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Wikidata weekly summary #225
- Discussions
- Remember that we would love to have your input about data quality on Wikidata and list generation on Wikipedia!
- What would you like to organize for Wikidata's 4rth birthday?
- Events/Press/Blogs
- “Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata” (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda
- Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo
- 3 tutorial videos about Wikidata: an intro to Wikidata, how to edit Wikidata and Wikidata Sparql Query Tutorial by Ewan McAndrew, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie
- Past: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, Pardubice – imported much open data related to the Czech Republic
- Past: Lydia and Jens from the Wikidata team were at the QTcon to talk about Wikidata and applications (see the slides)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
- 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
- Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
- Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
- English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: parent peak, elCinema person ID, elCinema film ID, TripAdvisor ID, NSZL name authority ID, last line, Redalyc journal ID, NSW Flora ID, cine.gr film ID, CiNetMag film ID, Latindex ID, ALCUIN ID, EDRPOU code, Polish scientist ID, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, OpenDomesday person ID, Epguides ID, TOID, Code for China Reservoir Name, OpenDomesday settlement ID, DSSTOX substance identifier, ISzDb dub ID, ISzDb company ID, ISzDb person ID, does not have part, DistroWatch ID, FEI ID, ISzDb film ID, Peakbagger ID, Yelp ID, LdiF ID, Guardian topic ID
- Query examples:
- People convicted of regicide and their victims (source)
- The most common birthday among US citizens (source)
- Things named after Polish people (source)
- Drama schools by number of students (source)
- Average gestation period of genera (source)
- Sir Christopher Lee's filmography (with film directors) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Armenia, Czech Republic
- Development
- RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
- Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
- Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
- Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
- Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
- Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
- We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
- Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)
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
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [1]
- Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [2]
When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [3]
Changes this week
- You will be able to use
<maplink>on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [4][5] - Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [6][7]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [8]
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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 06 September 2016
- Special report: Olympics readership depended on language
- WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia
- Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between
- Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit
- Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them
- Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [9]
<maplink>and<mapframe>can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [10][11]
Changes this week
- The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [12]
- A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [13][14]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.
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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [15]
<maplink>and<mapframe>can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [16][17]
Changes this week
- The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [18]
- A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [19][20]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.
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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #226
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
- Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
- Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
- Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
- Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
- How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
- #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
- Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
- How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
- Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID
- Query examples:
- New templates: {{Denmark properties}}, {{Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
- Development
- Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
- Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
- Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
- A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
- Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
- Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
- Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)
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
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