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Wikidata weekly summary #208
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: OpenTechSummit
slides for SPARQL intro at OpenTechSummit - Past: CSVConf
- Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
- Past: OpenTechSummit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
- More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
- Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
- Freebase has been shut down
- Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
- The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
- Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
- Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
- Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
- Development
- Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
- More work on initial Commons prototype
- Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
- Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T110193)
- Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T52893)
- No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T55496)
- Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (phabricator:T132839)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #209
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings have been made
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Panama Papers and Wikidata made quite a splash online
- EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
- Random item: Q14829494
- Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been published at ICWSM
- Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
- Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)
- Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
- Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You can now search for items within a geographic area.
- The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more controls
- Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
- Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
- PetScan now has query examples
- d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: professional name (Japan), month number, highest income threshold, lowest income threshold, individual tax rate, ARKive ID, Joint Electronics Type Designation Automated System designation, totem, Online World of Wrestling ID, Internet Wrestling Database ID, corporate officer
- Query examples: longest rivers (source), map of places mentioned in travel stories with text in French accessible online (source), things located where the equator meets the prime meridian (source), people who acted with Brad Pitt (source), Italian mountains higher than 4000mt (source), who died by burning (source), age at date of death for musicians (source), universities of main programming language authors (source), hashtags (source), Pokemon! (source)
- Showcase items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028)
- Development
- Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked on issues that were found
- Incident report of issues with the query service
- Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot, phabricator:T98014)
- More work on Commons prototype
- Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (phabricator:T135222)
- Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T124766)
- We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and restore operations - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T41134)
- Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (phabricator:T133317)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #210
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussions about missing properties for Wikivoyage listings are progressing as enhancements are suggested
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: produced by, Wi-Fi, Google+, wheelchair accessibility, RAN ID, incidence, Benezit ID, place of marriage, age of onset, NSC number, gait
- Query examples: given names with most variations (source with links to graphs), papers about Wikidata (source), memes (source), cathedrals in Paris (source), highest mountains in the universe (source), Law & Order episodes (source), things/people with most children (source)
- Development
- Performance improvements in query service map display.
- Fixed a focus issue in the suggester (phabricator:T135008)
- Further groundwork on Commons support
- Fixed first issues that popped up after ArticlePlaceholder deployment based on feedback
- Investigated and prepared fix for issue where files on Commons couldn't be deleted (phabricator:T135485)
- Finished work on language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T98014)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #211
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
- Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
- Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
- Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
- Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
- Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
- Development
- Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
- More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
- Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543)
- Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #212
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: OpenData.ch
- Upcoming: HackHPI
- Upcoming: ELAG
- Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
- Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
- wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
- It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
- Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
- Development
- Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
- Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
- Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
- Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
- Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
- Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
- More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
- Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #213
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
- Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
- Past: HackHPI
- Past: ELAG (slides)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
- Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
- Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
- Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RateBeer brewery ID, Beer Advocate brewery ID, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID, fax number, minimum age, Swedish county letter, Eldoblaje Movie ID, publication interval, maximum sustained winds, day of week, Skype, UMLS CUI, FamilySearch ID
- Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art (source), popular surnames among humans (source), popular surnames among fictional characters (source), average lifespan by occupation (source), German breweries (source), years with 3 popes (source), people who died by burning - on a timeline (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Lighthouses, Roller Coasters
- Development
- Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
- Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
- Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
- Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
- Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
- Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
- You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
- Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
- Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #214
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
- New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
- Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
- Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
- We are looking for people who work on list articles.
- You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
- Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
- Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
- First beta release of StrepHit
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID, focal height, month of the year, label in sign language, PO Box, COAM ID, syntax clarification, ECARTICO person ID, MSBI person ID, date depicted, distinctive jersey, time gap, icon, SecondHandSongs artist ID, SecondHandSongs song ID, timezone offset
- Query examples: colors of chemical compounds (source), map of braodway venues (source), sculptures by Max Bill (source), works of art where the name might be a rhyme (source), works of art where the title is an alliteration (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
- ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
- Development
- Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
- More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
- Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (phabricator:T138059)
- Improved display of query examples (phabricator:T137589) and cleaned them up
- Improved database access (phabricator:T137539)
- Fixed a but with the rank selector (phabricator:T109583)
- Started concept work for automated list generation
- Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
- 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.