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Wikidata weekly summary #205

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

• Discussion
  • Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: office hour on IRC (log)
  • Past: ISB2016 (slides)
  • Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
  • Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
  • National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
  • New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
  • Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
• Other noteworthy stuff
  • ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
  • Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
  • The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
  • Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
  • Listeria now has a status page
  • PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
  • Query examples: items named after their shape, recent events, assemblies by number of seats, characters portrayed by most actors
• Development
  • Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (phabricator:T126730)
  • Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
  • Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
  • Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
  • Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
  • More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
  • Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
• 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) 18. apr 2016, 17:19 (CEST)

The Signpost: 24 April 2016

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

• News and notes: Lunar project; steering group formed to search for next executive director

• Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails

• Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot

• Featured content: The double-sized edition

• Traffic report: Two for the price of one

• Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 25. apr 2016, 00:44 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #206

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
  • Europeana Art History Challenge begins
  • TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects
  • Wikidata meets world literature
  • Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
  • Past: Wikimedia Conference
• Other noteworthy stuff
  • SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
  • Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
  • List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
  • List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
  • Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
  • Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
  • Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
  • Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Danish listed buildings case ID, Models.com client ID, Race time, IAT diver ID, IAT weightlifter ID, IAT triathlete ID, FIS snowboarder ID, FIS Nordic combined skier ID, FIS ski jumper ID, FIS freestyle skier ID, FIS cross-country skier ID, FIS alpine skier ID, D-U-N-S, source of income, budget, BNE journal ID, JudoInside.com ID, ISO 4063 process number, blue-style.com ID, Wrestlingdata person id, Danish protected area ID, Skyscraper Center building complex ID, Research Papers in Economics Series handle, NUTTAB Food Identifier, AUSNUT Food Identifier, CNC film rating, EIRIN film rating, exploitation visa number, production date, Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID, New Zealand Organisms Register ID, Roller Coaster Database ID, Photographers' Identities Catalog ID, PRONOM software identifier, PRONOM file format identifier, Filmiroda rating
  • Newest WikiProjects: Olympics
  • Query examples: songs with longest melody (source), subjects with most art dedicated to them (source), versions of The Scream (source)
• Development
  • There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
  • Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (phab:T129033#2217402, gerrit:283968)
  • The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (gerrit:283945)
  • The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as <th> instead of <td> (gerrit:283395)
  • Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (phab:T110728)
  • Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (phab:T132441)
  • Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (phab:T132442)
  • Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (phab:T132964)
  • Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
  • Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (phabricator:T132669)
  • Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (phabricator:T131920)
  • Added basic support for more languages to the query service (phabricator:T132756)
• 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) 25. apr 2016, 22:42 (CEST)

The Signpost: 2 May 2016

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky

• In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps

• Traffic report: Purple

• Featured content: The best... from the past two weeks

• Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request

• Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 2. maj 2016, 05:12 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #207

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

Wikidata's coverage as of April 2016

Difference of Wikidata's coverage between April 2016 and 6 month before

• Discussions
  • Wikidata, a stable source for disambiguation items?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
  • Upcoming: CSVconf
  • Upcoming: Open Tech Summit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Commons now has arbitrary access
  • Work on ORES to make vandalism fighting easier is progressing well. "Damaging" and "goodfaith" models for Wikidata are now online.
  • Wikimind
  • New coverage maps have been created (see thumbnails)
  • We have new images you can use to indicate your website/app/service is using data from Wikidata. (2 of the files have a problem still. We're working on a fix and will reupload.)

    

    Show the rest of the world you're using data from Wikidata!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Loop ID, sound power, 3DMet ID, locality or place, Index Hepaticarum ID, clearance, ASF KID Cave Tag Number, power consumed, net tonnage, connects with, Czech neighbourhood ID code, longest span, aerodrome reference point, Mercalli intensity scale
  • Category reports on without claims by site now link to PetScan's fast "has no statements"-option. A report for your preferred Wikipedia can be added.
  • Query examples: software with most versions (source), oldest software (source), map of U1 stations in Berlin (source)
• Development
  • Created the first MediaInfo entity through the API (screenshot, a bit more background)
  • Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (phab:T132662)
  • There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
  • Removed unsupported sort and dir parameters from the wikibase.api.RepoApi JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling getEntitiesByPage (phab:T119856).
  • Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
  • Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
  • Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
  • Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (phabricator:T132645)
  • Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (phabricator:T132839)
• 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. maj 2016, 17:03 (CEST)