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Wikidata weekly summary #415Edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Webinar introducing Wikidata and adding wikidata=* tags into OpenStreetMap objects for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Philippines (in English and Tagalog): YouTube
    • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Mark Graham from the Internet Archive
      • Part 1 - Meet the Archive: YouTube
      • Part 2 - The IA & Wikimedia: YouTube
    • Wikidata Course at TAU: Hosting Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Deutschland
      • Part 1 - Wikidata - current state: YouTube
      • Part 2 - Wikibase & Lexemes: YouTube
      • Part 3 - Shape Expressions & Schemas: YouTube
    • How to create external identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian): YouTube
    • Open Data and Wikidata training (in Mandarin Chinese): YouTube
    • Bandaid: using Wikidata to generate band names
  • Tool of the week
    • WikidataExtract extracts schemas (shape expressions) from Wikidata entities
  • Development
    • Display statements with federated properties (phab:T246606)
    • Federated properties: fix a bug that caused some properties to not appear in search results (phab:T252024)
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
    • Prevent Wikibase schema updaters to modify database directly (phab:T249598)
    • Write a technical RFC about site-wide edit rate limiting (phab:T247459)
    • Fix an issue on Wikibase: property names are missing when rendering (phab:T247196)
    • More work on automated references

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:26, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #416Edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • WikidataTrust.jsP updates the interface with the contributors to each statement, label, description and sitelink. It is similar to the “blame” tool on text-based wikis.
  • Development
    • In the query service, variable names with non-“Latin” characters (e. g. ?fiancé, ?π) can now be used more easily. (T227952)
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages and warnings (phab:T246676, phab:T247250, phab:T244361)
    • Federated properties: display statements made with deleted properties (phab:T250785)
    • More work on fixing error messages on Wikidata's edit interface (phab:T247690)
    • Form grammatical features: connect labels and inputs (phab:T198703)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Wikidata weekly summary #417Edit

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

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-05-25.

  • Tool of the week
    • If you're looking for even more tools, the Tools Directory indexes over 130 Wikidata tools.
  • Development
    • Federated properties: Linking to the source wiki immediately after saving a statement (phab:T251776)
    • Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
    • Documentation for federated properties (phab:T252991, phab:T252861)
    • Last steps of getting the distributed game "Reference hunt" ready
    • Wikidata Bridge: more work on error messages
    • Track errors people encounter when using the Bridge (phab:T252683)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Costa Rica National Road Network datasetEdit

@Rschen7754: Hi again! I created the remaining stub articles for the Costa Rica National Road Network over at Wikipedia, now I would like to add the corresponding instances to Wikidata, I have the same data from the official GIS (number, length, administrative (provinces) divisions...), shields are already at Commons and so on. Do you know how to use and if there is a particular format so that we can upload these instances in a single transaction? Like CSV, JSON? I'll read through Wikidata:Data Import Guide too. Roqz (talk) 13:12, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

@Roqz: I've had some success with [1] and [2] before. Unfortunately I don't think I've done any mass import of numeric types before though. --Rschen7754 18:27, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #418Edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • wdumps allows you to create a limited RDF dump from Wikidata, for those times when your SPARQL queries keep timing out. It is not particularly user-friendly, and it typically takes several hours to get a complete dump, but it is the best way to for example get a list of all English names of humans in Wikidata, or a list of every scientific article with its title and DOI.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The former WikiProject iNaturalist was renamed WikiProject Biodiversity to allow discussions beyond iNaturalist.
    • Special:FewestRevisions to be disabled, if you are currently using it, please leave a comment
    • Winners of the Wikidata competition during Museum Day 2020: VIGNERON, Alexmar983, Braveheart, Pasleim, Benoît Prieur, Uli.ch, Nono314, Sukkoria and Airon90. Congratulations!
    • As part of a thesis project, the search engine "Lister" has been developed to make it easier for the general public to access data on the Semantic Web in general, and WikiData specifically. It's in a usability test-phase right now, and if you'd like to try it out and help improve it, you can do so at this link. The test should at most 15 minutes.
    • Follow the discussion about restricting editing of properties to autoconfirmed users.
    • New domain toolforge.org to be adopted by our Toolforge community. New domain/scheme for Toolforge-hosted webservices will change from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org with the aim to introduce permanent redirects for the legacy URLs on 2020-06-15.
    • Wikidata development team is currently running a survey until June 9th to understand better how people access and reuse Wikidata’s data from the code of their applications and tools (for example through APIs), and how we can improve the tools to make your workflows easier. If you would like to participate, please use this link (Google Forms, estimated fill-in time 5min).
  • Development
    • More documentation for federated properties
    • Properly display federated properties on a local item's Revision History page (phab:T249836)
    • More improvements on the Wikidata Bridge
    • Add Wikidata support for awawiki (phab:T252870)
    • Fix various bugs on Wikibase
    • Work on improving the unclear error messages (phab:T247690)
    • Create reports for the reference hunt game

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:00, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Dan Koehls RfAEdit

I made a comment before your recent one on the running RfA at Lymantria's page. I understand why you changed to oppose, I have been torn about this whole situation all afternoon as well. I did think of messaging you as an involved admin, but in the end decided to message an uninvolved Crat. I have no advanced rights here on Wikidata, unlike Wikispecies. So I also have to be wary of jumping on toes here. Anyway, I think the situation is very unfair on Dan, my impression is there has been canvassing on the Swedish side, unfortunately Dan leaving a message on Wikispecies has probably made it worse, I have suggested to Lymantria he may wish to strike mine and Hectar Bottai's votes also.. I was nearly going to suggest to Dan he remove his comment at Wikispecies. But it has been responded to by two others now, I have to leave it. Cheers Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 00:53, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Indeed there has likely been canvassing - and I have some legitimate concerns about svwiki - but I was growing more concerned about having an admin without the support of such a significant wiki (svwiki is not the largest by far, but is large enough to have CUs). I think it would have put Wikidata in a difficult position. --Rschen7754 01:37, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Totally understandable. Thanks, Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 01:49, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
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