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Wikidata weekly summary #182

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.
  I love Wikidata because
  - Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
  - Images from the party
  - Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
  - Presents:
    - Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
    - Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
    - Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
    - Special:Nearby by the dev team
    - Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
    - Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
- Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
- Past: Open Access Week
- Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
- Past: Tehran SFD (video)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit
- Upcoming: SWAT4LS
- Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
- Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
- Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
- The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
- Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
- Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
- Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
- Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
- Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
- We passed 15M items.
- Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
- All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
- Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
Development
- Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
- Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
- Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
- Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 2. nov 2015, 16:54 (CET)

The Signpost: 04 November 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone
In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?
Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad
Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket
Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #183

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Lakokat
Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
- Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
- Semantic Cities
- Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
- Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
- Past: semwebpro (slides)
- Past: ODI Summit
- Past: MozFest (etherpad)
- Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
- Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
- Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
Did you know?
- Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
- Ever noticed ranks?
Development
- Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
- Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
- Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
- Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
- Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
- Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
- Worked more on making search work on mobile
- Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 9. nov 2015, 17:25 (CET)

The Signpost: 11 November 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling
In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys
Traffic report: Doodles of popularity
Gallery: Paris

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Wikidata weekly summary #184

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
- Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
- Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
- Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
- Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
Did you know?
Development
- Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
- Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
- Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
- Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
- Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
- Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16. nov 2015, 17:04 (CET)

The Signpost: 18 November 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed
In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing
Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world
Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running
Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales
Traffic report: Darkness and light

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Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
- Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
- MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
- What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
- You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
- Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
- Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
Development
- Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
- Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
- Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
- Decreased size of html of item pages
- Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
- More work on making the search on mobile work
- Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
- Fixing size of table of content on mobile
- Prevented merging of items which link to each other
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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22. nov 2015, 20:28 (CET)