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Wikidata weekly summary #203
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- Events/Blogs/Press
slides for SPARQL and Wikidata intro by shonagon- École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes - Upcoming: WWW 2016
- Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
- Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
- Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
- Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
- Data imports including National Library of Israel
- Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
- Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
- Improvements for Librarybase
- Automated language links for Wiktionary
- Cleanup of existing data import tools
- partial group photo
- Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
- Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata
Lucie's thesis: Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge - This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
- If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
- There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
- There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
- Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
- PetScan now has item creator functionality.
- The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
- Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением
- Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: dataset distribution, file format, protocol, URL, CricketArchive player ID, ESPNcricinfo player ID, FIG gymnast identifier, type locality, ISU figure skater identifier, New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor, New York Times Semantic Concept: Location, New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization, New York Times Semantic Concept: Person, BARTOC ID, Box Office Mojo person ID, NDL JPNO, Opensecrets Identifier, Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID, Kijkwijzer rating, Bekker Number, is verso of, is recto of, author of afterword, author of foreword, Russiancinema.ru film ID, relative position within image, rating certificate ID, reply to
- Newest WikiProjects: Historical Place
- Query examples: phrases, Redewendungen, most commons eponyms
- Development
- 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
- We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
- Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
- The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
- Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.
- 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 #204
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- Discussion
- Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: digikult.se
- Upcoming: IRC office hour
- Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
- A week of looking at women
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: typeface/font, disjoint union of, union of, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id, UNZ journal identifier, UNZ author identifier, Persée journal ID, Persée author ID, Projeto Excelências ID, ISSF ID, Badminton World Federation ID, CageMatch worker ID, United World Wrestling ID, UIPM ID, GOG application ID, Deezer track ID, Deezer album ID, Deezer artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID, embed URL, Hungarian-style transcription, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level, no-observed-adverse-effect level, collage image, elected in, sectional view, median lethal concentration, minimal lethal concentration, Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman), Cycling Quotient identifier (women races), Karate Records ID, EIDR identifier, British Film Institute identifier
- Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later, what is depicted in artwork, most eponymous mathematicians
- Showcase items: Iron Man (film)
- Development
- Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
- Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
- Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
- Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
- Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (phab:T95532 and phab:T127820)
- More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
- Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
- Improved performance of sticky property labels (phab:T103485)
- Released DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1
- 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.
This Month in GLAM: March 2016
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The Signpost: 14 April 2016
- News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board
- In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death
- Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology
- Gallery: A history lesson
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Wikidata weekly summary #205
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- Discussion
- Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: office hour on IRC (log)
- Past: ISB2016 (slides)
- Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
- Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
- National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
- New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
- Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
- Other noteworthy stuff
- ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
- Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
- The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
- Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
- Listeria now has a status page
- PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
- Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
- Query examples: items named after their shape, recent events, assemblies by number of seats, characters portrayed by most actors
- Development
- Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (phabricator:T126730)
- Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
- Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
- Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
- Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
- More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
- Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
- 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.
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The Signpost: 24 April 2016
- Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot
- Traffic report: Two for the price of one
- Featured content: The double-sized edition
- Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case
Wikidata weekly summary #206
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
- Europeana Art History Challenge begins
- TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects
- Wikidata meets world literature
- Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
- Past: Wikimedia Conference
- Other noteworthy stuff
- SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
- Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
- List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
- List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
- Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
- Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
- Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
- Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Danish listed buildings case ID, Models.com client ID, Race time, IAT diver ID, IAT weightlifter ID, IAT triathlete ID, FIS snowboarder ID, FIS Nordic combined skier ID, FIS ski jumper ID, FIS freestyle skier ID, FIS cross-country skier ID, FIS alpine skier ID, D-U-N-S, source of income, budget, BNE journal ID, JudoInside.com ID, ISO 4063 process number, blue-style.com ID, Wrestlingdata person id, Danish protected area ID, Skyscraper Center building complex ID, Research Papers in Economics Series handle, NUTTAB Food Identifier, AUSNUT Food Identifier, CNC film rating, EIRIN film rating, exploitation visa number, production date, Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID, New Zealand Organisms Register ID, Roller Coaster Database ID, Photographers' Identities Catalog ID, PRONOM software identifier, PRONOM file format identifier, Filmiroda rating
- Newest WikiProjects: Olympics
- Query examples: songs with longest melody (source), subjects with most art dedicated to them (source), versions of The Scream (source)
- Development
- There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
- Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (phab:T129033#2217402, gerrit:283968)
- The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (gerrit:283945)
- The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as
<th>
instead of<td>
(gerrit:283395) - Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (phab:T110728)
- Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (phab:T132441)
- Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (phab:T132442)
- Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (phab:T132964)
- Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
- Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (phabricator:T132669)
- Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (phabricator:T131920)
- Added basic support for more languages to the query service (phabricator:T132756)
- 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.
Question about using Wikidata
Hi, I've noticed you've done some work on using wikidata in infoboxes. I wanted to ask your opinion on using quantity datatypes. I've noticed that the unit generally comes out singular rather than plural (e.g. 1000 foot instead of 1000 feet). Also is there a good way to feed the quantity through {{convert}} to get it displayed in metres as well? Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:01, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
- Hi @MSGJ:. I'm away at the moment, so I can only reply briefly. This is something I want to look into in more detail, at the moment I haven't seen a way to put it through convert, but it should be possible - you just need to be able to fetch the number and the unit separately. @RexxS: might be able to help more with the implementation here.
- There's the added problem with units in that Wikidata currently assumes an uncertainty in the last significant figure, which isn't always right (e.g. see South Pole Telescope, where a diameter of 10 +- 0.1m is given, but I'm sure that the diameter is much more accurate than that in reality - we should just be saying 10m there). However, as an initial step in using wikidata for numbers with units, it seems to be OK to me - and hopefully things will get better over the course of the year. :-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:27, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
- Martin, The call to getRawValue(PropertyID) will return the raw numeric value, with the presumed precision (like 10.0). I've written a call (getUnits(PropertyID)) at line 636 in Module:Wikidata/sandbox to crudely fetch the units (I think).
- Try pasting:
{{convert|{{#invoke:Wikidata|getRawValue|P2386|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}|{{#invoke:Wikidata/sandbox|getUnits|P2386|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}}
{{convert|{{#invoke:Wikidata|getRawValue|P2386|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}|{{#invoke:Wikidata/sandbox|getUnits|P2386|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}}}
- into South Pole Telescope #See also and previewing it.
- It needs a lot more testing and probably some refining, but once we can get a usable version, we can copy it into the main Module:Wikidata without disturbing what's already there. See what you think. --RexxS (talk) 20:30, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
- @RexxS: you're missing a closing bracket in the code sample, but this seems work very well - nice work. :-) It would definitely be a good feature to add to module wikidata. Although, it may need some liaising between Wikidata (maybe with @Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)'s help) and {{convert}}-coders to make sure that all units are supported, e.g. try this one in the SPT article:
{{convert|{{#invoke:Wikidata|getRawValue|P2046|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}|{{#invoke:Wikidata/sandbox|getUnits|P2046|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}}}
- Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:51, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
- Sorry about the bracket, Mike. The problem with the units, of course, will always be that there are divers ways of writing units. Wikidata exports one format, like "square metre" and {{convert}} expects another, like "m2" or "sqm", but doesn't understand "square metre" or even "sq m" (which I expected it to). I could write a lookup table in the module to take the Wikidata format and return the format that {convert} expects, but I think that first I'd rather explore the possibility of convincing the maintainers of {convert} to accept more natural unit formats such as those that Wikidata exports. --RexxS (talk) 01:38, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- @RexxS: you're missing a closing bracket in the code sample, but this seems work very well - nice work. :-) It would definitely be a good feature to add to module wikidata. Although, it may need some liaising between Wikidata (maybe with @Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)'s help) and {{convert}}-coders to make sure that all units are supported, e.g. try this one in the SPT article:
I'm glad this has generated some interest. I agree that code would be a good addition to Module:Wikidata, and it would be ideal if {{convert}} accepted the unit that wikidata exported. Before I post on Template talk:Convert about this, clarify one thing for me: if someone changed the label of square metre (Q25343), would that potentially disrupt all articles using this unit, or could the lookup be based on the item number? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:05, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- I just asked the question at Template talk:Convert #Interoperability with Wikidata before coming here where I saw your question, Martin. Sorry if I've jumped the gun. The formatting of the unit name is performed by a call to the Wikibase API, whose only documentation that I can find is at mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua #mw.wikibase.entity:formatPropertyValues. That was changed not so long ago to give us the actual unit name, rather than the link to the unit page that is stored in Wikidata. Consequently, I can't be sure that the call is making use of the label on the page for the unit (because the conversion is performed in the API, not in our Module) - although I'd be surprised if it didn't use the label for internationalisation reasons.
- I can see your concern: any vandal on Wikidata could cause multiple problems here that will not be obvious as to the source. But that's going to be the case every time we fetch information from Wikidata, although the scale could be far worse. My solution would be to protect some Wikidata pages like d:Q25343 (square metre). I can't see any point in having something so fundamental being editable by any drive-by IP vandal. In any case, the disruption here would be limited to seeing something like Area 78.5 square leg[convert: unknown unit], which wouldn't be too difficult to track down for anyone who had seen it before. --RexxS (talk) 09:42, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- I don't think using the label is ever going to fly, and not just for reasons related to vandalism. What about gallon (Scots) (Q5519125), gallon (US) (Q23925413), gallon (UK) (Q23925410), beer gallon (Q23925527) or even dry gallon (Q5309589)? All different units, but all could feasibly and in good faith be called just "gallon". Change their labels, you may say, but there are probably articles where the context is clear and you wouldn't want to keep using "US gallon" or "imperial gallon". I think we need to use the item number (if possible) and then use a lookup to convert that into what {{convert}} is expecting. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:42, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
- Can I suggest that this discussion is moved to Module talk:Wikidata? I think it's something that will be of general interest there, and the discussion's already going beyond that which should take place on a user talk page. ;-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:34, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:47, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 2 May 2016
- In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps
- Traffic report: Purple
- Featured content: The best ... from the past two weeks
Wikidata weekly summary #207
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- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Commons now has arbitrary access
- Work on ORES to make vandalism fighting easier is progressing well. "Damaging" and "goodfaith" models for Wikidata are now online.
- Wikimind
- New coverage maps have been created (see thumbnails)
- We have new images you can use to indicate your website/app/service is using data from Wikidata. (2 of the files have a problem still. We're working on a fix and will reupload.)
Show the rest of the world you're using data from Wikidata!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Loop ID, sound power, 3DMet ID, locality or place, Index Hepaticarum ID, clearance, ASF KID Cave Tag Number, power consumed, net tonnage, connects with, Czech neighbourhood ID code, longest span, aerodrome reference point, Mercalli intensity scale
- Category reports on without claims by site now link to PetScan's fast "has no statements"-option. A report for your preferred Wikipedia can be added.
- Query examples: software with most versions (source), oldest software (source), map of U1 stations in Berlin (source)
- Development
- Created the first MediaInfo entity through the API (screenshot, a bit more background)
- Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (phab:T132662)
- There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
- Removed unsupported
sort
anddir
parameters from thewikibase.api.RepoApi
JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript callinggetEntitiesByPage
(phab:T119856). - Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
- Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
- Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
- Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (phabricator:T132645)
- Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (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.
Ashley van Haeften
Hello, Are you administrator on this Wikipedia also or only Commons. I would like you to unlock article on BLP "Ashley van Haeften" former Chair of Wikimedia UK. My draft article is here. Mohsinpathania (talk) 18:31, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hi @Mohsinpathania: As I was personally involved in this, I'm not going anywhere near it. Please try Wikipedia:Articles for creation or Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:25, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
...has also passed GA now...any ideas on content missed or underrepresented please let me know....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 05:46, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #208
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- 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.
The West Country Challenge
Hi, Are you going to join in at: Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge. I'd particularly appreciate your help with getting the right things included in the core articles & missing articles lists at this stage as we are still preparing for the contest.— Rod talk 21:21, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hi @Rodw: thanks for the ping. I'll try to contribute if I can - I've got several big things on at the moment, so it will depend on how much free time I find myself with over the next few months. I think I'll be visiting Bath and area for a weekend at the end of this month, though - let me know if there are any particularly high-value targets in that area that we need photos of and I'll see if I can stop by them with my camera. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:21, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: April 2016
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Wikidata weekly summary #209
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- 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.
The Signpost: 17 May 2016
- Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil
- In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post
- Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one
- Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs
- Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"
- Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!
Robin Marshall
I saw you edited the list of professors in School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester. Looking down that list surely Robin Marshall is emeritus now? I wonder if there are other corrections? Billlion (talk) 08:26, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hi @Billlion: I'm not sure about Robin Marshall, but there are various updates that are probably needed to that list - e.g., both Rod Davies and Richard Davis have passed away; Ian Browne and Peter Wilkinson are both emeritus; 'Ralph Spender' is misspelt (should be 'Spencer'); and new professors (such as my boss, Clive Dickinson) aren't listed. The best reference here is probably the staff list - I don't want to edit the list myself for COI reasons, though, beyond adding the wikilink... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:11, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
- I looked at that list and it wasn't up to date either. These things used to be in a publication called the University Calendar.Wonder if that still exists.Billlion (talk) 21:23, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Billlion: There is the staff directory at directory.manchester.ac.uk - but I think the staff list on the physics website (and others) is drawn from that nowadays. I checked yesterday, and apparently Robin is now emeritus. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:54, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
- I looked at that list and it wasn't up to date either. These things used to be in a publication called the University Calendar.Wonder if that still exists.Billlion (talk) 21:23, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata based infobox
Hello Mike! Hope you're doing well. You once shared a Wikipedia article about a telescope or observatory on Facebook, which used an infobox that used data directly from Wikidata (the infobox essentially used nothing saved on the article itself). Do you remember that article? I am looking for it to study how exactly it works, with the hopes of applying it elsewhere. Best regards, Rehman 02:00, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
- Hi @Rehman: The infobox template I've been working on is {{Infobox telescope}}, and the canonical example I use for it in action is South Pole Telescope. It runs using Module:Wikidata. Let me know if you have any questions about how it works - I'd be very happy to see this approach being used more widely. :-) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:50, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you! Yes, I hope so too. Cheers, Rehman 13:55, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #210
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- 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.