Wikidata weekly summary #228
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCon 2016
- Past: OASPA conference (slides)
- Past: State of the Map
- Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
- Upcoming: SMWCon
- Upcoming: office hour on IRC
- Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
- HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
- TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
- Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
- Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
- Development
- mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137808)
- Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (phabricator:T145516, phabricator:T146030, phabricator:T146274)
- More work on usage tracking UI (phabricator:T145965, phabricator:T143148, phabricator:T145189, phabricator:T144923)
- RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (phabricator:E273)
- Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (phabricator:T105100)
- Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (phabricator:T117032)
- Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
- Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (phabricator:T144303)
- Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (phabricator:T146356)
- Expanding references again in diffs (phabricator:T129836)
- Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (phabricator:T142203)
- Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (phabricator:T119492)
- Worked on improving the query service documentation (phabricator:T133052)
- 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 #229
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
Bearbeiten 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