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Wikidata weekly summary #194
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
- Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
- some visualizations:
- KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
- Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
- Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
- WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
- Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
- Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
- New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
- Development
- und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
- Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
- Final touches on making search work on mobile
- Finishing identifier datatype and section
- 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Thank you for supporting my RfA
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Hawkeye7 RfA Appreciation award |
| Thank you for participating in and supporting my RfA. It was very much appreciated. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:03, 1 February 2016 (UTC) |
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Peacemaker67 RfA Appreciation award |
| Thank you for participating and supporting at my RfA. It was very much appreciated, and I am humbled that the community saw fit to trust me with the tools. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:19, 6 February 2016 (UTC) |
Thank you for supporting my RfA
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Brianhe RfA Appreciation award |
| Thank you for participating at my RfA. Your support was very much appreciated even if I did get a bit scorched. Brianhe (talk) 07:42, 6 February 2016 (UTC) |
Wikidata weekly summary #195
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: HakanIST
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
- Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
- Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
- How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
- What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
- We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
- Andrew updated his maps
- We crossed edit 300,000,000!
- Graph example: matrices
- Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
- Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Search now works on mobile
- Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
- Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
- Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
- Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
- More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
- 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 03 February 2016
- From the editors: Help wanted
- Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
- Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration
- Traffic report: Bowled
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Read this Signpost in full
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 February 2016
- News and notes: Another WMF departure
- In the media: Jeb Bush swings at Wikipedia and connects
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: A river of revilement
* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:28, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #196
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
- Did you know?
- Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
- 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #196
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
- Did you know?
- Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
- 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 17 February 2016
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: Super Bowling
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Read this Signpost in full
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:32, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #197
Wikidata weekly summary #186
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
- Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
- Timeline of Zika papers
- A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
- The museum map now works for all countries
- Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
- Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
- Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
- Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
- Query example: natural numbers
- Development
- The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
- The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
- Input needed on caching for the query service
- Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
- We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
- Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
- More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
- Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
- wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
- 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 24 February 2016
- Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears
- Op-ed: Backward the Foundation
- Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges
- Arbitration report: Arbitration motion regarding CheckUser & Oversight inactivity
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:04, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #198
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
- Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
- A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
- Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
- Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
- The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
- Query example: battles
- Development
- Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
- Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
- More groundwork for Commons support
- Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
- Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
- More performance work
- In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
- More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
- 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.