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Wikidata weekly summary #156
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata was presented at a Swedish Linked Data Network Meet-up in Gothenburg.
- The most important Wikipedia pages
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- P107 (main type) is finally orphaned and deleted, 20 months after deprecation. This was the first property used 1000000 times.
- The royal baby was quickly updated on Wikidata. (her family tree)
- New tool by Magnus: Find pictures on geography.co.uk, upload them to Commons and add them to Wikidata
- All Van Gogh Museum paintings are now on Commons and Wikidata. Go go SumOfAllPaintings peeps!
- List of topics with links in at least X Wikipedias
- All French Senators matched using MixNMatch \o/
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: represented by, Netflix Identifier, maximum number of players, minimum number of players, CERL ID, Name Assigning Authority Number, Hall of Valor ID, ballots cast, eligible voters, catholic-hierarchy diocese ID, Wikidata example geographic coordinates, Wikidata example monolingual text, Wikidata example property, Wikidata example quantity, Wikidata example time, Wikidata example URL, Wikidata example item value, Wikidata example string, Wikidata example media file, Wikidata property example
- Development
- We rolled out usage tracking on the first two wikis (French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia). Users should not notice anything. More wikis will follow in the next weeks. This is the remaining step for enabling arbitrary access on wikis other than Commons.
- The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out.
- Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off.
- We fixed the focus flow in the property selector.
- We improved the messages on Special:EntityData to make it more understandable.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- 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, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #157
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Mbch331
- New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
- Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
- MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
- Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
- Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
- Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
- The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
- Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
- The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
- The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
- Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
- Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
- Did you know?
- Development
- Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
- Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
- Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
- Continued working on RDF export
- More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
- Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- 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, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #158
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Mbch331
- Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
- Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
- Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
- Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
- Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome!
- Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
- New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata
- English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
- Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. Nominations for this year are open now. Who should win this year?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry, vice-county
- Development
- Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
- Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
- Improvements to calendar handling
- More work on RDF export for query service
- Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
- Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- 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, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #159
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
- Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
- A early preview of the official SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
- If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
- To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
- The special page to query for badges is within reach.
- A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
- We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
- We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
- Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata (video)
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
- The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections
- Development
- Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
- The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
- Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
- Busy with the hackathon (see above)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- 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, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #160
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Final hours to make your vote count in the WMF board election
- Now we have Q20000000 and P1900
- Wikidata stats have been updated
- Over 100 timeline of famous painters by Histropedia
- WD-FIST can now take a manual item list and limit its search to JPEGs
- Traveling this summer? Find items needing pictures around you with WikiShootMe
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: altered regulation leads to, posttranslational modification association with, gene substitution association with, gene inversion association with, gene insertion association with, gene duplication association with, deletion association with, increased expression in, decreased expression in, side effect, Commonwealth War Graves Commission person identifier, Australian Dictionary of Biography identifier, office held by head of state, FundRef registry name, Volcanic explosivity index, Spotify artist ID, BALaT person/organisation id, EAGLE id, Librivox author ID
- Development
- Recovering from hackathon
- Prepared rollout of usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis
- Testing of the query service
- Fixed styling issues with entity selector
- Worked more on Capiunto to make it easier to create good infoboxes
- Worked on making broken values editable to fix them (this for example happens when a property is deleted but some values are left over)
- Made entity id an optional parameter in mw.wikibase.label and mw.wikibase.description lua methods. (default to use connected item)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- 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, for the new properties listed above.