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Wikidata weekly summary #345
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse property creation and if so, how should they happen?
- Press/Blogs
- Introduction to Wikidata as a platform and data source
- Europeana Innovation Agenda
- The Hand-editor’s Tale
- mySociety 2018 report including their work on Wikidata
- Using WikiData API to get the sense of words
- The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In Pywikibot, you can now add a new statement with qualifiers and/or references in a single edit (phab:T112577, phab:T170432)
- A couple of gran proposals under review need your input and endorsement
- There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
- Happy New Year! (L40653)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: bgm.tv character identifier, ACB.com coach ID, bgm.tv person identifier, PC-9801DB ID, Hymnary author ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Swedish Anbytarforum, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile ID, Wikimedia OTRS ticket number, AllMusic performance ID, Wikibase Registry ID, Scoresway tennis person ID, Historical RNA ID, Muséosphère work ID, pressball.by player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, RusTeam player ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, AMFR player ID, teams.by player ID, vehicle identification number, Centre Pompidou ID, INE ID (Portugal)
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: agglomerative, urban population, rural population, Linear reference, located in urban area
- External identifiers: SHARE-VDE author ID, Panorama de l'art ID, PCGamingWiki ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, Uppsala General Catalogue ID
- Query examples:
- Graph of student-master relationship of Christian Thielemann #Neujahrskonzert (source)
- Cricket teams in the world by number of players and their gender (source)
- Buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
- Species have been named after Donald Trump (source)
- Catchphrases (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #346
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Referencing websites: how do we store the website title?
- Events
- Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
- Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
- AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
- How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
- Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, at 18:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
- Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
- Past: 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched in replay:
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, by Lars G. Willighagen (preprint)
- Toward an abstract Wikipedia, by Denny Vrandečić
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games, by Jean-Fred
- Building a Wikidata Tool – Behind the Scenes by Lucas Werkmeister (follow-up from the "Building a Wikidata tool" live-coding session, see above)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- >1000 sitelinks to the new Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) have been added since November
- Swiss foundation MY-D has published a call for projects for Wikidata showcase applications
- Reminder: you can give your input on issues when requesting a new language for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: title of broader work, colorist, data interval
- External identifiers: Critique d'art ID, DVR Number, Goodreads character ID, Politika topic, SHARE-VDE author ID, England Football Online manager profile, England Football Online player profile, Panorama de l'art ID, Agence photo RMN package ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, PCGamingWiki ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IFPNI species ID, corporate purpose, Lace bugs database ID, Катэгорыя членаў, The White-files species ID, at distance, representative image, Wikia Article URL 2
- External identifiers: Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, Hymnary text ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, OSGS-Number, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, De Agostini ID, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon Digital ID (new scheme), MNAM ID, IHOI ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Genius album numeric ID, Musée Picasso ID, Genius song numeric ID, Crew united Titel, Crew united Name
- Query examples:
- Articles about obituaries (source)
- Map of Slovenian cultural monuments coloured by type (source)
- French settlements with more than one word in the name (source)
- People after which a state is named (source)
- "official name" statements including a slash punctuation mark (source)
- Streets in the Netherlands named after a woman described in Els Kloek's book (source)
- Map of parts of the wall of Philip II Augustus in Paris (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (phabricator:T204031)
- Fixed alignment issues with Glosses on Lexeme pages (phabricator:T207401)
- Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (phabricator:T207150)
- Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #347
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
- Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
- Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
- VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
- Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
- The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
- New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
- Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
- External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
- External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number
- Query examples:
- Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
- Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
- Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
- Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
- Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
- Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
- Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
- Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
- Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
- Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
- Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
- More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)
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!