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Wikidata weekly summary #547

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
      • Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
      • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
    • Ongoing:
  • Development
    • REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310)
      • Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687)
      • Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (phab:T315161)
    • Mismatch Finder:
      • Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511)
      • Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #548

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
      • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
      • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
    • Past:
      • Wikibase live session (November 2022) log
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished the adjusted statement data structure (phab:T321459)
      • Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (phab:T321483)
      • Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (phab:T322734)
      • Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (phab:T322746)
    • Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
    • Mismatch Finder:
      • Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (phab:T313468)
      • Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (phab:T288511)
    • Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:

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

Wikidata weekly summary #549

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour on December 5. We will be working on Structured Data on Commons with a WINTER FUN theme, adding depicts statements to images and playing with some tools. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. This will be our last scheduled Working Hour for 2022. Please join us for a relaxing and enjoyable session to wrap up a year of excellent work together. Event page
      • Bug Triage Hour on December 6 at 17:00 UTC, on the topic of Entity Schemas (other topics also welcome). Come with your favorite Phabricator ticket so we can improve its description together!
      • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on the WikidataCon 2023 page.
    • Ongoing
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #69, Cycles
  • Tool of the week
    • How many edits does Wikidata get per second? listen.hatnote.com/#wikidata is a tool that allows you to listen to the sound of Wikidata's recent changes feed.
  • Development
    • Improved the error message for sitelinks to redirects (phab:T320490)
    • Made the Property namespace a content namespace (phab:T321282)
    • Lexicographical data: Added a better link for a help message (phab:T315161)
    • Mismatch Finder:
      • Linked the header to make it easier to get back to the main page (phab:T323680)
      • Made the layout more compact (phab:T323678)
      • Fixed an issue where the whole header of a mismatch results table was a link instead of just the Item ID (phab:T323823)
      • Improved the text on a button (phab:T323682)
      • Finished better support for dates with calendar model and precision (phab:T288511)
      • Ordered the columns in the results page better so they make more sense (phab:T323819)
    • Fixed a bug where a large horizontal scrollbar appeared on RTL interface languages (phab:T321441)
    • Fixed a bug in the search in the new Vector skin (phab:T324148)
    • Query Service:
    • mul language code: continuing investigation for language fallbacks on mobile that is currently blocking it (phab:T323098)
    • REST API:

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


Wikidata weekly summary #550

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • REST API:
    • Vektor 2022: Finished work on making Vector’s new Search work with Wikidata. The changes roll out for testing on test.wikidata.org next week (phab:T275251)
    • Query Service:
      • Getting a link to the query is now possible in the same place as getting a link to the result of the query (phab:T324218)
      • Removed the gif that showed on hover over the button that advertises the Query Builder to make it less annoying (phab:T296135)
      • Added wikibase:identifiers to the autocomplete feature (phab:T302057)
      • Adjusted the layout of the Query Builder header to be more in line with other application (phab:T288939)
    • Constraint violations: When a language name is mentioned in the constraint it will now show the name of the language in the interface language instead of the language itself to make it easier to understand (phab:T316936)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #551

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19-21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th. More information: Wikimedia Hackathon 2023/Participate
      • digital@IANLS: online Wikidata workshop for Neo-Latinists in February 2023
      • Call for Papers on Linked Open Data on Journal BiD: Deadline: Sun, 04/09/2023. Some of the ideas and issues to be included in this issue: Creation and exploitation of knowledge graphs, Information services based on linked open data and knowledge graphs, Artificial intelligence and linked open data, Textual corpora and linked open data, Textual corpora and knowledge graphs, Application of bots in linked open data, Application of bots in knowledge graphs, Linked open data and diversity of genres, Graphs of knowledge and diversity of genres, FAIR and linked open data, FAIR and knowledge graphs, Ontologies and linked open data, Ontologies and knowledge graphs, Application of ontologies in information services.
    • Ongoing:
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikidata Atlas is a system allows the user to search for different types of entities (with geo-coordinates) on Wikidata and visualize them on a world map. (Feedback is very welcome to help evaluate and improve the tool.)
    • Check out a similar tool: wiki-atlas
  • Development
    • REST API: We are getting ready for a release in January and would really love more people to test the current state on beta. You can find details for testing at Wikidata:REST API feedback round.
    • Vector 2022 search: We have worked on making the new search in the Vector 2022 skin work for Wikidata. You can now test it on test.wikidata.org and soon on Wikidata.
    • Query Service:
      • Removed the SVG download options for result views where SVG downloads are not supported, such as Map (phab:T311594)
      • Fixed the indentation of autocompletion suggestions (phab:T291695)
      • Fixed downloading query results in the Query Builder (phab:T323451)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Working on showing the Lexeme lemmas when you look at a Lexeme’s history (phab:T312660)
      • Fixing a keyboard navigation issue in the lookups on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
    • mul language code:
      • Continuing to investigate how to implement language fallbacks on mobile termbox (phab:T323098)
      • Investigating how to disallow `mul` descriptions (phab:T313027)
    • Improving and harmonizing the footers in the Query Builder (phab:T324356) and Mismatch Finder (phab:T324366)
    • Preparing for showing constraint violations to visitors who aren’t logged in (phab:T272132)

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

Wikidata weekly summary #552

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and read the newsletter this year. If you have a moment, please let us know what you would like to see changed in the newsletter in 2023. Thank you again for your support and have a happy new year!

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, November 9th 2022 at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Ongoing
  • Development
    • Due to the winter holidays, the development team is taking a break and no deployment is happening for Wikidata at the moment.

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.

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