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Wikidata weekly summary #147
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
- Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
- Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
- Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
- Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
- New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
- There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
- Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
- Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
- Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
- You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
- Development
- Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
- Updated the json documentation
- Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
- Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
- Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
- Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
- Final touches on new header design
- Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
- More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
- Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
- Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #148
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfA: Haplology
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help flesh out landing pages for partners
- Update on the Wikidata query service progress
- The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
- Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
- Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
- Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
- Development
- Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
- Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
- Worked on updating the data model documentation
- Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
- Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
- Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #149
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful RfA: Haplology
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Simple Wikidata graph generator
- Please help test the next step for header redesign
- Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
- Items without statements - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
- Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata
- Query generator spreadsheet
- Image search now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
- Development
- Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
- Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
- Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
- Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
- Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #150
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #151
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.