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Wikidata weekly summary #226

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
  • Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
  • Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
  • Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
  • Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
  • Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
  • Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
  • How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
  • #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
  • Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
  • How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
  • Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID
  • Query examples:
    • Posthumous marriages (source)
    • Communes of France with more than one railway station (source)
    • Languages and their grammatical cases they have in common (source)
    • Cocktails recipes (source)
    • People who died in the last seven days (source)
    • Places of birth of 20th century saints (source)
  • New templates: {{Denmark properties}}, {{Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.

• Development
  • Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
  • Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
  • Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
  • A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
  • Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
  • Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
  • Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:17, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for September 14

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Ascresearch

Hi James! Just curious how I can make my sources better. I felt they met the standards of Wikipedia, but as you have more experience I'd love your feedback on why they don't, and how I can make them better.

Thanks. Annie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ascresearch (talk • contribs) 23:27, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Please review Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. Regards, James (^talk/_contribs) 00:13, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #227

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
  • New request for comments: Merging male and female labels

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: State of the map, September 23 - 25, Brussels
  • Next Wikidata office hour: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office
  • Video of a SPARQL workshop (& materials) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams
  • Slides of Lydia's keynote about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
  • Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata
  • #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames by Harmonia Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors by Ash Crow

• Other Noteworthy Stuff

Quality process on Wikidata

• • The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
  • The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
  • You can also activate ORES the review tool to watch damaging edits more easily!
  • There's an infographic on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit.
  • You can also use and translate this new datamodel representation.
  • How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Visual Novel Database ID, territory overlaps, Zaragoza monument ID, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID, uses property, Statoids ID, art director, offers view on, World Bridge Federation ID, Olympic.org ID, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID, Harasire ID, Sporthorse data ID, Allbreedpedigree ID, Webpedigrees ID, Horsetelex ID
  • Query examples:
    • Embassies (source)
    • World map of water towers (source)
    • "Battles of the Middle Ages" without place or date (source)
    • Asteroids named after characters from works by Lewis Caroll (source)
    • Map of Austrian cultural heritage (source)
    • Statues in Paris depicting historical female figures (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of embassies

• Development
  • We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features
  • The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:05, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

NCTA

Arguably, NCTA is the more recognizable part of the name, but that can't be the page's title because it's disambiguated.

But still, that is the organization's official name now. It's arbitrarily making the article outdated by mandating that we use a name that is no longer in use. ViperSnake151  Talk  22:27, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Feel free to file a move request in order to gauge community consensus. Regards, James (^talk/_contribs) 23:36, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, September 28

Please join us in downtown San Francisco!

Hi folks,

We would like to invite you to this month's Bay Area WikiSalon. The last Wednesday evening of every month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We will have no formal agenda to allow people to freely share ideas and perhaps learn about Wikipedia through hands-on editing. Co-organizer Ben Creasy will be looking at election-related articles to enhance the information available in the upcoming November elections.

Co-organizer Stephen LaPorte has suggested doing an upload-a-thon for Wiki Loves Monuments. Niki, the California coordinator for WLM will be in attendance. WLM is an annual event and the official dealine is Friday the 30th for submissions to count towards awards.

Or, you can grab a couch, a booth, or a stool and do your own thing.

Please note: You should register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on the I.D. part. This also helps us figure out how much food and drink to bring in! Feel free to stop by even if only to say a quick hello, but you might have to give us a last minute call if you forget to RSVP. Also, don't be shy about hitting us up if you have thoughts on future speakers or wiki-related activities.

For further details, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, September 2016. Mark your calendars now for the 3rd Wednesday in October, the 26th, when we will have a brief presentation.

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See you soon! Pete F, Ben, Stephen and Checkingfax | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:35, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Ben Barton

On 26 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ben Barton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ben Barton (pictured) was able to cheaply purchase a large amount of land in what would become Redlands, California, due to Brigham Young's recall of the Mormon outpost there? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ben Barton. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ben Barton), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #228

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCon 2016
  • Past: OASPA conference (slides)
  • Past: State of the Map
  • Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
  • Upcoming: SMWCon
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
  • Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
  • HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
  • TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
  • Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
  • Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
• Development
  • mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137808)
  • Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (phabricator:T145516, phabricator:T146030, phabricator:T146274)
  • More work on usage tracking UI (phabricator:T145965, phabricator:T143148, phabricator:T145189, phabricator:T144923)
  • RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (phabricator:E273)
  • Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (phabricator:T105100)
  • Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (phabricator:T117032)
  • Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
  • Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (phabricator:T144303)
  • Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (phabricator:T146356)
  • Expanding references again in diffs (phabricator:T129836)
  • Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (phabricator:T142203)
  • Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (phabricator:T119492)
  • Worked on improving the query service documentation (phabricator:T133052)
• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:32, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Legoland resorts

Hi James, I've reverted all of your pages moves as these all should be discussed first, It's always better to play by the book as that way if a newbie or vandal reverts atleast you'll actually have consensus for the moves, Thanks & Happy editing, –Davey2010^Talk 01:52, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

You are wrong. Here are some "by the book" guidelines: The requested move process is not mandatory. Anyone can be bold and move a page without discussing it first. If that is truly your only objection, you will, of course, self-revert your moves. Regards, James (^talk/_contribs) 07:51, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Nope I'm afraid I'm correct, I'm well aware it's not mandatory however they should be done and IMHO your moves should be discussed anyway, I'm not self reverting anything - Either you discuss your moves or you simply move on. –Davey2010^Talk 13:49, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 September 2016

• News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit

• In the media: Wikipedia in the news

• Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

• Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

• Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét

• Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:21, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #229

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095)
  • Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia, by Gustaf Harari Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451)
  • Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources (cs), by Jan Macura (Q27042632)
  • Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis on Warriors Planet
  • The Wikidata scholarly profile page on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
  • Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase on Open Preservation Foundation

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We need you for Wikidata's birthday! Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
  • Item Q27000000 was created, about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
  • Log of our last office hour discussion
  • The first WikiCite newsletter has been published
  • You can help a research project to understand the use of the SPARQL query service

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: OKPD2 code of the good or service, OKP ID of the good or service, OKP Code, OKVED 2 code of the economic activity, OKPD code of the good or service, OKVED 1.1 code of the economic activity, SIC code, Catholic Encyclopedia ID, NBN System Key, trunk prefix, KU Leuven person ID, PhilPapers publication, PhilPapers topic, Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organizations, PhilPapers profile, PhilPapers author, Mediaarts-DB ID, SCAR Composite Gazetteer, South Dakota legislator ID, Schläfli symbol, Cultural Heritage Kosovo ID, HAS member ID, Corporate Number (Japan), NAICS code, List of lights id, Nationalencyklopedin Online ID, NYT topic ID, KvK company ID, Encyclopædia Universalis Online ID, Auñamendi ID, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, ClassInd rating, SIRET number, Onisep occupation ID, Indian census area code, ISAN
  • Query examples:
    • Most populous commune of France whose name begins by a certain letter (source)
    • Works mentioning #Wikidata properties (source)
    • Places where people born in Brittany died (source)
    • trees grown from seeds that went around the Moon (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Virtual Twins
  • Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin with a bot
  • Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)

• Development
  • Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
  • Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
  • More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
  • Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
  • Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
  • Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
  • Made it possible to use the bzr and cvs protocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• 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!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help merge items of people with the same name and dates.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:34, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Removal of Current Status from California High Speed Rail

I fail to see any significant benefit to your removal of the data on the current status of the project. It seems to me that IF you had any significant concerns about the format of an entry which succinctly provides current status information, you should have simply corrected the format rather than deleted the information. By deleting it, you are in effect saying that it has no value. Since this topic is an ongoing project of significant complexity and interest, it seems to me that having such a summary near the top is beneficial for those who actually want that information in one place. The existing information on the project is complex and divided into 3 main articles.

Consequently, I will re-add the information into a subtopic of its own. Robert92107 (talk) 13:51, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Linking to a document by the builders is neither encyclopedic nor NPOV. Please initiate further discussion on the article's talk page rather than edit warring. James (^talk/_contribs) 01:16, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

I have done as you suggested and put this discussion on the Talk page. However, I feel that you are fundamentally wrong in rejecting an official report to the Federal Government. This NOT a PR piece, and it provides factual and important information in the entry. If you feel this can be improved or restructured to better fit the entry, please do so, but ignoring it altogether (especially in light of the needs of the entry) I think is wrong. Robert92107 (talk) 21:14, 3 October 2016 (UTC)