User talk:Sic19/Archive 1

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Welcome to Wikidata, Sic19!

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that you can edit! It can be read and edited by humans and machines alike and you can go to any item page now and add to this ever-growing database!

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Notability

You seem to be running an unapproved bot to create quite a few items for which the Notability. Please stop and discus this first at the Wikidata:Project chat. Multichill (talk) 23:19, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm using quick statements not running a bot. Every item is a clearly identifiable material entity - Europeana ID's will be added.--Sic19 (talk) 12:39, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Quick statements is also an automated tool. Please stop or I'll do it for you. Multichill (talk) 12:58, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

You have been blocked. Wikidata is not a site were you can just dump data. If someone ask you to first discus something first, you're not going to just continue. You items have several issues:

• Why are these photographs notable enough to have an item? This is the main issue. Besides that:
• Labels are incorrect. "NLW3365149" at Revds O Owen, D C Evans & W R Jones (Q21670427) looks like an inventory number, that shouldn't be in the label
• Descriptions should be expanded. Something like "photograph by John Thomas"
• inventory number (P217) is missing, this will give a huge number of contraint violations
• The same Commons category (P373) shouldn't be on every item

If you agree to stop creating new items until the discussion is finished I'll unblock you right away. Multichill (talk) 13:15, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

I wasn't sure exactly what or where to discuss - I read a lot of posts but wasn't sure where I should start a new discussion. But, yes let's discuss it and decide what happens next. If you unblock I won't create items while we discuss and I'll respect the outcome. So do we discuss here or in chat? --Sic19 (talk) 13:36, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for having to pulled the emergency brake on you. I'll open a topic at Wikidata:Project chat#Notability of photographs in a minute. Let's continue over there so we can get input from other people. Multichill (talk) 13:50, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done, see Wikidata:Project chat#Notability of photographs. Multichill (talk) 14:14, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi Sic19, sorry for getting back to you after such a long time. I was meaning to do it earlier. Looking at Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2015/12#Notability_of_photographs I would say there are no objections to continue with this batch of photographs. I talked about this with some other people who are active here. I think we want artworks on wikidata, not artifacts. Not all photographs are artworks, only a small subset of them due to age or who made them. Still a pretty grey area and I'm not sure if this wording is correct. I just don't want to have an item for every image in Commons:Category:Images from the Tropenmuseum (or at least not yet).

Sorry for getting in your way. If you need any help, feel free to ping me. Multichill (talk) 20:39, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Multichill, thanks for getting back to me. I'm glad that there are no objections as it is an interesting collection and working on it in this way is a good way to establish links between the people depicted and other sources of information about them. In this instance surely some of these photographs are the only extant image of these people so I think that makes the effort worthwhile. But, it is fair to say that working on the collection has not been as straight forward as I had envisaged it to be and there has been quite a bit of trial and error to find the best solutions to represent the collection. This is ongoing. It is also apparent that creating these items brings with it a need to create other items particularly for what they are depicting - something that is obvious in hindsight. I understand your point concerning photographs as artworks, for example, it would be hard to justify an item for every celebrity image that is published and it becomes necessary to distinguish between the iconic and the ephemeral. Some of the Tropenmuseum's photographs are fantastic and, in my opinion, should have wikidata items but in other instances the image is merely a surrogate for the artefact so probably having a item for the image is an unnecessary level of abstraction. It is a difficulty I encountered with the photograph actually being a glass plate negative, which has an access print that has now has a digital facsimile - I certainly don't want three items but I find it hard to represent this distinction in a single item. The joys of classification!

I have a few items that seem to be fairly good examples of photographs with rich metadata if anyone needs a guide for similar items e.g. Q21667894 ; Q21667482 ; Q21668521 and I'd be glad to share my experience of working on this collection if anyone else is undertaking anything similar.

Also I'm working on a small collection of watercolour paintings at the moment and I'd like to get involved with the sum of all paintings project. This probably isn't the best place to discuss that but I know that you are involved it that project.

All the best,Sic19 (talk) 22:53, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

== digital image (Q1250322) ==

Please do not add digital image (Q1250322) as an instance of a historical work of art (for instance, a 19th century photograph). Each item should be about the original work, and digital images are fairly recent. Andreasm ^{háblame / just talk to me} 05:09, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikidata user study

Dear Sic19,
I am a researcher of the Web and Internet Science group of the University of Southampton.
Together with a group of other researchers from the same University, we are currently conducting a research aiming to discover how newcomers become full participants into the Wikidata community. We are interested in understanding how the usage of tools, the relationships with the community, and the knowledge and application of policy norms change from users' first approach to Wikidata to their full integration as fully active participants.
This study will take place as an interview, either by videotelephony, e.g. Skype, phone, or e-mail, according to the preference of the interviewees. The time required to answer all the questions will likely be about an hour. Further information can be found on the Research Project Page Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base.
Any data collected will be treated in the strictest confidentiality, no personal information will be processed for the purpose of the research. The study, which has submission number 20117, has received ethical approval following the University of Southampton guidelines.
We aim at gathering about 20 participants, chosen among experienced Wikidata users who authored a large number of contributions.
Should you be interested in taking part or wish to receive further information, you can contact us by writing to the e-mail address ap1a14+wikidata_user_study@ecs.soton.ac.uk.
Thank you very much, your help will be much appreciated!
--Alessandro Piscopo (talk) 23:21, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

National Library of Wales

Please have a look at for example Q25906415. The hight is set to 178 and the width to 145, while the source says: 87*145 millimeter and 178*240 millimeter. I´m afraid it is this way for many of this kind of items. I don´t know how you got the data, but your code for doing this was wrong. --Molarus 11:38, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out - I will update with the correct data.Sic19 (talk) 12:04, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

I have seen that the error was already happening in commons, you just copied the data from commons to Wikidata. That is even more bad, because this way we don´t get the right data. I don´t know what to do, maybe we should ask at Wikidata:Project chat? --Molarus 12:06, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Hey college, you might have meanwhile noticed that I work on a repair job for the physical dimensions of prints in the Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493). I plan to adjust all wrong numbers, and there seem to be plenty of them, and add sources as well. This will require another iteration of edits over the entire collection (~4600 items, at least to edits per item). Since you appear to be experienced with this set of items, is there anything I should know before I start (which will be tomorrow at earliest)?

Details: I plan to add image sizes, specifically height times width in millimeters, as given on the linked web pages, to height (P2048) and width (P2049) properties; right now I don’t plan to add paper sizes, and neither do I plan to add qualifiers; however, this is not a final plan and I am very open for input. Thanks and regards, MisterSynergy (talk) 16:58, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your message - this sounds fantastic! I would really appreciate it if you can do this work on the Welsh Landscape Collection prints. Please note that all of the height and width values with a reference are correct. Best regards, Sic19 (talk) 17:23, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

• Good to know, thanks!
• Just to make sure: NLW provides dimensions always as height x width, unlike many other collections, right?
• If I have further questions before I start, I will also come back to you :-)

—MisterSynergy (talk) 17:27, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Yes, the dimensions for this collection are all height x width.Sic19 (talk) 17:39, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Do you have contact to NLW? I could point to a couple of entries which would benefit from a repair on their side… —MisterSynergy (talk) 17:47, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Jason.nlw (talk • contribs • logs) is Wikipedian in Residence at the NLW. Sic19 (talk) 18:00, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy: Hi! Happy to help in any way i can. Jason.nlw (talk) 07:07, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

@Jason.nlw: Nice, let’s try something! For the correction job I need information about image sizes. I have crawled JSON files (whoever is responsible for their availability: thanks a lot!) for all 4669 items from the website of the collection, and took the image size infomation from the “Physical description” field. The following entries do not contain interpretable image sizes:

• Q21626279 (1130695): 1 print : engraving, b&w ; image size 79115 mm., paper size 180 x 250 mm.
• Q23690604 (1130274): 1 print : engraving, b&w ; image size.mm., paper size 80 x 105 mm.
• Q23719782 (1133324): 1 print : lithograph, b&w ; paper size 256 x 319 mm.
• Q23719811 (1133367): 1 print (2 images): engraving, b&w ; paper size 440 x 290 mm.
• Q23719831 (1133385): 1 print : engraving, b&w ; image size.mm., paper size 140 x 208 mm.
• Q23729939 (1133592): 1 print (5 images) : engraving, b&w ; paper size 291 x 224 mm.
• Q23767806 (1133456): 1 print : aquatint, b&w ; image size 13378 mm., paper size 234 x 296 mm.
• Q24069254 (1133777): 1 print : aquatint, col. ; image size 390 mm., paper size 502 mm.
• Q24256073 (1130984): 1 print : engraving, b&w ; image size * mm., paper size 257 x 153 mm.
• Q25906369 (1130011): 1 print : lithograph, b&w ; image size see notes, paper size 335 x 415 mm.
• Q25907582 (1130987): 1 print : engraving, b&w ; paper size 342 x 270 mm.
• Q25910635 (1131532): 1 print : engraving, b&w ; image size 106165 mm., paper size 125 x 200 mm.
• Q25915160 (1131868): 1 print (2 images) : engraving, b&w ; paper size 288 x 237 mm.
• Q25917090 (1133425): 1 print : aquatint, col ; image size 240 mm., paper size 225 x 310 mm.

Whether or not those are actual mistakes is beyond my knowledge. However, if someone in the collection could check these values, I’d re-crawl those few JSONs and include the Wikidata items in the correction job as well.

There are a couple of entries which have “sub-optimal” information as well, but it is still interpretable and thus not that important for me. If NLW is interested, I could also look for problems with paper sizes. In case of questions feel free to ask! —MisterSynergy (talk) 07:36, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy:Thanks for your help with this. I have spoken with our metadata team and it looks as though these are errors from when the data was created. I will need to arrange for the images to be physically remeasured. The metadata team can then update the catalogue entries and the JSON's will be corrected. The only difficulty might be where there are multiple images on the same ID. With those 3 i can probably update the wikidata items manually but the metadata standard will not allow us to put in multiple image sizes for one item. I will try and get back to you ASAP. Thanks again! Jason.nlw (talk) 08:28, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

I am still preparing, but the update code is already in a good shape. I have another issue to discuss with the two of you: NLW provides information about image size and paper size on their collection website. I learnt that usually image sizes are stored in Wikidata’s height (P2048) and width (P2049), and paper sizes (in general: all kinds of frames) are more or less ignored until now. Therefore I suggest to remove all qualifiers applies to part (P518) image (Q478798) from those claims, of which are have around only 25 per dimension property in this collection right now. The P2048 and P2049 claims of paper size (only 6 as far as I see) should not be deleted and keep their applies to part (P518) paper (Q11472), but in case both are present the image size data gets preferred rank. That setup would make data about this collection consistent with other data here, while not losing anything we already have. Any objections? I’d be able to update items as proposed otherwise. Regards, —MisterSynergy (talk) 06:18, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Thanks!Sic19 (talk) 16:32, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy: Hey. The images with bad data (listed above) should now be updated. Ley me know if there are any other issues. Best Jason.nlw (talk)

Thanks for ping. I’ll have a look at it soon. —MisterSynergy (talk) 14:11, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

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Hey Sic19 and @Jason.nlw, as you both might have seen on your watchlists, I am meanwhile running the repair job and the first ~1200 of 4655 items have already been updated this night. Sorry for the delay, I was way too busy in real life to invest time here earlier. The update now adds references in line with the database model in Help:Sources (i.e. much better re-usable than the few old references), it corrects wrong dimension claims (mostly height (P2048)), and adds missing data in a few cases this happened (all image sizes as provided by NLW). The job will still take until at least tomorrow, since I can’t edit faster than 1 edit per 10 seconds.

Now I also found a couple of further flaws with the items of the collection, and I suggest to fix them as well once the dimensions are okay. They are not terribly bad, but since we are working on these items anyway these days and the repair isn’t this complicated, I’d like to bring it up here:

• Remove collection (P195) National Library of Wales (Q666063), and move part of (P361) Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493) to collection (P195) Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493) instead. There will not be any part of (P361) statement any longer (which is not meant to be used like that anyway), and the library item will still be linked via location (P276) National Library of Wales (Q666063).
• Change the collection (P195) qualifier value of the inventory number (P217) <ID> statements to Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493) (instead of National Library of Wales (Q666063)) as well.

What’s your opinion about my ideas? Regards, MisterSynergy (talk) 08:54, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Hey. Thank you very much for investing your time to fix issues with this collection! Your proposed fixes all sound fine to me, but i would like Sic19's input before going ahead with the changes. Cheers! Jason.nlw (talk) 09:29, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

I'm not completely against these changes but I'd question whether they're really necessary. Whilst the work on the dimensions is fixing an error, I think this is just a different way of doing the same thing. Primarily, my concern is that queries on the NLW collection will miss this entire collection unless they also include subclasses in the query - this might cause issues in a lot of example queries that we have made and shared. Please can we discuss this further before you do any work on these aspects of the collection. Thanks for your help. Sic19 (talk) 13:45, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks for your answer. I will of course not change anything before we agree on a solution, and you have brought up valid concerns.
• Do you happen to know which of the properties I suggested to change are actually in use in queries? If we could just move part of (P361) to collection (P195) (which then had two values, the library and the collection), the situation would already be okay. Right now we have the problem that part of (P361) as a symmetrical property with has part(s) (P527), but we can't add 4670 values in the collection item with has part(s) (P527).
• The repair job will probably be finished this evening. There are some hundred items to go.

—MisterSynergy (talk) 13:58, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

• I tend to use part of - Welsh Landscape Collection part of (P361) Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493) in queries to select the items in this collection. Admittedly, it is not a problem to change this to collection - Welsh Landscape Collection collection (P195) Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493) and this will have exactly the same results. Histropedia uses collection - National Library of Wales collection (P195) National Library of Wales (Q666063) in one of the example queries - see http://tinyurl[dot]com/hfhbxup.
• If we have collection (P195) with both National Library of Wales (Q666063) and Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493) shouldn't we really have two inventory numbers? Actually, we probably shouldn't have both National Library of Wales (Q666063) and Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493) because Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493) is part of the larger National Library of Wales (Q666063) collection but it is difficult to represent this nested collection relationship satisfactorily, particularly when we want to be able run queries on the entire collection of an institution, which is comprised of a number of distinct named collections. I haven't seen any examples that really resolve this problem with nested collections - perhaps we should open this up to wider discussion with other members of the community.
• But, I do fundamentally agree with what you're saying, particularly concerning the symmetrical properties part of (P361) and has part(s) (P527). In fact, this is a problem I'm encountering whilst working on the titles in the digital library collection Welsh Journals (Q2603503).

Best, Sic19 (talk) 18:33, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

If I was to set this up from scratch, I’d add

⟨ subject ⟩ collection (P195) ⟨ Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493)    ⟩

to the ~4670 items (but not the P195 statements with the library item), and

⟨ Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493)    ⟩ collection (P195) ⟨ National Library of Wales (Q666063)    ⟩

to the collection item itself. This would be very “queryable” with SPARQL:

• ?item wdt:P195 wd:Q21542493 returns all items in the Welsh Landscape Collection (Q21542493)
• ?item wdt:P195* wd:Q666063 returns all items in any collection (of any level) at the National Library of Wales (Q666063)
• ?item wdt:P195 wd:Q666063 returns all (first level) collections at the National Library of Wales (Q666063)

A very similar situation is to some extent already set up for Peniarth Manuscripts (Q11019402) and John Ingleby Watercolours (Q21731178), which are other collections at the NLW. For Peniarth Manuscripts (Q11019402), the very few items of that collection still have a part of/has part relation, but this only works because the number of elements is apparently very small (or this dataset is incomplete, I don’t know). For the other, John Ingleby Watercolours (Q21731178), there are redundant collection (P195) claims with the library item as value in the collection items. However, you could already use those two collections for query testing and you would only have to use P195, as outlined above. Do you see any problem with such an approach? (If you need help with the queries, I’d provide them to you.) —MisterSynergy (talk) 19:11, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Yes, this makes sense and I do think it is sensible approach. Although it is technically unnecessary duplication, I would like to retain the wdt:P195 wd:Q666063 statements for an interim period to make sure that the Welsh Landscape Collection doesn't disappear from existing example queries, particularly the Histropedia example. Sic19 (talk) 05:31, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

No problem, of course. If you give me a go, I’d move the P361:Q21542493 to P195:Q21542493 with one edit per item. The P195:Q666063 and anything else would be left untouched. —MisterSynergy (talk) 07:36, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

The dimension repair job has now finished. The collection has 4675 items (according to Wikidata). There were 4655 items corrected with my script with the crawled data from NLW, and I looked into a couple of further items manually. There are issues with five items which I cannot resolve:

• Cardiff Castle (Q23762128); 2 images, I don’t know how to add the information here
• Cromlech at Plas Newydd, Anglesey (Q23690604) and South view of Bangor Cathedral (Q21626279); NLW provides information about paper sizes, but not image sizes (should be corrected on NLW side)
• Crickhowell Bridge (Q24256169); NLW does not provide any information about dimensions (should be corrected on NLW side)
• General South View of Llantony Priory (Q23767806); NLW does not provide comprehensible information about dimensions (should be corrected on NLW side)

Inform @Jason.nlw just in case he does not watch this page.

All other items now have image sizes with full references added. Units and bounds are also used correctly in all cases.

The information should somehow be corrected at Wikimedia Commons as well. However, I have no idea how to do this… Thanks for your input and regards, —MisterSynergy (talk) 07:36, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Hey MisterSynergy Thanks very much for correcting this issue for us. I will take a look at the problems above and see if i can fix them manually. To fix the issue on Commons i think we would need someone who could run a little script on the API. I will have a think on that one. Cheers! Jason.nlw (talk) 10:49, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Places depicted in artworks

I updated Crotos/Callisto. And wow... what you did on Wales is very impressive and pleasant. Bravo! Best regards. --Shonagon (talk) 15:59, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for updating Callisto - it's great to see the collection on a map! All the best, Sic19 (talk) 21:13, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Categories

Please stop adding categories, until this discussion reaches a consensus. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:42, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

== Henry Charles (Q20733139) and contributed to creative work (P3919) ==

Hi. I fiddled with your edit on q20733139, though wondering whether rather than qualifying further with an "of" statement that we look to better articulate the qualifier for "subject has role". We could look to create something like "letter writer", "writer of letter" (parts exist for that already) or something else that I cannot think of. Thoughts?  — billinghurst sDrewth 06:12, 7 September 2017 (UTC) (please ping me when responding)

@billinghurst: Hi, thanks for your edits and apologies for my slow reply. I'm thinking that the qualifier subject has role (P2868) - correspondent (Q1155838) is probably sufficient as further information is available from the reference, if required. That said, I wouldn't object to any of the more specific roles that you've suggested, like letter writer, if you choose to represent the relationship in this way. There probably isn't an entirely right answer here. Thanks again for your help and suggestions - happy to discuss further if it will be useful. All the best, Sic19 (talk) 18:51, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Welsh Journals

Hi Sic19!,

I have started uploading images for pre1880 Welsh journals. I am hoping there will be another batch in the coming days and then i will send you the data if you like - which should make it easier to match the image to the Wikidata items. Best Jason.nlw (talk) 13:49, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Documentation of WikidataCon

Hello,

Thank you so much for your work on this page! It's incredibly helpful for people who would like to have an overview of the event, and also for our reporting tasks :)

Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 09:47, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Hey,

No problem at all. Yes, I thought it would be beneficial to have a single page with links to all the notes, slides and videos from WikidataCon 2017. There is a lot of really useful information and hopefully it will now be easy to access.

Thanks for organising WikidataCon. It was a fantastic weekend and I'm glad we have a great series of videos from the event - I know I'll be revisiting some of the sessions very soon.

All the best, Sic19 (talk) 00:01, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Help

I want to participate in these two projects as I do to be a participant:

1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject
2. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Music

And −−Gilrn (talk) 20:28, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't think I can be much help. Perhaps you could post a message on the WikiProject Music discussion page. Sic19 (talk) 21:31, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Bad data

I reverted you here because you linked to an item about an organisation, not a place. Also, there was already a correct value for that property. Please check your other data. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:58, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

I was thinking in terms of the library network as a spatial entity but, as you've quite rightly pointed out, this item is for the library as an organisation rather than the public library system of a local authority. I'll revisit the other data I created in the same batch and put it right. Thanks for bring this to my attention. All the best, Sic19 (talk) 17:49, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

"Editor"

It appears that you've made a number of automated edits based on DWB which confused some human titles with other things with the same name, e.g. this edit that had editor (Q985394) when I'm sure it meant editor (Q1607826). I've made the editor (Q985394) -> editor (Q1607826) while migrating all existing uses of P794 (P794) for job titles to position held (P39), but there might be other stray entries with similar mistakes. Deryck Chan (talk) 17:04, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I did indeed want to use editor (Q1607826) in these edits. Thanks for correcting and letting me know about it. Sic19 (talk) 18:20, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

"college library" vs. "academic library" -- and "further education library"

I noticed on February 27, 2018 you made college library a subclass of academic library. A little over a week before that I had posted a discussion item to merge the two: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q1622062#Merge_with_%22academic_library%22_(Q856234) If you check the history of college library, it has changed its subclass hierarchy multiple times (it has been a subclass of academic library before). It would be a good thing to discuss.

Also, rather than creating more specialized subclasses of college library like "further education library", I think it would be better to just call those instances of either academic library, or school library. Dan scott (talk) 22:50, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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... House

Note that most buildings in London with names ending in "... House" are not instance of (P31) house (Q3947) -- they are more likely to be large office buildings, corporate headquarters, blocks of mansion flats, etc. Jheald (talk) 17:56, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Many would actually been built as houses but your point is valid. I'm trying to add the missing instance of (P31) claims to over 100,000 listed buildings in the UK and I'd prefer not to use the very broad, overarching architectural structure (Q811979) on all of them. If you want to send a list of the items that are definitely incorrect I will amend the instance of (P31) statements. Or perhaps you can offer some constructive suggestions on how to identify an appropriate instance of (P31) for these structures? Simon Cobb (Sic19 ; talk page) 18:45, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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Multilingual captions testing is available

Greetings,

The early prototype for multilingual caption support is available for testing. More information on how to sign up to test is on Commons. Thanks, happy editing to you. - Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:06, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Great work on University of Leeds publications

Hi Simon, thanks for your great contributions in this area! I just added University of Leeds (Q503424) to the organization examples in Scholia (Q45340488). Do you use Scholia in your curation workflows? If so, we'd like to know about any suggestions you might have on how to improve the web service, the reference manager or other aspects of the functionality, documentation or presentation. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 00:13, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Hanes y Brytaniaid a'r Cymry

While creating some version, edition or translation (Q3331189) items for several books available online from the British Library, I have just created Hanes y Brytaniaid a'r Cymry (Q53576694).

I now see that you have already created Hanes y Brytaniaid a'r Cymry (Q29572839).

What do you think would the best thing to do with the two items? Wikidata:WikiProject Books appears to advocate having two separate items, one for the work and a further one for each identifiable edition. In practice, I'm not sure how far people follow this if there has only been one edition of the work (as appears to be the case here); but I suppose it's always possible that someone might produce a new edition, with eg a new introduction.

Do you think it's worth keeping two items for the book? (In which case, which fields should live where?) Or alternatively, do you think it would be better to merge the two? Jheald (talk) 22:12, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

@Jheald: I think it is OK to merge these items - the only thing that is making me slightly hesitant is catalog code (P528) on Hanes y Brytaniaid a'r Cymry (Q53576694) which is probably copy specific. In most cases, it is unnecessary to have data about anything more specific than an edition of a work - obvious exceptions are rare books like Gutenberg Bible (Q158075) or First Folio (Q833645) when individual copies might be important enough as objects to have an additional item despite being the same edition. Perhaps I misunderstand the usage of this property?

On a few occasions recently I've spotted duplicates that are different digitised versions of the same edition e.g. On the laws and practice of horse racing (Q51514189) and On the laws and practice of horse racing, etc., etc (Q51425849) - they have different identifiers from the same sources but it I don't think that alone is sufficient reason for importing both.

Thanks for asking before merging. Simon Cobb (Sic19 ; talk page) 18:22, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Simon.

For what it's worth, the BL 'System' numbers I think in fact do approximate, at least more or less, what we denote as version, edition or translation (Q3331189) -- so under the 'Holdings' screen in an item's BL catalogue entry, there are sometimes a number of different copies (with different shelfmarks) all matched to the same System number. But on reflection as a result it may therefore have been misleading of me to use catalog code (P528) -- I've been thinking of applying for an external ID property for it instead, as it can be turned into a URL link.

In respect of "the Laws of Horseracing", I think the key issue isn't different identifiers, but that there are different scans available, each one coming from a different source -- that might then, for example, have two different Commons categories of images. I recently raised this as a specific question on Wikidata talk:WikiProject Books, where User:Snipre responded that (at least in his opinion) there should be separate items in such cases. The advantage, I think, is that then one can document in full the details for each scan series -- which physical copy it came from, which identifiers it corresponds to (eg here where one of the scan-series has a corresponding identifier both at the Internet Archive and the Biodiversity History Library) -- having a specific item for this copy means that the two identifiers can be connected.

All the same, at least for myself, I would be slow to create such items, unless I was convinced there was a clear need for them (eg two different Commons categories). So for example with A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (3rd Edition) (Q52243033) I didn't/haven't taken it that step further, so haven't created items to connect eg which Hathi trust or Internet archive copies connect to which Google scans. But if somebody wanted to clarify that information, new items would seem quite reasonable to do so. However, I also strongly think that the version, edition or translation (Q3331189)-type item should continue to contain a full account of all the online versions/sources available for a particular edition, so if the new items were created IMO it would make sense to connect them via statement is subject of (P805) statements.

Similarly, for "the Laws of Horseracing", I think what is actually needed is a further item for the version, edition or translation (Q3331189), bringing together all of the available online versions information, using statement is subject of (P805) statements to the further two items to distinguish the different scan families.

(Incidentally, it's quite annoying that both of the "Laws of Horseracing" items are identified as instance of (P31) publication (Q732577) -- this (IMO) is too vague, and instead it would be better for them to be instances of something like "single book, and scans made of it", perhaps a subclass of exemplar (Q5419997)).

On the subject of separate items or not for books and editions, it seems that you would think that where there only ever was a single edition, it's probably best to only have a single item. Though if one did go for that, I think the item then ought to be identified as instance of (P31) both book (Q571) and version, edition or translation (Q3331189), perhaps with the required edition or translation of (P629) statement then pointing to itself.

I think that does make some sense (and which is why I was so far holding off making separate 'book' items for the 230 'edition' items I created earlier this week).

But I'd also like to run it past Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData to see what their thinking is on book-items and edition-items -- for example, which is the one that should be cited? And there some of the values of some of the statements I've added that might not work well with a cite template. But I do need to have a good read through the talk pages there first. Jheald (talk) 22:13, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

I changed On the laws and practice of horse racing (Q51514189) and On the laws and practice of horse racing, etc., etc (Q51425849) to now be instance of (P31) a new item individual copy of a book (Q53731850), and moved most of their statements to a new edition item On the laws and practice of horse racing (1866 edition) (Q53738443); but they could probably be done away with altogether, and the scan provenance instead be distinguished using a collection (P195) qualifier.

Thread open at Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Books#Does_there_*always*_need_to_be_a_separate_work_and_edition_item? as to whether this is right, or what makes most sense. Jheald (talk) 23:13, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data on Commons IRC Office Hour, Tuesday 26 June

Greetings,

There will be an IRC office hour for Structured Data on Tuesday, 26 June from 18:00-19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. You can find more details, as well as date and time conversion, at the IRC Office Hours page on Meta.

Thanks, I look forward to seeing you there if you can make it. -- Keegan (talk) 20:54, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

What properties does Commons need?

Greetings,

Structured Commons will need properties to make statements about files. The development team is working on making the software ready to support properties; the question is, what properties does Commons need?

You can find more information and examples to help find properties in a workshop on Commons. Please participate and help fill in the list, and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:53, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data feedback - Depicts statements draft requirements

Greetings,

A slide presentation of the draft requirements for depicts statements on file pages is up on Commons. Please visit this page on Commons to review the slides and discuss the draft. Thank you, see you on the talk page. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:20, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

newspapers

I found you when I ran this query (Wales lit up very brightly). We're making a major push at the moment to improve newspaper coverage, and would love to have you join in at w:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Newspapers (also note the Wikidata subpage). --99of9 (talk) 07:42, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Thesis data matching

I've just spotted Modulation of human neutrophil apoptosis by tumour necrosis factor-? (Q56457702) - this has been matched to J. K. Rowling (Q34660). Are you sure about this? The thesis is dated 1998; Rowling wasn't married until 2001, and apparently only rarely uses the married name Murray. Her WP article doesn't mention a doctoral thesis, and it seems very unlikely it would miss something so substantial as completing a doctorate whilst writing her novels...

I'm not sure what algorithm was used for the matching of theses to items here, but it might be worth looking into it for other false positives like this. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:57, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

• Obstructive suppression of urine (Q56457684) is another false positive - the name is the wrong way around (Alexander Douglas to Douglas Alexander) and the publication date is 1904 for someone who was born 1967. Enlarged tonsils and adenoids, with special reference to modern methods of treatment (Q56457596) is published in 1915 but matched to someone who died in 1879; The legacy of Michael Collins, 1922-1932 (Q56457590) is likewise matched to someone who died thirty years before publication; The physiology of the mammary gland (Q56457585) is ten years before its linked author was born. These are all from a single batch - I haven't looked at the the others and I don't know if a different matching approach was used for them, but this one has a pretty alarming false-positive rate. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:09, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data feedback - structured licensing and copyright

Mockups of structured licensing and copyright statements on file pages are posted. Please have a look over the examples and leave your feedback on the talk page. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:32, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #330

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Dan Koehl, Joalpe

• Events
  • Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
  • New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
    • Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
    • A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
    • A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portugeuse National Library data with Wikidata
    • More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
    • And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
  • Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
  • Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
  • The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
  • Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
    • External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID

• • Query examples:
    • Map of caves with prehistoric art (source)
    • Most cited works with Swedish first author (source)
    • Map of events for Wikidata's 6th Birthday (source)
    • Heads of the same state whose family names share the first four letters but are not identical (source)
    • Map of caves containing prehistoric art (source)

• Development
  • Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
  • Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
  • Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
  • Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:51, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

New discussion on Commons talk:Structured data

Hello. I've started a new, important discussion about creating properties for Commons on Wikidata. Please come join in, if the process is something that interests you or if you can help. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:48, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Book vs version debate

Hello, I noticed you've been creating a lot of book records. I implore you to please create separate items for versions, instead of adding data to the book item. My main argument is that it is easy to go from 2 items to 1, but significantly more difficult (and sometimes impossible) to do the reverse. Consider Aftermath : remembering the Great War in Wales (Q20599115). According to OpenLibrary, the ISBN-13 is for a 2000 edition, whereas the ISBN-10 is for a 1998 edition. Without external information, it would be impossible to determine which data belongs to the 2000 edition and which data belongs to the 1998 edition. This is why the split between books/versions exists. (This split is based on a model called FRBR, based in library science). Although the folks at WikiProject Books are still in debate as to what exactly Wikidata's book model will be, combining items as you have will make it significantly harder to update records like Aftermath : remembering the Great War in Wales (Q20599115) to whatever that model might be. Especially since your edits appear to be automated, please create separate items for "versions", and link them using the "version of" property. Cheers, --Hardwigg (talk) 05:45, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. Didn't you notice that I have been creating separate items for each edition, reprint etc.? I understand FRBR but applying it to messy and inconsistent Wikidata items is never going to work so I am adding statements to the existing items to make sure it is clear which version each is supposed to represent and hopefully this will avoid creating duplicates. The current situation is there are a lot of University of Wales Press items (i.e. the book (Q571) items), which do not have enough statements to determine which edition they are supposed to represent. Most of these items are from Welsh Wikipedia articles but not all represent the first edition and that makes it very difficult to reconcile the data I am uploading with existing Wikidata items. My plan is to upload the data for the University of Wales Press editions, which is over 1000 items, and then link the versions to the work - both must first be created before the linking can happen. If there is only one expression/manifestation I do not intend to create a separate item for the work.

Please keep in mind that I am ingesting approximately 250,000 catalogue records into Wikidata and I cannot check each item individually. Also note this is what will happen repeatedly if books/versions do not have statements that disambiguate them without the need to check external sources.

Finally, this item should indeed be two items as you suggest - thanks for flagging it. Simon Cobb (Sic19 ; talk page) 07:33, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

If you're dealing with post-1950s books, has the linked data version of the British National Biography [1] been any use? If I've understood what it's meant to do correctly, does it give matches to external identifiers for the values of a lot of the most relevant fields? Jheald (talk) 10:20, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

I tried to query it a while ago and the endpoint was being very temperamental. To be honest, I forgot all about it since then and haven't revisited it. The big problem I am facing is existing items with sparse statements and I think it makes sense to improve these items with the data I have from the National Library of Wales before modelling the relationships between editions. When I finish the ingest of the University of Wales Press corpus, I would welcome feedback and criticism from Wikiproject Books participants to develop the workflow for the ingest of more records. Simon Cobb (Sic19 ; talk page) 10:35, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, Sic19. I'm excited to see an import of this scale, but want to make sure the data is organized, consistent, and easily queryable. Your plan sounds reasonable, except for the last part. Although WikiProject Books is discussing model changes, the current accepted model is 1 item for the work and 1 item for each edition (as described at Wikidata:WikiProject_Books). No one's saying its perfect, but we need a model for consistency and that's the one Wikidata has chosen. Individual user edits are harder to regulate, but mass imports should definitely be following this model. Also, if you're ingesting hundreds of thousands of records, I would hope you've confirmed your import plan with at least Wikidata:WikiProject_Books. Is there a discussion somewhere I can look at? I'd be interested in seeing that community's thoughts on this as well.

And you're right, it looks like you did create separate items as well. It looks like ~270 items are combined. I stumbled on 11 of these while my bot was adding Open Library IDs to Wikidata items using ISBNs as identifiers. I noticed I was getting a higher than usual number of "Multiple OpenLibrary items found" warnings, and this seemed to be the cause. Open Library's far from perfect, but these look like genuine differences. These are only the errors I was able to find because a) the book was new enough to have an ISBN, and b) had multiple editions on Open Library. I imagine there are a lot more errors which would be much more difficult to find.

The most logical plan to me seems to be 1) create instanceOf: version items; 2) link these to existing (or new if absent) work items. When in doubt for (1), i.e. something already exists but it is uncertain if it is the same version, create a new item. It's always easier to merge 2 items into one than to split 1 into 2.

--Hardwigg (talk) 20:26, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #331

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Ayack
  • New request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update
  • Closed request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies

• Events
  • Past: 19-21 September 2018, New York City: Wikibase workshop at Rhizome
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, on Tuesday September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Supporting Community Events: spotlight on ‘Social Media Exchange’ (SMEX) in Lebanon, by MySociety
  • Using OpenStack to run a custom Wikibase, by Andra Waagmeester
  • Creating linked open data for Victorian shipping registers on the National Library of Wales blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The OpenStreetMap wiki enabled Wikibase, to describe OSM tags and keys. Here's what an entry for moveable bridge looks like: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104
  • TABernacle, a tool to edit Wikidata on a table view, was rewritten by Magnus Manske

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Index Herbariorum code, model item, perfume note, place of devotion, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, video designer, projection designer, mode of derivation, work hardening strain, tuition fee, foreign transaction fee, trading fee, account charge / subscription fee, borrowing rate, interest rate, JMA Magnitude, official number of town quarter
    • External identifiers: Adelphi author ID, AnimeClick drama ID, Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, CharacTour character ID, Enciclovida ID, IGN film ID, LakeNet ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, MobyGames platform ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, Norwegian war refugees register ID, re3data repository ID, ResearchGate publication ID, SJPXVII ID, SPXVI ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Muziekweb Performer ID, Tourisme & Handicap ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, Microsoft Store app ID, Arkivportalen agent ID, Archiveportal archive ID, Preferred Hotels & Resorts hotel ID, Bpk-ID, UOL Eleições ID, Uralonet ID, Álgu ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Spotify show ID, derived from sense, creates, Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV) ID, acquisition date, Løøv classification, Non-free artwork image URL, Kompositionsfuge, abbrév., subject lexeme
    • External identifiers: HKCAN ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff-Nummer, Wikibase Registry ID, GTB database IDs, Depósito Legal ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Australia and New Zealand Standard Research Classification 2008, IGN series ID, old-computers.com ID, Kunstenpunt productions, tweet ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, SUCA code, VicFlora ID

• • Query examples:
    • Maps and libraries in Boston and Cambridge (source)
    • Timeline of mobile phones (source)
    • Average height of figure skaters by gender and discipline (source)
  • New bot requests: Import and maintain nominal GDP for countries from the World Bank Data API, Create indiscriminately new items, Missing P31, Importing lexemes from en.Wiktionary in specific languages

• Development
  • Work on editing Form statements using the API (phab:T194732)
  • Show the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
  • Add hyphenation for long Lexeme lemmas and representations (phab:T195367)
  • Normalize SPARQL queries (phab:T204122, thanks to Abiàn)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service about exported query results being different from the displayed result (phab:T195258)
  • Fix a bug on the Query Service about empty map results returning error (phab:T178786)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:10, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data - upcoming changes to viewing old file page revisions

How old revisions of file pages work are likely going to have to change for structured data. There is information about the change on the SDC hub talk page, please read it over and leave feedback if you have any. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 15:30, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #332

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: P171, When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used, Findagrave removed as a source for information, How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?, Updating References for External Data

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, September 25th
  • Past: Working in a World of (linked, semantic) Open Data. Keynote by User:MartinPoulter at University of Stirling Life in Data Conference, September 28th
  • Wikidata and Wikimedia workshop (30 September) and session about data modeling (2 October) at the CIDOC 2018 Conference of the International Council of Museums, Heraklion, Crete
  • There were three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
  • Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops in the programme.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Property Path use in Wikidata Queries, by Gregory Todd Williams

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The templates Reasonator and Scholia are available, for linking from en.Wikisource pages to representations of Wikidata items.
  • Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons, see also thread.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: ENI number, inflection class, has inflection class, root, creates lexeme type
    • External identifiers: ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID, Comic Vine ID, DxOMark ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, HKCAN ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, Shazam track ID, Spotify show ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff Number, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, ANZSRC FoR ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: applies to citizens of, Plot continued in, monument in the near, Sail emblem, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, reference template for this work, Wikipedia suggested article name, Personal title, stated in reference as, reference vocabulary, OSM zoom level
    • External identifiers: OpenStreetMap wiki ID, Wiki Loves ZEOs ID, Geschützte Objekte in Ostbelgien, ComiXology Creators, War Memorials Online ID, NT Flora ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Sekolah Kita ID, Museu Nacional ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID

• • Query examples:
    • Bounding boxes for a set of maps
    • Where were UK ambassadors educated? (source)
  • People who received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and were also in the NSDAP (Nazi party) (source)

• Development
  • Fix a bug when the "language of Lemma" box doesn't appear after failed submit of Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194347)
  • Fix the order of elements in Lexeme edit diffs (phab:T185481)
  • Enable constraint checks for Lexemes and Forms (phab:T195828)
  • More work on editing Form Statements using API (phab:T194732)
  • More work on a beta feature for suggestions based on constraints (phab:T202712)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:00, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data - IRC office hours today, 4 October

There will be an IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons today, 4 October 2018, from 17:00-18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. You can find date/time conversion, as well as a link to join the chat in your browser if needed, on the IRC Office hours page on Meta. I look forward to seeing you there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:49, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data - search prototype

There is a search prototype for structured data on Commons available. Please visit the search prototype page on the structured data hub for information on testing and feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:07, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #333

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Fuzheado, باسم

• Events
  • 5-7 October, St.Gallen (Switzerland): WikiCon 2018 of the German-speaking Wikimedia community, with keynote Wikidata as a Semantic Web game changer
  • 5-7 October, Grenoble (France): WikiConvention francophone 2018, with keynote:
    • Quarry et Query : introduction à SQL et SPARQL
    • GLAM & Wikimedia : bilan des projets en cours en Suisse et perspectives avec Wikidata
    • Quoi de neuf sur Wikidata ?
    • Éditer une œuvre d'art sur Wikidata, et plus si affinités
  • 16 October, online: Using Wikibase as a platform for library linked data management and discovery
  • 29 October, São Paulo: Wikidata Lab XI: Structuring wikiprojects

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata: «Das spannendste Projekt, das ich je gesehen habe» (German) in the Swiss newspaper Tagblatt
  • SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (slides, speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
  • Wikidata Map October 2018 by Addshore
  • Our man in Havana (or, Q56761118) by Andrew Gray

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• wikidata-cli new features:
  • wd data --format ttl: dump entities in rdf/ttl
  • wd convert: convert batches of external ids to Wikidata ids and vice versa
• Structured Data on Commons: a search prototype is available for testing. There is a page on Commons with information about testing and leaving feedback.
• Profiling Wikidata — a Class-Facet-Attribute Completeness Profiling System for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: limiting oxygen index, plot continued in, Vicat softening point, Unicode range
    • External identifiers: Lyrically artist ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, Ġabra lexeme ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, IGN series ID, tweet ID, Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV), Flanders Arts Institute production ID, old-computers.com ID, Oudnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek GTB ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Protected objects Ostbelgien ID, North America PlayStation Store ID, VicFlora ID, SUCA code, CMI person ID, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, ComiXology creator ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID, NT Flora ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: animacy, distributary, human position in artwork, does not have quality, (de)evolution method, happened to, depicted part, adjective, hyponym, nation-state tradition, requires form, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, location of sense usage, Medierådet rating, broad synonym, measured to, Type properties, shrinkage, Public presentation, carbon footprint
    • External identifiers: Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, MIAR ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Women's Japan Basketball League, SAGE journal ID, Elsevier journal ID, N° CPPAP, Deezer show ID, LUBW Schutzgebiets-Nr, Disney A to Z ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Armiarma ID

• • Query examples:
    • Characters from the Mario franchise by games in which they appear (source)
    • Nobel Prize winners who also has been TED speakers (source)

• Development
  • Fix bugs on editing statements on new Forms using the API (phab:T194732)
  • Check constraint violations on statements on Forms and Senses when saving a statement (phab:T195829)
  • Fix an issue with Wikibase and deployments (phab:T206161)
  • Improve the gloss language error message (phab:T205528)
  • Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
  • Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)
  • Work on making Sense statement group Ids unique (phab:T204936)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:48, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #334

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

• Events
  • 8-12 October, Monterey: International Semantic Web Conference 2018, with lots of praise for Wikidata
  • 11-12 October, Montreal: FORCE 2018 Conference, with sessions on Wikidata and Wikibase and Wikidata and WikiCite

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ontological Modelling in Wikidata, talk and slides by Markus Krötzsch
  • Wikidata x ConedaKOR: A use case for digital art history (in German), on integrating Wikidata with an art history database
  • From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements, by Charles Matthews on WMUK's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
  • A new OpenRefine tutorial was published, showing how to use third-party reconciliable data sources to import data in Wikidata.
  • A prototype for Mix'n'Match Version 2 is available for testing; it uses Wikibase.
  • We have a new admin onboard, welcome Fuzheado!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: depicted part, sail emblem, reference vocabulary
    • External identifiers: Museu Nacional ID, Sekolah Kita ID, War Memorials Online ID, ID of Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, Women's Japan Basketball League ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Elsevier journal ID, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, LUBW Protected Area No, SAGE journal ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: tribus, embodied energy, water footprint, storage capacity (ROM), Pixel resolution, Category for films in this language, annual number of weddings, biobased content weight percentage, topic's main Wikimedia WikiProject, recycled content weight percentage, taxa found, recycling code, attenuation coefficient, Kit manifacturer
    • External identifiers: Getty Iconography Authority ID, Springer journal ID, Espace prépas author ID, Australian Plant name Index identifier, Indiancine.ma film ID, Indiancine.ma person ID

• • Query examples:
    • Age of receivers of Nobel Prize winners in Literature (source)
    • Places of birth of Nobel prizes winners per decade ([ source])
    • Things named after Ada Lovelace (source)

• Development
  • Help fixing the issues after data center switch (phab:T206743)
  • Look at a regression in Lexeme code (not passing lemma language via URL) (phab:T205864)
  • Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
  • Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:24, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #335

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Adopt a username policy

• Events
  • A Wikidata workshop will be led by Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel & and the Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
  • An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
  • Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check the full list and the map to find one near you

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of Winterthur's sister city Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
  • Semantische Suchabfragen mit der Linked Open Data Cloud generieren (German), on SocietyByte
  • La documentation d’expositions sur Wikidata (French) by Shonagon

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A program to train new Wikidata trainers (in German) will be run in November 2018 in Berlin, Cologne and Vienna. Registration is open until October 28th.
  • A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian Shani Evenstein.
  • Lexicographical data can now be queried with the Query Service
  • Lexicographical Data now includes Senses
  • A beta feature for entity suggestions based on constraints
  • Planned RDF ontology prefix change for RDF exports and dumps
  • You can still help ORES to be smarter in detecting vandalism. Take a few minutes to check some edits
  • Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to Lucas)
  • Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (example, documentation)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Medierådet rating, translation, synonym, antonym, troponym of, false friend, Wikidata property example for senses, classifier, Sandbox-Sense, derived from sense, annual number of weddings
    • External identifiers: CPPAP ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Springer journal ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: compressive modulus of elasticity, Best result in tournament, satisfaction rate, league system, ratified by, place of disappearance, exact synonym, measured to, measured from, measured include, measured exclude, measured at, usage example, Coordinates in WKT, flexural strain at break
    • External identifiers: Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, North America Microsoft Store ID, Facebook post ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File identification number, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID

• • Query examples:
    • Map of lines and stations of the Amsterdam metro (source)
    • Workplaces of society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, traced on a map (source)
    • What other relationships do people have with their spouses? (source)
    • Signatures of French-speaking female authors (source)
    • Underground lines of London (source)

• Development
  • JSON-LD is now on beta
  • Work on a issue impacting edit tags for admins (phab:T207313)
  • Turn on Senses for Lexicographical data

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:27, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #336

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667
  • Closed request for comments: Close-out of statements formerly using P794

• Events
  • Plenty of Wikidata 6th birthday events happen all around the world. You can check the Commons category and the hashtag #WikidataBirthday on social networks.
  • Past: Wikimedia Technical Conference, October 22-25

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • WikibaseNYC conference explores the frontier of linked open data infrastructure &report on the Wikibase workshop that took place on September 19-21 in New Yor City
  • Now Wikidata is 6, by Charles Matthews

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Proposal on on how to answer newcomers on help pages. Feel free to give feedback on the talk page.
  • Fork-Awesome now ships with a Wikidata icon
  • Presents from the community for the Wikidata 6th birthday:
    • Banner for Wikidata birthday events by KannanVM
    • Profiling Wikidata (announcement, documentation)
    • Birthday User Template for userpage
    • List of Wikidata & GLAM usecases, by Beat Eastermann
    • QuickStatements v2 now supports lexicographical data
    • DerDieDas, a game to practice German articles based on lexicographical data, by Auregann
    • CSV to QuickStatements now fully compatible with QuickStatements v2
    • Possibility to query Lexemes in the Query Service
    • Senses for lexicographical data
    • Beta feature: suggestions based on constraints
    • Dedicated Dashboard, another tool to improve the data quality in Wikidata, by Envlh
    • cookiecutter-toolforge, a template to easily create tools, by Lucas Werkmeister
    • WDFS: Mount Wikidata as a filesystem, by MichaelSchoenitzer
    • Wikidata Comparison Tool

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: carbon footprint, attenuation coefficient, compressive modulus of elasticity, recycling code, kit supplier, category for films in this language, stated in reference as, distributary, water footprint, applies to people, flexural strain at break, body pose or movement
    • External identifiers: APNI ID, Literaturaren Zubitegia ID, Getty Iconography Authority ID, Indiancine.ma film ID, Deezer show ID, Indiancine.ma person ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, WikiArt ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File ID, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, California Office of Historic Preservation ID, Encyclopedia of Appalachia ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Tennessee Encyclopedia ID, CanalPlan AC place ID, SeaLifeBase ID, Species at Risk public registry ID, d'Art d'Art ! ID, Hymenoptera Online taxon ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ENADE IGC continuous, INEP IGC discrete, Digital representation of, Container title, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, date of opening, uses capitalization for, phase, Trainer von Sportmannschaft, research site
    • External identifiers: New York Times short URL, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, Clé des langues ID, CMS ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ResearchGate author ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Missouri Botanical Garden ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, OSF Online ID, MNHN ID, Neotropical Birds ID, GRIN ID, Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, AFD ID, FEIS ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, BirdLife Australia ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, AFAS author ID, Prosopomaths ID, ARD Mediathek ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, Larousse ID, MoEML ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Polish Olympic Committee, GameFAQs platform ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, British Museum bioID, Discogs composition ID, Discogs track ID, NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, RIA Novosti reference, The Guardian article ID

• • Query examples:
    • Number of properties by datatype, with a (random) example property (source)
    • Number of depicted subjects by gender (source)
    • People at Svensktöversättarlexikon missing a LIBRISXL authority record ordered by number of articles in Wikipedia (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Africa, Wikidata:WikiProject Open Government Data
  • Newest database reports: indirect translation of lexemes

• Development
  • Several developers and members of the team attended to the Wikimedia Technical Conference
  • Fix an issue with interwikilinks and connection between Wikidata and sister projects (phab:T208077, phab:T208124)
  • Refactor Wikibase so that it can use alternative termbox views (phab:T206863)
  • Pass the entity data on the client side (phab:T207462) and server side (phab:T207467)
  • Investigate an error on some Wikidata pages (phab:T208142)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:57, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data - IRC office hour today, 1 November

There will be an IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons today, 1 October 2018, from 17:00-18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. You can find date/time conversion, as well as a link to join the chat in your browser if needed, on the IRC Office hours page on Meta. I realize this may be short notice for some people; I am experimenting with advanced notice times to see what works best for the most people, I'll be giving more warning before the next office hour. I look forward to seeing you there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:02, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data - IRC office hour today, 1 November

The above message says 1 October in the body when it should say 1 November, as the subject line says. Apologies for making a new section by mass message, it's the only way to get this out quickly. See you in twenty minutes! -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:37, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data - copyright and licensing statements

I've posted a second round of designs for modeling copyright and licensing in structured data. These redesigns are based off the feedback received in the first round of designs, and the development team is looking for more discussion. These designs are extremely important for the Commons community to review, as they deal with how copyright and licensing is translated from templates into structured form. I look forward to seeing you over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:25, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #337

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

• Events
  • Lots of parties and get-togethers for Wikidata's 6th birthday
  • GLAM Wiki 2018, 3-5 November 2018 in Tel Aviv, had a number of sessions about Wikidata

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: another round-up" by Martin Poulter
  • What Dutch GLAMs want from Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's Sixth Birthday \o/ Check out the well wishes and presents.
  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, including a Wikidata category. Proposal phase is running until November 11th.
  • New designs posted for structured copyright and licensing based off of Wikidata for Structured Data on Commons. Please visit the page on Commons and leave your feedback.
  • CompareIT a new comparison tool, driven by Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: INEP IGC continuous score, demonstrates sense, permeation, embodied energy, biobased content weight percentage
    • External identifiers: ResearchGate author ID, Clé des langues ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, CMS ID, Plant Finder ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, ProsopoMaths ID, AFAS author ID, AFD ID, BirdLife Australia ID, John J. Audubon's Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, FEIS ID, Global Raptor Information Network ID, MNHN taxon ID, Neotropical Birds ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, OSF Online ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Larousse ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, MoEML ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, ARD Mediathek ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, Polish Olympic Committee ID, British Museum bioID, GameFAQs platform ID, Discogs track ID, Discogs composition ID, RIA Novosti reference
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: dramaturg, DEFAULTSORT, billed artist, also display sitelinks for, Objektnummer, Winterthur Glossar URL, Mushroom Observer ID, IIIF manifest, Category for players of a club, Notable print, Observation.org ID, maintenance tag, chord progression, music album, volunteers
    • External identifiers: Who's on First ID (WOFID), MGG Online ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, Map of Life ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, Info Flora ID, FLOW ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Sotheby's ID, Michigan Flora ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of companies acquired by Red Hat (source)
    • Video game characters named after humans (source)
    • People who received an award on the day of their death (source)
    • Things named after Tux, as described in (source)

• Development
  • Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
  • Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
  • Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
  • Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
  • Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23:37, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #338

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Political alliance vs P4100, Changes to P2737 and P2738, Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?, start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, Mapping and improving the data import process, Familypedia links removed for "described at URL", Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
    • Wikidata and Wikibase as global platforms for democratizing data publishing
    • WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
    • A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data
    • A wiki perspective on an Open Science Commons
  • Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at GLAMWiki conference, including:
    • Wikidata — what's new?
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata
  • Incoming: a new Illuminatis Data Mining workshop on 16-17 November in Gotha
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • Incoming: Wikidata train the trainers in Cologne, Berlin and Vienna (in German)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Incoming partnership with the German National Library by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage, by Beat Eastermann

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wikitable.info is a visualization of Wikidata items in HTML tables in many languages, easy to print and export. Feedback goes to Germartin1
  • OpenRefine 3.1 beta is out, with many fixes and improvements to the Wikidata integration suggested by the community.
  • There's a new Wikidata game: Commons category matches

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: location of sense usage, dramaturge, head coach of sports team, beer bitterness, beer color, INEP IGC discrete grade, clinical trial phase, maintained by WikiProject, uses capitalization for
    • External identifiers: NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, The Guardian article ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, MGG Online ID, Map of Life ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, FLOW ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, Info Flora ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Mushroom Observer ID, Schleswig-Holstein object ID, Michigan Flora ID, Observation.org ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Vice, sense associated with form, declared patrimony, season ends, inscription mentions, DanNet 2.2 word ID, Study fees, HASC, exchange rate, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
    • External identifiers: AllMusic release ID, DBU profile, MusicNotes product ID, MusicNotes song ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Code de l'Autorité de l'Aviation Civile argentine, Playbill venue ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, B3Kat Joint Union Catalogue, Santiebeati ID, Soccerway team ID, identifiant Littera, Letterboxd actor ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, VD 18 ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, Playbill person ID, SWH Release ID, APA ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, identifiant À nos grands hommes, BioOne ID, Academy Awards Database film ID

• • Query examples:
    • Currently happening figure skating competitions (source)
    • Software developed by groups within Google (source)
    • Knowledge organization systems (source)
    • Most common election days by country (source)

• Development
  • Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
  • Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
  • Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
  • Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
  • Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
  • Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
  • Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
  • Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
  • Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Geoshapes draft instructions

Hey

I made a start with the Geoshapes instructions here, I think I roughly have the steps correct, needs some examples and some filling out. I added a nice example of a map but needs more, the Welsh map you have is a nice example (I think to get the formatting right it needs to be a template?), also having a map that shows some kind of geology would be nice, a species distribution map would be amazing, I'll have a look for some shapes.

--John Cummings (talk) 15:54, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@Sic19:, great work so far, just a few things left to do, I'll keep looking for sources of data, there's a huge amount produced by the US government. My only suggestion of a change is to either have the example code on a separate page or in a drop down thing so that we can have more than one example and also people can understand where the code goes within the template code. John Cummings (talk) 10:24, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

@Sic19: I've done some more on the instructions but I'm a bit stuck, could you take a look at the issues? I think in the end some of the instructions should be here and the upload to Commons part should be on Commons somewhere. I feel like we are nearly there. --John Cummings (talk) 07:53, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

@Sic19:, thanks very much for doing more on the instructions, I've just done some more on the copyright bit. I understand some of what you've added but I'm confused about the stuff that says DELETE. Also thanks for making more maps, I guess a table is probably the best option, two things about the maps, it would be nice have them all the same size and also there's something weird happening with the links in the maps, they're all red and when you click on them it loads the edit screen for the article on Wikipedia. I feel like we are kind of almost nearly finished :) --John Cummings (talk) 09:34, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

P.s yay, I made the maps go in a row, no idea how to make them the same height though.... --John Cummings (talk) 20:09, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

@John Cummings:, the DELETE was in response to your ???what??? after Remove four lines of comments (//...) - it is supposed to be an example of the four lines that need to be removed but the formatting went wrong and I couldn't get it to change. The links are blue now but they still don't work properly - I notice that the example has the same issue - not sure what happened to stop them working. I can fix the height - I'll do that now. Please prompt me if you need me to add or check anything else. Thanks for your great work so far! Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 20:16, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Ah, I see, thanks, I'll go through the process and try to understand about the delete stuff, my guess is it could be added a quote or something. So the licenses allowed for map data has now been changed to include all the Commons licenses, I think this now means people can extract shapes from OSM. Do you know how to do this? It feels like it needs instructions if they aren't already written. Thanks very much. --John Cummings (talk) 09:26, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

@John Cummings:, It's real easy to get geoshapes from OSM - you just need the QID - for example, https://maps.wikimedia.org/geoshape?getgeojson=1&ids=Q666063. Now the licencing issue is sorted it'll be possible to save the data in Commons. Obviously this is dependent on the QID being in OSM. Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 22:40, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Ah, spoke too soon, they haven't implemented the licenses yet, see here. Er I don't really understand the QID thing, are there any instructions that explain it? If not they should added in somewhere. It doesn't make sense to publish before the licensing thing is sorted but I'll carry on with the small list of tasks on there. Maybe see you sometime this spring, are you going to any events? --John Cummings (talk) 22:52, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

One more question, in the instructions it says to delete the comments on the lines starting with // but in the instructions it seems to say these lines will get auto deleted when you save the page, so can we just remove this instruction? Maybe I'm missunderstanding something? Thanks, --John Cummings (talk) 10:54, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

I did noticed that. Yes, if that is what happens those instructions are redundant. QID is the Wikidata item number. Don't think I'm going to any events until Celtic Knot and Wikimania in the summer - do you have something planned for Spring? Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 19:52, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

OK, I removed the the delete instructions, still a few smallish things to do but then its done :) Is there a page about importing data from OSM somewhere? I think publishing the instructions now and then adding to them once new licenses are available might be sensible, the phabricator task is now almost two years old so it might be a little while....

I'm going to Wikimedia Summit and maybe the education conference, any meetups you're going to? --John Cummings (talk) 20:05, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #339

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

• Events
  • Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council Conference in Tallinn, Estonia - November 7, 2018. Sandra F. gave a keynote on GLAM-Wiki projects, Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons.
  • Museum Computer Network conference in Denver, Colorado - November 14, 2018. - Andrew Lih gave a presentation, A First Date with Wikidata
  • Wikicite on 27-29 November 2018: the program is published

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
  • The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Winterthur Glossar URL, IIIF manifest, category for members of a team, chord progression, season ends, number of volunteers
    • External identifiers: DBU playerprofile, AllMusic release ID, MusicNotes product ID, Playbill venue ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, Letterboxd actor ID, Argentinean NCAA Airport code, MusicNotes song ID, B3Kat dataset ID, Sotheby's person ID, Santiebeati ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, Littera ID, Soccerway team ID, Playbill person ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, VD 18 ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, APA ID, SWH Release ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, DanNet 2.2 word ID, À nos grands hommes ID, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID, BioOne journal ID, ortsnamen.ch ID, Academy Awards Database film ID, The Hendon Mob ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: work quoted textually, verbally or lyrically, work whose melody is quoted, excerpt, exonym, Danmarks Statistiks filmkode, text features, mission statement, number of lines, number of stations, funding scheme, noun class, eponymous category, taxa protected, river bank, tautomer of, Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking, proper name of astronomical object, research site
    • External identifiers: Corpus typographique français ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, World Poker Tour ID, ANICA ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, Académie d'Arles member ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA ID, Luding editor ID, BoardGeekGame editor ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, British Executions ID, System16 identifier, BLR ID, LEGO set ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, NAS ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, Sega Saturn game ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga author ID, Bitraga work ID, EUNIS ID, Cal-IPC ID, eFloraSA id, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Dimensions Author ID, Microsoft Academic Work ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, Microsoft Academic Author ID, Microsoft Academic Institution ID

• • Query examples:
    • Battles with location and date in Wikidata (source)
    • Pictures depicting a kiss with IIIF manifest (source)
    • Software-related companies founded by women (source)
    • Films based on video games (source)
  • Newest database reports: Vasily
  • Showcase items: Fugger

• Development
  • Fixed a bug that was saving the statement too early when trying to add a qualifier with the keyboard (phab:T154869)
  • Made changes to disallow edits (until the user reloads) if they accidentally get logged out. (phab:T124451)
  • Turn the new change tag back on wikidatawiki (phab:T208846)
  • Better linting against things that don't work in IE11
  • Fixed the wdqs-frontend docker image (phab:T208681, phab:T209206)
  • Fixed html elements in the table result of wdqs (phab:T207257, thanks to user:Frog23)
  • Getting ontology changes deployed to wikiba.se
  • Using maplink or mapframe to view coords on wikidata (phab:T184933)
  • Consistent capitalization of Lexeme/Form/Sense/Item/Property in UI messages
  • Make Lexemes appear in global usage of Commons files (phab:T204066)
  • Work on a new interface for the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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Wikidata weekly summary #340

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?, Many surname items had been un merged because of failure to communicate.

• Events
  • Past: women editathon in Mexico City, November 24th
  • Past: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Berlin, November 23th-25th
  • Running: WikiCite 2018, November 27th-29th, Berkeley, California, USA. Some livestream will be provided on Youtube
  • Upcoming: Wikidata "Train the trainers" workshop in Vienna, November 30th-December 2nd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, with a focus on Open Refine, January 15th

• Press, articles, blog posts, videos
  • Wikidata-related videos during GLAMwiki conference:
    • Wikidata — What's new - Jens Ohlig
    • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners - Asaf Bartov
    • SPARQL workshop - Maarten Dammers
    • Engaging GLAM institutions with Wikidata - Sharing Experiences and Techniques - Andrew Lih
    • Sum of all Paintings and Open Data - Maarten Dammers
    • Wikidata’s role in metadata creation and reuse workflows in libraries - Michelle Futornick
    • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata - Jens Ohlig
    • Impact and potential of structured data on Wikimedia projects for the GLAM sector - Sandra Fauconnier
    • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons - Introduction and panel of Wikimedia pilots
  • Introduction to Wikidata in 7min by Asaf Bartov
  • Introduction to Wikidata by Lydia Pintscher in 20min, during Shani Evenstein's university course about Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata Senses (documentation), new tool by User:Vesihiisi to add senses to lexemes
  • The Swedish National Heritage Board has started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
    • Please alert your GLAM partners to a new survey about crowdsourcing, metadata and Wikimedia Commons, which informs the research for this project!
  • Scribe, a project to support under-resourced Wikipedias based on Wikidata's content, has been proposed for a grant
  • Tool to convert Wikibase JSON to RDF without storing it in a repository
  • Call for paper for the data quality workshop in Berlin on January 18th. Open until December 3rd

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: running mate, research site, quotes work
    • External identifiers: World Poker Tour player ID, GLAMOS glacier ID, Academy Awards Database nominee ID, ANICA ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, r-hockey.ru person ID, Sotheby's Museum Network ID, MNAV artist ID, Google News publication ID, ALCA author ID, Atlas of Florida Plants ID, BoardGeekGame game publisher ID, Invasive Plant Atlas of the United States ID, Luding game publisher ID, NAS ID, Depósito Legal ID, Corpus typographique français ID, British Executions ID, Bantu Lexical Reconstructions ID, Welsh Book Trade Info ID, System16 identifier, Académie d'Arles member ID, Sega Saturn game ID, Bitraga author ID, TWAS Fellow ID, Bitraga work ID, Cal-IPC ID, EUNIS ID, Dimensions Author ID, Dimensions Publication ID, Dimensions Source ID, Disney A to Z ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: language use, has variant, has version, rationale text, HABS ID, Wikia Article URL, CNPJ
    • External identifiers: AJOL ID, Microsoft Academic Source ID, GameFAQs company ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Guida al fumetto italiano ID, Bygdeband location, OeBL 1815-1950 ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, defined term ID, Wikia Article ID, Female mexican soccer players ID, Geolex ID, OBV editions, BBC News topic id, member of the Portuguese parliament ID

• • Query examples:
    • Place and century of discovery of the archaeological objects of St Raymond museum (France) (source)
    • Location of city halls in Spain (source)
    • Timeline of famous pirates (source)
    • Authors who are the most cited in Nature Chemistry (source)
    • Scholarly articles published about Wikidata (adapted from here)
    • The world's 200 tallest mountains, and whether Wikidata knows they've been climbed (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Kākāpō, WikiProject Scholia
  • Newest database reports: Fugger

• Development
  • Fix an error when entering an incomplete filename (phab:T199420)
  • Fix the unreadable references for unpriviledged users (phab:T186006)
  • Create new page properties for number of Forms and Senses of a Lexeme (phab:T199611)
  • Adapt the API to efficiently format large numbers of entity IDs (phab:T207484)
  • Switch "save" to "publish" in the Lexeme interface (phab:T203354)
  • Fix a bug showing outdated link formats in the history of Lexemes (phab:T208423)
  • Add Special:MergeLexemes to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T204397)
  • Add Wikipedia link in the other projects sidebar of Wikisource (phab:T180303, thanks to Tpt)
  • Work on displaying the language of the gloss with the language name, both in reading and editing mode (phab:T203457, phab:T209931)
  • More work on improving the interface of the termbox on mobile

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:39, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #341

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: How to handle heat treating as a qualifier for material properties ?
  • New development input: Identify problems with adding new languages into Wikidata

• Events
  • Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
  • Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
  • Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
  • Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Author Disambiguator (github source), new tool by d:User:ArthurPSmith (based on SourceMD) for linking author items to their works.
  • OpenRefine 3.1 was released
  • New API module to format multiple entity IDs
  • You can now access the number of Forms and Senses of Lexemes through API and special page

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: reference has role, tautomer of, eponymous category, language style, ratified by, funding scheme
    • External identifiers: GameFAQs company ID, AJOL journal ID, LEGO set ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet journal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Bygdeband location ID, Austrian Biographical Encylopedia ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, Mexican female soccer players ID, member of the Portuguese parliament ID, BBC News topic ID, OBV editions ID, Geolex ID, CNPJ, Defined Term ID, Guida al Fumetto Italiano ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: gained independence from, nachgewiesen mittels, measured by (KPI), OpenTrials ID, administrated by the administrative territorial entity, level of description, stored as lexeme, taxon author citation, Astronomical coordinates, catchphrase, real estate developer, Danske Taler speaker
    • External identifiers: TrENSmissions person ID, LIGA profile, SEINet ID, BIBSYS work ID, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, UK Parliament Identifier, HAER ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, DIR3 ID, NooSFere story ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, RegiowikiAT ID, Discord Store game SKU, kohanimeregister, ARLLFB member ID, ARB person ID, Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, protected area authority ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, identifiant Monument aux morts

• • Query examples:
    • Timeline of early Western movies (source)
    • Species represented in the exhibition "Espèces en voies d'illumination" in the natural history museum of Paris (source)
    • Properties most used to describe cats in Wikidata (source)
    • List of UK embassies (source)
    • Map of places of residence for accused witches in Scotland with a layer for occupations (source)

• Development
  • Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (phab:T195368)
  • Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (phab:T194163)
  • Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (phab:T204748)
  • More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:35, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Problem with author name string in temporary_batch_1539907878128

I have found several items from Textile History in your temporary_batch_1539907878128 where the author name string you imported does not match the authors as given on the Taylor & Francis website (examples Textiles from Fast Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland (Q57474948) not fixed, The Four Seasons Tapestries (Q57474944) fixed). Can you check this batch? Thanks! - PKM (talk) 21:39, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

@PKM: Thanks for letting me know about this problem. Yes, of course I will check the batch and correct any errors as quickly as possible. This was one of the first big batches of articles I created and there was a problem with the author data being incorrectly matched to the rest of the metadata - I thought I'd fixed it but obviously not. Apologies for any inconveniences this has caused you. Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 22:38, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

No worries - do let me know when this is fixed and I’ll go back to working on these authors. - - PKM (talk) 00:41, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

: @PKM: I have checked the author name string data for all of the Textile History articles against CrossRef and found a further twenty incorrect matches, all of which have been amended. Thanks again for bring this to my attention. Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 23:54, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks so much! - PKM (talk) 23:55, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #342

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Scholarly articles that are book reviews

• Events
  • Past: SWAT4HCLS in Antwerp Belgium December 3:
    • Wikibase tutorial
    • "Wikidata as an intuitive resource towards semantic data modeling in data FAIRification" short paper
    • "WikiCite, Wikidata, and Scholia: Linking Publications to Topics" (demo /food/ aspect)
  • Past: Workshop "Wikidata - what is that and why it's relevant in the field of geospatial information technologies?"? at Latvia's Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) conference (slides)
  • Past: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Stokholm, Sweden, December 4th
  • Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for Wikipedians in Göteborg, Sweden, December 10th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • "Detailed depictions with IIIF, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons" by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
  • Report of the GNDCon in the Kurier (in German)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • iD, the default OSM editor at openstreetmap.org has recently had an update which pulls data from Wikidata.
  • WikidataCon 2019, the conference for open data enthusiasts, will take place on 25-26 October 2019 in Berlin
  • Miniature map will be displayed for coordinate properties
  • New passwords requirements will apply on all wikis to new accounts and privileged accounts starting on December 13th
  • New grant request by MySociety: Wikidata post-election updating toolkit

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: award rationale, heat treating, copyright status, level of description
    • External identifiers: SEINet ID, LIGA profile, BIBSYS work ID, UK Parliament identifier, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, OpenTrials ID, NooSFere story ID, DIR3 ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, TrENSmissions person ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: creator, WordLift ID, Specific age inside fictional universe, type of rear suspensions, type of front suspensions, ride height, approach angle, departure angle, Drag coefficient, related category, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Nombre annuel de passagers
    • External identifiers: BDEL ID, ZVR, NARA record group number, MMLO, IEC database ID commemorative monument of Catalonia, Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID, PomBase systematic ID, Volksbund ID, iTunes music movie ID, Paris Musées ID, Beachsoccer.ru player ID, BSRussia player ID

• • Query examples:
    • Map of fountains in Zürich (source)
    • Timeline of famous bryologists (source)
    • Percentage of people member of the Swedish church per Church parish (source)
    • Musical genres with the most bands and musicians on Wikidata, per sovereign country of origin/citizenship (source)

• Development
  • We are now showing the language name instead of the language code of a Gloss (phabricator:T203457, phabricator:T209931)
  • We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (phabricator:T199611)
  • The code samples in the query service have been improved (phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
  • We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (phabricator:T191416)
  • We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (phabricator:T210953)
  • We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:05, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Multilingual captions beta testing

The Structured Data on Commons team has begun beta testing of the first feature, multilingual file captions, and all community members are invited to test it out. Captions is based on designs discussed with the community[2][3] and the team is looking forward to hearing about testing. If all goes well during testing, captions will be turned on for Commons around the second week of January, 2019.

Multilingual captions are plain text fields that provide brief, easily translatable details of a file in a way that is easy to create, edit, and curate. Captions are added during the upload process using the UploadWizard, or they can be added directly on any file page on Commons. Adding captions in multiple languages is a simple process that requires only a few steps.

The details:

• There is a help page available on how to use multilingual file captions.
• Testing will take place on Beta Commons. If you don’t yet have an account set up there, you’ll need one.
• Beta Commons is a testbed, and not configured exactly like the real Commons site, so expect to see some discrepancies with user interface (UI) elements like search.
• Structured Data introduces the potential for many important page changes to happen at once, which could flood the recent changes list. Because of this, Enhanced Recent Changes is enabled as it currently is at Commons, but with some UI changes.
• Feedback and commentary on the file caption functionality are welcome and encouraged on the discussion page for this post.
• Some testing has already taken place and the team are aware of some issues. A list of known issues can be seen below.
• If you discover a bug/issue that is not covered in the known issues, please file a ticket on Phabricator and tag it with the “Multimedia” tag. Use this link to file a new task already tagged with "Multimedia."

Known issues:

• Search is not currently working on Beta Commons. Search is not needed for testing captions, but service should be restored soon.
• Language name display inconsistencies in multilingual file captions
• Language names for multilingual File captions can run into the caption value in the mobile view
• Deleting a caption field that has text that exceeds the limit does not re-enable the "publish" button
• "Edit" tab for past revisions should be "restore"
• When using the back button, recently added captions sometimes don't display in Chrome
• File Captions can't be edited on mobile browsers
• Wrong font weight for some language labels on SDC captions box

Thanks!

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk), for the Structured Data on Commons Team 20:43, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #343

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Split identifier into KEGG Drug Identifier, KEGG Compound Identifier, etc?
  • Closed request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators

• Events
  • Past: 26 November 2018: Adding your own stuff to Wikidata. Workshop at SWIB18, Bonn, Germany
  • Past: 04 December 2018: Chancen und Risiken einer komplementären Nutzung von GND und Wikidata. Präsentation auf der GNDCon in Frankfurt Main, Germany
  • Past: 11–12 December 2018 in Namburu, India: Wiki Advanced Training 2018 (with special focus on Wikidata) by Asaf Bartov
  • Upcoming: 35th Chaos Communication Congress, December 27-30, Leipzig. There will be Wikidata staff and volunteers and Wikidata-related sessions

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • 6 "inside-out" activities librarians are doing — numbers 4 and 5 involve Wikidata
  • From the "Annalen der Pharmacie" to the "European Journal of Organic Chemistry" about using Wikidata for capturing (some of) the history of chemistry
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, by Sandra Fauconnier, in EuropeanaTech 10 Insight Issue 10: Innovation Agenda
  • Many faces of Wikibase: Lingua Libre makes languages audible, by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Call for contribution for the WikiWorkshop, forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects, held in May 2019 in San Francisco, is now open until January 31st
  • Research questionnaire about Wikidata as a learning platform by Shani Evenstein as part of her PhD research.
  • Interactive map of the Sibthorp & Bauer Expedition, produced by the Bodleian Libraries, powered by Wikidata
  • Scholia's "missing" pages (example) now link to the new Author Disambiguator tool, and a Listeria list is available to help prioritize co-author disambiguation for authors with sitelinks.
  • Draft of behavior norms policy, feel free to leave comments
  • Wikimedia hackathon in Prague: apply for a scholarship until January 4th
  • Discuss if you can edit your own item, and vote here on the proposed policy.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: real estate developer, collection creator, digital representation of, specific age inside fictional universe, catchphrase, subject lexeme, right ascension, declination, epoch, galactic longitude, galactic latitude
    • External identifiers: ARLLFB member ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, RegiowikiAT identifier, Discord Store game SKU, Bavarian protected area ID, BDEL ID, Danske Taler speaker ID, Place Names Register ID (Estonia), Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, ARB person ID, Monument aux morts ID, IEC commemorative monument of Catalonia ID, MMLO, Meteorological Service of Canada climate site ID, Volksbund ID, PomBase systematic ID, Paris Musées work ID, LEGO design ID, LEGO element ID, iTunes music movie ID, BSRussia player ID, Beachsoccer.ru person ID, SinemaTürk person ID, SinemaTürk film ID, Wikia article ID, MinDat mineral ID, Harvard Index of Botanists ID, MinDat Locality ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Garzanti Linguistica, Buried in this place, specific rotation, Data interval, Minimum wage, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, friend of, copyright representative, rights statement, co-director, Berliner Schutzgebiets-ID, preparation instructions
    • External identifiers: SVT Open archive, Hymnary.org page, Anbytarforum, Multiplayer ID, Amazon Music artist ID, Parliament of South Africa ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, Hymnary author ID, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, OTRS ticket number 2, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, ICCD IDs, Weeds in Ontario ID, AllMusic performance ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID

• • Query examples:
    • (UK) Ambassador by country list - Listeria report which writes 240 by-country reports on UK Ambassadors - h/t NavinoEvans for the approach
    • Presidents of the United States ranked by the number of species named after them (source)
    • Communes of France whose name starts with "Saint" (source)
    • Italian toponyms with suffixes of Celtic origin (-ago, -ate, -asco) (source)
    • List of ABBA songs in A major (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Policies
  • Newest database reports: Nicolas Cage filmography
  • expanded list of Christmas films

• Development
• Test that the issue with blocked users will not happen anymore (phab:T211120)
• Finish up on showing Language and Language codes when editing glosses (phab:T209931)
• Work towards having QualityContraints on Beta (phab:T209957)
• Work on tracking usage of Wikibase Lua Functions (phab:T191416)
• Some more work on string length limits (phab:T154660)
• Work on some Wikidata toolkit improvements (phab:T209399)
• Fix some errors happening in production (phab:T208924)
• More under-the-hood work for the termbox on mobile

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:28, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #344

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667, How to capture negative results in Wikidata?

• Events
  • Current: Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) where several Wikidata people are present and related sessions happening
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour: January 8th, 18:00 (UTC+1) on the channel wikimedia-office

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Wikidata architecture overview by Addshore
  • Créer une carte avec Wikidata, OpenRefine et uMap (in French) by Jean-Baptiste Pressac

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta testing
  • Lingua Libre now adds audio pronunciation on Forms
  • Check out the roadmap for the development of Wikidata and Wikibase for 2019

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: API endpoint, demonym of, specific rotation, concentration, copyright representative, Berlin protected area ID, advertises
    • External identifiers: Garzanti Linguistica ID, Multiplayer ID, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, Boobpedia article, Amazon Music artist ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, ZVR-Number, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, Weeds in Ontario ID, ICCD ID - S form, ICCD ID - CF form, ICCD ID - CG form, ODNR Division of Wildlife ID, Penthouse ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID, ARTIC exhibition ID, ARTIC artist ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maintenance method, second family name in Scandinavian names, organizational unit, story by, Code of Natura 2000 FFH habitats, century fl., adjective of, holonym 2, meronym 2, has contraction 2, yield, colorist, distinguishing property, Wikispecies template for this work, affiliation string
    • External identifiers: bgm.tv person identifier, bgm.tv character identifier, PC-9801DB ID, ACB.com coach ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile URL, Scoresway tennis person ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Muséosphère ID, Historical RNA ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, teams.by player ID, pressball.by player ID, AMFR player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, RusTeam player ID, Critique d'art ID, Centre Pompidou ID, Agence photo RMN ID, INE ID (Portugal), Agence photo RMN package ID, Wikiapiary entry, England Football Online player profile, England Football Online manager profile, DVR Number, Politika topic, Goodreads character ID

• • Deleted properties: P4570 (Wikidata project)
  • Query examples:
    • Catchphrases in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of Indian mathematicians (source)
    • Painting part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections (source)
    • Types of pasta in Wikidata with pictures (source)

• Development
  • Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (phab:T209958)
  • Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (phab:T194299)
  • Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (phab:T194175)
  • Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (phab:T191416)
  • Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (phab:T207401)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:04, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #345

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse property creation and if so, how should they happen?

• Events
  • Video of Lydia's keynote at GNDCon

• Press/Blogs
  • Introduction to Wikidata as a platform and data source
  • Europeana Innovation Agenda
  • The Hand-editor’s Tale
  • mySociety 2018 report including their work on Wikidata
  • Using WikiData API to get the sense of words
  • The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In Pywikibot, you can now add a new statement with qualifiers and/or references in a single edit (phab:T112577, phab:T170432)
  • A couple of gran proposals under review need your input and endorsement
  • There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
  • Happy New Year! ^(L40653)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: bgm.tv character identifier, ACB.com coach ID, bgm.tv person identifier, PC-9801DB ID, Hymnary author ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Swedish Anbytarforum, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile ID, Wikimedia OTRS ticket number, AllMusic performance ID, Wikibase Registry ID, Scoresway tennis person ID, Historical RNA ID, Muséosphère work ID, pressball.by player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, RusTeam player ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, AMFR player ID, teams.by player ID, vehicle identification number, Centre Pompidou ID, INE ID (Portugal)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: agglomerative, urban population, rural population, Linear reference, located in urban area
    • External identifiers: SHARE-VDE author ID, Panorama de l'art ID, PCGamingWiki ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, Uppsala General Catalogue ID
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of student-master relationship of Christian Thielemann #Neujahrskonzert (source)
    • Cricket teams in the world by number of players and their gender (source)
    • Buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
    • Species have been named after Donald Trump (source)
    • Catchphrases (source)

• Development
  • Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:42, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #346

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?

• Events
  • Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
    • Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
    • AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
    • How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
    • Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, at 18:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
  • Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, by Lars G. Willighagen (preprint)
  • Toward an abstract Wikipedia, by Denny Vrandečić
  • Wikidata and the sum of all video games, by Jean-Fred
  • Building a Wikidata Tool – Behind the Scenes by Lucas Werkmeister (follow-up from the "Building a Wikidata tool" live-coding session, see above)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • >1000 sitelinks to the new Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) have been added since November
  • Swiss foundation MY-D has published a call for projects for Wikidata showcase applications
  • Reminder: you can give your input on issues when requesting a new language for Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: title of broader work, colorist, data interval
    • External identifiers: Critique d'art ID, DVR Number, Goodreads character ID, Politika topic, SHARE-VDE author ID, England Football Online manager profile, England Football Online player profile, Panorama de l'art ID, Agence photo RMN package ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, PCGamingWiki ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IFPNI species ID, corporate purpose, Lace bugs database ID, Катэгорыя членаў, The White-files species ID, at distance, representative image, Wikia Article URL 2
    • External identifiers: Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, Hymnary text ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, OSGS-Number, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, De Agostini ID, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital ID (new scheme), MNAM ID, IHOI ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Genius album numeric ID, Musée Picasso ID, Genius song numeric ID, Crew united Titel, Crew united Name

• • Query examples:
    • Articles about obituaries (source)
    • Map of Slovenian cultural monuments coloured by type (source)
    • French settlements with more than one word in the name (source)
    • People after which a state is named (source)
    • "official name" statements including a slash punctuation mark (source)
    • Streets in the Netherlands named after a woman described in Els Kloek's book (source)
    • Map of parts of the wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris (source)

• Development
  • Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (phabricator:T204031)
  • Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (phabricator:T207401)
  • Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (phabricator:T207150)
  • Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 November or Thursday, 10 November 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:

1. Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
2. Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
3. Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.

Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:22, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

common.js and Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine

Hi! I just noticed that your commons.js tries to load Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine as a js page, but it is just a wikitext page. The loading actually also gets blocked as the page is not protected. Perhaps you meant to include a different page in your common.js? ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 12:08, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Bad author strings on your imports

I’ve found some more articles you imported that have wrong author name strings - examples Early reform in state-controlled schooling in Australia: William Wilkins' inspection in the Hunter, 1854 (Q57472670), Hope and ambition turn to dismay and neglect: the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 2001. (Q57474431), The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume III: The Shorter Poems (Q57473064). There are about 12 all told with author name string “Kay Staniland” that are by other people. Can you fix these? Thanks! - PKM (talk) 02:10, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know - I've fixed a batch of about 2,400 items. Please leave me a message if you spot any more items with this problem and I'll correct them. Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 17:34, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing. I'll certainly let you know if I find any more. - PKM (talk) 00:50, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #347

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

• Events
  • Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
  • Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
  • VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
  • Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
  • The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
  • New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
  • Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
    • External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
    • External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number

• • Query examples:
    • Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
    • Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
    • Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
    • Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
    • Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)

• Development
  • Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
  • Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
  • Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
  • Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
  • Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
  • Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
  • More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:40, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #348

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

• Events
  • Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
    • Keynote by Amrapali Zaveri (video)
    • Keynote by Daniel Mietchen (slides, video)
  • Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
  • Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
    • External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
    • External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música

• • Query examples:
    • Images of exoplanets (source)
    • Types of protected historical objects in Loire-Atlantique, France (source)
    • Common long words in scholarly article titles (source)
    • Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
    • Image grid of synthesizers produced by ARP Instruments (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality

• Development
  • Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
  • Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
  • Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
  • Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
  • Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
  • Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
  • Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
  • Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
  • Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
  • Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
  • Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:05, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #349

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Deror avi, Wildly boy

• Events
  • February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
  • Incoming: Wikidata Lab XII in São Paulo, Brazil, February 14th.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Making Wikidata visible, by Martin Poulter on Bodleian Digital Library's blog
  • How to query Wikidata using R, by Envel Le Hir
  • Inventory of the Cleveland Museum of Art images, by Magnus Manske

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a tool to validate mappings between Wikidata and external RDF vocabularies done with the properties equivalent property and equivalent class.
  • Topic matcher, a tool to help you adding a "main topic" or "depicts" statement to items about streets, articles, painting, etc.
  • Editing Wikidata - Swedish Cuisine by JanAinali on Twitch
  • City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: ELNET ID, iTunes book ID, iTunes movie ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, Skimap ID, sports.md athlete ID, Gault et Millau ID, Theatreonline.com ID, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Smarthistory ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, World Cube Association ID, COOL species ID, CORE ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID, JORFSearch organization ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: journal series, has alt-text, has lyrics, day of regular release, CBFC rating, full work on commons
    • External identifiers: sport-strana.ru article ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, NMSRCP reference number, AKB48 member ID, TV Spielfilm Series ID, MCULE ID, Global Species ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis company ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis person ID, Musicbrainz Event ID, ManualsLib brand ID, LGD local body code, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary tune ID, Hymnary instance ID, Getty Images ID, Amsterdam code

• • Query examples:
    • Things depicted in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Ashmolean Museum (source)
    • Stradivari(us) instruments (source)
    • Rivers whose names in Spanish start with "Guad" (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Protected areas in Germany

• Development
  • Started development on Shape Expressions
  • Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (phab:T211865)
  • Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (phab:T211768)
  • Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (phab:T210502)
  • Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:59, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #350

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

• Events
  • Next Wikidata workshop/meetup in Paris: February 15th
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: March 12th
  • The conference grant proposal for WikidataCon was submitted and could use endorsements.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und Wikidata by Jens Bemme (in German)
  • Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
  • Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Got some time? SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation), has been announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
  • Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
  • Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new OSM <-> Wikidata matcher.
  • Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: affiliation string, RightsStatement status according to source website, trading name, Alexander–Briggs notation
    • External identifiers: DIZIE ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, sport-strana.ru article ID, Homosaurus ID, funk channel ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, infosport.ru person ID, ManualsLib brand ID, MusicBrainz event ID, LGD local body code, HAER ID, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary instance ID, Hymnary tune ID, Global Species ID, Amsterdam code
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: does not have quality (2), Den Digitale Byport-ID, expression of, calendar feed url, Total goals in career, Strepsiptera database species ID, Brentidae of the world species ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID, WBCHSE code
    • External identifiers: Douban Book ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Author ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili user ID, QQ number, Bilibili video ID, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Mtime movie ID, Mtime people ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, Eventa Servo ID, Rocks Backpages author ID, Rocks Backpages artist ID, Rocks Backpages publication ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, Democracy Club ID, ISA ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schutzgebiete-ID, DALFAN ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut, IEEEXplore document ID, IEEEXplore author ID, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Twitter user ID, Australian Antarctic Data Center, Enciclopedia delle donne ID
  • Deleted properties: P1112 (Pokédex number)
  • Query examples:
    • Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given organization
    • World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order (Source)
    • timeline of writing systems (source)
    • family tree of Donald Duck (source)
    • Common long words in titles of scholarly articles (source)
    • schools of magic by number of students (source)

• Development
  • Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
  • Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
  • Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
  • Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other Wikibase instances
  • Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (phabricator:T214919)
  • Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
  • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (phabricator:T213975)
  • Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (phabricator:T214400)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:33, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Error in start time

Thanks for your updates. I'm not sure if it's likely to happen again, but I found one of your updates included two start times with the same employer for one statement. It may be a result that the individual was employed, left, then returned to that employer. Thought you'd like to know that it could (and did) happen. Example is Alessandra Pecci (Q57939773), but I repaired it. Trilotat (talk) 17:02, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

There are a LOT of such errors. Please review https://tools.wmflabs.org/quickstatements/#/batch/7939 and fix them. Another example is here. JesseW (talk) 21:04, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #351

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

• Events
  • Past: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata at FOSDEM

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Paper: Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now an experimental SPARQL service to query Wikidata history

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: day of regular release, Euler characteristic, has lyrics, maintenance method, CBFC rating, does not have quality
    • External identifiers: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat, Douban Author ID, Douban Book ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Bilibili username, Bilibili video ID, Eventa Servo ID, Mtime movie ID, QQ number, Swedish Organization Number, Rock's Backpages artist ID, Rock's Backpages author ID, Rock's Backpages publication ID, Mtime people ID, Democracy Club ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, ISA ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, DALFAN ID, Den Digitale Byport ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, NMSRCP reference number, Swiss Films ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern protected area ID, IEEEXplore author ID, IEEEXplore document ID, Strepsiptera database species ID, Image Archive, Herder-Institut, WBCHSE code, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Brentidae of the world species ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: creator name string, Literate population, Illiterate population, designated survivor, stall speed, maintain, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, solar eclipse type, student organization of
    • External identifiers: BibliotecaVirtualAndalucia authority ID, BIDICAM authority ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE ID, identifiant sur l'annuaire du service public, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Board Game Atlas ID, LSE article ID, JWF Wrestlers Database, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, Indian census area code (1991), AICTE Permanent ID, German School ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number
  • Query examples:
    • Counts of Indian films directed and written by the same person, sorted by film language (source)
    • Sovereign states that have more than one capital city (source)
    • Decreases in sex ratio for mandals of West Godavari district between 2001 and 2011 (source)
    • Counts of articles published in different Indian medical journals, sorted by year/journal (source)
    • Forms to Lexeme ratio per language (source)
    • Airports and railway stations named after fictional people or works of fiction (source)
    • Species of hummingbirds, their genus, and image (source)

• Development
  • Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
  • Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
  • Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (phabricator:T194770, thanks Matěj)
  • Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
  • Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
  • Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
  • Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
  • Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
  • Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
  • Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
  • Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (phabricator:T201808)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:32, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #352

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: NewDataB
  • New request for comments: semi-protection to prevent vandalism on most used Items, Allow for Wikidata items to be created that only link to a single Wikimedia Commons category (Wikidata notability discussion)

• Events
  • February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
  • February 21st to 24th: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
  • February 23rd: editathon about Parliament of Ghana in Accra - Registration
  • March 28th: GLAM & Wikidata day in Switzerland (registration running until March 18th)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Let’s Tango: Computational Musicology Using Wikidata, MusicBrainz and the Wolfram Language, by Toni Schindler

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Got some time? Add QIDs to the tools on Edit items, Query data, Enhance user interface, Visualize data, Lexicographical data, For programmers and List of properties. If some tools don't have their own Items, feel free to create them.
  • Hardware issues at Toolforge and CloudVPS affect lots of tools and coincide with changes in the statement stats dynamics
  • WikibaseCirrusSearch will become a Mediawiki extension
  • You can still help Shani Evenstein with her research: Wikidata as a Learning Platform

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: drag coefficient, illiterate population, literate population, non-free artwork image URL, taxon author citation, total goals in career, stall speed
    • External identifiers: Enciclopedia delle donne ID, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, BIDICAM authority ID, Board Game Atlas ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE publication ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía authority ID, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, JWF Wrestlers Database person ID, Indian census area code (1991), Lithuanian Sport Encyclopedia (LSE) article ID, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, UN/CEFACT common code

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: ScaleNet ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Identifiant itch.io, approach angle, departure angle, ride height, type of front suspensions, type of rear suspensions, Football Money League rank, is model of, constraint clarification, has phenotype, observed in, replacement property, evidenční číslo domu, Stack Exchange site
    • External identifiers: WhoSampled artist, äriregister, ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Queerly Represent Me identifier, V.League player ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Google Play Movies & TV id, Fondation Maeght ID, identifiant d'un jeu de données sur data.gouv.fr, BHL part ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Yandex.Music genre ID

• • Query examples:
    • Bubble chart of Indian universities with the most people ever employed by them (source)
    • Graph of shared borders between certain West Bengal community development blocks (source)
    • Tree map of ambassadors to India (source)
    • Fictional swords (source)
    • Taxa named after women scientists (source)
    • Timeline of red pandas (source)

• Development
  • Improve the tools dropdown on query.wikidata.org, which now links Tools categories and the Toolforge (phabricator:T214577)
  • Implement the diff view for Schemas (phabricator:T214396, phabricator:T215514)
  • Implement undo for Schemas (phabricator:T214914)
  • Prevent redirecting an entity to itself (phabricator:T214775)
  • Make pressing enter when editing a lemma save the lemma (phabricator:T206140)
  • Strip whitespace around sense glosses (phabricator:T212019)
  • Create LilyPond datatype (phabricator:T215284)
  • More work to get the new version of the termbox readable on mobile

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:35, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Removing "employer" statements

Hello Sic19, why are you removing 10121 claims with references?! Totodu74 (talk) 10:57, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

@Totodu74: See this discussion Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 13:33, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. I also created Wikidata:Edit groups/QSv2/8462 by following links from Quickstatements. I am not sure to understand the discussion. Are you temporarily removing the statements with duplicated dates, and you will add them anew later on? Totodu74 (talk) 13:39, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

@Totodu74: Yes, very much so. The quickest way for me to fix the problem I caused was to remove the statements with duplicate dates and now I will start to add them again. Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 17:32, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Nice, thanks!! Totodu74 (talk) 17:34, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

== Antonio Machado, the Institucion Libre de Ensenanza and Spanish Krausism (Q58456914) ==

Hi! Something's wrong with this item you created: looks like it conflates two different theses. Can you have a check? TIA, MartinPoulter (talk) 14:16, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

@MartinPoulter: Thanks, I've split them into Antonio Machado, the Institucion Libre de Ensenanza and Spanish Krausism (Q58456914) and Kinetic mechanism reduction for chemical process hazard application (Q61791766). Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 18:05, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #353

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019 (feel free to add more sub-sections)

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm with Open Knowledge Foundation. Video of the presentation of the projects (in German)
  • Running until March 2nd: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
  • Upcoming: Wikidata and the Diversity of Knowledge workshop in Graz, Austria, on March 3rd
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata, by Tom Simonite on Wired
  • Align BNF's video games and Wikidata with Dataiku DSS (in French) by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you're using Wikidata's data dumps, you may want to give feedback on a potential change about when those dumps are generated (ticket)
  • Some games and tools developed during the Wikidata hackathon in Ulm:
    • Card game generator
    • Multiplayer game Guess the (German) Politician
    • Telegram bot @WikidataMisfitBot, sending pictures with one wrong label
    • WikiProjekt offeneregister.de
  • If you're developing new tools or hear about new tools, please add them to Wikidata:Tools so other people can find them :)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: expression of, provisional house number in the Czech Republic, has role in modeling, observed in, has phenotype, type of front suspension, type of rear suspension
    • External identifiers: AICTE Permanent ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number, ScaleNet ID, WhoSampled artist ID, Business Registry code (Estonia), ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Crew united person ID, Fondation Maeght artist ID, data.gouv.fr dataset ID, V.League men's player ID, V.League women's player ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Total assists in career, Total points in career, Career plus-minus rating, Penalty minutes in career, Total power play goals in career, Total power play assists in career, Total shots in career, MeSH Descriptor, Former street name
    • External identifiers: NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, PCAD firm ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, SICRIS researcher ID, Physics History Network ID, Sachsen-Anhalt Schutzgebiete-ID, Amis du Louvre ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'un lutteur, Brillant Wiki ID, Official Charts artist ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'une équipe universitaire, Dimensions.guide ID, SensaCine movie ID, SensaCine series ID, Bilibili channel ID

• • Query examples:
    • Women having a good or featured article on Russian Wikipedia but no article on French Wikipedia (source)
    • Timeline of Renaissance humanists (source)
    • Map of cities from the Hanseatic League (source)
    • Image gallery of musicians who have a software title named after them (source)
    • Frequency of first letter in Breton words in Wikidata (source)
    • Items about buildings with coordinates and at least one sitelink, but no image (source)

• Development
  • Updated some icons with the new WikimediaUI icon set (phab:T209259)
  • Fixed an issue that was causing occasional failures when creating new Items (phab:T194299)
  • Investigated Wikidata Tours not loading correctly (phab:T215919)
  • Adjusted spacing between Sense ID, bar and Gloss (phab:T215502)
  • Fixing a long time issue with introducing new data types in production (phab:T216728)
  • Fixing docs for backup of wikibase container images (phab:T214941)
  • Making undo, rollback and restore work on schema content pages (phab:T214399)
  • Improving edit summaries for schema content pages (phab:T213724)
  • Tightening up the process for editing "identifying information" for Schemas (phab:T214466)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:58, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #354

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

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Esteban16
  • Closed request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiConNL in Utrecht (Netherlands), on March 8-9th (in Dutch and English)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
  • Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Matching BnF and Wikidata video games using Dataiku DSS (in English) by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata: [4].
  • You can now try Shape Expressions on a test system
  • Creative Commons has a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
  • Tpt's Wikidata history query service stores and allows querying metadata about Wikidata's edit history
  • A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released, check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project over here.
  • Scholarship application phase for Wikimania 2019 is now open until March 15th. The call for track leaders is also open.
  • OpenRefine 3.2 beta was released, with a collection of new features and bug fixes, many of which improve the Wikidata integration.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: multi-channel network, Stack Exchange site, total shots in career, total points in career, total assists in career, penalty minutes in career, career plus-minus rating, preferred pronoun
    • External identifiers: BHL part ID, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music genre ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database firm ID, Physics History Network ID, Twitter user ID, identifier of games on Queerly Represent Me, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, SICRIS researcher ID

• • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Location specifics, Mountain chain, temperature record, stroke order, Höchstes Break, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Endowment, Guggenheim fellows ID, Downloads page, is a synonym of taxon name
    • External identifiers: Académie de Rouen member ID, Sistem Registrasi Nasional Cagar Budaya ID, Musenor ID, ProQuest document ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, identifikátor v Adresáři knihoven a informačních institucí v ČR, Cour des comptes report ID, Directorio Legislativo ID, Deportation Database transport-ID, Art Fund ID, Scripts.com script, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, DFD-ID, Mutual Art artist ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Project Drawdown solution ID, Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor record label ID, ACA ID

• • Query examples:
    • Average distance between a French museum and its hosted artists' place of birth (source)
    • Persons with a surname that matches the past participle form of a Danish verb (source)
    • Town halls of communes bordering Paris (source)
    • Literary awards with 0–2 recipients (source)
    • Female Howard medical grads before 1900 (source)
    • items including the property "preferred pronoun" (source)
    • Map of tram service in Ulm (source)

• Development
  • Added monolingual language code tlb (Tobelo), thanks User:Mbch331! (T216798, will be deployed next week)
  • Integrating the termbox with Wikibase (phab:T214679)
  • Viewing historic revisions and fetching the termbox data from Special:EntityData (phab:T210615)
  • Fixing emoji breaking the termbox (phab:T217244)
  • Renamed special pages under Wikibase to avoid confusion with Schemas special pages (phab:T216719)
  • Removed unsupported php 7 constant in production, causing a notice and potential undefined behavior ([[phab:T217241
  • Investigated wb_term normalization solution (phab:T215902)
  • Fix for outdated cached WB datatypes on client-side (phab:T216728 (blocks enabling new datatypes, e.g. phab:T216730))
  • Allowing access to wikibase entities from multiple (wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
  • Allowing to return a proper API error on 'wbformatvalue' action (phab:T207479)
  • Providing open-graph title and discretion meta-tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
  • Allowing quickstatements to work out-of-the-box in wikibase-quickstatments docker image (phab:T205606)
  • Implementing “undo” for Schemass (phab:T214914, making it work via the API (phab:T217250)
  • Implementing “restore” for Schemas (phab:T214915)
  • Adding created and edited Schemas to the watchlist according to the user’s preferences (phab:T213725)
  • Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
  • Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)

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.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:19, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Initials are not given names!

Hi - I noticed you've added a number of given names that are initials - for example this edit. You even referenced ORCID, but the ORCID record for this (and the other cases I saw) shows a full name of "Alberto", not the initial "A.". You might want to check the logic going into this - thanks! ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:48, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

@ArthurPSmith: Thanks for your message. Sorry, yes, you are right, the reference is incorrect - I'd mistakenly combined the item label as data source and ORCID as reference when I should have imported the name from ORCID. But there is no reason not to use A. (Q19803442) in a given name (P735) statement since it is an instance of given name (Q202444) and initials instead of given names (Q19803443) - surely this item is supposed to be use as a given name? I'll amend the initials I've added as given names if the full name is available from ORCID. Yours, Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 20:09, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

p.s. thanks for the Author Disambiguator. Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 20:15, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome! Thanks for all the stuff you've been importing from ORCID - the institution info is great. ArthurPSmith (talk) 20:22, 7 March 2019 (UTC)