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Wikidata weekly summary #264
- Discussions
- Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
- Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
- The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
- MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
- You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
- Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
- Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
- OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
- Newest database reports: new people gallery
- Development
- Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (phab:T158842)
- More work on Forms (phab:T163723)
- Fixing rank icon (phab:T85388)
- Add monolingual code fkv (phab:T167259)
- Add monolingual code lag (phab:T161983)
- More work on property constraints (phab:T167126)
- Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (phab:T162533)
- Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (phab:T46874)
- Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (phab:T74815)
- New datatype for referencing Lexemes (phab:T165578)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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
- Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [1]
- When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [2]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
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 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [3]
- Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [4]
- Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding
&fuzzy=1
to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [5][6]
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15:30, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Apple Inc. WikiProject Reviving
Hello there, I am trying to revive the Apple WikiProject. Please come back and add your name to the participant list if you'd like to help me. Let's make this awesome. Come by today! Thank you, DJAustin (talk) 14:52, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #265
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
- Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
wikimedia-office
- Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
- Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Wikidata:Project chat#Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.
- WikidataCon
- Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
- Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
- Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
- You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
- Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
- beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID
- Query examples:
- Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
- Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
- The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
- Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
- Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
- Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata
- Query examples:
- Development
- Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
- Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (phab:T102759)
- Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053)
- More experimenting with the new front-end framework
- Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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.
Problems
Changes this week
irc.wikimedia.org
has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [8]-
Special:PageData
will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [9] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).
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 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.
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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 June 2017
- News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
- In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
- Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take
- Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues
- Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth
- Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
The Signpost: 23 June 2017
- News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
- In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
- Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take
- Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues
- Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth
- Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
Wikidata weekly summary #266
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
- Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
wikimedia-office
- Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
- Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
- ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
- I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
- Resource discovery and Wikidata
- Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
- Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
- ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
- Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
- New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
- OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
- Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
- New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
- Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: VizQuery
- Development
- Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
- Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (phab:T167870)
- More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629)
- Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874)
- Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (phab:T167625)
- Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923)
- Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567)
- Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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
- The <inputbox> has a new
searchfilter
parameter. You can add values likesearchfilter=insource:foo
. It will add that to the user's search query. [10]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
- Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [11]
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 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [12]
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15:38, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #267
- Discussions
- New request for comment: When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: IRC office hour (read the full log here)
- Past: Online Wikidata workshop in French (Wikipédia:Soirées Wiki en ligne)
- Upcoming: Wikidata and SPARQL workshop and Celtic Knot Conference in Edinburgh
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during the Africa Open Data Conference, in Accra, Ghana, July 17-21
- A Wikidata workshop conducted in Bangalore
- Blog report about the second Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic (in Czech)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Join the Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, and debate about the challenges identified by the research
- Sitelinks for the new Kabiye Wikipedia (kbpwiki) can be added
- We reached Q31000000
- a dataset of 48,000 English questions have been mapped to Wikidata
- New Mix’n’match catalog: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- COH Challenge: in July, add pictures from the Connected Open Heritage in Wikidata
- We asked the followers of the Wikidata Twitter account if they know about SPARQL
- The constraint check script has been turned into a gadget, and other news
- Platypus has started to learn Spanish
- WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
- WikidataCon scholarships applications are open until July 16th
- MySociety is hiring a community manager to work on EveryPolitician with Wikidata and SPARQL
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: parliamentary group, metrically compatible typeface, BVMC place id, MuseScore ID, RePEc institute ID, Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID, Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID, Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID, checksum, Irish Grid Reference, Biodiversity Repository ID, Global Terrorism Database ID
- Query examples:
- Place of birth of the authors on Wikimammenn, the breton Wikisource
- First names of current French members of Parliament (source)
- Timeline of the births of current members of the French National Assembly (source)
- Family tree of Harry Potter characters (source)
- Map of mountains located in the Basque Country (source)
- Items with higher number of child statements than number of children (source)
- Pictures of Pharaos (source)
- Map of departemental archives in France (source)
- Newest gadgets: Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.
- Development
- Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
- Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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
- There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [13]
Changes this week
- Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
- There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
- EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [14]
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15:32, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
Invitation to editathon at ISMB/ECCB 2017
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Wikidata weekly summary #268
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, including a Wikidata editathon on July 17th
- Past: Celtic Knot Conference, Edinburgh, including several presentations related to Wikidata ([https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23CelticKnot%20Wikidata&src=typd tweets about Wikidata during the conference])
- Past: WikiWomenCamp (including a Wikidata presentation by Harmonia Amanda)
- A visual exploration of musical bands on Wikidata, by RAW Graphs team
- WikidataCon
- Last days of the scholarship process! If you need to be funded for the WikidataCon, please fill the form before July 16th
- Which discussions, workshops, demos should be covered during the WikidataCon?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have some real Meta data!
- The StrepHit team has submitted an official uplift proposal for the primary sources tool
- Migration of constraint definitions to property statements around July 12th
- Sitelinks for the new Atikamekw Wikipedia (atjwiki) can be added
- Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
- New step towards structured data for Commons is now available
- One week after Q31000000 we have Q32000000
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: PalDat plant ID, openAIP ID, Ontario Heritage Act Register ID, NLS Geographic Names Place ID, NLS-FI Geographic Name ID, National Record of the Historic Environment ID, JewAge person ID, INSPIRE ID, ADK member ID, FRED time-series ID, danskfilmogtv person, danskefilm TV Christmas calendar, Crunchyroll ID, URN-NBN, Gedbas genealogy person ID, Framalibre ID, Finnish archaeological heritage ID, EGF rating, Carnegie Hall agent ID, assets under management, Atlas of Hillforts ID, dissertation submitted to
- Query examples:
- Scientific articles from PubMed that mention what version of STATA was used (source)
- 1000 places in UK that have no label in Welsh (source)
- Wikivoyage banners for French municipalities (source)
- Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain (source)
- Images of things or persons in Wikidata with a Github account (source)
- Map of birthplaces of women who were educated in Edinburgh university (source)
- Newest database reports: reports with items that only have a P641-statement (sport)
- Development
- Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (gerrit:362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
- Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (phab:T169558)
- Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (phab:T165575)
- Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (phab:T169716)
- Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (phab:T169647, Project chat)
- Implemented “Format” constraint (phab:T102752, help page)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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
- There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [15]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).
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 11 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [16]
- We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.
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15:07, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: June 2017
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