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Wikidata weekly summary #243

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Badge for templates that work with Wikidata?

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
  • EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
  • Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
  • Past: Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• Discussion about the use of values from Wikidata in the English Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin, pregnancy category, minimal incubation period in humans, maximal incubation period in humans, normal respiratory rate, bite force quotient, name shares origin with, VGMDb album ID, Europeana Fashion creator ID, Parks & Gardens UK Record ID, base Mémoire reference, Aftonbladet topic ID, Songkick Artist ID, Nihon Tarento Meikan ID, PSA Worldtour ID, SANU member ID, Ubuntu 16.10 package, VICNAMES Place ID, wikiskripta id, Woodland Trust wood ID, WTA tennis tournament ID, National Inventors Hall of Fame ID, Inventario Sculture - Polo Museale Fiorentino, Israeli CBS municipal ID, maximum frequency of audible sound, medicine marketing authorisation, Fedora package, FAMA work ID, designated as terrorist by, colonel-in-chief, Euring number, CNC authorization number, case fatality rate, ATP tennis tournament ID, CircleID, Arch package, IPI base code, inferred from, nighttime view, season of, NSW Heritage database ID, stepparent, mirrors data from, FIDAL ID, Cinema of Israel ID
  • Query examples:
    • People without gender, but with photo (~2500 items)
    • Gallery of cheese varieties and origin
    • Taxa with more female than male individuals (source)
    • Scatter chart of river watershed area (in km²) over length (in km), now using normalized unit support (source)
  • Newest database reports: lighthouses at night

• Development
  • Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
  • Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
  • Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
  • Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help fixing the most important constraint violations
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17 jan 2017 16:46 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #244

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage
  • Past: WikiIndaba, Ghana
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM, Brussels, February 4-5th

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
  • QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
  • List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ZNIEFF Code, teams classification by time, cycling teams classification by points, FilmPolski.pl ID, points classification, legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin
  • Query examples:
    • Tide mills in France (source)
    • Wind mills in Paris (source)
    • Mathematical formulae containing HTML escapes (source)
    • Fire stations in Paris (source)

• Development
  • Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (phabricator:T153499)
  • Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (phabricator:T111016)
  • Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
  • Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
  • A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
  • More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 23 jan 2017 16:55 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #245

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking
  • FOSDEM, February 4-5th in Brussels Come and talk about Wikidata with us! See also the talk about UX and users' needs for Wikidata
  • Web Search and Data Mining Conference, February 6-10th, Cambridge

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
  • The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
  • The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package
  • Query examples:
    • Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
    • Largest companies by revenue in USD
    • Characters whose actors died recently (source)
    • Stock-listed US companies with founders who (or whose parents) were born outside the US (source)
    • Wizards from Harry Potter and their houses/groups (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Companies
  • Newest database reports: film festivals this month

• Development
  • RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (phab:T148923)
  • Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (phab:T48248)
  • Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (phab:T149082)
  • We plan to provide og:image Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (phab:T51859)
  • Introducing a new test framework for special pages (phab:T69122)
  • Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (phab:T154288)
  • Added docs/change-op-serializations.wiki documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
  • Added a CREDITS file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 30 jan 2017 14:41 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #246

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017
  • Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
  • Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC (livestream on Youtube)
  • Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
  • Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata development team
  • Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Greta Doçi

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
  • What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
  • Join the Wikimania program committee!
  • OpenStreetMap uses several wikidata-related tags in its database. See also the related documentation
  • Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
  • An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
  • WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
  • WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Saros cycle of eclipse, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID, Relations Ontology ID, GCD series ID, WNBA player ID, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID, CricketArchive playing ground ID, UltraSignup runner ID, ITRA runner ID, Surfline ID, SunshineTour ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, SIPCA code, Sina Weibo id, autologous cell line, Croatian Football Federation player ID, TLG author ID, data size, Fangraphs ID, European Handball Federation ID, ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID, ESPN MLB player ID, European Case Law Identifier, Cultureel Woordenboek identifier, OWGR ID, Legends of Hockey ID, Just Sports Stats ID, J.League Data Site ID, Global Poker Index ID, NGA Lighthouse ID, Admiralty number, pro-football-reference ID, College Football Data Warehouse ID, maximum size or capacity, USCF ID, World Curling Federation ID, World Curling Tour ID, World Guide to Covered Bridges ID, World Series of Poker ID, Zhihu topic ID
  • Query examples:
    • Places of worship south of 48°S(source)
    • Fictional items named after real items(source)

• Development
  • You can now download query results as SVG images
  • When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (phabricator:T51859)
  • We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
  • Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
  • Setting up test system for lexemes
  • Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
  • Doing more groundwork for lexemes
  • Working on better integration with Elastic
  • More work on Federation
  • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
  • Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
  • Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)
  • Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (phabricator:T151329)
  • Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (phabricator:T154993)

See all open tickets related to Wikidata.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 7 feb 2017 14:26 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #247

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
  • Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
  • A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
  • Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
  • Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
  • Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
  • Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
  • ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
  • It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: base salary, Visions of Britain place ID, Visions of Britain unit ID, DigDag ID, Sweden Nature Reserve ID, Le Monde diplomatique subject ID, Borden Code, fare zone, Recreation.gov area ID, EU VAT number, Booking.com hotel ID, BOLD Systems taxon ID, 90minut player ID, ITU triathlete ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art Constituent ID, candidacy in election, MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID, Archives nationales producer record, Hockey-reference player ID, F-Droid package, Danish ancient monument ID, BLF article ID, Araneae Spider ID, AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID
  • Query examples:
    • Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
    • Office-holders convicted of crimes (source)
    • Monarchs convicted of regicide (source)
    • Timeline of antipopes (source)
    • Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
    • Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire (source: Commons "category contains" template)
  • Newest external tools: new reconciliation for OpenRefine

• Development
  • Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
  • Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
  • Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
  • Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14 feb 2017 09:41 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #248

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
  • If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
  • Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
  • Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID, Tennis Archives player ID, Swimming Australia swimmer ID, Sambafoot player ID, International Weightlifting Federation ID, EPCR player ID, L'Équipe football player ID, Futsal Planet player ID, Fotbal DNES player ID, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID, Fora De Jogo manager ID, FootballFacts.ru player ID, Estonian Football Association player ID, DZFoot.com player ID, Croatian Football Statistics ID, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID, BDFutbol player ID, Chess.com player ID, ARRS runner ID, Kontinental Hockey League player ID, American Hockey League player ID, JMK film rating, IDEAS person ID, NatureServe conservation status, NBA player ID, Basketball Hall of Fame ID, All Blacks player ID, FFR player ID, significant environmental impact, ARCHON code, Uniform Type Identifier, National Drug Code, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID, Oorlogsmonument ID, European Medicines Agency product number, PDB ligand ID, Peakbagger area ID, The Met object ID, British Museum place ID, British Museum thesaurus ID, Babelio work ID, Babelio author ID, stated age at event, British History Online VCH ID, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Kirshenbaum, Common Weakness Enumeration ID, BadmintonLink player ID, rusbandy player ID, Darts Database player ID, Bwfbadminton.com player ID, ski-db.com skier ID
  • Query examples:
    • People born at the sea (source)
    • Persons buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (source)
    • Paintings by women painters in the Louvre (source)
    • People born on Valentine's day, colour coded by country of citizenship (source)
  • Newest external tools: wikidata-cli can now edit Wikidata, edit Wikidata from NodeJS

• Development
  • Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
  • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
  • Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (phabricator:T158183)
  • Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 20 feb 2017 16:56 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #249

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Proposal to include command line arguments to Command line tool
  • We need your input on SPARQL federation

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Describing Wikidata items with OpenStreetMap tags
  • Deadline for applying to Wikicite 2017 is February 27th
  • Quora blog post about their collaboration with Wikidata. They are now displaying links to Wikidata items in their topic management pages - about 88K of them, so far.
  • Community Digest: Using data to visualize Wikipedia knowledge gaps; news in brief

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a Community for Wikidata editors on Facebook
  • You can now make your Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add &run= to the url. When you open it next time, it will load and then run automatically. Alternatively, you can use &load= which will only prepare the task for running.
  • Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app for Hebrew, Russian and Catalan

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GPnotebook ID, regulated by, NCMEC person ID, MEROPS enzyme ID, social classification, NISH Hall of Fame ID, Recreation.gov facility ID, category for value not in Wikidata, objective of a project or mission, Vanderkrogt.net Statues ID, Jewish Encyclopedia Daat ID, category for value different from Wikidata, PhDTree person ID, Gridabase glacier ID, RITVA Person ID, RITVA Program ID, KMDb film ID, JMDb person ID, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts ID, incarnation of, NHF player ID, Transfermarkt referee ID, Tennis Australia player ID, SRCFB player ID, SRCBB player ID, SpeedSkatingStats speed skater ID, SpeedSkatingNews speed skater ID, ShorttrackOnLine speed skater ID, NCAA sports team ID, ISHOF swimmer ID, IFSC climber ID, ICF slalom canoer ID, ICF sprint canoer ID, ESPN NHL player ID, ESPN NFL player ID, ESPN NBA player ID, DriverDB driver ID, LFP.fr player ID, AOC athlete ID, ESPN FC player ID, statement supported by, stock market index, SA Rugby player ID, Wereld van Oranje player ID, National Bridge Inventory Number, Hans Christian Andersen Centre's work ID, Mutopia composer ID, film-documentaire.fr film ID, International Orienteering Federation athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of cheese by milk used (source)
    • The many flags of Afghanistan (source)
    • Real works written by fictional authors (source)
    • Maps of churches in Pyrénées-Orientales (France) (source)
    • Cities with millions of inhabitants that not a single person in Wikidata was born, has lived, or died in (source)

• Development
  • Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
  • More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. These other tasks need a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 27 feb 2017 15:54 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #250

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (Overleg gebruiker:Rodejong/Nieuwsbrieven/WIKIDATA/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23odd17%20wikidata&src=typd tweets about Wikidata)
  • Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
  • Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
  • Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
  • Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
  • The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint
  • Query examples:
    • Countries with similar populations (source)
    • Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
    • Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
    • Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
    • Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion

• Development
  • Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (phabricator:T57549).
  • SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T48248)
  • Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (phabricator:T155699).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 6 mrt 2017 15:34 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #251

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
  • Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
  • Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
  • Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
  • Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
  • Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
  • Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
  • Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier
  • Query examples:
    • List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
    • Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens (source)
    • Awards received by more women than men (source)
    • Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
    • The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
    • Natural arches around the globe (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
  • Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator

• Development
  • Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (phab:T134643).
  • Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (phab:T158772).
  • Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (phab:T160319).
  • Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
  • Finishing federation prototype.
  • We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (phab:T157965).
  • Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (phabricator:T159702)
  • Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (phabricator:T154768)
  • Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (phabricator:T134643)
  • Converted image header user script to gadget (phabricator:T159929)
  • Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T150785)
  • Worked on providing API for constraint check (phabricator:T102757)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13 mrt 2017 16:27 (CET)

Weekly Summary #252

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
  • Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
  • A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
  • Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
  • Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
  • Quora: Identifying Topics about People
  • How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
  • SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
  • Mix’n’match interface update

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of authors of scientific articles that have been published on this day of the year (source)
    • Scholarly articles that have Wikipedia articles about them (source)
    • False Vermeer works (source)
    • From Natalie Portman to Paul Erdös graph (source)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug on the save button (phab:T159244)
  • Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (phab:T156013)
  • More work on Federation (phab:T157442, phab:T158169)
  • Fixing a bug on geoformats (phab:T158772)
  • Fixing a bug on the treemap view (phab:T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
  • More groundwork on Lexemes (phab:T157791)
  • Show thumbnails in commons suggester (phab:T160319)
  • Fixing a bug on coordinate (phab:T153429)
  • Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (phab:T151194)
  • Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phab:T150785)
  • Working on providing API for constraint check (phab:T102757)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 20 mrt 2017 17:28 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #253

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office
  • A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
  • (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
  • Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
  • 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
  • Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
  • The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
  • Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID
  • Query examples:
    • Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
    • Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
    • Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
    • Sluices on canals in Bretagne (France) (source)
  • Newest database reports: film scripts
  • Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)

• Development
  • Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (phab:T161263)
  • Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T157973)
  • Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (phabricator:T151194)
  • Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (phabricator:T150950)
  • Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T160520)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 27 mrt 2017 16:39 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #254

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
  • Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
  • Biocuration 2017
    • Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
    • Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
    • Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
  • Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
  • New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
  • Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
  • Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
  • new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
  • Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns, source)
    • French people without a gender (source)
    • Eldest members of noble families (source)
    • Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)

• External Tools News
  • wikidata-cli
    • new command: wd summary
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-edit:
    • new function: remove claim
    • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
  • wikidata-sdk:
    • new function: simplify.entity
    • major documentation restructuration
  • wikidata-filter:
    • new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
  • Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data

• Development
  • A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
  • Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
  • Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (phab:T161631)
  • Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (phab:T114617)
  • More work on Senses (phab:T161523) and Forms (phab:T160524)
  • Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (phab:T150950)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 3 apr 2017 15:35 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #255

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Zolo
  • New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
  • Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
  • Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
  • There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
  • New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
  • Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
  • New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
  • You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
  • Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
  • Help us translating this short message in your language

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Notable integers
    • Longest streets of Moscow
    • Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
    • Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
    • Countries not involved in any world war (source)
    • People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
  • Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Newest database reports: list of duos

• Development
  • Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (phab:T162244)
  • Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
  • Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10 apr 2017 14:25 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #256

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
• "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
• Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
• The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
• Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
• More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
• All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
• You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game with a query ;)
• To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

Did you know?

• Newest properties: type of reference, suicide rate, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID, MyDramaList name ID, iTunes app ID, Wormbase Gene ID, Environment Ontology ID, route diagram, cinenacional.com person ID, Quebec municipalities geographical code, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID, Soundtrack Collector ID, Rat Genome Database ID, FlyBase Gene ID, cinenacional.com movie ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID, Irish Rugby Football Union ID, Open Library subject ID, DBC author ID
• Query examples:
  • The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks (source)
  • The most important works in German by Wiki* articles (source)
  • Cities in France starting with the letter W (source)
• Newest external tools: Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
• Newest database reports: list of anthology films

Development

• More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (phab:T160052)
• Adding monolingual language code UMU (phab:T160531)
• Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (phab:T161826)
• Improving header image gadget (phab:T160530)
• Provide a special page to list all available badges (phab:T114473)
• Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
• Track the number of identifier properties on an item (phab:T114617)

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 - proposals needing attention
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18 apr 2017 12:26 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #257

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
  • Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
  • Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
    • Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
    • Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
    • Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
  • New template: d:Template:Film festivals

• Development
  • Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (phab:T138295)
  • Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (phab:T163144)
  • Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (phab:T110604)
  • Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (phab:T159710)
  • Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (phab:T160530)
  • Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (phab:T162342)
  • Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (phab:T160048)
  • Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
  • Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (phab:T157466)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 24 apr 2017 15:14 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #258

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
  • Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
  • Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
  • Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
  • Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
  • New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
  • new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
  • Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
  • Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
  • Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
  • Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username
  • Query examples:
    • 15415 people who died in 2016
    • Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
    • Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
    • Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
    • A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format

• Development
  • Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
  • Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
  • The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
  • Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (phabricator:T107595)
  • Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
  • Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 2 mei 2017 16:08 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #259

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Updating References for External Data

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
  • Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
  • Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
  • Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
  • You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
  • We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
  • Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
  • Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work
  • Query examples:
    • All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something (source)
    • Paintings depicting monkeys (source)
    • Artworks with presumably depicted persons (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses

• Development
  • Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
  • Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
  • Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
  • Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 8 mei 2017 16:57 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #260

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Development input: Client editing prototype

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the Wikidata and SPARQL training)
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
  • Upcoming: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
  • Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
  • You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata. The Cycle 2 started on May, 11.
  • WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
  • TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
  • OSMgadget is a tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them with their Wikidata IDs
  • The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool
  • Two language properties will be merged but the discussion still needs to go on
  • Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
  • The constraint table has been updated

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLL player ID, Italian Senate ID, ALPG golfer ID, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID, BioRxiv ID, narrower external class, Juwra.com ID, MLL player ID, Directorio Grierson ID, RANM member ID, Old Bailey Proceedings ID, Tumblr ID, Bmx-results.com rider ID, Israel Antiquities Authority ID, OlimpBase Chess Olympiad player ID, ESTC citation number, named by, Reactome pathway ID, NFF person profile ID, Chamber of Deputies of Italy ID, face value, Cinema ID, Digital Valencian Library author ID, copyright owner, Rallye-info.com driver or co-driver ID, V&A item ID, MotoGP racer ID, eWRC-results.com athlete ID, USATF athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics male athlete ID, Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID, Diamond League athlete ID
  • Query examples:
    • Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths (source)
    • Chart of USA cities founded per year (source)
    • Country flags including a symbol of sun (source)
    • Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts (source)

• Development
  • More work on Special:NewLexeme page (Phab:T164582)
  • Correctly compare time values on constraints (Phab:T164279)
  • Check wording of messages/constraint check results (Phab:T164354)
  • Creating grammatical features for Forms (Phab:T160525)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Help adding missing statements to properties
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15 mei 2017 21:48 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #261

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
  • Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
  • Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
  • Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
  • Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
  • Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
  • We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
  • An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID
  • Query examples:
    • Websites but without an official website
  • Plants with associated emoji (source)
    • Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
    • HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
    • Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
    • Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
    • Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation

• Development
  • Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
  • Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
  • Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (phab:T164354, help update translations)
  • Working on a tree view for the Query Service (phab:T152676)
  • Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
  • Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
  • Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (phab:T162557)
  • Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (phab:T163551)

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 23 mei 2017 13:57 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #262

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
  • New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
  • Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
  • Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Eurowings app uses Wikidata
  • Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
  • Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth (source)
    • Potential reviewers for papers in computer science (source)
    • Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts (source)
    • Publications and presentations about WikiCite (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
  • Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
  • Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography

• Development
  • Attending WikiCite
  • Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887)
  • Improving label tracking (phab:T151717)
  • Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data

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 - proposals needing attention
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 29 mei 2017 17:22 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #263

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
  • Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
  • Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
  • Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
  • MySociety (Q10851773) are 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?'".
    1. Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
    2. Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
    3. Linking back in the other direction
    4. Check that the data is consistent
  • Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
  • Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
  • Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL
  • Query examples:
    • Number of citizens with “blood type” statements per country (source)
    • Works with most citations (running time 20-45s) (source)
    • Female recipients of the Palme d'Or award (source)
    • Timeline of albums by Manu Chao and Mano Negra (source)
    • Female given names ending in "o" (source)
  • Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
  • Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"

• Development
  • Removing some config variables (phab:T93773)
  • Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (phab:T166429)
  • Showing badges in the sidebar (phab:T73887)
  • Fixing a bug on Query Service (phab:T166762)
  • Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (phab:T162673)
  • Adding an accesskey to the undo button (phab:T165078)
  • Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (phab:T166657)
  • Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (phab:T161983)
  • Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
  • More work on usage tracking (phab:T151717)
  • More work on Lexemes (phab:T157974)
  • More work on statements (phab:T165480)
  • More work on constraints (phab:T167107)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 6 jun 2017 16:42 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #264

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• 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:
    1. Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
    2. Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
    3. Linking back in the other direction
    4. Check that the data is consistent
    5. Conclusion: So, what is the gender breakdown of heads of government?

• 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
    • Announcement & guide

• 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:
    • Coordinates of parallels and meridians according to Wikidata (source)
    • Uses of the property "IPv6 routing prefix" (source)
    • Non-politician jobs that UK Prime Ministers had (source)
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12 jun 2017 15:24 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #265

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New requests for comments:
    • How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?
    • Findagrave removed as a source for information

• 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

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19 jun 2017 15:30 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #266

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• 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

Cheat sheet about Wikidata Query Service (de)

• 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:
    • BubbleChart of Metal band by country (source)
    • Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality (source)
    • Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID (source)
    • Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia (source)
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 26 jun 2017 17:00 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #267

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 3 jul 2017 12:26 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #268

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• 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 (Overleg gebruiker:Rodejong/Nieuwsbrieven/WIKIDATA/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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10 jul 2017 16:16 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #269

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: talk about Wikidata at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing by Lydia
  • Past: Wikidata hackathon during Africa Open Data Conference in Accra
  • Upcoming: Café OpenStreetMap e Wikidata, July 22nd, in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Report of the workshop about election data (in German)
  • Integrating Wikidata and other linked data sources – Federated SPARQL queries, on The SuLab

• WikidataCon
  • The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
  • You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have a page describing our use of RDF
  • We now have Q33000000
  • The database reports about items without statements are updated again. English Wikipedia is up at 4.8% (from 4.6%). Dutch Wikipedia remains low at 0.8%.
  • Check out some improvements to the Query Service, and a new prototype for the Query Helper
  • New Wikidata maps with a comparison between October 2016 and July 2017
  • Help improving Wikidata documentation during the Wikimania hackathon

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: NPSN Indonesian school ID, EmbassyPages.com ID, ESEC person ID, Titan ID, Who's Who in France biography ID, French National Assembly ID
  • Query examples:
    • Graph of operating systems (source)
    • Couples of Members of Parliament in UK (source)
    • People who have the same person listed as both their parent and their child (source)
    • Map of “railway things” in Berlin, as classified by LinkedGeoData.org (source)
    • Map of discovery locations of the objects stored in the Musée Saint-Raymond (source)
    • metro stations in Germany with public domain images on Commons (source)
    • UK Members of Parliament who are born out of the UK (source)

• Development
  • Preparing Lexemes demo for Wikimania
  • Fixing links to non-entity namespaces (phab:T169221) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
  • Tracking labels of quantity units in parser and Lua functions (phab:T170167) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
  • Fixing checking of constraints on deprecated statements (phab:T170391)
  • Improving the Query Service UI (phab:T170279)
  • Improving wbsearchentities (phab:T103875)
  • Removing links from printable version (phab:T87108)
  • Adding customizable fallback to Special:GoToLinkedPage (phab:T166473)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 17 jul 2017 15:33 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #270

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata SPARQL workshop, July 25th in Rennes (France)
  • Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS, July 26th in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Montreal, August 14th (in French). We're looking for trainers!
  • Using Wikidata as an open, community-maintained database of biomedical knowledge, by Andrew Su

• WikidataCon
  • You can submit projects for the program until July 31st. See the list of ideas, existing submissions, and submit!
  • Special tickets for scholarship recipients will be released on July 25th. The last 50 tickets will be released on September 1st.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wbEntity config variable will be deprecated
  • Scores in ORES will be more accurate
  • A new version of the Query Helper will be deployed
  • Sitelinks for the new Dinka Wikipedia (dinwiki) have been added
  • On Wikidata:Usability and usefulness you can see an overview of the work done by the UX people in the Wikidata team on usability
  • There's a brand new newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can subscribe to receive next updates.
  • Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Patrimonioculturale-ER ID, linguistic typology, annual energy output, USHMM person ID, Cinema Treasures ID
  • Query examples:
    • Properties with most “statement disputed by” qualifiers (source)
    • Last meals of people (source)
    • Colors on national flags (source)
    • images of all winners of Free Software Foundation's Free Software Awards (source)
  • lib.reviews now allows searching Wikidata directly to choose subjects to review. (more info)

• Development
  • The wbEntity JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (gerrit:365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook as a possible replacement.
  • Fire-fighting dispatch backlog: phab:T171263.
  • Slowly making progress on wb_terms migration to full entity IDs: phab:T114903.
  • Constraint statements have been enabled (announcement).
  • Distinguish between non-mandatory and mandatory constraints: phab:T164254.
  • Work on supporting unit conversion for more units: phab:T168582

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 24 jul 2017 17:21 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #271

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikimania is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017, in Edinburgh, August 4th
  • Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes (version in German)
  • Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict
  • Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community

• WikidataCon
  • Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
  • You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test
  • Quantities with units are now supported in the new QuickStatements.
  • Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers.
  • We now have Q34000000
  • Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: maximum age, WIGOS station ID
  • Query examples:
    • Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? (source)
    • Total number of sister city statements per country (source)
    • Pictures of tube stations in London (source)
    • Works created with the software Maya (source)
    • Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? (source)
    • ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? (source)
    • Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year (source)
  • New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property

• Development
  • Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
  • Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
  • Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (phab:T164254)
  • Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (phab:T66950)
  • Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
  • Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 31 jul 2017 16:26 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #272

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
  • Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata has now more than 1000 articles
  • Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: offset, File format magic numbers, game mechanics, weather history, conjugate base, conjugate acid, Atheneum museum ID, Atheneum person ID, Atheneum artwork ID, Finnish List of Lights ID, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID, energy storage capacity, National Assembly of Nigeria ID, Treasury of Lives ID, muzzle velocity, WIGOS station ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years (source)
    • Countries where no european language has official or national status (source)
    • Gallery of Star Trek characters (source)
    • Timeline of female medieval writers (source)
  • Newest script: moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek
  • Newest external tools: d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format

• Development
  • Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
  • Released the DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
  • Released the ValueView component in version 0.20.0
  • Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (phab:T169060)
  • Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 7 aug 2017 18:33 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #273

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Restrict merging rights to autoconfirmed users
  • Change "Nearby" link to list items nearby the item?
  • New request for comments: P31 or P279 for geo-objects

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikifying Westminster: Wikidata workshop around UK political data, August 19th, London
  • Past: Wikimania, Wikimedia hackathon. A lot of things happened during these events, reports and news should be published in the next days.
  • Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, by Mapbox
  • Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata by Dan Scott
  • Why data partners should link their vocabulary to Wikidata: a new case study on Europeana blog

• Wikimania
  • You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
  • Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
  • Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
  • List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
  • Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
  • Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
  • Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
  • New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
  • Talk: WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
  • Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
  • Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
  • Talk: Sum of all paintings is just the start, by Multichill

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
  • Wikidata reached d:Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most-depicted musical instruments (source)
    • People who died in 2017 without a French label (source)
    • Moar goats (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
  • Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates

• Development

Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14 aug 2017 17:07 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #274

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
  • Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
  • What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
  • The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
  • More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID
  • Query examples:
    • Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
    • Shortest streets in Moscow
    • A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (source)
    • Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac (source)
    • Twin cities of places in South Africa (source)
    • 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns (source)
    • All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments

• Development
  • Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (phabricator:T170531)
  • Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
  • Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T172592)
  • Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
  • Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 21 aug 2017 16:57 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #275

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: علاء
  • New request for comments: How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
  • Comment about approach on items about pages in cebwiki created by Lsjbot
  • Comment about whether to have a "Wikimedia username" property

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
  • A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al. (Q37859976)
  • The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how GeneWiki is using Wikidata. Video on YouTube
  • Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
  • Video of 3 Wikimania 2017 sessions: Wikidata Revolution, Performing arts in Wikidata, and Sum of all paintings. Others videos can be found on Andrew's channel.

• WikidataCon
  • The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
  • Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
  • The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
  • We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Q38000000 was created
  • Language fallback indicators hidden on variant fallback languages

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Natural Landmarks site ID, GujLit Book ID, GujLit Person ID, tabular population, Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID, Finnish National Gallery person ID, effective firing range, Patreon person ID, Wikimedia username, Instagram location ID, America's Byways road ID
  • Query examples:
    • number of persons per QID (using P735=Q4925477) (source)
    • QID milestones by date
    • Timeline for biochemist and Nobel Laureate Hans Adolf Krebs (source)
    • Canadian actors who twice played a US president (source)
    • Duration of Steven Spielberg's films (source)
  • Newest external tools: Metaphacts, a feature to search in Wikidata via Alexa

• Development
  • Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (phabricator:T173543)
  • Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example phabricator:T173738)
  • Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (phabricator:T170531)
  • Fighting with load issues in the job queue (phabricator:T173710)
  • Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
  • Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 28 aug 2017 16:34 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #277

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
  • Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
  • Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India

• WikidataCon
  • The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
  • The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
  • The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Q39000000 was created
  • Wikidata passed 7 average statements per item
  • The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID
  • Query examples:
    • Places of education of the UK members of Parliament (source)
    • Pairs of churches in the UK that are within 25 metres of each other (source)
    • National parks in India (source)
    • Persons buried more than 13000 km away from their death place (warning: some errors needing correction)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
  • Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)

• Development
  • The new Echo notification is now deployed on all wikis
  • Looked into further possible improvements for change dispatching
  • Worked on persistently storing edits in more parts of a Lexeme
  • Worked on getting expanded URIs for identifiers into the RDF exports (phabricator:T121274)
  • Continued work on caching constraints results so we can roll it out for more users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Fixing a bug that highlights input in value fields as not recognized when it shouldn't be (phabricator:T175525)
  • Released version 2.1.0 of the Serialization JavaScript component (phabricator:T174011)
  • Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component (phabricator:T168681)
  • Released version 0.9.0 of the DataValues JavaScript component (phabricator:T172916)
  • Released version 0.8.6 of the DataValues Time component (phabricator:T151088)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11 sep 2017 16:49 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #278

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Wahldaten Workshop 2017 – 30 September 2017 in Vienna, Austria
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Research Showcase
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Zurich (the slides of the speakers are linked on the page)
  • Past: GLAMhack Wikidata workshop in Lausanne (see the slides of the Query Service introduction)
  • Past: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India
  • Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
  • Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany), by Envel Le Hir
  • Wiki Loves Monuments und Wikidata, by SW
  • The French Connection at the Wikimania 2017 Hackathon, by Envel Le Hir

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
  • Join the mysterious group of Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
  • A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
  • Q40000000 was created
  • Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
  • Several new catalogs in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number, Sefaria ID, ICD-10-CM, Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID, Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID, Cyworld ID, IPA Braille, category contains, Enciclopedia Italiana ID, United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number, National Criminal Justice ID, order of battle, Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID, shelf life, UK Electoral Commission ID, LNB Pro A player ID, nLab ID, highest observed lifespan, Unicode hex codepoint, PACTOLS thesaurus ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID, Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID
  • Query examples:
    • Algorithms and the problems they solve (source)
    • Swiss items with article in exactly one of German-, French-, Italian-, and Romansh-language Wikipedias (source)
    • Popular gender-neutral given names (source)
    • Computer network protocols and their ports (source)
    • Software developers by number of software titles (source)
    • Spacecraft and what they were named after (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject property constraints

• Development
  • Worked more on the constraints gadget in order to make it also qork for references and qualifiers
  • Made progress on persistently storing edits for the new Lexeme entity type (next to items and properties)
  • Worked on the RDF mapping for full URIs of external identifiers (phabricator:T121274)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18 sep 2017 17:36 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #279

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data, September 30th, Vienna
  • Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th, 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about birthday presents? ;-)
  • Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
  • 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
  • Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: candidate number, maximal rate of climb, refine date, regular expression syntax, vocalized name, webcam page URL, Heritage Building in Finland ID, PatientLikeMe symptom ID, PatientLikeMe treatment ID, PatientLikeMe condition ID, Figshare author ID
  • Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are connected to (source)

• Development
  • Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (phabricator:T151717)
  • Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (phabricator:T55619)
  • Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (phabricator:T176062)
  • Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (phabricator:T176327)
  • Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 25 sep 2017 22:52 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #280

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
  • One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
  • Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
  • Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
  • Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
  • There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
  • New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
  • A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
  • Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
  • Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
  • Statement 300.000.000 was created
  • 20 million edits were done in September 2017

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: TSE number, defined daily dose, Vincoli in Rete ID, The Black Book ID, Tagesschau election ID, LfD-HB object ID, cultural heritage monument in Serbia ID, Bavarian monument authority ID
  • Query examples: What exists in the "... as a service" genre? (source)

• Development
  • Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
  • Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742, phabricator:T173744)
  • Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
  • Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124)
  • Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794)
  • Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 2 okt 2017 19:53 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #281

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
    • We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
    • Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
  • Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
  • New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (source)
    • For each award, percentage of women who received it (source)
    • Intelligent personal assistants described in Wikidata (source)
    • Units of measurement named after German people (source)
    • Buildings constructed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
  • Newest database reports: television series by camera setup

• Development
  • Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
  • A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (phabricator:T173262)
  • The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (phabricator:T142903)
  • Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
  • Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
  • Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
  • Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (phabricator:T174794)
  • Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 9 okt 2017 22:27 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #282

Wikidata weekly summary #282

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Association Football Matches
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
  • If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the events page and the birthday page
  • A blog post describing Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
  • Slides of the presentation "Wikidata Query Service: The State of the Engine" by Stas Malyshev
  • Slides of the presentation "Wikidata and structured data initiatives at Wikimedia. Current trends and priorities" by Dario Taborelli
  • Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
  • Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20th to 30th November 2017
  • Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
  • wikidata-cli added bot support and new commands (wd search, wd aliases, wd add-alias, wd remove-alias, wd set-alias)
  • wikidata-edit added bot edits support and new functions (alias.add, alias.remove, alias.set)
  • HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform
  • You can now use reCh to patrol items from your PagePile
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Women's Sports Foundation ID, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame ID, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame ID, New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame ID, National Trust Collections ID, Infopatrimônio ID, KBO pitcher ID, KBO hitter ID, Cairn author ID, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame ID, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame ID, Kansas Sports Hall of Fame ID, Hawai‘i Sports Hall of Fame ID, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ID, DSMHOF athlete ID, ASHOF athlete ID, ExecutedToday ID, Monumentos de São Paulo ID, gravsted.dk ID, Dutch lost building register ID, Musikverket person ID, Megalithic Portal ID, PROSITE documentation ID, Search formatter URL, nominated by, BillionGraves cemetery ID, Cravo Albin artist ID, salinity, Lotsawa House Indian author ID, Lotsawa House Tibetan author ID, Florida Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, T4T35 megalith ID, excavation director, QEdu ID, WBPLN author ID, Store norske leksikon ID, synodic period, PubsHistory pub ID, Organization ID on Radio Radicale, LOINC ID, digitised page from Lloyd's Register of Ships from 1930 to 1945, Lloyd's Register Ship ID, IDESCAT territorial code in Catalonia, Heritage Conservation District of Ontario ID, GenBank Assembly accession, Deutsche Synchronkartei actor-ID, Department of Education and Skills roll number, contains, Wikimedia template, Brueckenweb id, BHL bibliography ID, BFI-Filmography person ID, APA phoneme code, combination classification, young rider classification, best sprinter classification, best combative classification, mountains classification, Elite Prospects staff ID, Scottish Sports HoF athlete ID, GARD rare disease ID, kinship equivalent in SPARQL at Wikidata, SwimSwam ID, SpeedskatingResults.com speed skater ID, musée de Bretagne identifiant collections ID, camera setup, FOIH taxon ID, FOIH decree types ID, FOIH event types ID, FOIH value types ID, FOIH heritage types ID, FOIH periods ID, FOIH styles and cultures ID, FOIH materials ID
  • Query examples:
    • Flags with more than 5 stars (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages (source)
    • Female scientists sorted by number of citations of their work (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Women
  • Newest database reports: Jean Rochefort Filmography
• Development
  • Continued working on persistently storing edits on Lexeme pages (specifically Forms)
  • Dealt with issues caused by too many edits being injected into recent changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia
  • Constraint checks will also be done on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T176863)
  • Fixed a regression with the focus not automatically being set after a property was selected (phabricator:T177485)
  • Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)
  • The secondary wb_entity_per_page table got removed now (phabricator:T140890)
  • The secondary wb_terms table does have a term_full_entity_id column now (phabricator:T167114)
  • Released version 4.0.0 of the Wikibase DataModel JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177476)
  • Released version 3.0.0 of the Wikibase Serialization JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177613)
  • Released version 0.10.0 of the DataValues JavaScript library as a pure NPM package with no MediaWiki dependency (phabricator:T177232)
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16 okt 2017 23:39 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #283

Wikidata weekly summary #282

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
  • Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
  • Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
  • Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
  • Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
  • COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
  • Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
  • Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
  • Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
  • Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
  • Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
  • New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
  • Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
  • Query examples:
    • Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
    • Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
    • Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
    • Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
    • Initial characters of names of free software (source)
    • Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
    • First World Heritage site per country (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of kinship types
• Development
  • Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
  • Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
  • More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
  • Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
  • Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (phabricator:T48329, phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
  • Released the Wikibase DataModel component in version 7.2.0 (phabricator:T177486)
• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 24 okt 2017 10:53 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #284

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Defining account creators

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
  • Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
  • Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
  • Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
  • Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one

• Wikidata's birthday
• The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
  • Birthday presents
    • Search index now contains statements with {{Property|P31}} and {{P|P279}}. These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
    • inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
    • You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
    • Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
    • Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
    • graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
    • Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
    • Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
    • You can now create items from the command-line
    • Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the Wikimedia Cuteness Association (Q29169245).
    • Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party
    • Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
    • Dungeon of Knowledge (source), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
    • Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
    • mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
    • Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
    • Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
    • Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
    • SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning soon
    • From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
  • Stories and reflections
    • Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
    • Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
    • Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
    • Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
    • Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
    • Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
    • Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
    • Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
    • Message from the development team

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID
  • Query examples:
    • Organic acids with images (source)
    • People who are their father's father (source)
    • 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes (source)
    • Cities with most first performances of works (source)
    • Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament (source)
    • Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
    • First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)

• Development
  • Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
  • Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (phabricator:T178564)
  • Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
  • Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
  • You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 30 okt 2017 16:28 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #285

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Obaid Raza

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five on WMF's blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez
  • Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata, by Petter Reinholdtsen
  • Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs, by Magnus Manske

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
  • Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs
  • Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Barbarian R.C. id, Barbarian F.C. id, Isidore ID, Team GB athlete ID, HOC athlete ID, COAM architect ID, Camera Decision ID, Google Play developer ID, INDUCKS miniseries ID, INDUCKS issue ID, INDUCKS story ID, INDUCKS publisher ID, INDUCKS creator ID, INDUCKS publication ID, INDUCKS character ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID, Humble Store ID, Australian Baseball League player ID, European Fencing Confederation athlete ID, IBHOF boxer ID, Melon artist ID, Czech Jockey Club horse ID, Rush Parliamentary Archive ID, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association ID, IGHOF athlete ID, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee ID, Twitch game ID, Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID, Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID, Rugby League Project player ID, Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductee ID, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee ID, World Golf Hall of Fame player ID, Kaitai Struct format gallery ID, Diccionario biográfico español ID, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID, Discography of American Historical Recordings ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database ID, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID, Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID, Argentine Senate member ID, Thibaudeau classification, Scoresway handball person ID, HAL author ID, Shirat Nashim person ID, cash back, Minimum Spend Bonus, reward program, grace period, reward, Card Network, mean age, hydraulic head
  • Query examples:
    • endemic moths of New Zealand with images in Wikidata (source)
    • Images of people commemorated by plaques in Jena, Germany (source)
    • Paintings located in Le Louvre without pictures on Wikidata, with the location in the museum (source)
    • Persons who will have their work in public domain in 2018 in Denmark, with their occupations (source)
    • Political parties by ideology in a tree view (source)
    • Organic acids with pictures (source)
    • Levels of education in France, from kindergarten to high school, with their US equivalents (source)
    • Horses drawn on hills in the UK (source)
    • Frequency of “retrieved” dates in Wikidata references (source)
  • Newest database reports: completeness of family relation properties

• Development
  • query service UI improvements (Ided10bb8c8, I3c6ec22a15, Ieb6e561563, I9a526fc8b4, Ib4ea273ab1
  • proposed changes to HTML around statements – feedback welcome!
  • Finished diff support for lexeme phab:T178757
  • Refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
  • JavaScript libraries used by Wikibase have been integrated as submodules into Wikibase's git repository (phab:T177087)
  • Git repository of the Wikibase JavaScript API has been moved. Check your settings! (phab:T178226)

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.
  • The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 6 nov 2017 12:31 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #286

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
  • Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
  • Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
  • Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
  • Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
  • Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
  • Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
  • Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
  • Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
  • WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
  • A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
  • research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson (source)
    • Canals within 800 kilometres of Glasgow (source)
    • File systems by developer, date, and OS (source)
    • Map of metro stations of Bilbao (source)
    • Highest point of each department of France (source)
• Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives

• Development
  • Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (phabricator:T179045, phabricator:T179061, phabricator:T179130)
  • Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
  • Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
  • Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
  • Add wikibase-snakview-indicators area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (phab:T95403, d:WD:PC#Gadget / userscript editor feedback wanted)
  • Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (phabricator:T169771)
  • Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
  • Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
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  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
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  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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Wikidata weekly summary #287

Wikidata weekly summary #287 Global message delivery/Targets/Wikidata

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Monolingual language code creation process

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour (log)
  • Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
  • Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
  • Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
  • WikidataCon 2017
  • Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
  • "Turning a historical book into a data set"
  • "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
  • New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
  • Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
  • Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
  • A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
  • Query examples:
    • List of subclasses of Matrices
    • Works of art in which the artists depicts their spouse (source)
    • locations Van Gogh depicted in his paintings (source)
    • Gender split of past Google Doodles (source)
  • Newest database reports: expeditions

• Development
  • Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
  • RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
  • Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
  • Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
  • Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
  • Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21 nov 2017 11:29 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #288

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
  • Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
  • Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
  • Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
  • Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
  • Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
  • Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
  • Query examples:
    • People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
    • Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
    • Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
    • Map of libraries in India (source)
    • Train and subway stations in Basque Country (source)
  • Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations

• Development
  • Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
  • Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
  • Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 27 nov 2017 16:43 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #289

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
  • Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
  • Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
  • Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
    • Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
    • Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
  • Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
  • Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
  • The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
  • If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
  • The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
  • The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
  • The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline for the writer Robert Louis Stephenson (source)
    • Movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill (source)
    • Photographers born before the inception of the earliest photograph (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
  • Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18

• Development
  • Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
  • There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
  • Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
  • Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
  • More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
  • Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 4 dec 2017 17:30 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #290

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, France, December 12th
  • Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
  • Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link.
  • My vision of a possible strategy. How could we change Wikidata’s core infrastructure to be able to scale better in the future? by ChristianKl.
  • Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects - conference paper
  • WikiCite 2017 report by Dario Taborelli and the organization team

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
  • QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
  • wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files
  • New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data
  • Musik Lovers (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: premiere type, name of the character role, Bechdel Test Movie List ID, Iowa Sports Hall of Fame ID, DORIS ID, Online Books Page author ID, ICTV virus genome composition, EK number, identity of object in context, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID, squadron embarked, South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID, trophy awarded, Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID, Merkelstiftung person ID, National Library of Brazil ID, AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID, DVV player ID, UniProt journal ID, WAFL FootyFacts ID, watershed, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID, LKL player ID, LACMA ID, Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID, Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID
  • Query examples:
    • Place of birth of author with pages on the French Wikisource (source)
    • Number of movies passing or failing the Bechdel test by year (source)
    • 100 of the earliest 1000 works created by women on Wikidata with an image on Commons (source)
    • Chemical entities, whom discovered them, and when (source)
    • Sister-city and twin-city relationships of the largest cities (source)
    • Cast age at date of film publication (source)
    • Male saints that are the most used to name French cities after them (source)

• Development
  • Add anchors to Special:ListDatatypes (phabricator:T181371)
  • Data Types library has been integrated to Wikibase (phabricator:T180454)
  • Investigate on the slow problems encountered on Wikidata (phabricator:T182322)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11 dec 2017 17:06 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #291

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Mapping and improving the data import process

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Introduction to Wikidata for local OpenStreetMap community & others, Riga, Latvia, December 19th
  • Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
  • Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
  • A purposeful #strategy for #Wikidata
  • WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge by Peter Kraker
  • Review of the Global Legislative Openness Week by MySociety

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A script to add links to Wikidata on Twitter by Envlh
  • Resolver can now open an item in tools/third-party sites listed on Q43649390#3303, using the ?project= attribute - for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=P496&value=0000-0003-4402-5296&project=scholia
  • New edition of the Structured Data on Commons newsletter

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wiki Aves bird ID, DACS ID, SAN ID, reservoir, CPDOC ID, Musée d'Orsay artwork ID, Coflein ID, The Numbers person ID, Wikimedia import URL, Flathub ID, partition type identifier, partition table type, ESCO Occupation ID, Welsh assembly ID, BSD Portal athlete ID, identity of subject in context, location of first performance, representation of, RCR number, ESCO skill ID, Philadelphia Museum of Art ID, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame ID, Welsh Chapels ID, photosphere image, Estonian Football Association team ID, The Peerage person ID, FoodEx2 code, Sherpa Juliet ID, Indian Financial System Code
  • Query examples:
    • Number of disasters by date and day of the week (source)
    • Map with buildings by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
    • Properties most used for “no value” statements/qualifiers/references (source)
    • Scientific papers with an animal credited as co-author (source)
    • Image grid of what different cryptocurrencies are named after (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Narration
  • Newest database reports: Brigata del Decameron

• Development
  • Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272)
  • More work on caching constraint results so we can enable the constraints checks for all logged-in users by default
  • Fixed a bug when edit links showed up in diff views (phabricator:T181807)
  • Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
  • Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (phabricator:T182660)
  • Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (phabricator:T179923)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 18 dec 2017 16:52 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #292

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
  • WikiCite 2018
  • Get your vocabularies in Wikidata... so Europeana and others can get them
  • Moths and me
  • Quality and collaboration in Wikidata
  • The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata
  • GLOWing the extra mile
  • Seven translation tools you can use to work in multiple languages across Wikimedia projects

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool by YMS to help with vandalism fighting. Give it a try and catch some vandals?
  • Version 0.8.0 of the Wikidata Toolkit have been released. There is a short survey to figure out in which directions to move the library.
  • You can try the Wikidata fulltext search prototype and give feedback
  • You can also tell us what could be improved with the entity suggester
  • The Geo dashboard shows a map on the most used items in Wikipedia and co in a given category
  • Consultation on Blocking tools and improvements
  • New documentation page with information about publishing open data that we can use when talking to institutions about why they should publish their data openly
  • Cou can try the prototype to improve the term box and give feedback

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: OpenSecrets organization ID, Oireachtas member ID, Environmental Register code (Estonia), geomorphological unit, Dictionnaire des peintres belges ID, Carnegie Museum of Art ID, Nintendo Game Store ID, National Gallery of Victoria artwork ID, National Gallery of Art artwork ID, Eldoblaje original actor ID, Eldoblaje dubbing actor ID, constraint scope, MAVISE company ID, MAVISE competent authority ID, MAVISE on-demand audiovisual service ID, MAVISE TV channel ID, appears in the form of, Indianapolis Museum of Art artwork ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston object ID, EMLO location ID, Hall of Light Amiga database ID, Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID, tabular software version, USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame athlete ID, Buenos Aires legislator ID, Cinemagia actor ID, Cinemagia film ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map with radio telescopes around the world (source)
    • People born on the same day their mother died (source)
    • Largest first-level administrative subdivision by country (source)
    • Data sets released under a Creative Commons NoDerivatives license (source)
    • Type foundries and their typefaces (source)
    • Map of Christmas traditions (source)
    • Movies that are Christmas traditions (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of Christmas films

• Development
  • Due to the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, no deployment will happen before January 3rd.
  • Monolingual language codes for Old French (fro) and Middle French (frm) added (phabricator:T181823)
  • Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms
  • No longer checking constraints on the property example statements (phabricator:T183267)
  • More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 26 dec 2017 12:54 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #276

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
  • Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
  • ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
  • Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
  • The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
  • When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New admin: congrats to علاء
  • Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
  • With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
  • The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical
  • Query examples:
    • The most famous painting from each country (source)
    • Ranking universities according to PageRank (source)
    • Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name (source)
  • Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
  • Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex

• Development
  • Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
  • Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
  • Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
  • Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
  • Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
  • Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (phabricator:T170531)
  • Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186)
  • Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987)
  • The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
    • Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (phabricator:T171725)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 4 sep 2017 17:05 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #293

Here's your first Wikidata Weekly Summary of the year 2018 (Calendar: Gregorian)!

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, Overleg gebruiker:Rodejong/Nieuwsbrieven/WIKIDATA/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%2334C3%20Wikidata&src=typd the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
  • Upcoming: Cultural heritage Wikidata workshop in Prague, 13th January 2018
  • Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New tool that allow users to fill labels and descriptions to Wikidata items en masse
  • Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish. Please help translating in your language and update documentation

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Minneapolis Institute of Art ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID, HATVP ID, Google Arts & Culture partner ID, Google Arts & Culture asset ID, Cairn journal ID, Canal-U channel ID, Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID, Historic Place Names of Wales ID, CIQUAL2017 ID, GEMS Code, Arquivo Arq ID, Argentine deputy ID, American Art Collaborative object ID
  • Query examples:
    • Landlocked countries bordering coastal countries (source)
    • Most common years of birth in Wikidata (source)
    • Map of lighthouses around the world (source)
    • Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
    • Playwright dead in 1947 (whose works are now in Public Domain) (source)

• Development
  • Fixed a problem with references in history of items (phab:T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
  • Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (phab:T163724)
  • Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (phab:T175492)
  • Remove cache constraint check results on purge (phab:T182107)
  • Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (phab:T180785)
  • Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (phab:T182106)
  • Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (phab:T161367)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 2 jan 2018 15:43 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #294

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Jarekt
  • New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
  • Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
  • Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
  • Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
  • Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
  • The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
  • Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
  • There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
  • Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
  • The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
  • Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
    • Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
    • Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
  • You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
  • A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
  • How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
  • New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist]
  • New tool: Hub

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MuBE Virtual ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID, Académie française member ID, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID, Guide to North American Birds ID, title page number, Walters Art Museum ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
  • Query examples:
    • Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first (source)
  • Newest database reports: days of 2018

• Development
  • Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
  • Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (phabricator:T163724)
  • Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
  • Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424)
  • Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267)
  • Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (phabricator:T164351)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 8 jan 2018 21:33 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #295

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: Mahir256
  • Closed request for adminship: Jarekt (as successful)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
  • WikiJabber podcast with Andy Mabbett

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
  • Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
  • New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
  • Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: National Historic Ships certificate no., Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID, Line Music album ID, Line Music artist ID, Elhuyar ZTH ID, is proceedings from, Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID, animal breed, Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme, OpenEdition journal ID, Brooklyn Museum artwork ID, Musée des Augustins artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork ID, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID, IBM graphic character global identifier, IBM coded character set ID, IBM code page identifier, produced sound, IUPAC GoldBook ID, The Baseball Cube player ID, Mir@bel journal ID, INRAN Italian Food ID, uBio ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID, Sign@l journal ID, C-SPAN organization ID, Le Maitron person ID, GSMArena phone ID, Érudit journal ID
  • Query examples:
    • Gallery of photography techniques
    • Street names that exist several times in Berlin (source)
    • Average length of movie by genre and year (source)
    • Inventions by Republicans (source)
    • Celebrities born in January of a leap year (source)
    • Countries with no rivers (source)
    • Female aviation pioneers born before 1900 (source)
    • People who died on K2 (source)
  • Showcase items: 15 January 2018

• Development
  • Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
  • Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T183542)
  • Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T180874)
  • Added new Lua function getAllStatements (phabricator:T166056 - thanks Eran!)
  • Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (phabricator:T182424)
  • Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (phabricator:T173742)
  • Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
    • add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (phabricator:T183807)
    • keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (phabricator:T173213 and subtasks)
    • make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (phabricator:T171636)
    • mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (phabricator:T154890)
    • lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (phabricator:T166216)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15 jan 2018 22:47 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #296

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
  • PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
  • The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
  • Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Nominations for the Steward elections are open
  • Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
  • repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
  • Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
  • Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
    • External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of nuclear tests (source)
    • Languages with more than one writing system (source)
    • Subclasses of malware (source)
    • Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again(source - see whole thread for more)
    • Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70 (source)
    • Disney movie narrative locations (source)

• Development
  • Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (phab:T173742)
  • Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (phab:T182424)
  • Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (phab:T178904)
  • Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (phab:T184319)
  • Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (phab:T169858)
  • Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175566)
  • Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175565)
  • Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (phab:T184705)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23 jan 2018 09:10 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #297

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Defining account creators

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London, February 3rd
  • Past: PIDapalooza 2018 - Slides on FigShare
  • Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
  • Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
  • Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
  • Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS, GlobalFactSync

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: cinematografo film ID, CiNii author ID (articles)
  • Query examples:
    • Buildings higher than the Eiffel Tower (source)
    • Descendants of Charlemagne by year of birth (source)
    • Cinemas in Berlin (source)
    • Things (or people) depicted in the xkcd webcomic (source)
    • Image grid of inductees to WITI Hall of Fame (source)
    • Movies filmed in Austria (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references

• • Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams
  • Showcase items:

• Development
  • Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
  • Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (phab:T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
  • Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (phab:T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
  • Improved documentation of the pageterms query module (gerrit:406240). Thanks, Niedzielski!
  • Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (phab:T184025)
  • Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019)
  • Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (phab:T182800)
  • Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (phab:T185688)
  • Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (gerrit:406168)
  • Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 29 jan 2018 16:26 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #298

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • AICAT grants proposal
  • ScienceSource grants renewal
  • Open request for adminship: Kostas20142

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • From the life of Wikidata: with the Wikidata Concepts Monitor we can now begin to discover how our communities use knowledge across the Wikimedia projects, by Goran S. Milovanović
  • See also: WDCM Journal, several examples of the use of Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects
  • What GLAM can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
  • Wikidata and the German handball player nicknames by k-nut

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
  • Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
  • The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
  • Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
  • Statistics
    • January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
    • The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
    • In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
    • 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
  • New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: uses data storage type, commanded by, dam
    • External identifiers: Who's Who UK ID, Basketball-Reference.com euro player ID
  • Query examples:
    • Items that have or will have been gone for as long as they were there this month (source)
    • Members of the current UK Parliament who have ancestors in Wikidata who are identified as possibly mythical (source)
    • Older siblings who died less than a month before their younger sibling entered an office (source)
    • List of tram lines in Vienna (source)
    • Adjacent districts in Vienna that have no tram line connecting them (source)
    • Places of birth, death and burial of the artists hosted in the Sweden’s museum of art and design (source)
  • Newest gadgets and scripts: a script for semi-automated import of information from Commons categories is waiting for feedback

• Development
  • Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
  • Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (gerrit:406301, gerrit:406996), thanks to Li Song
  • Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. phab:T186317)
  • Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (phab:T184702)
  • Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (phab:T185332)
  • Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (phab:T185032)
  • Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (phab:T185693)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 5 feb 2018 16:13 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #299

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata workshop in Paris, February 16th
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil promotes the 4th Wikdata Lab: How to add a lot of data, 22th February 2018
  • Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
  • Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
  • The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
  • WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 13 February from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information available on Meta.
  • mySociety is looking for a vacancy for a WikiData-experienced Community Manager for their Democratic Commons project
  • The next Weekly Summary (February 19th) will be the 300th edition of the newsletter! To help making it special, you can share your favorite Wikidata tool, so the other readers discover nice tools

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: identifiers.org prefix, season starts, make-up artist, sets environment variable, reads environment variable, Technical Element Score, deductions (in figure skating), Program Component Score
    • External identifiers: Basketball-Reference.com referee ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID, member of the Assembly of Madrid ID, BTO Birds of Britain ID, Rugby Australia ID, EUAP ID, LoC and MARC vocabularies ID, BVPB authority ID, Amtrak station code, Compagnon de la Libération ID, Gaming-History identifier, Fauna Europaea New ID, Royal Academy new identifier, BWSA ID, Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode, PARES ID, Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number, Lemon 64 ID, Panoptikum identifier, Swedish portrait archive, TORA ID, Cour des comptes magistrate ID, La Poste personality ID, American National Biography ID, org-id.guide ID, Swimrankings meet ID, JORFsearch person ID, Swiss Enterprise Identification Number, Landslagsdatabasen ID, Bandysidan player ID, World Sailing regatta ID, Sailboatdata ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei series ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the Soviet Space Program (source)
    • Countries with the most sister cities with French towns (source)
    • JO2018: all 108 French competitors at the 2018 Winter Olympics by year of birth (source)
    • Languages used by poeple in Austria, other than German (source)
    • Biologists with Twitter accounts (source)
    • Feed readers by license and operating system (source)
    • List of female UK MPs who were descended from UK MPs (source)

• Development
  • Make grammatical forms persistent (phab:T173742)
  • Improve the edit summary of Forms (phab:T184702)
  • Handle adding and/or removing forms in lexeme diffs (phab:T186317)
  • Improve formatting of the Lexemes(phab:T185332)
  • Enable Lua fine grained usage tracking on more wikis (phab:T186645)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12 feb 2018 16:39 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #300

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!

The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3

Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.

On that purpose, you can find a feedback page to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.

I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa

• A selection of cool tools on Wikidata

Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!

• • The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
  • QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
  • Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
  • WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
  • Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
  • Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
  • Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
  • DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
  • checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
  • Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
  • The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: How to add a lot of data, São Paulo, February 22th
  • Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
  • Upcoming: Wikidata seminar, Oxford e-Research Centre, February 28th
  • Ongoing: Fourth Annual month wide d:Wikidata:Events/Nepal#Datathon_2018
  • Past: Wikidata doathon, 14-15 February 2018, Göttingen
  • A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata by Martin Poulter
  • Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery by Martin Poulter
  • From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles
  • Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines, by Stefan Daschek
  • Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes, by Phil Barker
  • Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
• There are now over 100,000 ORCID iDs in Wikidata.
• The usage history graph that is being linked to on property talk pages now shows usage since the end of August 2016. This used to be 50 days. Thanks Lockal!
• Feedback needed: ontology for structured data on Commons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: has command line option, Wolfram Language entity code, total fertility rate, development of anatomical structure, research intervention, permitted food additive, maximum food additive use level
    • External identifiers: TheTVDB.com ID, Irish Women Rugby Football Union ID, CATO ID, Directory of Czech publishers ID, ASHRAE refrigerant number, Bulbapedia article, Lemon Amiga identifier, CPC-Power identifier, Libraries.org ID, International Numbering System number, JECFA database ID, JMPR database ID, Uppslagsverket Finland ID, Phasmida Species File ID
  • Query examples:
    • Women with an Erdős number
    • Classes that are subclass of both physical object and abstract object (thread)
    • Countries sharing land borders only with larger countries (source)
    • Alive actors and actresses without an image, ordered by number of films they appear in (source)
    • Beast species in the Harry Potter universe (source)
    • Places that have been indicated as the topic of scientific articles indexed in Wikidata (source)
    • Scientists whose cause of death was "death by burning" (source)
    • Women who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (source)
    • Wikidata:WikiProject ShEx
  • Newest database reports: winter sport disciplines, people and equipment

• Development
  • Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (phab:T178090). Thanks, Matěj!
  • Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”).
  • Continued work on caching constraint check results.
  • Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (phab:T187265 phab:T186714)
  • Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (phab:T173743, phab:T160525)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19 feb 2018 16:34 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #301

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon, February 21st to March 3rd
  • Upcoming: presentation of the paper "Knowledge Graphs and Pluralism on Wikidata", February 27th, Luxembourg
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Hyderabad, India, March 2nd

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Stewards election is running until February 28th
  • Structured data on Commons ontology discussion continues until March 1st.
  • Decision about the licensing of Lexeme namespace
  • It's been possible for a while (but not previously reported here) to include Wikidata IDs in Wikivoyage listings, like this example edit.
  • Q50000000 was created on February 23rd.
  • You can give feedback about this newsletter
  • Constraint checks will be integrated in the interface of Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: conscription number, recognition sequence, cutting site of restriction enzyme, RFE symbol, isoschizomer, neoschizomer, number of records, P4877, symbolizes, segmental innervation
    • External identifiers: AtariAge identifier, Atari Legend identifier, Atarimania identifier, BMI Work ID, Charity Navigator ID, Amazon author page, REBASE Enzyme Number, Hispania Nostra Red List of Endangered Heritage ID, Operabase ID, GEPRIS project ID, GEPRIS organization ID, GEPRIS person ID, World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID, FFR Sevens player ID, Maison d'écrivain ID
  • Query examples:
    • Actors who have starred in at least three Oscar Best Picture-nominated films in the same year (Inspired by this Vulture article)
    • Items in the part of the Getty AAT thesaurus (P1014) below costume accessory (Q1065579) where the upward relationship in the thesaurus cannot as yet be 'explained' by our existing subclass (P279) relations (thread1;thread2;thread3)
    • Where were people who went to space born? (source)
    • National flags featuring the Union Jack as a canton (the top inner corner of a flag) (source)
    • Number of mass shootings by country since 1990 (source)
  • Newest database reports: sleds, sleighs and sledges

• Development
  • Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (phab:T1854997)
  • Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (phab:T186995)
  • Caching for constraints check

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 26 feb 2018 16:47 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #302

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata workshops in different places in the world for Open Data Day
  • WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
  • Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Global preferences are available for testing
  • Statement 400.000.000 was created
  • You can now use a SPARQL query to match the result labels against Mix’n’match entries

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: court, time index, 3D model, broader concept, season, number of players in region, century breaks, dialect of, produces cohesive end, isocaudomer
    • External identifiers: FFF male player ID, AFL Tables coach ID, FFF female player ID, Webumenia creator ID, AFL Tables umpire ID, MuIS person or group ID, EPHE ID, Patrons de France ID, Siprojuris ID, ESPN X Games athlete ID, ACE work ID, AICTE institute ID, Chronicling America newspaper ID, Brooklyn Museum Exhibition ID, Zenodo ID, CONABIO ID, New Georgia Encyclopedia ID, Tropicos publication ID, KMSKA work PID, Bargeton ID, Guide Nicaise ID, AlloCiné company ID, Annuaire des fondations ID
  • Query examples:
    • 3D models on Commons (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages (source)
    • Date of birth of computer scientists (source)
    • Women born in Latin America without an article on Spanish Wikipedia (source)
    • Timeline of Düsseldorf mayors (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Energy, Motorsports
  • Newest database reports: nomes de países em português

• Development
  • Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (phab:T179012)
  • Investigate on the size of logging table (phab:T188635)
  • Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (phab:T186467)
  • Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T186726)
  • Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (phab:T184812)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 5 mrt 2018 16:04 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #303

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Notability and Commons

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiIndaba in Tunis, 16-18 March. There will be several Wikidata-related sessions
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 16th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia's usability, by John Lubbock
  • Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata, by John Lubbock
  • German Wikidata Workshop on "Wikidata: Potential uses and application examples for digital cultural heritage" during the conference DHd 2018
  • Automatically Generating Wikipedia Info-boxes from Wikidata, by Tomás Sáez and Aidan Hogan
  • Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web, by Dennis Diefenbach et al.
  • Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata, by Markus Krötzsch et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS updater switched to Kafka
  • First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April
  • Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations updated
  • "autopatrolled" entries to be removed from the logging table
  • You can have a look at the Europeana migration campaign and help with translations in your languages
  • Mix'n'Match new features: Creation Candidates and Top missing entries
  • WDCM Journal: gender equity in Wikidata usage

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: calculated from
    • External identifiers: Ready64 identifier, GameBase 64 identifier, Plus/4 World identifier, Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Snooker.org tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, CueTracker tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's player ID, PRotein Ontology ID, Invaluable.com artist ID, Ricorso author ID, AINM ID, Julien ID, Todotango.com artist ID, Todotango.com work ID, The Big Cartoon DataBase ID, Small Monuments of Plzeň Catalogue ID, SFMOMA artist ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's player ID, BFMTV.com director ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Societe.com director ID, Dominicains ID, Premiers préfets ID
  • Query examples:
    • Some costume items ending in 'us'
    • Women on Wikidata without article in any Wikipedia, ordered by number of statements (source)
    • WikiProjects about women (source)
    • Software of the KDE community (source)
    • Films starring more than one future head of government (source)
    • Timeline of prominent Women Computer Scientists (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of episodes of Borgen

• Development
  • Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
  • Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
  • Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
  • Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (phab:T186726)

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!

Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12 mrt 2018 16:46 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #304

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Putnik, Okkn

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Eindhoven, NL, March 24th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Mind the (Language) Gap: Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al.
  • Semantic labeling for quantitative data using Wikidata, by Phuc Nguyen and Hideaki Takeda
  • OpenStreetMap Interview: Andy Mabbett, Wikidata and OSM - The OpenCage Geocoder blog
  • How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata, by Miriam Redi on WMF's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The property suggestions were updated last week, the last update was in December 2017. The most noticable effect is the higher ranking of "family name" (P734) on items about people. Input about the suggester is still welcome.
  • There is an early conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Wikimedia Commons.
  • George, le deuxième texte (fr), a website querying Wikidata to find French female authors, in order to bring more diversity in the literature school programs
  • New, configurable download page for Mix’n’match catalogs (example)
  • The Su Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on Wikidata in the Gene Wiki team
  • Help:Conflation of 2 persons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: download link, INCI name, safety classification and labelling, may prevent, classification of the best at metas volantes
    • External identifiers: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms ID, TMDb movie ID, DDB ID, Irish Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Irish Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID, MR Author ID, BDH edition ID, AIDA freediver ID, equipement.paris.fr place ID, Generation MSX identifier, Sega8bit.com identifier, Abandonia identifier
  • New property proposals to review: Norwegian war sailor register ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, ruchess ID, UK Provider Reference Number, Hungarian public body ID, medical evacuation to, hearing date, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, RKDlibrary ID, IDA place ID, Kinoliste ID, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID
  • Query examples:
    • Megalithic sites in Spain (source)
    • Major periods of Japanese history and what they were named after (source)
    • Islandic names that are not ending in "son" or "dottir (source)
    • In what language does Q137 and Q12518 have the same label? (source)
    • Timeline of Earth's artificial satellites (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Indigenous peoples of North America
  • Newest database reports: Friends episodes list

• Development
  • Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (phab:T189506)
  • When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (phab:T177970)
  • Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (phab:T189772)
  • Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (phab:T188990)
  • Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
  • Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
  • Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
  • Make it possible to remove a Form (phab:T173332)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19 mrt 2018 17:06 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #305

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
  • Closed request for comments: Former ATE

• Events
  • Upcoming: 1st Workshop on Quality of Open Data, Berlin, July 18–20 (submission deadline May 27)
  • Upcoming: EuropeanaTech and Wikidata Workshop Day for GLAMs, Rotterdam (NL), Monday 14 May. A day of GLAM-related workshops around Wikidata and Structured Commons, for beginners and advanced users.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • SPLASHes in Wikidata, by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • report about items with identical birth and death dates updated
  • Relator, a tool to improve family relations in Wikidata
  • Descendants check: consistency across multiple generations
  • Due to Easter Monday, the next issue of the Weekly Summary will be sent on Tuesday, April 3rd. Until that day, feel free to add information in there

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: prerequisite, relevant qualification, derivative work, alternate names, test method
    • External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women, SPLASH, Behind the voice Actors video games ID, Hungarian MP identifier, UK Provider Reference Number, Norwegian war sailor register ID, Wikitribune category, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, IDA place ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Kinoliste ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID, TMDb TV series id, TMDb person id, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, RKDlibrary ID, Statistics Canada Geographic code, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: had part, METAR code, Zulassungszahlen, Analog or derivative of, GHS labelling elements, en opposition à, output method
    • External identifiers: Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, Orthodox Encyclopedia Online ID, National Thesis Number, Deutsche Biographie Identifikator, Welsh Rugby Union IDs (women's XV and men's 7s)
  • Query examples:
    • Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
    • Movies that Wikidata knows about and that have a German title that implies that someone or something doesn't answer (source)
    • Software developed by people/organizations that have archival material at the ComputerHistory museum (source)
    • Most common eponyms of French departments (source)
  • Newest database reports: HOLBY CI⁺Y episode list, list of 2-part episodes

• Development
  • New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
  • Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (phab:T189679)
  • Allow to remove a Form (phab:T189675)
  • Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (phab:T189143)
  • Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (phab:T187215)
  • Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (phab:T189777, phab:T188993, phab:T188279)
  • Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (phab:T189842)
  • Improving the performance of a table in the database (phab:T180834)
  • Improving the way we're building dumps (phab:T177550)
  • Investigate on improving Lua functions (phab:T143970)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 26 mrt 2018 15:38 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #306

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Talk by Morane Gruenpeter and Katherine Thornton, presented at LibrePlanet 2018 about software metadata in Software Heritage and Wikidata. Video of the talk. Slides for the talk.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools by Sandra Fauconnier on WMF's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • if you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
  • you can still fill this page if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Governors Association biography URL, key press, number of clubs, analog or derivative of, in opposition to
    • External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID, World Para Snowboard athlete ID, METAR code, Orthodox Encyclopedia ID, Amphibians of India ID, National Thesis Number (France)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maximum operating temperature, minimum operating temperature, maximum non-operating temperature, minimum non-operating temperature, Специальное звание или классный чин, member of the crew of, service life, Gens, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System, Wikipedia glossary entry, assistant director, choral conductor, lighting designer, sound designer, projection designer, video designer, stage crew member, number of representations, talk show guest, adaptation or arrangement of, revival or touring version of
    • External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Identifier of object at prazdnedomy.cz, Digital Typhoon ID, Territographie ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Researchmap ID, OpenEdition Books ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Animated Knots ID
  • Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
    • Spider Ontology ID (P4537), has listed ingredient (P4543), sexually homologous with (P4545), Everyone Remembered ID (P4551), ICRC PoW ID (P4554), SNCZI-IPE dam ID (P4558), Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID (P4564), electoral district number (P4565), awarded for period (P4566), BPH journal ID (P4569)
  • Deleted properties: P1124 (teu), P3484 (name shares origin with), P4990 (Statistics Canada Geographic code)
  • Query examples:
    • Most common title of paintings in English
    • Timeline for German author Heinrich Mann (source)
    • Density in kilograms per cubicmeter for books (source)
    • Books by weight (source)
    • Train stations in the UK (source)
    • Map of megaliths in Portugal and Spain (source)
  • Newest database reports: pilot and first episodes of television series

• Development
  • Work on a script to generate MassMessage target lists (phab:T190812)
  • Test validity of Wikidata IDs in Lua modules (phab:T143970)
  • Rename Lua functions in old naming scheme (phab:T190382)
  • More work on wb_terms table (phab:T188992)
  • More work on logging autopatrol actions (phab:T184485)
  • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)
  • Add mobile edits to Grafana (phab:T191111)
  • Allowing to remove a Form from a Lexeme (phab:T173332)
  • Fixing bugs on Lexemes (phab:T189185)
  • Checking permissions for actions on Lexemes

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 3 apr 2018 14:20 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #307

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
  • Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
  • Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Some improvements have been made on the search results
  • The administrative territorial entities of the Ottoman Empire are now largely complete. They include the elayets, vilayets and their sanjaks.
  • A new version of Denelezh, a tool to monitor the gender gap in Wikidata, has been released, including a new methodology to produce the data (explained at the top of the main page and in the documentation), and an overview of the gender gap by Wikimedia project.
  • Items now contain an average of 9 statements.
  • Item Q2937606, created 5 years ago, got its first statement
  • New tool: The property explorer sorts and displays properties per category (developed by Stevenliuyi based on a suggestion from Micru)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia project focus list, complies with, special rank, last update, test taken, test score, activity policy in this place, choral conductor, gens, lighting designer, number of representations, sound designer
    • External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Territographie ID, Prazdne Domy building ID, Welsh Rugby Union women's player ID, Welsh Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Digital Typhoon typhoon ID, Digital Typhoon cyclone ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System (Taiwan)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: majority opinion, KMC Heritage Building Grade, accreditation, Number of spoilt votes, Number of blank votes, Number of abstentions, greater than (2), subdomain URL, International Classification for Standards, Wind speed, Wikimedia outline, list combines topics
    • External identifiers: Authorea Author ID, Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, FOGIS ID, Behind the voice Actors character ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Harvard designation, Yahoo Answers category, UMAC ID, Internet Adult Film Database film ID, Adult Film Database film ID
  • Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
    • Berlinische Galerie artist ID (P4580), Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID (P4582), Argentinian Historic Heritage ID (P4587), National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID (P4591), Mountain Project ID (P4592), arXiv author ID (P4594), post town (P4595), NIOSH Publication Number (P4596), monomer of (P4599), Lives of WWI ID (P4601)
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of weather satellites (source)
    • Map with lighthouses all over the world (source)
    • Number of articles about humans by gender on Welsh Wikipedia (source)
    • List of French rivers with different names and SANDRE ids on Sophox (SPARQL endpoint querying OpenStreetMap and Wikidata) (source)

• Development
  • Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (phab:T185480)
  • Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (phab:T164372)
  • Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (phab:T188728)
  • Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (phab:T179155)
  • Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (phab:T190447, phab:T184791)
  • More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (phab:T189480)
  • Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (phab:T189185)
  • Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 9 apr 2018 16:02 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #308

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th (slides of Andy Mabbett's keynote)
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
  • Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
  • Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Writing a Wikidata Query: Discovering Women Writers from North Africa by Alex Stinson

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • GLAM wiki Conference (November 2018 in Tel Aviv): you can now apply for a scholarship. You can still make submissions for the program until end of April.
  • Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link: mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (thanks Tpt!) (ticket)
  • Wikidata:FactGrid#Problems and more, a brief status report of the FactGrid Project on Friday 13, April 2018
  • Should OpenStreetMap use Wikibase to store data on tags? (Discussion on OSM wiki)
  • Prop explorer UI can now be translated using Tool Translate.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: talk show guest, GHS hazard pictogram, GHS hazard statement, GHS precautionary statement, number of abstentions, number of spoilt votes, number of blank votes, International Classification for Standards, towards, supervisory board member
    • External identifiers: Researchmap ID, Animated Knots ID, Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, National Library of Korea Identifier (KRNLK), Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, AmphibiaWeb Species ID, Plants of the World online ID, FOGIS ID, Authorea author ID, Rosetta Code ID, Church of Sweden ID, Harvard designation, UMAC ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: French standard sizes for oil paintings, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, reference value, ILI ID, Portable Game Notation, SNOMED CT identifier, Mercalli intensity, fault type, fault, areas affected
    • External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, e-teatr.pl ID, World of Physics identifier, Kunstenpunt people, DOAB publisher ID, aviation-safety.net ID, IAFD company ID, JAAF ID, Athletics Canada ID, Russian Athletics ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Pschyrembel Online ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, ISC event, USGS-ANSS event page, HanCinema drama, ARRS race ID, hpip
  • Barely used properties created >3 months:
    • National Film Board of Canada movie ID (P4606), AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID (P4618), squadron embarked (P4624), trophy awarded (P4622), EK number (P4627), premiere type (P4634), identity of object in context (P4626), photosphere image (P4640), FoodEx2 code (P4637), Estonian Football Association team ID (P4639)
  • Query examples:
    • Longest chain of mutual murders (source)
    • 6 couples killed each other (source)
    • All things named after Leonardo da Vinci (source)
    • German municipality pairs with the name pattern -ing/-ingen (source)
    • Timeline of early silent movies produced before 1900 (source)
    • French citizens with at least 5 Wikipedia pages but not in French (source)
  • Newest database reports: family names by soundex, définitions de ville

• Development
  • Disable Senses in the API for the initial version of the WikibaseLexeme extension (phab:T187198)
  • Create a new data type to allow linking to Forms (phab:T165579)
  • Fix a bug happening when editing a Form (phab:T187215)
  • Enforce permission checks when editing Lexeme (phab:T189480)
  • Make not possible to remove the last lemma (phab:T189185)
  • Make not possible to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)
  • Implement “Units” constraint (phab:T164372)
  • More work on the possibility to pick an item's parent in Lua (phab:T179155)
  • Show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties in statements (phab:T46727)
  • Add “no bounds” constraint (phab:T170610)
  • Make the “difference within range” constraint not requiring “item requires claim” constraint (phab:T185480)
  • New Lua function to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (phab:T143970)
  • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)

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
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  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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Wikidata weekly summary #309

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
    • Wikidata meetup
    • how to train new Wikidata trainers
    • Structured Data on Commons and GLAM pilots session
  • Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
  • WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
  • Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
  • DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Old Periodicals, a New Datatype and Spiderfied Query Results in Wikidata by Simon Cobb (National Library of Wales)
  • Wikimedia and The Met: A Shared Digital Vision by Katherine Maher and Loic Tallon

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata:Tools has been reorganized and updated, thanks to Pasleim! Feel free to help keeping this page up to date.
  • Wikidata:List of properties has also been reorganized and updated.
  • Lexicographical data on Wikidata will start at the end of May. Some property proposals are already discussed
  • A rate limit for edits and page creation has been set up
  • Please give feedback on a first proposal on GLAM metadata and ontology mapping for Structured Data on Commons. This feedback round runs until 4 May.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: fastest lap, cabinet, patronym or matronym for this person, modified version of, unit symbol, wind speed, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, service life, French standard size for oil paintings, boiler pressure, presented in
    • External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, Handball Bundesliga ID, e-teatr.pl ID, DOAB publisher ID, ILI ID, World of Physics identifier, Flanders Arts Institute person ID, JAAF ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Russian Athletics ID, Athletics Canada ID, NVE lake ID, Norsk biografisk leksikon ID, Norsk kunstnerleksikon ID, Store medisinske leksikon ID, Adult Film Database film ID, Yahoo Answers category, Pschyrembel Online ID, FIPS string code for US states, FIPS numeric code for US states, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, USGS-ANSS event page, ARRS race ID, HanCinema drama ID, ISC event ID, road number (Estonia), Heritage of Portuguese Influence ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Commercialized from, synonym, translation, antonym, demonym of, item for this sense, pronunciation variety, grammatical gender, grammatical number, etymology, person, areas affected, award category, nature of statement, donation platform, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Phonetic pronunciation, medical finding model, landmass, accessed from, research measurement, hyperonym, hyponym, meronym, holonym, troponym
    • External identifiers: Swedish Literature Bank, Logainm ID, Wikipedia glossary entry, Réunion des musées nationaux id, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, FIS speed skier ID, cryptocurrency address, New Zealand Gazetteer ID, Bridge number, HanCinema film, Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID
  • Scarcely used properties created >3 months:
    • Indian Financial System Code (P4635), RCR number (P4645), partition type identifier (P4654), partition table type (P4653), Wiki Aves bird ID (P4664), Buenos Aires legislator ID (P4667), Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID (P4670), tabular software version (P4669), constraint scope (P4680), GEMS Code (P4695)
  • Query examples:
    • Historical monuments in Wales (source)
    • Software titles ranked by the number of dependencies listed for them (source)
    • National parks around the world (source)
    • Narrative locations of TV series and episodes (source)
  • Newest database reports: Sports equipment: balls

• Development
  • Track the number of constraints by type (phab:T191891)
  • Include thumbnails in image statements (phab:T46727)
  • Install Query Service on Factgrid (phab:T189863)
  • Page creation and edit rates (phab:T184948)
  • Implement unit constraint (phab:T164372)
  • Implement no bounds constraint (phab:T170610)
  • Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (phab:T164744)
  • Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (phab:T192079)
  • Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T188899)
  • New data type for linking to Forms (phab:T165579)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 24 apr 2018 10:14 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #310

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past:
    • Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
      • Phabricator workboard
      • Wikibase registry
    • WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects
    • Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
    • DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27
    • Daten in Wikidata einbringen (Bringing data into Wikidata) - Hands-on tutorial within the DINI KIM Workshop 2018
  • Upcoming:
    • Wikidata workshop in Köln, Germany, on May 5th and 6th
    • Wikidata workshop in Vienna, Austria, on May 5th
    • Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on May 5th

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • New badge available for sitelinks: good list
  • Sitelinks for the new Ingush Wikipedia (inhwiki) can be added
  • Support for the second new Gorontalo Wikipedia (gorwiki) is here
  • Articles of the third new Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia (lfnwiki) may be connected
  • A Wikidata Telegram group has been created by volunteers
  • Constraint Summary script is showing the total amount of constraints reports on the top of an item page
  • Contexto is a Wordpress plugin displaying Wikidata info in a hovercard. See demo, you can also let feedback to the developer
  • Sixth months before Wikidata's sixth birthday: you can organize a local event

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: fault, member of the crew of, nature of statement
    • External identifiers: Logainm ID, IAFD film ID, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, Réunion des musées nationaux ID, Swedish Literature Bank AuthorID, FIS speed skier ID, New Zealand Gazetteer place ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: crop, date of first attestation, place of first attestation, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, Wikidata property example for senses, false-friend, demonym (Lexeme), Allaboutjazz musician ID, homonym, paronym, streetViewUrl, constraint, WikiCFP eventID, WikiCFP conference series ID, Mascot of, program committee member, applies to name, values for this type, items for this type, Maintained by Wikiproject, Amateur Radio Callsign
    • External identifiers: Ontario public library ID, Italian School ID, TFRRS athlete ID, Linux Game Database properties, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID, OnsOranje player ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, OnsOranje match ID
  • Infrequently used properties created >3 months:
    • Historic Place Names of Wales ID (P4697), American Art Collaborative object ID (P4692), Arquivo Arq ID (P4694), Argentine deputy ID (P4693), HATVP person ID (P4703), Ent'revues ID (P4706), VOGRIPA ID (P4708), Rugby Canada ID (P4707), title page number (P4714), Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID (P4698)
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of Wikibase instances and WikidataCon events (federated query)
    • User-friendly list of news articles by Kim Wall, as linked from the German and English Wikipedia (based on work of fnielsen)
    • Places of birth of the European Parliament members (source)
    • Obelisks in Rome (source)
    • Artists from Cameroon and their places of birth (source)
    • Place of birth of people with an ORCID ID (source)
    • History of Milano metro stations on a map (source)
    • Number of versions, editions and translations by language of work (source)

• Development
  • More work on the internal API for Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T190906)
  • Fix some errors happening when editing Lexemes (phab:T192766, phab:T192264)
  • Use language code validation for forms representations (phab:T193010, phab:T193011)
  • Add badge for good lists to Wikidata (phab:T190976)
  • Fix bugs regarding the thumbnails on media statements (phab:T192910, phab:T192601, phab:T192869)
  • Investigate on dispatch lag problems (phab:T193349)
  • Fix a bug on the watchlist on Wikipedia (phab:T192673)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 30 apr 2018 15:44 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #311

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments:
    • Sort identifier statements on items that are instances of human
    • Make "developer" and "programmer" properties clearer

• Events
  • Wikidata and GLAM workshop day in the context of the EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, Monday 14 May 2018
  • Wikidata access methods, slides by Dan Scott

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • More than 850 living people' articles from the English Wikipedia which have date of death or place of death on their Wikidata item: manual checks needed. You can also check Category:P570 missing in Wikipedia
  • Florian will be improving Wikidata support in the Wikipedia plugin for OpenStreetMap's JOSM editor, for the Google Summer of Code 2018
  • Prssanna Desai will work on improvements for the Query Service during Google Summer of Code

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Deutsche Bahn station category, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Wikimedia outline, assistant director, island of location, possible medical findings, suggests the existence of, has evaluation, evaluation of, greater than, less than
    • External identifiers: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID, Behind The Voice Actors character ID, HanCinema film ID, Italian School ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, LGDB game ID, LGDB emulator ID, LGDB tool ID, LGDB engine ID, TFRRS athlete ID, All About Jazz musician ID, Ontario public library ID, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, WikiCFP event ID, WikiCFP conference series ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: IMDA rating, is program committee member of, officialized by, KAVI rating, topographic map, child monotypic taxon, Köppens klimaklassifisering, Möllendorff transliteration, attested, geographic center, season of club or team, sports competition competed at, factorizsation, coastline, forest cover, vehicles per capita, audio transcription
    • External identifiers: e-MEC entry, Norwegian war sailor register ship ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials, GNOME Wiki ID, Israel Film Fund ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Cinema Project ID, Chinese Political Elites Database ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Person ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Movie ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Portale della Canzone italiana IDs, Trustpilot company ID, Ester ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators
  • Properties lacking use created > 3 months:
    • Sign@l journal ID (P4726), INRAN Italian Food ID (P4729), produced sound (P4733), IBM code page ID (P4734), IBM graphic character global ID (P4736), Line Music album ID (P4748), Line Music artist ID (P4747), is proceedings from (P4745), National Historic Ships certificate no. (P4750), Manus Online ID (P4752)
  • Deleted properties: Réunion des musées nationaux ID (P5100)
  • Query examples:
    • Map of birth places of authors in the Portuguese Wikisource
    • Video games that are set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe by game mode (source)
    • Timeline of Programming Languages (source)
    • Timeline of people named Karl born in Karlsruhe (source)

• Development
  • Allow continuing Wikidata entity dumps (phab:T193688)
  • Make sure Wikidata entity dump scripts run for a short amount of time (phab:T190513)
  • Add monolingual language code shy (phab:T184783)
  • More work on preparing QuickStatements to be run by other parties (phab:T193606, phab:T192079, phab:T192365)
  • Expand references with constraint violations (phab:T177970)
  • Improving validation of Form representations on WikibaseLexeme (phab:T193011)
  • Fixing a bug that replaces a representation by another (phab:T192264)
  • Enable finding forms using wbsearchentities API (phab:T191981)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 7 mei 2018 16:10 (CEST)

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

• 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:
    • Songwriters Hall of Fame ID (P4757), V Live channel ID (P4756), MONA ID (P4758), Harvard botanical journal ID (P4754), Images d'Art artwork ID (P4761), has boundary (P4777), lot number (P4775), Arcade artwork ID (P4764), biological phase (P4774), crates.io ID (P4763)
  • Query examples:
    • Museums near you (source)
    • Places near you that are the subject of publications (source)
    • Map of libraries in Wales (source)
    • Map of schools in Italy (source)
    • List of TeX/LaTeX commands for special characters (source)
    • Largest first-level country subdivisions (i.e. larger than 400,000 km²) (source)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14 mei 2018 16:54 (CEST)

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

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 22 mei 2018 08:57 (CEST)

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
    • External identifiers: CIVICUS Monitor country entry, Relationship Science organization ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Eurohockey.com club ID, Daum Encyclopedia ID, Melon song ID, ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID, British Library system number, eBird hotspot ID, BAG public space ID, BAG building ID
  • 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:
    • Map of places of birth of Liverpool's football players (source)
    • Areas of Malaysia states (source)
    • People and the distance between their place of birth and place of death (source)
    • Grammatical cases of languages (source)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 29 mei 2018 15:20 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #315

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, May 29th
  • Past: slides of "Wikidata in GLAM, how and why" by Jason Evans during EuropeanaTech conference
  • Figsharefest: "(Personal) use-cases for Figshare in a Wikidata narrative", June 4th, Brussels (slides)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Using the Hive Mind: WikiData Integration and Artist Pages on the blog of the National Galleries of Scotland
  • Tools for Wikipedians: Keeping track of what’s going on on Wikidata from Wikipedia by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)
  • Wikidata and Scholia as a hub linking chemical knowledge poster presented at 11th International Conference on Chemical Structures (PDF)
  • A complete video walkthrough to learn how to use OpenRefine: how to match, clean up and import data into Wikidata
  • Lexicographical data: number of existing lemmas per language

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now search for values of a statement in Special:Search (P31, external-ids and strings)
  • 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.
  • Country geoshape data have been added to Commons and linked to the corresponding Wikidata items. These geoshapes can be used to visualise query results e.g. World map showing population of each country.
  • Concordances: mappings between Wikidata and other knowledge organization systems

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: chromosome count, prime factor, pronunciation variety, compound of
    • External identifiers: ISO 3950 code, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, GONIAT author ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID, GONIAT taxon ID, Spyur ID, Armenian Cinema ID, BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, NWSL player ID, Information Center for Israeli Art artwork ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Chromosome numbers of the Flora of Germany database ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Filmow ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris work ID, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats artist ID, Songfacts song ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: grammatical category, IAB code, title number, chữ Nôm, noun, gender inflection, winter view, of, alternative form, lexical category, spelling variant, hyphenation
    • External identifiers: myschool ID, IPTC subject code, Canal-U person ID, FilmTv.it movie ID, FilmTv.it TV series ID, FilmTv.it person ID, Corago ID, Les Enfoirés participant ID, Les Enfoirés song ID, iTunes App Store developer ID, NDOP taxon ID, BirdLife International ID, Relationship Science person ID, Czech Geomorphological Unit Code, Swedish Gravestone ID, OED Online ID, Dordrechts Museum, Finnish national bibliography corporate name ID, SJP Online ID, Contemporary Music Portal ID, Web umenia work ID, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales Work ID, Cdmc ID, Monarch Disease Ontology ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ID, Saint Louis Art Museum ID, Strava ID of a professional sport person, StadiumDB identifier, Songfacts artist ID, World Stadium Database identifier, Douban Movie Celebrity ID, Firmenbuchnummer
  • Properties waiting to be used, created >3 months:
    • Program Component Score (P4826), deductions (in figure skating) (P4825), Swimrankings meet ID (P4827), Sailboatdata ID (P4833), World Sailing regatta ID (P4832), Landslagsdatabasen ID (P4830), Irish Rugby Football Union women's player ID (P4836), Wolfram Language entity code (P4839), Directory of Czech publishers ID (P4840), development of anatomical structure (P4843)
  • Query examples:
    • List of Danish female athletes (source)
    • Battles within 100km of Edinburgh (source)
    • Grammatical features graph (source)
    • 10 items having the biggest number of sitelinks (source)
    • Writers and their signatures (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Eurovision
  • Newest database reports: verb categories

• Development
  • The API respond for maxlag will in the future also include the dispach lag (phab:T194950)
  • Add Elastic and CirrusSearch in the Wikibase Docker image (phab:T192813)
  • Add OAuth extension to wikibase bundle container (phab:TT192364)
  • Work on showing constraints in the QueryService (phab:T194762)
  • Make the PropertySuggester use CirrusSearch (phab:T195490)
  • Add integer constraint in the constraint checks (phab:T167989)
  • Add “citation needed” constraint type (phab:T195052)
  • Make Special:EntityData should handle form IDs (phab:T192149)
  • Fix encoding problems for labels displayed in Lexemes (phab:T195359)
  • Improve the text in the grammatical feature field (phab:T193604)
  • Work on showing Lemma on Special:AllPages and other pages (phab:T195382)
  • Work on better handling use of statements linking to Lexemes on client (phab:T195615)
  • Fix a bug that breaks Lexeme when language or lexical category items don't have a label (phab:)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 4 jun 2018 16:57 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #316

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, June 15
  • Wikidata Datathon on June 16 in Zurich
  • Wikibase meetup on June 17-19 in Berlin

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata, presented at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics by Lucie Kaffee and Hady Elsahar (see the poster and the paper)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A proposal for using Wikidata for PeerTube.
  • New constraint type: citation needed constraint
  • Sitelinks can be:
    • added for Bengali Wikivoyage ^{(bnwikivoyage)}
    • defined for Piedmontese Wikisource ^{(pmswikisource)}
    • completed for Pashto Wikivoyage ^{(pswikivoyage)}
    • entered to Sakha Wikiquote ^{(sahwikiquote)}
  • A template listing the new Lexicographical properties is available
  • Draft of consultation about creating separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JavaScript
  • Wikidata now appears in the LOD cloud and you can help improving it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: reading pattern of Han character, medical evacuation to, sports competition competed at, winter view, Slavic Alphabet, grade of kanji, gender inflection of surname, hyphenation, radical, residual stroke count, ground level 360 degree view, Portable Game Notation
    • External identifiers: ARWU university ID, Canal-U person ID, myschool ID, Pornhub ID, Giant Bomb ID, IAB code, Corago opera ID, FilmTv.it movie ID, FilmTv.it person ID, FilmTv.it TV series ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, BirdLife International ID, Czech Geomorphological Unit Code, Swedish Gravestone ID, iTunes App Store developer ID, Les Enfoirés participant ID, Les Enfoirés song ID, Czech NDOP taxon ID, Relationship Science person ID, Dordrechts Museum artwork ID, Finnish national bibliography corporate name ID, YouPorn performer ID, MNAV work ID, Web umenia work ID, MonDO ID, Saint Louis Art Museum person ID, CDMC musician ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art person ID, SJP Online ID, OED Online ID, Strava ID of a professional sport person, Douban Movie Celebrity ID, Firmenbuchnummer, Songfacts artist ID, StadiumDB identifier, World Stadium Database identifier
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: permanent resident of, type locality, SPARQL endpoint, property scope, Romanization of Belarusian, factorizsation, Jones polynomial, Alexander polynomial, Conway polynomial, number of videos, Han character in this lexeme, número de etapas, Angular size, Red List status of species, United Kingdom railway station category, reference has role, mathematical concept defining formula, mathematical concept definition, subject facet
    • External identifiers: Redump.org, Church of Norway building ID, Taratata ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. work ID, NRJ ID, Akout ID, Lafonoteca ID, Swedish Academy member, Party Number (Taiwan), DLCM ID, AntWeb, Webb-site person ID, Webb-site organization ID, Companies House officer ID, France Culture ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects ID, LONSEA people ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland Building ID, Kino-teatr.ua film ID, Drouot ID, Kino-teatr.ua person ID, Swedish Signaturer.se, BioStor work ID, César Award film ID, César Award person ID, National Archive of Sweden, Libris-URI, IUF member ID, Museo del Prado artist ID, fernsehserien.de ID, ARMB member ID, OCLC work id
  • Properties awaiting widespread use, created >3 months:
    • research intervention (P4844), International Numbering System number (P4849), BMI Work ID (P4860), Atarimania identifier (P4859), AtariAge identifier (P4857), RFE symbol (P4867), Operabase ID (P4869), GEPRIS person ID (P4872), GEPRIS organization ID (P4871), GEPRIS project ID (P4870)
  • Deleted properties: Property:P2439 ("language"), Property:P2237 ("units used for this property"), Property:P883 ("FIPS 5-2 (code for US states)"), Property:P5190 ("synonym")
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of discoveries in the Solar System (source)
    • Map of Suffragettes around the world (source)
    • Female ministers in African countries (source)
    • References with only a quote but no other properties (source)
    • Islands in capital cities (source)
    • Map of titles in the Welsh Journals & Welsh Newspapers (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject BHL (books etc from the Biodiversity Heritage Library)
  • Newest gadgets: derivedstatements.js adds at the end of all item pages a new button to load inverse statements
  • Newest database reports: list of films (चलचित्र) from Nepal

• Development
  • Developing a prototype for usability testing for how the term box (labels, descriptions, aliases) could work on mobile
  • Investigating how we can do the display of items (their label and sometimes description when linked to in a statement or in listings like Recent Changes) in a way that is less of an issue for the database
  • Working on including the dispatch lag in the maxlag API to make it easier for bots to see when they should stop editing because of performance reasons (phabricator:T194950)
  • Working on adding a Lua function to check if an item is a subclass/instance of another one (phabricator:T179155)
  • Created an API that returns constraint violations for an item in TTL format in preparation for making constraint violations queryable in the query service (phabricator:T194762)
  • Started planning for support for Senses
  • Added more helpful text on Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand what information is required (phabricator:T193602)
  • Working on pre-filling the spelling variant for a new Form's representation (phabricator:T195708)
  • Worked on showing the Lemma of a Lexeme instead of just its ID in Special:AllPages, Recent Changes and diffs (phabricator:T191600, phabricator:T195382, phabricator:T195511)
  • Made the representation of a Form in a diff link to the Form (phabricator:T195512)
  • Fixed an issue on the Wikipedias and co when a statement in an item that was used there linked to a Form or Lexeme (phabricator:T195615)
  • Made the "publish" button stay disabled for a Lexeme's header when there is nothing to save (phabricator:T196342)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11 jun 2018 18:20 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #317

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators

• Events
  • Wikibase meetup on June 17-19 in Berlin
  • Past: Wikidata Lab VIII in São Paulo
    • Images, metadata, and gamification of Wikidata by Magnus Manske (video, slides)
    • Discovering and modeling knowledge in Wikidata by Andrew Lih (video, slides)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • WDAqua: Question Answering over Wikidata, by Dennis Diefenbach
  • CyTargetLinker app update: A flexible solution for network extension in Cytoscape, showing citation data in Cytoscape, by Martina Summer-Kutmon et al.
  • Harnessing the power of structured data: a Wikidata workshop, report of the Wikidata workshop day and Wikidata presence at EuropeanaTech 2018 last May in Rotterdam, Europeana Blog.
  • The new This Month in GLAM newsletter has, as always, a lot of Wikidata-related news!
  • Making Wikidata fit as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems. Lightning talk at ELAG 2018 in Prague by Jneubert

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The program of Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town is out, and here's a summary of all the Wikidata-related sessions
  • If you're building a tool using wb_terms database table, please give us input about it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: type locality (biology), SPARQL endpoint, display technology, property scope, jockey, attested in, publication in which this taxon name was established, revival or touring version of, United Kingdom railway station category
    • External identifiers: Redump.org ID, Taratata artist ID, NRJ artist ID, Akout ID, Church of Norway building ID, Lafonoteca artist ID, Party Number (Taiwan), Companies House officer ID, Webb-site person ID, AntWeb ID, Webb-site organization ID, France Culture person ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. work ID, DLCM ID, LONSEA people ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects ID, Drouot artist ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland ID, Kino-teatr.ua film ID, Kino-teatr.ua person ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland Building ID, BioStor work ID, Swedish Signaturer.se ID, César Award film ID, César Award person ID, IUF member ID, Museo del Prado artist ID, Swedish National Archive ID, Swedish Academy member ID, fernsehserien.de ID, ARMB member ID, OCLC work ID, OpenDOAR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: runner-up, laps completed, load limit, abgeordnetenwatch.de ID for German politicians, API endpoint, type of water, ranking order, JMA Seismic Intensity Scale
    • External identifiers: Rom Galil settlement ID, Or Movement settlement ID, Bérose ID, AFI person ID, Google News ID, Legaseriea.it ID, Silentera.com movie ID, PC Engine Software Bible identifier, CAGE code, Printemps des poètes ID, Poetry Foundation ID, Poets.org ID, Playmates ID, SGJP Online ID, Laut.de ID, Amphibian Species of World ID, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID, BNB person ID, MobyGames group ID, Operone composer ID, Operone opera ID, Encyclopædia Universalis author ID, YouTube Gaming game ID, National Gallery of Canada artist ID, GAMECIP platform ID, GAMECIP media format ID, Operissimo artist ID, British Council writer ID, IBDOF ID, Entomologists of the World ID, ASMP member ID, Académie des beaux-arts member ID, Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l’art ID, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer ID, Artcyclopedia ID, École normale alumnus ID, BIU Santé ID, Étonnants voyageurs ID, hoopla, Medicina ID, Akadem person ID, IGN video game ID, National Academy of Sciences ID, EGROKN ID
  • Low use properties, created >3 months ago:

    FAPESP institution ID (P4597), title page number (P4714), symbolizes (P4878), World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID (P4879), FFR Sevens player ID (P4880), AFL Tables coach ID (P4885), AFL Tables umpire ID (P4888), ACE work ID (P4894), Patrons de France ID (P4891), segmental innervation (P4882)

  • Query examples:
    • Artworks and rooms of The Louvre museum shown in the latest Beyoncé video (source)
    • Goalscorers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup (source)
    • Female dancers and choregraphs having a picture and a Wikipedia article in English but not in French (source)
    • Nudes with cats (source)
    • Museums in Italy colored by number of Wikipedia articles (source)
    • Countries and their official languages, ISO codes and Wikimedia language codes (source)
  • Newest database reports: number of sitelinks to new WMF projects

• Development
  • Prototype for mobile termbox
  • Moving away from wb_terms table
  • Continued work on making WikibaseLexeme compatible with Wikibase clients (T195615)
  • Error handling and usability for entering lemmas was improved (T196342, T197453)
  • Lexemes no longer randomly pop up in rdf dumps (T194627)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19 jun 2018 17:41 (CEST)