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Wikidata weekly summary #229
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095)
- Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia, by Gustaf Harari Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451)
- Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources (cs), by Jan Macura (Q27042632)
- Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis on Warriors Planet
- The Wikidata scholarly profile page on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
- Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase on Open Preservation Foundation
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We need you for Wikidata's birthday! Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
- Item Q27000000 was created, about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
- Log of our last office hour discussion
- The first WikiCite newsletter has been published
- You can help a research project to understand the use of the SPARQL query service
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: OKPD2 code of the good or service, OKP ID of the good or service, OKP Code, OKVED 2 code of the economic activity, OKPD code of the good or service, OKVED 1.1 code of the economic activity, SIC code, Catholic Encyclopedia ID, NBN System Key, trunk prefix, KU Leuven person ID, PhilPapers publication, PhilPapers topic, Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organizations, PhilPapers profile, PhilPapers author, Mediaarts-DB ID, SCAR Composite Gazetteer, South Dakota legislator ID, Schläfli symbol, Cultural Heritage Kosovo ID, HAS member ID, Corporate Number (Japan), NAICS code, List of lights id, Nationalencyklopedin Online ID, NYT topic ID, KvK company ID, Encyclopædia Universalis Online ID, Auñamendi ID, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, ClassInd rating, SIRET number, Onisep occupation ID, Indian census area code, ISAN
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Virtual Twins
- Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin with a bot
- Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)
- Development
- Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
- Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
- More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
- Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
- Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
- Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
- Made it possible to use the
bzrandcvsprotocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help merge items of people with the same name and dates.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #230
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- During the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016, attendees added bird sounds from Europeana Sounds to Wikidata and over 60 Wikipedias
- Past: WikiConference in San Diego, USA
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop by Wikimedia Nederland, October 20, Utrecht
- Wikidata & Wikipedia edit-athon about Ramon Llull by Amical Wikimedia (ca)
- A Natural Language Query Engine without Machine Learning, on A Young Programmer's blog
- The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for Wikidata software development, on WMF blog
- People buried on cemetery and if they have a picture of the grave or not by Magnus Sälgö
- Sunday Query : où meurent les Bretons ? (fr) by Ash_Crow
- Charts and data about Brexit & US Elections, by Hector Perez
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
- 3 Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF grants : Librarybase, Lua module and WikiFactMine
- Query service analysis: What kind of things are people doing with WDQS? and Who are our WDQS users and where are they from?
- chemical compounds in Wikipedia and Wikidata, talk by Sebastian Burgstaller
- PetScan tool past half a million queries since April (source)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: KANTL member ID, Angel List ID, storyboard artist, content deliverer, Actorenregister ID, Zeri image ID, compulsory education (maximum age), compulsory education (minimum age), Fotografen.nl ID, PORT organization URL, Flickr user ID, LocFDD ID, MySpace ID, radix, base, has anatomical branch, anatomical branch of, points awarded, intangible cultural heritage status, LiveJournal ID, Queensland place ID, Cave E-Cadastre ID, Property proposal discussion, optimum viable temperature, maximum viable temperature, minimum viable temperature
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: new Wikidata game, Alias Candidates (by MagnusManske)
- Newest database reports: List of embassies has now summaries by host country and by country represented
- Development
- The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (phabricator:T146271)
- More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
- More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
- Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
- Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #231
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Connected Data London meetup with Navino Evans
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett & Liam Wyatt speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) at Muzeum Cyfrowe in Warsaw, 19 October.
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
- Past: CCBWIKI
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- World Spider Catalog has been added to Mix'n'match
- Mix’n’match can now limit auto-matches to instances of a specific item and its subclasses
- Sitelinks for the new Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia (olowiki) can be added
- There is now a "userbox" for Wikidatans wishing to mark Wikidata's fourth birthday on their user pages
- myMuseum was created at the hack4heritage hackathon and won a prize
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
- Query examples:
- first Nobel Prize winner who was born after Alfred Nobel’s death (source)
- streets in Paris named after doctors (source)
- international land tripoints (source)
- national flags depicting stars or constellations (source)
- national flags with inscriptions (source)
- people who died the furthest away from where they were born (source)
- closest pairs of capitals (of UN member states, <500km) (source)
- people who received military decorations from two different countries (source)
- volcanoes and earthquakes (source)
- height/width ratios of paintings (source)
- birthplaces of Members of the European Parliament (source)
- birthplaces of US Senators (source)
- New template: d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
- Development
- Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
- Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
- Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
- Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
- Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (phabricator:T148042)
- Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (phabricator:T147917)
- Worked on a small birthday present
- Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (phabricator:T147114)
- More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (phabricator:T142940)
- Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (phabricator:T147631) Thanks Matěj!
- Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (phabricator:T146707)
- Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
- Fixed a bug with spaces in language codes in queries (phabricator:T147729)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #232
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.
Birthday events
Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!
- San Francisco (USA), October 26th
- Torino (Italy), October 26th
- Tokyo (Japan), October 28th
- Paris (France), October 29th
- Utrecht (NL), October 29th
- Berlin (Germany), November 4th
- Rennes (France), November 5th
Online
A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!
You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.
If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out the schedule
- Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS October 29th in Berlin, organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Development
- Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see GitHub). Thanks, 0x686578!
- Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (phabricator:T141880).
- Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
- Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #233
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Wikidata's birthday: presents, stories and events
The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:
- a word from the development team by Lydia
- a new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation, by Addshore, who explains how he generated it in a blog post
- The 4th birthday logo by Incabell
- A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users, by Tomayac
- A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service, by TweetsFactsAndQueries
- Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
{{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers- Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
- 10 cool queries for Wikidata that will blow your mind. Number 7 will shock you, by Jens and Cornelius
- 4 years of Wikidata by Stryn
- A lot of people celebrating and posting pictures on Twitter or on Commons!
The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata birthday in Kanpur (India), November 3rd
- Wikidata birthday in Berlin (Germany), November 4th
- Wikidata birthday in Rennes (France), November 5th
- OKlab Berlin hacknights, October 31st and November 7th
- Pidapalooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10
- Past: Ladies that FOSS (livetweet report)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Informatics: File Formats
- Newest database reports: Liam Neeson filmography
- Development
- We proposed a meaningful initial order for the statementSort gadget (phabricator:T147062)
- Commons media file properties now support pasting full Wikimedia Commons URLs (phabricator:T147917)
- Added distinct hover tooltips to rank and snak type selectors, as well as some of the "add" buttons (phabricator:T139356)
- Our concept base URI will be exposed as part of the
meta=siteinfoAPI (phabricator:T143910). Thanks, user Lokal Profil! - Progress on the
list=wbsubscribersAPI module to query entity usage information (phabricator:T145880) - Progress on the new parser function for rich, formatted statements (phabricator:T142940)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 6.2.0
- Released ValueView 0.18.0
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention