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Wikidata weekly summary #491

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • QID ("Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata. [from 2012]") now has an entry in Wiktionary
    • The 3rd edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations (see announcement on wikimedia-l). Please submit your favorite tools by October 27th. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
  • Development
    • The new WDQS Streaming Updater now fully shipped to production. This will help the Query Service better deal with the amount of edits happening on Wikidata. (more information)
    • Mismatch Finder: Continuing work on the results page where mismatches are shown for review. We are focusing on showing all necessary information for a mismatch to make a good determination if it is a mismatch in Wikidata, the external source or neither.
    • Finishing the work on the new change dispatching system that improves how Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about edits happening on Wikidata that affect them. Currently tying up some lose ends.
    • Preparing for WikidataCon.

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:31, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #492

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • WikidataCon! \o/
    • Continued the work on the first version of the Mismatch Finder. We are getting closer to the polishing phase now and will have something ready in the next weeks.
    • Lua access for Lexemes is now ready to test on English Beta Wiktionary.
    • Concluded work on the improved behind-the-scenes system for notifying Wikipedias and co about Wikidata edits that affect them. Nothing should have changed for you.
    • Started working on a new implementation of the search box to be ready for the upcoming skin changes the WMF is working on.

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:37, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #493

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: We finished adding “next steps” dialog and a “more info” dialog to tell users more about the import a mismatch was added in.
    • We had discussions about how to best make the SearchBox WVUI component for the new Vector skin work well for Wikidata (phab:T275251)
    • We have put a version of WBStack on wikibase.dev. We will start work to deploy to wikibase.cloud in the coming weeks.

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:33, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #494

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The language codes agq (Aghem, T288335) and mcn (Massa, T293884) are now supported.
    • Mismatch Finder: Added various dialogs and help texts to make it easier to understand what reviewers need to do and what information they are seeing in the tool
    • Mismatch Finder: started polishing and bug fixing for release of the first version
    • Making the order of Lexeme's grammatical features consistent (phab:T232557)
    • Investigating how to share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL (phab:T295560)


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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:35, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #495

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • WikiCite Search is a bibliographic search engine for Wikidata that finds articles either by searching for keywords, or by string matching.
  • Development
    • Working on displaying the grammatical features of Lexemes in a particular order in the UI (phab:T232557)
    • Mismatch Finder: continuing polishing before first release. Focusing on making API documentation available and adding a footer to the site
    • The ongoing work on MediaWiki skin improvements especially for Wikipedia will break the search box for Wikidata. We're working on addressing this. (phab:T275251)
    • Migrating a number of components to vue 3 to keep up with the rest of MediaWiki (phab:T294465)

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:59, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #496

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on last remaining tickets for the first version. Added a footer to the site, improved documentation and added ability to delete a batch of mismatches.
    • Made good progress on migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
    • Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
    • More research and discussion on mul language code (phab:T285156)
    • Discussing with data re-users about their views on the ontology issue classification we worked on earlier this year to get their input (slides from Data Quality Days session)

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:55, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #497

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Continued polishing for the first version. Improving the texts and adding loading state. Incorporating feedback from testing.
    • Continued migrating our on-wiki Vue apps to support the new Vue.createMwApp compatibility layer in MediaWiki core (phab:T294465)
    • Continued work on making it possible to define a custom ordering of grammatical features on Lexemes (phab:T232557)
    • Finished work on small tool to show Items recently edited by several accounts to surface current events.

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:48, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #498

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda, Dec. 14th.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.
    • Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. (phab:T294637, phab:T294159)
    • Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (phab:T296202)

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:19, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #499

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment. Happy holidays, everyone :)

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:36, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
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