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Wikidata weekly summary #263
- Discussions
- Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
- Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
- Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
- Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
- MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
- Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
- Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
- Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
- Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"
- Development
- Removing some config variables (phab:T93773)
- Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (phab:T166429)
- Showing badges in the sidebar (phab:T73887)
- Fixing a bug on Query Service (phab:T166762)
- Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (phab:T162673)
- Adding an accesskey to the undo button (phab:T165078)
- Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (phab:T166657)
- Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (phab:T161983)
- Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
- More work on usage tracking (phab:T151717)
- More work on Lexemes (phab:T157974)
- More work on statements (phab:T165480)
- More work on constraints (phab:T167107)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 9 June 2017
- From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!
- News and notes: Global Elections
- Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
- Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured
- In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
- Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press
- Technology report: Tech news catch-up
- Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10
Wikidata weekly summary #264
- Discussions
- Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
- Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
- The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
- MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
- You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
- Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
- Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
- OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
- Newest database reports: new people gallery
- Development
- Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (phab:T158842)
- More work on Forms (phab:T163723)
- Fixing rank icon (phab:T85388)
- Add monolingual code fkv (phab:T167259)
- Add monolingual code lag (phab:T161983)
- More work on property constraints (phab:T167126)
- Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (phab:T162533)
- Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (phab:T46874)
- Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (phab:T74815)
- New datatype for referencing Lexemes (phab:T165578)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #265
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
- Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
wikimedia-office
- Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
- Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Wikidata:Project chat#Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.
- WikidataCon
- Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
- Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
- Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
- You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
- Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
- beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID
- Query examples:
- Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
- Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
- The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
- Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
- Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
- Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata
- Query examples:
- Development
- Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
- Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (phab:T102759)
- Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053)
- More experimenting with the new front-end framework
- Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 23 June 2017
- News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
- In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
- Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take
- Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues
- Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth
- Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
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Wikidata weekly summary #266
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
wikimedia-office
- Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
- Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
- ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
- I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
- Resource discovery and Wikidata
- Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
- Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
- ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
- Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
- New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
- OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
- Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
- New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
- Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: VizQuery
- Development
- Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
- Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (phab:T167870)
- More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629)
- Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874)
- Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (phab:T167625)
- Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923)
- Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567)
- Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!