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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
Wikidata weekly summary #234
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
- d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016 (Pigsonthewing)
- A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation (Addshore)
- Wikidata's 4th birthday logo (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. (Tomayac)
- A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service (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 (Jonas)
{{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)- Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
- Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
- new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
- graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
- d:Module:PropertyPath and d:Template:Show Path Items (TomT0m)
- Everything is connected, a knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels) (Denny)
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
- 400,000,000th edit was made.
- The average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
- Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects
- 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:
- Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them) (source)
- Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany (source)
- Countries with most cities named after saints (source)
- Disney characters who share name with their actors (source)
- 204 items that cite themselves (source)
- Statements with two references where one source cites the other (source)
- Development
- Stable interface policy update
- More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (phabricator:T149580)
- Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (phabricator:T148139)
- Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function instead of just returning the label (phabricator:T142940) You can test it here: https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
- Improved map layer colors in the query service (phabricator:T148022)
- Improved size of map markers in the query service (phabricator:T148496)
- Upcoming: quantity changes
- Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987) Test system is coming in the next days.
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 #235
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.
- Discussions
- Current request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata and the Chain of Death, by Karl Beecher
- Scaling multilingual name tags with Wikidata OpenStreetMap contributor blog post
- Wikidata and Persistent Identifiers was presented at PIDapalooza November 9th.
- Wikidata in OpenStreetMap
- Wikidata and the Semantic Web of Food
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
- Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: generation time, hazard on site, ACM Digital Library event ID, ACM Digital Library citation ID, HGVS nomenclature, Supermodels.nl ID, CIViC variant ID, wurvoc.org measure ID, Réserves Naturelles de France ID, World Waterfall Database ID, Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899 ID, ID petit-patrimoine.com, opponent during disputation, Vlindernet ID, male form of label, board member, Patrimonio Inmueble de Andalucía ID, BDI ID, ICCF ID, chesstempo ID, 365chess player ID, plan image, muscle action, 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, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID
- Query examples:
- Map of educational institutes from all over the world (source)
- Current US Supreme Court justices by their date of birth (source)
- Death dates of people with Wikidata items (source)
- French towns that a street in Paris is name after(source)
- Statements with “reason for deprecation” rank that aren’t deprecated(source)
- Query examples:
- Development
- More work on federation (phabricator:T76007)
- Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T148139)
- Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
- Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
- Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
- Analysed queries used with Listeria
- More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (phabricator:T117693)
- More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (phabricator:T124036)
- Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (phabricator:T113955)
- Fix for bug that prevented editing (phabricator:T150401)
- Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (phabricator:T132839)
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 #236
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
- Two policies about abandoned tools on Tool Labs are currently voted on
- The Community Wishlist Survey is now closed and the vote phase will start on November 28. Here's the category for Wikidata
- Data import hub and Data import guide: feel free to give feedbacks on these documents!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: musipedia tune ID, Adult Film Database person ID, WHO international non-proprietary names ID, designed to carry, National Library of Greece ID, PermID, HKMDb person ID, RxNorm CUI, Vote Smart ID, legislation.gov.uk ID, significant person, Kvikmyndir person ID, Kvikmyndir film ID, World Surf League ID, Encyclopedia of Surfing ID
- Query examples:
- Occupations of women, with French female-form labels (source, database report)
- Documents with most signatories (source)
- Filming locations of James Bond films (source)
- United States National Historic Landmarks not actually located in the United States (source)
- Items with VIAF, but no P31/279 (source)
- Newest database reports: List of Italian language films without articles in Italian Wikipedia
- Development
- Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
- Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
- Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
- Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
- Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
- Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
- Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
- Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
- ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
- Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
- Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
- Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help write 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 #237
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Wikidata introduction by Pigsonthewing at DJUK 2016
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Items without statements is down to 5% for enwiki (source)
- Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Auckland Art Gallery artist ID, Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux ID, Géopatronyme ID, Prabook ID, GECD film ID, GECD person ID, Enciclopedia Treccani, stereoisomer of, Tennishof ID, operating income, PictoRight ID code, Nobel Prize People Nomination ID, negative prognostic predictor, positive prognostic predictor, negative diagnostic predictor, positive diagnostic predictor, negative therapeutic predictor, positive therapeutic predictor, National Recreation Trails Database ID
- Query example : List of sovereign state flags by proportion (source)
- Newest tool: Display the link to Wikiversity in the title of Wikipedia using Wikidata
- Newest database report: Unique films: film items with a link to a single Wikipedia
- Development
- Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023
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 #238
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany with OKLabs, Jens and WikidataFacts. You can read a blog post by Riedelwerk (in German) More documentation to come soon
- How Wikidata could be used for biomedical knowledge (Benjamin Good)
- The Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Sitelinks for the new Finnish Wikivoyage can be added
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: French Sculpture Census work ID, Japan Sumo Association ID, film poster, GeneDB ID, File Format Wiki page ID, FAO 2007 genetic resource ID, Model Manual ID, Merck Index reaction ID, Bloomberg private company ID, Belgian Enterprise number, GECD Firmen-ID, endianness, sibling
- Query examples:
- Bridges named after women (source)
- Network of brands of some big food/drink companies (source, help improve it)
- Cities located next to most rivers (source)
- Nobel Prize winners on Twitter (source)
- French deputies who died during their mandate (source)
- Streets in the Netherlands named after people
- People burried in the cemetery of La Croix Rousse (Lyon, France) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Politicians in France
- Newest database reports: list of films with multiple-language versions (Italian labels)
- Development
- Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (phab:T152046)
- RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (phab:T149419 and phab:T114662)
- Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (phab:T151681)
- Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (phab:T151582)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
- Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
- We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
- Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
- Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (phab:T151449)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Help with one of the bot requests
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Wikidata weekly summary #239
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.
- Discussions
- New development input: Avoiding breaking gadgets when developing UI
- Closed request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
- Wishlist at What government data is of best interest?
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Have a look at PAWS, a tool to create Wikidata bots (and a cheat sheet from WikidataFacts)
- Item Q 28 000 000 is about to be created.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: CNC film rating (Romania), Wilderness.net ID, CORDIS Project ID, JTWC tropical cyclone ID, Butterflies and Moths of North America ID, Guide of the French Church person ID, Guide of the French Church structure ID, heart rate, Järviwiki ID, LittleSis organisation ID, Surman ID, Verkhovna Rada MP id, Consolidated code of the electronic catalog of libraries of Belarus, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters member ID, LittleSis people ID, minimum frequency of audible sound
- Query examples:
- Map of people buried in the cemetery of Norra Begravningsplatsen (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Works of Musée Saint-Raymond (Toulouse, France) on Wikidata (source)
- Communes of France named after a river
- People awarded by a Theater World Award in 2016
- Upcoming creative works: films, TV series, video games… (source)
- Number of demonstrations per country (source)
- Newest database reports: Spanish-language films without an article in Spanish Wikipedia
- Development
- Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
- Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
- Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Help with one of the bot requests
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.