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Wikidata weekly summary #222
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
- Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
- History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
- ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
- You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status
Structures in London on Histropedia - The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
- Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
- New templates: {{Australia properties}}, {{Indonesia properties}}, {{United Kingdom properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
- UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: SIMBAD ID, destroyed, damaged, game artist, standard enthalpy of formation, Cineplex film ID, Open Beauty Facts category ID, official religion, Grace's Guide ID, CosIng number, Storting person ID, standard molar entropy, dynamic viscosity, UN document symbol, WIPO ST.3, GS1 country code, GLAM ID, RERO ID, LepIndex ID, gestation period, Basisregistratie Instellingen number, ButMoth ID, Architectuurgids building ID, Architectuurgids architect ID, Charity Commission no., Turner Classic Movies person ID, NAQ elected person ID, Ontario MPP ID, K League player ID, Bloomberg person ID, Kindred Britain ID, CMFS player ID, Scottish FA player ID, racing-reference driver ID, footballzz ID, Fora De Jogo player ID, HanCinema person ID, College Football HoF ID, scoresway soccer person id, CageMatch wrestling stable id, luminous intensity, SoundCloud ID
- Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
- Development
- mw:Wikibase/DataModel/JSON#time was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
- Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (phabricator:T137115)
- Worked more on better visual layout of references (phabricator:T141862)
- Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (phabricator:T129836)
- Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T126873)
- Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
- Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (phabricator:T141879)
- Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons
- Drafting interface stability policy (phabricator:T142084)
- Worked more in making it possible to create mediainfo entities by adding a statement to a non-existing one (phabricator:T140760)
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #223
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
- Closed request for comments:
- Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
- Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
- Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
- Refining "part of"
- Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
- Wikidata:Notability overhaul
- RfP voting eligibility
- Standards for property proposal discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
- August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
- Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
- All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
- Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
- Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
- Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
- Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
- COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
- Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
- WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
- Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code
- Did you know?
Popular surnames among humans - Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
- Query examples:
- A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
- Common occupations of heads of state (source).
- Murderers by region in France (source).
- Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
- Popular surnames among humans (source).
- Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
- Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
- Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
- Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
- Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
- Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
- Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
- New templates: {{Belgium properties}}, {{France properties}}, {{Italy properties}}, {{Spain properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
- Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
- Development
- Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
- Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
- Menus are now internationalised on the query service
- Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
- Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
- Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
- Worked on the interface stability policy
- Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
- Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #224
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- We need your input about how you edit lists on Wikipedia
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, 3rd September, University of Pardubice
- Past: Wikidata workshop by Asaf Bartov during the CEE WikiConv in Dilijan, Armenia
- Past: Wikidata presentation during Django Girls in Berlin
- GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick
- Modeling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
- Paper: Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
- WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
- The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
- enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Tela Botanica ID (Metropolitan France), Gare & Connexions ID, has tense, Plantarium ID, FloraBase ID, Flora of Australia ID, Internet Bird Collection species ID, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, ISBN identifier group, KML file, practiced by
- Query examples:
- RADA alumni with a good or featured article on Wikipedia (source)
- Historians with links to French Wikipedia or Wikisource, but missing VIAF ID (source)
- Unicorn taxa, including the Indian rhinoceros (source)
- Mithras shrines, as a map (source)
- 2.300 Wikidata archaeological sites without coordinates (source)
- All items on Wikidata whom we know we don't know their sex or gender: (source)
- Drug-disease interactions (source)
- Nicknames of serial killers (source)
- Dynamic data map of all U-bahn lines in Berlin with colors (source)
- Timeline of internet services by type to celebrate 25 yrs of the web (source)
- Network of color (source)
- Dynamic data map of all country by year of joining the United Nations (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Theatre
- Newest gadgets:
- Newest external tools: Wikidata Class Browser (includes subclass counts and instance counts)
- Newest database reports:
- New feature/gadget requests:
- Showcase items:
- Development
- Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (phabricator:T115267)
- We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (phabricator:T140760)
- Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (phabricator:T143645)
- The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (phabricator:T141771)
- Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (phabricator:T103091)
- Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (phabricator:T141856)
- Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (phabricator:T143435)
- 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