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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

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Wikidata weekly summary #465

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (phab:T199896)
    • We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (phab:T238831)
    • Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (phab:T238831)
    • Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (phab:T225883)
    • Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (phab:T214362)
    • Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
    • Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.

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Wikidata weekly summary #466

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
    • Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
    • Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
    • Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
    • Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
    • Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
    • Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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Wikidata weekly summary #466

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Entity Schemas now have syntax highlighting for viewing (phab:T238831, example)
    • Reviewing a patch that will make it possible to use templates on d:MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties. This will for example make it possible to show labels automatically for each Property ID. Thanks, Luca! (phab:T280787)
    • Evaluated the interviews and other research we did around improvements for lexicographical data
    • Worked on/fixed small remaining bugs in the Query Builder (phab:T280505, phab:T279928, phab:T279945)
    • Continuing to work on evaluating and addressing scaling issues of the Query Service
    • Provided input to a research team working on a potential new and improved Property Suggester
    • Wikibase: we are completing the final tasks necessary to prepare the Wikibase Spring release and expect to publish new versions of the tarball and Docker images on or before May 15, 2021

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

removed Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

removed Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

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Wikidata weekly summary #467

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (phab:T265296)
    • Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (phab:T257494)
    • Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (phab:T170401)
    • Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (phab:T241422)
    • Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (phab:T280627)
    • Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (phab:T280779)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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Cropping or stretching thumbnails

Would you mind providing a second opinion for phab:T282385? AntiCompositeNumber declined it as not being a bug but a feature. I see no reason not to stretch thumbnails, stretching a few percent is imperceptible to humans but cropping is disrupting in some cases. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 17:52, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz: I suspect this is something fundamental in the graphics back-end that is used, not a MediaWiki-specific issue. Adding a bit of whitespace probably is the best solution in the example case. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:31, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
Afaik no. I ran ImageMagick locally and doesn't crop by default. Thumbnails get cropped because (to quote AntiCompositeNumber) "cropping usually produces the best result". Here's a demonstration of the difference which shows pretty clearly that a few percent stretch is imperceptible, but a few percent crop can be quite bad if an image has no padding. Assuming it isn't fundamental back-end beyond our control, would you support stretching instead of cropping for thumbnails? Because the example case is just an example case, thousands of logos on Wikimedia have zero padding. They may look fine to you and to me, but a mobile user or someone with different thumbnail size preference may get served a cropped logo. If we must accept the cropping, we should pretty much get a bot to add padding to a gazillion images to ensure nothing essential ever gets cropped. Adjusting the thumbnailer code/configuration is a more sane solution. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 15:31, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: To be honest, I don't feel strongly either way. I think you would get a better response on phabricator if you suggested a specific change. Looking a bit more, AntiCompositeNumber provided a link to the ImageMagick config in MediaWiki, perhaps there's one or two settings there you could suggest are changed, or extra settings added? You may also want to wait for the next version of the wishlist survey and propose it there. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:41, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
AntiCompositeNumber already said it: there's no way to fit a 235x20 image in a 220x19 box without stretching, cropping, or changing the size of the box, and cropping usually produces the best result. So stretching is an option, but we're stuck with cropping because.. Who knows? I don't know Python, all I know is that -resize 220x works for imagemagick. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 18:49, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #468

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Ongoing:
      • Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to info@berd-bw.de
    • Upcoming
      • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mahir Morshed will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda, May 18th.
      • May 21-22, 2021 [1] Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63, May 23
      • OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Development
    • Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762)
    • Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779)
    • Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (phab:T280627)
    • Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945)
    • Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (phab:T281356)
    • Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (phab:T281587)
    • Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Wikidata_list

Mike, I am looking for example templates to be used with {{Wikidata_list}} using "row_template" parameter. I run into this post suggesting that you were experimenting with such templates. Do you have any working examples? Thanks --Jarekt (talk) 16:07, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

@Jarekt: Probably better on Commons, see commons:Template:Wikidata Gallery. Or User:Mike Peel/Cosmic microwave background experiments was sort of working here. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:56, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Perfect User:Mike Peel/Cosmic microwave background experiment row was kind of example I was looking for. Thanks--Jarekt (talk) 17:29, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #469

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
    • Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (phab:T281468)
    • Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (phab:T281272)
    • Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (phab:T280650)
    • Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (phab:T281587)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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