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Wikidata weekly summary #118
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Development
- Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump will be available on Monday evening
- Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making them editable
- Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code into an own component
- Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself using Lua (not yet enabled)
- Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same label+description of another item
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #119
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The first draft for the Main page redesign is ready for review (a summary of proposed changes can be found at Project Chat)
- User:Thepwnco is working on updating Wikidata documentation for all sister projects, starting with Wikidata:Wikisource
- Drop by the Wikidata Lounge, a new initiative to promote friendliness and civility started by d:User:Micru
- Wikinews will get sitelink support on August 19th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: b-side, executive producer, OpenPlaques identifier, pet, Lost Art-ID, journey origin
- Development
- Published the first JSON dumps
- Finishing touches on badges support
- Finishing touches on redirects
- Finishing touches on the "in other projects" beta feature that displays links to sister projects in the sidebar of Wikipedia for example
- Tested and fixed issues with allowing sitelinks to Wikidata pages and accessing item data via Lua on Wikidata itself
- Final tests before we can start switching to the new serialization format
- The code for simple queries is being reviewed by the Foundation. This is hopefully the last step before we can deploy this too.
- Worked on improving the code of the {{#property}} parser function in preparation of allowing arbitrary data access and allowing linked output.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #120
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: Gabbe
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August 11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
- Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at d:Wikidata:Tours/Items and d:Wikidata:Tours/Statements.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: published in
- Showcase items: Kleinmachnow
- Development
- Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
- More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
- More work on the monolingual datatype
- Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
- Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
- 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
Marked for translation using <translate. Please mark it for translation when you get a chance! Thanks! A2 17:43, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure that more is needed before the page can be translated... see mediawiki.org. --Rschen7754 01:44, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
- I know. I used a wrong documentation. Sorry about that. A2 04:49, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #121
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
- Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia
- Histropedia now uses Wikidata to build timelines
- Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 2 3 (more slides and videos will follow))
- First prototype screenshot of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
- Userboxes
- Did you know?
- Development
- Attended Wikimania and Socrates
- Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
- Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #122
Wikidata weekly summary #114
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfOS: John F. Lewis
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
- Wikidata Translate, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: journey destination, score method, grave picture, present in work, Fide ID, Norsk filmografi ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, plea, collection size
- New task forces: WikiProject Movies
- Development
- Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
- Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
- Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
- We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
- Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
- Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #123
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
- "Growing items" by User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat for more details and to leave any last comments
- It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
- Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
- Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
- Did you know?
- Development
- Deployed lots of new features like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects!
- Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
- More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #124
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- past: OpenSym
- upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New Main Page and other new features
- Breaking changes for gadgets
- Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NIEA building ID, Cadw Building ID, color index, absolute magnitude
- Development
- Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage)
- Added a new “item-redirect” permission
- Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface
- DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible
- Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped)
- Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names
- Attended OpenSym
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #125
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The new main page can now be translated.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Performance improvements for "in other projects sidebar" beta feature and bug fixes in the feature on wikis with sidebar cache enabled (e.g. zhwiki, commons)
- Worked on performance improvements to badges feature
- Fixing bug with xml format in the API, and added tests for it so hopefully this does not break again!
- Worked more on enabling statements on properties
- Further work on new user interface design groundwork - mostly refactoring and enabling editing of multiple sitelinks and label/alias/description at once
- First pokes at usage tracking
- Drafted an RfC to improve recent changes so we can show Wikidata changes also when enhanced recent changes is enabled
- 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
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Salam. Vikidata idarəçiliyinə namizəd olduğum səsvermədə iştirak etdiyiniz üçün Sizə təşəkkür edirəm. Hörmətlə, --►Cekli829 06:20, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #126
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- A new blocking policy has been accepted.
- Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations needs your input
- RfC: redirect vs. deletion
- Events/Blogs/Press
- past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC
- upcoming: Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org.
- WikiProject Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag, vici.org ID, sourcing circumstances, has contributing factor, has immediate cause, birth name (Monolingual text), title, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author, Commons Creator template, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID, male population, female population, number of households, contributing factor of, immediate cause of, used by, end cause, family name identical to this first name, country for sport, parents of hybrids, Glad identifier, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier
- Showcase items: Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Fishing Creek
- Development
- Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team.
- Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (bugzilla:66425)
- Fixed broken xml api output (bugzilla:70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format
- Finished performance improvements for badges
- Worked on entity usage tracking
- Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu
- Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index
- Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page
- Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink
- Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues.
- Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see mw:Wikidata_deployment#wmf.2F1.25wmf1
- Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite bugzilla:70606)
- Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #127
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- [[:d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/User conduct policies|Closed RfC: User conduct policies]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released - Wikidata Toolkit
- ProteinBoxBot is making Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: depends on, motto, series ordinal, Federal Register Document Number, monogram, cause of, Cycling Quotient ID
- Development
- Investigated and fixed issues with time values
- Investigated issues with coordinate value precision
- Fixed a number of issues related to HHVM
- Further work on usage tracking
- Created smoke tests for items and properties
- Created a widget to edit badges directly on the item without going through the special page
- Prepared for a week of work with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers next week to get more planning done for structured data support for Commons
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #128
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfA: Nikosguard
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/
- Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter you can subscribe to.
- Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
- Did you know?
- Development
- Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data.
- More fixes for the switch to HHVM
- Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint.
- Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site
- Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #129
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log)
- hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes)
- Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata
- New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit] for how to use it
- New tool: Linked Items. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus!
- Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
- Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata.
- Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe to now use Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go!
- Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
- Development
- Improvements to sitelink editing usability
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
- Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel
- Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
- Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
- Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295)
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #114
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
- Did you know?
- Development
- Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
- Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
- When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
- Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
- Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
- Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
- Work on entity usage tracking
- Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
- Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
- Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
- Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #131
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
- Wikidata II
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
- Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
- What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
- Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
- Random items without statements
- Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
- Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number
- Development
- Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
- HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
- Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
- Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
- Work on fixing XML dumps
- Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
- Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
- Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
- Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
- Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
- Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #132
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Zero error rate - help improve the quality of Wikidata's data
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata won the Open Data Award by the Open Data Institute in the category Publisher \o/ (blog post by ODI, blog post by WMDE)
- Tutorial: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries
- Did you know?
- Less than 23% of Wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
- Newest properties: consecrator, Slovene Cultural Heritage designation, penalty, charge, judge, defender, prosecutor, defendant, number of casualties, deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID
- Development
- Continued work on LabelLookup and related code to further improve performance
- Made it possible to show references in statements on property pages. (Remaining bugs before roll-out are issues with adding/editing/removing statements on property pages.)
- Further improvements to sitelink editing (The edit toolbar now floats so it doesn't scroll out of the page on a long list of sitelinks. An empty row for adding a new sitelink is shown by default when editing to make this faster and take less scrolling.)
- Further adapting of simple query code so we can get it to review at the Foundation again.
- Lots of bug fixes all over the place
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #133
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
- GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help make sure these items have labels in your language
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NATO code for grade
- Development
- Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
- Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
- Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
- Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
- Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
- Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
- Improved calendar model display
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #134
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
- Building a periodic table using Wikidata
- Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
- The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
- Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
- Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
- WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
- VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
- Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
- Did you know?
- Development
- When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
- Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
- The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
- Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
- While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
- More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
- Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
- Bug fixes
- Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #135
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm
- Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin
- Picture this!
- Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next?
- Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process
- IRC office hour on Wednesday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday
- Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming
- VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
- Did you know?
- Development
- Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now)
- Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance)
- Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before
- Fixed more issues with geocoordinates
- Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access)
- Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup)
- Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348
- Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing
- JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on
- Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar
- Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs)
- Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones
- Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests
- Input on mw:Wikibase/Indexing
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #136
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- IRC office hour (log)
- Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
- Statements on properties are now live
- Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
- The Game has a new mode: alma mater
- Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
- Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
- English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.
- Development
- Started work on units
- More work on evaluating options for querying
- Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
- Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
- Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
- Work on improved label lookup performance
- Wrapping up work on usage tracking
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #137
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: departure transaction, acquisition transaction, port, curator, pendant of
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Music
- Development
- More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc)
- Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process
- Finishing touches on new sitelinks section
- Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress
- Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability)
- Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache)
- Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #138
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: Petr Matas
- Closed RfAs: Jared Preston (Successful)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: subproperty of, mandatory qualifier, NIST/CODATA ID, EgliseInfo ID
- New task forces: Freebase, Sled dog racing
- Showcase items: Lion
- Development
- Happy holidays from the dev team, everyone :)
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
- Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type
- Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
- Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
- Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
- Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base
- Finished tree of life
- Some more work on support for units
- Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
- Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it.
- The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.
- 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
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Thank you for the message. Currently I am interested in highways in the U.S. and translating some article to Chinese Wikipedia. Hope to learn many new things about the highways while doing this. Happy holiday! AndyHe829 (talk) 07:14, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #139
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Provide your input on article placeholders based on Wikidata
- new RfC: CoI editing
- Anonymous artists at wiki project visual arts
- Events/Blogs/Press
- We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger
- The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
- wikidata4research4all
- There was a well-attended Wikidata meetup at 31C3
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Query now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help.
- Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter.
- The Wikidata BEACON generator was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too.
- Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH), Terminologia Embryologica (TE), ICD-9-CM, operations and procedures key (OPS), ICD-10-PCS, central government debt as a percent of GDP, AniDB identifier, main property, awarded for work, Pokémon browser number, inscription, quote, subtitle, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier, has vertex figure, index case of, number suspected, number probable, number confirmed, general formula, this taxon is source of, Route number, LAC identifier, CONA, ATCvet, TGN, Chess Club ID, Chess Games ID, Cycling Database ID, ProCyclingStats ID, DOI Prefix, Alexa rank, has index case, related property, number of faces, MPAA film rating, unveiled by, station number, wing configuration, TERYT municipality code, referee, YouTube video identifier, BBF identifier, Korean Movie Database ID, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID
- Showcase items: Iggy Azalea, Helsinki
- Development
- Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata!
- Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #140
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday. You should come :)
- Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
- We had a meetup with nine people:
- set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland (sound recording of meeting available)
- Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
- For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day
- Open Data Camp UK, Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject, Total valid votes, inverse of, NLP identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Food, UK and Ireland, Suisse
- Newest gadgets: ExportClaims, Mark as patrolled from list of changes
- Development
- The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
- More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :)
- Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production
- Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only
- Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box)
- Polished d:Wikidata:Data access and d:Wikidata:Database download. Could still use some more work though if you have time.
- Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues
- We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #141
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion
- Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C (successful)
- Open RfAs: Petr Matas, Edoderoo
- Events/Blogs/Press
- The Wikidata for research proposal was submitted to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort.
- Blog post about how Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute
- IRC office hour happened (log)
- Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by Max and Magnus
- MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The development plan has been updated and expanded
- Official Wikipedia app now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come!
- Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access is being tested at Test Wikidata and testwiki:Test Wiki. An example is at testwiki:Kitten on arbitrary page.
- Assigning items on Mix'n'match will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier, SIPA identifier, SkyscraperPage building id
- Development
- Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress.
- Worked on redesign of header area
- Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment
- Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata
- Collecting Query examples for the new query functionality
- 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 #142
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
- Open RfAs: Eurodyne
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Upcoming: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
- Past: Meetup in Cambridge
- Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at phabricator:T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
- Wikidata - a year in numbers
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination.
- The new Content Translation tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
- Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider for you.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
- You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
- Development
- More work on header section redesign
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
- Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
- Implemented entity change subscription service
- 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!
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Wikidata weekly summary #143
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Past: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics
- Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)
- The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
- Development
- Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096)
- Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764)
- Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654)
- Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316)
- Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105)
- Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
- Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
- Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
- 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 #144
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Eurpeana Tech
- Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
- Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
- Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
- Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
- Mix'n'Match got a face lift
- Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
- RStats client for Wikidata
- Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French
- Did you know?
- Development
- Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
- Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further work on header section redesign
- Tweaks to the sitelink section
- Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
- Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
- Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
- Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)
- 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 #145
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
- You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
- Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
- The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Journalisted ID, Biography at the Bundestag of Germany, Metacritic ID
- Newest WikiProjects: Identical Twins
- Development
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- We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
- We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
- Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
- Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
- Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
- Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
- Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
- Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
- Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
- Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
- Fixed editing of qualifiers
- Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
- 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!