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Just making sure you know about this, since I haven't been in the channel lately. --Rschen7754 05:20, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #158
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Mbch331
- Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
- Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
- Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
- Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
- Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome!
- Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
- New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata
- English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
- Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. Nominations for this year are open now. Who should win this year?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry, vice-county
- Development
- Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
- Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
- Improvements to calendar handling
- More work on RDF export for query service
- Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
- Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #159
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
- Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
- A early preview of the official SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
- If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
- To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
- The special page to query for badges is within reach.
- A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
- We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
- We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
- Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata (video)
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
- The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections
- Development
- Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
- The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
- Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
- Busy with the hackathon (see above)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #160
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Final hours to make your vote count in the WMF board election
- Now we have Q20000000 and P1900
- Wikidata stats have been updated
- Over 100 timeline of famous painters by Histropedia
- WD-FIST can now take a manual item list and limit its search to JPEGs
- Traveling this summer? Find items needing pictures around you with WikiShootMe
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: altered regulation leads to, posttranslational modification association with, gene substitution association with, gene inversion association with, gene insertion association with, gene duplication association with, deletion association with, increased expression in, decreased expression in, side effect, Commonwealth War Graves Commission person identifier, Australian Dictionary of Biography identifier, office held by head of state, FundRef registry name, Volcanic explosivity index, Spotify artist ID, BALaT person/organisation id, EAGLE id, Librivox author ID
- Development
- Recovering from hackathon
- Prepared rollout of usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis
- Testing of the query service
- Fixed styling issues with entity selector
- Worked more on Capiunto to make it easier to create good infoboxes
- Worked on making broken values editable to fix them (this for example happens when a property is deleted but some values are left over)
- Made entity id an optional parameter in mw.wikibase.label and mw.wikibase.description lua methods. (default to use connected item)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #161
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
- Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides)
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
- New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
- The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
- Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata. More coming.
- Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have.
- Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
- Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
- Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
- Connectivity statistics were updated.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: DMS V, Clinvar Accession Number, Vaccine Ontology ID, VIOLIN ID, vaccine for, participating team, first line, URI pattern for RDF resource, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID
- Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled by User:Petr Matas
- Development
- Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
- The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
- Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
- Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase:
wikibase.resolvePropertyIdandwikibase.entity:getBestStatements. - Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
- Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
- Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
- Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #162
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wikidata:Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata .
- Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
- News about Wikidata FIST
- Review of the big interwiki link migration
- Timeline of Christopher Lee films
- Wikidata map - 19 months on
- A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ViziData has been improved significantly
- Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
- New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
- Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
- Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
- More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
- Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148)
- More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
- More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
- The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
- Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
- Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
- Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
- New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #163
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
- Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
- More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
- Nice new manual for MixnMatch
- The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
- National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
- Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
- Development
- Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
- Worked more on unit support
- Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
- Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
- The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
- The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
- Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
- Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
- Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
- Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
- Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #164
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Ateliers Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
- Reductionism
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
- Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
- Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
- Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
- Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
- Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
- Development
- Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
- Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
- Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
- Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
- Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
- Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
- Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
- Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #165
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
- Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
- Development
- Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki
- After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
- Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
- Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions to test.wikidata.org
- Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
- JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #166
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Slides on Primary Sources Tool and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
- Presentation about Wikidata at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiresearch looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
- Wikiresearch published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data
- Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier
- Development
- The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use d:Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
- 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
- Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
- Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
- More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
- Further work on the new RDF export.
- PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #167
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Nikki
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Right now: Wikimania
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus made some new tools:
- list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer. Check your university!
- list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer. Ditto!
- an InfoBitt replacement
- a tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists
- plus Mix'N'Match got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata
- P2000 was created.
- Some presentations at Wikimania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online:
- WikiProject Sum of All Paintings
- Templates are dead! Long live templates!, technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax
- Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my!
- Magnus made some new tools:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID, parliament.uk bio link, medical specialty, AllMusic composition ID, TeX string, Plazi ID, LPSN URL, species kept, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID, Delarge ID
- New task forces: Linguistics
- Development
- Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
- After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
- Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
- Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
- Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
- Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
- Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
- Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #168
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Nikki
- Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
- Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places, Given names and surnames
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!
- Past: Wikimania
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upload of 4.2M new statements from Freebase in the Primary Sources tool.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NALT id, Instagram username, Twitter username, Revised Romanisation, CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID
- Development
- Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
- Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities
- Tweaking the sitelink input
- Changing the display of item selector results
- 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 #169
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
- Enable Flow on Wikidata?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
- PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
- Mix-n-Match got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
- 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
- Interested in art movements? Check out this
- Did you know?
- Development
- Minor fixes to property edit mode
- Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
- Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
- Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
- Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
- Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
- Fixed the counting of references
- Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
- Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
- 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 #170
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign up here.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow.
- Mix-n-Match got a bunch of new catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
- @happybirthdayauthors is a new Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
- Arbitrary access is rolling out to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
- Duplicity can help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks so they are easier to notice and understand
- Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
- The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
- The number of entities loaded via the {{#property:…}} parser function and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
- Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
- Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects is not too high.
- Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
- Moved two extensions (Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to Gerrit. More will follow.
- We'd like to drop a database table. Discussion is ongoing.
- 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 #171
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- cooperation between free content projects
- A case is made to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources
- Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp.
- Upcoming: SmartDataConference
- A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata needs your vote! It only takes a minute.
- WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats!
- Arbitrary access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias].
- See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access#Use cases: testing modules and templates for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content.
- List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item (also works for other projects)
- You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel!
- SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
- Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
- Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
- 93% of items about people have a gender set now.
- Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire better? You can help by finding those books' authors.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Rolled out arbitrary access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days.
- Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks.
- Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome!
- References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time
- First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once
- Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it
- Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate.
- The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards
- Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties
- Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator
- 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 #172
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata made it into the top 10 of the Land der Ideen competition \o/ This means we're part of the final public voting starting on 9th of September. Thanks everyone who voted and spread the word.
- Flow is being tested on selected talk pages.
- New tool: Get new Wikidata items (now or before a given timestamp) as HTML or PagePile
- New tool: Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby.
- EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (phabricator:T97247)
- Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it
- Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (phabricator:T109697)
- Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method
- More work done on Unit Selector widget
- Started working on the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default
- Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer.
- More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
- 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 #173
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Merging relationship properties
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap
- Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example)
- First version of units is ready for testing
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ResearchGate ID, GitHub username, African Plant Database, LinkedIn personal profile, Project Gutenberg ebook ID, Category for pictures taken with camera, work period end, work period start, NASA biographical ID, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID, United States Armed Forces service number, Colour Index International constitution ID, Avibase ID
- Newest WikiProjects: Reasoning
- Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries, DuplicateReferences
- Newest External tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras
- Development
- Lucie posted a sneak-peek of her work on the article placeholder extension
- Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!)
- Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project
- API breaking change coming soon
- API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment (phabricator:T97247)
- Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties
- Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable
- Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as
mw.wikibase.labelwhich use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. (phabricator:T93885) - Properties are now linked in the diff view (phabricator:T105411)
- Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg phabricator:T68744, phabricator:T48248, phabricator:T86647)
- Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors (phabricator:T110021)
- Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector (phabricator:T109697)
- Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge
- Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support
- Bene worked on a new feature for DuckDuckGo to show instant results from Wikidata on their site
- 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 #174
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information
- Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci)
- Past: Wikidata workshop in Rennes
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout has been set: 16th of September.
- Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September).
- A new version of Kian has been released
- The Wikidata Game has got a new mode: Books without author.
- A new IEG proposal needs your review and support. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September.
- >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match
- You can have a look at the spiffy new mobile view
- Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit for you.
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard
- Did you know?
- Development
- Worked on search on the mobile site
- Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers
- We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others
- Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday
- Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others
- Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)
- 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 #175
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikidata edit-a-thon at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC, 23 September
- Upcoming: Mobilizing Open Cultural Data, Helsinki, 2 October
- Upcoming: Wikidata tutorial at SWAT4LS, December
- Un-deleting 500,000 Wikidata items
- Wikimania 2015 report by Multichill
- DSS Wikidata Editathon
- A simple way to write Wikidata bots
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please vote for Wikidata to win the people's choice award of Land der Ideen (voting instructions)
- We passed 70M statements.
- Stalagmites and stalactites visualizes items without statements, items with statements, and deleted/redirected items by batches of 100,000 QIDs
- Mix n Match is now available for mobile, has an improved automatic matching algorithm, got speed improvements and new catalogs were added like the National Gallery of Victoria, World Heritage Sites and CulturaItalia
- The annual Wikipedia editing competition organized by the International Society for Computational Biology will include a Wikidata component this year for the first time.
- Matched birth and death days seeks to investigate all pairs of humans (in various subsets) that appear to have the same birth dates and death dates. De-duplication underway!
- You can now use the new special page Special:PagesWithBadges to see which articles on that project have a badge like "featured article".
- New tool by Magnus to suggest links to Wikidata items while you type
- Meta, MediaWiki, Wikispecies and Wikibooks will get (more) access to Wikidata soon
- Wikidata now has an official SPARQL endpoint so you can query the data
- Wikidata now supports units
- Prototype database to store all Wikipedia references
- Duplicity can show you how many (and which) articles on a Wikipedia are not connected to an item on Wikidata (example for frwp)
- Magnus wrote a user script to let you edit Listeria-powered lists on Wikipedia directly
- Musicpedia has been released in beta and is using data from Wikidata
- New tool by Magnus to create a Commons creator page from a Wikidata item
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: length, elevation above sea level, orbital inclination, area, duration, height, width, wingspan, M x sin i, speed, watershed area, density, electrical conductivity, heat capacity, HMDB ID, depositor, luminosity, aspect ratio, HSDB ID, LIPID MAPS ID, KNApSAcK ID, NIAID ChemDB ID, Fusion enthalpy, mass
- Development
- Release of the query service and unit support (see above)
- Made quantities not show URIs when editing a value but instead show the label
- Worked on new datatype for identifiers to be able to split them from the other statements in the user interface, link them without the need for the authority control gadget and be able to link them in JSON/RDF
- Worked more on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
- 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.
Mailing list for labs
Hi! Would you mind subscribing to [1] so that we have a second USRD person keeping up with what's happening on labs? You may want to set up a Gmail filter for it too. --Rschen7754 21:12, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
- Done via Gmane. -happy5214 21:58, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
- Oh, and User:Rschen7754/Michigan Plan was a page I created that may be helpful. I've been mostly inactive due to real-life matters, but as far as Wikidata I hope to have figured out where things will be going soon... --Rschen7754 21:15, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
- Delaware is done, and I think Maine is too. -happy5214 21:58, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
- Speaking of Delaware and Maine, check those pages out! -happy5214 22:00, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
- Delaware is done, and I think Maine is too. -happy5214 21:58, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry for the repeated posts, but now we have lengths! [2] --Rschen7754 21:53, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
- Check Route 66. :P -happy5214 21:58, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #176
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCon in Dresden
- Upcoming: office hour on IRC
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References" is looking for endorsements
- Wikidata and it's dumps are now described according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the general and the Wikidata specific messages.
- A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be drafted by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- Community page for the new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries, and a board for suggestions and discussions.
- Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata
- English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access
- Mix'n'match got new catalogs including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors
- The LinkedWiki extension now supports Wikidata (demo)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FISA ID, Power of 10 athlete ID, Library of Congress JukeBox ID, CrunchBase organisation ID, CrunchBase person ID, CDD Public ID, Nikkaji, ZINC ID, Leadscope ID, M.49 code, BLDAM object ID, AcademiaNet, fabrication method, user manual link, pressure, temperature, speed of sound, internetmedicin.se ID, range, CDB Chemical ID, Mémoire des hommes, Fellow of the Royal Society, magnetic moment, thermal conductivity
- Development
- Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder
- Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages
- Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes prepended by a label (in a random language)
- Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile devices to the mobile version of the site
- Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an article to an item on the client
- Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback yet
- Worked more on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the client watchlist and recent changes
- 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 #177
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Great collaboration between a group of Flemish museums and art collections and Wikidata
- Wikidata timeline is another tool that gives you nice timelines based in Wikidata's data (examples: American Sitcoms, Wars, Meryl Streep)
- Cool new tool by Magnus for dynamic list generation
- nlwiki has made great progress in getting down the number of articles not connected to Wikidata
- The Museum of Modern Art website now includes Wikidata IDs (example)
- 50.79% of all #Wikidata items have none, one or two statements now. Next month it is likely to be less than half. Good progress!
- Some more examples to get you started with Wikidata's query service: 1, 2, 3
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, Half-Life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point, Banque de noms de lieux du Québec id, BC Geographical Names ID, substitute/deputy/replacement of office/officeholder, term length of office, image legend, co-driver, qualifies for, short author name, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID
- Development
- You can now find the Wikibase ontology at http://wikiba.se/ontology
- Special:UnconnectedPages will have a namespace filter
- Worked on a small birthday present (One month left!) and party organizing (more info coming in the next days)
- Language fallbacks will be shown also when adding a new statement, in qualifiers and references as well as for badges
- Fixed a long-standing login issue when adding a new language link from Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T50389)
- Worked on RfC for multi-content revisions. This is groundwork for Commons support. (phabricator:T107595)
- More work on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and co
- 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 #178
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: code.talks (slides on migrating Freebase to Wikidata)
- Past: Wikidata:Mobilizing Open Cultural Data (videos, slides)
- Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday. We will have a party and you should come! (announcement, program and other details, IMPORTANT: sign up so we know how many people to expect)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now almost 5000 articles in Czech Wikipedia which include an infobox without parameters, only with data from Wikidata.
- Input request about editing Wikidata from clients like Wikipedia
- Freebase to Wikidata: results of Tpt's internship have been published
- Articles without a Wikidata item can now be filtered by category tree. (example for chemists on enwiki)
- Wikidata:Units attempts to list available units and properties they can be used with
- Constraint reports can now check if units are within a user defined list: e.g. report for mass (P2067)
- WikiProject Economics needs more participants to organize all the new properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Georgian national system of romanization, Hepburn romanization, membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, half-life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point
- Development
- Changed the default RDF flavor to include all statements (phabricator:T101837)
- Started to work on creating new articles from scratch from the article placeholder
- Continued work on the Lua libraries of the default Article Placeholder layout
- Started the research on client editing with an input page
- More work on making the mobile view fit for being enabled per default for mobile users
- Changed our JavaScript coding style to be more in line with MediaWiki core’s
- In edit mode, the label is now displayed for units instead of a URL
- Added a new “YearMonthDay” date parser that supports many edge cases where all other date parsers fail
- More work on passing full edit summaries to the client wikis.
- 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 #179
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCon USA (slides)
- Ongoing: World Health Summit (slides)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata
- Don't forget to sign up if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
- A command line client to the SPARQL query service has been released
- Query example: popularity of the given name Adolf
- MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match
- Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further.
- Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
- This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage
- Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: median lethal dose, first aid measures, official symbol, units used for this property, external subproperty, external superproperty, volume for quantity, semi-major axis, cash, explosive velocity, torque, Max TDP, maximum thrust, metallicity, market capitalization, discharge, spectral line, decay width, gyromagnetic ratio, flux, household wealth, real gross domestic product growth rate, net worth, cruise speed, radial velocity, proper motion, parallax, longitude of ascending node, angular distance, position angle, relative to, SourceForge project, average shot length, Spotify track ID, Discogs release ID, Spotify album ID, minimum explosive concentration, upper flammable limit, lower flammable limit, dipole moment, electric charge, autoignition temperature, (average) gradient, production volume, students count, Soccerbase manager id, PSS-Archi architect id, Soccerbase player id, endangeredlanguages.com ID, NILF author id, C-SPAN identifier of a person, BiblioNet publisher identifier, BiblioNet author identifier, BiblioNet publication identifier, Wiki Loves Monuments ID, DLI, history of topic, ISO 9:1995, Finnish Ministers database ID, Finnish MP ID, Kansallisbiografia ID, ACM Classification Code (2012), solvent, solubility, drug used for treatment, medical condition treated
- Development
- You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example)
- Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit
- Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback)
- Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder
- More work on the new datatype for properties
- More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing.
- More work on a birthday present :D
- 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.