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Wikidata weekly summary #235

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 2016-11-12.

• Discussions
  • Current request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata and the Chain of Death, by Karl Beecher
  • Scaling multilingual name tags with Wikidata OpenStreetMap contributor blog post
  • Wikidata and Persistent Identifiers was presented at PIDapalooza November 9th.
  • Wikidata in OpenStreetMap
  • Wikidata and the Semantic Web of Food

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
  • Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: generation time, hazard on site, ACM Digital Library event ID, ACM Digital Library citation ID, HGVS nomenclature, Supermodels.nl ID, CIViC variant ID, wurvoc.org measure ID, Réserves Naturelles de France ID, World Waterfall Database ID, Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899 ID, ID petit-patrimoine.com, opponent during disputation, Vlindernet ID, male form of label, board member, Patrimonio Inmueble de Andalucía ID, BDI ID, ICCF ID, chesstempo ID, 365chess player ID, plan image, muscle action, SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID

• • Query examples:
    • Map of educational institutes from all over the world (source)
    • Current US Supreme Court justices by their date of birth (source)
    • Death dates of people with Wikidata items (source)
    • French towns that a street in Paris is name after(source)
    • Statements with “reason for deprecation” rank that aren’t deprecated(source)

• Development
  • More work on federation (phabricator:T76007)
  • Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T148139)
  • Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
  • Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
  • Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
  • Analysed queries used with Listeria
  • More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (phabricator:T117693)
  • More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (phabricator:T124036)
  • Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (phabricator:T113955)
  • Fix for bug that prevented editing (phabricator:T150401)
  • Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (phabricator:T132839)

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) 17:21, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #236

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Problematizing and Addressing the Article as Concept Assumption in Wikipedia (Q27827559)
  • schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web by Dan Scott

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
  • Two policies about abandoned tools on Tool Labs are currently voted on
  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now closed and the vote phase will start on November 28. Here's the category for Wikidata
  • Data import hub and Data import guide: feel free to give feedbacks on these documents!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: musipedia tune ID, Adult Film Database person ID, WHO international non-proprietary names ID, designed to carry, National Library of Greece ID, PermID, HKMDb person ID, RxNorm CUI, Vote Smart ID, legislation.gov.uk ID, significant person, Kvikmyndir person ID, Kvikmyndir film ID, World Surf League ID, Encyclopedia of Surfing ID
  • Query examples:
    • Occupations of women, with French female-form labels (source, database report)
    • Documents with most signatories (source)
    • Filming locations of James Bond films (source)
    • United States National Historic Landmarks not actually located in the United States (source)
    • Items with VIAF, but no P31/279 (source)
  • Newest database reports: List of Italian language films without articles in Italian Wikipedia

• Development
  • Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
  • Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
  • Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
  • Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
  • Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
  • Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
  • Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
  • Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
  • ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
  • Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
  • Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
  • Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help write 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) 15:07, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #237

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata introduction by Pigsonthewing at DJUK 2016

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Items without statements is down to 5% for enwiki (source)
  • Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Auckland Art Gallery artist ID, Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux ID, Géopatronyme ID, Prabook ID, GECD film ID, GECD person ID, Enciclopedia Treccani, stereoisomer of, Tennishof ID, operating income, PictoRight ID code, Nobel Prize People Nomination ID, negative prognostic predictor, positive prognostic predictor, negative diagnostic predictor, positive diagnostic predictor, negative therapeutic predictor, positive therapeutic predictor, National Recreation Trails Database ID
  • Query example : List of sovereign state flags by proportion (source)
  • Newest tool: Display the link to Wikiversity in the title of Wikipedia using Wikidata
  • Newest database report: Unique films: film items with a link to a single Wikipedia

• Development
  • Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

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) 14:54, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #238

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany with OKLabs, Jens and WikidataFacts. You can read a blog post by Riedelwerk (in German) More documentation to come soon
  • How Wikidata could be used for biomedical knowledge (Benjamin Good)
  • The Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sitelinks for the new Finnish Wikivoyage can be added

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: French Sculpture Census work ID, Japan Sumo Association ID, film poster, GeneDB ID, File Format Wiki page ID, FAO 2007 genetic resource ID, Model Manual ID, Merck Index reaction ID, Bloomberg private company ID, Belgian Enterprise number, GECD Firmen-ID, endianness, sibling
  • Query examples:
    • Bridges named after women (source)
    • Network of brands of some big food/drink companies (source, help improve it)
    • Cities located next to most rivers (source)
    • Nobel Prize winners on Twitter (source)
    • French deputies who died during their mandate (source)
    • Streets in the Netherlands named after people
    • People burried in the cemetery of La Croix Rousse (Lyon, France) (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Politicians in France
  • Newest database reports: list of films with multiple-language versions (Italian labels)

• Development
  • Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (phab:T152046)
  • RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (phab:T149419 and phab:T114662)
  • Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (phab:T151681)
  • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (phab:T151582)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
  • Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
  • We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
  • Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
  • Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (phab:T151449)

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!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Help with one of the bot requests
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:58, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #239

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

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.

• Discussions
  • New development input: Avoiding breaking gadgets when developing UI
  • Closed request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
  • Wishlist at What government data is of best interest?

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Have a look at PAWS, a tool to create Wikidata bots (and a cheat sheet from WikidataFacts)
  • Item Q 28 000 000 is about to be created.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: CNC film rating (Romania), Wilderness.net ID, CORDIS Project ID, JTWC tropical cyclone ID, Butterflies and Moths of North America ID, Guide of the French Church person ID, Guide of the French Church structure ID, heart rate, Järviwiki ID, LittleSis organisation ID, Surman ID, Verkhovna Rada MP id, Consolidated code of the electronic catalog of libraries of Belarus, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters member ID, LittleSis people ID, minimum frequency of audible sound
  • Query examples:
    • Map of people buried in the cemetery of Norra Begravningsplatsen (Stockholm, Sweden)
    • Works of Musée Saint-Raymond (Toulouse, France) on Wikidata (source)
    • Communes of France named after a river
    • People awarded by a Theater World Award in 2016
    • Upcoming creative works: films, TV series, video games… (source)
    • Number of demonstrations per country (source)
  • Newest database reports: Spanish-language films without an article in Spanish Wikipedia

• Development
  • Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
  • Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
  • Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

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!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Help with one of the bot requests
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:47, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #240

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

• Discussions
  • Voting on Make family member properties gender neutral: replacement of mother/father with a new "parent" properties
  • Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de)
  • Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
  • WDQ about to be shut down (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439)
  • SQID now supports PrimarySources
  • Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects, several of them directly related to Wikidata
  • Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing!
  • New parser function has been enabled
  • Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Yle Areena ID, Leopoldina member ID, Protected areas of Canada ID, Saxon Academy of Sciences member ID, Clergy of the Church of England database ID, Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis ID, FINA Athlete ID, Klosterdatenbank, Saccharomyces Genome Database ID, Nederlands Soortenregister ID, The Vogue List ID, coextensive with
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
    • All Theatre World Award winners, in a timeline with pictures (source)
    • Birthplaces of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
    • Planets, their moons, and the things they are named after (source)
    • Items with no father or no mother (source)
    • People born on Christmas day (source)
  • Newest external tools: “short author name” resolver tool
  • Newest database reports: hospital lists
• Development
  • Statements will soon be ordered as specified in MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties (phab:T150788)
  • Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
  • Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
  • We removed the page property wb-status, old entries will not be updated any more (phab:T146792)
  • Removed a visible jump while an entity page loads (gerrit:325924)
  • Fixed a formatting issue in which the geo coordinate formatter may output "60 seconds" (phab:T153429)
  • Fixed a bug in Special:NewProperty where it was not possible to provide the property type as part of the URL (phab:327496)
  • Working on a major rewrite of Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel/Description, one of many steps to phase numeric entity IDs out (phab:T140891)

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!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Help with one of the bot requests
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:19, 19 December 2016 (UTC)