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Wikidata weekly summary #150
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Editathon at MACBA
- Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
- Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
- Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
- We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
- Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
- There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
- First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
- DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
- Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
- Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
- Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
- Development
- Fixed property suggestions on empty items
- Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
- Updated various documentation
- Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
- Polishing in the user interface
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
The Signpost: 25 March 2015
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- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy
- Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude
- Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014
- Traffic report: Oddly familiar
- Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes
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Wikidata weekly summary #151
[rediger kildetekst]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live
- New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click
- An update from Freebase (which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
- The tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
- Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
- Eventzoom.net - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ABoK number, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Danish National Filmography ID, Masaryk University person ID, EMLO person identifier, Commemorative plaque image, Wikimedia database name, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier, ISO 639-5, International Standard Industrial Classification code, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID, format as a regular expression, category of associated people, category of people buried here, BioStor author identifier, chief operating officer, DVN identifier
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image" property
- New task forces: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
- There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
- Development
- Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
- Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
- Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
- Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
- Looked into improving suggestions
- Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
- Removed backwards compatibility from
mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here. - Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
- Created a unit test framework for special pages
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 01 April 2015
[rediger kildetekst]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
- In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
- Traffic report: All over the place
- Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
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Wikidata weekly summary #152
[rediger kildetekst]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
- Events/Blogs/Press
- WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
- The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
- The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
- Freebase, SEO and Wikidata
- Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem.
- A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
- Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
- Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match.
- Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: choreographer, senat.fr ID, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
- Development
- Wikidata development started 3 years ago. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
- Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
- Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
- Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
- Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831)
- Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
The Signpost: 08 April 2015
[rediger kildetekst]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam
- News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
- In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity
- Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
- Traffic report: Resurrection week
- Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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Wikidata weekly summary #153
[rediger kildetekst]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Build a RSS image feed based on a query
- Periodic table based on Wikidata data by Ricordisamoa
- ~8000 biographical items with dates in the description, but no birth/death date statements
- Magnus says ~8% (~1.4M) of all Wikidata items do not have any site links to Wikipedia etc.; knowledge that exists exclusively on Wikidata
- Bene* wrote a user script that adds a filter bar above the statement section and lets you filter it
- Magnus wrote a quick user script to move identifiers into the right sidebar to show how a statement section without identifiers would look like. This came up as part of a longer discussion on the mailinglist about moving identifier statements into their own section. Progress is being tracked at phabricator:T95287.
- Samsung releases Freebase-Wikidata mappings in CC0: 4.4M pairs generated from Wikipedia links and custom code
- Thanks to Bene* hovercards now also work for items and properties
- New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: short name, list of episodes, named as
- New task forces: Star Wars, Open Access
- Development
- We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (phabricator:T94404)
- Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287)
- Implemented arbitrary access for the {{#property:…}} parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using {{#property:P123|from=Q42}}. So far this is only Wikidata itself.
- Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
- Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
- Wrote more browser tests for different datavalues
- Further work on RDF mapping and dumps
- Fixed in other language box showing old data (phabricator:T90893)
- Fixed language fallback on Special:Recent changes and Special:Contributions
- Added language fallback for the tooltip on badge icons
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
The Signpost: 15 April 2015
[rediger kildetekst]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
- In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
- Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
- Traffic report: Furious domination
- Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis
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Wikidata weekly summary #154
[rediger kildetekst]Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata
- Where am I? (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata)
- Map of French national parks
- Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets
- Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID, road number, BAnQ ID, DSH object ID, Open Food Facts food category slug, Open Food Facts food additive slug, genealogics.org personID, Kaiserhof ID, addressee, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier, RSL book's identifier, name in kana
- Development
- Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
- Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
- Expanded our set of automated browser tests
- Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
- Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
- Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
- Continued work on our RDF generator
- Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
- Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
- Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
- Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
- Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
- Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
- More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
- Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
- Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
- Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- 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, for the new properties listed above.