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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Blogs/Press
Past: Wikidata intro at the École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes (slides)
Upcoming: IRC office hour
Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon
Migrating pKa data from DrugMet to Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
A little Easter present for the WikiVerse from Magnus
The page for institutions, companies, etc who want to donate data to Wikidata has been reworked and expanded by John and Jens
WMDE is looking for a product management intern to work with Lydia
Arbitrary access for Commons is getting ready and needs testing
Did you know?
Newest properties: next crossing downstream, next crossing upstream, SOATO ID, Google Knowledge Graph identifier, has parts of the class, discontinued date, variability of property value, corresponding template, Datahub page, alcohol by volume, units sold, tier 1 capital ratio (CETI), consumption rate per capita, target interest rate, topographic prominence, topographic isolation, Scoville grade, EU transparency register ID, FIFA World Ranking, Estyn ID, partnership with, CRICOS Provider Code, interested in, Cycling Quotient url (mens team), Cycling Quotient identifier (races for men), source of material, mirTarBase ID, mean lifetime, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, FedCup player ID, Davis Cup player ID, Swimrankings.net swimmer ID, Filmportal ID, TV.com ID, RARS rating, Minkultury Film ID, number of parts of a work of art, model, geography, place of detention, Turner Classic Movies film ID, cost of damage
Query examples: Library and Information Science journals, number of statements backed by a reference with a DOI
Development
You see that you can now show labels/descriptions/aliases for all languages that have been added to an item by clicking "more languages"
Preparation for arbitrary access on Commons
Getting ready for the hackathon in Israel
More work on making the extended input for geocoordinates and dates less complicated to understand
Worked on making scrolling of large items less laggy
Made the query service map visualization no longer show coordinates that are not on earth
Fixed a bug where the removal of a sitelink couldn't be done (phabricator:T129450)
Query service no longer restores previous query as requested
Fixed a bug where adding a statement would leave a stray "add qualifier" link (phabricator:T128317)
Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #203
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Blogs/Press
Upcoming: WWW 2016
Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
Data imports including National Library of Israel
Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
Improvements for Librarybase
Automated language links for Wiktionary
Cleanup of existing data import tools
partial group photo
Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata
This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
PetScan now has item creator functionality.
The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением
Did you know?
Newest properties: dataset distribution, file format, protocol, URL, CricketArchive player ID, ESPNcricinfo player ID, FIG gymnast identifier, type locality, ISU figure skater identifier, New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor, New York Times Semantic Concept: Location, New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization, New York Times Semantic Concept: Person, BARTOC ID, Box Office Mojo person ID, NDL JPNO, Opensecrets Identifier, Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID, Kijkwijzer rating, Bekker Number, is verso of, is recto of, author of afterword, author of foreword, Russiancinema.ru film ID, relative position within image, rating certificate ID, reply to
Newest WikiProjects: Historical Place
Query examples: phrases, Redewendungen, most commons eponyms
Development
4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.
Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #204
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussion
Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL
Events/Blogs/Press
Past: digikult.se
Upcoming: IRC office hour
Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
A week of looking at women
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc
Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata
Did you know?
Newest properties: typeface/font, disjoint union of, union of, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id, UNZ journal identifier, UNZ author identifier, Persée journal ID, Persée author ID, Projeto Excelências ID, ISSF ID, Badminton World Federation ID, CageMatch worker ID, United World Wrestling ID, UIPM ID, GOG application ID, Deezer track ID, Deezer album ID, Deezer artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID, embed URL, Hungarian-style transcription, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level, no-observed-adverse-effect level, collage image, elected in, sectional view, median lethal concentration, minimal lethal concentration, Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman), Cycling Quotient identifier (women races), Karate Records ID, EIDR identifier, British Film Institute identifier
Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later, what is depicted in artwork, most eponymous mathematicians
Showcase items: Iron Man (film)
Development
Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (phab:T95532 and phab:T127820)
More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
Improved performance of sticky property labels (phab:T103485)
Released DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1
Monthly Tasks
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This Month in GLAM: March 2016
This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue III, March 2016
Headlines
Argentina report: Edit-a-thons in Buenos Aires
Asia report: Wikidata tour visits Jakarta
Belgium report: Just For The Record: March
France report: Zoology, feminism and contemporary art
Germany report: Wiki loves librarians
Greece report: Edit-a-thon in Athens
Italy report: Biggest donation of photos from an Italian institution
Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Riga
Macedonia report: Editing competition about the villages in Aegean Macedonia
Netherlands report: Open Culture Data Lab
Republic of Srpska report: First GLAM project in the Republic of Srpska
Serbia report: GLAMers opened their doors to Wikimedia Serbia
Spain report: Libraries, free pictures and audios & new partners
UK report: GLAM Marches on in the UK
Open Access report: BartBotje; Rats as dino models; Auditory illusion; Crab-hunting octopus
Wikipedia Library report: Hashtags, Campaigns and New Access donations
Wikidata report: A really busy month all round
Calendar: April's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #205
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussion
Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
Events/Blogs/Press
Past: office hour on IRC (log)
Past: ISB2016 (slides)
Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
Other noteworthy stuff
ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
Listeria now has a status page
PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
Did you know?
Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
Query examples: items named after their shape, recent events, assemblies by number of seats, characters portrayed by most actors
Development
Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (phabricator:T126730)
Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #206
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Blogs/Press
Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Europeana Art History Challenge begins
TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects
Wikidata meets world literature
Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
Past: Wikimedia Conference
Other noteworthy stuff
SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
Did you know?
Newest properties: Danish listed buildings case ID, Models.com client ID, Race time, IAT diver ID, IAT weightlifter ID, IAT triathlete ID, FIS snowboarder ID, FIS Nordic combined skier ID, FIS ski jumper ID, FIS freestyle skier ID, FIS cross-country skier ID, FIS alpine skier ID, D-U-N-S, source of income, budget, BNE journal ID, JudoInside.com ID, ISO 4063 process number, blue-style.com ID, Wrestlingdata person id, Danish protected area ID, Skyscraper Center building complex ID, Research Papers in Economics Series handle, NUTTAB Food Identifier, AUSNUT Food Identifier, CNC film rating, EIRIN film rating, exploitation visa number, production date, Dictionary of Canadian Biography ID, New Zealand Organisms Register ID, Roller Coaster Database ID, Photographers' Identities Catalog ID, PRONOM software identifier, PRONOM file format identifier, Filmiroda rating
Newest WikiProjects: Olympics
Query examples: songs with longest melody (source), subjects with most art dedicated to them (source), versions of The Scream (source)
Development
There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (phab:T129033#2217402, gerrit:283968)
The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (gerrit:283945)
The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as <th> instead of <td> (gerrit:283395)
Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (phab:T110728)
Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (phab:T132441)
Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (phab:T132442)
Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (phab:T132964)
Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (phabricator:T132669)
Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (phabricator:T131920)
Added basic support for more languages to the query service (phabricator:T132756)
Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #207
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Wikidata, a stable source for disambiguation items?
Events/Blogs/Press
Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
Upcoming: CSVconf
Upcoming: Open Tech Summit
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Commons now has arbitrary access
Work on ORES to make vandalism fighting easier is progressing well. "Damaging" and "goodfaith" models for Wikidata are now online.
Wikimind
New coverage maps have been created (see thumbnails)
We have new images you can use to indicate your website/app/service is using data from Wikidata. (2 of the files have a problem still. We're working on a fix and will reupload.)
Did you know?
Newest properties: Loop ID, sound power, 3DMet ID, locality or place, Index Hepaticarum ID, clearance, ASF KID Cave Tag Number, power consumed, net tonnage, connects with, Czech neighbourhood ID code, longest span, aerodrome reference point, Mercalli intensity scale
Category reports on without claims by site now link to PetScan's fast "has no statements"-option. A report for your preferred Wikipedia can be added.
Query examples: software with most versions (source), oldest software (source), map of U1 stations in Berlin (source)
Development
Created the first MediaInfo entity through the API (screenshot, a bit more background)
Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (phab:T132662)
There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
Removed unsupported sort and dir parameters from the wikibase.api.RepoApi JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling getEntitiesByPage (phab:T119856).
Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (phabricator:T132645)
Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (phabricator:T132839)
Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #208
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Blogs/Press
Past: OpenTechSummit
Past: CSVConf
Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
Freebase has been shut down
Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
Did you know?
Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
Development
Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
More work on initial Commons prototype
Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T110193)
Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T52893)
No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T55496)
Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (phabricator:T132839)
Monthly Tasks
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This Month in GLAM: April 2016
This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue IV, April 2016
Headlines
Africa report: Wiki Loves Women in Africa
Argentina report: Edit-a-thons in Buenos Aires
Belgium report: Writing weeks in and about Brussels
Bulgaria report: Meeting lots of museum directors
Germany report: Learning in the GLAM field & how to edit the GND
Italy report: MUSE Edit-a-thon and Backstage pass and Small Museums in Italy
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Wikidata weekly summary #209
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings have been made
Events/Blogs/Press
Panama Papers and Wikidata made quite a splash online
Occupations of persons from Panama Papers
Panama Papers bubble chart shows politicians are most mentioned in document leak database
EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
Random item: Q14829494
Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been published at ICWSM
Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)
Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
Other Noteworthy Stuff
We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You can now search for items within a geographic area.
The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more controls
Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
PetScan now has query examples
d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
Did you know?
Newest properties: professional name (Japan), month number, highest income threshold, lowest income threshold, individual tax rate, ARKive ID, Joint Electronics Type Designation Automated System designation, totem, Online World of Wrestling ID, Internet Wrestling Database ID, corporate officer
Query examples: longest rivers (source), map of places mentioned in travel stories with text in French accessible online (source), things located where the equator meets the prime meridian (source), people who acted with Brad Pitt (source), Italian mountains higher than 4000mt (source), who died by burning (source), age at date of death for musicians (source), universities of main programming language authors (source), hashtags (source), Pokemon! (source)
Showcase items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028)
Development
Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked on issues that were found
Incident report of issues with the query service
Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot, phabricator:T98014)
More work on Commons prototype
Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (phabricator:T135222)
Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T124766)
We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and restore operations - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T41134)
Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (phabricator:T133317)
Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #210
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Discussions about missing properties for Wikivoyage listings are progressing as enhancements are suggested
Events/Blogs/Press
Gotta catch 'em all if they are prime
Paper: Are Superstar Artworks also Digital Superstars? Online Popularity of Worldfamous Artworks
Upcoming: Wikicite (session proposals)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
In about 2 weeks we will get the ArticlePlaceholder to more Wikipedias. Let us know if yours wants to be in.
Did you know?
Newest properties: produced by, Wi-Fi, Google+, wheelchair accessibility, RAN ID, incidence, Benezit ID, place of marriage, age of onset, NSC number, gait
Query examples: given names with most variations (source with links to graphs), papers about Wikidata (source), memes (source), cathedrals in Paris (source), highest mountains in the universe (source), Law & Order episodes (source), things/people with most children (source)
Development
Performance improvements in query service map display.
Fixed a focus issue in the suggester (phabricator:T135008)
Further groundwork on Commons support
Fixed first issues that popped up after ArticlePlaceholder deployment based on feedback
Investigated and prepared fix for issue where files on Commons couldn't be deleted (phabricator:T135485)
Finished work on language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T98014)
Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #211
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New request for comments: Standards for property proposal discussions, Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
Import of Wiki Loves Monuments database
Events/Blogs/Press
Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
interview with Open Science Radio
Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Charlie published her thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
Learning pattern about using data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google spreadsheet
Did you know?
Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
Development
Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543)
Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624)
Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #212
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Blogs/Press
Upcoming: OpenData.ch
Upcoming: HackHPI
Upcoming: ELAG
Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
Other Noteworthy Stuff
SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
Did you know?
Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
Development
Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
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This Month in GLAM: May 2016
This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue V, May 2016
Headlines
Africa report: Joburg, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana
Brazil report: Immigration Museum of Sao Paulo: first steps towards an open access policy
France report: Photography, a true hobby!
Germany report: "Licence hint generator" at WMDEs event series about legal issues
Italy report: A full month of activities
Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Latvian Academy of Culture
Mexico report: Forestry and the Longest Edit-a-thon in history
Netherlands report: Colonial images; Coutinho collection; Open Cultural Data; Netherlands and the world; NL Art History challenge
Norway report: International Memory of the world register; Speak Norwegian? Access to The National Library's bokhylla.no?
Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth; free resources; Pentathlon Wikimedia
Sweden report: LSH upload; World Wide Wikipedia; Nationalmuseum
Switzerland report: ETH-Bibliothek commences mass uploading campaign for photographs from the Image Archive
UK report: Oxford and Scotland
USA report: Archivist Award
Special story: Ted Speakers Challenge - Win Books!
Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves report: UNESCO and Wiki Loves Earth partner to run Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves in 120 countries throughout June
Open Access report: WikiCite; Fluorescent vertebrates; Insights into a singer's head
WMF GLAM report: WMF GLAM report
Wikidata report: We feel used (and that makes us happy)
OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey report: Survey results presented at conferences in Hong Kong and Montreal
Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania
Calendar: June's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #213
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements - feedback on the Primary Sources Tool
Others: Discussion about currency conversion rates, P2893_-_wrong_datatype
Events/Blogs/Press
Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
Past: HackHPI
Past: ELAG (slides)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
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Newest properties: RateBeer brewery ID, Beer Advocate brewery ID, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID, fax number, minimum age, Swedish county letter, Eldoblaje Movie ID, publication interval, maximum sustained winds, day of week, Skype, UMLS CUI, FamilySearch ID
Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art (source), popular surnames among humans (source), popular surnames among fictional characters (source), average lifespan by occupation (source), German breweries (source), years with 3 popes (source), people who died by burning - on a timeline (source)
Newest WikiProjects: Lighthouses, Roller Coasters
Development
Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
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File:Federal Reserve from South Boston cropped.jpg listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Federal Reserve from South Boston cropped.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Kellyhi! 22:20, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #214
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
We are looking for people who work on list articles.
You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
First beta release of StrepHit
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Newest properties: Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID, focal height, month of the year, label in sign language, PO Box, COAM ID, syntax clarification, ECARTICO person ID, MSBI person ID, date depicted, distinctive jersey, time gap, icon, SecondHandSongs artist ID, SecondHandSongs song ID, timezone offset
Query examples: colors of chemical compounds (source), map of braodway venues (source), sculptures by Max Bill (source), works of art where the name might be a rhyme (source), works of art where the title is an alliteration (source)
Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
Development
Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (phabricator:T138059)
Improved display of query examples (phabricator:T137589) and cleaned them up
Improved database access (phabricator:T137539)
Fixed a but with the rank selector (phabricator:T109583)
Started concept work for automated list generation
Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
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Wikidata weekly summary #215
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility
Events/Blogs/Press
Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images
Other Noteworthy Stuff
EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
SQID now shows references (example)
INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.
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Newest properties: language used, connector, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier, INSPIRE-HEP author ID, lighthouse range, memory capacity, water as percent of area, InterPro ID, domain of saint or deity
Query examples: sandwich ingredients (source), inventors killed by their own invention (source), objects with most mass (source), music genres (source), number of jurisdictions by driving side (source)
Development
The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania
You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example)
Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473)
Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T138500)
Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty (phabricator:T115269)
Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725)
Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #216
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Blogs/Press
Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
Europeana blog post
video
Wikimedia blog post
The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
Wikidata auf der GPN
Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
Upcoming: office hour on IRC
Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
Other Noteworthy Stuff
There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
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Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source), largest cities per country (source), longest river of each continent (source), rivers in Antarctica (source), continents (source), and some other continents (source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source), music composers by birth place (source), places of whorship (source), teachers with most students (source), buildings in more than one country (source), sandwiches (source), composers and their most-used tonality (source), former capitals (source), list of suicide attacks (source), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source), places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source)
Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
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Wikidata weekly summary #217
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Blogs/Press
Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
Upcoming: OpenSym
Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
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Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
Query examples: timeline of space probes (source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source), places in America named after places in England (source), emergency number by country size (source)
Development
Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595)
Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509)
Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115)
Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973)
Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413)
Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814)
Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (phabricator:T115270)
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This Month in GLAM: June 2016
This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VI, June 2016
Headlines
Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and contest in Buenos Aires
Belgium report: Just For The Record; Wiki Loves Art preparations
Brazil report: New steps for the GLAM movement in Brazil
France report: « Veni, vidi, wiki ! »
Germany report: GLAM on Tour is a format, is a statement, is a tag
Italy report: Contemporary art images from BEIC
Macedonia report: National library collaboration and Contemporary art on Wikidata
Mexico report: 3 continuous days of art; Efforts against the Wikipedia Gender Gap
Netherlands report: Image donation by the Museum Catharijneconvent; 1300 Dutch underground newspapers from WW2; Collaboration with public libraries
Spain report: Involving libraries in Wikimedia projects
Sweden report: World Wide Wikipedia; Royal Library; Monuments database to Wikidata migration; Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2016
UK report: Wellcome
USA report: June is busting out all over
Open Access report: Open Science Fellows Program; OA Signalling
Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes
Wikidata report: Wikidatamania
WMF GLAM report: A Wikimania Reflection, GLAM Phabricator Queues, and a WMF Update
Calendar: July's GLAM events
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Wikidata weekly summary #218
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Blogs/Press
From Damascus to Berlin: A very special internship at Wikimedia Deutschland
Wikidata als Universalbibliographie: ein Kommentar
First image, good image?
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Since Pokémon is all the rage at the moment here is a short reminder that we have WikiProject Pokémon for them
TIB is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence in the Open Science Lab
The code for the Primary Sources Tool has been moved from the Google to the Wikidata organisation on github.
Use Wikipedia “article main images” to find candidate images for Wikidata
StrepHit fact extraction agent v.1.1-beta has been released
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Newest properties: GCatholic church ID, GoodReads book ID, QUDT unit ID, Queensland Heritage Register ID, National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts, EU River Basin District code, right to vote, GoodReads author ID, title of chess player, BVPH ID
Query examples: letters with more than two forms (source), metro stations (source), railway incidents (source), pyramids in Egypt (source), women described as wife and men described as husband (source), neuroinformatics coauthor network (source), nationalities of people with an article in the Bavarian Wikipedia (source), Irish general elections and their winners (source), types of historical monuments (source), Alpine four-thousanders (source), Alpine peaks (source), language statements that point to a country instead of a language (source)
Newest database reports: list of people who died on their birthday
Development
Map layers are coming soon to the Query Service
A lot of clean-up under the hood for the user interface
More interviews with editors in preparation for automated list generation
Fixed a bug where forms on the mobile site looked broken (phabricator:T138413)
More work on Citoid integration for easier reference adding
Added Cape Verdean Creole (phabricator:T127435)
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Wikidata weekly summary #219
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Blogs/Press
Playing with Wikidata: communities over water
Interview with Lydia for her upcoming keynote at the DBpedia conference
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Olympic Games are coming up soon. Let's make Wikidata a good place to get open data about the Olympics!
StrepHit's grant is up for renewal and could use your endorsement
There is a sub-reddit for Wikidata
We now have P3000 and Q26000000!
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Newest properties: marriageable age, age of consent, age of candidacy, age of majority, partition coefficient water/octanol, software quality assurance, IBSF ID, FIL ID, has grammatical case, GOST 7.67 cyrillic, Taekwondo Data ID, aircraft registration prefix, DSBE ID, Snapchat username, UNDP country code, UIC numerical country code, UIC alphabetical country code, ARLHS Lighthouse ID, Maritime identification digits, wheel arrangement, LBT person ID, patronym or matronym, host, habitat, Spenserians person ID, SNAP ID
Query examples: most cited Danish people (source), most self-citing authors (source), topics of series (source), human settlements, north of the Arctic Circle (source), poles of inaccessibility (source), people with the same family and given name (source), compositions for organ and orchestra/compositions for organ and anything else (source), people with a statement with start time / end time qualifiers over 100 years apart (source), causes of death for noble people (source), long-running noble families (source)
Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
Development
Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085)
When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784)
Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131)
Finalized the infographic on data flow. For off-wiki usage and For on- wiki usage.
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Wikidata weekly summary #220
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Notability of items for templates
One or more property examples?
Events/Blogs/Press
Ongoing: Repository Fringe
Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
Upcoming: CCBWIKI
Localités au fil de l'eau
WDQ, obsolete?
BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
Other Noteworthy Stuff
You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
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Newest properties: residence time of water, railway signalling system, located in protected area, Rolling Stone artist ID, French national research structure identifier, backup or reserve team or crew, laws applied, surface tension, Standard Geographical Classification code, World Archery ID, Conservatoire du littoral ID, Australian Heritage Database Place ID, Cadw Monument ID, Marine Regions Geographic ID, valid in place, Galiciana ID, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID, Untappd brewery ID, retirement age
Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source)
Newest database reports: list of Romans, minimum ages by country
Development
Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (phabricator:T110604)
Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (phabricator:T115269)
Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085)
Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (phabricator:T138131)
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Blogs/Press
Past: Repository Fringe (slides)
Past: WikiConference India 2016
Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic is SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
Upcoming: SMWCon (call for contributions)
Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia+Wikidata+BigQuery
Livin’ on the edge
Communes orphelines?
Paper: Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata
Paper: Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases
Paper: WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia
Other Noteworthy Stuff
We now have two new pages to find property proposal discussions that need input: Property proposal/Overview, Property proposal/Attention needed
WSDM2017 Cup on knowledge base quality and search including tasks about vandalism detection in Wikidata (announcement)
Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
Wikidata Toolkit 0.7.0 has been released
Several grant proposals that could use endorsements or discussion: Wikidata module, StrepHit IEG renewal, Librarybase, WikiFactMine
15% of items connected to articles on Japanese Wikipedia have no statements (report with categories on these pages)
Wikidata descriptions on mobile web version of Wikipedia
Job opening at TIB
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Newest properties: wheelbase, IWM memorial ID, spatial reference system, precipitation height, ISBN publisher prefix, Indonesian ethnicity code, package management system, adjacent building, EPPO Code, sheet music, UK National Archives ID, open period to, open period from, closed on, open days, ITU letter code, Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID, flag bearer, Iranica ID
Query examples: places of worship in France (source), former capitals (source), Edinburgh-born authors and their notable works (source), movies by David Lynch by duration (source), descendants of Gustav Vasa, people sharing the same name, the other way around, Tony awards nominees and winners (source)
Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
Newest database reports: List of Roman dictators
Development
Glorian joins the team for 6 months as a product management intern
Example dialog on query.wikidata.org now shows categories (phabricator:T140576)
Map result view now allows layers and multi colored dots (preview)
Made the tatus bar messages in the Query Service translatable (phabricator:T140383)
Made it easier to notice that embedded Query Service results can be edited and are coming from Wikidata (phabricator:T138766)
Improved the way error messages are displayed while editing items (phabricator:T141880, phabricator:T141879)
Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (phabricator:T141862)
Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (phabricator:T142034)
Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T139977)
Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T124036)
Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T137933)
Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (phabricator:T141878)
Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (phabricator:T140760)
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This Month in GLAM: July 2016
This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VII, July 2016
Headlines
Argentina report: Edit-a-thon in a historic building in Buenos Aires
Basque Country report: Basque spring-summer blooming
Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art halfway
Brazil report: Cultural Mapping: knowing better the Brazilian museums scenario
France report: Bons baisers de France
Macedonia report: 290 photos by Manaki brothers
Mexico report: Wikipedia in Mayan; GLAM in Aldea Digital
Spain report: Attending the Peace Treaties in Art Edit-a-thon
Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Critiquing social norms with free images
Switzerland report: Open Cultural Data Hackathon
UK report: Engaging the experts & training the trainers
USA report: Engaging the experts & training the trainers
Open Access report: Wikimedian in Residence opening; Ancestral reconstruction; A swimming centipede
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Wikidata weekly summary #222
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
Events/Blogs/Press
Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status
The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
New templates: {{Australia properties}}, {{Indonesia properties}}, {{United Kingdom properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
Did you know?
Newest properties: SIMBAD ID, destroyed, damaged, game artist, standard enthalpy of formation, Cineplex film ID, Open Beauty Facts category ID, official religion, Grace's Guide ID, CosIng number, Storting person ID, standard molar entropy, dynamic viscosity, UN document symbol, WIPO ST.3, GS1 country code, GLAM ID, RERO ID, LepIndex ID, gestation period, Basisregistratie Instellingen number, ButMoth ID, Architectuurgids building ID, Architectuurgids architect ID, Charity Commission no., Turner Classic Movies person ID, NAQ elected person ID, Ontario MPP ID, K League player ID, Bloomberg person ID, Kindred Britain ID, CMFS player ID, Scottish FA player ID, racing-reference driver ID, footballzz ID, Fora De Jogo player ID, HanCinema person ID, College Football HoF ID, scoresway soccer person id, CageMatch wrestling stable id, luminous intensity, SoundCloud ID
Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
Development
mw:Wikibase/DataModel/JSON#time was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (phabricator:T137115)
Worked more on better visual layout of references (phabricator:T141862)
Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (phabricator:T129836)
Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T126873)
Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (phabricator:T141879)
Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons