE, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID, DBCS ID, Animator.ru ID, MobyGames ID, stated as, PGCH ID
- Development
- Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
- More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
- Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148)
- More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
- More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
- The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
- Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
- Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
- Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
- New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #163
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- :en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
- Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
- More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
- Nice new manual for MixnMatch
- The new [http://nature.com/ontologies nature.com/ontologies] links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
- National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
- Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
- Development
- Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
- Worked more on unit support
- Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
- Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
- The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
- The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
- Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
- Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
- Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
- Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
- Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #164
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Ateliers Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=324 Reductionism]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? [https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Wikidata/Maps-06-2015/en Markus has a beautiful answer]
- Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are [http://awards.theodi.org/2015-shortlist/ shortlisted for the OpenData Award] \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
- [https://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/publications/papers/stein_2015g.pdf Paper on vandalism on Wikidata]. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/ Reasonator] got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
- Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
- Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
- Development
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006543.html Jonas joined the team and Adam is back] \o/
- Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
- Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
- Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
- Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
- Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
- Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
- Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
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Wikidata weekly summary #165
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
- Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
- Development
- Adam wrote a blog post on the [http://addshore.com/2015/07/barack-obama-geneawiki-1-year-later/ improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki]
- After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
- Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
- Deployed the [https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ConstraintReport WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions] to test.wikidata.org
- Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
- JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #166
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Slides on [https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/616953989641469952 Primary Sources Tool] and [http://de.slideshare.net/cristinasarasua/introduccion-a-wikidata-dss-wikidata-editathon Wikidata introduction (in Spanish)] for the [https://sites.google.com/site/donostiasansebastianenwikidata/ Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon]
- [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ULFFPmIaKtq6fgU_5JNK6AfWSRyJUsDy_QsBf2-m0EE/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p Presentation about Wikidata] at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiresearch looked into [https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/615430029615480833 the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata]
- Wikiresearch published [https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/615455859733327872 a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data]
- Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question [https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q33609&lang=en here]. Work in progress.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier
- Development
- The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use :d:Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
- 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
- Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
- Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
- More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
- Further work on the new RDF export.
- PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #167
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Nikki
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Right now: Wikimania
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus made some new tools:
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/static/scientists_without_image_by_employer.html list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer]. Check your university!
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/static/scientists_without_orcid_by_employer.html#Q35794 list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer]. Ditto!
- an [https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/619211793496473600 InfoBitt replacement]
- a [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item] to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists
- plus [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/? Mix'N'Match] got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata
- P2000 was created.
- Some presentations at Wikimania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online:
- [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Sum_of_all_paintings WikiProject Sum of All Paintings]
- [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Templates_are_dead!_Long_live_templates! Templates are dead! Long live templates!], technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax
- [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Future_of_structured_documents:_VisualEditor,_Citations_and_Wikidata,_oh_my! Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my!]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID, parliament.uk bio link, medical specialty, AllMusic composition ID, TeX string, Plazi ID, LPSN URL, species kept, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID, Delarge ID
- New task forces: Linguistics
- Development
- Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
- After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
- Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
- Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
- Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
- Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
- Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
- Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #168
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Nikki
- Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
- Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places, Given names and surnames
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/07/21/wikidata-tastydata/ Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!]
- Past: Wikimania
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upload of 4.2M new statements from Freebase in the Primary Sources tool.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NALT id, Instagram username, Twitter username, Revised Romanisation, CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID
- Development
- Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
- Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities
- Tweaking the sitelink input
- Changing the display of item selector results
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #169
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
- Enable Flow on Wikidata?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-reconcile/ Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus]
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=332 PagePile: a new tool by Magnus]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ Mix-n-Match] got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/?language=en&project=wikipedia&category=&depth=12&wdq=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20and%20claim%5B18%5D%20and%20noclaim%5B21%5D&statementlist=&run=Run&mode_manual=or&mode_cat=or&mode_wdq=not&mode_find=or&chunk_size=10000 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!]
- Interested in art movements? Check out this
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MoMA artwork id, Facebook ID, cuisine, Cooper-Hewitt Person ID, Exif make, Exif model, IPNI publication ID, ZooBank publication ID, ZooBank author ID, Catalogus Professorum Halensis, NALT id
- Showcase items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062)
- Development
- Minor fixes to property edit mode
- Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
- Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
- Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
- Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
- Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
- Fixed the counting of references
- Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
- Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
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Wikidata weekly summary #170
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up [https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikidata_training_2015 here].
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match Mix-n-Match] got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
- [https://twitter.com/happybdauthors @happybirthdayauthors] is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
- Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php Duplicity] can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID, Teuchos ID, isomeric SMILES, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Groninganae id, Hansard ID
- Development
- Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
- Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
- The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
- The number of entities loaded via the
{{#property:…}} parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page) - Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
- Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
- Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
- Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-August/006847.html We'd like to drop a database table.] Discussion is ongoing.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #171
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Reinforcement of data analysis before any modification of the DB
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Polyglot/diary/35587 cooperation between free content projects]
- [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/08/wikidata-quality-probability-and-set.html A case is made] to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources
- Ongoing: Several team members are attending the [https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Main_Page Chaos Communication Camp].
- Upcoming: [http://smartdata2015.dataversity.net/sessionPop.cfm?confid=91&proposalid=8067 SmartDataConference]
- [http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj1141.pdf A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-August/006856.html Wikidata needs your vote!] It only takes a minute.
- WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats!
- Arbitrary access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias].
- See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access#Use cases: testing modules and templates for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content.
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?wiki=enwiki&mode=list List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item] (also works for other projects)
- You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/relabel.php Try relabel!]
- SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ Mix-n-Match] has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
- Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
- 93% of items about people have a gender set now.
- Want to make both Wikidata and [http://inventaire.io Inventaire] better? [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/?action=noauthor You can help by finding those books' authors.]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
- Newest tools: [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=338 Suggestor]
- Development
- Rolled out arbitrary access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days.
- Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks.
- Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome!
- References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time
- First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once
- [http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2015/08/11/wikibase-datamodel-services/ Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it]
- Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate.
- The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards
- Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties
- Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #172
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: [http://smartdata2015.dataversity.net/ SmartData conference]
- Paper: [http://www.aidanhogan.com/docs/reification-wikidata-rdf-sparql.pdf Reifying RDF: What Works Well With Wikidata?]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://www.land-der-ideen.de/ausgezeichnete-orte/voting-result Wikidata made it into the top 10 of the Land der Ideen competition] \o/ This means we're part of the final public voting starting on 9th of September. Thanks everyone who voted and spread the word.
- Flow is being tested on selected talk pages.
- New tool: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/new_items.php Get new Wikidata items (now or before a given timestamp) as HTML or PagePile]
- New tool: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/check_flickr_geo.php?lat=52.208055555556&lon=0.1225&radius=1&doit=1 Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby.]
- [http://eventzoom.net EventZoom.net] extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
- Development
- Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (phabricator:T97247)
- Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it
- Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (phabricator:T109697)
- Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method
- More work done on Unit Selector widget
- Started working on the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default
- Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer.
- More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #173
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Merging relationship properties
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://addshore.com/2015/08/removing-use-of-mediawikis-api-rawmode-in-wikibase/ Removing use of Mediawiki’s API ‘rawmode’ in Wikibase]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
- Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data ([https://inventaire.io/entity/wd:Q326467 example])
- First version of units is ready for testing
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ResearchGate ID, GitHub username, African Plant Database, LinkedIn personal profile, Project Gutenberg ebook ID, Category for pictures taken with camera, work period end, work period start, NASA biographical ID, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID, United States Armed Forces service number, Colour Index International constitution ID, Avibase ID
- Newest WikiProjects: Reasoning
- Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries, DuplicateReferences
- Newest External tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras
- Development
- Lucie posted a [https://twitter.com/lucielinde/status/635822277054083073 sneak-peek] of her work on the article placeholder extension
- Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)
- Started working on [https://tools.wmflabs.org/audetools/wikidata-stats/ a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project]
- API breaking change coming soon
- API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment (phabricator:T97247)
- Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties
- Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable
- Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as
mw.wikibase.labelwhich use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. (phabricator:T93885) - Properties are now linked in the diff view (phabricator:T105411)
- Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg phabricator:T68744, phabricator:T48248, phabricator:T86647)
- Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors (phabricator:T110021)
- Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector (phabricator:T109697)
- Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge
- Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support
- Bene worked on a [https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/pull/1991 new feature for DuckDuckGo] to show instant results from Wikidata on their site
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #174
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://addshore.com/2015/09/wikimedia-grafana-graphs-of-wikidata-profiling-information/ Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information]
- Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: [http://contentmine.org/2015/09/liberating-science-daily-with-and-to-wikidata/ Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata], [http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/wikidata-wikipedia-and-wikisci.html Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci])
- Past: [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Rencontres/Ouest#Atelier_:_d.C3.A9couverte_de_Wikidata.2C_samedi_5_septembre_.C3.A0_Rennes Wikidata workshop in Rennes]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout has been set: 16th of September.
- Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September).
- A [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-August/006967.html new version of Kian] has been released
- [http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/ The Wikidata Game] has got a new mode: Books without author.
- A new IEG proposal needs your review and support. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September.
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=92 >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match]
- You can have a look at the [https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2 spiffy new mobile view]
- Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/006999.html new release of the Wikidata Toolkit] for you.
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Artsy artist, National Gallery of Victoria artist identifier, CITES Species+ ID
- Development
- Worked on search on the mobile site
- Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers
- We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others
- Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday
- Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others
- Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #175
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikidata edit-a-thon at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
- Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007052.html Office hour on IRC], 23 September
- Upcoming: Mobilizing Open Cultural Data, Helsinki, 2 October
- Upcoming: [http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/cambridge2015/programme/tutorials/ Wikidata tutorial at SWAT4LS], December
- [http://addshore.com/2015/09/un-deleting-500000-wikidata-items/ Un-deleting 500,000 Wikidata items]
- [https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Multichill/Wikimania_2015 Wikimania 2015 report by Multichill]
- [http://blog.wikimedia.es/2015/09/dss-wikidata-editathon.html DSS Wikidata Editathon]
- [http://sulab.org/2015/09/a-simple-way-to-write-wikidata-bots/ A simple way to write Wikidata bots]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://hauptvoting.welt.de/mainvoting/list Please vote for Wikidata to win the people's choice award of Land der Ideen] ([https://twitter.com/benestar_wm/status/641541505216327681 voting instructions])
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php We passed 70M statements.]
- Stalagmites and stalactites visualizes items without statements, items with statements, and deleted/redirected items by batches of 100,000 QIDs
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/mobile_game.html Mix n Match is now available for mobile], has an improved automatic matching algorithm, got speed improvements and new catalogs were added like the National Gallery of Victoria, World Heritage Sites and CulturaItalia
- The annual Wikipedia editing competition organized by the International Society for Computational Biology will include a Wikidata component this year for the first time.
- Matched birth and death days seeks to investigate all pairs of humans (in various subsets) that appear to have the same birth dates and death dates. De-duplication underway!
- You can now use the new special page Special:PagesWithBadges to see which articles on that project have a badge like "featured article".
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/autolinker_demo.html New tool by Magnus to suggest links to Wikidata items while you type]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007106.html Meta, MediaWiki, Wikispecies and Wikibooks will get (more) access to Wikidata soon]
- Wikidata now has an official SPARQL endpoint so you can query the data
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007042.html announcement]
- examples
- [http://ramiro.org/notebook/us-presidents-causes-of-death/ How US Presidents Died According to Wikidata]
- Wikidata now supports units
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007108.html announcement]
- [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListProperties/quantity&limit=50&offset=103 properties with units already created]
- Properties with units waiting for creation
- [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q185372&type=revision&diff=250834149&oldid=238024129 example]
- [http://librarybase.wmflabs.org/wiki/Librarybase:Home Prototype database to store all Wikipedia references]
- Duplicity can show you how many (and which) articles on a Wikipedia are not connected to an item on Wikidata ([https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?mode=stats&wiki=frwiki example for frwp])
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=348 Magnus wrote a user script to let you edit Listeria-powered lists on Wikipedia directly]
- [http://musikipedia.org/ Musicpedia] has been released in beta and is using data from Wikidata
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/creator_from_wikidata.php New tool by Magnus to create a Commons creator page from a Wikidata item]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: length, elevation above sea level, orbital inclination, area, duration, height, width, wingspan, M x sin i, speed, watershed area, density, electrical conductivity, heat capacity, HMDB ID, depositor, luminosity, aspect ratio, HSDB ID, LIPID MAPS ID, KNApSAcK ID, NIAID ChemDB ID, Fusion enthalpy, mass
- Development
- Release of the query service and unit support (see above)
- Made quantities not show URIs when editing a value but instead show the label
- Worked on new datatype for identifiers to be able to split them from the other statements in the user interface, link them without the need for the authority control gadget and be able to link them in JSON/RDF
- Worked more on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #176
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCon in Dresden
- Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007052.html office hour on IRC]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References" is looking for endorsements
- Wikidata and it's dumps [https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/dcatap.rdf are now described] according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by [https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=tsint-dcatap&filter=!translated&action=translate translating the general] and the Wikidata specific messages.
- A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be drafted by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- Community page for the new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries, and a board for suggestions and discussions.
- Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata
- English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/? Mix'n'match] got new catalogs including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors
- The LinkedWiki extension now supports Wikidata ([http://daap.eu/wiki/Demo_Wikidata demo])
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FISA ID, Power of 10 athlete ID, Library of Congress JukeBox ID, CrunchBase organisation ID, CrunchBase person ID, CDD Public ID, Nikkaji, ZINC ID, Leadscope ID, M.49 code, BLDAM object ID, AcademiaNet, fabrication method, user manual link, pressure, temperature, speed of sound, internetmedicin.se ID, range, CDB Chemical ID, Mémoire des hommes, Fellow of the Royal Society, magnetic moment, thermal conductivity
- Development
- Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder
- Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages
- Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes prepended by a label (in a random language)
- Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile devices to the mobile version of the site
- Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an article to an item on the client
- Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback yet
- Worked more on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the client watchlist and recent changes
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #177
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: IRC office hour ([https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-09-23-17.01.log.html log with summary of past 3 months, OSM integration and more])
- Upcoming: [https://www.codetalks.de/2015/programm/migrating-freebase-to-wikidata code.talks]
- Upcoming: [http://wikiconferenceusa.org Wikiconference USA]
- [http://blog.johl.io/blog/2015/09/29/wikidata-cli/ Wikidata-Items schnell auf der Kommandozeile nachschlagen? Mediawiki APIs hacken]
- [http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=14527 A sea-change in science citation? The Wikipedia Science conference.]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Great collaboration between a group of Flemish museums and art collections and Wikidata
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-timeline/ Wikidata timeline] is another tool that gives you nice timelines based in Wikidata's data (examples: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-timeline/#/timeline?title=American%20Sitcoms&query=claim%5B31%3A(tree%5B5398426%5D%5B%5D%5B279%5D)%5D%20AND%20claim%5B495%3A30%5D%20AND%20claim%5B136%3A170238%5D American Sitcoms], [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-timeline/#/timeline?title=Wars&query=claim%5B31%3A(TREE%5B198%5D%5B%5D%5B279%5D)%5D%20AND%20CLAIM%5B580%5D&widthOfYear=2 Wars], [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-timeline/#/timeline?title=Meryl%20Streep&query=claim%5B161%3A873%5D%20or%20items%5B873%5D Meryl Streep])
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=354 Cool new tool by Magnus for dynamic list generation]
- [https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/648790530927800320 nlwiki has made great progress in getting down the number of articles not connected to Wikidata]
- The Museum of Modern Art website now includes Wikidata IDs ([http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/5078 example])
- 50.79% of all #Wikidata items have none, one or two statements now. Next month it is likely to be less than half. Good progress!
- Some more examples to get you started with Wikidata's query service: [https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/648084172582617088 1], [https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/647440739350220800 2], [https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/648749003346214912 3]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, Half-Life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point, Banque de noms de lieux du Québec id, BC Geographical Names ID, substitute/deputy/replacement of office/officeholder, term length of office, image legend, co-driver, qualifies for, short author name, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID
- Development
- You can now find the Wikibase ontology at http://wikiba.se/ontology
- Special:UnconnectedPages will have a namespace filter
- Worked on a small birthday present (One month left!) and party organizing (more info coming in the next days)
- Language fallbacks will be shown also when adding a new statement, in qualifiers and references as well as for badges
- Fixed a long-standing login issue when adding a new language link from Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T50389)
- Worked on RfC for multi-content revisions. This is groundwork for Commons support. (phabricator:T107595)
- More work on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #178
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: code.talks ([https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B27T8SWWNYgZyPllGZl2dNqZhxFoZkKQJFzHsrcRj5w/edit#slide=id.i0 slides on migrating Freebase to Wikidata])
- Past: Wikidata:Mobilizing Open Cultural Data ([https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIry9pjMR9lc1pKRRETgko5-MEC8sxjkW videos], [http://slides.com/susannaanas/wikidata-yle#/ slides])
- Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday. We will have a party and you should come! ([https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007300.html announcement], program and other details, IMPORTANT: [https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-registration-18899772729 sign up so we know how many people to expect])
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now almost 5000 articles in Czech Wikipedia which include an infobox without parameters, only with data from Wikidata.
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007299.html Input request about editing Wikidata from clients like Wikipedia]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007319.html Freebase to Wikidata: results of Tpt's internship have been published]
- Articles without a Wikidata item can now be filtered by category tree. ([https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?cat=Chemists&mode=list&wiki=enwiki example for chemists on enwiki])
- Wikidata:Units attempts to list available units and properties they can be used with
- Constraint reports can now check if units are within a user defined list: e.g. report for mass (P2067)
- WikiProject Economics needs more participants to organize all the new properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Georgian national system of romanization, Hepburn romanization, membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, half-life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point
- Development
- Changed the default RDF flavor to include all statements (phabricator:T101837)
- Started to work on creating new articles from scratch from the article placeholder
- Continued work on the Lua libraries of the default Article Placeholder layout
- Started the research on client editing with an input page
- More work on making the mobile view fit for being enabled per default for mobile users
- Changed our JavaScript coding style to be more in line with MediaWiki core’s
- In edit mode, the label is now displayed for units instead of a URL
- Added a new “YearMonthDay” date parser that supports many edge cases where all other date parsers fail
- More work on passing full edit summaries to the client wikis.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #179
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCon USA ([http://filbertkm.com/wikicon2015.pdf slides])
- Ongoing: World Health Summit ([http://www.slideshare.net/lydiapintscher/wikidata-giving-more-people-more-access-to-more-knowledge slides])
- Upcoming: [http://summit.theodi.org/programme ODI Summit] with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata
- Don't forget to [https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-registration-18899772729 sign up] if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
- [https://github.com/nichtich/wdq#readme A command line client] to the SPARQL query service has been released
- Query example: [http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/visu/#/?sparqlEndpoint=https:%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fwdq%2Fsparql&query=PREFIX%20wikibase:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20%3Fa)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P735%20wd:Q18145837%20.%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P569%20%3Fdate%20.%20%0A%20%20%20BIND(year(%3Fdate)%20AS%20%3Fyear)%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear&outputType=gchart&chartConfig=%7B%22containerId%22:%22chart%22,%22options%22:%7B%22hAxis%22:%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:false,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:2000,%22min%22:1775%7D,%22minValue%22:1775,%22maxValue%22:2000,%22viewWindowMode%22:%22explicit%22,%22logScale%22:false,%22formatOptions%22:%7B%22source%22:%22inline%22,%22prefix%22:%22%22%7D,%22format%22:%220.%23%23%22,%22gridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%228%22%7D,%22minorGridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%224%22%7D%7D,%22title%22:%22%22,%22useFirstColumnAsDomain%22:true,%22vAxes%22:%5B%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D,%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D%5D,%22isStacked%22:false,%22animation%22:%7B%22duration%22:500%7D,%22booleanRole%22:%22certainty%22,%22legend%22:%22right%22,%22width%22:600,%22height%22:371,%22domainAxis%22:%7B%22direction%22:1%7D,%22series%22:%7B%220%22:%7B%22color%22:%22%23ff0000%22%7D%7D%7D,%22state%22:%7B%7D,%22view%22:%7B%7D,%22isDefaultVisualization%22:false,%22chartType%22:%22ColumnChart%22%7D popularity of the given name Adolf]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=101 MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match]
- Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/?action=noauthor You can help get it down even further.]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?mode=stats&wiki=cawiki Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly.] How about yours?
- [https://glamwiki.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/this-month-in-glam-september-2015/ This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage]
- Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: median lethal dose, first aid measures, official symbol, units used for this property, external subproperty, external superproperty, volume for quantity, semi-major axis, cash, explosive velocity, torque, Max TDP, maximum thrust, metallicity, market capitalization, discharge, spectral line, decay width, gyromagnetic ratio, flux, household wealth, real gross domestic product growth rate, net worth, cruise speed, radial velocity, proper motion, parallax, longitude of ascending node, angular distance, position angle, relative to, SourceForge project, average shot length, Spotify track ID, Discogs release ID, Spotify album ID, minimum explosive concentration, upper flammable limit, lower flammable limit, dipole moment, electric charge, autoignition temperature, (average) gradient, production volume, students count, Soccerbase manager id, PSS-Archi architect id, Soccerbase player id, endangeredlanguages.com ID, NILF author id, C-SPAN identifier of a person, BiblioNet publisher identifier, BiblioNet author identifier, BiblioNet publication identifier, Wiki Loves Monuments ID, DLI, history of topic, ISO 9:1995, Finnish Ministers database ID, Finnish MP ID, Kansallisbiografia ID, ACM Classification Code (2012), solvent, solubility, drug used for treatment, medical condition treated
- Development
- You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices ([http://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1 example])
- Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit
- Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback)
- Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder
- More work on the new datatype for properties
- More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing.
- More work on a birthday present :D
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #180
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://ashtree.eu/wordpress/mais-combien-y-a-t-il-de-femmes-scientifiques-sur-wikipedia-this-time-with-sparql/ How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL!] (French)
- [http://zone47.com/dozo/wikidata-enpoint-sparql-et-les-peintures-de-goya Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya] (French)
- Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to [https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-registration-18899772729 register] if you're coming to the party.)
- More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007355.html], [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007358.html]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=362 Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game!] Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#game=9 match an author and a publication]. And it has [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#mode=stats stats].
- Mix'n'match got [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=106 skyscrapers to match up] for you.
- Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
- [https://twitter.com/AmicalWikimedia/status/655022833140154368 Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata]. Congrats!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: periapsis, apoapsis, Florentine musea catalogue ID, reason for deprecation
- Development
- Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
- Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
- More work on birthday present
- More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
- Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
- Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
- Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #181
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Derived properties, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://i9606.blogspot.de/2015/10/poof-it-works-using-wikidata-to-build.html Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes]
- [http://ashtree.eu/wordpress/wikidata-sparql-et-chiens-de-traineaux/ Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies] (French)
- [http://ashtree.eu/wordpress/wikidata-sparql-et-dynasties-electives/ Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties] (French)
- [https://dlina.github.io/The-Birth-and-Death-of-German-Playwrights/ The birth and death of German playwrights]
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=369 Distributed stats]
- Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
- Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
- Upcoming: [http://www.semweb.pro/semwebpro-2015.html SemWeb.Pro] in Paris
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007411.html There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser]
- Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/harvesttemplates Harvest templates]. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?mode=stats&wiki=itwiki Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly.] How about yours?
- The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/ Wikidata Game] now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=110 The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match]
- Some more query examples: [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fmovie%20%3FmovieLabel%20%3FactorLabel%20(year(%3Fdate)%20as%20%3Fyear)%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%20%23film%0A%20%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20%3Fmovie%20p%3AP161%20%3FactorS%20.%20%23avec%20des%20acteurs%0A%20%20%3FactorS%20v%3AP161%20%3Factor%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%3FactorS%20q%3AP453%2Fwdt%3AP144*%20wd%3AQ3266236%20%23r%C3%B4le%20%3A%20Dracula%20ou%20succ%C3%A9dan%C3%A9s%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%22%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate Dracula movies and their actors], [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fmovie%20%3FmovieLabel%20(year(%3Fdate)%20as%20%3Fyear)%20%3FCommons%20%3FInternetArchive%20%3FYoutube%20%20%3Furl%20%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP10%20%3FCommons%20.%7D%20%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP724%20%3FInternetArchive%20.%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP1651%20%3FYoutube%20.%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP963%20%3Furl%20.%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate.%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%22%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate%0A movies with links to videos]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Debrett's People of Today ID, maximum operating altitude, DfE URN, NGA artist id, life expectancy, Refseq Genome ID, argument of periapsis, periapsis
- Development
- ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
- Worked on birthday present :)
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
- Made it possible to get from the search results page to the article placeholder. This was one of the last holdups for a first demo version.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #182
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price. File:I love Wikidata because.jpg
- Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
- Images from the party
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbwJpejizq0 Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project] - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEnH2KyYlOs&feature=youtu.be here]
- Presents:
- Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007492.html Improved query.wikidata.org] by the dev team
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007501.html Preview of the Article Placeholder] by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007502.html Special:Nearby] by the dev team
- [http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/10/donation-of-cc-world-university-school.html Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday!] by Scott_WUaS
- [http://maettig.com/code/javascript/wikidata-morse-code-renderer.html Your name in Wikidata Morse code] from TMg
- Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
- Past: Open Access Week
- Past: DINI Jahrestagung ([http://korrekt.org/talks/2015/wikidata-intro-dinijt-oct-2015.pdf slides])
- Past: Tehran SFD ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BNNu_hh74k video])
- Upcoming: [http://summit.theodi.org ODI Summit]
- Upcoming: [http://www.swat4ls.org SWAT4LS]
- [http://scoms.hypotheses.org/498 Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata]
- [http://blog.insideout.io/en/2015/10/science-fiction-movies-on-the-linked-data-cloud/ Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?wiki=itwiki&mode=stats Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata]. Congrats!
- Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
- The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/ Distributed Game] now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
- Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: [http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/southafrica.html South Africa], [http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/india.html India], [http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/australia.html Australia], [http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/world.html world]
- Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
- Example query: [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20schema%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fschema.org%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP27%20wd%3AQ142%20.%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fwen%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20.%20%3Fwen%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fwfr%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20.%20%3Fwfr%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22fr%22%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia]
- Example query: [https://query.wikidata.org/#prefix%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aprefix%20entity%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20entity%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2049%20%3Fdummy0%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER(!bound(%3Fdummy0))%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2048%20%3Fdummy1%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER(!bound(%3Fdummy1))%0A%7D paintings without dimension] (add some?)
- Example query: [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FinstanceOfLabel%20%3FDateofBirth%20%3FInception%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FDateofBirth.%20%23P569%20date%20of%20birth%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(month(%3FDateofBirth)%20%3D%2010%20%26%26%20day(%3FDateofBirth)%20%3D%2029)%0A%20%20%7DUNION%20%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FInception.%20%23P571%20inception%2Fdate%20of%20creation%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20(month(%3FInception)%20%3D%2010%20%26%26%20day(%3FInception)%20%3D%2029)%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3FinstanceOf.%20%23P31%20instance%20of%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata]
- We passed 15M items.
- Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/catalog_stats.php?catalog=92&min_perc_props=4&min_perc_sitelinks=10 All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
- Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
- Development
- Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
- Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
- Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
- Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #183
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Lakokat
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2015/11/08/wikidata-wikibase-json-dump-reader/ Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader]
- [http://factor-tech.com/big-data/20486-wikidata-project-to-tackle-language-barriers-in-scientific-research/ Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach]
- [http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/2015/11/05/semantic-cities/ Semantic Cities]
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/11/05/q167545-wikidata-celebrated-its-third-birthday/ Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday]
- [http://www.slideshare.net/andrewsu/open-biomedical-knowledge-using-crowdsourcing-and-citizen-science Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"]
- Past: semwebpro ([http://slides.com/raphaellelapotre/deck#/ slides])
- Past: ODI Summit
- Past: MozFest ([https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/Data-is-beautiful-whats-Wikidata etherpad])
- Upcoming: [http://con2015.wikimedia.kr WikiConference Seoul]
File:Wikidata Birthday Illustration II.jpg
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wp_no_image/index.html List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one]
- Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
- [http://schoolofdata.org/handbook/courses/common-misconceptions/ Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them] by School of Data
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
- Ever noticed ranks?
- Development
- Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
- Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
- Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
- Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
- Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
- Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
- Worked more on making search work on mobile
- Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #184
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: [https://www.wikimedia.nl/project/wikimedia-conferentie-nederland Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland]
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://zone47.com/crotos/callisto/ Callisto] - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
- [http://qwery.me/ Qwery.me] - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
- Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
- Example query: [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3FnumberLabel%20%3Fvalue%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fnumber%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ12916%20.%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3Fnumber%20%20wdt%3AP1181%20%3Fvalue%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20order%20by%20desc(%3Fvalue) real numbers with their approximate value]
- Pre-print: [http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/11/12/031286 Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
- Newest WikiProjects: Education
- Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
- [https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2F%5C%7B%5C%7B%5BIi%5Dnfobox+-+osoba%5C%7D%5C%7D%2F&title=Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD%3AHled%C3%A1n%C3%AD&limit=60&offset=50&go=Run Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia]
- Development
- Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
- Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
- Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
- Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
- Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
- Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #185
Wikidata weekly summary #114
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: [http://ubuntu-paris.org/programme/#ateliers Ubuntu Party, Paris]
- Upcoming: [https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_the_National_Library_of_Wales/WikiData_Editathon Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales]
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=373 More mixin’, more matches]
- [http://addshore.com/2015/11/impact-of-wikimania-mexico-2015-on-wikidata/ Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata]
- [http://addshore.com/2015/11/myanmar-coordinates-on-wikidata-by-lockal-widar/ Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar]
- [https://opensource.com/life/15/11/tasty-translations-the-open-source-way Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival]
- [ftp://ftp.tik.ee.ethz.ch/pub/students/2015-FS/BA-2015-13.pdf Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ Mix'n'match]: new catalogs were added
- Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
- MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
- What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
- You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See :en:Template:Wikidata list
- Alpha release of [http://wigi.wmflabs.org/ Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index] (using data from Wikidata)
- Query examples: [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20xsd%3A%20%20%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2FXMLSchema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fepisode%20%3FepisodeLabel%20%3Fnumber%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ838795%20.%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ13915%20.%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP433%20%3Fnumber%20.%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger(%3Fnumber) all xkcd comics], [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fname%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6256%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP1549%20%3Fname%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20(%20lang(%3Fname)%3D'en')%0A%7D%0A English demonyms for countries]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
- Development
- Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
- Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
- Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
- Decreased size of html of item pages
- Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
- More work on making the search on mobile work
- Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
- Fixing size of table of content on mobile
- Prevented merging of items which link to each other
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #186
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Koavf
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
- Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
- Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
- [http://blogs.cccb.org/lab/en/article_la-nova-pedra-de-rosetta/ Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?]
- [http://blog.insideout.io/en/2015/11/wordlift-3-0-a-brief-semantic-story-part-1/ WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1]
- [http://blogg.wikimedia.no/2015/11/24/workshop-i-wikidata/ Workshop i Wikidata]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- New daily report on Mix'n'match
- Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
- French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
- New catalogs have been added to [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match Mix'n'match]
- A new author language game has been added to the [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed Wikidata distributed game].
- Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
- [https://github.com/wpoa/OA-signalling/issues/113 Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project]
- example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
- Development
- Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
- Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
- Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
- Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
- Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #187
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: [http://www.swat4ls.org/ Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science]
- [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSgm90SbQBpHqEMa17t5zQL0PB2waIKD3LKTPPknmcY/edit notes]
- [https://bitbucket.org/sulab/wikidatasparqlexamples/src example queries]
- [https://twitter.com/bgood/status/673872975024816128 a few images]
- Ongoing: [http://www.dish2015.nl/programme/improvisation-session/day-2-lose-control-gain-influence/ Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam], 8 December 2015
- Upcoming: [http://www.meetup.com/SemanticCampParis/events/227054374/?eventId=227054374 Wikidata pour la science]
- Upcoming: [http://www.isb-sib.ch/events/biocuration2016/workshops#WS6 Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016]
- [http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/building-the-sum-of-all-human-citations Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"]
- Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
- Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
- [https://www.openscienceprize.org/ Open Science Prize] is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
- The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
- Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for [https://codein.withgoogle.com Google Code-in] and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007751.html We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content]
- [https://newrepublic.com/article/124425/dreamed-perfect-database I dreamed of a perfect database] - Wikidata? ;-)
- [http://histropedia.com/timeline/lhblyhhr091/NLW-Collections Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales]
- Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
- [https://fnielsen.github.io/littar/ Map of narrative locations in Denmark]
- [http://queryr.wmflabs.org/about/ Experimental REST API for Wikidata]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
- Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
- Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
- Development
- Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
- Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
- Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
- Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
- Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
- Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
- Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
- Worked on PHP7 support
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #188
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
- The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
- [http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/11/16/031971.article-info Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond] received the prize for best paper at [http://www.swat4ls.org SWAT4LS]. Congrats!
- Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-analyst/index.php Wikidata Analyst], a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata ([https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007811.html announcement])
- Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
- [http://query.wikidata.org query.wikidata.org] now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
- [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wikijourney.wikijourney WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
- Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%23%20based%20on%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediawiki.org%2Fwiki%2FWikibase%2FIndexing%2FSPARQL_Query_Examples%23Rock_bands_that_start_with_.22M.22%0A%0ASELECT%20%3FwhichLincoln%20%3FwhichLincolnLabel%20%3Fplace%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Fcc%20WHERE%20{%0A%20%20%3Fplace%20%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP984%20%3Fcc%0A%20%20FILTER%28CONTAINS%28%3FplaceLabel%2C%20%27Lincoln%27%29%29%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%28CONTAINS%28%3FwhichLincolnLabel%2C%20%27Lincoln%27%29%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20{%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fplace%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FplaceLabel%20.%0A%20%20}%0A%20%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP138%20%3FwhichLincoln%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20{%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwhichLincoln%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FwhichLincolnLabel%20.%0A%20%20}%0A%0A}%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FwhichLincolnLabel Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?], [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20pq%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fhigh%20%3Fhighl%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%3Flow%20%3Flowl%20%3Flow_elevation%20%3Fspan%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%23%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ160016%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP610%20%3Fhigh%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP610%20%3Fhigh_statement%20.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20wdt%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fhigh_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fhigh%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fhighl%20filter%20(lang(%3Fhighl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1589%20%3Flow%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP1589%20%3Flow_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Flow_statement%20pq%3AP2044%20%3Flow_elevation%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flow%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flowl%20filter%20(lang(%3Flowl)%20%3D%20%22en%22)%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND(%20%3Fhigh_elevation%20-%20%3Flow_elevation%20as%20%3Fspan%20)%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC(%3Fspan)%20DESC(%3Flow_elevation)%20DESC(%3Fhigh_elevation)%20%3Fhigh%20%3FitemLabel places by elevation span], [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flast_time%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%09%09%09SELECT%20%3Fitem%20(MAX(%3Ftime0)%20AS%20%3Flast_time)%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%09%09%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%09%09%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20%20%09%09%09FILTER%20(%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%221945-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%221945-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20)%20.%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20ASC%20(%3Flast_time) people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)]
- Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
- Development
- Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Further work on a separate section for identifiers
- Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
- Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
- Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
- Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
- Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Getting ready for the holidays :)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #189
Wikidata weekly summary #186
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/fileadmin/downloads/2015/WHS/Documents/151211_WHS_2015_-_web.pdf World Health Summit yearbook for 2015]
- You can apply for a [https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016] (deadline: January 9th)
- [https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016] are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/ Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API]
- Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/ The Miga class and property browser was updated.]
- [https://twitter.com/JavaFXpert/status/675667476386975744 WikiBrowser] - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
- [http://wikifamo.us WikiFamou.us] lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
- [http://www.chronas.org Chronas] is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
- Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
- Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Works%20created%20by%20females%20died%20in%201945%0APREFIX%20bd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreaLabel%20%3FworkLabel%20(year(%3Fdate)as%20%3Fyear)%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P170%2Fcreator%0A%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%23%20P50%2Fauthor%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P86%2Fcomposer%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP87%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P87%2Flibrettist%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP110%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P110%2Fillustrator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP655%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P655%2Ftranslator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP676%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P676%2Flyrics%20by%0A%20%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%20%23%20P21%2Fsex%20or%20gender%20-%20Q6581072%2Ffemale%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20FILTER%20(%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%221945-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%221945-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20)%20%23%20P570%2Fdate%20of%20death%20in%201945%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%7D%20%23%20P571%2Finception%20-%20P571%2Fpublication%20date%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fwork%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FcreaLabel%20%0A works created by females who died in 1945]
- Development
- <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
- We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
- Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
- Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
- Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
- Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
- More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #190
Wikidata weekly summary #186
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: [https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/ 32C3]
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007898.html StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar]
- Upcoming: [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007918.html Office hour on IRC]
- Upcoming: [https://fosdem.org FOSDEM] (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-December/001314.html Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open]
- Don't forget your [https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions talk submissions for Wikimania 2016]. Lydia can help if needed.
- [http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.de/2015/12/new-edition-getting-cas-registry.html Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData]
- [http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.de/2015/12/the-quality-of-smiles-strings-in.html The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Paper: [http://www.swat4ls.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SWAT4LS_2015_paper_38.pdf Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond]
- [http://rio.pensoft.net/articles.php?journal_name=rio&id=7573 The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal]
- [//tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/addlingue/ New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims]
- [http://blog.johl.io/blog/2015/12/23/bundestagsquartett/ Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
- Development
- Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
- Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #191
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=378 The Reference Wars]
- [http://blog.wikimedia.de/2016/01/02/teaching-machines-to-make-your-life-easier-quality-work-on-wikidata/ Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata]
- [http://addshore.com/2015/12/wikidata-references-from-microdata/ Wikidata references from Microdata]
- [http://addshore.com/2016/01/building-applications-around-wikidata-a-beer-example/ Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)]
- [http://www2016.ca/program/industry-track.html#from-freebase-to-wikidata-the-great-migration From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration] has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
- [http://sulab.org/2016/01/gene-wiki-and-wikidata-an-overview-of-2015/ Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015]
- Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
- Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning]
- [https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th.] Get your talk proposals in!
- IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/007951.html Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype]
- Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ Mix'n'match] has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
- [https://artturimatias.github.io/metapipe/ Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool]
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature code, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
- New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
- Development
- Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
- More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
- Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
- We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
- Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
- More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
- Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
- References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
- SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #192
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
- [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/18/fifteen-years-wikipedia-magnus-manske/ Fifteen years ago , Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske]
- [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/01/15/wikipedia-just-turned-15-years-old-will-it-survive-15-more/ Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?]
- [http://www.slideshare.net/frimelle/wikidata-at-wikipeda-day-15-2016-nyc Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC]
- Doing research on Wikidata? [http://www.opensym.org/os2016/call-for-papers/ Consider submitting to OpenSym].
- Past: ODI summit ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUET6isFLHg video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester])
- Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfd_HmPOrc video], [http://www.slideshare.net/MarcoFossati/strephit-ieg-kickoff-seminar slides])
- Upcoming: [https://orcid.org/blog/2016/01/12/orcid-down-under-announcing-our-first-australian-outreach-meeting ORCID outreach meeting]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
- Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
- [https://github.com/inventaire/wikidata-lang Wikidata-lang] - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/rcvis.html Live-stream of Wikidata edits] by Magnus
- [https://github.com/tomayac/wikipedia-tools-for-google-spreadsheets Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet] now has a Wikidata function
- Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
- Development
- Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
- Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
- Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
- Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
- Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
- Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
- Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #193
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion ([http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20160121.txt log])
- Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
- Upcoming: [https://fosdem.org/2016/ FOSDEM]
- Upcoming: [https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia] by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7oGEhtTPI Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles]
- Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-January/084501.html] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008014.html Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition]
- [https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/ Wikidata Graph Builder]
- Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?cat=Frau&mode=list&wiki=dewiki Here for example women on dewiki.]
- You can give input on WMF's strategy
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008004.html Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/? Mix'n'match] got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-January/081294.html Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata]
- French Wikipedia now has modified :fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
- Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%23by%20Jura1%2C%202016-01-18%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fage%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FhgovernmentLabel%20%20WHERE%20{%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3624078%20.%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20{%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3024240}%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20p%3AP6%20%3Fstatement%20.%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20v%3AP6%20%3Fhgovernment%20.%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20{%20%3Fstatement%20q%3AP582%20%3Fx%20}%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fhgovernment%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdob%20.%20BIND%28YEAR%28now%28%29%29-YEAR%28%3Fdob%29%20as%20%3Fage%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fage%3E%3D65%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20{%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22{{int:lang}}%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20}%0A%20}%20%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fage%29%0A List of countries by age of the head of government]
- Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
- Development
- Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
- Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
- Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
- Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
- Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
- Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
- Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
- Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
- More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #194
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- [https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2016/01/25/replicator-a-cli-tool-for-wikidata/ Replicator: Wikidata import tool]
- [https://dlina.github.io/The-Facebook-of-German-Playwrights/ The Facebook of German Playwrights]
- [http://addshore.com/2016/02/language-usage-on-wikidata/ Language usage on Wikidata]
- Past: FOSDEM ([http://www.slideshare.net/frimelle/increasing-access-to-free-and-open-knowledge-for-speakers-of-underserved-languages-on-wikipedia slides of talk by Lucie])
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008052.html Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata]
- Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
- some visualizations:
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/family/ancestors.php?q=Q11297913 Family tree of King Halo, race horse]
- [https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P184&item=Q6722&direction=reverse Doctoral students of Gauss]
- [https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P974&item=Q1653&lang=de&iterations=7 Tributaries of the Danube]
- [https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P40&item=Q44204&lang=de&iterations=7 Children of Kronos]
- [https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P737&item=Q9047&lang=de&direction=both&iterations=15 Influenced by Leibnitz]
- [https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P279&item=Q141488&direction=reverse Graphs]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-timeline/#/timeline?query=CLAIM%5B921:202864%5D%20OR%20CLAIM%5B921:8071861%5D Zika virus papers]
- KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
- Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008068.html Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more]
- [https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html WD-FIST] now supports SPARQL queries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- Query example: [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Chevaux%20sur%20Wikidata%0A%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcheval%20%3FchevalLabel%20%3Fmere%20%3Fpere%20(year(%3Fnaissance)%20as%20%3FNaissance)%20(year(%3Fdeces)%20as%20%3FD%C3%A9c%C3%A8s)%20%3Fsexe%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ726%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%23%20Instance%20et%20sous-classes%20de%20Q726-Cheval%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP25%20%3Fmere%20%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P25%20%20%3A%20M%C3%A8re%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP22%20%3Fpere%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P22%20%20%3A%20P%C3%A8re%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fnaissance%20.%7D%20%23%20P569%20%3A%20Date%20de%20naissance%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdeces%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P571%20%3A%20Date%20de%20d%C3%A9c%C3%A8s%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fcheval%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fsexe%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P21%20%20%3A%20Sexe%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Cen%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fcheval horses], [http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/visu/#/?sparqlEndpoint=https:%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fwdq%2Fsparql&query=PREFIX%20wikibase:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20(COUNT%20(DISTINCT%20%3Fa)%20AS%20%3Fcount)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P31%20wd:Q5%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P2380%20%3FRSF%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P569%20%3Fdate%20.%20%0A%20%20%20BIND(year(%3Fdate)%20AS%20%3Fyear)%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear&outputType=gchart&chartConfig=%7B%22containerId%22:%22chart%22,%22options%22:%7B%22hAxis%22:%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null%7D,%22title%22:%22%22,%22useFirstColumnAsDomain%22:true,%22vAxes%22:%5B%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null%7D,%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null%7D%5D,%22isStacked%22:false,%22animation%22:%7B%22duration%22:500%7D,%22booleanRole%22:%22certainty%22,%22legend%22:%22right%22,%22width%22:600,%22height%22:371%7D,%22state%22:%7B%7D,%22view%22:%7B%7D,%22isDefaultVisualization%22:false,%22chartType%22:%22ColumnChart%22%7D French sculptors by year of birth]
- Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
- Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
- New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
- Development
- und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
- Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
- Final touches on making search work on mobile
- Finishing identifier datatype and section
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #195
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: HakanIST
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: [http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-Open-Science-Meetup/events/228087017/ Open Science Meetup], Berlin
- [http://www.slideshare.net/goodb/2016-bd2k-bgoodwikidata Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk]
- [http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/ Wiki Workshop 2016] could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph [https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-entity-usage-project here] (select project at the top left)
- How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? [https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements Here] are the stats.
- [https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-top-page-views What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?]
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008052.html We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.]
- [https://twitter.com/generalising/status/694507683811069952 Andrew updated his maps]
- We crossed edit 300,000,000!
- Graph example: [https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P279&item=Q44337&direction=reverse&iterations=7 matrices]
- Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
- Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
- Development
- Search now works on mobile
- Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
- [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008140.html Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes]
- Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
- Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
- More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.