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Wikidata weekly summary #312
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Adminor
- Events
- Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
- slides for 'What is Wikidata: How can GLAMs work with Wikidata?' presentation by Andy Mabbett
- A Wikidata workshop was given by Liam Wyatt and appeared at the national Armenian television
- Wikidata workshop day at GLAMwiki conference in Rotterdam, May 14th
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, May 18th
- Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata: a platform for your library’s linked open data by Stacy Allison-Cassin & Dan Scott, in the journal Code4Lib (also posted on Reddit)
- Enriching Reconciled Data with OpenRefine, by Karen Hwang
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
- New monolingual code available: shy (Shawiya)
- You can have a look at the draft for the RDF mapping of Wikibase Lexeme
- New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: item for this sense, season of club or team, Möllendorff transliteration, geographic center, coastline
- External identifiers: none
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IGAC rating, taxon described in publication, jockey, Norsk fjordkatalog-ID, Wikidata:Dataset Imports, toponym
- External identifiers: Bugs! artist ID, Bugs! album ID, KKBOX artist ID, KKBOX album ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Kunstenpunt organisations, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia label ID, Rockipedia area ID, Norsk historisk leksikon ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, Relationship Science profile ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Victorian Heritage Register ID, CIVICUS Monitor country entry, FloraCatalana ID
- Underused properties created >3 months:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix the bug where changes in the watchlist and Recent Changes on Wikipedia should have been shown but were not (phab:T192673)
- Clarify error message for the merge API (phab:T180296)
- Add violation type to restrict which entity types a property can be used (phab:T164744)
- Added a constraint to blacklist values for a property (phab:T183092)
- Fix a bug showing the wrong alias in the edit summary when editing an alias (phab:T190492)
- Fix some bugs related to displaying thumbnails in statements (phab:T193880, phab:T192667, phab:T193499)
- Continue looking into dispatch issues (phab:T194602)
- Working on adding an integer constraint (phab:T167989)
- Preparing to deploy WikibaseLexeme extension on Wikimedia cluster (phab:T168260)
- Making sure that the form ID counter is preserved when clearing the lexeme via the API (phab:T192264)
- Applying the same validation to the language code of the Lemma and the representation (phab:T191504)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
- The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
- The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [2]
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22:22, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.
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17:34, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #313
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Addshore, Pintoch
- New request for comments: How to manage software versions, Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
- Closed request for comments: Privacy and Living People
- Events
- Past: Europeana Tech Conference (including a lot of Wikidata workshops and discussions)
- Past:Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, 18-20 May in Barcelona
- Check the hashtag #wmhack on Twitter to see what has been worked on regarding Wikidata
- List of the projects that have been demoed during the showcase
- Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Press, articles, blog posts
- A look back at the first Federated-Wikibase-Workshop
- Martin Poulter gave a TEDxBathUniversity talk about Wikidata
- The Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) has been launched; Wikidata is represented by the Wikimedia Foundation
- "Translating a blog post into structured data" Martin Poulter, the Bodleian Digital Library blog
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A bunch of new constraint types were recently added
- A Request for comments on improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
- We have deprecated units used for this property (P2237). Please update any tool which uses this property to use the new API before it gets deleted.
- EditGroups is a new tool that lets you review, discuss and revert entire edit groups made by various tools.
- PictureThis! Is a new tool integrated to WikiShootMe! that allows you to choose an item and upload a picture of it
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: IGAC rating, KAVI rating, established from medical condition, vehicles per capita (1000), applies to name, Wikipedia glossary entry
- External identifiers: Chinese Political Elites Database ID, amateur radio callsign, Bugs! album ID, Bugs! artist ID, Cinema Project (Israel) ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators ID, e-MEC entry, Ester ID, Israel Film Fund ID, KKBOX album ID, KKBOX artist ID, Norwegian war sailor register ship-ID, OnsOranje match ID, OnsOranje player ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials ID, Trustpilot company ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Flanders Arts Institute organisation ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Norwegian historical lexicon ID, Norwegian fjord catalog ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia area ID, Rockipedia label ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Victorian Heritage Register ID, FloraCatalana ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: animal water well, World Rugby Ranking, Schulsprengel, dedicated object, conjugation class, word stem, visible by means of, Production website, software version of, Japanese pitch accent, reading pattern of kanji, has conjugation class, stroke count, radical, grade of kanji, Party coalition, Naturdenkmal ID, ISO 3950 code, software version, software developer
- External identifiers: Eurohockey.com club ID, Namuwiki, Daum Encyclopedia, Melon song ID, Sistema de Información Cultural, African Studies Thesaurus ID, nwhl.zone player ID, YouPorn ID, Pornhub ID, NWSL player ID, eBird hotspot ID, British Library system number, Flickr tag, Sveriges Dödbok, BAG Openbare ruimte ID, BAG Pand ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Cinema ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, Spyur ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, GONIAT author ID, GONIAT taxon ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID
- Dormant properties created >3 months:
- USA Rugby player ID (P4778), MYmovies name ID (P4785), CiNii author ID (articles) (P4787), Who's Who UK ID (P4789), uses data storage type (P4788), Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID (P4796), Basketball-Reference.com referee ID (P4795), PARES ID (P4813), BWSA ID (P4811), LoC and MARC vocabularies ID (P4801)
- Query examples:
- Most populous first-level country subdivisions without legislatures (source)
- Prisoners of Conscience by place of birth (source)
- Photos of railway stations from Latvia and Estonia (source)
- Map of items near me that have a label in Catalan but not in French (source)
- Places of residence of accused Scottish witches (source)
- Poets whose fathers were lawyers (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Sustainable Development, Wikipedia Sources
- Newest database reports: list of English Wikipedia outline articles, US states
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Hackathon!
- Work on adding “integer” constraint (phab:T167989)
- Fix a bug expanding the references with a constraint violation (phab:T193669)
- Add a "mis" code language to enable uncoded languages in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T194754)
- Improve the different language fields in the interface of editing a Lexeme (phab:T191504)
- Finish work to edit Forms via the web API (phab:T190906)
- Include special Lexeme IDs (phab:T187060)
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!
The Signpost: 24 May 2018
- From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals
- Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics
- News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia
- Traffic report: We love our superheroes
- Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies
- Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues
- Humour: Play with your food
- Gallery: Wine not?
- From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost
The Signpost: 24 May 2018
- From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals
- Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics
- News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia
- Traffic report: We love our superheroes
- Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies
- Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues
- Humour: Play with your food
- Gallery: Wine not?
- From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [3][4]
- It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [5]
- Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
- There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [6]
- Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [7]
- There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [8]
Problems
- Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [9]
Changes later this week
- There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [10]
- A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [11]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
- Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [12]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [13]
- A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [14]
- Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [15][16]
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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #314
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Pintoch, Addshore (both successful)
- New request for comments: Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?
- Events
- IRC office hour, on May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. Special topic: Lexemes on Wikidata
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Paper on Cellosaurus, with mappings to Wikidata, by Amos Bairoch
- Blog post from Galder Gonzalez announcing the Lexemes (in Basque)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ongoing: On 24 May, there was a significant outage affecting Wikidata and sister projects that use Wikidata. As a result, some features of are temporarily disabled: Wikidata's property suggester, Lua modules and parser functions calling by label instead of ID, search for the ArticlePlaceholder. We apologize for the inconvenience, we're working to get them back as soon as possible. For technical details, see: phab:T195520 & Incident documentation/20180524-wikidata.
- As announced last week, the “integer” constraint type and the “separators” parameter for the “single value” and “single best value” constraint types are now supported in WikibaseQualityConstraints.
- Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata! Check the announcement for more details. Feel free to try adding words and give feedback
- Structured Data on Commons has designs for displaying and using multilingual captions on the file page. Feedback is welcome on the talk page.
- You can try the new Drag&Drop gadget developed by Yarl and give feedback
- The European Commission announces a review of the Database Directive.
- OpenRefine 3.0 beta was released. You can get an overview of the new Wikidata-related features with tutorials and videos.
- TextRazor is a web service which analyses text and identifies the entities and concepts discussed, giving the corresponding Wikidata QIDs.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: grammatical gender, conjugation class, word stem, Sandbox-Lexeme, Sandbox-Form, synonym, derived from, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, officialized by, Wikidata dataset import page, output method, IMDA rating, adapted by, topographic map, date of commercialization, stroke count, has conjugation class
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Vocalized form, display technology, compound of, Chromosome number, Vietnamese character reading pattern, fanqie, evokes, homograph lexeme, homograph form, prime factor, classifier, Accomplice, Slavic Alphabet, signum
- External identifiers: BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Baidu Baike ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Chromosome numbers of the flora of Germany database ID, Filmow ID, Cité de la musique ID, Giant Bomb ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats ID, Songfacts ID, ARWU ID
- Properties not really used, created >3 months:
- Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number (P4814), Amtrak station code (P4803), make-up artist (P4805), sets environment variable (P4809), Technical Element Score (P4815), Rugby Australia ID (P4799), TORA ID (P4820), Panoptikum identifier (P4818), Cour des comptes magistrate ID (P4821), La Poste personality ID (P4822)
- Query examples:
- Development
- Deployed and activate WikibaseLexeme on wikidata.org so you can now store the first lexicographical data on Wikidata (phab:T191457)
- Fixing the encoding issues on labels of items linked on Lexemes (phab:T195470, phab:T195359)
- Fixed an issue that was preventing adding Forms and Lexemes in statements (phab:T195402)
- Suppressed the browser's autocomplete that covers WikibaseLexeme's suggestion on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195383, phab:T191526)
- Worked on a bug about representation overwriting other representation with the same language code (phab:T193636)
- Changed title of the field of a lemma language to make it less likely for people to add a translation as a second Lemma (phab:T193603)
- Working on the RDF mapping of WikibaseLexeme (phab:T160260)
- Working on implementing fulltext search for Lexemes (phab:T189739)
- Working on showing Lemmas for linked Lexemes instead of just their ID on special pages like Special:AllPages (phab:T195382)
- Fixing issues that happened after dropping an index from the wb_terms table (phab:T194270, phab:T195642, phab:T195611)
- Made constraint check result appear directly after adding a new statement (phab:T194247)
- Working on looking up entities by external identifiers on Special:Search (phab:T99899)
- Added Docker image to Wikibase website (phab:T189936)
- Added WikibaseImport script to Docker images to make it easier for people to start their own Wikibase install with some data imported from Wikidata (phab:T192080)
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!
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to research and tools as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:
- Rock's Backpages – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
- Invaluable – Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
- Termsoup – Translation tool
Expansions
- Fold3 – Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Oxford University Press – The Scholarship collection now includes Electronic Enlightenment
- Alexander Street Press – Women and Social Movements Library now available
- Cambridge University Press – Orlando Collection now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Cairn, Gale and Bloomsbury.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:03, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
- You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.